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Closes Sunday, 31 December 2023

A season of events and displays marking the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush. Find out more about the Windrush generation, their legacies and the impact of the Caribbean on art, design and culture in Britain.

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Windrush 75 - Season at V&A South Kensington · V&A

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A series of events and displays to mark the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush.

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Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art

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26 Oct 2022 –⁠ 8 Jan 2023

Hayward Gallery

Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art is the first large-scale group exhibition in the UK exploring how contemporary artists have used clay in unexpected ways.

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Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art is the first large-scale group exhibition in the UK exploring how contemporary artists have used clay in unexpected ways.

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All other secondary schools: £8 per pupil. Accompanying teachers go free.

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Blue Badge parking at National Theatre
Alternative parking for Blue Badge holders visiting the Southbank Centre can be found at the National Theatre car park (330 metres). If you are visiting the Hayward Gallery, just take your badge and car park ticket to the Ticket Desk in the gallery foyer for validation before you leave.

Please note: on Sunday when the National Theatre building is closed there is no step-free access from the car park.
Blue Badge parking APCOA Cornwall Road

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Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art

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Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art is the first large-scale group exhibition in the UK exploring how contemporary artists have used clay in unexpected ways.

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Architecture as social space in the Manplan series 1969-70

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Architecture as social space in the Manplan series 1969-70

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Wide-Angle View is an exhibition on the Manplan series, a ground-breaking exploration of architecture’s impact on society. This exhibition of over 70 original photographs, some that have never been seen before, offers a unique insights on society in the late 1960s. The magazine was bold and innovative in its tone and style, incorporating pioneering graphic and print techniques and radical photojournalism to analyse the state of society in Britain at the turn of the decade. It initiated a new outlook and approach to architectural debate and journalism that is still relevant today.

The Wide-Angle View photography exhibition looks at Manplan and presents photography from renowned professionals such as Ian Berry, Patrick Ward and Tony Ray-Jones at our Architecture Gallery in central London which is free and open to all.

Architecture Gallery opening times: Monday to Saturday, 10am to 5pm (Tuesday, 10am to 8pm)

Please note: on occasion, 66 Portland Place in London is closed to the public for events, please plan your visit below.

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Manplan was a a visual manifesto and photographic revolution in print. In 1969, The Architectural Review dedicated the pages of their journal to analyse the state of architecture and urban planning in Britain. The monthly international architectural magazine had a history of campaigning for important issues related to the built environment. The Manplan series was revolutionary both in ambition and in execution. It was radical in its tone and style, with photography at its centre to critique the impact of architecture on society.

The title Manplan was used as each issue was devoted to an individual area of human activity that was affected by design and planning choices. The magazine documented the built environment but also was used to propose an alternative and holistic approach, one that would look at all basic human needs. The images and themes addressed throughout the eight issues resonate today and speak to current situations within society.

Unidentified primary school (Architectural Press Archive / RIBA Collections)

From September 1969 to September 1970, eight special issues were published as a survey of British architectural. Each issue highlighted an individual area of human activity that was impacted by design and planning choices. Guest editors were invited to work with specially commissioned photojournalists and street photographers to develop each theme.

Although photography had been integral to The Architectural Review since the 1930s, the images that defined Manplan were like nothing that had been seen in the magazine before. They focused on people, shifting the emphasis from the architecture itself to the human element within the built environment. The dramatic black and white images, shot on a 35mm camera in the 'photo-reportage' style, created a strong visual statement to support the text of each edition. Themes included religion, health and welfare, frustration and education.

Classroom window, Wales (Architectural Press Archive / RIBA Collections)

The art direction and design of the magazine was graphic and original, providing a powerful backdrop for the striking black and white images. The overall message was strong, uncompromising and a highly critical commentary on contemporary living conditions in Britain. This embodied both the idealism of the 1960s and the disillusionment felt at the end of that decade. Many of the issues addressed are still extremely relevant today.

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Visit our free architecture photography exhibition at 66 Portland Place, London exploring the eight ground-breaking issues of Manplan that sparked a revolution through print.

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Thu 5 Oct 2023—Sun 14 Jan 2024, Art Gallery

A major group exhibition exploring the relationship between gender and ecology, highlighting the systemic links between the oppression of women and the degradation of the planet.

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A Lens on Gender and Ecology

This exhibition was made possible thanks to the generous support of our lead sponsor, Vestiaire Collective. We would also like to thank the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Fluxus Art Projects, and The High Commission of Canada in The United Kingdom for their additional support.

Laura Aguilar (US); Hélène Aylon (US); Poulomi Basu (India); Mabe Bethônico (Brazil); JEB (Joan E Biren) (US); melanie bonajo (The Netherlands); Carolina Caycedo (Colombia); Judy Chicago (US); Tee Corinne (US); Minerva Cuevas (Mexico); Agnes Denes (US); FLAR (Feminist Land Art Retreat) (Canada); Format Photography (UK); LaToya Ruby Frazier (US); Gauri Gill (India); Simryn Gill (Malaysia); Fay Godwin (UK); Laura Grisi (Italy); Barbara Hammer (US); Taloi Havini (Bougainville / Australia); Nadia Huggins (St Vincent & the Grenadines); Anne Duk Hee Jordan (Korea/Germany); Barbara Kruger (US); Dionne Lee (US); Zoe Leonard (US); Chloe Dewe Mathews (UK); Mary Mattingly (US); Ana Mendieta (Cuba); Fina Miralles (Spain); Mónica de Miranda (Angola/Portugal); Neo Naturists (Christine Binnie / Jennifer Binnie / Wilma Johnson) (UK); Otobong Nkanga (Nigeria); Josèfa Ntjam (France); Ada M. Patterson (Barbados); PARI (People's Archive of Rural India) (India); Ingrid Pollard (UK); Zina Saro-Wiwa (Nigeria); Sim Chi Yin (Singapore); Susan Schuppli (Canada); Seneca Women's Encampment for the Future of Peace and Justice (US); Fern Shaffer (US); Xaviera Simmons (US); Pamela Singh (India); Gurminder Sikand (India); Uýra (Brazil); Diana Thater (US); Mierle Laderman Ukeles (US); Andrea Kim Valdez (UK); Francesca Woodman (US)

Every Friday from 5 - 8pm, entry to RE/SISTERS: A Lens on Gender and Ecology is priced Pay What You Can.

Simply pick the price you can pay and enjoy the exhibition. If you're able to pay £16, you'll be helping to support our Visual Arts programme at the Barbican.

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Video: Earthrise x RE/SISTERS

During the run of RE/SISTERS, we have a variety of access resources and information to help support your visit.

If you have any access requirements that you would like to discuss ahead of your visit, please email [email protected] or call 020 7101 1188 (Mon - Sun 10am-4pm).
Wheelchair Access
RE/SISTERS is accessible by the Main Centre Lifts to Level 3. There is a passenger lift (107 x 140cm) inside the gallery to access the upper level.
AD Tour, BSL Tour & Relaxed Viewings Accessible events | Barbican Visual Story
A visual story of The Gallery can be requested here under the Visual Stories section.
Communication Cards - Pre planning your journey
We have communication cards to help you find your way around the building. We have digital copies you can access and/or print at home as well as printed copies in the Centre available at our info desk on Level G. Please ask a member of staff if you need support locating your nearest pack.
Large Print Exhibition Text
We have large print guides of our exhibition text. These are available both digitally and printed. You can collect a printed version from our invigilator desk at the entrance of The Gallery.

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Location
The Art Gallery is located on Level 3 and can be accessed by stairs and lifts from Level G or via the Sculpture Court if coming from outside.

Address
Barbican Centre
Silk Street, London
EC2Y 8DS

Public transport
The Barbican is widely accessible by bus, tube, train and by foot or bicycle. Plan your journey and find more route information in ' Your Visit' or book your car parking space in advance.

We've plenty of places for you to relax and replenish, from coffee and cake to wood-fired pizzas and full pre-theatre menus

Access
Doors normally in open position during exhibition hours. Ticket desk 98cm with a drop section of 76cm. Step-free access on each floor of the Art Gallery.

Mobility
The Art Gallery has two levels, linked by a flight of 24 stairs with an intermediate landing. A passengeroperated lift (76 x 110cm) connects the two floors. If you need assistance, staff will be happy to help.

Assistance dogs
Assistance dogs are welcome. If you prefer, you may leave your dog with a member of the gallery staff during your visit.

Large-print exhibition information
To request a large print copy, please call the Art Gallery on 020 7382 2382 before your visit.

For more access information, please visit our Accessibility section.

Enhanced security measures are currently in place at the Barbican.

As part of these measures only one reasonably-sized bag (no larger than 32cm L x 18cm W x 22cm H) per person may be taken inside our venues and all bags may be searched by a member of our team.

We ask that, where possible, visitors avoid bringing large bags to the Centre. If you do need to check bags into our free cloakrooms, we suggest arriving early. All bags deposited will be subject to search and random bag searches are also in operation.

Please also remember that belongings should not be left unattended at any time.

Thank you for your understanding - we look forward to welcoming you to the Barbican.

See more art for less

Visit all our exhibitions for free, as many times as you like. Members Plus can bring a guest for free, too.

See more art for less

Visit all our exhibitions for free, as many times as you like. Members Plus can bring a guest for free, too.

Location
The Art Gallery is located on Level 3 and can be accessed by stairs and lifts from Level G or via the Sculpture Court if coming from outside.

Address
Barbican Centre
Silk Street, London
EC2Y 8DS

Public transport
The Barbican is widely accessible by bus, tube, train and by foot or bicycle. Plan your journey and find more route information in ' Your Visit' or book your car parking space in advance.

We've plenty of places for you to relax and replenish, from coffee and cake to wood-fired pizzas and full pre-theatre menus

Access
Doors normally in open position during exhibition hours. Ticket desk 98cm with a drop section of 76cm. Step-free access on each floor of the Art Gallery.

Mobility
The Art Gallery has two levels, linked by a flight of 24 stairs with an intermediate landing. A passengeroperated lift (76 x 110cm) connects the two floors. If you need assistance, staff will be happy to help.

Assistance dogs
Assistance dogs are welcome. If you prefer, you may leave your dog with a member of the gallery staff during your visit.

Large-print exhibition information
To request a large print copy, please call the Art Gallery on 020 7382 2382 before your visit.

For more access information, please visit our Accessibility section.

Enhanced security measures are currently in place at the Barbican.

As part of these measures only one reasonably-sized bag (no larger than 32cm L x 18cm W x 22cm H) per person may be taken inside our venues and all bags may be searched by a member of our team.

We ask that, where possible, visitors avoid bringing large bags to the Centre. If you do need to check bags into our free cloakrooms, we suggest arriving early. All bags deposited will be subject to search and random bag searches are also in operation.

Please also remember that belongings should not be left unattended at any time.

Thank you for your understanding - we look forward to welcoming you to the Barbican.

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A major group exhibition that explored the relationship between gender and ecology, and highlighted the systemic links between the oppression of women and the degradation of the planet.

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Unravel The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art

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Unravel The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art

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Tue 13 Feb—Sun 26 May 2024, Art Gallery

Using textiles, fibre and thread, 50 international artists challenge power structures and reimagine the world in this major group exhibition.

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Using textiles, fibre and thread, 50 international artists challenge power structures and reimagine the world in this major group exhibition.

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Asymmetry HQ, 102a Albion Drive, London E8 4LY
1-5PM, 08–13.12.2023

'Topography of Decay’ is a multi-part programme series comprising of a self-published zine and artist book, a panel discussion, and open library sessions on the themes of queer ecology, geotrauma, and risk capitalism. The programme brings together artist and educator Shuyi Cao, our alumnus Hang Li, the inaugural Curatorial Writing Fellow at Chisenhale Gallery, and our Goldsmiths PhD Scholar Yuhang Zhang. Through drawing, storytelling, artist-book making, 'Topography of Decay' conjures up ways in which deadly matters intersect with a world conditioned by capitalism and dark ecology.

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TOPOGRAPHY OF DECAY: OPEN LIBRARY - Asymmetry Art Foundation

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'Topography of Decay' is a multi-part programme series comprising of a self-published zine and artist book, a panel discussion, and open library sessions on the themes of queer ecology, geotrauma, and risk capitalism. The programme brings together artist and educator Shuyi Cao, our alumnus Hang Li, the inaugural Curatorial Writing Fellow at Chisenhale Gallery, and our Goldsmiths PhD Scholar Yuhang Zhang.

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BOOK TICKETS TO THE GINGERBREAD CITY AT WESTFIELD LONDON AT WHITE CITY FROM 2 DECEMBER TO 7 JANUARY BEFORE THEY SELL OUT

Explore a fantastical world where imagination meets innovation, and gingerbread becomes the canvas for future-forward city planning. With professionally built cityscapes by some of the finest architectural minds, The Gingerbread City is a sweet delight for friends, families, and individuals to indulge in!

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What to expect?

Discover a whole city constructed entirely from gingerbread, candy, and frosting. Marvel at the moving trains and twirling parts built by over 50+ architects and designers. Perfect to get you into the holiday mood!

Get Creative!

Craving more gingerbread fun? Immerse yourself in the sweet art of gingerbread fun by signing up for our daily workshops and craft your own take-home gingerbread masterpieces.

Sweet and Smart

This magical gingerbread metropolis doesn't just offer sweet ginger smells but shares a story on how architects and designers can help solve some of the world's most pressing problems like climate change all through the medium of gingerbread.

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The Museum of Architecture is pleased to announce the return of its ​hugely popular annual exhibition The Gingerbread City® 2022 - 6-7 Motcomb Street, SW1X 8JU

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Cinzia says…

05 Nov 2022–12 Feb 2023
CCA Goldsmiths

Cinzia says… is the first major retrospective of artist and fashion designer Cinzia Ruggeri (1942–2019), a unique figure of Italian postmodernism who moved freely across artistic disciplines. Her life and versatile practice were driven by a desire to redefine the form and function of elements of everyday life. From clothing and accessories to furniture and lighting – and in sculptural installations often including these objects – Ruggeri created worlds that were continually imaginative, provocative, elegant and unpredictable. Consistently boundary-pushing, her objects sat somewhere between performance and architecture, always questioning how the body might inhabit space.

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Cinzia says... is the first major retrospective of artist and fashion designer Cinzia Ruggeri (1942-2019), a unique figure of Italian postmodernism who moved freely across artistic disciplines. Her life and versatile practice were driven by a desire to redefine the form and function of elements of everyday life.

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How We Build Home

Tuesday 25 October 2022 to Sunday 1 January 2023
London Museum of the Home

How We Build Home is a photography exhibition and interactive installation by artists and academics Azeezat Johnson and Wasi Daniju exploring the experiences of women of colour in the domestic space.

Using traditionally gendered techniques such as quilting, and documenting the process in zines and essays, they explore how we can make home with each other, even when we’re not physically in the same space.

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Tuesday 25 October 2022 to Sunday 15 January 2023 | Free - Lower Branson Coates

How We Build Home is a photography exhibition and interactive installation by artists and academics Azeezat Johnson and Wasi Daniju exploring the experiences of women of colour in the domestic space.

Using traditionally gendered techniques such as quilting, and documenting the process in zines and essays, they explore how we can make home with each other, even when we're not physically in the same space.

Our home-making practice is about being loved for who we are, who we've been, and the endless possibilities of who we might be. It is us sitting in the knottedness of our embodied geographies with the care and love that we deserve.

How We Build Home is a project created and developed by GEM Collective initially in response to the Museum of the Home's Rooms Through Time, and evolving into a particular exploration of how Black women build home, whether by and for themselves, or in relation. Imagined by the late Dr. Azeezat Johnson, and developed with artist Oluwatosin Wasi Daniju, the project explores the many faces of home, those we have experienced, those we imagine, and the possibilities of home that we can build together.

While the physical manifestation of How We Build Home is present in the form of film, photography and installations, so much of its essence lay in the loving, challenging, questioning and comforting conversations between Azeezat and Oluwatosin over the past two years and more which created the foundation of much of the work on show.

The exhibition also features a large-scale patchwork quilt and zine, both created by the Women's Group of the South London Refugee Association during the pandemic lockdown. The quarantine quilt was conceived as a project that the group members could work on collaboratively, despite physical separation.

Throughout history, quilts have symbolised connection, particularly in all-female spaces, and working on this joint project helped the women's group to overcome the isolation of lockdown. The quilt, and the stories behind it, reflect a space of compassion and joy, and feeling of strength in togetherness, created by the women's group community.

About the creators of How We Build Home

Dr Azeezat Johnson

Dr Azeezat Johnson was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Human Geography at Queen Mary University of London whose research focused on centring bodies that are often marginalised as Other. She co-edited a collection of writings, The Fire Now: anti-racist scholarship in times of explicit racial violence and produced work that offered new readings on Black feminisms, critical race studies, Muslims and Islamophbia, and so much more.
Azeezat founded Geographies of Embodiment (GEM) Research Collective to centre the lived experiences of those often othered in academia and beyond, and to emphasise the validity of embodiment and other sources of knowledge production.

Oluwatosin Wasi Daniju

A qualified psychotherapist and an artist, Oluwatosin is a British-born Nigerian practitioner who uses photography and moving image to explore ideas around identity, home, loss and belonging from a person-centred therapeutic viewpoint. The thread of documenting runs through her work, whatever the genre; ultimately she sees photography first and foremost as an act of bearing witness. Her recent shows include IFE NKILI arts festival and Photofusion SALON/21.

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How We Build Home - A photography exhibition and interactive installation by artists and academics Azeezat Johnson and Wasi Daniju exploring the experiences of women of colour in the domestic space.

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08 September - 27 January

An artist’s studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.’ Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

Curated by Clare Farrow Studio, Small Spaces exhibition explores the challenges and innovative solutions for small live-and-work spaces in the city, featuring content from Royal Ballet Principal, William Bracewell, Proctor & Shaw, Intervention Architecture, Satoko Shinohara, Takeshi Hosaka, the Kuma Lab, Gary Chang, JCPCDR architecture, Paola Bagna, White Arkitekter, nArchitects, Studio Noju, Richard Beckett (Bartlett, UCL) and Phil Hubbard (King’s College), and Colin Chee of YouTube’s Never Too Small.

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An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.' Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

Curated by Clare Farrow Studio, Small Spaces exhibition explores the challenges and innovative solutions for small live-and-work spaces in the city, featuring content from Royal Ballet Principal, William Bracewell, Proctor & Shaw, Intervention Architecture, Satoko Shinohara, Takeshi Hosaka, the Kuma Lab, Gary Chang, JCPCDR architecture, Paola Bagna, White Arkitekter, nArchitects, Studio Noju, Richard Beckett (Bartlett, UCL) and Phil Hubbard (King's College), and Colin Chee of YouTube's Never Too Small.

Image: Takeshi Hosaka, Love2 House, Tokyo, © Takeshi Hosaka

General Info

Venue / Location

Roca London Gallery More Info

Address: Roca London GalleryLondonSW6 2PY
Station Court, Townmead Road

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Public Transport Imperial Wharf overground

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Roca London Gallery

About The multi-award-winning Roca London Gallery by Zaha Hadid Architects hosts a rolling programme of cultural exhibitions and events on a variety of themes within the fields of architecture, design and sustainability. Influential figures from the worlds of architecture and design have spoken at the gallery and presented their work, including Kengo Kuma, Lord Foster and Daniel Libeskind.

