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Barcelona Study Tour - October 2025: ‘Rationalism Beyond the Ramblas’

Event Review | Patricia Woodward, Matthew Lloyd Architects

Tuesday 9 Dec 2025

Everyone who joined this recent Architecture Club study tour of Barcelona, brilliantly created and guided by Jonathan Duff, can probably pick a favourite building which will forever rest in the mind.

2025 Robert Maxwell Lecture : Architecture as Urban Intervention: Landscape and Megastructural Form

Event Review | The Architecture Club’s roving reporter

Wednesday 24 Sept 2025

Following talks by Jeremy Dixon & Edward Jones in 2023 and O’Donnell & Tuomey in 2024, the Architecture Club’s 2025 Bob Maxwell Lecture was given by Kenneth Frampton CBE the distinguished architect, w...

Review of the Architecture Club’s visit to Young V&A Museum

Event Review | Katherine Skellon, Skellon Studio

Tuesday 22 Apr 2025

It’s always a rather strange experience, stepping into a museum where you can hear a pin drop and even more so when it’s a children’s museum, but last week we were taken behind the scenes of the Young...

Tour: Sadler's Wells East

Event Review | Charles Saumarez Smith

Saturday 29 Mar 2025

When Sheila O'Donnell and John Tuomey gave last year's Bob Maxwell Lecture, they described the work that they had been doing to create Sadler's Wells East, which opened in February this year. John an...

2024 Robert Maxwell Lecture : Working Together

Event Review | Ros Diamond

Friday 4 Oct 2024

Attending the Architecture Club’s second annual lecture at the Athenaum Club last Thursday, it was soon apparent how fitting it was for it to be given by Sheila O’Donnell and John Tuomey.

Private View | Tropical Modernism

Event Review | Julia Nicholls

Wednesday 8 May 2024

If you’re looking for a beauty parade of modernist buildings, this may not be the exhibition for you. More interestingly, Tropical Modernism at V&A deep dives into the complex relationship between arc...

2024 Spring Supper Debate - Is timber the new concrete?

Event Review | Anne Minors

Thursday 2 May 2024

The gathering was held in the entertaining and catering space at the top of Heyne Tillett Steel’s (HTS) office where the firm’s appreciation of CLT was directly expressed in the surrounding wall and r...

2024 Spring Excursion | Brighton Rocks!

Event Review | Lynne Sullivan

Wednesday 3 Apr 2024

Taking a leaf out of ‘Prinny’s’ book, we journeyed to Brighton for a day of sea air, inspiration, and architectural pleasures!

Behind the Scenes | UCL East Marshgate

Event Review | Lucy Mori

Tuesday 26 Mar 2024

We were all extremely impressed and uplifted by our visit to Marshgate on an early spring morning. Despite a mix-up over meeting points and bridges, 15 or so Architecture Club members and guests conv...

Behind the Scenes | Arding & Hobbs

Event Review | Alun Jones

Sunday 10 Mar 2024

Arding & Hobbs is a south London institution; a department store that served local residents for over a century. However, the decline in its fortunes over the past two decades were plain for all to se...

2023 Winter Supper Debate | AI: Architects and Artists - Assistant or Assassin?

Event Review | Katy Ghahremani

Friday 22 Dec 2023

As an architect curious about the future of architecture, I recently attended the Architecture Club debate at the esteemed Athenaeum Club. The topic of discussion stirred the air with a question both ...

The Inaugural Bob Maxwell Lecture

Event Review | Keith Williams FRIBA MRIAI FRSA

Monday 2 Oct 2023

The Architecture Club’s inaugural Bob Maxwell Lecture was delivered by the eminent architects Sir Jeremy Dixon and Edward Jones CBE. Such was the anticipation of the event that it was sold out within ...

2021 Autumn Supper Debate | Is ornament really crime?

Event Review | Phil Coffey

Friday 26 Nov 2021

The 2021 Autumn debate was held at BAFTA Piccadilly. A welcome return to in person, physical debate.