The Question of Beauty in Architecture Alain de Botton, writer, broadcaster and producer, ponders the question...
God meets Mammon: The Financing of the New Cathedral St. Paul's is perhaps the greatest building to have emerged...
The New London and the Heavenly Jerusalem: Scientists and Craftsmen in Sir Christopher Wren's London The decades over which St. Paul's was re-built after the...
The Fabrication of Medieval History: Archaeology and artifice at the Office of Works The Colin Matthew Memorial Lecture for the Public Understanding of...
The Reform Club: Architecture and the birth of popular government Professor Peter Marsh, Honorary Professor of History at the University...
Music and Architecture: Confronting the Boundaries between Space and Sound The architect/mathematician turned composer, Iannis Xenakis, was Gresham Professor of...
Slavery - The US perspective: From the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement Dr Alan Sked, The London School of Economics and Political...
Function, Fashion and Finance: A new sense of architectural purpose for the City? What is the future of the city in the modern world, and, in particular, what is the role of London in the next century?