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RIBA exhibition showcases architectural photography with a social focus

By 2023-08-10T11:43:00

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Source: Tony Ray-Jones, Architectural Press Archive / RIBA Collections

Photos from experimental publication sought to highlight pressing issues confronting the built environment from 1969 to 1970

The RIBA’s Architecture Gallery is set to host the upcoming exhibition, Wide-Angle View: architecture as social space in the Manplan series 1969-1970.

The exhibition focuses on the Manplan series of publications, initiated in 1969, which sought to analyse the state of architecture and urban planning in Britain at the time. Utilising photography as a central medium, the series presented ideas and critiques about the societal impacts of architecture.

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