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Highlights this spring include two combined exhibition and talks programmes: Emerging Architecture and The Art of Mud Building – the latter focussing on the African city of Djenné – as well as the continuing Architecture and Climate Change talks series. We also celebrate this year’s Royal Gold Medal winner, I. M. Pei, and exhibit some of our unrivalled collection of Palladio drawings in New York. All events held at our main venue, 66 Portland Place are listed, plus programming and events at other venues including the V&A through the V&A+RIBA Architecture Partnership. Full up-to-date information about all our events can be found at www.architecture.com

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, Maggie's Centre, London Winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize 2009, in association with The Architects’ Journal and Crystal CG This quietly confident building is truly, unquestionably a haven for those who have been diagnosed with cancer. It is a timeless work of architecture that not only distils the intentions of its brief but expresses in built form compassion, sensitivity and a deep sense of our common humanity. Image © Richard Bryant

3 Emerging Architecture All talks in this series £8.50/£5.50 Talks Talks unless otherwise stated. The eleventh Architectural Review Awards for Emerging Advance booking essential. Join us for an engaging, topical and Architecture recognise excellence in realised work by RIBA online ticket booking

architects under 45. The RIBA celebrates the Awards with is now available at EmergingArchitecture informative programme of talks across a series of talks by winning and commended architects. www.architecture.com/ programmes Alternatively leave a range of subjects at 66 Portland Place Don’t miss the Emerging Architecture exhibition, in the a message on our recorded and the V&A, plus further afield. Florence Hall until 27 February. See page 11 for details. booking line 020 7307 3699. Sponsored by Ramboll and Austin Smith: Lord

Studio Sanjeev Shankar + GRAFT Talk Tuesday 23 February, 18.30 Sanjeev Shankar, presents his globally acclaimed project Jugaad, where 90 residents of an Indian urban village turned discarded oil cans into a suspended shade pavilion. He makes a case for merging traditional craft skills with contemporary practices and for creating community places through democratic design. GRAFT Architects present their project for the Make It Right Initiative – rebuilding a Ward of New Orleans Atelier Li Xiaodong + José María Sánchez García after hurricane Katrina – where, as ODOS Architects Estudio de Arquitecture + part of a group of high-profile international architects, they were Talk Tuesday 2 February, 18.30 Matharoo Associates engaged to develop affordable Beijing-based Atelier Li Xiaodong, Talk Tuesday 16 February, 18.30 yet sustainable houses for low combine spiritual exploration with José María Sánchez García, from income residents. rational thinking, artistic judgement Spain develops projects and with technical knowledge to create competitions with a multidisciplinary spaces of tranquility, harmony and team. He discusses their work, order. Three projects give an including the prize-winning entry overview of their work in China. into the awards, a raised, circular ODOS Architects is a Dublin building on the dam Gabriel y based practice that challenges Galán, Cáceres. and exposes its clients to the Indian practice Matharoo unfamiliar, questioning how people Associates present a journey work, rest and play. They talk about through their work with projects their project at The Carmelite such as House with Balls. Left: Matharoo Associates, Dilip Sanghvi Friary in Co. Kilkenny alongside They talk about their interest Residence at Surat, Gujarat, India, 2006–7. recent works. Photo: Dinesh Mehta in mechanical systems, leading Above left: Studio Sanjeev Shankar, to the creation of Curtain Door, Jugaad, New Delhi, India, 2008. their award-winning project. Photo: Sundeep Bali 4 5 Talks International Dialogues: Talks Architecture and Climate Change

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Our continuing international programme of talks and symposia brings outstanding thinkers and practitioners together to address key issues for the future of the built and natural environment. See videocasts of previous talks in this series a at www.gleeds.tv and at www.architecture.com/ international-dialogues In partnership with BioRegional One Planet Communities.

