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.
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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