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Architecture exhibitions at RIBA

Our exhibitions programme looks closely into architectural movements, styles and ideas throughout history. Exhibitions and displays, often including elements and take inspiration from our world-class collections. Typically exhibitions are held at our London home and at RIBA North.

Current exhibition opening times

The Architecture Gallery - 66 Portland Place, London
From 1 June 2025, this venue is now temporarily closed for refurbishment and for the time being, we'll host our events at other London locations and through our partners.

RIBA North + Tate Liverpool - 21 Mann Island, Liverpool waterfront
open Monday to Sunday (including bank holidays): 10am to 5.50pm

RIBA North: Current and upcoming exhibitions

21 Mann Island, Liverpool waterfront, L3 1BP

Where the Work Begins display

7 June until 25 August 2025 at RIBA North + Tate Liverpool. Explore the evolution of the artist workspace and its relationship to architecture

Digital 3D-printed city model of Liverpool in the City Gallery of RIBA North

Digital City Model

Find out more about our interactive 3D model that tells a variety of stories about Liverpool’s past, present, and future

Hill Station: architecture and the altitudes of Empire installation

Opens 4 September until 16 November 2025. See how the city of Freetown, Sierra Leone, was shaped by health, architecture, and empire in this new installation, combining architectural model work and film

Upcoming events

1 June to 3 August 2025, 10am to 5.45pm

Threading the Needle: Architecture of Care

Discover the story of Anandaloy in Bangladesh, and how its architecture has helped improve lives through a series of textile hangings made by the skilled local women of Dipdii Textiles. BSL translated display panel videos available.

England - London

13 July 2025, 11am to 1pm

Architecture of the art gallery walking tour

Discover some of Mayfair’s art gallery highlights on this walking tour with photographer and art tutor, Anthony Palmer

England - London

24 September 2025, 7pm to 8:30pm

RIBA+VitrA Building empathy: Collecting narratives for the future

Join us to explore projects that are transforming our cultural landscape for generations to come

England - Northwest

Our previous exhibitions at RIBA London

Learn about exhibitions we've displayed in the past at 66 Portland Place, London, W1B 1AD

Difficult Sites: Architecture Against the Odds exhibition

Delve into over twenty complex, unusual, and dynamic builds from across the UK from the 1900s to today. 11 October until 31 May 2025

Rainbow flag being held aloft in the wind

Here, queer, and everywhere: an exhibition of activism and social change by architecture students

18 February until 31 May 2025. This exhibition responds to the LGBT+ History Month 2025 theme of ‘activism and social change’ through architecture and place making. RIBA invited architecture students from across the UK to submit their own work relating to LGBTQ+ history

Sydney Modern Project Australia Iwan Baan

Royal Gold Medal 2025 SANAA: Ten Projects

Delve into the work of the collaborative practice of Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa through the photographs of Iwan Baan. 1 to 31 May 2025

Denis Dunlop working in his studio on the panels of a screen

Raise the Roof: Building for Change exhibition

Visitors saw new creative works that unpack narratives of gender, race and imperialism at 66 Portland Place. This exhibition ran from 27 April until 21 September 2024.

Exposing the Barriers in Architecture, from a FAME (Female Architects of Minority Ethnic) Perspective

FAME collective’s research and exhibition are explored through an intersectional feminist lens to amplify the underrepresented voices in architecture. This exhibition ran until Monday 20 May 2024.

Black and white photograph of children at the edge of a shallow lake with blocks of flats and cranes in the background

Wide-Angle View

Architecture photography exhibition at 66 Portland Place, London exploring the eight ground-breaking issues of Manplan that sparked a revolution through print. This exhibition ran from 26 February to 6 April 2024.

Japan Stories: an exhibition of photographs

This free exhibition showed modern Japan through the eyes of three very different photographers who have experienced everyday life there. Each photographer's work reflects different aspects of a nuanced and multi-faceted society through images of its architecture. This exhibition ran from 11 October to 18 November 2023.

Parents sitting on a low bench in front of a brick wall waiting to pick their children up from school - Kingsland

The Architect has Left the Building

This exhibition presented a dual-screen film installation, weaving together moments of architectural joy and intimacy drawn from the professional archives of renowned photographer and filmmaker Jim Stephenson. This exhibition ran from 3 June 2023 to 12 August 2023

Cities of the Night

RIBA hosted the Royal College of Art for a second year, showcasing three artists Rut Blees Luxemburg, Alisa Oleva, and Chooc Ly Tan in this multi-media exhibition. This exhibition ran from 1 June to 29 July 2023.

Monica Pidgeon 1960-1970: a Magazine Editor and her Camera

This exhibition showcased the photographic work of Monica Pidgeon, revered editor of Architectural Design between 1946 and 1975. This exhibition ran from 3 March to 27 May 2023.

Long Life, Low Energy

Long Life, Low Energy demonstrated how the principles of the circular economy can help create more sustainable, net zero architecture for the future. This exhibition ran from 27 October 2023 to 14 January 2024.

Out of Space

OUT of Space was an exhibition organised by the RIBA LGBTQ+ Community internal group, and the RIBA Library and Collections team to highlight contributions of the LGBTQ+ community within architecture and the built environment. This exhibition ran during February 2023.

RIBA Journal Eye Line 2022 drawing competition - winners' exhibition

The winners' exhibition for Eye Line 2022, the RIBA Journal's annual drawing competition celebrating the best works from the UK and further afield. This exhibition ran from 11 August to 8 October 2022

Blue graphic design with three women wearing costumes from different time periods

Radical Rooms: Power of the plan

Radical Rooms: Power of the plan explored the power relations embedded within the layout of our domestic spaces. It uses stories from architectural history and highlights moments when the architectural plan has challenged or changed the conventions of domestic life. This exhibition ran from 28 April to 24 September 2022

Future Archive at RIBA

As part of London Festival of Architecture, RIBA hosted the Royal College of Art (RCA) Future Archive project. Future Archive was a bespoke exhibition that gathers artworks, texts, and conversations from the Future Archive artistic research laboratory, led by artist Rut Blees Luxemburg. This exhibition ran from 1 June to 16 July 2022.

Becontree centenary

In partnership with Create London and London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, we delivered a year long programme of artistic and architectural commissions, events, learning programmes and an exhibition to celebrate the east London estate. This exhibition ran from October 2021 to February 2022.

Freestyle - Architectural Adventures in Mass Media

Freestyle - Architectural Adventures in Mass Media was our first virtual reality exhibition, created by design studio Space Popular. This exhibition ran from 2 July to 4 September 2021.

Visit us

As well as offering public tours of our larger exhibitions, we also run a programme of cultural events closely matched to themes on display.

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