Events

Tuesday 26 March 2024 | 6:30 - 8:30 pm

Stewart Purvis CBE explores Edith Tudor-Hart's connections to the Cambridge Five spies and Soviet intelligence operatives in Hampstead.

Tuesday 5 March 2024 | 6:30 - 8:30 pm

Explore the work of the Bauhaus-trained photographer Edith Tudor-Hart, her connection to Isokon and new research findings from her archive.

Wednesday 13 Dec 2023 | 6:30 - 8:30 pm

Daria Sorokina compares two iconic residential projects of the 1930s, which although emerging independently, exemplified the internationality of modernism.

Thursday 30 Nov 2023 | 6:30 - 8:30 pm

Charles Darwent will discuss the nearly three years Piet Mondrian spent as part of the Mall Studios set, two streets away from Isokon Flats.

Thursday 16 Nov 2023 | 6:30 - 8:30 pm

Alborz Dianat explains the complex history of architectural critic P. Morton Shand, a key promoter of Modernism in interwar Britain.

Thursday 12 Oct 2023 | 6:30 – 8:30 pm

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.

Tuesday 13 Jun 2023 | 7:00 - 9:00 pm

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.

Thursday 3 November 2022 | 7:00 - 9:00 pm

Ana Tostões is Professor & Architecture Scientific Board Chair at IST University of Lisbon. She has also been Chair of Docomomo International from 2011 – 2021 and is Editor of the recently published book Modern Heritage.

Thursday 14 July 2022 | 6:00 – 8:30 pm

Hamed Khosravi will introduce his book 'The Elusive Modernist' which revisits the history of the Modern movement through the legacy of Gabriel Guevrekian (c. 1900―1970).