Guest Lecture Series
Each semester the Liverpool School of Architecture holds an open series of guest lectures, with noted practitioners and academics from the fields Architecture, Design and Art invited to speak to our undergraduate and postgraduate cohorts.
These lectures are free and open to attend by members of public or professional . Registration required .
To improve accessibility many of the guest lectures are a hybrid format ( via a zoom link ) to enable participation should travelling to LSA not be possible.
Registration links are provided below for each lecture .
Our Autumn semester open series runs on a Wednesday lunchtime at 1pm in Reilly Lecture Room 25 Abercromby Square L69 7ZN.
For any queries please contact Sandy Britton on sandy.britton@liverpol.ac.uk or email lsaevent@liverpool.ac.uk
For information on previous years lectures, click the relevant tabs below.
22th February 2023
Richard Youel: Model Making as a Design Tool
"Through model images and a case study, I aim to show the value in using rough, quick models to further your design process."
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8th March 2023
International Women’s Day
A celebration of the 80th Anniversary of Liverpool’s Polish School and our international community of Women
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15th March 2023
Fire Safety Symposium
Prof Julie Bregulla: TEDI London
Ian Abley: Fire Protection Association
As you all know the Grenfell disaster led to a fundamental reassessment of architecture's role life-safety. The tragedy brought home the relationship between the safety of the individual and architectural production today consequently the far reaching social, economic and political impacts of design. Attendance is mandatory for M.Arch Students.
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15th March 2023
Inaugural Lecture - Prof Luca Csepely-Knorr, ’Shaping Tomorrow’s Landscape'
In this lecture, Professor Luca Csepely-Knorr discusses her ongoing Arts and Humanities Research Council-supported research project ‘Women of the Welfare Landscape’.
Recording will be available soon.
22nd March 2023
The ARCH Project
Diana Heredia, Engage Liverpool
Co creating a disaster risk management framework for climate change adaptation and resilience to natural hazards in heritage areas. Diana will introduce both the project and the work of Engage Liverpool and share some of the tools developed in the process and where to access them.
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26th April 2023
Rob Leechmere
Jonathan Tuckey Design
The lecture will focus of the praxis of Jonathan Tuckey Design, examined through the lens of testing through models, prototyping and metaphors. An inherent part of the practices working methods and output, this talk will elaborate on these processes and discuss how more abstract references and the use of metaphor are important in the practice’s work.
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3rd May 2023
Gavin Hale-Brown
Architecture & Society
Henley Halebrown's work has covered an unusually wide breadth of building types, this presentation will revisit schemes that have developed the studio’s thinking and is aimed at seeding a dialogue challenging us to consider how architecture can help to address the immense challenges that face our society.
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10th May 2023
Book Launch: OFF-GRID TOILETS
Compilation, Analysis and Comparison
Dr Paco Mejias Villatoro & Dr Junjie Xi introduce their new publication that investigates 16 off-grid toilet systems that have been implemented across the world, to provide a comprehensive understanding of their functional principles.
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1st - 30th June 2023
Inclusive, Sustainable, Innovative
Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2022 & ArCHIAM 10-years
Over the years the University of Liverpool has worked closely with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture.The inclusive and global perspective shared by the two institutions, and the Liverpool School of Architecture’s pre-eminent place in design pedagogy and research, has made it possible to bring this Award exhibition to Liverpool.
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12th October 2022
Venice Fellowships Programme Launch
Introduced by Sandy Britton
We are pleased to launch the application process for Venice Fellowship programme 2023 and to celebrate the work of our two Fellows of 2022, Rim Yasine Kassab and Razan Simbawa.
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26th October 2022
Ilze Wolff
A cottage to breath in: Refusing museums, making homes
Introduced by Professor Ola Uduku
A talk on a recent project regarding the Rhodes Cottage in Muizenberg, Cape Town.
This was an online event, read more here
2nd November 2022
David Jourdan
Computational design of self-shaping textiles
Introduced by Asterios Agkathidis
David is a postdoctoral researcher, his work focuses on the computational design and fabrication of self-actuated structure.