Step by Step: Sustainable Post Copenhagen: A New Agenda Buildings for Africa Dr. R.K Pachauri and Professor Francis Kéré John Schellnhuber Talk Tuesday 16 March, 18.30 Talk Tuesday 30 March, 18.30 Francis Kéré is an architect from Burkina Faso Join Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chair of the Nobel who designs sustainable architecture for the Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel benefit of the people of his home continent. He on Climate Change (IPCC) and Director General talks about his deep commitment to furthering of The Energy and Resources Institute, India the use and development of traditional building and Professor John Schellnhuber, Director among local communities. of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Change, His projects are designed to combine climatic Much More From a Lot Less Germany, Member of the IPCC and former Down to Earth Chief Government Advisor on Climate & Paul Oliver comfort with low-cost construction, making the The Architecture of C. Anjalendran most of local materials and the potential of the Related Issues for the German G8-EU Talk Tuesday 2 March, 18.30 local community, whilst adapting technology Talk Tuesday 23 March, 18.30 presidency in 2007. They discuss climate Join Paul Oliver, acclaimed academic and from the industrialized world in a simple and The eminent Sri Lankan architect C. Anjalendran change, sustainable solutions and the future Emeritus Professor at the International innovative way. Francis Kéré won the prestigious presents his work which is imbued with a simple international agenda. Vernacular Architecture Unit, Oxford Brookes Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2004 for directness acknowledging the rich vernacular Chaired by Sunand Prasad, Immediate University, for a stimulating talk about the future the primary school in his home village of Gando, traditions of his homeland. His visionary projects Past-President, RIBA of vernacular building traditions and their role Burkina Faso. include the SOS Children’s Village orphanages Tickets £12/£10 concessions in creating sustainable, culturally vibrant, people- that are created from cheap locally sourced orientated places to live. Oliver is one of the materials, consume minimal energy, while at the world’s foremost authorities on vernacular same time fusing together the various traditions architecture whose publications include the of a tragically divided country. Atlas of Vernacular Architecture of the World. Introduced by David Robson, author of In partnership with the School of Oriental and Anjalendran – Architect of Sri Lanka. African Studies. Part of the Art of Mud Building: With support from the Friends of Sri Lanka. All talks in this series £8.50/£5.50 unless Heritage and Sustainability series, see page 8 otherwise stated. Advance booking essential. for details. Talk followed by drinks reception Above left: Roofscape of the Djenné Mosque ©Trevor Marchand RIBA online ticket booking is now available and private view of Djenné: African City of Left: Francis Kéré, school extension, Gando, Burkina Faso at www.architecture.com/programmes. Mud, accompanied by a kora player. Above top: C. Anjalendran, The Dharmavasan House Alternatively leave a message on our Above: Anjalendran's verandah office in the rain recorded booking line 020 7307 3699. 6 7 Le Corbus Le Talks

Talks The Art of Mud Building: Heritage and Sustainability A fascinating series of talks at the RIBA, The School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) and the Ismaili Centre in London, explores the unique tradition of mud building in Africa.

