“Pablo Bronstein: Conservatism, or the Long Reign of Pseudo-Georgian Architecture” is being displayed at RIBA, London, until February 11, 2018. The exhibition is centered on British-Argentinian artist Pablo Bronstein’s works and RIBA collections, which approach the omnipresent neo-Georgian developments as a paradigm of authentic British architecture. Several polls, real estate trends, and persistent design trends confirm that most Brits still prefer Georgian style houses. The school of architecture has held sway over the last 300 years almost without any interruption. The RIBA exhibition explores why Georgian architecture is so desirable.Bronstein performed a compulsive survey of the commonest kind of architecture over the past six years. He found that pseudo-Georgian elements such as generic boxes covered with stick-on bricks, sash windows, and mansard roofs have dominated suburban housing developments as well as office blocks in the interiors since the 1970s. We have become so used to these features that we rarely notice or comment upon them. Bronstein used these observations to create his drawings. His pen and ink sketches resemble postcards from National Trust gift shops, and depict simple homes styled with pediments and plastic porches, and trite commercial apartment blocks sporting facades in Georgian proportions, notes The Guardian.The exhibition features 50 new drawings of contemporary buildings that were built during the second half of the 20th century with conspicuous Georgian elements. These are being opened to the public for the first time, along with several rarely-displayed historical material from RIBA’s impressive Drawings Collection. Bronstein himself selected the works on display. Visitors will be able to view the archival material in relation to architectural practice through time, offering insights into social aspirations, the urban framework, identity, and exemplification. RIBA Collections will present acclaimed architects like Colen Campbell (1676-1729), Michael Searles (1751-1813), and Robert Adam (b.1948), along with less familiar advocates of late neo-Georgian architecture. Pablo Bronstein has designed the exhibition along with architecture practice Apparata (Nicholas Lobo Brennan and Astrid Smitham).Click on the slideshow for a sneak peak. Read more