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Architecture Club presents…Abandoned Churches of Rural Russia with Clem Cecil
Posted on October 21, 2016
Architecture Club presents… The Road to Hope Street: 20 years of theatre design with Steve Tompkins
Posted on August 3, 2016
August 3, 2016
Steve leads the Performance Design Studio at architects Haworth Tompkins. He will be talking about the studio’s approach to these specialised public buildings and presenting a selection of key projects, including the Royal Court, the Young Vic, Snape Maltings, the Bath Egg and the National Theatre, leading to the RIBA Stirling Prize winning Everyman Theatre in Liverpool’s Hope Street.
Architecture Club presents…Lutyens & The Great War with Tim Skelton
Posted on July 28, 2016
The Battle of the Somme with Professor Sir Hew Strachan
Posted on May 23, 2016
May 23, 2016
The British folk memory of the Battle of the Somme is dominated by one moment: 7.30am on 01 July 1916. It was a bright summer’s day, the sun well up, and falling from the east on the backs of the German defenders and into the faces of the British. Officers sounded their whistles, and their men scrambled up ladders to get out of the trenches and into No Man’s Land…
Lucinda Rogers in Conversation
Posted on March 22, 2016
March 22, 2016
Lucinda Rogers works from life in the tradition of the artist as reporter. She immerses herself in an environment and records straight from eye to paper, which gives her drawings a particular spontaneity. Her work records the intimate details and broad views of the changing city she lives in, London, and others she is drawn to including New York and Marrakech.
Kurdistan: A Dream Suspended
Posted on March 22, 2016
March 22, 2016
Richard Wilding, creative director of GULAN, a charity which promotes Kurdish culture, is a London-based producer and photographer who has worked extensively in the Middle East. His dazzling photographs bring to life the landscape, history and culture of the Kurdish people, as well as the problems they face in the wake of the Syrian conflict.
In Search of Shakespeare with Michael Wood
Posted on March 22, 2016
The Frome Hoard with Sam Moorhead of the British Museum
Posted on March 8, 2016
Architecture Club presents…Street – Who owns the city? with Peter Barber
Posted on February 22, 2016
Switch to a Renewable Future – Seminar
Posted on February 3, 2016