Rethinking the British home for a new show at the RIBA

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) invited six contemporary architecture practices to create speculative responses to the UK’s housing crisis for the exhibition, At Home in Britain: Designing the House of Tomorrow.

Drawing on materials from the RIBA archives, the studios from the UK, France and the Netherlands produced designs that re-examine the familiar housing typologies of the cottage, terrace and flat. 

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Installation view of Jamie Fobert’s proposal for the At home in Britain: Designing the house of tomorrow. vPPr’s ‘Party House’ can be seen in the background.
Installation view of Jamie Fobert’s proposal for the At home in Britain: Designing the house of tomorrow. vPPr’s ‘Party House’ can be seen in the background. - Drawing on materials from the RIBA archives, the studios from the UK, France and the Netherlands produced designs that re-examine the familiar housing typologies of the cottage, terrace and flat. ‘We are in the midst of a housing crisis so it seems very timely to have a debate about this subject,’ says RIBA Head of Exhibitions, Marie Bak Mortensen. © Philip Vile. Courtesy of RIBA

At Home in Britain re-examines how we live and speculates on the future of housing in Britain. Taking the cottage, the terraced house and the flat as a starting point and using RIBA Collections as stimulus, six newly commissioned works from contemporary architecture practices Jamie Fobert Architects, Mae, Maison Edouard François, Mecanoo, Studio Weave and vPPR transform these three familiar housing types to reflect the way we live and work in the 21st century.

A BBC and RIBA partnership

The season will be accompanied by a three-part BBC4 television series, presented by Dan Cruickshank, looking at the history of the cottage, terrace and flat.