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The role of sexuality and gender identity in shaping spaces is a growing area of historical and architectural research. This guide signposts just a few of the resources and material relating to this topic available through our library and collections.

Arts and Crafts was an influential movement of the late 19th century which attempted to re-establish the skills of craftsmanship threatened by mass production and industrialisation. 

Important 20th century architects, John Seely and Paul Paget were life partners as well as business partners. Revealed through the RIBA Collections, discover the story of their unofficial relationship that was tacitly accepted, (or studiously ignored) by their friends and associates.

Holly James Johnston explains why Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill House can be read as a "queer architectural rebellion."

A guide to brutalist architecture, including key architects, buildings and features

Some of architecture's most prolific partnerships have also been in romantic relationships. Here are seven pairs of architects who were life partners, as well as professional collaborators.

A guide to Art Deco architecture, including the main features, architects, and buildings

Influenced by engineering and new technology, High Tech is a style that accentuates a building’s construction.

2019 marks the launch of the landmark 21^st edition of Sir Banister Fletcher’s A History of Architecture, published by Bloomsbury in partnership with RIBA and the University of London.

In the 1940s a spate of articles in the architectural press indicated a rising concern about the need for appropriate housing for single, working women. What did these homes look like, and how successful were they?