The RIBA Collections reveal stories of architecture that span thousands of architects, hundreds of years and dozens of nations. Take a behind-the-scenes look at some of these stories, told through our drawings, archive material, photographs and much more.
Ed Warner, CEO of accessible design business Motionspot, looks at how modern day inclusive principles can help solve the decades of accessible design challenges, evidenced in over 200 years of material in the RIBA Collections
We take a critical look at the symbolism of RIBA's London headquarters, contextualising its history through drawings and photographs from the RIBA Collections
Discover how a changing world prompted new ideas about housing for single, working women in the 20th century.
Find out how we try to answer this question, which RIBA Library and Collections sources we refer to along the way, and why some questions remain unanswered
Meet seven couples in architecture whose partnerships extended to life, as well as practice
We're adding new material to our collections all the time. Find out what we collect and what to do if you're thinking about donating material to us.
Born on 20 October 1632 in Wiltshire, Christopher Wren is often considered the greatest English architect of his time. In addition to being an architect, Wren was also an astronomer, geometrician, designer and founder of The Royal Society
Discover the work of three architects forced to flee their home countries to escape persecution during the Second World War
Discover the complete drawings of Andrea Palladio, a hugely influential Italian architect of the 16th century
Few architects have been so heavily associated with design for non-human inhabitants as Berthold Lubetkin. Discover his designs for gorillas, penguins... and humans, through historic photographs and drawings in the RIBA Collections
The San Francisco-born artist and designer worked on many projects, including RIBA’s HQ at 66 Portland Place
We are cataloguing the extensive archive of this important post-war British architectural practice
This university building was funded by the Lever family, whose soap manufacturing company later became the international brand, Unilever.
Discover an architectural model for the mixed development of housing, leisure, and retail units, completed in 1972
Discover the history of tennis courts as told through the RIBA Collections
These manmade, cave-like structures can be found as far back as the second century CE
Take a tour of these much-loved institutions through several centuries of architectural history
The competition for a design to extend the National Gallery led to one of architecture’s most infamous style wars
This building, designed by Edwin Lutyens, was built to house the British Viceroy at a time when India was under the control of the British Raj.
The tragic story of the 1968 Ronan Point disaster, told through objects and audio from the RIBA Collections
Half a century after it first opened, Goldfinger's residential tower is still both revered and reviled
In 1964, having recently finished studies in urban planning at the University of Pennsylvania and architecture at Newcastle University, Terry Farrell was awarded a bursary to explore public housing in Japan
In 1881, George Godwin established a scholarship to enable young architects to study construction techniques around the world. Many winners travelled to North America to see first-hand the impact of major changes to architecture and urbanism
Thomas Simons Attlee (1880–1960), older brother of Clement, won a RIBA Essay Medal in 1914 for his work ‘The influence on architecture of the condition of the worker’
In this research guide, explore just a few of the pioneering professionals represented in our library and collections
Throughout history, architectural spaces have formed sites where LGBTQ+ communities have explored, celebrated or concealed sexual and gender identities
Browse our growing collection of research guides, highlighting the range of people, practices and projects represented in the RIBA Collections
The Architectural Periodicals Index (API) is a world-leading service that provides subject access to periodicals in all areas of architecture, the built environment and related disciplines
This guide aims to help signpost you to resources available through our library and collections that could help with researching a country house
This guide aims to help signpost you to resources available through our library and collections that could reveal the history of your house
A decorative style of bold geometric shapes and bright colours, it encompassed furniture, textiles, ceramics, sculpture and architecture
A style that urged for a return to craftsmanship and which rebelled against industrialisation
A guide to brutalist architecture, including the main features, architects and significant projects
A guide to High Tech, which was a development in British Modernist architecture from the late 1960s
A guide to modernist architecture, including the main features, architects and significant projects
A Classical style, named after the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio whose work and ideas had a profound influence on European architecture
Postmodernism describes a style or styles of architecture and the decorative arts that were a reaction to Modernism and the Modern Movement
A guide to gothic architecture, including the main features, architects and significant projects.
A guide to the gothic revival style of architecture, including the main features, architects and significant projects.
A guide to neoclassical architecture, including the main features, architects and significant projects.
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