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Put pencil to paper in a day all about drawing. Join us on 6 October for our annual celebration of architecture through drawing, with workshops and activities exploring different techniques, styles and practices. Whether you are a skilled draughtsman or a complete novice, there’s something for families, young people and adults alike.
Timed Activities: Create and Animate! (for ages 7+) Develop your drawings skills and see your drawings come to life, as you learn how to create ...an animation to show how buildings are constructed.
Explore and Draw (for young people and adults) Take a tour of the RIBA one room at a time and undertake a series of sketching challenges.
Drop-in Activities A Different Perspective, 11am-4pm (for families, young people and adults) Capture a moment in time of the RIBA at one of our drawing stations. Placed at different viewpoints, using specific materials, we invite you to take part in various challenges that will make you see things from a different perspective.
Scale Up or Down? 11am-4pm (for families, young people and adults) Play with perspective and create a drawing of a street scene to add to our evolving exhibition. Which buildings will you scale up and which will you scale down?
Acetate Cityscape, 11am-4pm (for families, young people and adults) Taking inspiration from our collection, look beyond the RIBA’s building to help us recreate the London skyline using sharpies on acetate.
Draw like an architect! (For families, young people and adults) We’ll be using the drawing tools of an architect to think about how to draw the plan, section, elevation and perspective of the space around you. Led by Dennis Austin of daab design architects.
Be part of Architecture Drawing Day wherever you are. Stop, sketch and share on social media with #ArchitectureDrawingDay.
Free to attend - registration required. #RIBALearning
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Representations of space and questions of perspective have fascinated artists for centuries.
Join us for this special event at Tate Britain exploring historic and contemporary approaches to perspective featuring artist Jim Lambie, renowned for his dazzling floor designs that transform perceptions of space, and architect Sam Jacob, whose new interactive installation 'Disappear Here: On perspective and other kinds of space' at RIBA includes drawings by J.M.W. Turner. The talk ...will be chaired by Shumi Bose, Curator (Exhibitions) at RIBA, and will be followed by a private view of the Turner Collection in the Clore Gallery.
This event is part of the exhibition Disappear Here: On perspective and other kinds of space. In association with Tate Britain.
£12 Standard Ticket. £8 Concessions.
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Winner announced for the first theme of our #DisappearHere inspired social media contest! Congratulations to Khoo Guo Jie who submitted this striking B&W photo #LookingUp via Instagram and will be receiving the Meccano model set. See the winning image and the runners up below.

On 19 September Sir David Adjaye will discuss his exceptional career and rise to being described by Time magazine in 2017 as one of the world’s ‘100 most influential people’ with Lesley Lokko, author and Head of School at the Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg.
Sir David Adjaye OBE is the principal and founder of Adjaye Associates. Born in Tanzania to Ghanaian parents, his broadly ranging influences, ingenious use of materials and sculptural ability h...ave established him as an architect with an artist’s sensibility and vision. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2017.
Professor Lesley Lokko is an architect, academic and the author of ten best-selling novels. She is currently Head of the Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg and has been an on-going contributor to discourses around identity, race, African urbanism and the speculative nature of African architectural space and practice for nearly 30 years.
The RIBA + VitrA partnership reflects a shared commitment to add social, economic and cultural value to society, and VitrA Bathrooms are proud to be supporting such an inspiring programme. With innovation at its core, a global reach and a tradition of collaborating with celebrated architects and designers, the VitrA bathroom brand has become a world leader, synonymous with contemporary sophistication since the mid 1900’s.
The RIBA + VitrA Talks Series is sponsored by VitrA Bathrooms.
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RIBA are honoured to once again host the 'Stephen Lawrence Memorial Lecture 2018: The Changing Face of Architecture', helping to raise vital funds for the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust. This year’s lecture is particularly significant as 2018 marks both the 25th anniversary since his murder and 20 years since the founding of the Trust, which works to inspire and support young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to succeed in the career of their choice.
This year’s lectur...e is co-curated by RIBA and The [204] Design Collective. The panel of speakers will be discussing the impact of the voice of youth in redefining alternative methods of architectural practice, and will be sharing thoughts on identity, diversity, equality of opportunities, and their relationship to architecture and the city.
Speakers include: - Akil Scafe-Smith and Gameli Ladzekpod, founders of RESOLVE - Abigail Patel and Selasi Setufe, from the Future Architects Network - Ahnansé, founder of music collective Steam Down Chair: Kieran Yates, Journalist and Broadcaster
Following the panel discussion, music collective Steam Down will perform live with stage design provided by The [204] Design Collective. There will also be an opportunity to explore work by the Trust’s 2018 bursary award winners, whom the Trust is supporting on their journey to become architects.
Guests will receive a welcome drink on arrival before hearing the panel discussion. Also included in the ticket price is bowl food by award-winning chef Anthony Cumberbatch from AC Lab.
£25 Donation - Standard Ticket. £5 RIBA Members, Students and RIBA Friends. All monies raised will go to support the work of the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust.
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The 2018 RIBA research funding recipients have been announced! After a thorough process assessing applications from across the world, we are proud to reveal the recipients of the 2018 RIBA Research Fund and Boyd Auger Scholarship. Congratulations to the winners! RIBA Education

