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Our pictogram Christmas cards are available now.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Join filmmaker Graham Williamson and I, and @themodernist.bsky.social in Manchester, to see Graham's brilliant short film Song of the Suburbs, and to hear us in conversation about suburbia in all of its weirdness www.johngrindrod.co.uk/events/song-...
Song of the Suburbs — John Grindrod.
Screening of Graham Williamson’s short documentary film Song of the Suburbs , with an introduction to the film by Graham Williamson and a discussion between Graham and John Grindrod. A Manches...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Let’s celebrate Scotland’s endangered modernist architecture.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Tidying up and reunited with no 32 of @themodernist.bsky.social journal as edited by #RuthLang. My contrib was an exploration of the contemporary not-seeing of Elizabeth Denby.
November 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Elliott Sargent and I, representing the Bristol branch of @themodernist.bsky.social, are teaming up with Bristol Civic Society to lead a walk around Bristol's modernist buildings:

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November 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Modernist Scotland
Out now
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October 31, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Modernist Scotland - available now.
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October 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
We'll be at the Bound Art Book Fair at Manchester's Whitworth Gallery, with over 90 artist publishers, all weekend. Come and see.
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October 25, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Staying in Penlan, in Caban Corgi as featured in @themodernist.bsky.social Cabin Crew and it's utterly fab. #midCenturyMiniBreak
October 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Meet the modernists… It began as an art-project inspired by the humble British red telephone box.

Full story: vitsoe.com/voice/modernist

Pictures:
@jordanbunker
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October 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Are you a fan of modernist, mid-century and brutalist architecture? We have good news for you: the Modernist Book Fair is coming back to our London shop this month.

Find more details and mark your calendars: instagram.com/p/DPWB_WZDEwX

#vitsoe #vitsœ #modernistbookfair
October 3, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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I’ve lots of photos to sort from today but here are a few to be going on with.

Broadmead Baptist Church, Bristol
(Ronald H Sims, 1968)

Access arranged by @themodernist.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The modernist book fair is back..
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October 3, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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BREAKING NEWS: The campaign to save Bastion House and the former Museum of London (Powell & Moya, 1976-77) has won the right to present its case to the High Court. The Judicial Review will challenge the City of London's decision to demolish the buildings.

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September 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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I'm doing another tour of modernist Marylebone and Fitzrovia for the @themodernist.bsky.social at their marvellous book fair. Quite possibly the only walking tour with an after party. Sign up here:

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Modernist Marylebone and Fitzrovia - walk Friday 17/10/25
An architectural walking tour around Marylebone and Fitzrovia with journalist and founder of London Mondern, Helen Barrett. Part of The Modernist Book fair 2024.
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September 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Huddersfield tours, now live on the free modernist app. the-modernist.org/blogs/news-1...
September 13, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Sheffield tours, now live on the free modernist app. the-modernist.org/blogs/news-1...
September 13, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Just 4 days left to support @themodernist.bsky.social’s Crowdfunder for the publication of Bruce Peter’s 'Modernist Scotland' — a fully illustrated guide to 150 transformative post-war Scottish buildings www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/mode...
August 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
FIVE days to go. Please consider chipping in to our crowdfunder to support the publication of Modernist Scotland by Bruce Peter. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/modernist-...
August 22, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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The joy of reading through the excellent "Red Square" book from @themodernist.bsky.social about BEA's corporate identity & Mary de Saulles has got me looking through my BEA collection; this c.1965 folder for London Heathrow shows the symbol/logo & some fine graphic design.

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August 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Catching up on copies of @themodernist.bsky.social I hadn't got round to reading and struck once again by the power of a strong frame, via Jeremy Parrett’s article about the Design Council slide collection. Taster here:

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August 19, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Ten days to reach our goal. Pledge to our crowdfunder and help bring this important book to life. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/modernist-...
August 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Excellent news via @themodernist.bsky.social – thanks to the Twentieth Century Society has succeeded in getting the Renold Building on the old UMIST campus Grade II listed. More details here: historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...
August 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM