Past Events

2012

Laurie Baker: 'The Cost Of Living'
An illustrated talk by Anna Baker - info here (pdf)

Behrens
Talk by Iain Boyd Whyte - flier here (pdf)

2011

Modern Buildings For Health In The UK
An illustrated talk on five buildings selected for inclusion on the Docomomo International Register this year.
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2011 AGM

A Day Trip To Modern Houses In Hertfordshire, Part Two

Louis Khan and the Richards Laboratory Building
A lecture by James Kruhly, FAIA

Flyer here. (Pdf, takes a few seconds to open)

Denmark and South Sweden Study Tour
Reunion and slide show.

What Nikolas Pevsner brought with him from Germany
Lecture by Stephen Games.

More info here.

Docomomo Tour of Denmark and Southern Sweden
A short tour, 5 days (4 night), based in Copenhagen visiting buildings by modern architects in Denmark and southern Sweden.

Max Bill and the Modernist Movement in Britain
An illustrated talk by Alan Fowler (art historian) and Philip Boyle (coordinator Docomomo-UK)

More info here. (pdf file)

Visit to Trellick Tower and the Cheltenham Estate
Led by Philip Boyle and Emma Dent-Coad

More info here. (pdf file)

Modern Architecture and Brick
Lecture by Richard Levington

More info here.

Hugo Häring and Hans Scharoun
- Two Ways of Using Brick
Peter Blundell Jones

The Grundtvig Church - Sacred Brick
Thomas Bo Jensen

George Pace Conference
One day conference on the architect George Pace (1915-1975) held in Cardiff.
Speakers:
Professor Alan Powers, Peter G. Pace, Professor Robin Simon, Professor Judi Loach.

More info here.(pdf file)

German Expressionist Architecture
- from the crystal to the brick
Lecture by Professor Iain Boyde Whyte

More info here. (5Mb pdf)

2010

Preview screening of the film "UTOPIA LONDON"
+ Q & A with the Director Tom Cordell and some of the participants.
The film investigates the work of Modern architects working in the London public sector.

See review here.

Annual Lecture
Influence of the Modern Movement
by Sir David Chipperfield


Museum of Modern Literature, Marbach, Germany

On monday night 6 December David Chipperfield gave a packed house at the RIBA a masterclass in understanding and interpreting the Modern Movement. Giving the Docomomo Annual Address in the Jarvis Hall, Chipperfield voiced his unease over Post-Modernism, which arrived while he was studying at the AA. But in some ways it was a wake-up call which made him and others re-evalue the Modern Movement's tenets; amongst them was 'Form follows function' which he felt had become irrelavent after the first heroic pre-war Modernist period. Instead he gradually found that the language of architecture , particularly in the context of place, was increasingly important within the philosophy of the Modern Movement. Citing works by Le Corbusier and Alvaro Siza, he developed this theme in his own projects, particularly the Henley Rowing Museum, the Marbach Museum of Modern Literature and his work at the Neues Musem, Berlin. He related the sometimes frustrating journey he had to convince clients and interested parties of the importance of ideas as a catalyst for the form of these buildings; but once won over how they came on board to bring them to completion. Another theme Chipperfield warmed to was neighbourhood participation in his projects. Referring to the public route through James Stirling's Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart, he showed how the Americas Cup Building in Valencia allowed public access to the lower levels while meeting the client's requirement for VIP viewing terraces above; that was what drove the design, not the simple wish to have white horizontal planes flying out into space. Similarly it was the need for public circulation round the Neues Museum that prompted his solution for a series of covered walkways, now under construction. In the mixture of money and design, the last was the poor cousin that the architect had to fight for; and if only half the money was there, then you had to explain to the client that only half the building could be built. Chipperfield's single-minded devotion to clarity of idea and quality of design permeated all the projects. He dismissed the current international preoccupation with glassy buildings reflecting blue skies and dog walkers as lacking in intellectual depth, and instead argued that the Modern Movement opened the way for thoughtful individual solutions for each project. It was this return to the basic teachings of the Modern Movement, with which Docomomo's programme of lectures and events is concerned, that made David Chipperfield's Annual Lecture, kindly supported by Forticrete, an important and entertaining evening.

