Knowledge

After four months in negative territory, the RIBA Future Trends Workload Index rose to +3 in July, from –17 in June.

To create greener practices, architects are 'learning by doing': from examining their practice's own carbon footprint to setting their own sustainability goals

The RIBA has launched its first children’s book, Colour and Create Architecture: Georgie Finds a New Home, illustrated by Nerea Bermejo Olaizola.

What is being proposed in Planning For The Future’s shake-up of the system?

Read our announcement of the new RIBA President Elect and RIBA Council members.

Celebrate the class of 2020 and explore our RIBA Future Architects guide to Degree Shows across the UK.

RIBA has launched workshops across the South West aimed at supporting architects achieve targets set in the RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge.

Resilient practices are more than the sum of their parts. Their resilience is derived from the resilient individuals who work there and the contributions they make. Drawing on research with 17 practices from across the UK, this Recovery Roadmap feature from Phase 3: Resilience explores how practices can nurture and develop resilient staff.

Research plays an important role in developing practice ethos, demonstrating value in winning work and improving the design quality and performance of projects. It demands commitment – and resources – to gaining and applying new knowledge and finding more effective ways of approaching projects. Drawing on research with 17 practices across the UK, this Recovery Roadmap feature from Phase 3: Resilience explores how resilient practices approach and resource research projects, and how they use the knowledge and skills developed to expand into new services and markets.

The UK government have announced that from August 2020, extra storeys will be allowed and natural light will be made mandatory under Permitted Development.