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Carolee Schneemann

Body Politics

Thu 8 Sep 2022 - Sun 8 Jan 2023
Art Gallery, Barbican, London

The first major survey of Carolee Schneemann’s work in the UK, tracing her diverse, transgressive and interdisciplinary expression over six decades. Schneemann was a radical artist who remains a feminist icon and point of reference for numerous contemporary artists to this day. Addressing urgent topics from sexual expression and the objectification of women to human suffering and the violence of war, her work is concerned with the precarious lived experience of humans and animals.

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Soheila Sokhanvari

Rebel Rebel

Fri 7 Oct 2022 - Sun 26 Feb 2023
The Curve, Barbican, London

Rebel Rebel, the first major UK commission by Iranian artist Soheila Sokhanvari, celebrates and commemorates feminist icons from pre-revolutionary Iran.

Sokhanvari transforms the Curve into a devotional space, populated with exquisite miniature portraits of glamorous cultural figures from Iran. The project spotlights the rarely told histories of these women, who pursued creative careers in a culture enamoured with Western style but not its freedoms.

The immersive space will be hand-painted floor to ceiling with geometric patterns based on traditional Islamic design. A soundtrack, composed by Marios Aristopoulos features songs by iconic Iranian singers from the period. The exhibition culminates with extravagant mirrored sculptures featuring internal projections drawn from Filmfarsi.

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Rebel Rebel

Rebel Rebel , the first major UK commission by Iranian artist Soheila Sokhanvari, celebrates and commemorates feminist icons from pre-revolutionary Iran.

Sokhanvari transforms the Curve into a devotional space, populated with exquisite miniature portraits of glamorous cultural figures from Iran. The project spotlights the rarely told histories of these women, who pursued creative careers in a culture enamoured with Western style but not its freedoms.

The immersive space will be hand-painted floor to ceiling with geometric patterns based on traditional Islamic design. A soundtrack, composed by Marios Aristopoulos features songs by iconic Iranian singers from the period. The exhibition culminates with extravagant mirrored sculptures featuring internal projections drawn from Filmfarsi.

With humour and verve, Rebel Rebel explores the contradictions of Iranian women's lives between 1925 and the 1979 revolution - an explosive period of both liberation and commodification that proved short lived.

'Most beautiful exhibition installation of the year'

'A celebration of lost culture'

Your guide to Rebel Rebel including a full list of artworks and the stories behind them.

"You have to love to be able to paint, so I feel like I had to love these women in order for me to paint them."

We caught up with multimedia artist Soheila Sokhanvari in her studio.

Learn more about Soheila Sokhanvari, Iran, and the women whose lives inspired the exhibition. Take your pick from film screenings, talks, curator tours and more.

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Visit upcoming exhibitions including Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, Francis Alÿs, again & again, for free

Location
The Curve is located on Level G and can be found at the bottom of the Silk Street entrance ramp, opposite the Barbican Shop.

Address
Barbican Centre
Silk Street, London
EC2Y 8DS

Public transport
The Barbican is widely accessible by bus, tube, train and by foot or bicycle. Plan your journey and find more route information in ' Your Visit' or book your car parking space in advance.

We've plenty of places for you to relax and replenish, from coffee and cake to wood-fired pizzas and full pre-theatre menus

Assistance dogs are welcome. If you prefer, you may leave your dog with a member of the gallery staff during your visit.

For more access information, please visit our Accessibility section.

Enhanced security measures are currently in place at the Barbican.

As part of these measures only one reasonably-sized bag (no larger than 32cm L x 18cm W x 22cm H) per person may be taken inside our venues and all bags may be searched by a member of our team.

We ask that, where possible, visitors avoid bringing large bags to the Centre. If you do need to check bags into our free cloakrooms, we suggest arriving early. All bags deposited will be subject to search and random bag searches are also in operation.

Please also remember that belongings should not be left unattended at any time.

Thank you for your understanding - we look forward to welcoming you to the Barbican.

Your guide to Rebel Rebel including a full list of artworks and the stories behind them.

"You have to love to be able to paint, so I feel like I had to love these women in order for me to paint them."

We caught up with multimedia artist Soheila Sokhanvari in her studio.

Learn more about Soheila Sokhanvari, Iran, and the women whose lives inspired the exhibition. Take your pick from film screenings, talks, curator tours and more.

See more art for less

Visit upcoming exhibitions including Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, Francis Alÿs, again & again, for free

See more art for less

Visit upcoming exhibitions including Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, Francis Alÿs, again & again, for free

Members late body politics rebel rebel azeema takeover

Members' Late: Body Politics + Rebel Rebel (AZEEMA Takeover)

Members' Event

Rebel rebel family day

Filmfarsi screentalk with sokhanvari khoshbakht

Filmfarsi (12) + ScreenTalk with Soheila Sokhanvari and Ehsan Khoshbakht

Location
The Curve is located on Level G and can be found at the bottom of the Silk Street entrance ramp, opposite the Barbican Shop.

Address
Barbican Centre
Silk Street, London
EC2Y 8DS

Public transport
The Barbican is widely accessible by bus, tube, train and by foot or bicycle. Plan your journey and find more route information in ' Your Visit' or book your car parking space in advance.

We've plenty of places for you to relax and replenish, from coffee and cake to wood-fired pizzas and full pre-theatre menus

Assistance dogs are welcome. If you prefer, you may leave your dog with a member of the gallery staff during your visit.

For more access information, please visit our Accessibility section.

Enhanced security measures are currently in place at the Barbican.

As part of these measures only one reasonably-sized bag (no larger than 32cm L x 18cm W x 22cm H) per person may be taken inside our venues and all bags may be searched by a member of our team.

We ask that, where possible, visitors avoid bringing large bags to the Centre. If you do need to check bags into our free cloakrooms, we suggest arriving early. All bags deposited will be subject to search and random bag searches are also in operation.

Please also remember that belongings should not be left unattended at any time.

Thank you for your understanding - we look forward to welcoming you to the Barbican.

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8 JULY 2023 – 10 MARCH 2024

How can we design our homes to respond to the climate emergency? Discover how architects are reimagining wood, stone and straw to design homes fit for the future.

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With almost 30% of global carbon emissions caused by the construction and running of buildings, there is a need radically rethink the materials we use to build our towns and cities. Rather than experimental new inventions, this display explores three ancient materials that are vital for a low-carbon future: wood, stone and straw.

Through the work of contemporary architects Material Cultures, Waugh Thistleton and Groupwork, as well as engineers Webb Yates, follow the journey of these materials from fields, forests and quarries to cutting-edge buildings. Discover how robotics is revolutionising the fabrication of new timber building parts, how your next home might have a thatched roof and learn what role diamond wire plays in a stonemason's yard.

Alongside models, samples, tools and photographs, the show features full-scale installations and newly commissioned photography by Oskar Proctor.

Join the conversation with the hashtag #LowCarbonHome

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How can we design our homes to respond to the climate emergency? Discover how architects are reimagining wood, stone and straw to design homes fit for the future.

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20 NOVEMBER 2023 – AUGUST 2024

Discover a new display space dedicated to design research on the environmental crisis curated by Future Observatory, the museum’s national research programme for the green transition.

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The first display in a series will showcase six research projects that demonstrate how designers are rethinking and adapting their practice to confront the environmental issues we face and work towards liveable futures.

Visitors will learn about a diverse range of research from a variety of design disciplines, from experimental textile dying techniques to radical ideas about the future of building. The display includes solutions to local coastal water pollution, experimental techniques to reduce the environmental impact of textile dying, a mural, and a knitted biohybrid structure composed of fungal mycelium that visitors can walk beneath.

This initiative from Future Observatory signals the importance of placing design at the heart of the green transition, for both the museum and the broader design industry. The space is dedicated to ongoing research, rather than design as finished products or systems.

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Future Observatory transforms the second-floor balcony of the museum into a display of design research for the green transition. Showcasing six of the UK's most innovative and exciting design researchers, this free display demonstrates how designers are rethinking and adapting their practice to confront the planetary crises we face and work towards liveable futures.

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Lesley Lokko to curate Venice Architecture Biennale in 2023

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Scottish-Ghanaian architect, academic and novelist Lesley Lokko has been appointed to curate the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2023. Lokko, who is the founder of the African Futures Institute in Ghana and editor-in-chief of FOLIO: Journal of Contemporary African Architecture, will oversee the 18th edition of the prestigious architecture exhibition.

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Scottish-Ghanaian architect, academic and novelist Lesley Lokko has been appointed to curate the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2023, becoming the first Black architect to lead the biannual event.

Lokko, who is the founder of the African Futures Institute in Ghana and editor-in-chief of FOLIO: Journal of Contemporary African Architecture, will oversee the 18th edition of the prestigious architecture exhibition.

Her appointment marks the first time the Venice Biennale board - currently led by president Roberto Cicutto - has selected a curator of African descent.

It is also only the third time a woman has been chosen, following Kazuyo Sejima in 2010 and Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara in 2018.

"Speaking to you from the world's youngest continent, I would like to thank President Cicutto and the entire team of La Biennale di Venezia for this bold, brave choice," said Lokko.
Lokko founded African Futures Institute
Cultural and racial identity is an important theme in much of Lokko's work across both architecture and writing.

She founded the African Futures Institute in Accra in 2020, positioning Africa as "the laboratory of the future".

She has a PhD in Architecture from the University of London and is the author of White Papers, Black Marks: Race, Space and Architecture, as well as 13 novels including the bestselling Sundowners.

Lesley Lokko resigns as dean of architecture at New York's City College in "profound act of self-preservation"

Lokko is also an important contributor to architectural education, having founded the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Johannesburg.

She was dean of the Spitzer School of Architecture at City College in New York from 2019 to 2020, before resigning in what she described as a "profound act of self-preservation".

She has also taught at various other universities around the world, including the Bartlett School of Architecture in London, the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Cape Town and UTS in Sydney.
Looking at Africa as "laboratory of experimentation"
"The appointment of Lesley Lokko as curator of the 18th international architecture exhibition is a way of welcoming the gaze of an international personality who is able to interpret, through different roles, her own position in the contemporary debate on architecture and cities," stated Cicutto.

He said the move "takes as its starting point her own experience immersed in a continent that is increasingly becoming a laboratory of experimentation and proposals for the whole contemporary world".

The pandemic has "re-imagined how we can exhibit" says Venice Architecture Biennale curator Hashim Sarkis

Lokko has received a series of awards in recent years, including the RIBA Annie Spink Award in 2020 and the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize in 2021.

Her exhibition is expected to build on some of the ideas explored in the 2021 edition curated by Lebanese architect and MIT dean Hashim Sarkis.

Titled "How will we live together?", it looked at how people from around the world can come together to solve problems, despite widening political and economic divides. The theme took on particular response within the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.
"A new world order is emerging"
"A new world order is emerging, with new centres of knowledge production and control," said Lokko.

"New audiences are also emerging, hungry for different narratives, different tools and different languages of space, form, and place," she continued.

"After two of the most difficult and divisive years in living memory, architects have a unique opportunity to show the world what we do best: put forward ambitious and creative ideas that help us imagine a more equitable and optimistic future in common."
The photography is by Murdo Macleod.

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Lesley Lokko named first Black curator of Venice Architecture Biennale

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Scottish-Ghanaian architect, academic and novelist Lesley Lokko has been appointed to curate the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2023, becoming the first Black architect to lead the biannual event. Lokko, who is the founder of the African Futures Institute in Ghana and editor-in-chief of FOLIO: Journal of Contemporary African Architecture, will oversee the 18th edition of the prestigious architecture exhibition.

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Exhibition

Opens Saturday, 2 March 2024

Tropical Modernism was an architectural style developed in the hot, humid conditions of West Africa in the 1940s. After independence, India and Ghana adopted the style as a symbol of modernity and progressiveness, distinct from colonial culture.

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Tropical Modernism was an architectural style developed in the hot, humid conditions of West Africa in the 1940s. After independence, India and Ghana adopted the style as a symbol of modernity and progressiveness, distinct from colonial culture.

Opens Saturday, 2 March 2024

V&A South Kensington

Cromwell Road
London, SW7 2RL

Become a Member and enjoy free access to exhibitions, previews, priority booking, freshly curated content and much more.

Header image: Unity Hall, KNUST, Kumasi by John Owuso Addo and Miro Marasović - film still from 'Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Power in West Africa'. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence - Exhibition at V&A South Kensington · V&A

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Tropical Modernism was an architectural style developed in the hot, humid conditions of West Africa in the 1940s. After independence, India and Ghana adopted the style as a symbol of modernity and progressiveness, distinct from colonial culture.

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TIGHTEN OR LOOSEN? The Future of the Green Belt 

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TIGHTEN OR LOOSEN? The Future of the Green Belt

Thu 12 January 2023

18:30 -20:30

This event is an NLA Debate on the topic of London’s Green Belt. We will hear key responses for and against the crucial question, “Does the Green Belt need a re-think?”

The Green Belt was first introduced in 1938 to curb the growing and unruly growth of London. 84 years on and the Green Belt is still a major governing factor in planning permission across London today. An area that offers the largest urban green space for the city and spans a collective green mass of more than one million acres (405,700 hectares) it is hard to dispute that many would like to protect this space.

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This event is an NLA Debate on the topic of London's Green Belt. We will hear key responses for and against the crucial question, "Does the Green Belt need a re-think?"

The Green Belt was first introduced in 1938 to curb the growing and unruly growth of London. 84 years on and the Green Belt is still a major governing factor in planning permission across London today. An area that offers the largest urban green space for the city and spans a collective green mass of more than one million acres (405,700 hectares) it is hard to dispute that many would like to protect this space.

However, with urbanisation growing since the Green Belt was first proposed, there is a need to offer the necessary provisions for a growing city from housing to hospitals to retail and hospitality amenities. London is set to only grow further and with cities being destination priorities over rural areas, green belts often are seen as an outdated constraint that doesn't meet the cities' needs today. Yet how do we move forward? With NetZero and Wellbeing being high on all agendas, is the Green Belt a vital resource of nature that our city should be protecting?

One of the most contested topics in London's development strategy and with changes in decisions affecting all of London, it is apparent why the Green Belt needs further scrutiny and review. Do we need to reassess the building on the Green Belt to meet the needs of growing Londoners? How can we protect best practice developments when land value is high, and the rewards of Green Belt builds would be high? How can we prioritise different sector needs to divide the Green Belt equitably? Finally, what are the environmental implications of building on the Green Belt? Do we want to lose one of the largest green spaces London has to offer?

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TIGHTEN OR LOOSEN? THE FUTURE OF THE GREEN BELT - London Architecture Diary

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This event is an NLA Debate on the topic of London's Green Belt. We will hear key responses for and against the crucial question, "Does the Green Belt need a re-think?" The Green Belt was first introduced in 1938 to curb the growing and unruly growth of London.

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Weaving unexpected and alternative routes through the city and tackling big architectural stories in an authoritative, yet fun and accessible way, The London Ambler is one of the capital’s best alternative walk experiences and brings to life the many episodes, sagas and adventures of built and unbuilt London!

EDGELANDS
– Architecture at The City’s Limits PART ONE
Saturday 21 January, 10.30-12.30 £12 BOOK HERE

WALL STREET ON WATER
– The Architecture & Planning of Canary Wharf
Saturday 04 February, 10.30-12.30 £12 BOOK HERE

EDGELANDS
– Architecture at The City’s Limits PART TWO
Saturday 18 February, 10.30-12.30 £12 BOOK HERE

EAST LONDON
– Architecture, Streetlife & Survival
Saturday 04 March, 10.30-12.30 £12 BOOK HERE

URBAN LAVISH
– The Architecture of Knightsbridge and Belgravia
Saturday 11 March, 10.30-12.30 £12 BOOK HERE

FRAGMENTS OF TOMORROW
– Modernism Lost & Found in City of London
Saturday 18 March, 10.30-12.30 £12 BOOK HERE

Stay in Touch
Follow me and my stories @thelondonambler on Instagram.
Talk to me direct at thelondonambler@gmail.com

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Open-air walks take place on Saturday mornings.
Full programme to end of March 2023 AVAILABLE NOW below!...more to be added soon!

PLEASE NOTE: in accordance with COVID safe attractions, attendees are advised to not attend events if feeling unwell.

Once an isolated village set amidst the fields of the rural Tyburn Manor, Marylebone grew quickly in the 18th century as a thoroughly modern piece of city with a spacious urban grid of handsome and elegant streets. Minutes from the hustle and bustle of Oxford Street, the neighbourhood today has managed to retain an atmosphere of tranquillity, but maintains the dynamism of a modern urban hub. Charting architecture and identity, change and adaptation, this walk explores the many architectural layers of Marylebone and recalls its transformation from rural outlier, to urban phenomenon and 21st century brand experience through its best streets and buildings.

Around the fringe of every city lies an Edgeland. Neither town or country these fertile hinterlands are made up of two different natures. Skirting the ancient borders of the City of London, this TWO-PART walk explores the liminal buildings, streets and spaces that have grown up in the shadow of the financial heart. Following a route defined first by the Romans two millennia ago, PART ONE explores the contemporary 'City Fringe' between Tower Hill to Broadgate taking in old railways, warehouses, shifting urban quarters and 21st century commercial leviathans!
Part Two: Saturday 18 February - SEE BELOW!
In the 1980s London's great new opportunity was the East End. In Thatcher's free market city, Docklands was there for the taking. Over 30 years later what was once the centre of London's mighty 19th century port is one of the most important financial hubs in the world - a quayside fragment of Wall Street with all the North American brashness and architectural chutzpah to match. From marine relics and wharves to beaux arts arcades, post-modern icons and high-tech underworlds, this walk charts the making of this icon of urban planning, exploring the politics, business deals and various waves of boom and bust that have marked its spectacular creation

Around the fringe of every city lies an Edgeland. Neither town or country these fertile hinterlands are made up of two different natures. Skirting the ancient borders of the City of London, this TWO-PART walk explores the liminal buildings, streets and spaces that have grown up in the shadow of the financial heart. Following a route defined first by the Romans two millennia ago, PART TWO explores the contemporary 'City Fringe' between Finsbury Square and Holborn Bars revealing modernist utopias, medieval sanctuaries, partial monasteries and markets!
Part One: Saturday 21 January - SEE ABOVE!
One of the city's most rapidly changing districts, East London has for centuries been the engine room, shop floor and clearing house of the capital with its streets and buildings bearing witness to the shocks, pains and struggles of urban change. Before the coffee, the tech' and the hipsters it was merchants, labourers, refugees and reformers who shaped its life and each have left their mark on its tumultuous landscape. From lost markets and model dwellings, to railways, warehouses and world firsts, this walk explores the streets and spaces of Hoxton, Shoreditch and Spitalfields revealing the landmarks in the making of the first East London.

