RIBA Home Season 16th Feb – 28th April 2012
February 14th, 2012
With thanks to Front Row on BBC Radio 4 this evening I am pleased to note that the RIBA are holding a season about the home with a number of events including exhibitions, film and talks. Details below.
Home Season
Explore the past, present and future of the home with a brand new RIBA exhibition accompanied by a series of talks, screenings and events at 66 Portland Place and elsewhere. The season compliments HomeWise, the RIBA’s national campaign to improve the quality of the nation’s newbuild housing.
The exhibition is reviewed here by a fellow blogger:-
A place to call home exhibition
UPDATE: I wandered along there the other day stealing time off from more serious matters in order to browse the library and see the exhibition. I quite enjoyed it. Some good reminders of well known housing schemes. I enjoyed the “five classes of Victorian terrace”. Ours is third class I’m happy to report, which could be worse.
They are in fact graded rather than classed, depending on the number of bedrooms and amount of garden (if any). Some nice models of streets borrowed from Northumbria University helped to liven it up, and all the usual suspects are represented including a shot of Southmere Lake in Thamesmead.
Sarah Beeny takes us through the history of housing from several hundred years ago to the present day, by no means concentrating on the modernist estates. They are given their due place in history but not made the main event. Well worth a look if you’re in the area.