Housing in the park

Richard Rogers may be most famous for the Centre Beaubourg in Paris and London's Lloyds Building, but if you ask him which, out of all the buildings he has designed, is his favourite, he'll almost certainly tell you it's the modest one-storey house in Wimbledon he built for his own parents in 1969.

Based on a house he built for Humphrey Spender several years earlier, the Rogers house now looks like a classic piece of post-war architecture, which Rogers, at the time, hoped would become a prototype for modern housing. He talks about it to Jonathan Glancey, writer and architectural critic for The Guardian.

The additional attraction to this talk however is its location, location, location - the talk takes place inside Toyo Ito's spectacular new summer pavilion, a light and airy confection built from shards of white painted metal, wood and glass.

At Home With Richard Rogers, Fri 26 Jul, 8pm, Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, Kensington Gardens, W2 (020-7298 1515).