Lectures

2024

  • 26 January
    Foundress Court at Twenty-Five: The Architect's Perspective
    Pembroke College, University of Cambridge

2023

  • 14 August
    8th Annual Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop
    Boston Valley Terra Cotta
  • 24 June
    Wren's Legacy
    Wren 300 Symposium, Wadham College, Oxford

2022

  • 22 November
    Architecture & Artifice - Narratives in Ceramics
    Colegio Territorial de Arquitectos de Castellón
  • 14 September
    Architects & Clients - A Faustian Pact?
    Westbrook Lecture
  • 19 July
    Tall Buildings in The City
    Tall Buildings Conference

2021

  • 29 October
    The Way we Build & the Future of the Profession
    'Draw Love Build - On the Future of the Architectural Profession' Symposium by M9 Museum in Mestre Venice
  • 30 September
    Continuity, Tradition and The Now
    Temple Bar Trust Webinar
  • 30 September
    Material Matters: Questions of Mass, Line & Reflectivity
    Zak World of Façades
  • 25 March
    City Works: Creating New Civic Space
    CUHK Kinoshita Lecture 2021
  • 17 March
    EPA/LondonMet Seminar with Vivien Lovell
    Event chaired by Eric Parry
  • 16 February
    EPA/LondonMet Seminar with William Mann
    Event chaired by Eric Parry
  • 10 February
    Expanding London Public Realm Report Launch
    Presented at Fen Court
  • 4 February
    Designing New Civic Spaces
    Temple Bar Trust Webinar
  • 13 January
    EPA/LondonMet Seminar with Carolyn Steel
    Event chaired by Eric Parry

2020

  • 26 November
    Boundaries in Time, Place and Material
    The Charterhouse - Thomas Sutton Lecture
  • 18 November
    A case study on 1 Undershaft
    Tall Buildings Conference
  • 26 August
    On Certain Possibilities
    Architecture Foundation: 100 Day Studio
  • 16 June
    Spring Lecture Series Eric Parry: 50 Fenchurch Street
    City Architecture Forum
  • 18 February
    Clothworkers’ Company Young Livery Dinner
    Clothworkers’ Company
  • 11 February
    ‘Re-engaging with the Past’ Architecture and Continuity
    The Victorian Society at the Art Workers Guild
  • 28 January
    CTBUH Scandinavia invades London
    Federica Store, Barbican

2019

  • 30 October
    Wren Talk: From spires to towers, the politics of the skyline
    St Bride's, Fleet Street, EC4Y 8AU
  • 29 October
    Eric Parry and Richard Deacon in Conversation, Part of the Building with Ceramics series
    Building Centre
  • 15 June
    Edinburgh Architecture Fringe Talk
    Dovecot Studio, 10 Infirmary St, Edinburgh EH1 1LT
  • 13 June
    LFA Lecture: Boundaries in time, place and material
    The Charterhouse
  • 9 April
    Eric Parry: Drawing Publication Launch and Talk with Owen Hopkins
    Sir John Soane's Museum

2018

  • 25 October
    Panel Debate: "Cities 2050: Where Will We Be?"
    CTBUH Abu Dhabi
  • 17 October
    Panel Debate: Humanising Mega Scale
    LEAF Conference, Frankfurt
  • 25 May
    Heritage as Ultimate Free Space
    Venice Architecture Biennale, Palazzo Zorzi
  • 12 April
    Eric Parry Harvard Lecture
    Harvard Graduate School of Design, Chicago
  • 9 April
    Lincolnshire Iron & Steel Institute (LISI) 100th Anniversary
    British Steel conference centre. Scunthorpe DN16 1XA
  • 29 January
    CTBUH Geometry of Tall Buildings panel discussion Organised by Zaha Hadid Architects
    66 Portland Place, London

2017

  • 8 December
    Symposium: Moulding Futures Symposium
    RIBA North, Liverpool
  • 10 November
    Stone, Ceramic and Metal: The Cornwall Architectural Trust and RIBA Cornwall Annual Dinner & Lecture 2017
    Falmouth Maritime Museum
  • 18 October
    Just what is it that makes tomorrow’s workplace so different, so appealing?
    Work Place / Work Life Forum Sydney
  • 10 October
    RIBA Annual Lecture: Scales of making
    Bath University
  • 17 March
    Eric Parry RA + Stephen Cox RA: Where Paths Meet: A dialogue
    Shrewsbury School
  • 15 January
    Birmingham Festival Keynote: Context between the horizon and the ground
    The Shell, Parkside Building, Cardigan Street, B4 7BD Birmingham

