Welcome to Building Futures

Practice Futures

Practice Futures is an update to The Professionals’ Choice, a 2003 Building Futures publication that examined the future of the built environment professions. Our new mini-publication aims to rexamine the shape of the profession given the current climate, and looks to a 10 year horizon to speculate on where we might be heading. Following an invited seminar held last summer, four participants have crystallised their ideas into a series of short pieces that are both provocative and probing.

To read more about the ongoing aims of the project click here, and to download our new mini-publication click here

facing up to rising sea levels

Facing Up To Rising Sea Levels is a companion to a wider programme of research on flooding carried out by the RIBA and the ICE. It is a think piece – designed to provoke longer-term thinking across a wide audience: from government, to policy-makers, to planners, to architects and engineers and to the general public.

Facing Up To Rising Sea Levels is accompanied by a Touring Exhibition starting at The Building Centre 6-29 January 2010, then moving to Portsmouth Cathedral on 15-27 February 2010, Bristol Architecture Centre on 6-26 March 2010 and finishing in Hull at ARC on 15-28 April.
For more details click here

GROWING BY DEGREES!

30 March 2009

Building Futures launches its much anticipated report on the future of Universities and Cities. Edited and compiled by Eeva Berglund, this free publication features contributions and comment from some of the leading voices in the higher education sector and aims to investigate the future synergies between town and gown at a critical time in its development.

GROWING BY DEGREES

Building Happiness- Architecture to make you smile!

22 October 2008

Building Futures launches is much anticipated publication at whether architecture and the quality of our built environment can affect and determine our well being.

Edited by Jane Wernick, this collection of essays features contributions from recent Stirling Prize 2008 winner Keith Bradley, Richard Rogers, Will Alsop, Max Fordham, Martha Schwartz, Anthoney Gormley, Kirsty Wark, Deyan Sudjic and more.

BUILDING HAPPINESS