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An exhibition of imagined buildings, structures and schemes –from designs for palaces by medieval masters to futuristic film sets–featuring the work of visionary figures as diverse as Andrea Palladio, Inigo Jones, Robert Adam, Étienne-Louis Boullée, John Soane, Joseph Paxton, Edwin Lutyens, Lubetkin, Archigram, MVRDV, FAT and Foreign Office Architects. A wealth of historical and contemporary drawings are included alongside paintings, models, collage, film and computer renderings of designs for buildings that might have changed our lives, or could still do so.

Organised by the Hayward Gallery in collaboration with the Royal Institute of British Architects, this new National Touring Exhibition opens in Sunderland before touring to Salford, Walsall and Preston. Fantasy Architecture will be accompanied by a full colour catalogue illustrating all the works in the exhibition. It includes texts by the exhibition’s selectors Neil Bingham, Clare Carolin and Rob Wilson, and a personal meditation on the subject of fantasy architecture by the former member of Archigram, Peter Cook.

Venue: Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
Market Square, Preston PR1 2PP Lancashire
Organiser: National Touring Exhibitions - Hayward Gallery and RIBA