Supported by the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Down to Earth Restoring the Splendour of Djenné Talks at the V&A Gargoyles and Shadows: Building Futures Paul Oliver Talk Thursday 18 March, 19.00 Take part in one of our Closer Look Gothic Architecture and 19th debates talks at the Victoria and Albert Century Photography Talk Tuesday 2 March, 18.30 SOAS, Russell Square, London WC1H Address the future of the built Museum as part of the V&A+RIBA Talk Tuesday 15 March environment and its impact on RIBA Join Rogier Bedaux and Annette Schmidt, Architecture Partnership. society with Building Futures, Volkenkunde Museum and the architect Pierre Uncover the relationship that Part of the International Dialogues talks All talks take place 13.00–14.00, developed between photography an RIBA initiative. programme. See page 6 for details and booking. Maas, to discuss the cooperative venture are free and drop-in (please note, and architectural practice in the Tickets: £8.50/£5.50 between Mali and the Netherlands. numbers are limited). Please meet 19th century and explore how This House Believes at the Grand Entrance at 12.55. photography facilitated the the Road to Recovery The Future of Mud: Behind the Façade in Djenné rediscovery of an idealised past is Paved with... Tales of Houses and Lives in Djenné A Closer Look and its architectural manifestation. Talk Thursday 25 March, 19.00 at Health Centres With Barbara Lasic, V&A. Tuesday 16 February, 18.30 Film Monday 8 March, 19.00 SOAS, Russell Square, London WC1H Surface Design Show, Business Talk Tuesday 19 January Design Centre, Islington, London SOAS, Russell Square, London WC1H Join Michael Rowlands, UCL and Charlotte Joy, Gothic Survival to Gothic Take part in a discussion on the Revival: English Architectural RIBA Building Futures with the A documentary film that explores the Cambridge as they discuss how to create local design of health centres before Drawings, 1500–1950 Surface Design Show kicks off challenges and choices faced by a mason’s value for cultural heritage through sustainable the advent of the National Health election year with an open family, raising vital questions about heritage architectural tradition. Service in 1948. With Suzanne Talk Tuesday 27 April discussion of the options ahead Waters, RIBA Trust. and changing traditions. French and Bamana Explore how English late medieval for business, governance, ecology with English subtitles. Economic and Environmental gothic forms sometimes and society. Featuring contributions Sustainability Stage Struck overlapped with the Gothic Revival, from leading thinkers including Restoring Mud Mosques Talk Tuesday 9 February while also looking at drawings from former London mayor Ken Talk Thursday 29 April, 19.00 the Victorian archaeological revival Livingstone, economist Will Hutton, A closer look at some of the early in Mopti, Djenné and Timbuktu through to the post-War period. engineer and technologist Mark SOAS, Russell Square, London WC1H theatre and set designs from the With Charles Hind, RIBA Trust. Whitby and the Imperial College’s Talk Thursday 11 March, 20.30 Join Rowland Keable, Ram Cast CIC, for an RIBA Drawings Collection. With Prof. David Fisk. The Ismaili Centre, Cromwell Road, Jason Canham, RIBA Trust. expert presentation on structures, standards Register at London SW7 and models for earth building in the 21st century. www.surfacedesignshow.com Join Christophe Bouleau from the Aga Khan Trust for Culture as he talks about the restoration This series coincides with the exhibition Djenné: African City of Mud, 3 March–28 April of the extraordinary mud mosques of Mali. Above: Lubetkin and Tecton, at the RIBA. See page 12 for details. Finsbury Health Centre, London, Unless stated otherwise, talks are free. For bookings 1938. Dell & Wainwright/RIBA Library at the Ismaili Centre, please call 020 7581 207. Photographs Collection Above right: William Kent, The Court Above: Re-plastering the Djenné Mosque For information about talks at SOAS please visit of King's Bench, Palace of Westminster, ©Trevor Marchand www.soas.ac.uk/about/events 1739. RIBA Library Photographs Collection 8 9 Exhibitions Exhibitions Be inspired by one of our many free changing exhibitions displayed at the RIBA and at the Victoria and Albert Museum as part of the V&A+RIBA Architecture Partnership.

