Tag archive for education
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Who rocked your world?
Architectural inspiration is different for everyone – from being captivated by an intriguing patterned ceiling, to finding satisfaction in the rhythmic placement of windows or wonderment at the sheer size and scale of buildings.
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Fantastical Cities family workshop
Frank Gehry’s buildings received new exterior colour schemes and Moshe Safdie’s Habitat 67 was re-imagined during the free public workshop last weekend at the RIBA’s headquarters – 66 Portland Place. Families gathered ideas and
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Explore and Draw: Park Life
Drawing can happen anywhere and inspiration for creativity is always close by, especially in the city. Last weekend the RIBA held its first Draw and Explore workshop, open to all members of the public,
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The Barbican – Drawing inspiration
The Barbican is not only a unique part of the London, it is a source of inspiration for artists and architects – and more recently, a competition-winning drawing. Strong impressions are generated by the Barbican,
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Online Workshop 4: ‘Picturing London’ – Imagining, experiencing and representing the metropolis
For several centuries, architects and artist have been capturing London on paper and other media, and some of these have persisted as key images associated with historic events. This summer, not everyone can be present
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Body Building: Architecture and the Body
Watch a video of the workshop and see what these young designers achieved during ’Body Building: Architecture and the Body’ In an earlier post we asked: When should children start learning about architecture? Of course, the answer was
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When should children start learning about architecture?
Here at the RIBA the answer to that question is simple: As soon as possible! Watch a video of some of the activities that will take place during ‘Body Building: Architecture and the Body’ The RIBA
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Online Workshop 3: ‘Education in a Modern World’ – School design from the Victorians to Modernism
It’s currently half term. While school buildings in England and Wales are mostly empty, save for some dedicated staff and students enjoying extra classes, it seems a good time to explore the architecture of schools
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Run, Jump, Shoot: Photography, parkour and architecture
At 66 Portland Place Architecture can be used and experienced in a surprising multitude of ways, as a RIBA event showed last weekend. On Saturday 19 May the RIBA British Architectural Library organised a public workshop bringing
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Online Workshop 2: ‘Drawing Out Meaning’ – 500 Years of architectural history
In a post a few weeks ago, RIBA Blogs had a look at the first of the online workshops ’Design in Process – How architects communicate ideas’. Today, in this second of six posts, we look
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