Architecture Viewing Room

Architecture and the Nature of People

Paul Stallan RSA (Elect), Deputy Convenor

Architecture is that great living creative spirit which from generation to generation, from age to age, proceeds, persists, creates, according to the nature of people, and their circumstances as they change. That is really architecture.

Frank Lloyd

Compassion, optimism, joy, nature, progress, learning, living to the full … just some of the narratives that are explored in this year’s RSA architecture exhibition.

The Annual Exhibition is but a brief and incomplete survey of current practice originating from or bearing relations to Scotland, forgoing an overarching theme in favour of a display that disassembles and exaggerates difference.

In the east architecture gallery work is shown as if part of a landscape, a model horizon established. The space united by a common datum allows the eye to wander. The casual curation is intentional an attempt to make the projects less precious.