This was a Hybrid lecture, read more here
9th November 2022
Dr Bridget Ogwezi
Senior Academic Development Manager at ANSYS UK
Introduced by Dr Haniyeh Mohammadpourkarbasi
This was a Hybrid lecture, read more here
10th November 2022
The Colin Rowe Lecture Series at RIBA
Presented by David Grandorge, who has pursued the photography of buildings, cities, and landscapes since 1996, the lecture took place at RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London
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16th November 2022
Panu Savolainen
Aalto University in Finland
Introduced by Dr Barnabas Calder
Panu talks about the ways in which Finnish architecture has historically coped with very low winter temperatures in a completely sustainable way.
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23rd November 2022
Rob Hopkins
Director AHR Architects
Introduced by Professor Steve Sharples
Rob who was previously involved with The Spine and is currently working on HEMISPHERE, Liverpool’s first proposed net zero carbon building.
This was a Hybrid lecture
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30th November 2022
Identity in the Architectural World
How are different cultures expressed in the built environment?
How does your identity change the way you're perceived as an architect and how can we change that for our future?
1pm Reilly Room
Join BLAC for an engaging, interactive conversation between architects, students and graduates about how our identities influence our architecture.
This was a hybrid event, read more here
7th December 2022
Dr Ella Chmielewsk
University of Edinburgh
Introduced by Dr Katerina Antonopoulou
This was a Hybrid lecture
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14th December 2022
How Do We Live? In the global South
We would like to invite you to our housing symposium: How do we Live? In the Global South.
The event took Wednesday, 14th December, 2022, 12:30-15:30 GMT and was conducted in 2 locations in Liverpool UK, and Santiago Chile in a hybrid format.
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24th February 2022
Neil Thomas
Two worlds
As an engineer how can I reconcile the two worlds I inhabit ?
The first, a love of a nature and my desire to promote a world that can be as sustainable as I can make it. The second, a world of rock and roll. I would like to show some radical steps which allow my two worlds to collide.
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3rd March 2022
Dr Joe Jack Williams
Live at the Liverpool School of Architecture
As one of the minds behind the FCBStudios Carbon Counts Exhibition currently on display at LSA, Dr Joe Jack Williams from FCBStudios will provide an overview embodied carbon in construction, and introduce the Carbon Counts exhibition and FCBstudio’s ambitions for it
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7th-11th March 2022
International Women's Week at the LSA
The LSA is marking this years International Women's Day (IWD) with a series of events run by the student-led groups. Marked annually on March 8th, IWD is one of the most important days of the year to celebrate women's achievements, raise awareness about women's equality, lobby for accelerated gender parity and fundraise for female-focused charities.
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17th March 2022
Anupama Kundoo
Anupama Kundoo is the 2021 recipient of the RIBA Charles Jencks award for simultaneous major contributions to both the theory and practice of architecture and the Auguste Perret Prize 2021 for architectural technology.
Read more and watch a recording of the lecture here
31st March 2022
Using What We Have
Architectural Histories of Fragments, Ruins, Rationed Resources and Obsolete Spaces
We are delighted to invite you to SAHGB's annual architectural history symposium which seeks to raise awareness of traditions of vernacular adaptation and reuse.
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23rd June - 19th July
LSA 2022 End of Year Show
Professor Ola Uduku, Head of School, and the staff and students of Liverpool School of Architecture invite you to the LSA annual End of Year Show.
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Feb - May 2022
Carbon Counts
A concept of Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Carbon Counts is a striking installation which draws together key metrics for ten materials to illustrate the embodied carbon impacts of each. Carbon Counts ran at the Liverpool School of Architecture from 1st February to July 2022.
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30th September 2021
A Citizens Design Bureau: weaving with wit and wisdom
Katy Marks
Katy will talk about the work of Citizen’s Design Bureau, scratch process and why the business model of architecture practices needs to change
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7th October 2021
Works by Marina Tabassum
Marina Tabassum is the principal of Marina Tabassum Architects, a practice established in 2005 based in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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21st October 2021
The Challenges for Architecture
Rahel Belatchew
Rahel will join us form Stockholm to will talk of the challenges of architecture exemplified in the numerous projects and lab pieces of Belatchew Arkitekter
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28th October 2021
Jim Eyre OBE
Jim Eyre is a founding director at WilkinsonEyre, here he talks about the design of many of the practice’s cultural, commercial and infrastructure projects.
