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Translations from Drawing to Nothing: The Coventry Cathedral Competition’s Losing Designs and the ‘Faculty of Clairvoyance’

Harry Foley
Through the Fires: The Mackintosh Building at the Glasgow School of Art

Robyn Calvert
Beauty for the People: Architecture and the Queer Origins of the National Trust

Michael Hall
In Conversation with Sir Donald Insall

Tanvir Hasan, John Cattell and Sir Donald Insall
The Institutionalisation of ‘taste’ in Architecture: The British Construction of Chinoiserie in the 17th and 18th Centuries

Tian Pan & Doreen Bernath
When is a Building Finished? Lessons from Late Medieval Architectural Culture

Steven Brindle
Carboniferous Creations: Victorian Gothic Revivalism and the Ecocritical Turn

Alex Bremner
Before Bilbao: The Case Study of Hans Hollein’s Museum in Mönchengladbach

Eva Branscome
The 2025 Annual Lecture: A Conversation About the Shape of Buildings to Come

Convener & Chair: Tanvir Hasan
Architecture, Community and Television in 1970s Britain

Jessica Kelly
The Architectural Image and Early Modern Science: Wendel Dietterlin and the Rise of Empirical Investigation

Elizabeth J. Petcu
Swedophilia: Ethic or Aesthetic? Oliver Cox, Michael Ventris and the Lure of Swedish Architecture in Post-War Britain

Otto Saumarez Smith
In conversation with Maurice Howard & Malcolm Airs

John Goodall, Maurice Howard and Malcolm Airs
Women in Building Construction in the Early Modern Period

Linda Clarke, Conor Lucey, Amy Erickson, and Kirsty Wright and Elizabeth C. Biggs
Painting Architecture in Early Renaissance Italy: Invention and Persuasion at the Intersection of Art and Architectural Practice

Livia Lupi
The Religious Architecture of Alvar, Aino and Elissa Aalto

Sofia Singler
The Network around Walter Gropius in Britain, 1934-37

Alborz Dianat
The 2024 Annual Lecture: Architecture and Affect in the Middle Ages

Professor Paul Binski
The Construction Businesses of Early Modern London

Judy Stephenson
Rethinking the Inbetween: Reflections on Interwar Historiography with Neal Shasore

Neal Shasore
Hawksmoor and the English Gothic Church

Elizabeth Deans
The ‘romanitas’ of Wren’s Sheldonian Theatre: An Alternative Reading

Janet DeLaine
Rewiring the City: A Walk Through London’s Alleyways

Matthew Turner