Events
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Ernő Goldfinger – famous but forgotten
Tuesday, 28 May 2024 | 6:30 – 8:30pm
Alan Powers and Andrew Murray talk about architect Ernö Goldfinger, exploring some of his lesser known projects and his influence abroad.
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The Mystery of the X202 Chair
Tuesday, 7 May 2024 | 6:30 – 8:30pm
Peter Wyeth tells us about designer James Leonard whose 1940s aluminium and ply school furniture for ESA in Stevenage sold in the millions.
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Artists as Constructors: The Life and Work of Sigma 1
Thursday, 25 April 2024 | 6:30 – 8:30pm
Explore the interdisciplinary practice of Sigma 1 during Romania's fragile period leading up to the collapse of Communism.
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‘Tracking Edith’ film screening + Q&A with director
Thursday, 18 April 2024 | 6:30 - 8:30pm
Filmmaker Peter Stephan Jungk uncovers the truth about his great aunt, the photographer Edith Tudor-Hart who led a double life as KGB agent.
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Edward ‘Bobby’ Carter: Trojan horse within the citadel of the Establishment
Tuesday 9 April 2024 | 18:30 - 20:30
Carter was only 28 when he became RIBA Librarian in 1930, soon assisting architects seeking to flee Nazi-occupied Europe. A talk by Valeria Carullo, Photographs Curator at the RIBA.
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‘The Grandmother of Us All’ - Edith Tudor-Hart and the Cambridge Five spies
Tuesday 26 March 2024 | 18:30 - 20:30
Stewart Purvis CBE explores Edith Tudor-Hart's connections to the Cambridge Five spies and Soviet intelligence operatives in Hampstead.
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An Inside Job: on processing Edith Tudor-Hart’s photographic estate
Tuesday 5 March 2024 | 18:30 - 20:30
Explore the work of the Bauhaus-trained photographer Edith Tudor-Hart, her connection to Isokon and new research findings from her archive.
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Narkomfin and Isokon – Points of Contact
Wednesday 13 Dec 2023 | 18:30 - 20:30
Daria Sorokina compares two iconic residential projects of the 1930s, which although emerging independently, exemplified the internationality of modernism.
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Mondrian at the Mall
Thursday 30 Nov 2023 | 18:30 - 20:30 GMT
Charles Darwent will discuss the nearly three years Piet Mondrian spent as part of the Mall Studios set, two streets away from Isokon Flats.
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P. Morton Shand: The Critic Behind British Modernism
Thursday 16 Nov 2023 | 18:30 - 20:30 GMT
Alborz Dianat explains the complex history of architectural critic P. Morton Shand, a key promoter of Modernism in interwar Britain.
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Tim Benton: Le Corbusier and the ‘desecration’ of E 1027
Thursday 12 Oct 2023 | 18:30–20:30 BST
In 1937, Le Corbusier discovered Eileen Gray's Villa E 1027. Inspired by the genius of the place, he created a total of eight large-format wall paintings there, which have sparked a fierce controversy over their appropriateness in the villa.
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Contemporary Days
Tuesday 13 Jun 2023 | 19:00 - 21:00 BST
Screening of the film Contemporary Days followed by a Q&A discussion with Paula Day, daughter of the designers Robin and Lucienne Day. With thanks to Design OnScreen, USA.
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