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4th November 2021
Designing for an Ethical World
Sumita Singha OBE RIBA
The patriarchal hierarchy of our designed environment seeks to dominate nature and those who are weaker, including animals and other humans. Now with the existential threat of the climate crisis, do we need a different way of designing?
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11th November 2021
LSA COP26 Micro-summit
LSA Climate Crisis (Student Climate Action Group)
In collaboration with LSA Climate Crisis (Student Climate Action Group), Liverpool School of Architecture are hosting a micro-summit following the outcome of COP26 6:00pm-7:30pm via zoom.
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25th November 2021
DSDHA
Deborah Saunt and Lemma Redda
DSDHA’s work spans from crafting beautiful and sustainable buildings, welcoming landscapes and whole new neighbourhoods, through to writing the brief that will shape how a space might be used long into the future.
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2nd December 2021
Back to the Future: The optimistic case for retrofitting places
Martin Prince-Parrot
Retro-fitting all our buildings is one of the largest challenges and opportunities facing the UK’s built environment. How we can turn this mammoth challenge into a renaissance for our homes, workplaces, communities, towns and cities?
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Thursday 11th February 2021
David Lomax
How CLT Can Save The World
We will share with you our work over the last decade to bring cross laminated timber construction to the fore, explaining the circumstances that contribute to the meteoric rise in the use of this innovative and sustainable material.
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Thursday 18th February 2021
UrbanistasNW
Where did everybody go?
We want to explore why architectural education, especially during undergrad, has around a 50/50 gender split, but the further up the ladder women seem to drop off.
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Monday 22nd February 2021
Anna Page
The Swiss Genossenschaft: Cooperative Housing
What can we learn from the Swiss Genossenschafts which could change the way we approach housing for the better?
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Thursday 25th February 2021
Dr Joe Jack Williams, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
The hidden carbon of building – Embodied Carbon
Joe Jack Williams from FCBStudios will provide an overview embodied carbon in construction
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Thursday 4th March 2021
Lesley Lokko
Sacred Cows
Generally speaking, institutions are built to withstand change, not encourage it. This lecture and Q&A speculates on different approaches to architectural education that might encourage institutions to give up a few ‘sacred cows’ in favour of a more equitable, diverse and inclusive future.
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Wednesday 10th March 2021
Richard Koeck
Public Lecture: History and Future of Immersive Experiences
Professor Richard Koeck presents ground-breaking innovations and failures in the history of immersive experiences and a peep into the future.
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Thursday 11th March 2021
Danni Kerr
Your Name's not on the List: The Failure of Space as Social Mediator
Danni Kerr discusses how the power that attaches or is attached to space disables mediation for minority persons as a 'normal' way of being; and how 'normal' behaviour in the space leads to non-participation, invisibility and exclusion.
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Thursday 18th March 2021
Martin Prince-Parrot
Park-onomics: The Value of Healthy Places
A collaboration between LSA and BLAC Black Led Architecture Collective
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Thursday 15th April 2021
Future Architects Front
Grassroots Activism in Architecture
This talk by FAF's founder will outline how all young people can organise and campaign through digital and grassroots methods in order to manifest the change they want to see - both within and without architecture.
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Thursday 22nd April 2021
Reflections on the predicament of Architecture: seven points in retrospect
Kenneth Frampton
The Liverpool School of Architecture is pleased to announce a new lecture series entitled to its alumnus Robert ‘Bob’ Maxwell (1922-2020).
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Thursday 6th May 2021
Ali Mangera, MYAA Architects
Architecture, Culture & Identity in a Globalised World
We believe architecture has a profound ability to connect with our heart and our soul. Our talk will illustrate how Globalization, Identity & Culture are not mutually exclusive but interdependent. Let’s build bridges, not walls.
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Thursday 13th May 2021
Symposium
Addressing EDI Issues in Architectural Education at the LSA
We invite you to join us in this symposium to discuss how issues in gender, race, sexuality, social mobility, accessibility, and mental health affect architectural education. This symposium aims to better articulate the challenges and the strengths regarding EDI issues in the education offered at the LSA.
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Thursday 20th May 2021
Stephen Lawrence Day 2021
A panel discussion looking at the realities of being Black in the profession and exploring why it is so significant that we lost a future Black architect when Stephen was murdered.
BLAC want to celebrate Stephen and highlight the issues of race in the UK, and the issues of race within architecture.