Knightsbridge. Belgravia. Two west London neighbourhoods synonymous with grandeur and extravagance. Once a simple village and unremarkable fields on the western approaches to the city, in the the 19th century they exploded into being with Belgravia the 'quartier bourgeois' with a grid of massive Italianate neoclassical villas and terraces that floundered as Victorian fashion took a decidedly Dutch and Flemish turn. The two districts have evolved again recently, with new money splashing cash, pimping-up the old and squeezing in ever-more bijou new additions. From boutique shops and hotels, lavish living spaces and passing Lamborghinis, this walk traces the making of Knightsbridge and Belgravia from humble origins to its most spectacular buildings and spaces.

After the Second World War, London looked to the future. Recovering from the destruction of the blitz and seeking to banish the decrepid Victorian city, in the 1950s and 60s it embraced modernism and embarked on a great project of reinvention. Taking the best ideas from Europe, while trying to keep pace with America, the Square Mile remade itself through new buildings and landscapes fit for a confident new age. From modernist icons and brutalist skyscrapers to aerial walkways, bogus roadways and curious underpasses, this walk pulls together the fragments of the City's once bold future to chart the architecture and spaces of what was and what might've been.

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PLEASE NOTE: in accordance with COVID safe attractions, attendees are advised to not attend events if feeling unwell. Once an isolated village set amidst the fields of the rural Tyburn Manor, Marylebone grew quickly in the 18th century as a thoroughly modern piece of city with a spacious urban grid of handsome and elegant streets.

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Belsize Park: Modern Approaches to Housing

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Belsize Park: Modern Approaches to Housing

When: Selected Sundays

Check the website

Housing is the most significant built form in cities. On this walk, we see how architects and planners over the ages have experimented with this building type, often challenging the established norms.

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Housing is the most significant built form in cities. On this walk, we see how architects and planners over the ages have experimented with this building type, often challenging the established norms.

Starting at Belsize Park Station, we trace the history of urban housing over the last 200 years. We discover the remarkable story of the iconic Isokon Building and explore unique examples of post-war social housing by The London Borough of Camden's Architecture Department. Not always pretty, the buildings on this tour comprise a fascinating comparison of housing types.

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Seeing Architecture London - Belsize Park: Modern Approaches to Housing

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Housing is the most significant built form in cities. On this walk, we see how architects and planners over the ages have experimented with this building type, often challenging the established norms. An architectural walk that explores three cultural landmarks - Th eSouth Bank, Somerset House and Covent Garden.

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Clerkenwell: Inspired Interventions
When: Saturdays

Duration: 2 hours

Clerkenwell is one of London’s most multi-layered neighbourhoods. From its medieval, monastic origins to its recent emergence as a hub for creative and design professions, it has a vibrant and fascinating story.Walking from our meeting point at Barbican Station, we discover historic Charterhouse Square. From there, we trace a path through Clerkenwell Green. We see recent residential projects by contemporary architects such as David Adjaye, Steven Holl and Amin Taha and we review the proposed urban transformations of Smithfield Market.‍

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Clerkenwell is one of London's most multi-layered neighbourhoods. From its medieval, monastic origins to its recent emergence as a hub for creative and design professions, it has a vibrant and fascinating story.

Walking from our meeting point at Barbican Station, we discover historic Charterhouse Square. From there, we trace a path through Clerkenwell Green. We see recent residential projects by contemporary architects such as David Adjaye, Steven Holl and Amin Taha and we review the proposed urban transformations of Smithfield Market.

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Seeing Architecture London - Clerkenwell: Inspired Interventions

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Clerkenwell is one of London’s most multi-layered neighbourhoods. From its medieval, monastic origins to its recent emergence as a hub for creative and design professions, it has a vibrant and fascinating story... An architectural walk that explores three cultural landmarks - Th eSouth Bank, Somerse…

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South Bank to Covent Garden: Arts & Institutions

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South Bank to Covent Garden: Arts & Institutions
When: Fridays
Duration: 2 hours

The South Bank, Somerset House and Covent Garden – three London landmarks that have seen spectacular change from their original uses. Although all are cultural destinations, their architectural responses are radically different. How did the buildings develop and adapt, and will they remain relevant in a changing world?

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The South Bank, Somerset House and Covent Garden - three London landmarks that have seen spectacular change from their original uses. Although all are cultural destinations, their architectural responses are radically different. How did the buildings develop and adapt, and will they remain relevant in a changing world?

The Festival of Britain in 1951 sparked redevelopment of the South Bank, so our walk begins at Royal Festival Hall. We consider the brutalist institutions along the Thames before crossing Waterloo Bridge, with its panoramic views of the city. North of the river we discover Somerset House and some of the most fascinating buildings around Aldwych, before ending our journey at Covent Garden.

Please note that this tour includes some stairs at South Bank. Typically, buildings are viewed from the outside only but we are seeing many places so there is plenty to keep you interested.

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Seeing Architecture London - South Bank to Covent Garden: Arts & Institutions

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OPEN CITY Walking Tours
London Pubs - Jan 19, 2023
Elephant & Castle - Jan 21, 2023

Forest Hill & Sydenham Architecture - Jan 21, 2023
Canary Wharf and East India Docks - Jan 21, 2023
Westminster Cultural Landmarks - Jan 21, 2023

The Walls of London - Jan 28, 2023
The London Public Health Architecture - Jan 28, 2023
King’s Cross - Jan 28, 2023
Regent's Canal - Jan 28, 2023
Pub Pub Quiz - Feb 2, 2023

London’s townscape walking tour - Feb 4, 2023

Open City is charity dedicated to making architecture and neighbourhoods more open, accessible and equitable.

We run year-round programme of events, tours, training courses, publications, young people’s activities, audio and new media programmes, and volunteering opportunities centred on creatively exploring and widening access to architecture.

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Can you tell your casks from your kegs? Could you spot a tavern from a gin palace? Do you know where in London the 1910s British government experimented in pub nationalisation? Can you name London's first black-owned public house?

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Building Stories - RIBA House of the Year 2022 winner

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Building Stories - RIBA House of the Year 2022 winner

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Building Stories
RIBA House of the Year 2022 winner
Thu, 19 January 2023
Royal Institute of British Architects

Come and celebrate the RIBA House of the Year 2022 winner, The Red House by David Kohn Architects, and hear the story behind the project.

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Building Stories – RIBA House of the Year 2022 winner

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Come and celebrate the RIBA House of the Year 2022 winner, The Red House by David Kohn Architects, and hear the story behind the project.

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WEIRD SENSATION FEELS GOOD: The World of ASMR

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13 MAY – 10 APRIL 2023
DESIGN MUSEUM

Step out from behind your screen and experience the world of ASMR in a shared space.

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WEIRD SENSATION FEELS GOOD: The World of ASMR

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Step out from behind your screen and experience the world of ASMR in a shared space.

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On now until Sunday, 25 June 2023
Gallery 39 and the North Court, V&A

Hallyu! The Korean Wave showcases the colourful and dynamic popular culture of South Korea, exploring the makings of the Korean Wave and its global impact on the creative industries of cinema, drama, music, fandom, beauty and fashion.

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Hallyu! The Korean Wave explores the soft power of Korea and its influence on cinema, drama, music, fandom, beauty and fashion.

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Royal Academy of Arts
22 March 2022 — 21 May 2023

Experience the architectural brilliance of John Hejduk with this large-scale model of the ‘Widow’s House’ at the heart of the RA.

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Experience the architectural brilliance of John Hejduk with this large-scale model of the 'Widow's House' at the heart of the RA.

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* You don't need a ticket to visit this free display. * This free display will be open until 9pm on Friday evenings. * Download our large print guide.

Architecture in the Ronald and Rita McAulay Gallery is a new free exhibition space at the heart of the RA. This ambitious installation features Hejduk's design for the Widow's House, one of 68 "objects" in his seminal Lancaster / Hanover Masque, brought to life.

The late American architect John Hejduk (1929 - 2000) believed that ideas were as important as buildings and that architecture had the power to evoke alternative worlds. Masques - popular royal entertainments of the 16th and 17th centuries featuring fantastical costumes and moving sets - inspired Hejduk to transform the way architecture is taught and imagined.

The Lancaster / Hanover Masque draws inspiration from an eclectic range of sources, including the novels of Thomas Hardy, English fairground attractions and American agricultural buildings. Hejduk used allegorical stories and a large cast of characters to deal with themes of life, death, love and virtue. The Widow is one such character in the masque.

Hejduk described the Widow's House as a "wailing room", with the funnels on the roof made by "the Trombone-Maker, a craftsman of refined detail". It refers to the Widow's Walk, a feature of traditional New England houses thought to be built for the wives of whaling ships' captains who would go up to these cupolas and watch the ships come in from sea. Often they did not come back. The Widow's Walk was a form of surveillance and waiting, a place of reflection and anticipation.

This dark and mysterious tale contrasts with the comical, zoomorphic form of the structure with its four legs, head and tail. Hejduk saw that in life tragedy often sits alongside comedy, and that art and architecture give us a way of reconciling mixed emotions and conflicting ideas.

'London Masque' was developed in collaboration with students from the Royal College of Art MA Interior Design programme. During the life of the London Masque a series of workshops will explore Hejduk's Lancaster / Hanover Masque and the resulting models and drawings will be displayed alongside the Widow's House.
Design John Hejduk, built with permission granted by the Estate of John Hejduk.#RAJohnHejduk

Tues-Sun: 10am-6pm
Fri: 10am-9pm

Free, no booking required

Ronald and Rita McAulay Gallery

Architectural Association: London Un-masqued

Students from the Architectural Association's Diploma Unit 11 have created work that expands our understanding of London. The students' work speaks of London as a strange and familiar place, where alternative cities exist within the city - an idea inspired by China Miéville's fantasy novel Un Lun Dun (2007).

Led by Shin Egashira, the students worked together to investigate the urban transformation of London through a collage where unbuilt designs sit alongside existing as well as demolished buildings.

John Hejduk's masques, which symbolise cities made up of subjects and objects, inspired each student to write their own brief for an object. On display alongside one of Hejduk's objects, the Widow's House, the students' models represent fragments of the city, tools or reimagined neighbourhoods. Using materials including wood, steel, plaster and pewter, the work shows how our imaginations come together with reality to make the cities we live in.
London Un-masqued is open until 21 May 2023.

RA Young People's Programme: We Built This City

This display features work by students aged 15-21 from the RA's attRAct programme. In August 2022 the group took part in a week of practical, discursive and collaborative workshops inspired by John Hejduk's Lancaster / Hanover Masque (1980-82), led by Mark Hampson, artist and Head of Fine Art Processes at the RA Schools, and Enej Gala, RA Schools student.
The attRAct programme is a free, year-long opportunity for young people, with monthly workshops led by professional artists, architects, and other creatives. Supported by The Nicholas Bacon Charitable Trust. We Built This City is open until 5 February 2023.

RA Family Programme: Friendship and Alchemy

This display features work by participants from the RA's Family programme for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) who have built landscapes and imaginary cities inspired by John Hejduk's Lancaster / Hanover Masque (1980-82).

In May and June 2022 a group of families who met at the RA and have formed a close-knit community, were invited to attend four short workshops led by artist-educator Cash Aspeek. Each week they used a distinct colour or material to reflect a theme in Hejduk's masque. A silver city presents buildings with human as well as animal characteristics; black materials were used to create a world of slotted structures; the colour red represents the fireworks and fairground attractions that inspired the architect, while natural materials express imaginary farming communities and animal enclosures.
The RA's Family programme for children with SEND is supported by The Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation. Friendship and Alchemy is open until 9 October 2022.

Royal College of Art: Translations

This display featured models made by students from the Royal College of Art MA Interior Design programme during a three-week project in October 2021.

Inspired by the Lancaster / Hanover Masque, students were asked to translate a character from Hejduk's sketches and text into their designs as 3D models using personal interpretations and stories from their own experiences and culture.
Translations was open from 22 March - 10 July 2022.

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DESIGN MUSEUM
A free exhibition introducing part of our collection, looking at the development of modern design through these three interconnected roles: Designer Maker User.

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Designer Maker User is a free exhibition introducing part of the Design Museum’s collection, looking at the development of modern design through these three interconnected roles. Explore the free display to discover some of the designers and makers who shaped the world we live in.

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TATE BRITAIN COMMISSION
22 March 2022 – 22 January 2023
British sculptor and contemporary visual artist Hew Locke has created a new and exciting large-scale installation for the 2022 Commission

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Hew Locke: The Procession | Tate Britain

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A procession is part and parcel of the cycle of life; people gather and move together to celebrate, worship, protest, mourn, escape or even to better themselves. This is the heart of Hew Locke’s ambitious new project, The Procession.

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M.K. Čiurlionis: Between Worlds
21 September 2022 - 12 March 2023
Dulwich Picture Gallery

Discover new worlds with Lithuania’s best loved artist. A symbolist painter and pioneer, M.K Čiurlionis' explored early abstraction, spirituality, philosophy and our relationship to the universe.

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Until 16 April 2023

Tate Modern

Delicate, evocative plaster sculptures inspired by the natural world

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Bringing together many works rarely exhibited before in the UK, this survey exhibition will highlight the abstract sculptures of Prague-born Slovak artist Maria Bartuszová.

Bartuszová worked over three decades in Košice, the second-largest city in Slovakia. She created around 500 sculptures, from small organic forms to commissions for public spaces as well as works in the landscape, despite restrictions on her artistic life during this period.

The exhibition starts in the 1960s, when Bartuszová experimented using her own distinctive method of casting plaster by hand. Inspired by playing with her young daughter, she created abstract shapes by pouring plaster into rubber balloons - her signature material was white plaster, giving the sculptures a fragile quality.

She shaped the sculptures by pushing, pulling, or submerging them into water, creating unique and distinct shapes. Some suggest raindrops, seeds or eggs, others the human body. Later, she allowed the balloons to burst, creating delicate works similar to cocoons or nests.

In the 1980s, Bartuszová frequently photographed her works outdoors to emphasise their close ties to nature. The exhibition will also include a selection of these striking images.

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Bringing together many works rarely exhibited before in the UK, this survey exhibition will highlight the abstract sculptures of Prague-born Slovak artist Maria Bartuszová. Bartuszová worked over three decades in Košice, the second-largest city in Slovakia.

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15 SEPTEMBER 2022 – 25 JUNE 2023
Design Museum, London

Delve into the colourful world of artist and designer Yinka Ilori in this display that celebrates a unique mix of cultural influences and unpacks the ingredients of a diasporic visual language.

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Dive into the colourful world of artist/designer Yinka Ilori celebrating a unique mix of cultural influences with a free display during the London Design Festival 2022.

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Long Life, Low Energy: Designing for a circular economy at RIBA

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8 November 2022 to 1 April 2023
Long Life, Low Energy

This exhibition demonstrates how the principles of the circular economy can help create more sustainable, net zero architecture for the future.

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This exhibition demonstrates how the principles of the circular economy can help create more sustainable, net zero architecture for the future.

RIBA's Built for the Environment report shows that 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions are attributable to buildings and construction, consuming about 50% of all raw materials worldwide in the process. In addition, over 50,000 buildings are demolished each year across the UK, many of which could have been repurposed. The circular economy offers ways to reduce these unsustainable figures, seeking to eliminating waste by reusing buildings and their material components wherever possible.

Presented in three sections, with RIBA Collections material on show, the exhibition discusses the culture of demolition, presents recent examples of best practice retrofit and reuse, and gives a glimpse into the near future with research and ideas into a circular economy of architecture, where buildings would no longer be linear in terms of lifespan.

The Architecture Gallery will be closed from Friday 7 April (Good Friday) to Monday 10 April (Easter Monday).Long Life, Low Energy will reopen to the public on Tuesday 11 April.
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This exhibition demonstrates how the principles of the circular economy can help create more sustainable, net zero architecture for the future. RIBA's Built for the Environment report shows that 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions are attributable to buildings and construction, consuming about 50% of all raw materials worldwide in the process.

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The largest survey to date of Hiroshi Sugimoto, an artist renowned for creating some of the most alluringly enigmatic photographs of our time.

Hayward Gallery

Our address is: Hayward Gallery, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX.

The nearest tube and train stations within 5-7 minutes walk are Waterloo (Northern, Bakerloo, Jubilee and Waterloo & City lines) and Embankment (District & Circle lines).

There are also lots of bus routes with stops 2-5 minutes from our venues. For more information on getting here by road, rail or river.

Visit our Getting here page

Some free events, including our HENI Project Space exhibitions, don't require a pre-booked ticket - you can simply turn up on the day. These events are labelled FREE on our website with no way to book.

If you don't receive your e-ticket

Members

Advance booking for schools

We are happy to welcome primary, secondary and SEND schools during Hayward Gallery opening hours at the following rates:

Primary schools: Free, booking required.
Secondary schools in Lambeth and Southwark: Free, booking required.
All other secondary schools: £8 per pupil. Accompanying teachers go free.

Please email us with your preferred visit date and any other relevant school and pupil information at[email protected]

If you have any further questions or need anything else to support your visit, please contact the schools team.

For step-free access to the Hayward Gallery from the Queen Elizabeth Hall Slip Road, please use the Hayward Gallery car park lift.

There may be short queues to enter the building and the exhibition. If you are not able to queue or need further assistance, our hosts are here to help you.

Parking
Blue Badge parking at National Theatre
Alternative parking for Blue Badge holders visiting the Southbank Centre can be found at the National Theatre car park (330 metres). If you are visiting the Hayward Gallery, just take your badge and car park ticket to the Ticket Desk in the gallery foyer for validation before you leave.

Please note: on Sunday when the National Theatre building is closed there is no step-free access from the car park.
Blue Badge parking APCOA Cornwall Road

Eating & drinking on-site

The Hayward Gallery Cafe is the ideal spot for some pre-exhibition sustenance or a post-visit drink.

Drop in for a speciality coffee, artisan sandwiches, seasonal fresh salads and an array of homemade cakes and pastries from our in-house baker. Soak up the views with a crisp glass of wine, locally sourced craft ale or one of our signature cocktails.
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The largest survey to date of Hiroshi Sugimoto, an artist renowned for creating some of the most alluringly enigmatic photographs of our time.

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22 Feb 2023 –⁠ 7 May 2023

Hayward Gallery

The first major survey of work by internationally acclaimed British artist Mike Nelson features his psychologically charged and atmospheric installations.

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The first major survey of work by internationally acclaimed British artist Mike Nelson features his psychologically charged and atmospheric installations.

Need to know

Age recommendation

Under-16s must be accompanied by an adult.

Access information
The exhibition includes two installations - The Deliverance and the Patience from 2001 and I, IMPOSTOR (the darkroom) from 2011 - with narrow period doors and small, restricted interior spaces. These are not accessible for wheelchair users and some people with mobility impairments.

In acknowledgement of this, we're offering a discounted £6* ticket (usual price £15/£16*) for visitors whose access to these installations is limited.

And, to ensure all visitors can experience these works, we've produced artist-led video walkthroughs of the two installations, viewable on tablets inside the gallery.

Booking
The nature of the installations in this exhibition mean the Hayward Gallery can hold fewer visitors than usual. To avoid disappointment, we recommend booking in advance.

