2025/26

September
26.09.2025 — M3 — Wood pervades our existence — Rod Heyes
26.09.2025 — M3 — Stav og Laft: Norweigan timber traditions — Amandine Kastler
30.09.2025 — M1 — Terms of engagement — Rod Heyes
30.09.2025 — M1 — Epistemology and justified belief — Kirsty Edington & Richard Adetokunbo Aina

October
03.10.2025 — M3 — Reclaiming bamboo — Julia Cabanas & Kawayan Collective 
03.10.2025 — M3 — Tradition & change: the dynamics of Medeival timber building — Mark Gardiner
07.10.2025 — M1 — Allegories and authorities: issues in Japanese architectural history — Simon Kaner
07.10.2025 — M1 — Conservation and reuse from diverse cultural perspectives — Joy Porter
10.10.2025 — M3 — Bicycles, bridges, bush pumps: SCOT, politics & fluidity —  Catherine Montgomery
10.10.2025 — M3 — Production technology through the history of tile making — Lesley Durbin
14.10.2025 — M1 — In the beginning was the architect — Tim Anstey
14.10.2025 — M1 — Archives and thick description — Ed Bottoms
17.10.2025 — M3 — Social change and the Forbidden city — Aurelia Campbell
21.10.2025 — M1 — Conservation, ecology and resue in contemporary Japan — Mio Tsuneyama, Takero Shimazaki & Motoo Chiba
24.10.2025 — M3 — Is that the right way up? — Adam Sutherland
28.10.2025 — M1 — Viollet le Duc and the institution of restoration — Irénée Scalbert
31.10.2025 — M3 — Vaulting ambition — Richard Plant
 
November
04.11.2025 — M1 — From ecology to crisis to redemption — Ingrid  Schroder
04.11.2025 — M1 — Census,  Map, Museum:  Constructing the cultural gaze, from experts to exhibitions — Nick Simcik
04.11.2025 — M1 — Forms of writing — Marina Lathouri & Claire Potter
07.11.2025 — M3 — Thatching: roofing with plants - from children’s dens to Japanese temples — Tom Allan
11.11.2025 — M1 — The city and the monument: German and Italian conservation discourse c.1890-1930 — Max Sternberg
11.11.2025 — M1 — Gaia’s Prehistory — Rosy Head
18.11.2025 — M1 — Values theory and conservation as design — Randall Mason
18.11.2025 — M1 — Sites of conscience — Laura Routley
21.11.2025 — M3 — Brickwork & terracotta 1200-1500 — James Campbell
21.11.2025 — M3 — The brick revolution 1500-1750 — James Campbell
21.11.2025 — M3 — Plaster and casting — Alberto Felici & Richard McClary
25.11.2025 — M1 — Modernism, Identity, and the Politics of Moroccan Architecture — Lahib El Moumni
28.11.2025 — M3 — An Empire in Stone: Inca Architecture and its Antecedents — Stella Nair
28.11.2025 — M3 — Material Perspectives on Greek Architecture: repair, reuse, and trade secrets — Samuel Holzman
28.11.2025 — M3 — The development and application of cast iron — David Mitchell

December
02.12.2025 — M1 — Ivory, rubber, timber and metals — Nana Biamah-Ofusu
02.12.2025 — M1 — Reciprocal landscapes: Material lives workshop — Jane Mah Hutton
02.12.2025 — M1 — Decolonial design review: Re-inscription and reparation — Neal Shashore
05.12.2025 — M3 — People in the past weren’t idiots —  Joana Goncalves
05.12.2025 — M3 — An introduction to building physics —  Rafael Candau
05.12.2025 — M3 — Unobserved it becomes bold: Iron, Zinc and Lead 1780-1923 — Amy Grounsell
05.12.2025 — M3 — The Myth of modularity — Matthias Brenner
09.12.2025 — M1 — Queering conservation — Jane Hall
09.12.2025 — M1 — The transformation of land ownership and use in Britain c1700-1870 — Annie Tindley
12.12.2025 — M3 — Sustainability v. conservation - a false dichotomy — Florencia Collo
12.12.2025 — M3 — Decarbonisation in practise — Rod Heyes & Oliver Rix

