Wednesday 1 October – Wednesday 22 October 2008

Francis Bacon worked at a time when continental modernism, in architecture as well as art, was reinvented in a British context. Both were concerned with city life, and the surface and texture of the visual landscape. As Bacon's centenary approaches, this series reflects upon how these ideas have developed both within and beyond his time.

• Architecture and Design in the Bacon Era: Texture: Mark Cousins, Zaha Hadid, Tony Fretton, Patrick Hodgkinson and Joe Kerr (Chair)   Wednesday 1 October 2008
• Architecture and Design in the Bacon Era: Image - Cancelled   Wednesday 8 October 2008
• Architecture and Design in the Bacon Era: Back to the City: Joseph Rykwert, Ken Livingstone, Nigel Coates and Denise Scott Brown   Wednesday 22 October 2008