Standard entry: Weds - Fri £15, Sat - Sun & Bank Holidays £16*

Members: Free

Concessions: £12**

Students: £12, only available Wed - Fri & after 5pm on Sat

Under-30s & Lambeth residents: £6, only available Wed - Fri & after 5pm on Sat

Ages 12 - 16: £6

Under-12s: Free

* Excludes £3 booking fee.

** Limited availability. Read about concessions.

Tickets can only be sold through the Southbank Centre and our authorised agents, and can't be resold. You can return your tickets to the Southbank Centre for a credit voucher up to 48 hours before the event. Tickets resold on any third-party platforms will become invalid.

Get presale tickets

Members get the first chance to book our entire programme of events, including go-down-in-history gigs, concerts with world-class orchestras, and talks from cultural icons and political giants.

Hayward Gallery

The Hayward Gallery is closed and will reopen for the exhibition Hiroshi Sugimoto on Wednesday 11 October 2023.

Wed - Fri, 10am - 6pm
Sat, 10am - 8pm
Sun, 10am - 6pm
Closed Mon & Tue

Our address is: Hayward Gallery, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX.

The nearest tube and train stations within 5-7 minutes walk are Waterloo (Northern, Bakerloo, Jubilee and Waterloo & City lines) and Embankment (District & Circle lines).

There are also lots of bus routes with stops 2-5 minutes from our venues. For more information on getting here by road, rail or river.

Visit our Getting here page

Some free events, including our HENI Project Space exhibitions, don't require a pre-booked ticket - you can simply turn up on the day. These events are labelled FREE on our website with no way to book.

If you don't receive your e-ticket

Members

Advance booking for schools

We are happy to welcome primary, secondary and SEND schools during Hayward Gallery opening hours at the following rates:

Primary schools: Free, booking required.
Secondary schools in Lambeth and Southwark: Free, booking required.
All other secondary schools: £8 per pupil. Accompanying teachers go free.

Please email us with your preferred visit date and any other relevant school and pupil information at[email protected]

If you have any further questions or need anything else to support your visit, please contact the schools team.

For step-free access to the Hayward Gallery from the Queen Elizabeth Hall Slip Road, please enter the Royal Festival Hall via the Riverside Entrance Doors next to Foyles on Riverside. From there, take the Lift 3 up to Level 2 and exit to the Riverside Terrace. Follow the route past the Queen Elizabeth Hall to the Hayward Gallery.

The Hayward Gallery car park lift, the external lift near the Artists' Entrance on Southbank Centre Square and the JCB Glass Lift are currently undergoing maintenance.

There may be short queues to enter the building and the exhibition. If you are not able to queue or need further assistance, our hosts are here to help you.

Parking
Blue Badge parking at National Theatre
Alternative parking for Blue Badge holders visiting the Southbank Centre can be found at the National Theatre car park (330 metres). If you are visiting the Hayward Gallery, just take your badge and car park ticket to the Ticket Desk in the gallery foyer for validation before you leave.

Please note: on Sunday when the National Theatre building is closed there is no step-free access from the car park.
Blue Badge parking APCOA Cornwall Road

Eating & drinking on-site

The Hayward Gallery Cafe is the ideal spot for some pre-exhibition sustenance or a post-visit drink.

Drop in for a speciality coffee, artisan sandwiches, seasonal fresh salads and an array of homemade cakes and pastries from our in-house baker. Soak up the views with a crisp glass of wine, locally sourced craft ale or one of our signature cocktails.
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MAGDALENA ABAKANOWICZ

EVERY TANGLE OF THREAD AND ROPE

Until 21 May 2023

In the 1960s and 70s, the Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz created radical sculptures from woven fibre. They were soft not hard; ambiguous and organic; towering works that hung from the ceiling and pioneered a new form of installation. They became known as the Abakans.

This exhibition presents a rare opportunity to explore this extraordinary body of work. Many of the most significant Abakans will be brought together in a forest-like display in the 64-metre long gallery space of the Blavatnik Building at Tate Modern.

The exhibition explores this transformative period of Abakanowicz’s practice when her woven forms came off the wall and into three-dimensional space. With these works she brought soft, fibrous forms into a new relationship with sculpture. A selection of early textile pieces and her little-known drawings are also on show.

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In the 1960s and 70s, the Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz created radical sculptures from woven fibre. They were soft not hard; ambiguous and organic; towering works that hung from the ceiling and pioneered a new form of installation. They became known as the Abakans.

This exhibition presents a rare opportunity to explore this extraordinary body of work. Many of the most significant Abakans will be brought together in a forest-like display in the 64-metre long gallery space of the Blavatnik Building at Tate Modern.

The exhibition explores this transformative period of Abakanowicz's practice when her woven forms came off the wall and into three-dimensional space. With these works she brought soft, fibrous forms into a new relationship with sculpture. A selection of early textile pieces and her little-known drawings are also on show.

Magdalena Abakanowicz was born in 1930 in Poland and came of age during the Second World War. Living in Poland under the Communist regime, she established a career as an international artist and her work is included in many public and private collections around the world.
Exhibition organised by Tate Modern in collaboration with the Fondation Toms Pauli at the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne/Plateforme 10 and Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden. With generous thanks to the Fundacja Marty Magdaleny Abakanowicz Kosmowskiej i Jana Kosmowskiego.

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ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS
24 September - 11 December 2022
Enter a new, immersive world by the multi-sensory artist and global creative powerhouse William Kentridge, in our major autumn exhibition.

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Over the last decade, our single artist shows have captured the imagination of the public. Always large in scale, ambitious in scope and astonishing in execution, we've seen artists including Ai Weiwei, Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley take on our Main Galleries. This autumn, it's the turn of William Kentridge, South Africa's most celebrated living artist.

Kentridge's globally acclaimed practice spans across etching, drawing, collage, film and sculpture to tapestry, theatre, opera, dance and music. The Johannesburg-born artist developed his early work during the apartheid regime of the 1980s, and his electrifying large-scale productions and animations have since been shown across the world.

Transforming the Main Galleries, this is the biggest exhibition of the artist's work in the UK. Many pieces have never been seen before, and some have been made specifically for the show. Spanning a 40-year career, you will find rooms of 4-metre wide tapestries, his signature charcoal trees and flowers, and the breath-taking three-screen film, Notes Towards a Model Opera. Watch as typewriters turn into trees, a hunted rhino somersaults with a megaphone, and a coffee plunger drills into the depths of a goldmine.

Don't miss the immersive art experience of the year.
This exhibition contains images that some visitors might find upsetting. Please contact us for more information. Download our large print guide.#RAWilliamKentridge Exhibition supported by The William Kentridge Supporters Circle: Wendy Fisher & A4 Arts Foundation, Goodman Gallery, Marian Goodman Gallery, Stephen Gosztony, Yoav Gottesman, Simone Krok, Lia Rumma Gallery, Fundació Sorigué and those who wish to remain anonymous.

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Enter a new, immersive world by the multi-sensory artist and global creative powerhouse William Kentridge, in our major autumn exhibition.

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YARD THEATRE
07 January - 28 January 2023
Hackney Wick, London

Summer gets too much credit so we’re turning January into the new July. Whether you fancy a heated back and forth with a Ping Pong Quiz, celebrating the upcoming Year of the Rabbit with queer and trans-ESEA (East & South East Asian) dance party GGI 끼 or serving up the best looks with WOOF cabaret — we’ve got all areas covered.

LINE-UP

7 January | Fast & Bi-Furious
12 January | Ping Pong Quiz Show
13 January | WOOF
14 January | OUTPUTS
15 January | Queer Clash Diary
19 January | Ping Pong Quiz Show
20 January | Basilica
21 January | GGI 끼
27 January | INFERNO
28 January (Morning) | Planet Party, a free community party
28 January (Evening) | Multitude

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Summer gets too much credit so we're turning January into the new July. Whether you fancy a heated back and forth with a Ping Pong Quiz, celebrating the upcoming Year of the Rabbit with queer and trans-ESEA (East & South East Asian) dance party GGI 끼 or serving up the best looks with WOOF cabaret - we've got all areas covered.

So get out of your houses, come inside, and dive into our month of winter warmers designed to give you the energy boost that we all so desperately need.
With more to be announced (watch this space).

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Medea tells the story of a woman laid bare by grief and rage, and her terrible quest for revenge against the men who have abandoned her. Sophie Okonedo brings her visceral, mercurial brilliance to literature’s most titanic female protagonist, whose complexity and contradictions have kept audiences on the edge of their seats, unable to look away, for almost 2,500 years.

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Sophie Okonedo and Ben Daniels return to the West End to star in Robinson Jeffers’ adaptation of Euripides’ Medea, directed by Dominic Cooke. Opening @sohoplace on 17 February 2023, with previews from 11 February.

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Paper self-guided versions of some of our most popular tours, our printed tours make great gifts or family activities.

Focussing on the most visually-striking and memorable modernist achievements of boroughs in north, south, east and west London – the tours show how spacious design, health and quality of life are once again in the spotlight as our city moves forward out of the pandemic.

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Paper self-guided versions of some of our most popular tours, our printed tours make great gifts or family activities.

Focussing on the most visually-striking and memorable modernist achievements of boroughs in north, south, east and west London - the tours show how spacious design, health and quality of life are once again in the spotlight as our city moves forward out of the pandemic.

Graphic design by Vangeli Moschopoulos

WE WILL SHIP ORDERS AS FAST AS POSSIBLE BUT CAN NO LONGER GUARANTEE NEW ORDERS WILL BE DELIVERED BEFORE CHRISTMAS DUE TO POSTAL DELAYS

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Paper self-guided versions of some of our most popular tours, our printed tours make great gifts or family activities.

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Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear at the V&A

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Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear at the V&A

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On now until Sunday, 6 November 2022
V&A The Sainsbury Gallery
At a moment of unprecedented creativity in men's fashion and reflection on gender, this exhibition explores how designers, tailors and artists – and their clients and sitters – have constructed and performed masculinity, and unpicked it at the seams. Design by Jayden Ali Studio

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V&A · Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear - Exhibition at South Kensington

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This exhibition explores how designers, tailors and artists - and their clients and sitters - have constructed masculinity, and unpicked it at the seams.

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SIMEON BARCLAY: In the Name of the Father

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23 Sep- 27 Nov 2022
South London Gallery
In the Name of the Father brings together a new body of works that extends Barclay’s enquiry into questions of legacy, identity, and masculinity, through the lens of the father son relationship. The South London Gallery presents a major solo exhibition by Simeon Barclay featuring an installation of new works in the Main Gallery.

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Simeon Barclay, In the Name of the Father, South London Gallery, September 2022. Installation view, Andy Stagg.

The South London Gallery presents a major solo exhibition by Simeon Barclay (b.1975) featuring an installation of new works in the Main Gallery. Known for his multimedia practice which incorporates sculpture, collage, neon, and moving image, Simeon Barclay explores the ways we navigate and perform identity based on cultural memory. His art is particularly engaged with aspects of aesthetics, and he often creates interventions in the architecture of gallery spaces through colour, light, and the use of industrial materials. His influences range from folk tales, fashion, and club culture, through to concepts of masculinity and the history of art.

In the Name of the Father brings together a new body of works that extends Barclay's enquiry into questions of legacy, identity, and masculinity, through the lens of the father son relationship. Works in various media weave together multiple references to the personal, the social and the geographical as an attempt to understand and negotiate one's relationship to place. The history of Huddersfield's cloth industry and the artist's father's original trade as a tailor are both alluded to in a duo of bespoke grey felt suits, as is the wider history of urbanisation and migration in the town. Barclay's past employment as an industrial machinist has been a major influence in his artistic practice and a towering totem of containers hints at this,  ​ as well as being suggestive of the chimneys that remain a feature in Yorkshire's post-industrial landscape.

The show is full of symbols. There are lost footballs stuck up in the eaves of the gallery, totally out of reach. The locked doors have incomprehensible signs on them, like they're the offices of faceless government departments. One of the doors is open, you push through and find a huge neon sign for Johnny's, a nightclub in Huddersfield that was hard to get into. This is direct, physical, imposing art that forces you to feel the alienation and rejection of being an outgroup.

Barclay frequently meshes multiple cultural references into his works, playing on the degree to which our interpretation of art depends on the cultural perspectives we bring to the process. Works in the show nod to the artists Constantin Brancusi, Joseph Beuys and Alexander Calder, as well as to 'Johnny's' nightclub in Huddersfield, the British 1979 film, 'Scum', and 1960s Sci-Fi TV series, 'Thunderbirds'. Dream-like memories of Barclay's experiences are the triggers for the works brought together in this show, whilst the layering of additional references represent a process of filtering and re-remembering. The autobiographical content is undeniable and serves to draw out a much wider context, bringing into focus multiple issues around cultural barriers and relationships of power.

BIOGRAPHY

Simeon Barclay (b. 1975, in Huddersfield, UK) received his BA from Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds in 2010 and an MFA from Goldsmiths College, London in 2014. Barclay is a member of the Arts Council Acquisition Committee since 2021 and a member of the advisory committee for the Freelands Foundation since 2018, and in 2020 he was selected to be included in the British Art Show 9.

He has exhibited both nationally and internationally including at Southbank Centre, Tate Britain, South London Gallery, London; Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool; Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Workplace Foundation, Gateshead; Holden Gallery, Manchester; The Tetley, Leeds; Cubitt Gallery, London; The Bluecoat, Liverpool; Jerwood Space, London; Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer, Vienna; Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels; Arcadia Missa, New York and W139, Amsterdam. His work is in the Arts Council Collection, London; Zabludowicz Collection, London; Manchester Art Gallery and Whitworth Art Gallery collection, Manchester.

ACCESS

A large print exhibition guide is available

Ear plugs, ear defenders, magnifying glasses and wheelchairs are all available

The Main Gallery space is well lit with low noise

There is a fog machine in the rear part of the gallery

There is a door inside the exhibition which can be opened by visitors. The door is not push button activated.

The exhibition includes freestanding sculptures and paintings

See our access page for more information.

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ORIGINAL PLAY
Shakespeares Globe
25 Aug 2022 - 22 Oct 2022
A cry for courage erupts in the Globe Theatre this summer with the premiere of I, Joan, a powerful and joyous new play which tells Joan of Arc’s story anew.

Rebelling against the world’s expectations, questioning the gender binary, Joan finds their power and their belief spreads like fire.

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A cry for courage erupts in the Globe Theatre this summer with the premiere of I, Joan, a powerful and joyous new play which tells Joan of Arc's story anew.

The men are all fighting, again. An endless war. From nowhere, an unexpected leader emerges. Young, poor and about to spark a revolution. This is Joan.

Rebelling against the world's expectations, questioning the gender binary, Joan finds their power and their belief spreads like fire.

Join us in the wooden 'O' and feel the heat of the sun and the pulse of Joan's passion. With open hearts and raised voices, dance and cheer with us as we rediscover Joan's story. It's alive, queer and full of hope.

Written by Charlie Josephine ( Bitch Boxer) and directed by Ilinca Radulian (Co-Director, Richard III, Globe).

Content guidance: This production contains loud noises and music, strong language and swearing throughout, partial nudity, references to sexual abuse, misgendering, and depictions of war and violence.

'Oh if we can just quiet the world for a moment. And listen within. There's a voice guiding you. And until you can hear it, I'll be it for you.'

Read our statement on I, Joan and identity If you'd like to find out more about the themes of this play or learn about allyship, visit organisations such as Gendered Intelligence for resources and more.

DETAILS
TICKETS
£52 - £15 Seated
£5 Standing

This event is on-site in the Globe Theatre

Running time approximately 2 hours and 50 minutes, including an interval

Join the conversation  #IAmJoan #WeAreJoan

Terms and conditions
A £2.50 transaction fee per order applies online.
Part of Summer 2022
Lead photography by Kate Bones

Find out how to get here, where to stay and read our FAQs.

Access
Find out about access provisions for Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people.

'A gender-fluid revolutionary for our times.
Intelligently epic...[and] also terrific fun.'
THE TIMES

'We need more Joans in this world. And we need I, Joan '
THE REVIEWS HUB

'Genuinely revolutionary...simmers with queer rebellion.
Isobel Thom makes a staggering debut as Joan.'
WHATSONSTAGE

Production photos by Helen Murray (2022)

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Rehearsal photos by Helen Murray and Pete Le May (2022)

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Feature trailer | I, Joan | Summer 2022

'A festival of joy and revolution' | Interview with Charlie Josephine and Ilinca Radulian

Medieval & Early Modern History

Who was Joan of Arc?

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Gender identity: A resource list

Read

Medieval & Early Modern History

'It was necessary': taking Joan of Arc on their own terms

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Straight to the Point: Making Queer Theatre for Everyone
With panellists Sean Linnen, Yaz Zadeh, Rob Watt and Charlie Josephine.

8 October, 5.15pm Sam Wanamaker Playhouse Free
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Much Ado About Nothing

A ★★★★★ 'sublime, sensational... pure genius' (Daily Express) production of Shakespeare's much-loved comedy transforms the Globe into a luscious Italian garden.

Henry VIII

Experience 'pure theatre magic' ★★★★★ (The Telegraph) and discover a new perspective on Shakespeare's exploration of love, lineage and power.

The Tempest

Shakespeare's tale of reckoning and redemption is 'brilliantly reimagined' ★★★★ (Evening Standard) in a 'gleefully eccentric, unequivocally comic' (The Guardian) new production.

We provide Access Resources for Audio Described and Relaxed performances, these will be added in time for the first of each of those access performances and will be available for all performances after that date

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Inclusive Spaces: Everyday Curriculums / Everyday Pedagogies at Bartlett

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Inclusive Spaces: Everyday Curriculums / Everyday Pedagogies

19 October 2022, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm

Join this interactive online event to explore how simple, everyday changes can create a big impact in built environment education.

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Join this interactive online event to explore how simple, everyday changes can create a big impact in built environment education.
This event is free.
Event Information

What and how we teach built environment students has a direct impact not only on their experiences as learners, but also on the professions they go on to join, and the buildings, cities and human spaces they create.

It's crucial for the future of our societies, and for our planet, that built environments represent and respect diversity in people, nature and animals. In this event we discover how education can help to achieve this by becoming more equitable and inclusive.

We'll explore the power of language in creating more inclusive educational experiences, and share simple, everyday tools that can help educators to diversify curricula and pedagogies.

Through an interactive workshop, we'll ask: what are the absent, but essential, ingredients missing from our current approach to built environment education? What can we do in our everyday practice that can bring about a seismic shift? How can we understand each other better, and co-create a new approach together?

We'll take inspiration from Toni Morrison's writings on the power of narratives as a principal means of sharing knowledge and learning, and on using intention in our everyday language to signal and create change.

