This June, American Friends and Patrons are invited to our Summer Party in Walmer Yard, Notting Hill. Set around an open courtyard, the site includes four interlocking houses, totalling over 9,000 square feet. This unique project is a collaboration between developer and founder of Baylight Properties, Crispin Kelly, and architect and RIBA Honorary Fellow, Peter…
American Friends are invited to join us for a drinks reception in a stunning Denys Lasdun building overlooking Green Park and Spencer House on Wednesday 17th May 2017. The block, built on the site of two Georgian houses destroyed during the war, is considered to be Lasdun’s first mature work and it won a RIBA London…
American Friends are invited to join us for a exploration of London’s De Beauvoir Town on the afternoon of Wednesday 26th April 2017. Between Islington and Dalston, in the south-west corner of Hackney, De Beauvoir Town is something of a haven for artists and designers. You are invited to join us for an afternoon exploring this…
We are very pleased to announce the dates and locations for the US lecture tour, ‘Make thy castles high and fair’: Medieval Castles to Modern Fantasies, which Dr Jonathan Foyle will be giving on behalf of AFBAL for the New England Historic Genealogical Society and the Royal Oak Foundation this April. Please see below for the dates and…
Victorian opulence, hidden Mackintosh, a Brutalist utopia and award-winning contemporary architecture: we invite you to join us on this eye-opening tour exclusively for Patrons of Architecture and American Patrons of the British Architectural Library from Wednesday 14th to Friday 16th June 2017. The costs are £990 per person (+£180 single person supplement) including accommodation, meals,…
American Friends are invited to join a tour of DSDHA’s RIBA Award-winning Covert House on Wednesday 15th March 2017. The house is comprised of two interlocked cubes, semi-underground with mirror reveals to minimise its presence in a conservation area. We are then invited to a private apartment remodelled by Woollacott Gilmartin Architects to showcase post-war…
American Friends are invited to join an afternoon of award-winning residential architecture in West London on Thursday 19th January 2017. Coffey Architects use warm oak and clever glazing to bring light to their Modern Mews in Bayswater. Henning Stummel Architects’ Tin House is a composition of six metal-clad pavilions around a secluded courtyard in Shepherds…
