You can view a selection of our recent lectures here. Topics include Architectural Styles, interviews with celebrated architects as well as talks by artists, curators, historians and campaigners.
Speakers: Professor Neil Jackson, former Trustee of C20 Society and author of many books on California architects and architecture and John East the Society's 'unofficial photographer' In 2004, the C20 Society promoted a tour of southern Californ...
Presented by Joshua Mardell This talk is about the ‘barefoot’ AA-trained architects John Turner (b. 1927) and Pat Crooke (1927–2018), and their parallel paths in the direction of dweller-oriented housing in developing countries in the post-W...
Presented by Valeria Carullo Photographs Curator, Royal Institute of British Architects and Tony Stokoe chairman of the South West Group. Following on from her presentation ‘A Short History of Architectural Photography’ for the Society, Valeri...
Presented by: Dominic Wilkinson, Principal Lecturer in Architecture Liverpool John Moores University The buildings of F. X. Velarde represented what Nicolas Pevsner once described as “epoch-making” examples of English church architecture, bri...
Speakers: Professor Neil Jackson, former Trustee of C20 Society and author of many books on California architects and architecture and John East the Society's 'unofficial photographer' In 2004, the C20 Society promoted a tour of southern Californi...
Presented by Valeria Carullo Photographs Curator, Royal Institute of British Architects The Robert Elwall Photographs Collection at the RIBA is one of the largest and most comprehensive of its kind in the world. It includes images of the built env...
The virtual talk with artist Paul Catherall starts at Coventry Station and we take a meandering ‘walk’ through images of finished linocuts, reference photos and sketches for future prints of the postwar city centre. We stop off at the Bull Yard f...
John Outram in conversation with architectural historian Geraint Franklin, who is currently completing the first book length study of John Outram Associates, to be published in C20’s ‘20th Century Architect’ series. They will talk beyond the Ne...
In reaction against Modernist rigidity, the architecture of the 'Me Decade' of the 1980s was Post Modernism (PoMo). It borrowed playfully from history but its best practitioners took seriously the obligation to fit into existing streetscapes and to...
The hot word of social media, Brutalism is a term of approval and abuse, whose meaning has changed since the word first gained currency in the early 1950s....
Neo-Georgian was the background architect of the twentieth century with a wide variety of applications for private and public design, including post offices, schools, pubs and banks, typically with red brick and white sash windows....
Following the success of our 2017 series ‘A Style Guide to Twentieth Century Architecture’, this is our second lecture in our series of online lectures about Architectural Styles, led by Elain Harwood on Mid-Century Modernism. Understanding ar...
Presented in association with the West Midlands committee. The concrete Tecton structures at Dudley Zoo epitomise all the excitement and glamour of early Modernism. Join presenters Jon Wright and Larry Priest to find out about their history, the...
Following the success of our 2017 series 'A Style Guide to Twentieth Century Architecture', this is our first lecture in our new series of online lectures about Architectural Styles, led by Dr. Alan Powers on 30's Modernism. Understanding architec...
John Going of Stayner Architects, historian Volker Welker and Catherine Croft in conversation. The Miles C. Bates House — known as the “Wave House” for its curving roof that mimics the San Jacinto mountains behind it — was opened to the pu...
Alongside the publication of Elain Harwood’s much-awaited book Art Deco Britain, Elain has repeated her keynote talk on the subject via Zoom. Covering many aspects of the book – the arrival of the glamorous style into the Britain in the late 1920...
Part 2 of our two part slideshow of Japanese architecture led by Professor Neil Jackson, with photographs by John East based on C20's 2017 trip to Japan. Starting with three days in Tokyo, we took the bullet train to Nagoya and thence by coach, vi...
In 1998, long standing C20 member and retired building surveyor Brent Smith, travelled round India with the late Roderick Gradidge and The Lutyens Trust to the places that Edwin Lutyens visited to study Indian architecture and culture before working ...
A slideshow of Japanese architecture led by Professor Neil Jackson, with photographs by John East based on C20's 2017 trip to Japan. Starting with three days in Tokyo, we took the bullet train to Nagoya and thence by coach, via Ichinomiya, Hashima...
In November 2019 C20 organised a trip to India to see some of the best C20 buildings in Delhi, Chandigarh and Ahmadabad. For those who came with us, this virtual event aimed to be a vivid reminder of how much we packed in and the variety of what we...
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