National Theatre Architecture Tour

Architectural historian Kester Ratterbury said “The National Theatre is one of the last great buildings of the age of public sector architecture.”

It is likely that the National Theatre is the most famous brutalist building in London. Brutalism is a style of design developed in the 1950s in the United Kingdom. This tour will give us the opportunity to understand the background to the project and it becoming a reality.

The tour will bring the history of the iconic South Bank building to life and is ideal for anyone with an interest in design, London history, twentieth-century architecture and Brutalist buildings. Or a curiosity into the background of a building we know well.

Denys Lasdun’s National Theatre is a layered concrete landscape once described as being like “a nuclear power station”. The design for the building was based on Lasdun’s idea of “architecture as urban landscape.”