Exhibition Tour: The Architecture Drawing Prize

Join two of the judges of The Architecture Drawing Prize for a tour of the exhibition, which showcases the winning and commended entries.

The Architecture Drawing Prize was set up by Make Architects, Sir John Soane’s Museum and the World Architecture Festival to celebrate the significance of drawing as a tool in capturing and communicating architectural ideas. Sponsored by Iris Ceramica Group, the prize showcases the art and skill of architectural drawing. Submissions come from around the world, attesting to the international nature of the prize. The works on display span all forms of architectural design, from conceptual to technical, and testify to the skill, ambition and creativity that characterise architectural drawing today.

These exclusive tours offer the opportunity to delve deeper into the drawings in this unique exhibition and explore key themes in dialogue with the two of the prize’s judges.

Join us on one of the tours below:

Friday 30 January at 10 am – with Lily Jencks

Friday 30 January at 2 pm – with Dr. Erin Mckellar

About the event

• Tours last approximately 45 minutes and are led by one of the prize's judges. There are 15 places per tour. 
• Please convene outside the No.12 door of the Museum 10 minutes before your tour start time, where a member of our team will greet you and escort the group up to our Exhibition Galleries. You will be asked to put any small bags into our biodegradable clear bags to enter the Museum; alternatively, for bags that don't fit into our biodegradable bags, you will be asked to leave them in our cloakroom.

Ticket information

• £15, or £5 for students.
• After purchase, you will receive a confirmation email which acts as your ticket. Please note that we do not issue separate tickets. When you arrive on the day, your name will be ready on our list. 
• Tickets are refundable up to 7 days before the event, after which point they are non-refundable or exchangeable. 

About your tour guides

• Dr. Erin McKellar is Assistant Curator (Exhibitions) at Sir John Soane’s Museum in London. Here she leads the online exhibitions programme and curates shows in the gallery on modern and contemporary architecture. Her exhibitions reveal how Soane’s ideas are reflected in 20th- and 21st-century design. Her independent research centres on the design cultures of the 1930s and 1940s. She is the curator of the Architecture Drawing Prize exhibition.
• Lily Jencks is an architectural and landscape designer and Keeper of Vision at the Jencks Foundation, leading The Cosmic House, a Grade I listed house-museum and cultural institution in London. Her work ranges from intimate courtyards to large public parks, creating content-driven architecture, landscape and land art projects in the UK and internationally. She has taught at the Architectural Association in London and served on the boards of several charities including Maggie’s Centres.