The Architects Who Made London 15 February—4 June 2008 In the
Architecture Space Adjacent to the Royal Academy Restaurant
Installation photograph of 'The Architects Who Made London'
display 2008. Photograph by Richard Bryant/ arcaid.co.uk Against
a backdrop of contextual photographs of London by Richard
Bryant, this display looks at six architects from the mid-19th
to the mid-20th century who have had a significant impact on the
London we see today. Drawings, plans and photographs of their
major London buildings, illustrate the impact of architects
including Norman Shaw, Lutyens and Lubetkin on the capital.
Through their buildings and urban visions, their ideas
influenced the physical and social structure of the city. In
contrast to previous generations of architects, they faced often
outwardly incompatible tasks, such as creating an identity for
railway suburbs on the city’s expanding fringe, giving a
semblance of unity to the ceremonial approach to Buckingham
Palace, or developing an architectural idiom for