Modern Architecture
CONVENOR - Jane Austin
DAY - Varies, depends on members' availability
VENUE - Member's Home, unless stated otherwise.
TIME - See meeting programme.
CURRENT SEASON
(Copies of slides from previous meetings are available on request from Jane, the Group Convenor)
Date | Day/Time | Venue | Study Area |
August/Sept 2024 | To be confirmed | Member's Home | Tropical Modernism |
June/July 2024 | Visit to be confirmed | Art Deco Style | |
1st May 2024 | Weds/2.00pm | Member's Home | The work of Le Corbusier |
8th February 2024 | Thursday/2.00pm | Member's Home | Dubai Part II and Architects:Farrell & McNamara - Daylight Award Winners |
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Modernist? Prairie? Utilitarianism? Brutalist? Constructivist?
We’re a group of enthusiastic ‘modernists’ – all beginners who share a passion for and appreciation of Modern Architecture. We meet every 6-8 weeks. We aim to be as flexible as possible to fit in around members’ availability.
As well as studying modern architecture and learning more about the architects behind some of the most iconic buildings of the 20th and 21st Century, we also like to visit some of the outstanding examples in and around London.
So far, we've attended an audience with the renowned brutalist architect, Owen Lauder, had a guided tour of the modernist De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill and an architecture tour of the Barbican in the City of London.
This is a self-study group and a slide show is usually produced for each meeting which collates all the information and pictures on the given topic.
So far we have studied:
2022-3 Season
Date | Study Area |
October 2023 | Architecture of Dubai and the UAE - Part I |
Sept 2023 | Architecture Tour of the Barbican Centre London |
July 2023 | The Vessel, New York |
March 2023 | Transport-related Buildings - Part II |
Jan 2023 | Modern Transport-related Buildings - Part I |
Nov 22 | The Architecture of Theatres and Concert Halls (post-1950) |
Sept 22 | Erich Mendelsohn |
May 22 | Oscar Neimeyer (New city of Brasilia) |
March 22 | Balkrishna Doshi (New city of Chandigarh) |
Jan 22 | Frank Lloyd Wright (Prairie and Usonian styles) |
Other Study Topics
Named Architect | Notable Buildings/Areas |
Zaha Hadid | London Olympic Aquatic Centre |
Renzo Piano | The Shard, London and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris |
Richard Rogers | The ‘Cheese Grater’, Leadenhall, London |
Shiregu Ban | Sustainable housing and emergency shelters in disaster zones |
We’ve also looked at particular genre such as Bauhaus, Deconstructivism, Modernist, Brutalist etc and particular types of modern buildings around the world such as modern bridges and places of worship.