The Royal Academy's new exhibition, Sensing Spaces, represents a bold experiment. Not since the Foster, Rogers and Stirling group retrospective of 1986 has the institution devoted the entirety of its principal galleries to an architecture show. The received wisdom has always been that there simply isn't the audience to support such an investment. In the meantime, however, the Serpentine Pavilion programme has demonstrated that showing drawings, models and photographs isn't the only way of asking a general audience to engage with architecture. With the imminent opening of its new Carmody Groarke-designed gallery, the RIBA is set to undertake a much expanded public programme too.
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