Without Walls: Disability and Innovation in Building Design

10 Feb 2018 - 21 Oct 2018

V&A

Cromwell Rd
Knightsbridge
London
SW7 2RL

Woman in wheelchair in 70s kitchen

At the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the display will focus on the design of a number of different buildings that have been shaped by the needs of deaf and disabled people, including a deaf church, a medieval almshouse, a contemporary architect-designed private house for a disabled client and items from the archive of pioneering disability activists Maggie and Ken Davis, whose determination and vision saw them successfully commission in the 1970s the first council housing that allowed disabled people to live independently outside of institutionalised care.