2016

  • 24 November
    A Tale of Two Cities
    ROB Academy: Ter Vlucht 2, 8850 Ardooie
  • 17 November
    Housing and Luxury - Comparative Trends, WAF
    Arena Berlin, Eichenstraße 4, 12435 Berlin, Germany
  • 11 November
    Saturated Space, AA Symposium with Antoni Malinowski
    Architectural Association
  • 27 September
    Collaborations in Art and Architecture, Lignacite Annual Lecture with Vivien Lovell
    The Royal College of Physicians
  • 13 July
    Completing the Jigsaw
    Rossana Dining Series, London
  • 29 June
    Ornament in the Age of Mass Production
    Princes Foundation event; Art Workers Guild
  • 27 May
    Past Historic, Future Perfect – New buildings in historic settings
    Brighton Regency Festival
  • 3 March
    Context: Between Street and Horizon
    Chelmsford Chapter of Architects, Anglia Ruskin University
  • 16 February
    The Future of London’s Skyline
    The Old Vic theatre, London
  • 15 February
    The Future of Public Art
    Royal Academy of Arts, London
  • 11 February
    Context: Between Street and Horizon
    University of Westminster
  • 4 February
    Context: Horizon and Simultaneity
    University of Liverpool
  • 27 January
    The Giles Worsley Travel Fellowship Lecture
    Carlton House Terrace, London

2015

  • 26 November
    Hawksmoor lecture - Context
    Greenwich University, London
  • 6 November
    Beauty and Social Justice
    World Architecture Festival, Singapore
  • 5 October
    Interview with the keynote speakers
    RIAI Annual Lecture, Dublin
  • 29 April
    Context
    Shropshire Society of Architects, Shrewsbury
  • 2 March
    The Renewal of St Martin in the Fields
    Canada House Presents, London
  • 29 January
    The Art of Architecture
    Bedford School
  • 22 January
    Art in Architecture, Art as Architecture
    Architect@Work, Olympia, London

2014

  • 16 December
    3-2=1: Bridge, Bangle and Cornice, with Richard Deacon
    Royal College of Arts
  • 20 November
    Civic Architecture Seminar
    Lynch Architects / Architectural Association
  • 12 November
    10 Fenchurch Avenue
    City Architecture Forum
  • 15 October
    3-2=1: Bridge, Bangle and Cornice, with Richard Deacon
    British School at Rome
  • 24 September
    Kicking the Bottle
    Turkishceramics, Bologna
  • 15 June
    Cultural Capital and the Contemporary City
    icomos, London Festival of Architecture
  • 23 April
    Lightning London
    London School of Economics
  • 14 March
    New Bond Street
    MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • 14 March
    One Eagle Place
    MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2013

  • 10 October
    The Robertson Lecture: Architecture, Pleasure and Play
    Holburne Museum, Bath
  • 11 September
    The Holburne Museum
    AJ Retrofit Awards
  • 10 September
    The Holburne Museum
    Bristol and Bath RIBA at The Watershed, Bristol
  • 10 September
    Ceramics: The crafting of artifice
    100% Design, Turkishceramics
  • 12 June
    The City as Palimpsest: Contextual Renewal
    Vmzinc, Royal Institution, London
  • 12 May
    Building On What We Have
    Brighton Festival
  • 26 March
    Marking the Line: Ceramics and Architecture Symposium: Reverberations
    Somerset House, London
  • 20 March
    Distinctive Learning
    St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
  • 7 March
    Architecture Matters Lecture Series: Material Matters: Ceramic, stone and metal
    University of Nottingham
  • 5 March
    Sustainable design should be irresistible design
    Ecobuild, London
  • 28 February
    Against Nature
    Brick Development Association, Arup, London
  • 28 February
    Eric Parry Architects: City Films
    Barbican, London
  • 25 February
    Music and Architecture: Porosity: The sounds of the City
    Theatrum Mundi/ Global Street, Aldeburgh Music
  • 14 February
    Eric Parry Lecture
    University of East London
  • 7 February
    Eric Parry Lecture
    Surface Design Awards, London
  • 14 January
    Architecture and the Politics of Urban Renewal
    Architectural Association, London

2012

  • 3 December
    Eric Parry Lecture
    Lake District National Park Authority and Lakeland Arts
  • 29 November
    Context and Materiality
    University of Westminster
  • 31 October
    Spatial and Social Layering: The critical role and potential of the ecclesiastical estate today
    Lambeth Palace, London
  • 30 October
    Architecture and Context
    University of Hertfordshire
  • 23 October
    White City
    Place West London
  • 4 October
    Fenchurch Street Presentation
    World Architecture Festival, Singapore
  • 17 September
    100 Years of Research and Practice: Architectural Theory
    Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge
  • 22 June
    The Developing City: 2050 Visions
    NLA, London’s Centre for the Built Environment
  • 14 May
    Architecture and Ambiguity
    Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University
  • 11 May
    Re-engaging with the Past: Engaging with the City
    The Royal Incorporation of Architects of Scotland, Aberdeen
  • 21 April
    Repair Man
    TEDx Brera, Milan
  • 20 April
    Eric Parry presents the Vigilia Bench at Fuorisalone
    Milan Design Week
  • 19 April
    Eric Parry Talk
    Hertfordshire Association of Architects and St Albans Civic Society, St Albans
  • 3 April
    Eric Parry in conversation with Eddie Heathcote
    Work Gallery, London
  • 30 March
    Breakfast Talk: East Village – Designing a legacy for London
    NLA, London’s Centre for the Built Environment
  • 29 March
    St Martin-in-the-Fields
    Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment, University of Cambridge
  • 15 February
    Annual Architecture Lecture: Context: Architecture and the Genius of Place
    Friends of Blackheath Halls, London

