This year’s RA Summer Exhibition is the 257th, and the first in which the architecture is mixed in among the other artworks instead of having its own designated space – a development that doesn’t serve it well.

It’s perhaps surprising that this is the year that architecture has been ‘mixed in’ with the other artworks, given that the coordinator of the 2025 exhibition is a celebrated building designer: Farshid Moussavi of Farshid Moussavi Architecture and formerly of Foreign Office Architects (FOA). Moussavi was joined in the curation of the show’s architecture by her fellow Royal Academicians Tom Emerson and Stephanie Macdonald of 6a architects.

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