Modernism

Across The Iron Curtain

Across The Iron Curtain : This 12-day road trip from Berlin to Bratislava explores Central Europe’s…
Grand Tour Le Corbusier

A 9 day pilgrimage to the most iconic works of pioneering Modernist architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret in…
Lappia Hall & Rovaniemi Library

Rovaniemi, FInland Alvar Aalto (1975) The town of Rovaniemi was destroyed during the retreat of German…
The Penguin Pool, London Zoo

London, UK Berthold Lubetkin with Ove Arup (1934) Berthold Lubetkin’s seminal Penguin Pool at the London…
Finsbury Health Centre

Finsbury, London, UK Berthold Lubetkin (1938) In the 1930s the Borough of Finsbury commissioned Berthold Lubetkin’s…
Eternal Youth: The workers’ settlement at Aspra Spitia

Aluminium of Greece (AL) was launched in 1960 as a joint venture between the government of…
An Ideal for Learning : the Round School at Athens

Agios Dimitrios, (often referred to with its pre-1928 name, Brahami) is one of the most densely…
Modernist Necropolis : a Spartan cemetery

go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie Spartan…
Second Chance Motel : rediscovering a hidden architectural gem by the motorway

“Blue hotelOn a lonely highwayBlue hotelLife don’t work out my way” Blue Hotel (1986) by Chris…
Dark Modernism : the forgotten story of an abandoned Jewish boarding school

The premises of a groundbreaking Jewish boarding school played an active role in both WW1 and…
New Towns & High Rises : an Urban History of Britain

Explore the gritty vertical neighbourhoods of Britain’s New Towns and the High Rises of London’s East…