The conventional wisdom of the Tower of Babel story is that the collapse was a misfortune. That it was the distraction or the weight of many languages that precipitated the tower's failed architecture. That one monolithic language would have expedited the building, and heaven would have been reached. Whose heaven, she wonders? And what kind? Perhaps the achievement of Paradise was premature, a little hasty if no one could take the time to understand other languages, other views, other narratives. Had they, the heaven they imagined might have been found at their feet. Complicated, demanding, yes, but a view of heaven as life, not heaven as post-life.
Toni Morrison - The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 1993 Led by The Bartlett Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) group, the Inclusive Spaces monthly series presents the latest research and ideas from The Bartlett's world-leading thinkers on all dimensions of diversity in the built environment.
About the Speakers

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Inclusive Spaces: Everyday Curriculums / Everyday Pedagogies

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Join this interactive online event to explore how simple, everyday changes can create a big impact in built environment education. This event is free. What and how we teach built environment students has a direct impact not only on their experiences as learners, but also on the professions they go on to join, and the buildings, cities and human spaces they create.

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Public speaking training for architects, urbanists and culture makers

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Public speaking training for architects, urbanists and culture makers

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OPEN CITY
Tuesday, October 4, 20226:00 PM
Wednesday, October 19, 20228:00 PM
This CPD-accredited public speaking workshop trains participants to speak engagingly about their work with confidence and character. Book an individual place on the course, or a bespoke private course for your team.

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Public speaking training for architects, urbanists and culture makers — Open City

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Connect with audiences, build self-confidence and tell more engaging stories about your work and its impact.

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The hidden Strand: Power, wealth and empire

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OPEN CITY TOUR
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
10:00 AM  12:00 PM

Join Open City for a walking tour exploring the fascinating story of the architecture and development of the Strand

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Join Open City for a walking tour exploring the fascinating story of the architecture and development of the Strand

This fun and engaging walking tour focuses on one of the main thoroughfares of the capital and shows how the story of the Strand is inextricably interwoven with that of London itself as the capital of the British Empire.

This walking tour - led by Golden Key Academy graduate Jack Chesher - charts the development of the Strand, and demonstrates how its unique position connecting the centre of political power in Westminster and financial power in the City has defined its usage and presentation for centuries.

Providing a fun way for enthusiastic urbanists to explore the city, this tour will explore the architecture and history of the Strand and explains how it is at the heart of London and its story. Highlights include the grand architecture of Somerset House and Royal Courts of Justice as well as lesser known gems such as Devereux Court and Two Temple Place.

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The hidden Strand: Power, wealth and empire - Open City

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Join Open City for a walking tour exploring the fascinating story of the architecture and development of the Strand This fun and engaging walking tour focuses on one of the main thoroughfares of the capital and shows how the story of the Strand is inextricably interwoven with that of London itself as the capital of the British Empire.

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Sun, 16 – Mon, 31 October 2022
10.00 – 17.30
Furniture Gallery, V&A South Kensington

What can the forest teach us? This display features design projects that engage with questions around environmental stewardship and the sustainable use of wood.
It prompts us to think about material use and its consequences, encouraging engagement with a topic that is now at the forefront of the debate around the climate crisis.

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From the Forest - Display at V&A South Kensington · V&A

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What can the forest teach us? That is one of the key questions that runs through this display of contemporary design projects

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Free at Tate Britain
Closes 16 October 2022
Cornelia Parker is one of Britain's best loved and most acclaimed contemporary artists. Always driven by curiosity, she reconfigures domestic objects to question our relationship with the world. Using transformation, playfulness and storytelling, she engages with important issues of our time, be it violence, ecology or human rights.

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See the exhibition and enjoy a light lunch with a drink in our Djanogly Café.

Our onsite chefs have taken the season's best ingredients to offer a soup, sourdough and salad dish along with a glass of sustainable house wine, beer or soft drink.

£33.50 for exhibition entry and light lunch

£32.50 for exhibition entry and light lunch for concessions (60+, Disabled, Job Seeker, Student)

Available daily. Your booking is your exhibition entry time, enjoy your light lunch any time from 11.00 until 16.00.

The light lunch option is also for available for Members and Supporters for £17.50. No need to book, simply head to the Djanogly Cafe after your exhibition visit.

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29 Jun 2022 to 25 Sep 2022

Free to visit
Sir John Soane’s Museum

Multidisciplinary design duo Space Popular invite visitors to experience the magic and mechanics of virtual travel in an exhibition that bridges the technologies of Soane’s time and ours.

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Multidisciplinary design duo Space Popular invite visitors to experience the magic and mechanics of virtual travel in an exhibition that bridges the technologies of Soane's time and ours.
The exhibition responds to the virtuality of Sir John Soane's Museum by focusing on 'the portal': a door or threshold that grants entrance into another environment, whether physical or virtual. The desire to travel virtually across time, space and realms has been a recurring theme in the collective imagination - one that many have explored through fictional narratives.

Using Sir John Soane's Museum as the point from which to begin a multidimensional journey, Space Popular - led by designers Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg - present their research on the portal through time and across media as two unique VR films, one in the Foyle Space and the other in our Exhibition Galleries.

Watch our introduction to the exhibition, then take a look at visualisations of Space Popular's archive below.

Space Popular's research has resulted in a database of more than 1,000 fictional portals. These are classified according to their attributes and are shown below as a series of types.
Some are categorised by the type of travel - across time, space, or dimensions, others by the portal's creation - through technology, magic, or nature; the way in which it is used; how it can be initialised; and who has permission to use it. Many portals enable forms of exclusivity, such as the wall at Platform 9¾ in the Harry Potter books.

The database also contains details about size, appearance and length of journey, and data about works in which they appear, such as genre, media or place of origin.

These drawings display Space Popular's list of portal types - a project which is still in progress. These types offer a language and a historical framework to reference, so we can be more aware of their wider connotations and the experiences portals offer, in fiction and in the future.
Zoom in on the drawings to explore the research in detail.

We're excited to be hosting a series of events - tours, panels, workshops and learning opportunities - inspired by the themes of Space Popular: The Portal Galleries and offering insights into the research and artistry behind the exhibition.

23 July Architectural Photography: Introductory Workshop with photographer Grant Smith, 10am - tickets

27 - 28 July Holiday Workshop: Portals and Platforms, 9.30am - tickets

29 July Space Popular Soane Late, from 6pm - tickets

31 July Curator Tour of the exhibition with Dr. Erin McKellar, 3pm - RSVP

4 August Holiday Workshop: Design the Future (for 11 - 13 year olds), 11am - tickets

24 August Panel discussion: Portals in Popular Culture, 6.30pm (online) - RSVP

18 September Portal to your future: a Soane Museum Youth Panel event, 11am - information

23 September Space Popular: The Portal Galleries Live, at the Victoria and Albert Museum, 6.30pm - 10pm - information
Photos: Gareth Gardner

Exhibition Info

Free to visit

Exhibitions

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Sun 30 Oct, 8pm

Part of London Literature Festival

Royal Festival Hall, Literature & poetry
An evening with Greta Thunberg for the global launch of The Climate Book.

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The Bartlett International Lectures
02 November 2022, 6:30 pm–8:00 pm

Architect and researcher Carla Juaçaba joins Frédéric Migayrou to discuss a selection of her recent projects and installations.

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Architect and researcher Carla Juaçaba joins Frédéric Migayrou to discuss a selection of her recent projects and installations.
This event is free.
Event Information

About

This event will be a discussion between speaker Carla Juaçaba and host Prof Frederic Migayrou, and forms part of The Bartlett International Lectures Autumn 2022. This year, the International Lectures return to an in-person format, with lectures taking place at the school's Bloomsbury campus, in the Christopher Ingold Auditorium, 22 Gordon Street, at 18:30 GMT on Wednesdays throughout the autumn and spring terms.

Abstract

Empty Space

The lecture will present recent projects, focusing on recent cultural projects and installations such as the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018: the project "Vatican Chapels" for the Holy See Pavilion, and "Ballast" for the curators of the Biennale. The continuity of the "Humanidade Pavilion", a few exhibition designs done in Rio de Janeiro and Portugal and housing projects will also be presented.

Biography

Since 2000, Carla Juaçaba developed her independent practice of architecture and research, based in Rio de Janeiro. Her office is currently engaged in both cultural programs and private projects. After graduating she worked on the Atelier House, Rio Bonito House, Varanda House, Santa Teresa House, and two exhibition designs.

The ephemeral Pavilion Humanidade 2012 was conceived by theatre director Bia Lessa and built for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in 2012. Carla Juaçaba is a regular part of the academic and teaching realms, research studies, and lectures at Harvard GSD, Columbia University GSAPP and Academia di Architettura di Mendrisio. She led a workshop at IUAV di Venezia in 2014 and 2020, where she won the best studio for public space projects; she was also on the jury at BIAU Bienal Ibero Americana in Madrid 2012 and 2019. She has been invited to be the president of the jury of the Simon Architecture Prize 2022 organized by Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona.

She won the first edition of the international prize ArcVision Women and Architecture 2013 in Italy, and the first prize of AREA Architectural Review Emerging Architecture Award 2018.
She was invited to Venice Architecture Biennale 2018 with the Ballast project, curated by Grafton Architects. She built one of the Vatican Chapels for the Holy See Pavilion, curated by Francesco Dal Co which is now part of the Italian heritage. In 2022 she created an installation for the Openhouse Geneve exhibition with the project "Fil d´air", and in Portugal for the project "First Stone" at Museu do Coche in Lisbon.

She now lives in London, teaching at Mendrisio Accademia in Switzerland, and is currently a PhD student at ETSAM-UPM-Madrid.

Image: 'Vatican Chapels' - © Federico Cairoli

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The Bartlett International Lectures: Empty Space

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Architect and researcher Carla Juaçaba joins Frédéric Migayrou to discuss a selection of her recent projects and installations. This event is free. This event will be a discussion between speaker Carla Juaçaba and host Prof Frederic Migayrou, and forms part of The Bartlett International Lectures Autumn 2022.

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Modern Heritage in the Anthropocene Symposium

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Modern Heritage in the Anthropocene Symposium

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The Bartlett International Lectures
26 October 2022–28 October 2022, 9:00 am–6:00 pm

Modern Heritage in the Anthropocene is part of the MoHoA global collaborative, taking place 26–28 October 2022, and builds on the Modern Heritage of Africa symposium hosted by the University of Cape Town in September 2021.

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A global symposium aimed at decolonising, decentring and reframing the recent past to achieve equitable and sustainable futures.
This event is free.
Modern Heritage in the Anthropocene is part of the MoHoA global collaborative, taking place 26-28 October 2022, and builds on the Modern Heritage of Africa symposium hosted by the University of Cape Town in September 2021.

Coordinated by The Bartlett's Professor Edward Denison and Head of the University of Liverpool's School of Architecture, Professor Ola Uduku, along with partners at the University of Cape Town, the Africa World Heritage Fund and around the world, this hybrid symposium responds to an age of planetary crisis in which a precarious present reflects an inequitable past and a perilous future.

Modern heritage in all its forms and from around the world is the subject of this multidisciplinary symposium, presenting the paradox of being of modernity and yet threatened by its consequences. MoHoA was originally conceived within an African context to interrogate this paradox because the continent encapsulates the historical inequities that characterise the modern and its associated notions of development and progress while also facing the highest rates of urbanisation over the next 30 years, demanding new approaches to the past and present that achieve equitable and sustainable futures on a planetary scale. The outcomes of the two symposia will synthesise in the recognition of the Cape Town Document on Modern Heritage.

More information on the schedule will follow shortly.

Attendance fees

The fee structure was conceived to reflect and support MoHoA's principles of equity, diversity, and inclusivity. The organisers would like to thank The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment and The Bartlett School of Architecture for the support that has enabled the fees to be kept to a minimum so as to enable the widest possible participation in this event.

* Countries: Based on gross national income (GNI) per capita, the World Bank's main criterion for classifying economies. www.worldbank.org - Andorra, Antigua & Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belgium, Bermuda, Brunei, Canada, Cayman Is., Channel Is., Chile, Croatia, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Rep., Denmark, Estonia, Faeroe Is., Finland, France, French Polynesia, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Guam, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Rep Kuwait, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Norway, Mariana Is., Oman, Palau, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Singapore, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), Slovak Rep., Slovenia, Spain, St. Kitts-Nevis, St. Martin (French part), Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Virgin Islands (US).

** Countries: Any country not listed above.

MoHoa registration guarantees access to all conference sessions. It also guarantees access to two evening keynotes by Prof David Olusoga OBE (26 October, part of the International Lectures) and Rosemary Campbell-Stephens MBE (27 October).

More information

Image: The international railway settlement of Fushun (northeast China), with its modern town planning and the Ryuho Colliery, built by Denang and Siemens, and home to one of the world's largest open cast mines in the 1930s.

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Modern Heritage in the Anthropocene Symposium

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A global symposium aimed at decolonising, decentring and reframing the recent past to achieve equitable and sustainable futures. This event is free. Modern Heritage in the Anthropocene is part of the MoHoA global collaborative, taking place 26-28 October 2022, and builds on the Modern Heritage of Africa symposium hosted by the University of Cape Town in September 2021.

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Wed, 2 November 2022
18:00 – 19:30 GMT
This seminar is not limited to discussing the architectural discipline only, but also includes the journeys of Gulliver, Models of Doom, the Anthropocene, Alice in Wonderland, László Moholy-Nagy, hobbit houses and the making of toasters.

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architecture & regenerative thinking tickets

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Eventbrite - Nottingham & Derby Society of Architects presents Architecture & Regenerative Thinking - Wednesday, 2 November 2022 - Find event and ticket information.

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Golden Lane and Barbican Architecture Walking Tour

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Golden Lane and Barbican Architecture Walking Tour

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OPEN CITY TOUR
Thursday, October 20, 2022
4:00 PM  6:00 PM

Join Open City for a walking tour exploring London’s iconic Golden Lane and Barbican estates

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Join Open City for a walking tour exploring London's iconic Golden Lane and Barbican estates

The walk - led by Jessica Barker-Wren - will explore the bold, modernist vision of the architects Chamberlin, Powell & Bon who created both Golden Lane and the Barbican estates on the north west fringes of Square Mile over three decades.

It will also delve into the contributions of politicians and planners who sought to promote a new kind of inner city living - one which emphatically rejected the anti-urban ideals of the bucolic and suburban Garden City movement.

Before it was devastated by wartime bombing, this area had been dominated by warehouses and industrial premises. From 1952 to 1982, Chamberlin, Powell & Bon single-handedly transformed the City of London's outer edge into a radical new neighbourhood providing 6,513 dwellings spread over an area totalling 17 hectares.

In their scale and ambition the two estates together rank among the foremost achievements of postwar planning and architecture anywhere in the world.

The walk begins on the Golden Lane Estate which was designed as social housing for the City's key workers. On this bombed out site, the remains of deep basements were exploited to give an unusually varied three-dimensional feel to the spaces between blocks.

The walk then crosses into the highwalks of the Barbican Estate - the much larger, multi-layered, weighty, imposing and better known neighbour to Golden Lane.

Here the architect's master plan redrew the existing street pattern and even realigned the London Underground to introduce a new east-west axis complete with generous landscapes specifically designed to persuade middle-class professionals to abandon suburban living for apartments in a concrete mega-structure.

The walk ends outside the Barbican Centre - the international arts complex that lies at the heart of the Barbican Estate, looking across the artificial lake towards the medieval church of St Giles Cripplegate and remnants of the ancient City Wall.

This new tour follows the recent designation of the Golden Lane and Barbican estates as the City's latest 'Conservation Area' in recognition of their architectural importance. While the Barbican still divides opinion, this tour will ask whether the ingenuity and generosity of its landscapes could still serve as a model for future urban housing.

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Golden Lane and Barbican Architecture Walking Tour - Open City

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Join Open City for a walking tour exploring London's iconic Golden Lane and Barbican estates The walk - led by Jessica Barker-Wren - will explore the bold, modernist vision of the architects Chamberlin, Powell & Bon who created both Golden Lane and the Barbican estates on the north west fringes of Square Mile over three decades.

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Thu 24 November 2022

18:30 - 20:00

AA Lecture Hall, 36 Bedford Square

QUEERNESS

Queer Aided Design (Mary Holmes and Thomas Phillips) with Regner Ramos, Lo Marshall and Adam Nathaniel Furman
Queerness questions standardisation, yet in architecture schools, standardisation continues to constrain queerness. So, to learn from the storytelling practice at the heart of queer record-keeping, we say instead of New Standards, let’s listen to New Stories.

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Architectural Association School of Architecture's website homepage is the online entrance into the AA; to its courses from Foundation to PhD for undergraduate and postgraduate students; its open public programme; to application; to what's on and what's new in central London, Dorset and global school venues.

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Thu 1 December 2022

18:30 - 20:00

AA Lecture Hall, 36 Bedford Square

COMFORT
Marsha Ramroop and Jos Boys
The final event in the New Standards series this autumn will reflect on different notions of comfort in the spaces we design and use, how comfort has been standardised, and how we should interrogate this classification to move beyond the limitations of frameworks. Dr. Jos Boys will discuss her alternative handbook for ‘architecture, dis/ability and designing for everyday life’ and Marsha Ramroop will discuss the intersectionality of inclusion and cultural intelligence.

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Thu, 17 November 2022
18:30 – 20:00
E002, LVMH Lecture Theatre, CSM

We ask what new holistic methods, transformative strategies, and intellectual capacities will future designers need?

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production studies: production pedagogies london

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production studies: production pedagogies london tickets

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Eventbrite - Central Saint Martins, UAL presents Production Studies: Production Pedagogies - Thursday, 17 November 2022 at E002, LVMH Lecture Theatre, Central Saint Martins, London, England. Find event and ticket information.

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Thu 17 November 2022

18:30 - 20:00

AA Lecture Hall, 36 Bedford Square

SAFETY

Kathryn Timmins, Ellie Cosgrave and Thomas Faulkner
For the fourth event in the New Standards series, Kathryn Timmins (GLA) and Ellie Cosgrave (Publica) will discuss how our cities and spaces can be better designed to consider the needs of those who identify as women rather than always requiring them to adapt to spaces designed for men.

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Thu 27 October 2022

18:30 - 20:00

AA Lecture Hall, 36 Bedford Square

NEURODIVERSITY

Ab Rogers and Christian Boer
The third event in this series will focus on how we can embrace the potential of neurodiversity to broaden creative practices. Architect Ab Rogers will share experiences of being a dyslexic designer, offering insight into a design career with a neuro-diverse slant by covering the importance of experimentation, education, being hands on and believing in your medium.

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Thu 20 October 2022

18:30 - 20:00

AA Lecture Hall, 36 Bedford Square

MOVEMENT

Jordan Whitewood-Neal & Pip Jackson
The second event in the series will explore movement, and our different experiences of how we pass through spaces, how long we get to spend in them, and how we define and can defy expectations of movement in places of domesticity, education and practice.

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13 Sept 2022 – 15 Jan 2023
Foundling Museum
A collaboration between award-winning writer, Yomi Ṣode, and artist and photographer, Akytom, this display questions where we place empathy.

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If we see a Black man lying in the road, what is being asked of us? What is our instinctive response? Ṣode's words and Akytom's images are a call for radical empathy.

Radical empathy, a concept developed by Terri Givens, Professor of Political Science at McGill University, is more active than sympathy. It involves working to understand not just the experiences and views of others, but the origins of our own biases, in order to turn understanding into practical action for change to promote social and racial justice.

