Tech Events by Birmingham Architectural Association

with Gavin Hale-Brown (Founding partner, Henley Halebrown)

The Birmingham Architectural Association's autumn and winter lecture series, Crafting the City, continues with Gavin Hale-Brown, founding partner of Henley Halebrown. The format is a one-hour lecture followed by a Q&A, with food and drink provided. Doors open at 18:00 and the lecture starts at 18:30, in The Shell at Birmingham City University's Parkside Building on Cardigan Street. Free, and open to professionals and students across the built environment rather than to members only. Refunds are available up to seven days before. Why go: a proper lecture-and-Q&A on how buildings and cities get made, which Birmingham does not get much of outside the universities. Best for architects, designers and anyone whose work touches the physical city.

with Mat Leung (Founding partner, Assemble)

The closing lecture of the Birmingham Architectural Association's autumn and winter series, Crafting the City, with Mat Leung, a founding partner of Assemble. One hour, then a Q&A, with food and drink provided. Doors open at 17:30 and the lecture starts at 18:00, in The Shell at Birmingham City University's Parkside Building on Cardigan Street. Free, and open to professionals and students across the built environment rather than to members only. Refunds are available up to seven days before. Why go: the last of the series, and the one with the most distinctive practice behind it, in a lecture-and-Q&A format Birmingham does not get much of outside the universities. Best for architects, designers and makers interested in how a practice can be put together differently.

Annual quiz night run jointly by the Birmingham Architectural Association and the Institution of Structural Engineers Midlands Young Members Group, at EH Smith's design centre in Digbeth. Teams of up to six, free to enter, bar open. A social fixture for the city's architecture and structural engineering community rather than a talks event.