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Architecture for Change

12-14

Created for school teachers and creative educators, 'Architecture for Change: Building Sustainably' is a freely avallable classroom resources for 12-year-olds link to the school curriculum and explore ways of modelling, making and learning.

Expand for a Guide to the ptogramme, Introduction Lesson and Projects: Sustainable Materials, Adaptable Architecture, Geodesic Dome Structures, Hex Component Structures, and Environmental Design

Project 4 | Hex Component Structures

Revisiting Grimshaw's Eden Project, this project details component structures and why they are sustainable. Student's model a complex curved free-standing structure with an additional activity to plant and grow cress in the roof!

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Project 5 | Environmental Design

The final project in our 'Architecture for Change series aims to show how nature can influence sustainable design, drawing inspiration from Grimshaw's Terra Sustainability Pavilion in Dubai. Students create simple models to experiment with light. sun baths and shadow

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RIBA + Grimshaw Foundation Annual Art Lecture

The 2024 RIBA + Grimshaw Foundation Annual Art Lecture returns, bringing together the interdisciplinary worlds of art and architecture.

This year the lecture will be given by Guyanese-British sculptor Hew Locke, followed by a conversation and questions with writer and curator Ekow Eshun.

The lecture will take place on Thursday 5th December at the RIBA in London. 

Launched in 2022 as a collaboration between RIBA and the Grimshaw Foundation, the lecture series supports the aspirations of the two organisations: elevating creativity as an essential skill for the future and creating opportunities for young people from diverse backgrounds to explore and engage with the worlds of art, design, and architecture.

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