Modernities: Architecture / Design / Theory [Archived]

Lecture, Research

Global responsibility: The architect's autobiography in the shadow of Hiroshima

6:00pm, 26 Nov 2025 | Free, booking essential

Shiben Banerji tracks the figure of the migrant in the American architect Marion Mahony’s unpublished memoir, The Magic of America. Mahony composed the text between 1938 and 1949, in the twilight of her five-decade-long career across the United State...

Lecture, Research

Queer Modernism/Queer Curating

6:00pm, 29 Jan 2026 | Free, booking essential

In this lecture and panel discussion, Anke Kempkes will be joined by queer Modernism experts Thomas Kennedy and Gemma Roll Bentley to explore questions surrounding the curatorial framing of queer art in the Modern era. The conversation will draw on K...

Research

Film premiere: Lucia Moholy: Bauhaus Photographer

5:30pm, 7 Mar 2025

Join director Dr Sigrid Faltin for the London premiere of her documentary "Lucia Moholy: Bauhaus Photographer", which delves into the artistic practice and enduring legacy of a remarkable pioneer. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the dire...

Research

Grids of Vietnamese modernism

5:00pm, 26 Feb 2025

Join Duc Le for a talk on 20th-century Vietnamese architecture, exploring the state of neglected modernist heritage sites and innovative preservation methods in Vietnam

Research

Art, culture, politics and society – German art in an expanded field: A Colloquium in honour of Dr Shulamith Behr (1946-2023)

2:00pm, 20 Mar 2024

International experts on German modernism will convene for a one-day symposium to celebrate the scholarship and pedagogical practice of Dr Shulamith Behr (1946-2023), treasured colleague, mentor, teacher and friend to so many in the Courtauld communi...

Research

Book event: Objects in Exile: Modernism across Borders, 1930-1960

5:30pm, 1 Mar 2024

Please join us for a discussion between Kathleen James-Chakraborty (University College Dublin), Ines Weizman (School of Architecture, Royal College of Art) and Robin Schuldenfrei, the author of Objects in Exile: Modernism across Borders, 1930-1960 (P...

Research

A Nod of a Hat: Rooftops of Old Tehran

5:00pm, 5 Jun 2023

In this talk, Ahmadreza Schricker, the principal of Architecture North (ASA North), discusses his newest project, the transformation of the abandoned Argo beer factory in downtown Tehran into a new museum, artist residency and cultural centre.

A History of Council Housing Design and Planning

5:00pm, 27 Apr 2023

John Boughton examines the major ideas and theories that have shaped the form of council housing over its 150-year history.

Film Screening: The New Bauhaus (2019)

5:00pm, 24 Nov 2022

Join Dr Robin Schuldenfrei for a screening of the film 'The New Bauhaus' followed by a Q&A.

Research

Ukrainian Modernism and the Architecture of Standardization

5:00pm, 25 May 2022

Christina E. Crawford provides historical context to situate present-day destruction of architecturally rich Kharkiv, the first capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1919-34).

Research

Unsettled Subjects: Confronting Questions of Race, Space and Identity in Architecture

5:30pm, 20 Oct 2021

This event brings together several architects and faculty members of the larger collective, Unsettled Subjects, to discuss diverse approaches to issues of race, space and identity in members’ architectural practice, pedagogy, and writing.

Research

Gay Bar: A dig beneath the disco

5:30pm, 22 Apr 2021

Research

Iteration: Episodes in the Mediation of Art and Architecture

5:30pm, 28 Jan 2021

Research

Radical Alternatives: Temporal and Spatial Mediations in Contemporary Iranian Art

5:00pm, 10 Nov 2020