Contemporary Mexican architecture has attracted strong critical acclaim internationally. This has happened on the back of a resurging interest in Latin American Modernism and there is now a real excitement around the many young architects from the region making their mark.
Shedding new light on drawings held in the Museum's collections, in this fascinating talk Rory Lamb paints a picture of James Playfair, an architect with a particular vision for Scottish architecture.
Join two Soane experts – former director Bruce Boucher and deputy director Helen Dorey – as they shine a light on the key strands in Soane’s collection and what they reveal about both the man and the psychology of collecting.
Join us for a very special reading of 'De Civitate Angelorum', a treatise on the city of Los Angeles written entirely in Latin, by its author, Donatien Grau.
Join Assistant Curator of Exhibitions Dr Erin McKellar and architects Nimi Attanayake, Tim O’Callaghan and Hikaru Nissanke for an online discussion about the use of figures in contemporary architectural practice, inspired by our current exhibition 'Fanciful Figures'.
This talk will explore an illustrated tome of sixteen scenes of London life in 1793, showing a grittier and more exotic side of urban life, away from the fashionable streets, including dromedary rides, street acrobats, and bare-knuckle boxing.
To mark LGBT+ History Month, Queer Qultural guru Ms Timberlina leads an irreverent after hours voyage of discovery around the Soane, encountering such figures as Sappho, Emperor Hadrian and the notorious William Beckford
Among the volumes of drawings by the eighteenth-century Scottish architects Robert and James Adam held at Sir John Soane’s Museum, number 53 is unique. Dr. Frances Sands explains why in this evening lecture.
