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FROM THE ARCHIVES 2: 2019

FROM THE ARCHIVES 2: 2019

From the Archives 2: 2019 A remarkable set of photographs illustrating the transformation of Manchester in the 60s and 70s rediscovered by the Mod...

MITZI CUNLIFFE CENTENARY (2018)

Mitzi Cunliffe Centenary: 2018 In June 2018, working in partnership with the Twentieth Century Society NW Group, we celebrated the 100th anniver...

MODERNIST MAP BIRMINGHAM (2018)

Modernist Map: Birmingham (2018) Published December 2018.A guide to Birmingham’s best twentieth century buildings. Initial research and concept b...

SHEFFIELD MODERN: ARCHITECTURE WEEKENDER (2018)

Sheffield Modern: Architecture Weekender (2018) In October 2018 we worked alongside Our Favourite Places to present Sheffield Modern.Faded social ...

STRETFORD HOUSE 50: PUBLICATION AND EXHIBITION (2019)

Stretford HouseTwo Hundred & Forty Feet High Twenty Three FloorsEighty Eight Two Bedroom Flats Forty Four One Bedroom Flats Two Lifts Odd &...

FROM THE ARCHIVES (2018)

From The Archives, published by The Modernist Society in March 2018, is a collaboration with the MMU Special Collections presenting images from the...

ADVENTURES IN THE LAND OF MODERNISM (2018)

Adventures in the Land of ModernismWe're off on a new adventure with issue 1 of our worldwide tour of Modernist hot spots.Take a trip around the w...

MANCHESTER MODERN (2017)

In Manchester Modern we present 111 buildings of the twentieth and early twenty first century lovingly photographed and researched by Richard Broo...

THE LIFE OF BUILDINGS - MANCHESTER SYNAGOGUE (2017)

Imagine being able to encounter a building on a street where the building no longer exists, but once stood. Imagine being able to enter that build...

GM10 (2017)

10 Buildings10 Boroughs20th century Architecture in Greater Manchester We challenged the public to seek out their top ten 20th century buildings ...

DECADES (2017)

This is a journey through the years that transformed victorian industrial manchester into the modern european city that stands today. through a se...

GALT, GAMES AND GARLAND EXHIBITION (2017)

April 4 - May 31, 2017, Central Library, ManchesterCheadle, Stockport, Greater Manchester 1962 – and the grey post-war fug of austerity is blown a...

KNOWLEDGE AND WORK (2016)

"Some buildings lie empty. Some are still busily in use. UMIST the institution is no more but the physical campus is still pretty much intact. For...