A collaboration between LSA and BLAC Black Led Architecture Collective.
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November 2020
Historical and contemporary perspectives on mental health and the built environment
Five online sessions of guest talks culminating in a round table discussion will focus on the complex and multi-faceted connections between mental health and the built environment.
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12th November 2020
Neil Pinder
POWER
A talk and Q&A with activist and educator Neil Pinder. Could you be inspiring others? What role can you play in increasing inclusivity and diversity in architecture?
An ASOC LSA collaboration
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19th November 2020
Madness and Architecture: An Archaeology of Lunatic Asylums
Dr Burçak Özlüdil, Associate Dean, Albert Dorman Honors College, New Jersey Institute of Technology (USA)
Part of the series on Historical and contemporary perspectives on mental health and the built environment
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23rd November 2020
Anna Page
Secular Retreat, Peter Zumthor: The Process of Making
Peter Zumthor's House on a Hill in North Devon is a meditation on living in the landscape. This lecture will discuss the process of designing and building this house, from its early model making to its final construction.
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26th November 2020
Social Psychiatry and Preventing Mental Illness in the USA 1939-1980
Professor Matthew Smith, University of Strathclyde
Part of the series on Historical and contemporary perspectives on mental health and the built environment
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30th November 2020
Stephanie Imbeau: Procession
Recheduled from June, artist Stephanie Imbeau joins us with a recording of her talk and for live Q and A
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3rd December 2020
Nurture and Nature – Approaches to Mental Health Design
Karen Flatt, Architect & Studio Director, IBI Group
Part of the series on Historical and contemporary perspectives on mental health and the built environment
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10th December 2020
Architecture and heritage for mental health in the community
Stacey Charlesworth, Design Director, ADT Workplace
Chris Pickup, Studio Associate Director, IBI Group)
Part of the series on Historical and contemporary perspectives on mental health and the built environment
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17th December 2020
Round table: Mental health for all: the role of architecture, design and place
A round table discussion on the intersection of mental health and community environments.
Part of the series on Historical and contemporary perspectives on mental health and the built environment
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16th December 2020
David Rapp
‘Elements ‘ Screening 32 minutes and Q and A
Introduced by Pietro Pezzani, we are delighted that Davide Rapp will join us at LSA for questions and answers following a screening of his film
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7th January 2021
David Nixon
The International Space Station
This talk offers an introduction to the major issues and challenges that impacted the design of the Station, the first significant piece of architecture beyond Earth.
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Wednesday 12th February
Between the sand and the sea
Oman’s architectural heritage
5.30pm-8pm, 502 Teaching Hub
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EVENT POSTPONED
John Meunier
Life and works
We are very sad that due to circumstances outside of everyones’ control this event has been POSTPONED
EVENT POSTPONED
John Meunier, Patrick Lynch, Alan Dunlop and Simon Henley
On Intricacy: an evening with John Meunier and friends
We are very sad that due to circumstances outside of everyones’ control this event has been POSTPONED
Thursday 10th October
British Council and Fellow Andy Lane launching the 2020 Venice Biennale Programme
Image courtsey of Andy Lane
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Thursday 24th January
LSA Spring School 2019
Carl Turner & Simon Cadle
Geoff Rich
Howard Miller
Ragunath Vasudevan
Dr Patrick Lynch
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Thursday 31st January
Housing Design Handbook: designing for mixed communities
Levitt Bernstein
Book Launch and Talks
Chaired by Prof Mark Swenarton
6.00pm Budden Lecture Theatre
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Tuesday 12th February
'Designing an Experience'
Tim Heatley of Capital and Centric
5.00pm Budden Lecture Theatre
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Tuesday 19th February
Utopia, instrument, and tool:
A thematic history of the architectural model
Dr Matthew Wells
5.00pm Budden Lecture Theatre
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Thursday 28th February
Creative Reuse
Geoff Rich (Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios)
5.00pm Budden Lecture Theatre
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Thursday 28th February
What Next?
