What's On

A collaborative display by the V&A+RIBA Architecture Partnership. Drawn from the RIBA Collections and V&A archive, this display presents six UK social housing projects from the last 100 years, each with an experimental approach in addressing the provision of a home for all.

Visit the home of architecture and hear about the places and faces behind George Grey Wornum’s winning design for the RIBA on Portland Place. Our dedicated educators will walk you through the history and design of our landmark building before concluding the tour with an introduction to our forthcoming exhibition.

What does community architecture look like? Making It Happen tells the stories behind four very different examples of new or reimagined public areas. This immersive exhibition charts and celebrates the coming together of communities and architects to craft and create spaces that work for all.

​This new exhibition in the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Practice Space features a selection of entries from the 2018 RIBA Competition to design a new Network Rail Footbridge.

A British Council exhibition in partnership with the RIBA and the University of Liverpool. This exhibition showcases the work of the British Council Venice Fellows who each spent a month in Venice undertaking their own research projects.

​Do you have a passion for conservation architecture? Do you want to develop specialist knowledge, skills and connections in the field? Are you interested in taking a route onto the RIBA Conservation register?

RIBA Chartered Practice Studio MUTT bring the elaborate writings of Sir John Soane to life with In Character, an exhibition where ornament, colour and form explore the ways in which architecture can communicate to us.

Compare and contrast two great Corporation of London estates: Golden Lane and the Barbican. Led by a professional photographer, you will begin the day immersed in the RIBA’s collections to help contextualise the afternoon walk. Heading offsite, you will then explore both estates and take up the challenge of capturing your own images of these two iconic locations. For ages 18+ and all abilities.

Photography display exploring past and present Thamesmead through archival images from the RIBA Collections and contemporary photographs by artist Nina Manandhar.

The RIBA and DIT have the pleasure of inviting you to a lunch networking event to meet officials from Hong Kong Design Centre and DIT (Hong Kong office) to learn more of the opportunities for the UK architecture and design professionals at Hong Kong’s Business of Design Week (BODW) 2019.