January
06.01.2026 — M4 — The art of noticing — Amandine Kastler & Amy Grounsell 
06.01.2026 — M4 — Dimenional and condition surveys  — Rod Heyes
09.01.2026 — M2 — Subversive women: Private Conscience and Public Duty — Jane Hall
09.01.2026 — M2 — Abandonment and ruin lust — Cal Flynn
13.01.2026 — M4 — Timber structures, performance and adaptation — Megan Morrison
13.01.2026 — M4 — The craft of traditional timber framed buildings — Joe Thompson
16.01.2026 — M2 — Other than human — Rosy Head
16.01.2026 — M2 — The Gaia Hypothesis: habitability and the symbiotic planet — Rosy Head
16.01.2026 — M2 — The Vietnam war, counterculture and the rise of environmentalism — Amandine Kastler
20.01.2026 — M4 — An archeological sensibility— Michael Shapland
20.01.2026 — M4 — The nature and denaturing of timber in buildings — Matt Green
23.01.2026 — M2 — Authorised heritage discourse — Natsuko Akagawa
23.01.2026 — M2 — Tropicalismo: Resistance in Brazil. Helio Oiticica, Lygia Clark and Lina Bo Bardi — Francesco Perrotta-Bosch
27.01.2026 — M4 — Brick and manufacturing  and characteristics — Moses Jenkins
27.01.2026 — M4 —  Assessment and repair of brickwork — Moses Jenkins
30.01.2026 — M2 — Reuse, release and ecocultural relations — Caitlin DeSilvey

February
03.02.2026 — M4 — Plaster conservation — Richard Ireland
03.02.2026 — M4 — Building stones: petrology and performance 
06.02.2026 — M2 — The popularity of mills — Rod Heyes
06.02.2026 — M2 — Ise Jingu —  Natsuko Akagawa
06.02.2026 — M2 — Strange is familiar is strange —  Ed Bottoms and Nick Simcik-Arese
10.02.2026 — M4 — Principles, practice and challenges of the decay and repair of stone — David Odgers
13.02.2026 — M2 — Conservation, adaptive reuse, and the fiction of flexibility — Matthias Brenner
13.02.2026 — M2 — Rapid urbanisation and the drive for demolition 
13.02.2026 — M2 — Shaibam, Hadramat and Mont St-Michel — Rod Heyes
13.02.2026 — M2 — Great Mosque, Djenne and Notre Dame — Rod Heyes
17.02.2026 — M4 — Managing architectural and ornamental ironwork projects — David Mitchell
17.02.2026 — M4 — Understanding and controlling deterioration — London Structures Lab
20.02.2026 — M2 — Contested heritage: destruction, reconstruction, erasure and adaptation — Robert Bevan
24.02.2026 — M4 — Raw concrete revisited — Barnabus Calder
24.02.2026 — M4 — Understanding and reusing concrete — London Structures Lab
27.02.2026 — M2 — Colonial fictions — Rachel Caul
27.02.2026 — M2 — The difficult whole —  Rod Heyes and Amandine Kastler

March
03.03.2026 — M4 — Repairing windows, doors and joinery 
03.03.2026 — M4 — Paints and coatings 
10.03.2026 — M4 — Culture of glass 
10.03.2026 — M4 — Metal roofing and modern metals — Nigel Johnstone
13.03.2026 — M2 — History on the block: auctioning architecture — Mari Lending
13.03.2026 — M2 — Coventry and dresden — Amy Grounsell
13.03.2026 — M2 —  Muharraq and Chiado — Amy Grounsell 
17.03.2026 — M4 — Optimism and buildings before the oil crisis —  Rod Heyes
17.03.2026 — M4 — How to alter high-tech: systems, constraints, change —  Matthias Brenner
20.03.2026 — M2 — Experimental preservation — Jorge Otero-Pailos

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