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THE GUARDIAN ON THE ROYAL ACADEMY SUMMER EXHIBITION

JUNE 2022

The Guardian on the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

Olly Wainwright has published his Guardian review of this year’s Royal Academy architecture rooms which have been co-curated by Níall McLaughlin and artist Rana Begum. With this year’s theme being ‘Climate’, Wainwright highlights that “Architects and engineers have, after all, some responsibility for the mess we’re in, given that 40% of carbon emissions come from buildings. They also have the means to do something about it”. Níall commented, “there can be a sense of fatalism about the climate, but our discipline can show that imaginative change is possible”. 

The article reviews a few select pieces such as Stonemasonry Company and Webb Yates engineers’ large stone beam titled ‘Equanimity’, the Khudi Bari (or Tiny House), a modular monsoon-resistant shelter designed by Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum, and Thai architect Boonserm Premthada’s ‘Dung Power’ a structure made from elephant dung bricks. 

The article can be accessed here. 

Image © Royal Academy of Arts, London / David Parry

SUMMER EXHIBITION PREVIEWS

JUNE 2022

Summer Exhibition Previews

This week sees the first viewing of the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition take place ahead of the public opening on the 21st of June with the glamorous preview party, press viewing, and Varnishing Day.

VISIT TO THE PRACTICE

JUNE 2022

Visit to the practice

Thai architect Boonserm Premthada, the artist of the 'Dung Power' elephant dung bricks piece in this years Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition made a vist to our offices during his time in London.