Architecture exhibitions at RIBA

Our exhibitions programme looks closely into architectural movements, styles and ideas throughout history. We have three exhibition spaces at 66 Portland Place: The purpose-built Architecture Gallery showcases items from our world-class collections and the First Floor Gallery and Practice Space draw on our relationships with architects and others, highlighting the different RIBA awards and education programmes.

Usual opening times

Monday to Saturday: 10am to 5pm

Tuesday: 10am to 8pm

Sunday: Closed

The Architecture Gallery will be closed from Friday 7 April (Good Friday) to Monday 10 April (Easter Monday). Long Life, Low Energy will reopen to the public on Tuesday 11 April.

Current and upcoming exhibitions at RIBA

Explore our exhibitions and display spaces in our London headquarters.

Long Life, Low Energy graphics of buildings within circles on a beige background

Long Life, Low Energy: Designing for a circular economy

This exhibition discusses the culture of demolition, presents recent examples of best practice retrofit and reuse, and gives a glimpse into the near future with research and ideas into a circular economy of architecture

Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless, Ideas, Faces and Places: Robert Maxwell and Celia Scott

The exhibition shows how a school of ideas, developed within the Liverpool School of architecture, was disseminated by an important group of architects and thinkers through architectural practice and teaching to the current generation of award-winning architects

Monica Pidgeon 1960-1970: a magazine editor and her camera - highlights from the RIBA Robert Elwall Photographs Collection

This exhibition will showcase the photographic work of Monica Pidgeon, revered editor of Architectural Design between 1946 and 1975

Upcoming events

21 March 2023, 7pm to 8.30pm

Material Choices: Making carbon count

Join us for the second Long Life, Low Energy talk, exploring the best strategies for decarbonising architecture and the built environment with an expert panel.

England - London

3 April to 4 April 2023

Skill Up: Future architecture (in-person workshop)

Join us for this two day workshop to find out more about the future of architecture; investigating demolished and repurposed buildings and exploring innovative new building materials to create our own contemporary building designs. For ages 15 to 18 years.

England - London

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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