Sensing Spaces - Architecture Reimagined

Sensing Spaces - Architecture Reimagined
Royal Academy of Arts

«How do spaces shape our lives?
How do they make us feel?

Experiencing architecture involves moving within and around it, absorbing its qualities through our bodies and senses. We react, consciously or not, to the characteristics of different materials, vistas, volumes, sounds, spatial relationships and proportions. As well as engaging physically with space, our experience of it is also informed by our memories and habits.

Human responses to architecture range from awe to feelings of comfort, safety, pleasure, excitement or unease. We frequently shape the spaces around us - from making dens as children to placing furniture in a living room. Ultimately, architecture connects us to time, place, and people.

This exhibition invites you to explore built space directly. The installations all highlight different aspects of architecture - from the manipulation of light, mass and structure to the transformations brought about by use, movement and interaction.» 

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Pezo von Ellrichshausen

Pezo von Ellrichshausen

Pezo von Ellrichshausen

Pezo von Ellrichshausen

Pezo von Ellrichshausen

Diébédo Francis Kéré

To move forward, people need to be inspired: they need buildings that enhance their creativity into their own hands. - Diébédo Francis Kéré

Diébédo Francis Kéré

"I believe it is important to engage people in the process of building so they have an investment in what is developed. Through thinking and working together people find that the built object becomes part of a bonding experience."

Diébédo Francis Kéré

Eduardo Souto de Moura

"For me, architecture requires continuity; we have to continue what others have done before us but using different materials and methods of construction."

Kengo Kuma

"I always start with something small, breaking down materials into particles or fragments that can then be recombined into units of the right scale to provide comfort and intimacy."

Kengo Kuma

Li Xiaodong

"According to the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Zi, what is important is what is contained, not the container."

Li Xiaodong

Li Xiaodong

Li Xiaodong

Li Xiaodong

Li Xiaodong

Grafton Architects

When are you aware of spaces you inhabit? Thresholds are places where we naturally become more aware. For me this occurs each time I leave the quite complex of Trinity College in Dublin. - Yvonne Farrell, Grafton Architects

Grafton Architects

"There is a sense of pleasure in moving from darkness to light or vice versa because as human beings we're cyclical. How light reflects and how light is contained is the stuff of architecture."

Álvaro Siza Vieira