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Exhibitions

Architecture exhibitions at RIBA

Our exhibitions programme looks closely into architectural movements, styles and ideas throughout history. Exhibitions and displays, including our world-class collections, can be found at 66 Portland Place in London and at RIBA North on the Liverpool waterfront.

Exhibition opening times

The Architecture Gallery - 66 Portland Place, London
Open Monday to Saturday: 10am to 5pm (Tuesday: 10am to 8pm)
Closed Sunday and bank holidays

Holiday closure
The Difficult Sites: Architecture Against the Odds exhibition in the RIBA Architecture Gallery will close to the public at 5pm on Friday 20 December, and reopen at 10am on Monday 6 January.

RIBA North + Tate Liverpool - 21 Mann Island, Liverpool
Closed 24, 25, 26 December
Usual times: Open Monday to Sunday (including bank holidays): 10am to 5.50pm

66 Portland Place: Current and upcoming exhibitions

66 Portland Place, London, W1B 1AD

Difficult Sites: Architecture Against the Odds exhibition

11 October until Spring 2025: Delve into over twenty complex, unusual, and dynamic builds from across the UK from the 1900s to today.

RIBA International Prize display

27 November 2024 until 28 February 2025: This exhibition provides a glimpse into the shortlisted schemes and the prize winner

RIBA President's Medals 2024

4 December until 15 February 2025: Awarded since 1836, the President's Medals are RIBA's oldest and most prestigious prizes in architectural education. Explore the students' talent through a display of drawings and models in RIBA's Practice Space

RIBA North: Current and upcoming exhibitions

21 Mann Island, Liverpool waterfront, L3 1BP

Sideview of a stack of open-centred grey coloured bricks

Brickworks

31 July 2024 to 12 January 2025: Explore the transformative power of bricks in art. This exhibition highlights how artists can transform everyday materials to convey meaning and messages and play an important role in society

Upcoming events

20 December 2024 to 25 January 2024

RIBA Hong Kong Chapter Sketch Exhibition: 'Architecture Narratives 2024'

The RIBA Hong Kong Chapter invites you to visit the Chapter's Architectural Sketch exhibition at the Hong Kong Design Centre. Meet fellow members and be inspired by a diverse selection of architectural hand sketches.

Asia and Australasia

16 January 2025, 1pm to 2pm

Difficult Sites Curator Tour

Join exhibition curator, Charles Hind, for an in-depth look at Difficult Sites: Architecture Against the Odds

England - London

28 January to 11 February 2025

Difficulty and Delight: Unpacking the complexities of architectural success

This three-week in-person course explores the creativity and ingenuity needed to create buildings in all manner of environments. In collaboration with the Society of Architectural Historians Great Britain. For ages 18+.

England - London

Our previous exhibitions at 66 Portland Place

Learn about exhibitions we've displayed in the past at 66 Portland Place, London, W1B 1AD

Denis Dunlop working in his studio on the panels of a screen

Raise the Roof: Building for Change exhibition

Visitors saw new creative works that unpack narratives of gender, race and imperialism at 66 Portland Place. This exhibition ran from 27 April until 21 September 2024.

Exposing the Barriers in Architecture, from a FAME (Female Architects of Minority Ethnic) Perspective

FAME collective’s research and exhibition are explored through an intersectional feminist lens to amplify the underrepresented voices in architecture. This exhibition ran until Monday 20 May 2024.

Black and white photograph of children at the edge of a shallow lake with blocks of flats and cranes in the background

Wide-Angle View

Architecture photography exhibition at 66 Portland Place, London exploring the eight ground-breaking issues of Manplan that sparked a revolution through print. This exhibition ran from 26 February to 6 April 2024.

Japan Stories: an exhibition of photographs

This free exhibition showed modern Japan through the eyes of three very different photographers who have experienced everyday life there. Each photographer's work reflects different aspects of a nuanced and multi-faceted society through images of its architecture. This exhibition ran from 11 October to 18 November 2023.

Parents sitting on a low bench in front of a brick wall waiting to pick their children up from school - Kingsland

The Architect has Left the Building

This exhibition presented a dual-screen film installation, weaving together moments of architectural joy and intimacy drawn from the professional archives of renowned photographer and filmmaker Jim Stephenson. This exhibition ran from 3 June 2023 to 12 August 2023

Cities of the Night

RIBA hosted the Royal College of Art for a second year, showcasing three artists Rut Blees Luxemburg, Alisa Oleva, and Chooc Ly Tan in this multi-media exhibition. This exhibition ran from 1 June to 29 July 2023.

Monica Pidgeon 1960-1970: a Magazine Editor and her Camera

This exhibition showcased the photographic work of Monica Pidgeon, revered editor of Architectural Design between 1946 and 1975. This exhibition ran from 3 March to 27 May 2023.

Long Life, Low Energy

Long Life, Low Energy demonstrated how the principles of the circular economy can help create more sustainable, net zero architecture for the future. This exhibition ran from 27 October 2023 to 14 January 2024.

Out of Space

OUT of Space was an exhibition organised by the RIBA LGBTQ+ Community internal group, and the RIBA Library and Collections team to highlight contributions of the LGBTQ+ community within architecture and the built environment. This exhibition ran during February 2023.

RIBA Journal Eye Line 2022 drawing competition - winners' exhibition

The winners' exhibition for Eye Line 2022, the RIBA Journal's annual drawing competition celebrating the best works from the UK and further afield. This exhibition ran from 11 August to 8 October 2022

Blue graphic design with three women wearing costumes from different time periods

Radical Rooms: Power of the plan

Radical Rooms: Power of the plan explored the power relations embedded within the layout of our domestic spaces. It uses stories from architectural history and highlights moments when the architectural plan has challenged or changed the conventions of domestic life. This exhibition ran from 28 April to 24 September 2022

Future Archive at RIBA

As part of London Festival of Architecture, RIBA hosted the Royal College of Art (RCA) Future Archive project. Future Archive was a bespoke exhibition that gathers artworks, texts, and conversations from the Future Archive artistic research laboratory, led by artist Rut Blees Luxemburg. This exhibition ran from 1 June to 16 July 2022.

Becontree centenary

In partnership with Create London and London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, we delivered a year long programme of artistic and architectural commissions, events, learning programmes and an exhibition to celebrate the east London estate. This exhibition ran from October 2021 to February 2022.

Freestyle - Architectural Adventures in Mass Media

Freestyle - Architectural Adventures in Mass Media was our first virtual reality exhibition, created by design studio Space Popular. This exhibition ran from 2 July to 4 September 2021.

Visit us

As well as offering public tours of our larger exhibitions, we also run a programme of cultural events closely matched to themes on display.

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