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Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined
 Concept image of environment by Kengo Kuma, commissioned by the Royal Academy of Arts, London. © Kengo Kuma |  Image by Die´be´do Francis Ke´re´, commissioned by the Royal Academy of Arts, London Photo © Die´be |
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 Concept image of environment by Li Xiaodong, commissioned by the Royal Academy of Arts, London, detail. (c) Li Xiaodong |  Architect Diebedo Francis Kere; Photo (c) David Heerde |
 Architects Yvonne Farrell and Shelly McNamara, Grafton Architects; Photo (c) Alice Clancy |  Architect Li Xiaodong, inside the Liyuan Library; Photo (c) Kate Goodwin |
25 January – 6 April 2014
Royal Academy of Arts
Seven architectural practices from six countries and four continents. 23,000 square feet. 72 days.
An interactive exhibition, Sensing Spaces is held in the Main Galleries of the Royal Academy and explores how space and architecture affects us.
The Royal Academy of Arts has called on seven leading architects and urban designers and set them a challenge - to create site-specific installations; the shared brief is to evoke the experience and power of architecture.
Using structures, textures, scents, lighting and colour the spaces are transformed and ask fundamental questions about the nature of architecture. How do buildings make us feel? How does architecture influence how we live, what power does it have over us?
The exhibition considers architecture from the angle of the human encounter: how vision, touch, sound and memory play a role in our perceptions of space, proportion, materials and light.
The result encourages visitors to sit, climb, walk and talk through the display, exploring the different environments and observing how they make affect our mood.
The architects include: Dublin-based Grafton Architects; Kengo Kuma, the Japanese architect behind Sake No Hana restaurant
interior; Diébédo Francis Kéré founder of the Berlin-based practice, Kéré Architecture;
and the Portugese architect Álvaro Siza, winner of the 1992 Pritzker
Architecture Prize.
Anticipated as one of the leading exhibitions of 2014, Sensing Spaces is not to be missed.
The Royal Academy
Burlington House
Piccadilly
London W1J OBD
Tel. +44 (0) 20 7300 8000
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk