Launching our latest website project: historic prints There are very few places left for this event - book your place now. The Regency Society has been working with Steve Myall and the Society of Brighton Print Collectors on a new website of Regency and Victorian Prints of Brighton and Hove. As a result we will soon ...continue reading "Brighton Prints Evening"
Nic Hoar gave up law for a career in architecture and, after studying at the University of Brighton and University College London, joined the Brighton practice of RH Partnership in which he is now a partner. Nic will describe the design of three hospices with which he has been closely associated and will discuss the characteristics of a caring ...continue reading "Care for the Dying: Designing a Hospice. Lecture by Nic Hoar"
Tim Foster is an architect with close links to the theatre. He has remodelled a number of theatres including the Tricycle in London and the Salisbury Playhouse and was joint author of Theatre Buildings: A Design Guide. (2010). Tim will describe a number of theatre conversions and will discuss his ideas for what might be done with ...continue reading "New Theatres for old: John Small Lecture by Tim Foster (and Annual General Meeting)"
Our current lecture programme has included a talk by Nicola Westbury, an architect to the Churches Conservation Trust (CCT). As a follow-up we are organising a tour of half-a-dozen Sussex churches, all of them located within a relatively small area of West Sussex. These will include the two CCT churches that figured in Nicola’s talk ...continue reading "Tour of Sussex Churches"
This year's summer garden party will take place in our traditional location, the Secret Garden in Kemptown. We can promise drinks, canapes and very good conversation with RS friends, and we hope the weather will be kind! Tickets are now available for purchase: If you would like to book paying by credit or debit card, ...continue reading "Summer Garden Party"
Lecture by Geoff Mead, local historian and Murray Smith, landscape designer with Untitled Practice. The Society is concerned about the Council’s proposals for remodelling Valley Gardens. In order to encourage informed debate we have invited local historian Geoff Mead to tell the story of this important thoroughfare. Murray Smith, a landscape designer with Untitled Practice will ...continue reading "Valley Gardens, Past, Present and Future"
Geoff Mead, lecturer at the Valley Gardens, Past, Present and Future event on 3 October, will lead a walking tour of Valley Gardens on Sunday 14 October from 11 am to 1 pm. Meet in front of Brighton Museum. £5 cash on the day. There is no need to book. Image by David Robson
The Madeira Arches need major restoration. The Council has raised over £460,000 through a crowd-funding campaign, £10,000 of which was donated by the Regency Society. However, this is only a fraction of the amount needed for complete restoration. Our event will help us understand how the problem has become so serious and what now needs ...continue reading "Restoring Madeira Arches"
We all know that there is a housing crisis. The city plan identifies sites for 13,000 new homes. The likely need is well over twice that number. This raises some big questions. What sort of homes do we need to build? Where can these new homes be built? How can land, finance and ambition be ...continue reading "13,000 New Homes for Brighton and Hove – What, Where, How?"
Please note change of venue for this event which will now take place in the Hanover Room at the Brighthelm Centre on North Road. A lecture by Simon Henley, with RS trustee Kate Jordan. Simon Henley is the co-founder of the award-winning practice Henley Halebrown and was UK Public Building Architect of the Year in ...continue reading "Brutalism (note venue change)"
Lecture by Elain Harwood, researcher at Historic England and co-editor of the Twentieth Century Society Journal. Eric Lyons set up Span in order to revive the concept of ‘developer-architect’. He set out to build spacious homes at affordable prices using simple construction and off-the-peg materials. Span designs created car-free environments with separate parking courts and placed ...continue reading "Eric Lyons and Span"
Lecture by Kate Macintosh, a retired architect, celebrated for her ground-breaking work in the public sector. She worked for the London Borough of Southwark where she won an internal competition to design the acclaimed Dawsons Heights and also for Lambeth where she designed a sheltered housing scheme, 269 Leigham Court Rd, which was listed grade II ...continue reading "A Life in Architecture"