Join architect Sam Jacob for an in-depth tour of the Disappear Here exhibition to hear how perspective has not only been used to illustrate the world but also how it creates and organises the world.
Learn more about the diverse range of RIBA Collection items on display, from rare books dating back to the Renaissance to contemporary works, and how the system of perspective dictates how everything in the gallery is arranged.
Sam Jacob is principal of Sam Jacob Studio for archit...ecture and design. Previously, Sam was a founding director of FAT Architecture where he was involved in many internationally acclaimed projects including the BBC Drama Production Village in Cardiff, the Heerlijkheid Hoogvliet park and cultural centre in Rotterdam and the curation of the British Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale.
£5 standard tickets, £3 for RIBA Members, Student Members and RIBA Friends.
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We are delighted to announce our new #RIBAVitrA Talks series, in partnership with VitrA Bathrooms, featuring emerging and established international voices in architecture and urbanism. This autumn hear from Kazuyo Sejima, Sir David Adjaye, Lesley Lokko, Assemble, Kate Macintosh and Mary Duggan. Visit the link to find out more and buy tickets: https://bit.ly/2wjJdhI

Hear from the RIBA #StirlingPrize shortlisted architects at our #StirlingStories events in London (11 September) and York (27 September).

Pioneering architect Kazuyo Sejima will launch the first talk in the new RIBA + VitrA Talks series this September. Over the next two years the series will feature emerging and established international voices in architecture and urbanism.
Kazuyo Sejima is principal of Tokyo-based architecture practice SANAA, co-founded with Ryue Nishizawa in 1995. SANAA’s projects are distinctive in style through their lightness of touch, with notable buildings including the the Rolex Learnin...g Center in Switzerland and New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York.
In 2010 Sejima was appointed the first female director of the Venice Architecture Biennale, and in the same year Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa were named Pritzker Prize Laureates. Other honours include the Japan Architecture Award, Venice Biennale Golden Lion Award and Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Letters, and she currently holds positions at universities in Milan, Vienna, and Japan. Join us on 5 September to hear her approaches to design in Japan and internationally.
The RIBA + VitrA partnership reflects a shared commitment to add social, economic and cultural value to society, and VitrA Bathrooms are proud to be supporting such an inspiring programme. With innovation at its core, a global reach and a tradition of collaborating with celebrated architects and designers, the VitrA bathroom brand has become a world leader, synonymous with contemporary sophistication since the mid 1900’s.
The RIBA + VitrA Talks Series is sponsored by VitrA Bathrooms.
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Get a new perspective on the RIBA and take a guided tour of our Grade II* listed headquarters. Learn the history of our landmark building, discover the hidden artistic details throughout its six floors and explore the architectural partnership of George Grey Wornum and his wife Miriam.
Led by a team of dedicated tour guides, our building tours offer insight into the architecture profession and the RIBA’s role in championing great architecture. The tour will also include a special introduction to our current exhibition, Disappear Here: On perspective and other kinds of space.
All tickets include a free tea/coffee and brownie or flapjack from our ground floor cafe.

Get an exclusive closer look at #RIBAAwards winning buildings around the country with upcoming #GreatBritishBuildings events.

From grand townhouses and ornate arcades to modernist offices and sloping back streets, join the London Ambler for a walking tour of eclectic Mayfair on 16 September.

