Saturday, 10 May

Walking Tour - Modernist Hampstead

In this walking tour we'll discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s onwards .

By Marilyn Greene, Footprints of London

Date and time

Sat, 10 May 2025 11:00 - 13:00 GMT+1

Location

Meet in the forecourt outside Wagamamma

58-62 Heath Street London NW3 1EN United Kingdom

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 1 day before event

About this event

Event lasts 2 hours

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/

Organised by

Marilyn Greene, Footprints of London

I am a qualified City of London Guide and a member of the City of London Guides Lecturers Association

Formerly the Curator of Hampstead Museum, Burgh House, I have been creating and delivering walks in the Hampstead area for some 20 years.

I love discovering interesting nuggets of London history and am fascinated in how places develop and change as well as archaeology and what lies beneath the ground. I am especially interested in the effect of the Blitz on London, artists and their connections with places and the stories of individual buildings.

As well as guiding in the City and Hampstead / North London area, I also guide for the City Lit; the National Trust's 2 Willow Road; and can give tours at the Victoria and Albert Museum, British Museum and National Gallery. I was also a London Transport Museum’s Hidden London guide. I also run heritage workshops

Attendance on any walk can only be guaranteed through pre-booking. If you cannot pre-book here but wish to attend, you are welcome to do so, but you must please give me prior notice of your intention to attend.