Circling the Square Architecture Exhibition at RIBA, Buildings, Architect, England
Mies van der Rohe & James Stirling: Circling the Square
London Architectural Show at the RIBA, 66 Portland Place, UK
12 Dec 2016
Mies van der Rohe & James Stirling: Circling the Square
Exhibition: RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London W1, England
Mies van der Rohe & James Stirling: Circling the Square Architecture Exhibition at the RIBA
Architecture Gallery, RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London, W1B 1AD
8 March ? 25 June 2017
Mies-designed tower block for Mansion House Square scheme © John Donat /RIBA Collections

Number One Poultry © Janet Hall /RIBA Collections

In spring 2017 the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) presents a major new exhibition, Mies van der Rohe & James Stirling: Circling the Square, offering a renewed examination of two iconic architectural schemes proposed for the same site in the City of London. Commissioned by architectural patron and developer Lord Peter Palumbo, Mies van der Rohe?s unrealised Mansion House Square project will be explored alongside its built successor, James Stirling Michael Wilford & Associates? newly listed No. 1 Poultry. Presented together for the first time, the exhibition offers a unique opportunity to draw comparisons between the design methods of two of the most highly recognised architects of the 20th century, and to trace the continuity in purpose and approach that unites two seemingly dissimilar architectural c...