This Was Tomorrow

• 7 PM: Making Tomorrow – Five Hungarian Modernists and Their London Networks
  With Magnus Englund, Márton Orosz, Pippa Goldfinger and Peter Peri, chaired by Lilla Farkas, cultural attaché at Liszt Institute London
• 8 PM: Guided tour
  With curator Sarah MacDougall

Pippa Goldfinger is Head of Design at Design West in Bristol where she oversees Design Review in the region, programmes and hosts talks and events and fundraises for the award winning education programme Shape My City.

Pippa is the granddaughter of the Hungarian Architect Erno Goldfinger and spent the weekends of her formative years with Erno & Ursula at their home in Hampstead, 2 Willow Road. She was 21 years old when Erno died and he had a strong influence on her life. Pippa oversees the RIBA Goldfinger Bursary, established by her aunt Liz Goldfinger, for architecture students from diverse backgrounds.

Peter Peri reinterprets the historical avant-gardes from a contemporary perspective, with a prime focus on the traditions of the Eastern European avant-garde. Peri’s projects are research-driven and critically oriented, and his work can be found in the collections of Tate, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and the Saatchi Gallery.

Peri's work has a personal connection to Modernism. His grandfather was László Péri (1899–1967), a Hungarian émigré to Britain who was involved in Constructivism before turning to architecture and later in his life to Realism.

Magnus Englund co-founded the interior design retailer Skandium and is now Director of the Isokon Gallery museum and a trustee of the Robin and Lucienne Day Foundation. He has written half a dozen books on architecture and design, and has lectured extensively on the Bauhaus in Britain and the connection between Isokon, Marcel Breuer and László Moholy-Nagy.

Márton Orosz is an art historian, curator, and filmmaker. He founded the Photography and Media Arts Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts – Hungarian National Gallery and serves as Director of the Vasarely Museum in Budapest. His scholarly and curatorial work focuses on light-based media, avant-garde collecting, abstract-geometric and kinetic art, computer-generated imagery, and moving images. He is also Co-President of the International Kepes Society (IKS), an international organisation fostering dialogue at the intersection of art, science, and technology.