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Albertopolis: It started with a sketch
This is the final week of the V&A + RIBA Architecture Partnership’s Albertopolis exhibition, so it seems only appropriate to look at an item that started it all off. Scribbled on a piece of
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A Place to Call Home: A look at Keeling House
There’s just two weeks left to see ‘A Place to Call Home’, part of the RIBA’s Home Season. The material on show looks at the history of British housing and comes from a range
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High Society: Stimulating debate
Yesterday, the images on display in the RIBA’s High Society exhibition led to discussions and recollections during a visit by the St Marylebone Society. The society – with a keen interest in local history and
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Nicholas Hawksmoor: Architect of the Imagination
“It is to the buildings we must always return. They must speak for themselves. They will repel us or fascinate us, but we cannot escape from their strange haunting power.” (Downes, 1979, p.233) Despite long periods
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What does home mean to you?
“What is housing? Basically, it is a product – a highly complex product.” (Beyer, p.3) The layouts, architectural styles and sizes of houses have been in continual change, but what homes offer its occupants has
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Home Season: Your House, Your Home
A pod on stilts, mobile towers, castles and skyscrapers were some of the visions children had of housing a hundred years from now. Yesterday, RIBA headquarters was the venue for Your House, Your Home, an
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Home Season – The installation of ‘High Society’
It is exactly one week until the RIBA’s ‘Home Season’ officially opens. After months of planning comes the short but frenetic installation period. With today’s post are images of the curators from the RIBA
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Art Deco season ends today
Later today the last of the Art Deco exhibitions will come down from public display. The material for Art Deco Triumphant will be collected by curators from the RIBA Library Photographs Collection and returned
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Art Deco Triumphant exhibition – new date
The Art Deco season has drawn many new visitors to the RIBA. Although Puttin’ on the Glitz has now closed, the complementary exhibition, Art Deco Triumphant, continues and will close later than planned due
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Albertopolis – Private View
Today’s post is a selection of images from the private view of Albertopolis held on the evening of Friday 2 December at the Victoria and Albert Museum. The night saw speeches from: Professor Martin Roth,
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