Stretching over 1km wide and consisting of 500 white cube like houses, Södra Ängby is one of Stockholm's least well known suburbs, but is one of the best preserved groupings of modernist or functionalist houses in Europe. Laid out to a deliberate plan, these simple but beautifully detailed houses are much loved by their owners. John Escolme meets three enthusiasts who live in the area determined to put the houses on the architectural map.

The programme this week comes from Ralph Erskine's Frescati University campus in Stockholm. The buildings sensitively respond to the local landscape and the needs of the students, who worked alongside the architect to create the ideal learning space. Architect Mats Egelius spent part of his early architectural career with Erskine in 1974 designing the university library buildings, and is Erskine's biographer. John Escolme met him for a tour of the campus.

From big embassy buildings to schools, from private houses to renovations, Sirén Architects in Helsinki is one of Finland's big players in design and architecture. Jukka Sirén is the third generation of Sirén architects, his grandafther, father and mother having been internationally known for their work both in Finland and beyond Europe. In this edition of Encounter John Escolme explores the many eras of Sirén buildings to find out how the legacy continues into the 21st century. 

Programme 3 comes from Järvenpää, just north of Helsinki, and explores the home of Finland's premier opera composer Joonas Kokkonen, famous for his opera The Last Temptation, which has received over 500 performances worldwide. 

Programme 2 comes from Utrecht, and explores a unique triangular house, designed by Dutch architect Mart Van Schijndel, packed with revolutionary materials and features. 

In this first edition of Encounter: The Mainland, John Escolme is in Amsterdam to visit one of the first live-work spaces for artists. This is not a recent building, but a functionalist masterpiece from 1932, still inhabited by practicing artists. 

In the summer of 2016 a special Live To Air radio event from East Tower, TV Centre, White City, came together as part of White Noise's East Tower Residencies. In this special live edition of Encounter John Escolme explores the modernist design of TV Centre with architect Arthur Hayes and tv producer Emma Cashmore.

Phyllis Murphy, a pioneering and determined Melbourne architect in a man's world of the 1950s, but when you listen to her story, she faced surprisingly little prejudice. Pure talent got her through. 

Suzy Boyd landscape architect, and daughter of Robin Boyd, the eminent Australian modernist architect, shows us round her Walsh Street family home, now a foundation devoted to the Boyd legacy.

From poverty to academia, from renovations to Brutalism, Graeme Gunn has spanned numerous architectural genres, and with great success. His pioneering ideas about the economical use of space came just in time as Melbourne's suburban sprawl began to have negative impacts on the city.

Dorothy Mitchell lives in a Knox Box, the classic modernist wooden house built by the legendary Alistair Knox. But at the bottom of her garden, lurks something round, and made of mud!

Neil Clerehan, a prolific producer of private homes, yet every example one sees of his work is a surprise, a masterpiece of modesty, an understated piece of sculpture.

RIBA Royal Gold Medal winning Edward Cullinan began work in the 1950s. His co-operative work practices remain steadfast, his ideals intact, and in his 80s he is as excited by buildings as ever.

At the Elephant & Castle, south London, stands Perronet House. If you are visiting, look up and enjoy this 11 storey masterpiece. Richard Reynolds and Jane Lipsey explain why you should.       

Fortress like from outside, but spacious and multi layered within, these flats offer some of the most well thought out spaces of any block. Resident Stefi Orazi explores its changing fortunes.

Highgate New Town, is an extraordinary development of stepped section flats and houses, built in the mid-1970s, festooned with greenery. Resident Fabian Watkinson shares his love of the area.

Illustrator and book designer Pauline Baines has lived in this Goldfinger designed block in Primrose Hill, London, since 1954. She takes us on a tour of her unique and fascinating home.

Neave Brown talks about his early work with Camden Borough Architects Department, and his passion to see a return to a government run programme of house building.

From Walter Gropius to Vico Magistretti, Mary Gilliatt has met all the great names of interior design. In a rare interview she looks back at her long career as Britain's foremost design journalist.

Explore the fascinating north London home of architect David Hyde-Harrison which he built in 1967, and hear him explain his strong belief in complete separation of cars from pedestrians in cities.   

The Lawn Road flats in north London are icons of the Modern Movement. Hear how the flats came into being, and what it is like to live there with Matt Black, grandson of the architect Wells Coates. 

The sheltered housing at 269 Leigham Court Road, Streatham was under threat of demolition when this programme was made. Now thankfully saved, we exmine why the building works so well.     

Kate was one of a tiny number of women to graduate in architecture in Scotland in 1961. She worked in egalitarian Helsinki, and returned to the UK to create deeply humane buildings.

In the final interview before he passed away, Harley Sherlock looks back at his enormously prolific life and his successful attempts at creating low-rise high density housing in north London.