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A curator of the RA's Collection introduces W.P. Frith's Private View at the Royal Academy, 1881.

Meet outside the John Madejski Fine Rooms at 3.30pm.

WP Frith, Private View at the Royal Academy, 1881 (1883)

Chris Orr RA, 'Full Steam Ahead!', 2011. Lithograph. © the artist. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd. A curator of the RA's Collection introduces the exhibition 'LithORRgraphy: Chris Orr and the Art...

Chris Orr RA, 'Full Steam Ahead!', 2011. Lithograph. © the artist. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd. A curator of the RA's Collection introduces the exhibition 'LithORRgraphy: Chris Orr and the Art...

A curator of the RA's Collection introduces the exhibition 'Driven to Draw'; a selection of highlights from the RA's collection of 20th century works on paper and sketchbooks. Talk lasts approximately 30 minutes.

Meet in the Tennant Gallery at 3...

What role for the land, property and construction sector in the quest for renewed economic growth in the context of localism? ...

Tour of G-Live & Regional Council ...

Dafen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, 2007 by Urbanus Architecture & Design Photo: Qiwei Wu

After 20 years of changing the fortunes of rundown areas around the UK Urban Splash has finally put pen to paper and chronicled its journey of regeneration in a new book called 'Transformation' ...

Johan Zoffany, 'The Gore family with George, Third Earl Cowper', c. 1775. Oil on canvas. 78.7 x 97.8 cm. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection...

Johan Zoffany, Self-portrait as David with the head of Goliath, 1756. Oil on canvas, 92.2 x 74.7 cm. National...

Acclaimed playwright, screenwriter and director Stephen Poliakoff selects the Natural History Museum, the setting for his short film Astonish Me (2011), as his chosen building. The distinctive Romanesque-style museum, designed by Alfred Waterhouse (1830–1905), is home to a collection of 70 million specimens, ranging from microscopic slides to mammoth skeletons. Having spent much of his childhood wandering through its great spaces and amongst its wonders, the museum has remained vivid in his...

Writer and broadcaster Simon Fanshawe focuses on Soho. “Rescued from dullness by the disregard of the rich, Soho became the home of the homos, the hobos, the foreigners, the frisky, the migrants and the merchants of desire. What went on in Soho behind closed doors was an open secret”. Fanshawe explores the churches, theatres, sex shops, brothels, restaurants and pubs of Soho to understand the way that pleasure and its counterpart, guilt, shaped the architecture of the district.

6.30–8pm...

The city can stimulate different parts of our psyches, bringing about perceptions and experiences which convey and structure possibilities for new narratives.

6.30–8pm, followed by a drinks reception.

Australian architect Sean Godsell has built an international reputation for his exquisitely crafted private houses and ‘compassionate infrastructure’ projects such as the Park Bench House and Bus Shelter House that provide refuge for displaced persons in the urban environment. From his houses in the country to his new Design Hub for RMIT University in Melbourne, he often employs an inventive use of materials to create an elegant skin that becomes a filter for the external environment and blurs...

Chicago-based Studio Gang Architects is a lab for testing ideas that traverse scale. Founder Jeanne Gang discusses how the Studio explores the full technology and material spectrums and creates projects that treat cities as interconnected, ecological systems such as Chicago’s newest skyscraper, the Aqua Tower, and Columbia College Chicago’s Media Production Center, a cutting-edge film production and teaching facility.

6.30–7.45pm, followed by a drinks reception.

Since 2008, more than half the world’s population now live in cities. For Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell, co-founders of Grafton Architects, “what we build as Architects constructs the world we live in. It defines our world. It is the outer crust of the globe. Architecture is the expression and embodiment of Culture. What we build as Architects is in fact the New Geography.”

6.30–7.45pm, followed by a drinks reception.

Dominating the Thames at Westminster, the Houses of Parliament is viewed by Attorney General, the Rt Hon Dominic Grieve QC MP, as a building of world renown. “Revolutionary in design at the time, it was a motor force of the Gothic Revival while its interior decorations and furnishings inspired new concepts in decorative art, heralding the coming of the Arts and Crafts Movement. 171 years after the building works started, the Houses of Parliament remain the definitive symbol of the British constitution...

Tower of St George in-the-East, Wapping (1714–29) by Nicholas Hawksmoor. Photo: Royal Academy of Arts A panel discusses the work of one...

RIBA Yorkshire Housing Group-Achieving CSH Level 6 in affordable housing ...