More info here.

AGM + Memorial Dennis Sharp Lecture
Initial lecture in BDA Series: Modernism and Brick

North German Expressionism
From Crystal to Brick
Illustrated lecture by Professor Iain Boyde Whyte

More info here.

Modernism in California ‘Rudolph Schindler’
by Professor Judith Scheine

George Pace Conference at St. Michael's College, Cardiff

ISC/Registers
Docomomo-UK 2009/10 Fisches Power and the Modern Movement
More info here.

Modernism and Photography by Morley Von Sternberg

Modernism in California ‘Gregory Ain’
by Philip Boyle
Event poster

Modern Movement in Germany
Two Docomomo visits into Karlsruhe and Breslau(Wroclaw), including buildings by Max Berg, Eric Mendelsohn, Gropius, Scharoun.
By James Dunnett

2009

Geoffrey Bawa’s Concrete
Prof David Robson, formerly School of Architecture, University of Brighton
More info here - (takes a moment to load), and here.

Docomomo UK Annual Lecture
Rab Bennetts
More info here - (takes a moment to load) and here.

Adolf Loos Concrete - ("Ornament is a Crime")
Prof. Panayotis Tournikiotis. (School of Architecture, National University, Athens)
More info here.

Ricardo Legoretta and Abraham Zabludovsky’s Concrete (Mexico’s leading Modernist architects)
Louise Noelle
More info here - (takes a moment to load), and here.

Rob Mallet-Stevens’s Concrete
Prof Richard Klein, University of Lille, France.
More info here - (takes a moment to load).

3 Houses in Paris Tour
Slide show and reunion

Furniture of Chandigarh
LE CORBUSIER AND PIERRE JEANNERET - symposium at the University of Westminster
More info here: flyer and larger image of poster, and in pdf format: flyer and poster.

Modernism In Wales
A DOCOMOMO-UK STUDY TOUR - led by Judi Loach of Docomomo Wales.
See here and here for the details.

Le Corbusier and Post War British Architects
A CONCRETE FORUM - George Finch, Alan Colquhoun, and Jack Pringle. (Click here to see poster [Rick Mather didn't attend], and here and here for more information)

Modern Architecture in Turkey: The Modern Movement Diaspora
Dr Süha Ozkän. (Click here to see poster.)

Docomomo Weekend Study Tour (in Paris)
led by Phillip Boyle

Oscar Niemeyer: Curves of Irreverence
talk by Dr Styliane Philippou

'Stefan Sebok and Walter Gropius's design for the 'Total Theatre': fact or fiction?'
talk by Dr Lilly Dubowitz

2008

'Pre-war Pioneers'
lecture by Dennis Sharp and Sally Rendel - more info here

Docomomo-UK Annual Discourse: 'Modernity And Its Discontents'
lecture by Deyan Sudjic OBE, director of the Design Museum - (biog)- more info here

'Ove Arup's Concrete'
lecture by Jane Wernick - more info here

'Les Maisons Jaoul'
lecture by Caroline Maniaque - more info here

Masters Of Concrete: Erno Goldfinger
lecture by James Dunnett (architect)

Drawings By Denys Lasdun + Hallfield School Visit
talk and tour led by Barnabas Calder of Strathclyde University

Perimeter Planning - An Alternative To The Freestanding Block?
talk by Prof Bjorn Linn of Gothenburg

10th International Conference

Arthur Erickson's Concrete
talk by Cheryl Cooper - see poster.

Moscow tour reunion

Tour of Moscow and St. Petersburg

Concrete Forum

Pierre Jeanneret at Chandigarth
talk by Prof. Maristella Casciato

Modern Architecture & Paris in the 1960's
(including the work of Jean Renaudié). Talk by Irénée Scalbert.

Moscow MayEvent: 'Man With Movie Camera'.
illustrated talk by Philip Boyle.

2007

2006

2005

Soleri's Concrete- Roger Tomalty, Cosanti/Arcosanti AZ

2004

2003