What We're Hearing: London Festival of Architecture 2017
This week the London Festival of Architecture returns to the capital from 1-30 June 2017. The biggest annual architecture festival in Europe, each year the festival explores a new theme and this year’s incarnation brings hundreds of events on the subject of ‘memory’.
Here’s our selection of the best events, talks, installations and exhibitions.
A Year in Pictures: Celebrating 40 Years of the Christchurch Estate
ZCD Architects host an exhibition of Madeleine Waller’s intimate photographs of Victoria Park’s Christchurch Estate in East London – formerly known as the Crown Estate.
Thu 22 June
18:00 – 20:00
by ZCD Architects
ZCD Architects Studio 107, Netil House, 1 Westgate Street, Hackney, E8 3RL
Companion
UP Projects and The Museum of London present a series of walks in the city inspired by the 1970s sub-cultural guide ‘Alternative London’ by Nicholas Saunders. Led by artists, writers, curators and policy researchers, the walks will highlight alternative values and ways of living in the city, from communal living and family structures to creativity and sexuality.
Sun 11 June
15:00 – 16:30
by Museum of London £5
Museum of London 150 London Wall, London, EC2Y 5HN
Ricardo Bofill Lecture
One of Spain’s most prolific and celebrated architects, Ricardo Bofill reflects on fifty years of experimentation. An architect who has outlived Structuralism, classical revivalism, Postmodernism and Minimalism amongst other trends, it’s worth adding your name to the waiting list.
Tue 13 June
19:00 – 20:30
by Royal Institute of British Architects £9.50 Standard £6.50 RIBA Members, RIBA Student Members and RIBA Friends
RIBA 66 Portland Place, London, W1B 1AD
Futures Found – The Real and Imagined Cityscapes of Post-War Britain
Six social housing case studies explore the narratives surrounding a selection of iconic post-war projects. The exhibition draws on film, music, art, literature and lived experience to collectively challenge common perceptions of failure.
Sat 18 February – Sun 25 June
10:00 -18:00
by Royal Academy of Arts @architure_RA
The Architecture Space Burlington House, Picacadilly, W1J 0BD
Man About The Trellick Tower
Tim Ross and Kit Warhurst return to the UK to host audiences in the some of the most exciting homes in London. The duo blend storytelling, music and design as they take temporary possession of Trellick Tower.
Sat 10 June
14:00 – 16:00
by Tim Ross £25
Trellick Tower Meet: The Goldfinger Factory 13-15 Golborne Road, London, W10 5NY
Making More of Modernism
With a focus on London’s Southbank Centre, the Richmond Building for the University of Bristol and a 10-storey Modernist laboratory tower at the University of Edinburgh; Making More of Modernism considers the relevance of modernism today and asks what we’re preserving when we refurbish and renew modernist buildings.
Wed 14 June – Fri 28 July
09:00 – 17:30
by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios 20 Tottenham Street, London, W1T 4RG
Henrietta’s Dream: Arts and Crafts of Hampstead Garden Suburb
Footprints of London lead a walking tour of the Hampstead Garden Suburb that developed at the turn of the century. The tour examines the early history and development of the area and the roles of Henrietta Barnett, Raymond Unwin and Edwin Lutyens.
Sat 10 June
11:00 – 13:30
by Footprints of London
Golders Green Underground Station North End Way, London, NW11 7RN
Dulwich Pavilion
To celebrate 200 years since the it first opened to the public, the Dulwich Picture Gallery has erected the first Dulwich Pavilion designed by IF_DO. Entry to the Pavilion is free throughout the summer with a program of themed Lates on Fridays.
Fri 2 June – Sun 8 October
18:00 – 23:00
by Dulwich Picture Gallery @dulwichgallery
Dulwich Picture Gallery Gallery Road, London, SE21 7AD
Modernism & Neo Georgian Modernism After 1945
Historic England’s Elain Harwood and architectural historian Julian Holder present an evening exploring Neo-Georgian style and the Modernisms that emerged after 1945.
Tue 6 June
18:15 – 19:20
by Twentieth Century Society C20 Society members £10, non members £8, students £5
The Gallery 70 Cowcross Street, London, EC1M 6EJ
NLA Annua Lecture 2017 by Sir David Adjaye OBE
A headline event of the London Festival of Architecture; David Adjaye presents the NLA Annual Lecture at the Royal Geographical Society.
Mon 12 June
18:30 – 20:00
by New London Architecture Early Bird £15 (available until 12 May), Student Ticket £12 , General Admission £18 (from 13 May)
Royal Geographical Society 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2SR
Post-War Craft: How LCC Architects Redefined High-Rise Living
Anise Gallery and AVR London collaborate on an exhibition of contemporary photography of South London’s twentieth-century social housing developments. Post-war Craft explores the development of form and function and assesses the aesthetics of social housing solutions.
Thu 1 – Sat 3 June
11:00 – 17:00
by Anise Gallery
Anise Gallery 13a Shad Thames, Bermondsey, London, SE1 2PU
Segal Self-Build: Past, Present and Future
The Rural Urban Synthesis Society lead a walking tour of Walter Segal’s self-build community housing project in Lewisham, South London.
Sun 4 June
13:00 – 17:00
by The Rural Urban Synthesis Society
Walters Way 8 Walters Way, SE23 3LH
Building Memories
A striking pavilion evolves on 10 June as residents and visitors contribute their knowledge, memories and experience of Bermondsey to weave an interactive structure.
Sat 10 June
12:00 – 15:00
by Levitt Bernstein
Bermondsey Spa Frean Street, London, SE16 4AA
Modernism & Brutalism in the 1930s
Architectural authors Alan Powers and Barnabas Calder host an evening examining the style and identity of Modernism and Brutalism in the 1930s.
Thu 1 June
18:15 – 19:20
by Twentieth Century Society C20 Society members £8; non members £10, students £5
The Gallery 70 Cowcross Street, London, EC1M 6EJ
A Vanishing City – Modernism Lost and Found in the City of London
The London Ambler leads a walk around the Square Mile and charts the architecture, buildings and remnants of what was and what might have been after the Second World War.
Sat 10 June
13:00 – 15:30
by The London Ambler £15.00
Departs Blackfriars Underground Station Queen Victoria Street, City of London, London, EC2R 8EJ
To find out more visit London Festival of Architecture.
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