Overview
Mission Statement
The Architecture Foundation is a non-profit agency for contemporary architecture, urbanism and culture.
We cultivate new talent and new ideas. Through our diverse programmes we facilitate international and interdisciplinary exchange, stimulate critical engagement amongst professionals, policy makers and a broad public, and shape the quality of the built environment.
We are independent, agile, inclusive and influential.
Central to our activities is the belief that architecture enriches lives.
Background
Established in 1991 as Britain's first independent architecture centre, The Architecture Foundation has organised hundreds of public exhibitions, design initiatives, competitions and debates in venues across Britain and internationally.
The Architecture Foundation is a registered charity, with a Board of Trustees composed of individuals from a wide cross-section of interests and professions including architecture, the arts, media, education, social activism and business.
Before moving to its current Carmody Groarke-designed headquarters in Southwark, The Architecture Foundation has occupied high-profile and publicly-accessible venues across London including the Yard Gallery in Clerkenwell, and its original premises in the Economist Building, St James's.
Programme
The Architecture Foundation's diverse and cross-disciplinary programme includes Events from film screenings to lectures and debates; Exhibitions that experiment with representations of architecture; Competitions for buildings and public spaces; Awards that celebrate excellence in contemporary architecture and urbanism; Education projects, focussing on young people considering further built environment study; and a wide range of other Projects including the London Architecture Diary and the London Festival of Architecture.