Tag archive for talks
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Colonel Richard Seifert: His recipe for a successful practice
“I have suffered the pain and anguish of architectural personal criticism – quite undeserved – and I have also enjoyed the euphoria of praise.” Colonel Richard Seifert, ‘Architects Approach to Architecture’ talk, RIBA, London, 11 November
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Art Deco: What can international events do for architecture?
Paris was not chosen as the host for the 2012 Olympic Games, but just as the media images of the London Olympics today are raising the profile of British design across the world, in
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Last Tuesdays: A display fit for a queen
With the Diamond Jubilee celebrations just days away, it seems appropriate that earlier this week the atmosphere at this month’s Last Tuesdays event at the RIBA took a patriotic feel. From Assistant Curator Catriona Cornelius (RIBA
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Last Tuesdays: A talk on the Modernist apartment block in London
Focusing on London’s inter-war Modernist apartments, yesterday evening the RIBA Library Photographs Collection held a talk as part of the latest series of late-night Last Tuesdays events at the RIBA. Using material from the collection, RIBA curator Valeria
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Closer Look talk: Caribbean Homes by Ray Nathaniels
The work of Ray James Holman Nathaniels (1920 – 2005) was yesterday given well-deserved attention in a talk by RIBA curator Kurt Helfrich. Through the architect’s original drawings and documents held by the RIBA, the
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Closer Look talk: Caribbean Homes by Ray Nathaniels
“He created many eye-catching buildings not only of great beauty but also of great practicality…They will outlast us all and give pleasure to their owners as yet unborn. “ (RIBA Journal, March 2007, p.86) Today
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Albertopolis – now open
Albertopolis is now open. With today’s post are a few images of the displays that explore the history of South Kensington and take a look at future proposals for this area affectionately referred to as
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Closer Look talk: James Stuart and the Birth of the Greek Revival
In the RIBA talk ‘James Stuart and the Birth of the Greek Revival’ on 15 November 2011, Curator Charles Hind brought together material from the collections of the RIBA British Architectural Library and the Victoria and Albert Museum to discuss the
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Jencks Award 2011: Eric Owen Moss
“It is impossible, by examining his work chronologically, to find an evolutionary logic to it…Moss proposes an architecture that is free of consolidated points of reference and featuring strong elements of indeterminateness, ambiguity and
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Tuesday Lates – Student event
Exhibitions and displays This week’s Tuesday Late was an opportunity for almost 100 students from universities across the United Kingdom to find out what the RIBA had to offer. 66 Portland Place came alive as the students
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