We currently have affordable desk space available in the Incubator at 76 Portland Place. There's no better location for small practices in London - check it out:

BREAKING: Alan Jones has been elected the next President of the RIBA, and will take over the two-year presidential term from Ben Derbyshire next year (1 September 2019)

This Saturday join our guided tour of 66 Portland Place and discover the history of our landmark art deco headquarters. Your ticket includes a special introduction to our Disappear Here exhibition, as well as a free drink and snack from the cafe.

RIBA Journal Rising Star Una Breathnach-Hifearnain on what existing place she would most like to tackle through design.
If you're thinking strategically, pushing materials to the limits and designing better systems as well as buildings, we want to hear from you. Enter this year's Rising Stars by 10 September: https://bit.ly/2OjfSLx

There are still some places left on our last creative workshop of the summer. Design Day: Wind Generators challenges 11 to 15 year olds to think about new power technologies, and design and build a wind-powered generator along with a building to incorporate it. #RIBALearning

#Didyouknow that the 'Ópera do Tejo' theatre in Lisbon, designed by Giovanni Carlo Galli Bibiena (1713? - 1760), only held three operas before it was destroyed by the 1755 earthquake, seven months after completion. This drawing from our #DisappearHere exhibition is from the opera 'La Clemenza di Tito'.
Part of our #DisappearHere exhibition, sponsored by Arper and Colt UK: https://bit.ly/2FVc9QN

Wonderful central London location for a great institution...great exhibitions and I enjoyed the coffee thank you sooooo much.

This is a beautiful old building in the heart of London, I enjoyed my time there. The staff were very friendly.

RIBA means we don't know but your encouragement is so good

My first time at RIBA and totally exceeded all expectations. A fantastic evening in this beautiful building and exceptionally well organised event �

Article 25 event.

It's a great venue for a party with the lovely terrace outside the Florence Hall. The staff were very welcoming.

It is deeply distressing to see RIBA sucked into the propaganda anti-Israel hate machine. A propaganda campaign which does nothing to advance peace between Israelis and Palestinians, but instead demonises Israel while condemning Palestinians to a the state of permanent victimhood.



What is more concerning is that RIBA is in fact breaking the law. You are in direct violation of the Race Relations Act which defines Jews as a race. Israel as the Jewish State is the focus of your selective and highly discriminatory actions. This is unlawful.



It should also be unconscionable.



I urge you to apply your selective morality fairly and stop discriminating against Jews and Israelis.

Great place, nice people !

A lot of knowledge.

Great place to meet, have a coffee in the cafe and a wonderful building. I met 2 colleagues there and we had lunch and I have to say it was one of the best meals I have had in a long time. Please never change.

Fantastic evening listening to great speakers and seeing some AMAZING houses and buildings at Bringing the Outside In - California Midcentury Modernist Architecture event. Thanks so much to all involved.

Excellent family fun day at RIBA yesterday. Was lovely to see so many families learning and creating together. Thank you for a well organised event which was made better by the lovely surroundings. We will be back to participate in future events! 👍🏽

The Pseudo Georgian exhibition was very interesting, well laid out and not all intimidating. Fascinating commentary by the artist which was beautifully tongue in cheek at times. Interesting bookshop and much appreciated free past copies of A magazine. Needs to be more widely promoted, must cite Ianvisits blog for my knowledge of this. My only complaint was the cost of the book. If cheaper I would have bought it to visit some of the sites to contrast and compare.

I attended this event with an architect friend of mine.Really enjoyed the guided tour of the building.The talk on Elephant and Castle regeneration was not as we had expected it and the speakers were unclear not able to handle the Mike appropriately. No clear reason to create a Latin Quarter.

There are good architects and bad architects same in every profession. As I look around some UK cities I am appalled at the quality of design and use of material. Plymouth university of art for example, recently and in many other coastal cities or towns usual lazy design flat walls minimalistic Ethos. If it's because of cost and the usual client cutting corners then I apologies for my rant. But after all these years of experience why are we allowing the use of the product Parex. I'm driving past buildings 18 months old they look 20 years old, covered in green algae. New building estates look tired and old after a few years have we turned into a slapdash country-culture. And no one seems to be reacting to it ? Why are architects still using this product knowing the usual outcome?.

I can't speak for RIBA as an organisation but the event was a bit slack. It was far too hot in the room and a lot of the content was based on opinion which in my line of work doesn't cut it.

