Modernities: Architecture/Design/Theory - The Courtauld

Upcoming events

Photograph of a grey building against a blue sky. There are bollards to the left of the building and grass and trees in front of it.

A History of Council Housing Design and Planning

5:00pm, 27 Apr 2023 | Free, booking essential

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

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Film Screening: The New Bauhaus (2019)

5:00pm, 24 Nov 2022 | Free, booking essential

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

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Ukrainian Modernism and the Architecture of Standardization

5:00pm, 25 May 2022 | Free, booking essential

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). ...

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A brown, wooden structure sits on a red and yellow carpet, with a series of clocks to the right.

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

5:30pm, 20 Oct 2021 | Free, booking essential

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. ...

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Book Cover for Gay Bar

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Gay Bar: A dig beneath the disco

5:30pm, 22 Apr 2021

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Photo of Berlin in black and white

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Iteration: Episodes in the Mediation of Art and Architecture

5:30pm, 28 Jan 2021 | BOOKING ESSENTIAL

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Room with pillars covered in newspapers

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Radical Alternatives: Temporal and Spatial Mediations in Contemporary Iranian Art

5:00pm, 10 Nov 2020 | BOOKING ESSENTIAL

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Green handprint in paint

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Book event: 'Ascendants: Bauhaus Handprints Collected by László Moholy-Nagy'

5:30pm, 7 Oct 2020

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Abstract painting

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Gerhard Richter: Abstraction after Titian, circa 1973

12:00am, 27 Feb 2020

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Print in black and white of bird, animals and symbols

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Poe, Printmaking, and Intellectual Property

5:00pm, 23 Jan 2020

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Painting of a lady in a hat

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Weimar’s Others: Art History, Alterity and Regionalism in Inter-War Germany

6:00pm, 17 Oct 2019

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On the left of the image is a line drawing of an office and on the right is a grid of small squares overlaid by a handprint

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Some Roles of Drawing

6:00pm, 19 Feb 2019

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Example of a Rorschach test showing three differently shaped black blots

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‘Interpretation as a Special Kind of Perception’: The Design of the Rorschach Test and Its Refiguration in the Art of Rosemarie Trockel

5:00pm, 29 Nov 2018

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