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RIBA and Google Arts and Culture

As the Royal Institute of British Architects, we are responsible for one of the largest and most diverse architectural collections in the world.

To make our collections more available to everyone, we've partnered with Google Arts and Culture, an online platform and app showcasing collections from institutions like RIBA.

We've curated 15 stories on the platform, using photographs, drawings, models, audio and video all drawn from the RIBA Collections. The stories cover contemporary themes, as well as topics previously shared in our exhibitions.

Explore these stories using the tiles below. You can also download the Google Arts and Culture app from your phone's app store.

Design for a stage set or a vast hall with a throne

Revealing the RIBA Collections

RIBA has collected architecture for almost 200 years. Take a glimpse into our collection of over four million objects.

Civic architecture in modern Ghana

Explore six civic buildings from the Republic of Ghana, from the time of late imperialism to present day.

National Stadium, Olympic Green, Beijing, designed by Herzog and de Meuron

A century of Olympian architecture

Take a tour around the world to experience the spectacular architecture of stadiums for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

New York skyline, seen from the roof garden of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Central Park

Discover how the heart of Manhattan and lungs of New York City came about through a unique collaboration between an architect and a farmer.

Libreria Sansoviniana, Campanile of San Marco and Doge's Palace, Venice, seen from the Lagoon

Venice: City of architectural history

To mark the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, we present a unique architectural tour of the 'floating city'.

Rafael Moneo

To mark the most recent recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, we look at five key buildings from the Spanish architect's career.

Sketch showing people relaxing in a park with town buildings and a church seen in the distance

People and parks

There is more to parks than a simple stroll. Discover how public parks bring emotional wellbeing through congregation, creativity, and commemoration.

View of a gateway to the public grounds of a stately home or palace possibly in London

Parks: Places, pavilions and palaces

Explore the stories behind parks, their location and their architectural structures.

Illustration of Park Crescent, for Playing the Picturesque exhibition at RIBA

Planning the Picturesque

Through four architectural motifs, this story takes you on a scenic trail to experience the aesthetically delightful but highly choregraphed Picturesque movement.

A model in the Freestyle exhibition at RIBA

Architectural style and media

What makes a style? Explore how popular culture and media impact architectural styles from the Renaissance to present day.

Sam Jacob special edition collage for Disappear Here exhibition

The power of perspective

This story traces how perspective in architectural drawing has been used across 500 years.

Habitat warehouse, Wallingford, Oxfordshire: children playing on the sculpture by Eduardo Paolozzi

The architecture of modern play

Find out how the 20th century saw a surge in new thinking about design for children's play.

Beyond Bauhaus: When Britain became modern

On the centenary of the opening of Germany’s most famous art school, RIBA’s exhibition Beyond Bauhaus looked afresh at the influence of three notable Bauhaus teachers on the modern movement in Britain.

Beyond Bauhaus: Designing the modern home

RIBA's Beyond Bauhaus exhibition also revisited the origins of the modern home in Britain.

66 Portland Place during RIBA late event in 2017

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