The proposed action by RIBA against the institute of Israeli Architects is misguided and based on a false premise. Julie Bishop (Australian foreign minister) had some sensible things to say in Jerusalem, as she broke ranks from a cosy, normally unexamined international consensus: the idea that, by permitting Jewish residence in the West Bank, Israel is violating international law.



Asked if she agrees Jewish communities located beyond the Arab/Israeli 1949 armistice lines are illegal, Bishop replied: "I would like to see which international law has declared them illegal."



Her reply has drawn attacks from perfervid Palestinian spokesmen - such as Palestinian Authority veteran official Saeb Erekat - who cite Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. But what does Article 49 actually say?



Drafted to outlaw the horrors of Nazi mass deportations, Article 49 prohibits "individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory to the territory of the occupying power or to that of any other country, occupied or not". It ordains that "the occupying power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies."





''Transfer'' is not rigorously defined in international law, but it has an accepted meaning: it entails some form of compulsion. Yet Palestinians are not being deported from the West Bank to another territory. Nor are Jews being deported from Israel to the West Bank; they are moving of their own free will.



The West Bank, illegally seized by Jordan in 1948, captured by Israel following Jordanian attack in 1967, is unallocated territory under international law. Only Israeli annexation or an Arab/Israeli agreement could alter its status - neither of which have occurred. In short, Article 49 has no bearing on the situation, as it deals solely with sovereign territories.



The original international decision at the 1920 San Remo Conference earmarking this territory for Jewish settlement has never been superseded by an internationally binding agreement. The 1947 UN partition plan, which sought to create Arab and Jewish states, could have been such an agreement, but it was rejected by the Arab powers and Palestinian Arabs. Being a UN General Assembly resolution, the plan had no legal force of its own.



In contrast, the 1993 Oslo Accords do possess legal force, but as these contain no prohibition on the existence and growth of these Jewish communities, Jewish rights remain unimpaired. Whatever one's view of the conflict, all should be able to agree on this. Yet Erekat denies it, even though the Palestinian Authority he represents signed the agreements.(source Canberra Times).

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) passed a motion to suspend Israeli architects from the International Union of Architects (IUA). The stated goal of the IUA is to unite the architects of the world without any form of discrimination."



RIBA is a blind bunch of hypocrites and anti-semites.

The RIBA sent a cease and desist letter to a woman of colour who was simply speaking up about the institutional racism in the British Architecture. That is not ok. The RIBA needs to step up and address racism within the architectural institution - and not target women who are doing this ESSENTIAL work for them. Elsie for RIBA president

So you want to boycott Israel?

Think you'd better go back to using typewriters as your computers contain Israeli products, stop using mobile phones as text messaging was invented in Israel and don't use GPS as it's also and Israeli invention. I could go on for ages about everyday products that we all use so you might as well go back to the stone age seeing as your uneducated minds are already there.



To all those that say Israel is an apartheid state, you're even more uneducated. Israel is the only country in the Middle East that give FULL rights to all it's citizens whether Jewish, Christian or Arab to both men and women. You are all to small minded and too afraid to go there and see for yourself, why do 1000's of Palestinians go into Israel to work every day and rely on Israeli products if it's an apartheid state and ask yourself why the Palestinians themselves are not boycotting Israel?

All you believe is the brainwashed rubbish of uneducated people that hate the Jewish people, try looking up Pallywood and you can see the unedited news footage of how they fake what's going on in the real world. Go on, I dare you to educate yourself.

How truly pathetic that this so-called "professional" organization has chosen to speak in such a political voice to pronounce an anti-Israel position and exclude qualified and well-respected Israeli architects . Sadly,it has chosen to take the low road here to attempt to enforce their own personal political agendas. How does this "society" view the much greater human rights violations occurring by governments of other country's where its membership resides and works ? Is this "society" considering boycotting members from countries that made the 2013 Maplecroft Atlas of Countries having the worst records for human rights violations; such as Pakistan,Syria, Yemen, Nigeria, to name a few. Just for the record, RIBA has members who are associated with those countries and other countries having horrendous records of human rights violations. Coincidentally, Israel is not cited as such....so why single out Israel here.....smells fishy....is there some other ulterior motive involved here ? THINK SO !