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Select a core member AD+S Arc Architecture Centre Devon and Cornwall The Architecture Centre, Bristol The Architecture Foundation Beam The Building Exploratory Concourse CUBE Fundamental Architectural Inclusion Kent Architecture Centre MADE Northern Architecture Open-City Opun PLACE Places Matter! Shape East Solent Centre for Architecture + Design TransForm Places Urban Vision North Staffordshire Select a corporate member Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design Ltd Urban Design London Select an affiliated member Architecture and Design Scotland Scottish Civic Trust

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WHAT IS AN ARCHITECTURE CENTRE?

Architecture centres help people make better places.

They achieve this through:

• Participation and consultation: facilitating engagement with architecture and the built environment for everyone, from a creative and independent perspective;
  
• Advocacy and design support: making the case for, and providing, specialist advice to assist with the delivery of architecture and design of the highest quality;
  
• Learning and skills development: developing a greater  understanding of architecture, design and the built environment for young people, communities and professionals.

This national network of local organisations is the 'localism infrastructure', providing a vehicle for local authorities and communities to respond to the Big Society agenda.

The architecture centres are independent, influential, and inclusive, providing expertise, experience and creativity - they have the understanding of the specific local conditions, critical to providing meaningful design advice.

With a collective expert staff of over 135 supported by over 450 volunteers and 200+ built environment design professionals, the centres have a significant impact.

Their built environment education work is world leading; their design support services are esteemed for their expertise; and their exhibitions, debates and events have received national and international critical acclaim.

The collective impact of the architecture centres (excluding RIBA Trust and Fundamental) in 2010-11 was:

• Design reviewed 294 schemes
• Trained 2,767 built environment professionals
• Delivered 164 professional training days
• Facilitated 61 new artists' commissions and 3 artists' residencies
• Involved 884 artists
• Facilitated 2 artists' residencies and 5 new commissions
• Provided 142 policy and advice sessions
• Delivered 398 education events to 10,469 students
• Delivered 274 informal education and participatory sessions
• Facilitated school visits to 101 buildings
• Undertook 27 research projects
• Managed 28 competitions
• Organised 76 exhibitions with an audience of 191,728
• Produced 44 publications and 49 online publications
• Screened 35 films to an audience of 5,530 plus several thousand in Bradford city centre
• Organised 158 tours
• Led 65 teacher training / INSET days
• Organised 148 lectures, seminars and debated, 18 conferences with approx. 9,252 delegates
• Delivered 70 community events for 8,428 people
• Open House London attracted 250,000 visitors to 731 buildings
• Over 1,000 people visited the AF's Union Street Orchard
• Over 500 people participated in arts and cultural activities hosted by PLACE over two months in vacant shop unit