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The Cosmic House, one of the world’s most important examples of Post-Modern architecture, was designed by Charles Jencks and in collaboration with other Post-Modern architects.

✨ Exclusive limited-edition print by Isaac Julien ✨'Now We Worship (All That Changes You. Metamorphosis)' (2025) by Isaa...
13/10/2026

✨ Exclusive limited-edition print by Isaac Julien ✨

'Now We Worship (All That Changes You. Metamorphosis)' (2025) by Isaac Julien () was created especially for The Cosmic House to coincide with the site-specific presentation of ‘All That Changes You. Metamorphosis’ (2025), on view at the house until 18 December 2026.

This print is generously offered in support of our mission, and all proceeds will go directly towards our educational and curatorial programmes. We are deeply grateful to Isaac Julien.

Head to the link in bio for more information and to purchase the print.

📸 Isaac Julien, Now We Worship (All That Changes You. Metamorphosis), 2025. Inkjet print on Ilford Gold Fibre Gloss with glitter, 58 x 77 cm (unframed), Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro © Isaac Julien

Are you enjoying the sunny weather?It feels like the perfect moment to share a few images of our kitchen: Indian Summer!...
25/09/2026

Are you enjoying the sunny weather?

It feels like the perfect moment to share a few images of our kitchen: Indian Summer! Designed by Johnny Grey Studios (), the kitchen represents the transition between seasons and, as its name suggests, draws inspiration from Hindu architecture.

📸 All slides from The Cosmic House collection
1. Indian Kitchen at The Cosmic House [CCJA_TCH-3-6-27]
2. A hamper on the Sun Chair [CJA-TCH-b-28-40].
3. From Summer to Indian Summer [CJA-TCH-b-3-14].
4. Cooking in the Indian Summer kitchen [CJA-TCH-b-28-45].

Interview with Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad: Different amounts of adherenceIn 2021, The Cosmic House commissioned designer Bahb...
22/09/2026

Interview with Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad: Different amounts of adherence

In 2021, The Cosmic House commissioned designer Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad () to create furniture for Maggie’s Study that could be used by visiting groups and especially classes. In the years since, this evolvo-table has changed in response to its environment, changing needs of the house and visitors, and an expanded Learning programme. What emerges from this interview with Lev Bratishenko () are the designer’s consistent objectives and flexible means: practically-minded agnosticism and adhocism. Talking about making a table becomes a way of entering into an engagement with society, and rather than a set of personal symbols or formal languages, a network of relationships and values.

Head to the link in bio to read the full interview.

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1. The paper table remains embedded and accessible inside the updated design. Both images by Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad
2. The Paper Table installed in Maggie’s Study, and a drawing of the table-top attachment system. Both images by Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad.
3. Just look at that wobble. Video by Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad.
4. Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad, Skylarking. Photograph by Giulio Sheaves.

The Cosmic House and RIBA () are pleased to announce Anna Puigjaner () as the 2026 recipient of the RIBA Charles Jencks ...
18/09/2026

The Cosmic House and RIBA () are pleased to announce Anna Puigjaner () as the 2026 recipient of the RIBA Charles Jencks Award. The annual award is given to an individual or practice that has recently made a major contribution internationally to both the theory and practice of architecture.

Anna Puigjaner is an architect and researcher who co-founded the practice MAIO in Barcelona and is Professor of Architecture and Care at ETH in Zurich. Her theoretical and built work with MAIO has reframed the question of how to live together collectively, and reveals that the structures that organise our spaces and their functions are historically contingent, not fixed. Her work has repositioned housing as a question of collective infrastructure, care and social organisation, opening up new ways of thinking about domesticity and urban life.

The award will be presented at the Architectural Association on 9 October 2026, after which Anna will give a lecture and interview with Thomas Aquilina from New Architecture Writers. Follow the link in bio to reserve tickets.

📸 MAIO, Nursery: 1306 Plants for Timisoara. Romania, 2023. Photo credit: Laurian Ghinițoiu.

✨ Support The Cosmic House and gain Priority Access ✨We’re excited to introduce a new way to support The Cosmic House's ...
09/09/2026

✨ Support The Cosmic House and gain Priority Access ✨

We’re excited to introduce a new way to support The Cosmic House's mission and secure tickets to visit us via Priority Access. This new scheme gives you complimentary tickets, early access to new ticket releases and priority booking for selected tours. And most importantly, your support helps us to look after the Grade I listed house and keep our cultural and educational programmes going.

We’re keeping Priority Access limited, so that everyone has a fair chance to visit the house.

Head to the link in our bio for more details and sign up before 14 September to receive your benefits before the October ticket release.