"For me, radical empathy challenges the behaviour of people. It asks the individual to look beyond themselves and care in ways that sit outside of their comfort zones. Whether that is the one person in a group of friends, or the colleague in workplace. Empathy shouldn't be handed out in doses. A universal approach to empathy first, requires reframing." Yomi Ṣode

Manorism, a collection of Ṣode's poetry, is published this autumn by Penguin and will be available from the Museum shop.

Yomi Ṣode is an award-winning Nigerian British writer. He is a recipient of the 2019 Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship and was shortlisted for the Brunel International African Poetry Prize 2021. His acclaimed one-man show COAT toured nationally to sold-out audiences, including at the Brighton Festival, Roundhouse Camden and the Battersea Arts Centre. In 2020 his libretto Remnants, written in collaboration with award-winning composer James B. Wilson and performed with Chineke! Orchestra, premiered on BBC Radio 3. In 2021, his play, and breathe... premiered at the Almeida Theatre to rave reviews.

Akytom is a visual artist best known for capturing the creative side of human nature. His work shows how a deep connection with his subject together with sophisticated lighting can bring out the real beauty of a person in front of the camera. Getting lost in the moment, drawing energy and inspiration from inside the room, allowing a sense of freedom to create something special make his images very unique. Through photographing people, he manifests feelings which are hard to describe in words.

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29 Nov 2022 - 4 Feb 2023
Mon-Sat, 7.30pm / Wed & Sat matinee, 2.30pm

Young Vic London
A new spirit has gripped our nation!
Together is where tomorrow’s promise lies

It's 1960. Young activist, Nelson Mandela, rallies the people of South Africa to protest against the racial segregation of apartheid. In 1962 he is arrested and sentenced to life in prison, where he will spend the next 27 years, taken from his wife and children, as the fight for freedom sweeps his country.

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In proud partnership with the Mandela family. Co-produced with Nandi Mandela, Luvuyo Madasa, Shaun Hurwitz, Ronen Zekry, Greg Dean Borowsky, Shaun Borowsky and Brian & Dayna Lee

Music and Lyrics by Greg Dean Borowsky and Shaun Borowsky

Performances

Mon-Sat, 7.30pm
Wed & Sat matinee, 2.30pm

Previews: 29 Nov - 7 Dec

£72 / £65 / £58 / £48 / £40 / £22.50 / £12.50

Previews: £55 / £48 / £40 / £32 / £22.50 / £12.50

A new spirit has gripped our nation!
Together is where tomorrow's promise lies
It's 1960. Young activist, Nelson Mandela, rallies the people of South Africa to protest against the racial segregation of apartheid. In 1962 he is arrested and sentenced to life in prison, where he will spend the next 27 years, taken from his wife and children, as the fight for freedom sweeps his country.

Infused with the rhythms of South Africa, this soaring new musical tells the extraordinary story of a man who changed the course of modern history - the sacrifices he made as a husband and father, and the global movement that inspired him and his comrades to keep fighting. The production is presented in proud partnership with Nandi Mandela, Luvuyo Madasa and the Mandela family.

Book by Laiona Michelle
Music and Lyrics by Greg Dean Borowsky & Shaun Borowsky
Additional Music & Lyrics Bongi Duma
Director Schele Williams
Choreographer Gregory Maqoma
Set designer Hannah Beachler
Costume designer Fay Fullerton
Lighting designer Jon Clark
Sound designer Paul Gatehouse
Projection and Video Designer Akhila Krishnan
Orchestrator Sam Young
Musical Supervisor Benjamin Kwasi Burrell
Musical Director Sean Mayes
Casting Directors Pippa Ailion CDG & Natalie Gallacher CDG
Associate Choreographer Dickson Mbi
Associate Set Designer Debbie Duru
Associate Musical Director Sam Young
Associate Casting Director Richard Johnston
Assistant Director Becca Chadder

With Gregory Armand, Zion Battles, Earl Carpenter, Stewart Clarke, Hanna Dimtsu, Danielle Fiamanya, Lerato Gwebu, Prudence Jezile, Akmed Junior Khemalai, Michael Luwoye, Blue Makwana, Kayleigh McKnight, Posi Morakinyo, Sneziey Msomi, Nomfusi Ngonyama, Ryan O'Donnell, Adam Pearce, Botlhale Phora, Shiv Rabheru, Will Richardson, Leanne Robinson and Ntsikelelo Nicholas Vani, with further casting to be announced.

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10 – 12 March 2023

SOUTHBANK CENTRE

The WOW movement has reached three million people on six continents. The world’s biggest, most comprehensive festival celebrating women, girls and non-binary people is back in 2023 with its 13th edition.

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We've been home to the WOW UK Festival since 2010 - for 2022, it's back in person

Each year, to mark International Women's Day on 8 March, world-class speakers, activists and performers come together for WOW - Women of the World Festival.

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In Praise of bell hooks - The New York Times

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In Praise of bell hooks - The New York Times

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A trailblazing cultural theorist and activist, public intellectual, teacher and feminist writer, bell hooks, who has died of kidney failure aged 69, authored around 40 books in a career spanning more than four decades. Exploring the intersecting oppressions of gender, race and class, her writings additionally reflected her concerns with issues related to art, history, sexuality, psychology and spirituality, ultimately with love at the heart of community healing (Guardian, 17 Dec 2021)

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Kate Macintosh: Architecture for Society with Open City 

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Kate Macintosh: Architecture for Society

Thursday, April 7, 2022
7:00 PM  8:30 PM
Evolutionary Arts, Hackney, 11-17 Stoke Newington Rd, N16 8BH

Architecture for Society: Keynote lecture by the pioneering architect, Kate Macintosh

Join acclaimed Scottish architect Kate Macintosh for a keynote lecture created in partnership with The London Society, the Museum of Architecture and the Twentieth Century Society. Macintosh will speak about her life’s work, the work of her long-standing collaborator George Finch and the wider context of British housing today.

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Join acclaimed Scottish architect Kate Macintosh for a keynote lecture created in partnership with The London Society, the Museum of Architecture and the Twentieth Century Society. Macintosh will speak about her life's work, the work of her long-standing collaborator George Finch and the wider context of British housing today.

The buildings of the remarkable Scottish architect Kate Macintosh, are enduring highlights of the heyday of British public architecture. From a young age Macintosh built world-class council homes which are still much-loved by their residents today. For many, her architecture, and that of her peers embodies a more caring moment of British history, one in which decent housing and civic facilities were understood as every citizen's right.

Edinburgh-born Macintosh is best known for her 1960s social housing projects, the first of which she designed at the remarkably young age of 26. After graduating from the Edinburgh School of Art in 1961, Macintosh spent three years working and studying in Warsaw, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Helsinki before returning to the UK where she commenced work under Denys Lasdun on designs for the National Theatre in London. In 1965 Macintosh began work for the Southwark architecture department, where she designed the distinctive Dawson's Heights estate in Dulwich. She is also the architect of the Grade II listed Macintosh Court on Leigham Court Road which was renamed in her honour. She later worked at East Sussex County Architects from 1974-86 and in Hampshire County Architects 1986-1995 realised across Southwark, Lambeth, Sussex and Hampshire County Architects 1986-1995 and later in partnership with Finch Macintosh Architects.

Now no longer practicing as a designer, Macintosh is a tireless and tenacious housing campaigner. Her passion and clarity in dissecting the UK housing crisis is second to none, and her analysis of the political and economic forces that shape the built environment today challenges the roots of the British housing sector. Always driven by deep respect and compassion for the communities which she has served all her life, Macintosh throws herself into campaigns with an energy few in the architecture world muster. In her lectures and writing she has expanded the nation's understanding of how we came to face the gravest housing crisis since WWII, inspiring a new generation of young architects to place the design of housing for ordinary citizens at the heart of their work and studies.

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Kate Macintosh: Architecture for Society - Open City

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The buildings of the remarkable Scottish architect Kate Macintosh, are enduring highlights of the heyday of British public architecture. Join us for this major public lecture to hear about her work and the work of her late partner George Finch, as well as the wider context of UK housing

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Browse the 100 Day Studio Archive: Days 01 - 04

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Browse the 100 Day Studio Archive: Days 01 - 04

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2020 LECTURE SERIES: a programme of open-access online content and lectures curated in 2020 by the Architecture Foundation

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Sam Jacob ( Sam Jacob Studio) presents an act of extreme intimacy that only social distancing can bring about. Architectural presentations usually try to place things in sequence, usually try to show things that are complete or ideas that are fully formed. Instead, Sam delves into the mysterious folders of images. shares his screen with you and delving into the mysterious folders of images.

Day 02: Tuesday 07 April

In a conversation chaired by Merlin Fulcher, Madeleine Kessler & Manijeh Verghese ( Unscene Architecture) ask how we can open up the garden square; green spaces found in cities which are usually enclosed by railings and only accessible to local residents with a key. The curators of the 2020 British Pavilion at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale want to give the public the tools and agency to find and reclaim these spaces.

Day 03: Wednesday 08 April

Luke Jones and Christopher Burman of new design collective Heat Island lead a collective design workshop, asking how designers can become more aware, both of the unquestioned assumptions that their projections depend upon, and the ways in which their projects (however apparently limited or local) are entangled in planetary scale systems and infrastructures.

Tony Fretton ( Tony Fretton Architects) discusses the works of architects including Mies Van Der Rohe, Lina Bo Bardi, Alvaro Siza and Louis Kahn. Tony Fretton established his practice in London in 1982 and has gone on to build extensively across northern Europe. His work includes the highly influential Lisson Gallery (1991), the Stirling Prize-shortlisted Fuglsang Museum in Denmark (2008) and more recently the Westkaai Towers 5 & 6 in Antwerp (2016). Tony is also a studio master at the Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design.

Day 04: Thursday 09 April

Richard Sennett discusses the architectural design of density in the wake of 'social' distancing. Richard writes about cities, labor, and culture. He currently serves as Senior Advisor to the United Nations on its Program on Climate Change and Cities. He is Senior Fellow at the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University and Visiting Professor of Urban Studies at MIT.

Bedtime Stories

Bedtime Stories is a series of nightly readings from texts chosen to inspire our attempts at imagining after the health crisis. Curated by Alicia Pivaro, the programme draws on a pool of rotating readers.
Tim Waterman teaches at the Bartlett School of Architecture and writes about landscape, food, and utopias. He reads 'Eutopia Now' from All Over the Map: Writing on Buildings and Cities (2011) by Michael Sorkin, as a tribute to the late author who passed away recently from COVID-19. Frances Anderton is host of DnA: Design and Architecture, a weekly radio show broadcast on KCRW NPR station in Los Angeles. She reads 'Ecotopia' by Ernest Callenbach. Maria Smith is an activist and architectural thinker, formerly a founding director of art and architecture practice Studio Weave, and co-founder of the transdisciplinary architecture and engineering practice Interrobang. She reads 'Between the Conceits' by Will Self.

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100 Day Studio Archive: Days 01 - 04 | Architecture Foundation

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Sam Jacob ( Sam Jacob Studio) presents an act of extreme intimacy that only social distancing can bring about. Architectural presentations usually try to place things in sequence, usually try to show things that are complete or ideas that are fully formed. Instead, Sam delves into the mysterious folders of images.

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Petrified History, Toxic Nostalgia at CCA Goldsmiths  

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Petrified History, Toxic Nostalgia at CCA Goldsmiths  

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31 Mar
7pm–8.30pm

Join us for a panel discussion on memory, melancholia, monuments and mythology, featuring four of the artists exhibited in Testament: Roger Hiorns, Elizabeth Price, Ali Eisa and Sebastian Lloyd Rees (Lloyd Corporation), chaired by Gary Younge. Each artist will discuss their proposals for the exhibition, which question the permanent visibility of statues, public art commissioning, and the ways public spaces become contested sites of communication.

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Join us for a panel discussion on memory, melancholia, monuments and mythology, featuring four of the artists exhibited in Testament: Roger Hiorns, Elizabeth Price, Ali Eisa and Sebastian Lloyd Rees (Lloyd Corporation), chaired by Gary Younge. Each artist will discuss their proposals for the exhibition, which question the permanent visibility of statues, public art commissioning, and the ways public spaces become contested sites of communication.

Testament is a large-scale group exhibition of 47 artists' proposals considering the role of monuments. Artists' contributions seek to magnify a multitude of conversations, from discussions about decolonising institutions, fallism, dislocation, memorialising, remembering and forgetting, to our current relationship with history, along with some intimate and personal responses. Submissions incorporate notes and sketches, drawings, poems, instructions, installations, sculptures, paintings, films, performances, and text, and include critical and celebratory positions and conversations about coping and surviving, ranging from the individual to the universal, and the local to the national.

This event will take place in the Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre on the Goldsmiths campus, a three-minute walk from the CCA. Please find directions to the venue here.

BIOGRAPHIES

Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster and a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester. Formerly a columnist at the Guardian, he is an editorial board member of The Nation and the Alfred Knobler Fellow for Type Media. He has written five books, most recently Another Day in the Death of America, A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives, which won the J. Anthony Lukas prize from Columbia University in New York. He has also won several awards for his journalism which has appeared in The New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, Granta, GQ, the Financial Times and the New Statesman, as well as BBC radio and television and Channel 4, among others.

Lloyd Corporation is a collaborative project between artists Ali Eisa and Sebastian Lloyd Rees. Their practice utilises sculpture, installation, performance and text, often taking inspiration from informal and local economies. Processes typically involves close dialogue, site-specific research and collection of material culture from which their work takes shape. Selected exhibitions and projects include: Today's Gift, Brighton CCA (2022), Person to Person, Carlos/Ishikawa (2020), Local to Global, Carlos/Ishikawa (2018), For Some Future Time, South London Gallery (2018), Bankrupt. Bulk Buy. Liquidation. Repossession, Frieze Live, London (2017), Mobile City, Fondazione Prada, Athens (2017), Developing Landscapes, Pump House Gallery (2016), Mirror City, Hayward Gallery (2014).

Roger Hiorns work is centred on investigating interactions between organic and inorganic objects, specifically relating to power relations and the perversity of authority. Exhibited in the atomisation of a passenger jet aircraft engine; antidepressants embedded in a complex piece of machinery; the presence of a nude youth aligned with nuanced objects; and a series of aircrafts buried in the earth, Hiorns' works act as proposals that offer a new understanding of objects, and significantly, of the behaviours they can provoke. Born in 1975 in Birmingham, England, Hiorns lives and works in London. He has been featured in exhibitions at institutions throughout Europe and the Americas, including the Venice Biennale; MoMA PS1, New York; Tate Modern, London; the Armand Hammer Museum of Art at UCLA, Los Angeles; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and De Hallen, Haarlem.

Elizabeth Price makes immersive video installations, which feature diverse historical materials including film and video, documents, plans, photographs and popular music. Price has exhibited in group shows internationally, and has had solo exhibitions at Artangel and Tate Britain, London; the Art Institute of Chicago, USA; Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf; Index, Stockholm; Musée D'Art Contemporain, Montreal, and the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid. In 2012 she won the Turner Prize, and in 2013, she won the Contemporary Art Society Annual Award with the Ashmolean and Pitt Rivers Museums, Oxford. Throughout her career as an artist, Price has continued to work in academia, and is presently Professor of Film and Photography in the School of Art, Kingston University.

Join us for a panel discussion on memory, melancholia, monuments and mythology, featuring four of the artists exhibited in Testament: Roger Hiorns, Elizabeth Price, Ali Eisa and Sebastian Lloyd Rees (Lloyd Corporation), chaired by Gary Younge. Each artist will discuss their proposals for the exhibition, which question the permanent visibility of statues, public art commissioning, and the ways public spaces become contested sites of communication.

Testament is a large-scale group exhibition of 47 artists' proposals considering the role of monuments. Artists' contributions seek to magnify a multitude of conversations, from discussions about decolonising institutions, fallism, dislocation, memorialising, remembering and forgetting, to our current relationship with history, along with some intimate and personal responses. Submissions incorporate notes and sketches, drawings, poems, instructions, installations, sculptures, paintings, films, performances, and text, and include critical and celebratory positions and conversations about coping and surviving, ranging from the individual to the universal, and the local to the national.

This event will take place in the Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre on the Goldsmiths campus, a three-minute walk from the CCA. Please find directions to the venue here.

BIOGRAPHIES

Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster and a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester. Formerly a columnist at the Guardian, he is an editorial board member of The Nation and the Alfred Knobler Fellow for Type Media. He has written five books, most recently Another Day in the Death of America, A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives, which won the J. Anthony Lukas prize from Columbia University in New York. He has also won several awards for his journalism which has appeared in The New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, Granta, GQ, the Financial Times and the New Statesman, as well as BBC radio and television and Channel 4, among others.

Lloyd Corporation is a collaborative project between artists Ali Eisa and Sebastian Lloyd Rees. Their practice utilises sculpture, installation, performance and text, often taking inspiration from informal and local economies. Processes typically involves close dialogue, site-specific research and collection of material culture from which their work takes shape. Selected exhibitions and projects include: Today's Gift, Brighton CCA (2022), Person to Person, Carlos/Ishikawa (2020), Local to Global, Carlos/Ishikawa (2018), For Some Future Time, South London Gallery (2018), Bankrupt. Bulk Buy. Liquidation. Repossession, Frieze Live, London (2017), Mobile City, Fondazione Prada, Athens (2017), Developing Landscapes, Pump House Gallery (2016), Mirror City, Hayward Gallery (2014).

Roger Hiorns work is centred on investigating interactions between organic and inorganic objects, specifically relating to power relations and the perversity of authority. Exhibited in the atomisation of a passenger jet aircraft engine; antidepressants embedded in a complex piece of machinery; the presence of a nude youth aligned with nuanced objects; and a series of aircrafts buried in the earth, Hiorns' works act as proposals that offer a new understanding of objects, and significantly, of the behaviours they can provoke. Born in 1975 in Birmingham, England, Hiorns lives and works in London. He has been featured in exhibitions at institutions throughout Europe and the Americas, including the Venice Biennale; MoMA PS1, New York; Tate Modern, London; the Armand Hammer Museum of Art at UCLA, Los Angeles; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and De Hallen, Haarlem.

Elizabeth Price makes immersive video installations, which feature diverse historical materials including film and video, documents, plans, photographs and popular music. Price has exhibited in group shows internationally, and has had solo exhibitions at Artangel and Tate Britain, London; the Art Institute of Chicago, USA; Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf; Index, Stockholm; Musée D'Art Contemporain, Montreal, and the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid. In 2012 she won the Turner Prize, and in 2013, she won the Contemporary Art Society Annual Award with the Ashmolean and Pitt Rivers Museums, Oxford. Throughout her career as an artist, Price has continued to work in academia, and is presently Professor of Film and Photography in the School of Art, Kingston University.

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Join us for a panel discussion on memory, melancholia, monuments and mythology, featuring four of the artists exhibited in Testament: Roger Hiorns, Elizabeth Price, Ali Eisa and Sebastian Lloyd Rees (Lloyd Corporation), chaired by Gary Younge.

