Walking Tour - Modernist Hampstead

Discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s such as The Sun House by Maxwell Fry, and 66 Frognal by Connell Ward and Lucas. Much of the architecture echoed design trends in Europe and the walk includes passing housing by the émigré architects Ernst Freud and Erno Goldfinger. Elements of eighteenth-century architectural design were also an influence for some architects.

Passing some more recent examples and of course striking non modernist Hampstead buildings, this walk will finish at the iconic and idealistic Isokon flats in Belsize Park which were famous in the 1930s for enabling Bauhaus designers and refugees to live here to escape the Nazi regime.

This tour is timed to coincide with the opening hours of both 2 Willow Road ( need to be booked 2 weeks in advance) and the Isokon Gallery which you may like to visit afterwards

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/london/2-willow-road

https://isokongallery.org/

I am also excited to announce that this date is my 30th anniversary of ever giving a public guided tour. It was at 2 Willow Road 11 April 1996 ( opening day). I shall give the 2pm tour there after this walk.

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Meet in the forecourt outside Wagamamma, 58-62, London, United Kingdom

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