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  • Walking Tour – Modernist Hampstead

    Forecourt outside Wagamamma 58-62 Heath Street, London, United Kingdom

    In this walking tour we’ll discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s onwards

    £10 – £15

  • Isokon Ltd: Symposium

    Virtual Event

    On April 21, the Yale Center for British Art is holding one-day online symposium about Isokon Ltd, the 1930s design company that commissioned one of the Britain’s first modernist buildings, and an iconic range of plywood furniture by émigré designers including Marcel Breuer and Walter Gropius. The symposium will explore all aspects of Isokon’s design output […]

  • Arthur Korn: architect and urban planner

    Virtual Event

    On Thursday 18 May at 6pm, art historian and curator Alexandra Lazar will give an online talk about her recent researches into the life and work of German-born architect and urban planner Arthur Korn, who settled in the UK in 1937.   To book, click here.   Image: Arthur Korn teaching at the Architectural Association […]

  • Taking Sides: Bobby Carter, Godfrey Samuel and the Refugee Architects

    Virtual Event

    Valeria Carullo, Curator, The Robert Elwall Photographs Collection at RIBA British Architectural Library, will talk about her ongoing researches into the important role played by Bobby Carter and Godfrey Samuel of the RIBA Refugee Committee in rescuing their fellow architects from the clutches of the Nazi regime during the late 1930s. Following the rise of […]

  • Virtual Tour – Modernist Hampstead

    Virtual Event

    In this virtual tour discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s onwards.

  • Lubetkin and Goldfinger: Misunderstood Visionaries?

    Virtual Event

    Russian-born Berthold Lubetkin and Hungarian-born Ernö Goldfinger established themselves as two leading British architects who designed high-rise council housing after the Second World War; a type of building that now holds a poor reputation.

  • Walking Tour – Modernist Hampstead

    Forecourt outside Wagamamma 58-62 Heath Street, London, United Kingdom

    In this walking tour we’ll discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s onwards

    £12.50

  • Finding Ella Briggs: The Life and Work of an Unconventional Architect

    To mark the recent publication by Princeton University Press of a book entitled Finding Ella Briggs: The Life and Work of an Unconventional Architect, its co-editors Despina Stratigakos and Elana Shapira and one of the other contributors to the volume Barbara Penner will introduce us to the life and work of this talented Austrian-born Jewish architect, designer and writer whose influence was felt on both sides of the Atlantic.

    Free

  • The Circle: Refugee Architects and Engineers in Britain

    Insiders Outsiders , United Kingdom

    In their effort to relocate to Britain and rebuild their lives,  architects fleeing Nazi-dominated Europe were supported not only by the various refugee organisations active in the country but also by their British colleagues, especially through the activities of the RIBA Refugee Committee and the Architects Refugee Fund.

    Free

  • Designing From Home

    Insiders Outsiders , United Kingdom

    Designing From Home is a new short documentary film co-directed by Harriet Atkinson and Sue Breakell and produced by Banyak Films, which explores the north London house where influential graphic designer FHK Henrion (1914-1990) lived and worked for over forty years, and features interviews with his four children alongside original archive material from Henrion’s archive at the University of Brighton Design Archives.

    Free