2011

  • 14 November
    Evening Lecture: An Evening of Conversation with Eric Parry RA
    Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff
  • 2 November
    The Holburne Museum of Art
    World Architecture Festival, Barcelona
  • 1 November
    Annual Livery Dinner
    Worshipful Company of Masons, London
  • 20 October
    Power in Space: Transforming Old Buildings for Arts & Performance
    Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Bath Abbey
  • 5 October
    Challenging Conservation: Heritage at the Crossroads
    Institute of Historic Building Conservation, London
  • 30 June
    Future Memory Forum
    British Council and Royal Academy, National Museum, Singapore
  • 2 May
    The Art of Place and the Place of Art
    Ecobuild, London
  • 7 April
    Eric Parry Lecture
    Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff
  • 16 February
    Eric Parry Lecture
    DMU, Leicester School of Architecture

2010

  • 1 December
    Respecting Historic Environments
    Urban Design London
  • 23 November
    St Werburgh’s Church: past, present, future
    Irish Landmark Trust, Dublin Castle
  • 17 November
    School lecture – The London office in context
    Accademia di architettura, Mendrisio
  • 4 November
    St Martin-in-the-Fields
    World Architecture Festival, Barcelona
  • 19 May
    Architecture Lecture Series
    Winchester School of Art
  • 23 March
    Bauhaus betydelse för modernismen
    Nordbygg 2010, Stockholm
  • 18 February
    PASS Open Lecture Series
    The University of Portsmouth
  • 4 February
    The Holburne Museum: A rebirth
    The Architecture Centre, Bristol
  • 28 January
    ABS Winter Talk Series
    EPA Offices

2009

  • 1 December
    Historic Buildings 2009
    AJ Conferences
  • 1 December
    Eric Parry Lecture
    Architecture Association
  • 23 November
    Bath Architecture Debate
    Bath
  • 17 November
    RIBA Building Futures Debate
    BFI
  • 28 October
    St Martin-in-the-Fields
    Westminster Guides Association
  • 20 October
    Offices 09 Conference
    Property Week Conferences
  • 7 October
    Refurbishing existing buildings
    AJ Conferences
  • 30 July
    Thursday lunchtime talk
    Royal Society of Arts
  • 9 July
    Phase One at St Martins
    Building Magazine
  • 27 February
    On Scale
    Mackintosh School of Architecture

2008

  • 26 November
    St Martin-in-the-Fields
    Association for Studies in Conservation of Historic Buildings
  • 4 November
    Visiting Lecturer Series
    Lincoln University
  • 23 October
    The refurbishment of St Martin-in-the-Fields
    BD Refurbishment Conference
  • 1 October
    The inviting office - responding to the street and to urban context
    AR Office Design Conference
  • 1 October
    Designing with Stone
    Stone Federation - Donovan Purcell Lecture
  • 19 September
    Exploring the boundaries of architecture in commercial buildings
    100% Detail
  • 2 July
    Making a Difference: a new perspective
    St Martin-in-the-Fields
  • 17 May
    Beyond Measure
    Kettles Yard
  • 10 May
    Sacred Spaces – An Exploration
    St Martin-in-the-Fields
  • 16 April
    Architexture
    University of Strathclyde

2007

  • 26 November
    Working Spaces
    Royal Academy Architecture Programme
  • 22 November
    Between Anonymity and Presence
    University of Bath
  • 16 November
    Making Space for the Humanities
    The Role of Humanities in Design Creativity, University of Lincoln
  • 9 October
    Colchester Chapter of Architects
  • 20 June
    Mediations: The bridge between the old and the new
    Architecture Week, Holburne Museum of Bath
  • 12 May
    MMA Conference
    Bedford School
  • 30 January
    Collision and Collaboration
    Art & Architecture

2006

  • 7 December
    Somerset RIBA
  • 14 April
    Scaling Architecture, London Calling
    PAM, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
  • 15 March
    Stone Ancient & Modern
    Stone Federation at the Stone Show
  • 9 February
    Architectural Association Ireland, Dublin
  • 26 January
    Tongue & Groove lecture series
    University of Nottingham

2005

  • 1 December
    Scott Sutherland School of Architecture, Aberdeen
  • 31 October
    Multiple: Space, Experience, Perception
    Royal Academy Forum
  • 9 October
    The reciprocity between origins and the everyday
    Founding Myths of Architecture, Malta
  • 21 September
    Luke Warm Britannia
  • 1 July
    Housing and Neighbourhoods
    Urban Age, Shanghai
  • 1 May
    Architecture Palimpsest of the Everyday
    Topophobia & Topophilia Conference, Beijing

2004

  • 1 September
    Docomomo