Royal Academy of Arts (archive)

Constance Glenn delves into David Hockney's California works, from his signature landscapes of the 1960s to his panoramas of the 1980s that introduce a new perspective and capture Mulholland Drive's vertiginous curves, which swerve across LA's hilltops toward his Montcalm studio and home. An event in support of the exhibition 'David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture'.

A lecture by Marco Livingstone, exhibition curator. An event in conjunction with the exhibition 'David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture'.

Architect and historian Jean-Louis Cohen, (Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York) investigates post-revolutionary Russia and the context for the emergence of this radical new architecture in parallel to contemporary experiments in Europe.

In partnership with the British Council, the Royal Academy commissioned UK designers, Asif Khan and Pernilla Ohrstedt to create a pavilion for Singapore's architecture festival in October 2011. A panel of respondents including Kelvin Ang, conservation architect and former Head of Heritage Studies, Urban Redevelopment Authority, Singapore, and Christopher Woodward, director of the Garden Museum, critique and discuss the pavilion.

Eric Parry RA shares his interest in materiality, time and context - both physical and psychological - in this discussion with Professor Dalibor Vesely, to accompany the launch of the second published volume of his practice's work.

South African architect Jo Noero describes the development of the Red Location Cultural Precinct in South Africa, where architecture celebrates the culture of shack settlement, formed around resistance to Apartheid. Please note that due to circumstances beyond our control, the sound quality of this recording is variable. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

This lecture explores the influence that technologically advanced materials have had on Wilkinson's approach to architecture, citing projects such as the recent Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford and the Gardens by the Bay conservatories in Singapore as examples.

This event examines how digital theory and other contemporary phenomena have revived post-modernism's goals of taking architecture into the realms of taste, popular culture and meaning. Speakers include architects Sean Griffiths, Edouard Francois, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, critic Charles Jencks and academic Richard Patterson. Chaired by Jeremy Melvin.

Alexander Brodsky's work transcends the boundaries between art and architecture, offering a perceptive critique and challenge to the architecture and urban development emerging in contemporary Russia. A lecture in support of the exhibition 'Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935'

Richard Pare discusses his 15-year campaign to photograph Russia's extraordinary but much neglected Constructivist architecture with Jay Merrick. A lecture in support of the exhibition 'Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935'.

John Maine RA and art critic and broadcaster Dr Richard Cork consider Maine's new work 'After Cosmati', a response to the recently restored pavement at the heart of Westminster Abbey. Supported by the Friends of the Royal Academy.

A lecture by MaryAnne Stevens, exhibition co-curator, in support of the exhibition 'Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935'.

Margarita Tupitsyn considers the legacy of abstract painter Wassily Kandinsky as a theorist of architecture whose influence extended from Russian Constructivism to the German Bauhaus. A lecture in support of the exhibition 'Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935'.

A lecture by Marie-Claude Elliot, the Wallace Collection, in support of the exhibition 'Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement'.

Tom Kundig (of Seattle-based Olson Kundig Architects) redefines the practice of modern architecture. In his lecture he illustrates how the role of place, materials and setting combine to create his bold but sensitive designs.