Modernist Soho and Mayfair: Walking in Ian Nairn's footsteps

0	LONDON: Outside the Blue Posts pub
P	Sunday 6th July, 2025
N	2:20pm

LONDON: Outside the Blue Posts pub

Sunday 6th July, 2025

2:20pm

Event information

The fearless architectural critic and broadcaster, Ian Nairn, briefly a familiar face on British television in the 1970s, succumbed to drink and despondency just ten days shy of his fifty-third birthday, dying on 14 August 1983.

But back in 1964 and at the height of his powers he authored, “Modern Buildings in London”, a brilliantly opinionated primer to the best of contemporary architecture in the capital that was issued by London Transport - and even sold from automatic vending machines in key London stations.

Join Travis Elborough, the award-winning author of the introduction to the latest edition of “Modern Buildings in London”, for this tour of some of the West End buildings that caught Nairn’s eye.

Described by “the Guardian” as “one of the country’s finest pop culture historians”, Travis Elborough is the author of many books, including “Wish You Were Here: England on Sea”, “The Long-Player Goodbye”, “Through the Looking Glasses: The Spectacular Life of Spectacles” and “the Atlas of Vanishing Places”, winner of Edward Stanford Travel Book Award in 2020.