The Peter Barber-curated Royal Academy of Arts summer Architecture Room has opened in London, featuring an exhibition focusing on the role of craftsmanship in architecture.
The room plays into the 2023 Summer Exhibition's greater theme put forth by academician and curator David Remfry, who says his focus was inspired by the famous adage to “Only Connect” as taken from novelist E.M. Forster’s 1910 masterpiece Howard’s End.
A selection of studio models, drawings, maquettes, sketches, and other objects comprise the Architecture Room exhibition, which is on view until August 20th in the RA’s Burlington House main gallery.
The 2022 Soane Medalist Barber previously stated his intentions of “focusing on the art of making and the hand-made within the design process, which can often be overlooked in the digital age." The works selected, therefore, demonstrate “[an] experimental, provocative, and visionary response to the climate crisis.” Barber also added that they are in response to changes in the profession caused by late capitalism and take umbrage in the sociologist Richard Sennett’s famous aphorism, which says that, essentially, making is another form of thinking.
Barber included work that he says is “experimental, provocative, and visionary in response to the climate crisis.” Work from the late Phyllida Barlow, students from the Architectural Association's Design + Make MA program, as well as models from Foster and Partners are also being exhibited this year.
This year's Architecture Room exhibition follows last year's effort from the 2022 Stirling Medal winner Níall McLaughlin and the 2021 edition curated by Sir David Adjaye. The Summer Exhibition has now been put on consecutively every year since 1769.
Additional information about the RA's summer 2023 programming can be found here.
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