The Architecture Foundation was Britain's first independent architecture centre.[1] Established in 1991, it aims to promote contemporary architecture. The Architecture Foundation has organised public exhibitions,[2] design initiatives, competitions[3] and debates.[4]
Before moving to its current Carmody Groarke-designed headquarters in Southwark,[5] the organisation ran the Yard Gallery in Clerkenwell as a temporary space experimenting in different ways of exhibiting and communicating architecture. The Southwark headquarters also operates a project space under the same auspices, again hosting a variety of exhibitions, installations and talks.
The current director of the Architecture Foundation is Sarah Ichioka[6] and it is under her leadership that the organization has given itself a greater international remit, manifesting itself in 2009 through a series of exchange programmes.[7]