Architecture Programme
Our subject is the city, and the delightful complexity of it. We explore the multi-layered experience that stems in part from the interaction between the physical forms of the city, and from the social organisations and practices that exist within it. This season's events and exhibitions aim to heighten the awareness of architecture's contribution to the meaning of urban experience.
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Critic's Choice: London's Most Important Building
Invited critics propose and make a case for what they believe to be London's most important building. A panel of respondents debate and discuss the chosen building, and encourage the audience to share their own views. Read more
Rt Hon Dominic Grieve QC MP: The Houses of Parliament (5 Mar)
Simon Fanshawe: Soho (26 Mar)
Stephen Poliakoff: The Natural History Museum (23 Apr)
EVENING LECTURES
A series of lectures by architects from four continents.
Grafton Architects (12 Mar)
Jeanne Gang (21 Mar)
Sean Godsell (16 Apr)
Urbanus and its Critical Urban Practice (26 Apr)
RA FORUM
The Royal Academy Forum, first established over 20 years ago, is a platform for public debate on topics at the interface between the visual arts and architecture, with philosophical, political, social and economic issues.
Ruptures – Richard Wilson RA and Liza Fior (13 Feb)
Imagining Hawksmoor (27 Feb)
Urban Narratives (16 May)
THE ARCHITECTURE SPACE
Nicholas Hawksmoor: Architecture of the Imagination
4 February–17 June
An exhibition exploring how the striking buildings of the great English Baroque architect Nicholas Hawksmoor, such as Christ Church, Spitalfields and St George, Bloomsbury, have sparked the imaginations of generations of architects, artists and writers. Read more
Architecture Programme Events Podcasts
Listen to recent highlights from the Royal Academy's Architecture Programme. NEW Jo Noero: Memory and Transformation Click here for the list of recorded events
About
The Royal Academy Architecture Programme explores architecture’s place within contemporary culture. As an integral part of the Royal Academy, an independent institution for making, exhibiting and debating the visual arts, it provides a distinctive environment for debate on architecture.
Made possible through the Drue Heinz Endowment for Architecture.
Supported by
Argent Estates Limited
The Siezen Foundation
Programme devised by Kate Goodwin (Drue Heinz Curator of Architecture), Jeremy Melvin (Consultant Curator) and Owen Hopkins (Architecture Programme Assistant).
