Tag: Architecture

  • From Streamform to Arts and Crafts

    From Streamform to Arts and Crafts

    This walk travels back in time looking at inter-war architectural styles on the North side of Hampstead Garden Suburb finishing with arts and crafts cottages. It includes Belvedere Court by Ernst Freud

  • Celebrating Jewish Architecture – Routemaster Bus Tour

    Celebrating Jewish Architecture – Routemaster Bus Tour

    Jump on board a classic Routemaster! In this tour with architecture expert Joe Kerr, you will have the chance to see buildings designed by famous Jewish architects whose work was crucial to the rebuilding of twentieth century London

  • Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain: Exhibition

    Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain: Exhibition

    During the mid-1930s and 1940s the Isokon flats and bar became a hub for creatives, including Bauhaus professors Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and László Moholy-Nagy. The three produced furniture, architecture and graphic art for Jack Pritchard’s Isokon design company.

  • Jacques & Jacqueline Groag

    Jacques & Jacqueline Groag

    The dramatic and fascinating story of two former Lawn Road Flats residents, brought to life by their biographer, Ursula Prokop.

  • Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain: Talk with authors Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund

    Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain: Talk with authors Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund

    The hugely influential Lawn Road Flats, or Isokon building, was commissioned by visionary couple Jack and Molly Pritchard and designed by architect Wells Coates. Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain (Batsford) by Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund tells the extraordinary story of Isokon, and how its network of residents helped shape modern Britain.

  • A Walk through Highgate: Experiments in Urban Living

    A Walk through Highgate: Experiments in Urban Living

    Discover some of Highgate’s twentieth century housing developments in this historic walk through Highgate.

  • A Walk through Highgate: Experiments in Urban Living

    A Walk through Highgate: Experiments in Urban Living

    Discover some of Highgate’s twentieth century housing developments in this historic walk through Highgate.

  • A Walk through Highgate: Experiments in Urban Living

    A Walk through Highgate: Experiments in Urban Living

    Discover some of Highgate’s twentieth century housing developments in this historic walk through Highgate.

  • Modernist Hampstead Walk

    Modernist Hampstead Walk

    Discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s

  • Modernist Hampstead Walk

    Modernist Hampstead Walk

    Discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s

  • Modernist Hampstead Walk

    Modernist Hampstead Walk

    Discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s

  • Modernist Hampstead Walk

    Modernist Hampstead Walk

    Discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s

  • Modernist Hampstead Walk

    Modernist Hampstead Walk

    Discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s

  • Modernist Hampstead Walk

    Modernist Hampstead Walk

    Discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s

  • The Bauhaus in Britain

    The Bauhaus in Britain

    This free display considers connections between Germany’s Bauhaus School (1919–33) and the visual arts in Britain