Through extensive research of RIBA's archive, Round has created an exhibition for the Architecture Gallery that focuses attention on one of the most familiar and unavoidable architectural features of the city: the façade.
Inspired by the work of a wide-range of architects represented in the RIBA’s world-class architectural collections, in the exhibition Round investigates the increasing tension between the static exterior and changing interior of the architecture around us, highlighting the aesthetic qualities of façades in their original conception, and the subsequent contemporary use and reuse of these buildings.
Original works of iconic façades by Berthold Lubetkin, Venturi Scott Brown and Jane Drew feature in the exhibition alongside representation and re-appropriation of façades from other architectural periods with unique graphic qualities from Greek Revival and Art Nouveau, to modern and postmodern architecture.