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‘A lot of these homes now don't look so remarkable because they’ve been stripped of some of their character. So what mak...
27/07/2026

‘A lot of these homes now don't look so remarkable because they’ve been stripped of some of their character. So what makes them special is Jencks’ framing: his captions and his curation. Anyone can make meaning even out of very ordinary things. I find that very encouraging.’

A memorable moment from the Q&A following our lecture with Aurora Tang () a few weeks ago. Thank you to everyone who joined us, and to the AA ) for collaborating on the event.

Head to the link in bio to to read Charles’s introduction to ‘Daydream Houses of Los Angeles’ with annotations by Aurora Tang.

📸 1. Photo by Andreea Teleaga. 2. Left: Charles Jencks; Right: Aurora Tang.

Sonia Leimer’s 'Cosmic Dust': Screening and Book LaunchJoin us on the evening of 31 July for the launch of 'Cosmic Dust'...
08/07/2026

Sonia Leimer’s 'Cosmic Dust': Screening and Book Launch

Join us on the evening of 31 July for the launch of 'Cosmic Dust', a new publication arising from Sonia Leimer’s recent exhibition at The Cosmic House. The exhibition was inspired by Leimer’s ongoing research into micrometeorites found within rooftop dust. While this ‘cosmic dust’ obscures our view of the universe when looked at through the telescope, viewed under the microscope it becomes an important source for scientists to study the formation of the Solar system. Through the media of sculpture and film, Leimer’s exhibition alternated between domestic and planetary scales, making the vastness of the universe tangible within the intimate spaces of Charles Jencks’ Cosmic House.

The evening, kindly hosted by our friends at Flat Time House in Peckham, will start with a screening of Leimer’s film 'Cosmic House', which begins with a microscopic scan of dust collected from the roof of The Cosmic House before expanding into architecture and landscape. Following the screening, Sonia Leimer () will be in conversation with Eszter Steierhoffer (), Director of The Cosmic House. The event concludes with a drinks reception.

The event takes place at Flat Time House (), a gallery and former studio home of British conceptual artist John Latham.

Booking essential, please RSVP to [email protected]

We are delighted to announce a new exclusive limited-edition print, Now We Worship (All That Changes You. Metamorphosis)...
29/06/2026

We are delighted to announce a new exclusive limited-edition print, Now We Worship (All That Changes You. Metamorphosis) (2025) by Isaac Julien, launched to coincide with the site-specific presentation of ‘All That Changes You. Metamorphosis’ (2025) at The Cosmic House (on view until 18 December 2026).

Created especially for The Cosmic House, this print is generously offered in support of its mission. All proceeds will go directly towards our educational and curatorial programmes. We are deeply grateful to Isaac Julien.

Head to the link in bio for more information and how to purchase the print.

📸 Isaac Julien, Now We Worship (All That Changes You. Metamorphosis), 2025. Inkjet print on Ilford Gold Fibre Gloss with glitter, 58 x 77 cm (unframed), Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro © Isaac Julien

🎉 Charles Jencks was born on this day of the summer solstice in 1939 🎉Charles was a writer, critic, designer and teacher...
21/06/2026

🎉 Charles Jencks was born on this day of the summer solstice in 1939 🎉

Charles was a writer, critic, designer and teacher whose work defined and refined the disparate and wide-reaching ideas behind Post-Modernism. Arguably the most widely-read and influential writer on architecture of the late twentieth century, his books were pivotal in explaining, illuminating and developing the often complex ideas behind Post-Modernism. The Cosmic House was a physical manifestation of those ideas incorporating and metabolising references to developments in art history and science, philosophy, cosmology and the body.

Fiercely active until the day he died in 2019, Charles put in place the framework for The Cosmic House to be preserved as a museum and to provide a forum for the ongoing discussion of ideas in architecture, design, science and culture and particularly the strands of each affected by the Post-Modernism he was himself so instrumental in directing.

📸 Charles Jencks in the Sundial Arcade at The Cosmic House. Slide from The Cosmic House collection [CJA-TCH-b-29-45].

Join curator and researcher Aurora Tang () on 9 July at the Architectural Association () for an illustrated presentation...
19/06/2026

Join curator and researcher Aurora Tang () on 9 July at the Architectural Association () for an illustrated presentation on revisiting Charles Jencks’ ‘Daydream Houses of Los Angeles’ (1978).

In the 1970s, Jencks photographed Los Angeles’ eccentric vernacular houses, compiling over 60 images into a playful book that invited readers to embark on their own architectural tour. In this presentation, Aurora Tang will discuss her ongoing rephotography project, considering the informal photograph, the enthusiast, the tour, the changing appearance of LA’s residential neighborhoods, and the significance of Jencks’ book today, nearly 50 years after its release.

This event is a collaboration between the AA and The Cosmic House. It forms part of the public programme for the display ‘Aurora Tang: Revisiting Daydream Houses of Los Angeles’ at The Cosmic House, on view until 28 August 2026.

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