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EXPLORE FREESTYLE ONLINE

RIBA have now launched their FREESTYLE Social VR Space, bringing you their critically acclaimed exhibition into your own living room. Created by the commissioned designers, Space Popular, you can now meet with your friends in the virtual exhibition, explore the collection and join events as your favourite avatar. 

This virtual reality (VR) exhibition will take you on a journey through time from Renaissance to postmodernism. Drawing on world-class collections, Space Popular uses virtual reality to examine styles of the past and to consider the technology’s impact on contemporary spaces and buildings. Historic artefacts are displayed alongside newly commissioned content, inviting you to enter a captivating virtual universe and experience how popular cultures and technologies impact architecture and its style evolution.

Freestyle - An Exhibition

Riba’s latest exhibition at 66 Portland Place will take you on a journey through time from the Renaissance to postmodernism, through virtual reality.

This new commission by multidisciplinary design studio Space Popular raises one of the most enduring concerns of architecture: the rise and fall of architectural styles.

Drawing on their world-class collections, Space Popular uses virtual reality to examine styles of the past and to consider the technology’s impact on contemporary spaces and buildings.

Historic artefacts are displayed alongside newly commissioned content, inviting you to enter a beguiling virtual universe to experience how popular cultures and technologies impact architecture and its style evolution.

Opening times

This exhibition is open from 26 February to 16 May 2020.

Monday to Saturday: 10am to 5pm

Tuesday: 10am to 8pm

Join Riba for a curator tour of our new exhibition, Beyond Bauhaus – Modernism in Britain 1933-66, in the RIBA Architecture Gallery.

On the centenary of the Bauhaus school, one of the most famous and influential design schools in modern history, the Beyond Bauhaus exhibition looks afresh at the birth of Modernism in Britain.

Join Riba for an exclusive opportunity to hear more about this Award winning building from the architects who designed it.

As part of this series of events showcasing 2019's Award winners, MUMA are giving a tour of The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries.

The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries are the first major built addition to Westminster Abbey in more than 250 years. Created within the Triforium located seven storeys above the abbey's nave, they not only provide space for display but the most astonishing views of the interior.

The gallery has been designed with subtlety and skill, to create an exhibition space that puts the most important artefact — the abbey itself - centre stage. Within this special context, MUMA have considered it essential that the creation of a modern museum display; the technology of display, environmental control, light control, lighting, interpretation and showcases, should not undermine the quality of this space. Successful projects often need open-minded clients, and in Westminster Abbey, MUMA have found a patron with the foresight and ambition to commission them to both design and curate the exhibition- bravo!

This scheme has won RIBA London Award 2019 and RIBA National Award 2019.

This event is part of our Great British Buildings series of talks and tours around the country.

Ticket prices

Non Member: £10.00

RIBA Member/Friend: £7.50

The 1930s were a pivotal decade for British avantgarde architecture. Despite the relative paucity of modernist buildings being commissioned, by 1937 the country had, for a brief moment, become the epicentre of progressive contemporary architecture in Europe.

This exhibition revisits the impact of three notable Bauhaus émigrés: Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and László Moholy-Nagy. Centred on the brief period of 1934-37, when they came to live and work in Britain, it traces this fertile moment in British architectural history and considers where its legacy has had the most enduring impact.

As part of this series of events showcasing 2019's Award winners, Gatti Routh Rhodes Architects are giving a tour of the Bethnal Green Mission Church.