Emerging Architecture Building the Raj: British Architects in India Florence Hall Until 27 February RIBA British Architectural The eleventh Architectural Review Awards for Emerging Library Until 28 January Architecture presents an inspiring range of projects from around From the utilitarian military the world, including social housing in Barcelona, a community buildings and commercial hotel in Italy and a tea pavilion in Russia. warehouses erected by the East India Company in the 17th Century This leading awards programme for architects and designers to ’s elegant urban under 45 gives a surprising and fascinating snapshot of landscape at New Delhi in the architecture’s emerging generation. A series of talks by winning 1930’s, this display explores the and commended architects accompanies the exhibition. work of British architects on the Indian subcontinent during the See page 5 for details. Imperialist rule. Sponsored by Ramboll and Austin Smith: Lord Drawing on material from the archives of the RIBA British Architectural Library, the display also assesses the influence that The RIBA President’s Medals Student Awards Indian architecture exerted back Galleries 1 and 2 Until 28 January in Britain at the time and the consequences for subsequent Enjoy an exhibition of award-winning student work, including the foreign designers in India, most Bronze Medal for Part 1, the Silver Medal for Part 2 students and notably and the Dissertation Medal, selected from submissions from over . 240 invited Schools of Architecture from 50 countries. Please note that photo ID is required for access to the Library. These awards are aimed at promoting excellence in the study of architecture, rewarding talent, and encouraging architectural Opposite: Installation shot in the Palazzo debate world-wide. All nominated projects can be viewed online Giustinian Lolin of The Lives of Spaces, at www.presidentsmedals.com 2008. TAKA, Mnemonic Tectonics: Constructing Space through Memory Admission to all exhibitions at the The RIBA President’s Medals Student Awards, in association with Atkins, RIBA is free. Galleries are open and Ritual. Photo: Alice Clancy © IAF are supported by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3), Monday–Saturday 10.00–17.00. Above left: Li Xiaodong, Bridge School at Pinghe, Fujian Province, China, 2008–9. Please note, galleries can close Service Point, SOM Foundation and Ibstock Brick. Media Partner: The Architects’ Journal Photo: Li Xiaodong early for special events. Please Above: Sir Herbert Baker/Frank Fleming, call 020 7307 3888 before Secretariats, New Delhi, 1931. RIBA Library your visit. Photographs Collection 10 11 Exhibitions After Redundancy: Exhibitions Living in and out of Architecture Gallery 2 3–22 February In March 2009, with the recession at its height, it was estimated that a third of all UK architects were either out of work or under-employed. Having been made redundant from a London design studio, James Whitaker decided to pursue his passion for photography. The result is an exhibition that documents the variety of directions, from cake shop proprietor to journalist, taken by twenty-four people from the architectural profession after being made redundant during 2008–09. Djenné: African City of Mud Picture This! The Lives of Spaces Gallery 2 3 March–29 April Florence Hall 4 March–1 May Inside Irish Architecture The RIBA organises and runs The architecture of Djenné, an island town in the heart of West competitions to encourage Gallery 1 9–28 April Africa’s Inland Niger Delta, is considered the best example of excellence in design on behalf of a This exhibition primarily uses film and moving image to explore traditional mud building. Here elegant merchant houses and a wide range of clients – both public the central role of space in our society, how it frames and world-renowned mosque bear testament to a long history of trade and private – which have resulted in a variety of built landmark structures the patterns and practices of our collective life, from and Islamic scholarship. With its bold compositions and molten projects and iconic structures. domestic to civic, from personal to public. The exhibition involves contours the town’s architecture has given it recognition as an These range from major public many new collaborations and experiments, which open up new important UNESCO World Heritage Site. projects such as London’s ways of envisaging, designing and understanding space. Wembley Stadium to the small Gallery Talks Creative mud building thrives where masons adapt traditional and interesting such as The Halo, The Lives of Spaces, curated by Nathalie Weadick and Hugh knowledge, building craft and magic to a modern, changing world. Rossendale and Blackpool Campbell, was Ireland’s exhibition at the Venice Architecture Free but booking essential. This exhibition explores the fascinating relationship between Swivelling Wind Shelter. See page 7 for details. Biennale in 2008. It was initiated by Culture Ireland, in partnership design and construction practices, architectural heritage and This exhibition features a selection with the Arts Council and funded by the Irish Architecture After Redundancy cultural identity. of built projects all of which have Foundation and the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. originated through the RIBA Talk Tuesday 16 February, 18.30 A talks programme at SOAS and the Ismaili Centre accompanies Competitions process. The tour of The Lives of the Spaces is sponsored by the RIBA, the Irish A discussion on redundancy with the exhibition. See page 8 for details. Architecture Foundation, Culture Ireland, the Arts Council and Sisks. James Whitaker, photographer Supported by the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), Economic Top left: McChesney Architects, and exhibition curator. and Social Research Council (ESRC), Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) Blackpool Swivelling Wind Shelter. Coming Soon and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. © Chris Jones Photography The Masons of Djenné Top right: Dara McGrath/Robinson Three Classicists Talk Tuesday 23 March, 18.30 McIlwaine, Deconstructing the Maze: Untitled#08. From The Lives of Spaces, Gallery 1 6–29 May With Dr. Trevor H.J. Marchand, Venice 2008 © Dara McGrath Djenné exhibition curator and Below: Drawing by Francis Terry An exhibition of architectural drawings by three young Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, practitioners, all with a passion for classical architecture and School of Oriental & draughtsmanship. Ben Pentreath, George Saumarez Smith and African Studies. Francis Terry exhibit drawings of built works ranging in scale Lives of Spaces from new urban settlements to full size