Guest Lecture Series

Each semester the Liverpool School of Architecture holds a quest lecture series, with noted practitioners from the fields Architecture, Design and Art invited to speak to our undergraduate and postgraduate cohorts. Below is an archive of the lectures from the 2016/17, 15/16 and 14/15 academic years.

Any queries please contact Sandy Britton on sandy.britton@liverpol.ac.uk

Spring Semester Lectures 2017

25th January 2017

Marco De Michelis

Marco De Michelis

Budden Lecture Theatre,

5.00pm

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Tuesday 31st January 2017

Marco De Michelis

Life By Design

Budden Lecture Theatre,
Booking Required
11.30am to 1.00pm

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Thursday 2nd February 2017

Deyan Sudjic

Deyan Sudjic

Budden Lecture Theatre,

5.00pm

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Thursday 9th February 2017

A Gendered Profession

A Gendered Profession

Ruth Morrow and James Soane

Budden Lecture Theatre, 5.00pm

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March 16th February 2017

What is the objective of architectural education?

What is the objective of architectural education?

Michael Wilford, Patrick Lynch & Dave King

Budden Lecture Theatre, 5.00pm

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Tuesday 21st March 2017

Dunlop Link

The North American Gridiron City

Professor Alan Dunlop

Budden Lecture Theatre, 1.00pm

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Thursday 23rd March 2017

Damascus

Threats and Opportunities in Post-war Reconciliation

Dr. Ataa Alsalloum

Budden Lecture Theatre, 5.00pm

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Tuesday 28th March 2017

Ethics and Morality

Ethics and Morality: A discussion

Ian Ritchie, Alan Dunlop, Nick Ray, Michael Wilford and Dr Rosa Urbano Gutierrez, hosted by Johanna Muszbek

Budden Lecture Theatre, 7.00pm

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Thursday 30th March 2017

Ethic or Aesthetic-link

Ethic or Aesthetic?

Simon Henley from architects Henley Halebrown

Reilly Lecture Theatre, 1.00pm

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Thursday 27th April 2017

Daniel Glenn

Contemporary Indigenous Architecture: Recent Works 

Daniel Glenn

Budden Lecture Theatre, 5.00pm

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Thursday 4th May 2017

LSA-Future Link

The LSA - an architecture school's future? 

Michael Wilford, Patrick Lynch, Dave King, Roger Stephenson, Prof Soumyen Bandyopadhyay, hosted by Ms Johanna Muszbek

Budden Lecture Theatre, 5.00pm

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Thursday 15th June 2017

Unknown Futures

School of Architecture Industry Night

The Liverpool School of Architecture, Leverhulme Building, Abercromby Square

4.00pm to 8.00pm

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Autumn Semester Lectures 2016

Thursday 29th September

Raw Concrete

Barnabas Calder

Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism

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Thursday 6th October

Japanese-Wood-Craftsmanship Small

Hugh Miller

Japanese Wood Craftsmanship

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Thursday 13th October

Mimesis

Patrick Lynch

'Mimesis'

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Thursday 20th October

Farm Urban

Paul Myers and Jens Thomas

Farm Urban: Urban food Production

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Thursday 10th November

Alun Jones Dow Jones Architects Title - An Idea About Construction

Alun Jones

An Idea About Construction

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Thursday 17th November

CJ Lim Food City

CJ Lim

Food City

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Thursday 24th November

Architecture School Debate

Visiting Professors Discuss 'architecture school'

Stirling Gallery
5.30 pm - 6.30 pm

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Thursday 1st December

Fiona Mclachlan

Professor Fiona Mclachlan

Ethereal Material: Colour Strategies in Architecture

Photo: Urs Siegenthaler Zurich

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Thursday 8th December    

Dr Polly Gould

Dr Polly Gould

No More Elsewhere: Antarctica though the Archive of the Edward Wilson (1872-1912) Watercolours

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2015/16 Lecture Archive

1st October Joseph Sharples
8th October Carla Molinari Sequences in architecture
15th October Dr Marco Iuliano Stirling thinks
22nd October Cristóbal Amunátegui Things Made Whole
29th October Assemble Collective practice
5th November Ab Rogers and Jimmy Loizeau Nostalgia and Progression
12th November Prof. Ian Ritchie Architecture and Neuroscience
24th November November 2A +P/A The School, A space for education
3rd December Clare Nash RIBA role model
4th February Eric Parry Eric Parry Architects
11th February Irena Bauman Retrofitting Neighbourhoods - Designing for Resilience
18th February Jane Duncan President of RIBA 
25th February Darryl Condon HCMArchitects
3rd March David Nixon International Space Station – Architecture Beyond Earth
10th March David Houghton If we have seen it before it’s the wrong solution
14th April Dr Pedro Leão Neto Contemporary Photography: Architecture, City and Territory
21st April Oliver Heath The Science and Style of Biophilic Design
28th April Toby Wallis and Luke Cooper Collaborative design
5th May Stefanos Roimpas How not to answer questions
12th May Peter Clegg Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

2014/15 Lecture Archive

23rd Oct CJ Lim Food City
30th Oct Jonathan Hendry Foraging
6th Nov Paul Domela On art, body and space and the speculation of an Architecture Biennial
13th Nov Stephanie Strain Assistant Curator of Tate Liverpool on Claude Parent and La Colline de l’Art commission
20th Nov Jay Gort Gort Scott Architects
27th Nov Patrick  Lynch Lynch Architects
4th Dec Raymond Quek Line Wash and Tone, architecture and the metropolis and the thematics of redemption
5th March Michael Wilford Composition and Character
10th March Justin de Syllas Peckham and Finsbury, London’s Pioneering 1930s health centres
12th March Roger Watt Haworth Tomkins Aspects of theatre design
19th March Matt Driscoll Director, Threefold Architects www.threefoldarchitects.com
30th April Sophie Goldhill and David Liddicoat Liddicoat & Goldhill www.liddicoatgoldhill.com