This week's picks for London architecture and design events

Prototyping the Civic City with the School of Civic Action | 18-22 July

Tate Modern are holding a series of workshops with the School of Civic Action. For this 'public classroom' participants will be exploring prototypes for a Civic City with a hands-on approach. Design meets activism here as the focus will fall on designing open-source for environmental change.

Postmodern Legacies: David Knight interviews Job Floris | 21 July

For this event, David Knight (designer, strategist and author) will be interviewing Job Floris, architect and co-founder of Monadnock, a Rotterdam-based practice. Through this, postmodernism's legacy in contemporary architecture will be explored, as they look at how the style has influenced the wider relationship between inhabitants and architectural design. 

RA Lates: Summer Pleasure Garden | 21 July

Early Bird tickets have sold out, but there's still a change to join in at the Royal Academy's Summer Pleasure Garden. A night of art, installations, drink, music, gardens, and a newly unveiled building await at this magical event, inspired by the fantasylands of Georgian London. 

Postmodernism and the City | 20 July

This Friday, Tate Britain will be exploring the legacies of Postmodern architecture, and how it became such an intensely debated movement. Acclaimed PoMo architects, including Piers Gough and Terry Farrell, will be discussing the place for the style in the future, and reflecting on its impact since its arrival in the late 1970s.

Walking tour: East London - Architecture, Streetlife & Survival | 21 July

See one of London's  fastest growing neighbourhoods on this walking tour with The London Ambler. Get to know the history of the area and its sometimes turbulent past before it became the home for hip coffee. 

Tour: Architecture of TATE Britain and Millbank | 20 July

This tour will explore the rich architectural history of the Tate Britain and the surrounding Millbank area. It will be lead by Shumi Bose, architectural writer, historian, and editor and will uncover how architectural movements are visible within the building’s development; ranging from nineteenth-century neo-classicism to the postmodern Clore Gallery.

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