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Driving the Human is a catalyst for experimentation, shaping sustainable and collective futures that combine science, technology, and the arts in a transdisciplinary and collaborative approach.

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The first participants of the Driving the Human Opening festival have been announced. Involving scholars, artists, designers, and other multidisciplinary participants, the event will propose a variety of formats in a specially designed digital broadcast taking place over the course of three days.

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10 of Richard Roger most influential projects

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Following the news that high-tech architecture pioneer Richard Rogers has passed away aged 88, here are 10 of his most influential projects including the Centre Pompidou and the Millennium Dome.

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Following the news that high-tech architecture pioneer Richard Rogers has passed away aged 88, here are 10 of his most influential projects including the Centre Pompidou and the Millennium Dome.
Reliance Controls, Swindon, UK (1967)
Designed in partnership with Norman Foster, Su Brumwell and Wendy Cheesman while Rogers was part of Team 4, the Reliance Controls factory in Swindon was the first high-tech industrial building.

The building, which contained both the factory and offices for precision electronic instruments company Reliance Controls, has its structure clearly visible - something that would become a hallmark of high-tech architecture.
Wimbledon house, London, UK (1969)
Following Team 4, Rogers and Brumwell established an architecture studio and one of its first projects was a home for Rogers' parents at 22 Parkside in Wimbledon.

According to Rogers, the home was designed to demonstrate how pre-fabrication would enable homes to be built quickly and affordably.

"This was going to be a standardised system to solve the whole of the British housing problem," he told Dezeen in an interview. "It didn't! But it did certainly lead to most of the work which I still do some 50 years later and more."
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (1977)
Perhaps Rogers' most famous building and a clear expression of his inside-out architecture, Centre Pompidou in Paris drew global attention to both its architects and the high-tech movement.

Designed with Italian architect Renzo Piano, the art gallery has its structure and mechanical services visible on the exterior of the building, creating open, flexible interior spaces.
Inmos Microprocessor Factory, Newport, UK (1982)
At the Inmos Microprocessor Factory in south Wales, Rogers continued the idea of inside-out architecture.

To create the large, column spaces required by the microchip factory, the building's roof is supported by nine blue-painted towers made from tubular steel that are positioned along the centre of its roof.

Rogers designed the highly-flexible single-storey steel structure as a prefabricated kit of parts so that similar structures could be built anywhere.
Lloyd's building, London, UK (1986)
One of the most recognisable pieces of architecture built in the 1980s, the Lloyd's building in London is another of Rogers inside-out buildings that has its structure and services clearly visible on its exterior.

Built as the headquarters of Lloyd's of London - one of the world's largest insurance firms - the 14-storey office block is wrapped around a central atrium. Placing the services on the outside creating open, flexible offices inside.

"[We] kept the floors clear because Lloyd's said they wanted two things," Rogers told Dezeen in an exclusive interview in 2013.

"They wanted a building that would last into the next century - we met that one - and they wanted a building that could meet their changing needs."

Millennium Dome, London, UK (1999)
Built to house an exhibition celebrating the beginning of a new millennium called the Millennium Experience, the dome-shaped structure was designed as a giant tent. The 50-metre high dome in Greenwich, London, is supported from 12 bright yellow towers.

More than six million people visited the attraction in the year 2000, and it was subsequently converted into a concert and entertainment venue.

Barajas Airport, Madrid, Spain (2005)
Rogers' terminal 4 building at the Barajas Airport in Madrid, won his architecture studio the Stirling Prize for the first time.

Designed in collaboration with Spanish practice Estudio Lamela, the airport building has a bamboo-clad linear roof that is supported on central columns that are brightly coloured to mark the airport's different sections.

Heathrow Terminal 5, London, UK (2008)
Driven by the desire to have flexible internal space, like many of his earlier projects, Terminal 5 at London's Heathrow airport is a 396-metres-long and 176-metres-wide, column-free space topped with a curved roof.

Internal freestanding structures to house departure and arrivals areas, check-in, shops and offices were all designed so that they can be dismantled and reconfigured if the building's requirements change.

Hammersmith Maggie's Centre, London, UK (2008)
The Hammersmith Maggie's Centre won Rogers' studio it's second Stirling Prize. Designed for cancer-care charity Maggie's, the orange-coloured centre is intended to be a welcoming and uplifting space for cancer patients.

Situated within the Charing Cross Hospital site in Hammersmith, the building was designed to have a domestic scale and feel to contrast the institutional buildings within the hospital.
The Leadenhall Building, London, UK (2014)
Built directly opposite the Lloyd's building, the Leadenhall Building is a wedge-shaped skyscraper in central London. Widely known as the Cheesegrater, due to its shape, the 224-metre office tower has a sloped facade so that it doesn't interfere with protected sight lines to St Paul's Cathedral.

In 2016 Rogers' 200-strong studio moved into a brightly coloured office within the building.

All images courtesy of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners.

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Richard Rogers' top 10 architecture projects

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Following the news that high-tech architecture pioneer Richard Rogers has passed away aged 88, here are 10 of his most influential projects including the Centre Pompidou and the Millennium Dome. Reliance Controls, Swindon, UK (1967) Designed in partnership with Norman Foster, Su Brumwell and Wendy Cheesman while Rogers was part of Team 4, the Reliance Controls factory in Swindon was the first high-tech industrial building.

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To Build or Not to Build? Model making in practice - Talk

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To Build or Not to Build? Model making in practice - Talk

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Online event

Thu 13 Jan 2022, 6pm – 7pm

Discuss the art of model making in architectural practice with Ed Fowles, director of Feilden Fowles, and architect and model maker Rawden Pettitt and Stephen Setford from Stanton Williams.

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To build or not to build? To model make or not to model make? Join us to ponder the role of model making in architectural practice with Ed Fowles, director of Feilden Fowles, and director and model maker Rawden Pettitt and Stephen Setford from Stanton Williams.

The talk will explore why practices make models, considering how it forms an integral part of the working process and, weighing up the cost and time implications, to think about how it benefits practices of all sizes. Speakers will explain how models are part of their working method, and show and tell examples from their studios - from 1:1 material tests to intricate site models.

If you are a young career architect considering the future of your practice, or someone interested in learning about the benefit of different model making methods, this talk is for you!

Please register to attend. We will send you the event link on the day of the talk.
Speakers:
Ed Fowles, Director, Feilden Fowles

Rawden Pettitt, Director, Stanton Williams

Stephen Setford, Model Maker, Stanton Williams

Chaired by Vanessa Norwood with a welcome by Simona Valeriani, co-curators of Shaping Space - Architectural Models Revealed.
This event is part of the Shaping Space - Architectural Models Revealed programme, funded by the AHRC, led by the V&A and the Building Centre. We would like to thank our supporters; Amalgam Modelmaking, 4D Modelshop, B.15 Workshop, Drawing Matter, GHA Group, The University of Manchester, MAP Laboratory (CNRS), and Model Platform.

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To Build or Not to Build? Model making in practice with Feilden Fowles and Stanton Williams

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To build or not to build? To model make or not to model make? Join us to ponder the role of model making in architectural practice with Ed Fowles, director of Feilden Fowles, and architect and model maker Rawden Pettitt and Stephen Setford from Stanton Williams.

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The Garden of Privatised Delights - the 2021 British Pavilion exhibition is coming home!

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The Garden of Privatised Delights - the 2021 British Pavilion exhibition is coming home!

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The Garden of Privatised Delights will be open at the Building Centre from 7 April 2022.

Free to visit Mon-Fri 9am - 6pm, Sat 10am - 4pm. No booking is required.

The Building Centre, the Architectural Association School of Architecture, the Museum of Architecture, and the British Council have come together to bring the 2021 British Pavilion from the 17th International Architecture Exhibition at la Biennale di Venezia – to London.

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The Building Centre, the Architectural Association School of Architecture, the Museum of Architecture, and the British Council have come together to bring the 2021 British Pavilion from the 17th International Architecture Exhibition at la Biennale di Venezia - to London.

Commissioned by the British Council and curated by Madeleine Kessler and Manijeh Verghese of Unscene Architecture, the exhibition calls for new thinking around privately owned public space in cities across the UK. It challenges the polarisation of private and public organisations and instead poses solutions on how they might work together to improve use of, access to and ownership of public spaces.

Taking inspiration from Netherlandish artist Hieronymus Bosch's triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights, the exhibition explores the UK's privatised public space as a non-binary issue. As Bosch explored the middle ground of Earth between the extremes of Heaven and Hell, the curators suggest privatised public space also sits between two extremes: the utopia of common land before the Enclosures Act of the 18th century and the dystopia of total privatisation.

The themes of the exhibition are based on very British issues - including pubs, high streets, garden squares and toilets - with seven different types of privatised public spaces reimagined as inclusive, immersive experiences.

Five teams of designers have created these immersive spaces including:

Publicani by The Decorators - could the pub be more than a place for drinking and become a versatile centre for civic action?

Ministry of Collective Data by Built Works - could we rethink facial recognition technology and free our collective data for public benefit?

High Street of Exchanges by Studio Polpo - could the high street go beyond commercial interests to become a place of diverse social exchange?

Ministry of Common Land by Public Works - could we use citizen's assemblies to develop new strategies for land ownership and use?

Play With(out) Grounds by vPPR - can we design new spaces in the city for teenagers to occupy on their own terms?

Garden of Delights by Unscene Architecture - could we open up and re-programme exclusive garden squares to create more public outdoor space?

To-i-let by Unscene Architecture - can private toilets be made publicly accessible?

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The 2021 British Pavilion exhibition is coming home! Commissioned by the British Council and curated by Madeleine Kessler and Manijeh Verghese of Unscene Architecture, the exhibition calls for new thinking around privately owned public space in cities across the UK.

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Experience the architectural brilliance of John Hejduk with this large-scale model of the ‘Widow’s House’ at the heart of the RA.

• You don’t need a ticket to visit.
• Download our large print guide.

22 March 2022 — 21 May 2023

Tues – Sun: 10am – 6pm

Free, no booking required

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Experience the architectural brilliance of John Hejduk with this large-scale model of the 'Widow's House' at the heart of the RA.

Please note:

* You don't need a ticket to visit this free display. * This free display will be open until 9pm on Friday evenings. * Download our large print guide.

Architecture in the Ronald and Rita McAulay Gallery is a new free exhibition space at the heart of the RA. This ambitious installation features Hejduk's design for the Widow's House, one of 68 "objects" in his seminal Lancaster / Hanover Masque, brought to life.

The late American architect John Hejduk (1929 - 2000) believed that ideas were as important as buildings and that architecture had the power to evoke alternative worlds. Masques - popular royal entertainments of the 16th and 17th centuries featuring fantastical costumes and moving sets - inspired Hejduk to transform the way architecture is taught and imagined.

The Lancaster / Hanover Masque draws inspiration from an eclectic range of sources, including the novels of Thomas Hardy, English fairground attractions and American agricultural buildings. Hejduk used allegorical stories and a large cast of characters to deal with themes of life, death, love and virtue. The Widow is one such character in the masque.

Hejduk described the Widow's House as a "wailing room", with the funnels on the roof made by "the Trombone-Maker, a craftsman of refined detail". It refers to the Widow's Walk, a feature of traditional New England houses thought to be built for the wives of whaling ships' captains who would go up to these cupolas and watch the ships come in from sea. Often they did not come back. The Widow's Walk was a form of surveillance and waiting, a place of reflection and anticipation.

This dark and mysterious tale contrasts with the comical, zoomorphic form of the structure with its four legs, head and tail. Hejduk saw that in life tragedy often sits alongside comedy, and that art and architecture give us a way of reconciling mixed emotions and conflicting ideas.

'London Masque' was developed in collaboration with students from the Royal College of Art MA Interior Design programme. During the life of the London Masque a series of workshops will explore Hejduk's Lancaster / Hanover Masque and the resulting models and drawings will be displayed alongside the Widow's House.
Design John Hejduk, built with permission granted by the Estate of John Hejduk.#RAJohnHejduk

Tues-Sun: 10am-6pm
Fri: 10am-9pm

Free, no booking required

Ronald and Rita McAulay Gallery

Architectural Association: London Un-masqued

Students from the Architectural Association's Diploma Unit 11 have created work that expands our understanding of London. The students' work speaks of London as a strange and familiar place, where alternative cities exist within the city - an idea inspired by China Miéville's fantasy novel Un Lun Dun (2007).

Led by Shin Egashira, the students worked together to investigate the urban transformation of London through a collage where unbuilt designs sit alongside existing as well as demolished buildings.

John Hejduk's masques, which symbolise cities made up of subjects and objects, inspired each student to write their own brief for an object. On display alongside one of Hejduk's objects, the Widow's House, the students' models represent fragments of the city, tools or reimagined neighbourhoods. Using materials including wood, steel, plaster and pewter, the work shows how our imaginations come together with reality to make the cities we live in.
London Un-masqued is open until 21 May 2023.

RA Young People's Programme: We Built This City

This display features work by students aged 15-21 from the RA's attRAct programme. In August 2022 the group took part in a week of practical, discursive and collaborative workshops inspired by John Hejduk's Lancaster / Hanover Masque (1980-82), led by Mark Hampson, artist and Head of Fine Art Processes at the RA Schools, and Enej Gala, RA Schools student.
The attRAct programme is a free, year-long opportunity for young people, with monthly workshops led by professional artists, architects, and other creatives. Supported by The Nicholas Bacon Charitable Trust. We Built This City is open until 5 February 2023.

RA Family Programme: Friendship and Alchemy

This display features work by participants from the RA's Family programme for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) who have built landscapes and imaginary cities inspired by John Hejduk's Lancaster / Hanover Masque (1980-82).

In May and June 2022 a group of families who met at the RA and have formed a close-knit community, were invited to attend four short workshops led by artist-educator Cash Aspeek. Each week they used a distinct colour or material to reflect a theme in Hejduk's masque. A silver city presents buildings with human as well as animal characteristics; black materials were used to create a world of slotted structures; the colour red represents the fireworks and fairground attractions that inspired the architect, while natural materials express imaginary farming communities and animal enclosures.
The RA's Family programme for children with SEND is supported by The Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation. Friendship and Alchemy is open until 9 October 2022.

Royal College of Art: Translations

This display featured models made by students from the Royal College of Art MA Interior Design programme during a three-week project in October 2021.

Inspired by the Lancaster / Hanover Masque, students were asked to translate a character from Hejduk's sketches and text into their designs as 3D models using personal interpretations and stories from their own experiences and culture.
Translations was open from 22 March - 10 July 2022.

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John Hejduk | Exhibition | Royal Academy of Arts

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Experience the architectural brilliance of John Hejduk with this large-scale model of the 'Widow's House' at the heart of the RA. * You don't need a ticket to visit this free display. * This free display will be open until 9pm on Friday evenings. * Download our large print guide.

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UNTIL 20 FEBRUARY 2022

We are living in the age of waste. Is design the answer to leaving our throwaway culture behind?

#EndTheWasteAge

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We are living in the age of waste. Is design the answer to leaving our throwaway culture behind?

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Planning to take a trip outside of London? V&A Dundee has a very exciting programme this Dec/Jan - definitely worth a visit! 

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Planning to take a trip outside of London? V&A Dundee has a very exciting programme this Dec/Jan - definitely worth a visit! 

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Yinka Ilori: Listening to Joy

On now until Sunday, 24 April 2022

Design for Our Times

On now until Monday, 13 June 2022

Assemble: Making Room

On now until Sunday, 16 January 2022

Night Fever: Designing Club Culture

On now until Sunday, 9 January 2022

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Welcome to V&A Dundee - Scotland's design museum

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How We Live Now: Reimagining Spaces with Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative

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How We Live Now: Reimagining Spaces with Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative

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ENDING SOON!
Mon 17 May - Thu 23 Dec 2021

An unseen archive of work by the radical 1980s feminist architecture co-operative Matrix

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The project considers who our buildings and shared spaces are designed for, who is excluded from our designed environment, and what effect this has on the communities who live there?

A jumping off point for these questions is an unseen archive of work by the radical 1980s feminist architecture co-operative Matrix. The installation will feature rare films, drawings, photos and architectural models from the Matrix archive, presenting their use of radical methods across a range of projects, past and present.

We also introduce archival and contemporary approaches to design that aim to empower groups often excluded in the design of buildings, including Black and Asian women's organisations, community and childcare groups and lesbian and gay housing co-operatives, to explore more inclusive ways of designing, building and occupying spaces.

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How We Live Now: Reimagining Spaces with Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative | Barbican

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A multi-layered project comprising an installation, publication and events programme exploring a series of important questions about our public spaces and designed environments.

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TESTAMENT 21 Jan–03 Apr 2022 at CCA Goldsmiths 

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As the UK navigates seismic shifts triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, environmental crises and Brexit, the role of monuments has been brought into sharp focus, becoming the centre of public debate. Testament is a large-scale group exhibition across the entirety of the CCA building, staged in response to this tumultuous period.

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Artists: Saelia Aparicio, Phyllida Barlow, Alvaro Barrington, JJ Chan, Monster Chetwynd, Rabiya Choudhry, Jeremy Deller, Adham Faramawy, Navine G. Dossos, Ryan Gander, Carl Gent, Holly Hendry, Roger Hiorns, Sam Keogh, Scott King, Phillip Lai, Lawrence Lek, Ghislaine Leung, Lloyd Corporation, Paul Maheke, Stuart Middleton, Oscar Murillo, Nashashibi/Skaer, Olu Ogunnaike, Hardeep Pandhal, Yuri Pattison, Elizabeth Price, Laure Prouvost, Aaron Ratajczyk, Tanoa Sasraku, SERAFINE1369, Tai Shani, Peter Spanjer, Jay Tan, Tenant of Culture, Edward Thomasson, Jala Wahid, Mark Wallinger, Dominic Watson, Alfie White, Gray Wielebinski, Bedwyr Williams, Cerith Wyn Evans, Zadie Xa & Benito Mayor Vallejo, Abbas Zahedi.

As the UK navigates seismic shifts triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, environmental crises and Brexit, the role of monuments has been brought into sharp focus, becoming the centre of public debate. Testament was a large-scale group exhibition across the entirety of the CCA building, staged in response to this tumultuous period.

Artists were invited to make proposals that consider what is at stake in tearing down and erecting monuments, and what it might mean to rethink the idea of the monument. Are they defunct, illusory statements of permanence, continuity, and manifestations of power? Whose narratives do they preserve, and whose do they suppress? Can they still play a vital role in mediating communal grief and providing a locus for memory? Is there space for them to be re-envisioned?

The exhibition featured 'proposal' artworks by 47 artists, including those who are either resident in the UK, and those who are abroad but hold an understanding of the UK's complex relationship with the past and present. Their contributions unambiguously or indirectly addressed the idea of a monument, or alluded to the treatment of monuments in the UK in 2022, and sought to magnify a multitude of conversations, from discussions about decolonising institutions, fallism, dislocation, memorialising, remembering and forgetting, to our current relationship with history, along with some intimate and personal responses. Submissions incorporated notes and sketches, drawings, poems, instructions, installations, sculptures, paintings, films, performances, and text, and included critical and celebratory positions and conversations about coping and surviving, ranging from the individual to the universal, and the local to the national.
Exhibition Guide
A full public programme accompanied the exhibition. The publication accompanying the exhibition is available here.

