Compliance: Party Wall etc ACT 1996 - Understanding legislation affecting architects in everyday practice

27 Jun 12 - 27 Jun 13

This seminar will outline the provisions of the legislation under the Party Wall etc Act 1996, give information on the interpretation of the Act and discuss the architects' responsibilities and duties when acting as a party wall surveyor.

The Polychrome Lens: Colour in Architectural Photography

16 Nov 12 - 4 May 13

An exhibition which focuses on the history of colour in architectural photography

Chromazone: Colour in Contemporary Architecture

19 Nov 12 - 19 May 13

The innovative use of colour is a major trend in contemporary architecture. This display features key projects by major UK and international architects who use colour to create identity, define space and heighten our experience of a building. The long history of the use of colour in architecture, with its strong symbolic and cultural meanings, will be shown with historic objects from the V&A and RIBA collections. The display features images, drawings and models, alongside innovative and traditional material samples.

External management: Professional liability and risk management

10 Jan 13 - 14 Nov 13

External management: Professional liability and risk management

Access for all: Designing inclusive, accessible buildings and space

16 Jan 13 - 28 Nov 13

Access for all: Designing inclusive, accessible buildings and space

Climate: Building and retrofit design

22 Jan 13 - 4 Dec 13

Climate: Building and retrofit design

Being Safe: CDM for architects - practice procedures and competence

23 Jan 13 - 14 Nov 13

Being Safe: CDM for architects - practice procedures and competence

Context: Understanding historic buildings - refurbishment and building performance

23 Jan 13 - 21 Nov 13

Context: Understanding historic buildings - refurbishment and building performance

Procurement and contracts: Design liability and contracts

24 Jan 13 - 4 Dec 13

Procurement and contracts: Design liability and contracts

Internal management: Business planning and marketing for architects

24 Jan 13 - 15 Oct 13

Internal management: Business planning and marketing for architects

Party Wall etc ACT 1996 - Understanding legislation affecting architects in everyday practice

12 Feb 13 - 20 Nov 13

Compliance: Party Wall etc ACT 1996 - Understanding legislation affecting architects in everyday practice

Open Charter Agency: The Image of the Architect

26 Feb 13 - 26 Mar 13

After investigating the image of the architect and global perceptions of what they do for Venice Takeaway, the Open Charter Agency (OCA) introduces a new platform for members of the public to explore with them how architects might act as agents of change in future.

Designing and building it: Passivhaus myths and realities - a 'get you started' active workshop for architects and designers

26 Feb 13 - 5 Dec 13

Designing and building it: Passivhaus myths and realities - a "get you started" active workshop for architects and designers

Venice Takeaway: Ideas to Change British Architecture

26 Feb 13 - 27 Apr 13

Venice Takeaway presents the work of ten intrepid architectural teams that travelled the world to seek inspiration and imaginative responses to contemporary issues in architecture today.

Architect in the House 2013

12 Mar 13 - 26 Aug 13

Take part in Architect in the House 2013

Wales Festival of Architecture

23 Mar 13 - 4 May 13

Wales Architecture Festival

The Banality of Good: Six decades of New Towns, Architects, Money and Politics

25 Mar 13 - 10 May 13

Based on six international cities built between World War II and the present day, this exhibition by Dutch collective, the Crimson Architectural Historians, looks at the architecture and socio-economic drivers that inspired their development and the complexities of city making.

Who Rocked Your World?

26 Mar 13 - 26 Mar 13

Get creative with RIBA's collections – draw, write and collage representations of your architectural inspirations to add to our world map, and help us connect and locate

Great Expectations: A Journey Through the History of Visionary Architecture

26 Mar 13 - 26 Mar 13

Great Expectations presents an astonishing global journey charting visionary, utopian and often bizarre architectural projects both realised and unrealised.

Transatlantic Journeys: How America Bought into Palladio's Big Thinking

26 Mar 13 - 26 Mar 13

Charles Hind, the RIBA's chief curator looks at how Palladio's work was brought to England by Inigo Jones in 1614 and then travelled across to America a century later.

From La Ville Radieuse to London Wall: Visions of Cities in the Sky

26 Mar 13 - 26 Mar 13

Le Corbusier's la Ville Radieuse was a grandiose plan for the future city. Created in 1924, it brought high rise buildings, open spaces and motorways into one harmonious, traffic-jam free blueprint for idealized living and automotive efficiency.Find out how its principles travelled to the UK and came to life in the twisted streets of the capital.