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What we’re seeing: ‘Bunkers, Brutalism and Bloodymindedness’ on BBC Four

Sunday 21:00 BBC Four Unité d’Habitation in Marseille, by Le Corbusier This is the second of a two-part documentary in which Jonathan Meades makes the case for 20th-century concrete Brutalist...

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What we’re seeing: Designs of the Year 2014

Designs of the Year 2014 Design Museum, Shad Thames, London, SE1 2YD Housing scheme by Alison Brooks Architects Designs of the Year is an exhibition of cutting-edge designs in global architecture,...

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What we’re seeing: In Conversation – Richard Rogers, Terry Farrell, Nicholas...

RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London W1B 1AD Tue 11 March 2014, 18:30 – 20:00 Top and middle: Hopkins House in Hampstead. Bottom: Rogers House in Wimbledon At this one-off event, five era-defining...

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What we’re seeing: Jane Drew exhibition at ICA

Jane Drew: An Introduction Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) until 23 Mar 2014 University College, Ibadan: Residential College by Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew. Photography: RIBA Exhibition...

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What we’re seeing: ‘Living Laboratory: Richard Pare on Le Corbusier and...

PM Gallery & House, Walpole Park, Mattock Lane, London W5 5EQ 21 March – 11 May 2014 Le Roche-Jeanneret house, Paris, 1923, by Le Corbusier © Richard Pare Villa Savoye, Poissy, 1929-30, by Le...

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What we’re seeing: Talk on Connell, Ward & Lucas

The ABA Gallery, 70 Cowcross Street, London, EC1M 6EL March 25, 19:00 – 20:30 High & Over At this event, Sally Rendel, co-author of a 2008 monograph on Connell Ward & Lucas, will be speaking...

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What we’re seeing: ‘The Architect’ Auction

Auction: Tuesday 29 April, 6pm Howick Place, London SW1P 1BB Viewing: 23 – 29 April Alvar Aalto Cantilevered armchair 1931/ Steven Holl Prototype Porosity Bench 2006 House by Steven Holl Architects...

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What we’re seeing: ‘Where Architects Live’

Solone Internazionale del Mobile Milan Fairgrounds, Rho Pavilions: Pavilion 9 8th-13th April David Chipperfield’s Berlin home © Davide Pizzigoni Zaha Hadid’s London home © Davide Pizzigoni Massimiliano...

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What we’re seeing: ‘Architecture on Film: The Competition’

Thursday 8th May, 7pm Cinema 1, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS This behind-the-scenes documentary seeks to expose the architectural competition process in raw detail. It follows five...

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What we’re seeing: ‘The triumphs and failures of post-war architecture’

Hauer-King House Street-Porter House by CZWG Alexander Fleming House (now called Metro Central Heights) This collection of television programmes examining the triumphs and failures of post-war...

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What we’re seeing: Louis Kahn exhibition at the Design Museum

9 July 2014 – 12 October 2014 Design Museum, 28 Shad Thames, London SE1 2YD Korman House, Louis Kahn Esherick House, Louis Kahn Shapiro House, Louis Kahn Genel House, Louis Kahn This exhibition about...

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What we’re seeing: ‘Exhibition’ film by Joanna Hogg

Exhibition (15) Directed by Joanna Hogg Curzon Renoir Exhibition, the latest film by British writer-director Joanna Hogg, is set in a modernist house in west London. The film is dedicated to the...

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What we’re seeing: Reason and Intuition exhibition – Alvar Aalto and Ola...

Until 24 Aug 2014 Pitzhanger Manor House and Gallery, London W5                           Images: Architectural drawing, Alvar Aalto Foundation; Paimio Chair (1931-2) This exhibition brings together...

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What we’re seeing: Louis Kahn architecture tour

This tour through central London, on Saturday 30th August, will look anew at the shape and form of a number of buildings, in light of Louis Kahn’s use of geometry. The tour, organised by The Design...

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What we’re seeing: Denys Lasdun and the Royal College of Physicians exhibition

‘The Anatomy of a Building: Denys Lasdun and the Royal College of Physicians’ Royal College of Physicians, London NW1 8th Sept – 13th Feb. Mon – Fri 9am-5pm This exhibition marks 100 years since the...

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What we’re seeing: Architect-designed structures for Salt festival in Norway

Oslo-based firm Rintala Eggertsson Architects has installed a series of wooden structures on a beach in northern Norway for Salt , a new festival being held in celebration of the Arctic landscape. The...

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What we’re seeing: Our Top 5 Picks for Open House London

 The Tree House Gingerbread House. Photography: Chloe Dewe Mathews Stapleton Hall Road Walter Segal self-build houses. Photography: Ian White Forest Mews Open House London takes place this weekend,...

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What we’re seeing: ‘Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age’ and ‘City...

‘Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age’ Barbican Art Gallery 25 September 2014 – 11 January 2015 © Nadav Kander. Courtesy Flowers Gallery © Andreas Gursky: The Copan...

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What we’re seeing: 100 Buildings 100 Years at Royal Academy

100 Buildings 100 Years: Views of British Architecture since 1914 Royal Academy, The Architecture Space, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD 11 October 2014 – 1 February 2015. Sat–Thurs...

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What we’re seeing: Architectural tour of Ravenswood house by Maccreanor...

Thursday 30th October: 6.00pm/ 7.30pm Gospel Oak, Camden Ravenswood © Tim Crocker An interesting opportunity to have a tour of a terraced house at Ravenswood, a modernist estate in north London...

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