The exhibition was kindly supported by the Testament Gallery Circle: Carlos/Ishikawa, Corvi-Mora, David Zwirner, GRIMM Gallery, Hales Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, Herald St, Lisson Gallery, Modern Art, mother's tankstation, Niru Ratnam Gallery, Soft Opening, Southard Reid, Stephen Friedman Gallery, Galerie Sultana.

Artists: Saelia Aparicio, Phyllida Barlow, Alvaro Barrington, JJ Chan, Monster Chetwynd, Rabiya Choudhry, Jeremy Deller, Adham Faramawy, Navine G. Dossos, Ryan Gander, Carl Gent, Holly Hendry, Roger Hiorns, Sam Keogh, Scott King, Phillip Lai, Lawrence Lek, Ghislaine Leung, Lloyd Corporation, Paul Maheke, Stuart Middleton, Oscar Murillo, Nashashibi/Skaer, Olu Ogunnaike, Hardeep Pandhal, Yuri Pattison, Elizabeth Price, Laure Prouvost, Aaron Ratajczyk, Tanoa Sasraku, SERAFINE1369, Tai Shani, Peter Spanjer, Jay Tan, Tenant of Culture, Edward Thomasson, Jala Wahid, Mark Wallinger, Dominic Watson, Alfie White, Gray Wielebinski, Bedwyr Williams, Cerith Wyn Evans, Zadie Xa & Benito Mayor Vallejo, Abbas Zahedi.

As the UK navigates seismic shifts triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, environmental crises and Brexit, the role of monuments has been brought into sharp focus, becoming the centre of public debate. Testament was a large-scale group exhibition across the entirety of the CCA building, staged in response to this tumultuous period.

Artists were invited to make proposals that consider what is at stake in tearing down and erecting monuments, and what it might mean to rethink the idea of the monument. Are they defunct, illusory statements of permanence, continuity, and manifestations of power? Whose narratives do they preserve, and whose do they suppress? Can they still play a vital role in mediating communal grief and providing a locus for memory? Is there space for them to be re-envisioned?

The exhibition featured 'proposal' artworks by 47 artists, including those who are either resident in the UK, and those who are abroad but hold an understanding of the UK's complex relationship with the past and present. Their contributions unambiguously or indirectly addressed the idea of a monument, or alluded to the treatment of monuments in the UK in 2022, and sought to magnify a multitude of conversations, from discussions about decolonising institutions, fallism, dislocation, memorialising, remembering and forgetting, to our current relationship with history, along with some intimate and personal responses. Submissions incorporated notes and sketches, drawings, poems, instructions, installations, sculptures, paintings, films, performances, and text, and included critical and celebratory positions and conversations about coping and surviving, ranging from the individual to the universal, and the local to the national.
Exhibition Guide
A full public programme accompanied the exhibition. The publication accompanying the exhibition is available here.

The exhibition was kindly supported by the Testament Gallery Circle: Carlos/Ishikawa, Corvi-Mora, David Zwirner, GRIMM Gallery, Hales Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, Herald St, Lisson Gallery, Modern Art, mother's tankstation, Niru Ratnam Gallery, Soft Opening, Southard Reid, Stephen Friedman Gallery, Galerie Sultana.

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Artists: Saelia Aparicio, Phyllida Barlow, Alvaro Barrington, JJ Chan, Monster Chetwynd, Rabiya Choudhry, Jeremy Deller, Adham Faramawy, Navine G.

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Langlands & Bell: Ideas of Utopia at Charleston 

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2 April–29 August 2022
Charleston, Firle, Lewes, East Sussex, BN8 6LL.

An exhibition spotlighting over 40 years of work by the BAFTA award-winning and Turner Prize-shortlisted artist duo, Langlands & Bell.

‘Langlands & Bell: Ideas of Utopia’ presents artworks which examine attempts – knowing and unknowing – to create utopias whether domestic, religious, social or commercial. The exhibition also considers Charleston as an important place of early modernist social experimentation and questions a building’s power to unite us, separate us, protect us, and inspire thought and creativity.

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Charleston — Langlands & Bell: Ideas of Utopia

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Spotlighting over 40 years of work by BAFTA award-winning and Turner Prize-shortlisted artist duo, Langlands & Bell.

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Thu 30 Sep 2021—Sun 9 Jan 2022
An exhibition celebrating Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988), one of the most experimental and pioneering artists of the 20th century.

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An exhibition celebrating Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988), one of the most experimental and pioneering artists of the 20th century.

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WALK: The Ultimate London Pubs Tour: Discovering a Global Phenomena

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WALK: The Ultimate London Pubs Tour: Discovering a Global Phenomena

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Thursday, January 13, 2022
6:30 PM  8:30 PM

Join Open City and guest voices for a socially-distanced walking tour exploring the London pub and its global counterparts

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The Ultimate London Pubs Tour: Discovering a Global Phenomena — Open City

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Join Open City and guest voices for a socially-distanced walking tour exploring the London pub and its global counterparts

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Lived in Architecture - Becontree Estate at 100

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Lived in Architecture - Becontree Estate at 100

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21 October - 12 February
Visit the Architecture Gallery at 66 Portland Place to experience a new RIBA commission with visual artist Verity-Jane Keefe that marks the centenary of the Becontree Estate in East London. Reflecting on the contemporary architectural reality of the estate, once the largest example of social housing in Europe, Keefe has created a new film and a series of spatial and decorative details found during her time spent in the area, capturing the essence of Becontree and its residents today

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lived in architecture - becontree estate at 100

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lived in architecture - becontree estate at 100 tickets

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lived in architecture - becontree estate at 100 london

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lived in architecture - becontree estate at 100 london tickets

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Lived in Architecture - Becontree Estate at 100

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Eventbrite - RIBA presents Lived in Architecture - Becontree Estate at 100 - Thursday, October 21, 2021 | Saturday, February 12, 2022 at Royal Institute of British Architects. Find event and ticket information.

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Visit the Gingerbread City at the Museum of Architecture 

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Expect the unconventional and mesmerising from this mini edible city

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generously sponsored by Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design

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Hervé Télémaque: A Hopscotch of the Mind

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Hervé Télémaque: A Hopscotch of the Mind

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7 October 2021 – 30 January 2022
Since the late 1950s, Hervé Télémaque has created an expansive body of work with a unique and playful visual vocabulary, featuring abstract gestures, cartoon-like imagery, and mixed media compositions
Serpentine South Gallery

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Hervé Télémaque: A Hopscotch of the Mind

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Hervé Télémaque brings together striking combinations of historical and literary references with those of consumer and popular culture.

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Shaping Space – Architectural Models Revealed

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Shaping Space – Architectural Models Revealed

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Sept 2021 - 28 Jan 2022
Open in the new main gallery at the Building Centre.
This exhibition celebrates the role of architectural models in shaping the spaces we live in. A collaboration between the V&A and the Building Centre, Shaping Space – Architectural Models Revealed presents the world in miniature; a collection of historical and contemporary models that reveal the evolution of architecture from the first maquette made as a tool for thinking, to a presentation model – a scaled down replica of an architectural intention saying; ‘here I am

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The exhibition celebrated the role of architectural models in shaping the spaces we live in. A collaboration between the V&A and the Building Centre, Shaping Space - Architectural Models Revealed presented the world in miniature; a collection of historical and contemporary models that reveal the evolution of architecture from the first maquette made as a tool for thinking, to a presentation model - a scaled down replica of an architectural intention saying; 'here I am'.

The collection of models on show responded to three questions: Why are models made? How are models made? And who are models made for?

Architectural models are as old as architecture itself. The exhibition explored the history of models, and highlighted the renaissance of craft and the values of making today, alongside the rise of new technologies that mark how the digital age is changing our experience of and access to architectural space.

As children, we encounter scale with wooden blocks and plastic bricks so that we become the master planners of our own tiny cities. From super-sized to miniature, Shaping Space invited the public to experience the spectacle of environments at different scales. The show celebrated the act of thinking through making, presenting the evolution of ideas through models in architectural education and practice. The exhibition examines how models are a testbed for material experimentation and will touch on themes and debates central to current architectural practice, such as sustainability.

The exhibition included models by:

AAU Anastas; Aberrant Architecture; Adjaye Associates, courtesy of American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC); Alison and Peter Smithson; Álvaro Siza; Arch Model Studio; Arckit; ARU (Architectural Research Unit); Assemble; Automated Architecture (AUAR); B.15 Workshop, Manchester University (S. Miller and S. Parker-Backhouse); BDP, modelled by Amalgam; Bompas & Parr; Carmody Groarke; Charles Holland Architects; Dalia Matsuura Frontini; Dieter Cöllen; Dow Jones Architects; L'École Spéciale d'Architecture; Editional Studio; Ellie Sampson; Eugène Viollet-le-Duc; Forensic Architecture; Foster + Partners; GHA Group - Bloomsbury projection; Harvey Wiley Corbett, modelled by Theodore Conrad; Hawkins Brown Architects; J I Wolfson; James Gowan, modelled by Paul Shepheard; Jørn Utzon; Karen Britcliffe; Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret); Louis Kahn; Lina Ghotmeh Architecture; Mary Duggan; OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen; Peter Barber Architects; Peter Davies; Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine; René Herbst, modelled by Nicolaas Warb; Roz Barr Architects; Sam Jacob Studio; ScanLAB Projects; So & So Studio; Stanton Williams; Studio MUTT; Sydney Waterlow, modelled by William Lovett; Théo Zanetti and MAP Laboratory, CNRS; Tony Fretton Architects; WilkinsonEyre; Zaha Hadid Architects.

Curated by the Building Centre exhibitions team in partnership with Simona Valeriani of the V&A's Research Institute (VARI), the collaborative exhibition was designed by award-winning practice Roz Barr Architects, with graphic design by Studio Mathias Clottu.

Shaping Space was accompanied by an events series, workshops, and an education programme led by Rebecca Goozee and Dr Marta Ajmar, from the V&A Research Institute, in collaboration with the Building Centre.

Shaping Space - Architectural Models Revealed builds on research carried out by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded Architectural Models Network (2017-2019), an initiative set up to examine the role of architectural models as part of the creative process in historical and contemporary architectural practice. The core partners in the original network include the V&A, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the Architectural Association (AA), Sir John Soane's Museum, the Architekturmuseum (Technische Universität Munich), the MAP Laboratory (CNRS) and the Sorbonne.

The free exhibition is generously supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council through Follow on Funding for Impact and Engagement (Principal investigator Dr. Simona Valeriani, co-investigator Dr. Marta Ajmar). It is also supported by the Built Environment Trust and the V&A.
The accompanying book, An Alphabet of Architectural Models, is available to order online.
Find out more about the wider project Shaping Space - Architectural Models in Context here.
Follow us on social media for all the latest news and announcements about the exhibition programme!
#ShapingSpace

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About the V&A Research Institute
The V&A Research Institute (VARI) leads the V&A's research and academic partnership activities, across the breadth of the museum's collections and practices. VARI hosts a varied portfolio of research projects, programmes and affiliations involving academics, makers, designers, conservators, and practitioners of all kinds, creating a unique research environment. VARI seeks to incubate new methods for interdisciplinary collections-led research and research-led teaching, and with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is taking the V&A's long-established culture of research, postgraduate teaching and academic partnerships into a new phase.
About the Arts and Humanities Research Council
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), part of UK Research and Innovation, funds internationally outstanding independent researchers across the whole range of the arts and humanities: history, archaeology, digital content, philosophy, languages and literature, design, heritage, area studies, the creative and performing arts, and much more. The quality and range of research supported by AHRC works for the good of UK society and culture and contributes both to UK economic success and to the culture and welfare of societies across the globe.

We would like to thank our supporters; 4D Modelshop, Amalgam Modelmaking, B.15 Workshop, Drawing Matter, GHA Group, The University of Manchester, MAP Laboratory (CNRS), and Model Platform.

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Shaping Space - Architectural Models Revealed

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This autumn will see the launch of a major exhibition celebrating the role of the architectural model in shaping the spaces we live in. A collaboration between the V&A and the Building Centre, Shaping Space - Architectural Models Revealed will present the world in miniature

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RIBA Friends architecture walking tour: Golden Lane and the Barbican

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RIBA Friends architecture walking tour: Golden Lane and the Barbican

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2 April 2022, 11am to 1pm

Barbican Underground Station, Aldersgate St, Barbican, London EC1A 4JA

Join us on a walking tour to see the architectural differences and continuities between the Golden Lane and the Barbican estates in which two substantial new parts of London were realised.

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RIBA Friends architecture walking tour: Golden Lane and the Barbican

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Join us on a walking tour to see the architectural differences and continuities between the Golden Lane and the Barbican estates in which two substantial new parts of London were realised.

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ENDING SOON!
06 October 2021 - 03 January 2022
In a new body of work created especially for Sir John Soane’s Museum, contemporary artist Pablo Bronstein presents his unique, seductive and deeply ironic vision of hell.

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"Brilliantly hellish, wondrously awful, grotesquely sublime" ⋆⋆⋆⋆ The Guardian
"A gaudy, sinister tour of the abyss" ⋆⋆⋆⋆ The Times In a new body of work created especially for Sir John Soane's Museum, contemporary artist Pablo Bronstein presents his unique, seductive and deeply ironic vision of hell.
Created especially for Sir John Soane's Museum, a series of large-scale watercolours will take visitors on a tour of hell in a nostalgic and ironic representation of the last two centuries of progress. Imagined as a monumental city, visitors will be guided through concert halls, casinos, botanical gardens, car factories and oil rigs. A new film, featuring a group of diabolical antique dealers performing a masked ballet will also be shown.

Spanning drawing, film, watercolour, choreography and performance, Pablo Bronstein's work explores themes of consumerism, Queer identity, and, prominently, architecture. In the exhibition, the first major museum show since 2009 to focus on Bronstein's works on paper, visitors will see the accumulation of ornament, fragments and borrowed images in the Soane Museum echoed in the new works.
Visitors are requested to bring their own wired headphones to be able to listen to the film in the exhibition.

Exhibition Info

Entry by free timed ticket to the Museum

Exhibitions

Join artist Pablo Bronstein and Exhibitions Curator Louise Stewart in conversation at Sir John Soane's Museum to mark our upcoming exhibition Pablo Bronstein: Hell in its Heyday and the launch of a new publication of the same title.

Join artist Pablo Bronstein for a 45-minute tour of Hell in its Heyday. Hear about the inspiration for the 22 large scale watercolours - created especially for Sir John Soane's Museum - as the artist guides you through his bombastic cityscape of hell.

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Kyōsai: The Israel Goldman Collection at the RA 

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Kawanabe Kyōsai was one of the most exciting Japanese painters of the 19th century. Discover his work – some of which has never been seen before – in his first UK exhibition in nearly 30 years.

19 March — 19 June 2022

Tues–Sun: 10am–6pm

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Known for his independent spirit, Kawanabe Kyōsai (1831-1889) is among Japan's most important master painters. Witty, energetic and imaginative, his art continues to influence numerous artistic styles today, from manga to tattoo art.

Overlooked for decades, particularly compared to his earlier counterparts, Hokusai and Hiroshige, Kyōsai is now celebrated for his ability to bridge popular culture and traditional art.

Having initially studied under ukiyo-e artist Kuniyoshi, he combined his subsequent academic training to create his own revolutionary style, creating images from the terrifying and awe-inspiring, to the sweet and endearing.

Drawing from one of the finest collections of the artist's work in the world, this exhibition brings together highly finished paintings, woodcut prints and illustrated books, as well as impromptu paintings ( sekiga) created at sometimes raucous calligraphy and painting parties ( shogakai).

* For the best experience and to ensure entry at your preferred time, book ahead.
* This exhibition contains some adult content. Please contact the RA for more information.
* Download our large print guide.

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Kyōsai: The Israel Goldman Collection | Exhibition | Royal Academy of Arts

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Kawanabe Kyōsai was one of the most exciting Japanese painters of the 19th century. Discover his work - some of which has never been seen before - in his first UK exhibition in nearly 30 years.

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9-22 May 2022
Celebrating outstanding British and international creativity, the festival brings together over 250 established and emerging makers, designers, brands and galleries from around the world. A curated selection based not on price or fame, but underlying substance. Plus, that essential dash of magic and inspiration that separates great from good.

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Celebrating outstanding British and international creativity, the festival brings together over 750 established and emerging makers, designers, brands and galleries from around the world. A curated selection based not on price or fame, but underlying substance. Plus, that essential dash of magic and inspiration that separates great from good.

Discover a range of emerging and established Makers from this year's edition of London Craft Week.

Explore the Programme for London Craft Week 2023.

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Celebrating outstanding British and international creativity, the festival brings together over 750 established and emerging makers, designers, brands and galleries from around the world. A curated selection based not on price or fame, but underlying substance. Plus, that essential dash of magic and inspiration that separates great from good.

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23 May 2022, 7pm to 8.30pm
RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London, W1B 1AD

Join us for an evening highlighting and celebrating the rich diversity of LGBTQIA+ spaces featured in the new book, Queer Spaces by RIBA Publishing.

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Join us for an evening highlighting and celebrating the rich diversity of queer spaces featured in the new book, Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places and Stories by RIBA Publishing. The evening invites some of the contributors to deliver fast-paced presentations, exploring the various architectural examples, including bookshops, nightclubs, archives, and museums.
"Queer people, throughout the world and across time, have always found ways to exist and be together, and there will always be a need for queer spaces."
Whether celebratory and social, or urgent, even lifesaving in purpose, queer space resists a fixed typology, form or style, sometimes emerging and developing organically in existing buildings, sometimes in customised private dwellings. Queer space can be private and hidden, or it can be communal and shared. Its defining, enduring feature is that of freeing queer people who use the space, from the constant pressures of hiding, modifying or even justifying their existence.

This event coincides with the launch of the new book by RIBA Publishing, Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places and Stories, edited by artist and designer Adam Nathaniel Furman and architectural historian Joshua Mardell.
Speakers

Adam Nathaniel Furman

Joshua Mardell

more speakers to be announced

Listen to Adam Nathanial Furman and Joshua Mardell talk about Queer Spaces in the RIBA Radio podcast about LGBTQ+ lives.

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Join us for an evening highlighting and celebrating the rich diversity of queer spaces featured in the new book, Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places and Stories by RIBA Publishing.

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Shilpa Gupta - Sun at Night at the Barbican 

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Thu 7 Oct 2021 - Sun 6 Feb 2022
The first major London exhibition by Mumbai-based artist Shilpa Gupta highlights the fragility of one’s right to expression whilst raising urgent questions of censorship, confinement and resistance.

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The first major London exhibition by Mumbai-based artist Shilpa Gupta highlights the fragility of one’s right to expression whilst raising urgent questions of censorship, confinement and resistance.

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Climate Emergency Network & Carnival of Crisis 

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Climate Emergency Network & Carnival of Crisis 

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