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. Revived last year, the lecture is now named after the architect, educator and critic Robert Maxwell. Last year’s lecture was given by Jeremy […]
Michael was such an important part of the life and soul of the Club that news of his death came as a massive shock. The grandson of J C Squire, the founder of the Club in 1922, and son of Raglan who was an Hon Secretary in the ’30 and ‘40s, Michael was proud to […]
Now that we are beginning to retrieve the social dimension of our lives, we thought it was about time we had a proper get together – and after 18 months of not seeing each other, party we did! Monday evening (27 September) saw members and their guests come together in true Club style .Huge thanks […]
The Architecture Club is turning 100! From the opening sentence in an article featured in The Spectator, 29 July 1922.UNDER the presidency of Mr. Thomas Hardy (himself an ex-architect) and the chairmanship of Mr. J. C. Squire, “the Architecture Club” came into official being at a birthday dinner on the evening of July 20th. To […]
“I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies” Le Corbusier. The Club held an on-line sketching evening on the 10th of May 2021. Our host was Narinder Sagoo, a member of the Club and a Senior Partner at Foster and Partners where he leads the Design Communications Team. Narinder […]
New approaches to growing vibrant and viable communities in the countryside With the countryside making up 85% of the UK land area but only 18% of the population living there, the housing crisis in the UK is placing huge pressure to build in rural areas, but with solutions that largely concentrate on urban centres and […]
Lockdown in our office, 5 minutes walk from home above Riverside Studios, has at times felt all too much like physical ‘Lockin’ with access virtually barred by the plethora of plastic cones and ‘heras’ fencing across the area to stop all traffic on Hammersmith Bridge. Close by is a 1950s subterranean Churchill Gardens/Festival of Britain […]
I have chosen several drawings to flesh out the look and feel of Spitalfields, my neighbourhood for the last 30 years – a place that has always been in a state of flux and one that I enjoy all the more for that. By contrast the buildings I admire are constant and don’t change very […]
From Australia to Stoke Newington, down to Brighton for lockdown and back to Hackney again last November, I’ve moved more times than I would have liked to these past two years. After lockdown by the sea, my husband and I finally settled into a converted warehouse flat in Haggerston, prompting a deep love for the […]
I have spent much of the last year walking in and around Crystal Palace and making pots. In my wanderings, pots were often filling my thoughts and I found myself imagining them sitting – rather incongruously – in places where I walked. When the sun came out, I decided the pots had to as well. […]
