The Royal Academy's 2023 Architecture Room celebrates 'the art of making and the hand-made'

The Peter Barber-curated Royal Academy of Arts summer Architecture Room has opened in London, featuring an exhibition focusing on the role of craftsmanship in architecture.  The room plays into the 2023 Summer Exhibition's greater theme put forth by academician and curator David Remfry, who says his focus was inspired by the famous adage to “Only Connect” as taken from novelist E.M. Forster’s 1910 masterpiece Howard’s End. A selection of studio models, drawings, maquettes, sketches, and other objects comprise the Architecture Room exhibition, which is on view until August 20th in the RA’s Burlington House main gallery. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Pete, bloke, Aarchitect (@peterbarber12)The 2022 Soane Medalist Barber previously stated his intentions of “focusing on the art of making and the hand-made within the design process, which can often be overlooked in the digital age." The works selected, therefore, demonstrate “[an] experimental, provocati...