The City post-Covid has entered a new era very different from when the City Architecture Forum was founded in 1991. The City Corporation’s new City Plan 2040 reflects this.

The aim of the Corporation’s Destination City campaign, enshrined in key policies of the new plan, is to create a more humane and people-friendly City, to enhance its role as an engine of the UK economy and one of the world’s biggest financial markets. The built environment industry is responding enthusiastically with a new breed of buildings, growing diversity of uses and greatly enhanced place-making.

Established in 1991, when there was a stark divergence in views about the style of architecture appropriate for a rapidly changing City, to which the Forum was a constructive response, the Forum is wholly engaged with this new era and is evolving to suit the times.

It continues to be a place for developers, designers, planners, and anyone interested in the built environment to debate and promote better design and the wider understanding of issues affecting the City and new development.

Our members are typically architects, developers, engineers, financiers, investors, surveyors, planners, conservationists, media and others involved in the built environment. We extend a warm welcome to those who can enhance that diversity, and to younger people wishing to learn about the City.

We work with leading developers, designers, planners to provide ‘behind the scenes’ tours of landmark and world-class projects, with lively, well-attended events that explain and debate emerging issues and planning policy. These all offer excellent networking. [See our Events and Insights pages respectively for upcoming, and reviews of, events and other articles and videos.]

There is no better place, if you want or need an introduction to the City’s built environment and to the ideas of those who shape it than the City Architecture Forum.