decorative ornament, demonstrating their belief in the classical language of architecture Talk Friday 9 April, 13.30 and the importance of drawing in the modern world. With Nathalie Weadick and Hugh Campbell, The Lives of Spaces Please note this exhibition will be open as normal weekdays exhibition curators. Above: Mason and apprentice in Djenné ©Trevor Marchand and 9.00–12.00 on Saturdays. Above left: Sagit Yakutiel. Photo: James Whitaker 12 13 Exhibitions Exhibitions Further Exhibitions at the V&A and Events Palladio in America Take advantage of the Renoma: Reflections Following the highly successful Palladio 500 combined expertise of the of Wrocław exhibition, touring Europe in 2008–9, a number RIBA and the Victoria and Albert Museum with an Arup Building, Phase 2, of the RIBA’s extraordinary collection of Palladio 8 Fitzroy Street, W1T exciting programme of Until 30 January drawings are heading to the USA this spring exhibitions in the V&A+RIBA This exhibition maps the turbulent in an exhibition organized by the RIBA Trust. Architecture Gallery. history and changing face of Wrocław by telling the story of Gargoyles and Shadows: RENOMA. Designed in 1930 by Gothic Architecture and modernist architect Hermann 19th-Century Photography Dernburg for the Wertheim family as one of the largest, truly 7 January–16 May V&A+RIBA Architecture international retail stores, its original Drawing on the V&A's rich holdings Partnership Residency concept was shortlived. After years of nineteenth-century photographs, Aberrant Architecture of neglect, it reopened in April 2009 with a carefully restored façade this display examines the Kevin Haley and David Chambers and a new wing designed by relationship that developed between are the new architects in residence Palladio and His Legacy: Mackow Architects in collaboration photography and architectural at the V&A. practice in the 19th century and with Arup. A Transatlantic Journey The Residency Programme is explores how photography The exhibition is accompanied by supported by grants from the The Morgan Library & Museum, facilitated the re-discovery of an a talk, Challenging the Paradigm: Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the New York 2 April–1 August idealised past. The display also Polish Urban Development in the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. addresses the role played by 21st Century, on Wednesday 27 Explore the life and work of one of the most photography in the recording of Part of the January, 18.30. With Aleksandra influential architects in history in an exhibition buildings before demolition and its Wasilkowska, Joanna Rajkowska that reveals the indelible mark his legacy has use as a tool for preserving the and Grzegorz Piatek, chaired by left on American architecture. national architectural heritage. Alejandro Gutierrez, Associate Director, Arup. Andrea Palladio, 1508–80, drew inspiration from Admission is free. The V&A is Open Studios open daily 10.00–17.45. Last Friday See www.architecture.com/ classical architecture, crafting a new style that 20, 29 January of the month 10.00–22.00. programmes for details and met the functional and aesthetic demands of his 10, 13, 14, 19, 24 February booking. 3, 12, 13, 14, 24 March age. His buildings were realised in a small area 9, 10, 11, 16, 21 April Part of the OPEN:POLAND Season. of northern Italy, yet his enduring influence on the 13.00–16.00 Sackler Centre, V&A Presented in partnership with western world can be attributed to the impact Meet the Architecture Residents, of his book Quattro Libri dell’Architettura. experience their work in progress The exhibition is centred on 31 original Palladio and find out about how they work. RIBA Guided Tours Residents have special access to drawings and 6 books from the RIBA’s unrivalled the V&A and RIBA collections, Group tours collections, alongside bas-reliefs and 3D models. 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An RIBA Trust exhibition, in association with The exhibition is made possible by the generous support Join the Architecture Residents to the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura of: The Regione del Veneto, Dainese, RIBA Library Trust £7 per person (minimum Fund, Richard H Driehaus Foundation, British Architectural explore the future of the workplace charge £70). For further details Andrea Palladio, Vicenza and The Morgan Library Trust, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Center for Palladian – in the office, the studio, the home and bookings please email Library & Museum, New York. Models by Studies America, William T. Kemper Foundation, Sir John and cyberspace. Above: Westminster, with The Henry VII [email protected] (marking Timothy Richards. Soane’s Museum Foundation. 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I. M. Pei: A Filmed Interview Event Wednesday 10 February, 18.30, Jarvis Hall, RIBA In the presence of the 2010 Royal Gold Medallist I. M. Pei, David Adjaye will present an exclusive short film on I. M. Pei which reveals his friendships with the modernist greats Mies, Breuer and Aalto and details his projects from the National Gallery in Washington, The Louvre pyramids and his late work in Doha to his definitively final building, a chapel in Japan. Hosted by RIBA President Ruth Reed. Royal Gold Medallist 2010 Tickets £12/£10 concessions. See page 7 for booking details. This year’s winner is the Chinese- born American architect I. M. Pei, who is best known in Europe for Royal Gold Medal & his transformation of the Louvre in Paris. I. M. Pei is one of the most Fellowships Dinner 2010 prolific architects of all time having Awards Dinner Thursday 11 February, 17.45, Florence Hall, RIBA completed over 170 projects and more than 50 masterplans. At the I. M. Pei will be presented with the Royal Gold Medal 2010 by age of 92, he remains actively Ruth Reed, RIBA President. A formal citation will be read and engaged in architecture. His work a film of his work including an interview will be shown. The easily spans the divide between ceremony will also include the presentation of the Honorary commercial and cultural architecture, and he is equally and International Fellowships 2010; a list of recipients can be respected and sought after found at www.architecture.com by clients in all fields. Booking is essential. Tickets £141 incl. VAT (VAT is charged at Royal Gold Medal online 15% before 31/12/09 and following the VAT increase will be charged at 17.5%). To book, please email [email protected] Find out more about the Royal Gold Medal with our online exhibition. or call 020 7307 3778. Discover its illustrious history, the roll-call of winners and those who Supported by Top: I. M. 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