Reilly Room, 10.00am - 5.00pm
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Thursday 7th March
International Womens Day: Decades of LSA Women Alumni
Budden Lecture Theatre 5.00 – 8.00 pm
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Wednesday 20th March
This Must Be The Place: Liverpool’s Popular Music Venues
Professor Robert Kronenburg (Architecture)
Leggate Theatre, Victoria Gallery and Museum
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Wednesday 13th March
The Temporality of Building
European and Chinese Perspectives on Architecture and Heritage
1.00pm Budden Lecture Theatre
29th - 31st May 2019
Building Children’s Worlds
Looking at how modern architecture has been portrayed in children’s picture books since 1945 and exploring the potential influence of illustrations and portrayals of home.
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Thursday 2nd May
Off Road
Prof. Dipl. Ing. Christian Moczala
5.00pm Budden Lecture Theatre
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Tuesday 7th May
The World as a City
Professor Wolfgang Dokonal
12.00pm Budden Lecture Theatre
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Events in May & June
The Keyword Conversations
Liverpool & London Campuses
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Wednesday 26th June
Summer Degree Show in London
University of Liverpool in London
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Tuesday 25th September
Carolyn Steel: How Food Shapes Our World
5.00pm Budden Lecture Theatre
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Tuesday 9th October
LAS Honan Scholarship 2017 & 2018 Student Presentation
5.30pm Budden Lecture Theatre
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Monday 29th October
Liverpool, by 2020 the world’s first ‘climate positive’ city
11.00am to 12.00pm Budden Lecture Theatre
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Tuesday 27th November
Venice Tales and Fellowships
5.00pm Budden Lecture Theatre
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Tuesday 30th October
An Introduction to Brickwork and Innovations in Brickwork
Michael H Thomson Design Advisor at Ibstock brick
Tuesday 20th November
Paul Arad. Acrylicize.
Selling Creativity
17.30 Budden Lecture Theatre
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Thursday 6th December
Pragmatic Parametric Poetry
A talk by Ragunath Vasudevan of
schneider+schumacher
5.00pm Budden Lecture Theatre
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Thursday 15th February
Professor Mark Swenarton
Cook’s Camden
The Making of Modern Housing
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Thursday 8th March
Emilio Caravatti
caravatti_caravatti
architecture and community
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Friday 9th March
shedkm
A talk in two parts by Director Hazel Rounding
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Wednesday 11th April
LSA_RIBA Education debate
A debate that brings together the RIBA and architectural educators from across the region
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Thursday 19th April
Robin Partington
Alumni Robin Partington talks about his life and work
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Thursday 19th April
Visa Breakfast
Employing International Graduates, aimed at practices recruiting Part one or Part two Architecture Graduates
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Thursday 3rd May
BRUTALISM EVENT at RIBA NORTH
RIBA North in collaboration Urban Splash with support from LSA and LJMU
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Monday 11th June
HOUSING EVENT at RIBA NORTH
RIBA North in collaboration Urban Splash with support from LSA and LJMU
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Thursday 28th September
Dominic Wilkinson
A New Cathedral 1960
The competition for Liverpool's Catholic Cathedral
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Thursday 5th October
CJ Lim
Inhabitable Infrastructures
Science fiction or urban future?
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Thursday 16th November
Nina Edge and Dr Gareth Carr
The Welsh Streets of Liverpool
5.30pm, Introduced by Neil Jackson
Talk with Q&A
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Thursday 23rd November
Richard Pare
Architecture and Photography
From the lost vanguard to Le Corbusier
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Thursday 14th December
Professor George Baird
Japanness: Atelier Bow-Wow
Introduced by Michael Wilford
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Tuesday 31st January 2017
Life By Design
Budden Lecture Theatre,
Booking Required
11.30am to 1.00pm
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Thursday 9th February 2017
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?
Michael Wilford, Patrick Lynch & Dave King
Budden Lecture Theatre, 5.00pm
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Tuesday 21st March 2017
The North American Gridiron City
Professor Alan Dunlop
Budden Lecture Theatre, 1.00pm
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Thursday 23rd March 2017
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: 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?
Simon Henley from architects Henley Halebrown
Reilly Lecture Theatre, 1.00pm
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Thursday 27th April 2017
Contemporary Indigenous Architecture: Recent Works
Daniel Glenn
Budden Lecture Theatre, 5.00pm
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Thursday 4th May 2017
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
School of Architecture Industry Night
The Liverpool School of Architecture, Leverhulme Building, Abercromby Square
4.00pm to 8.00pm
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Thursday 24th November
Visiting Professors Discuss 'architecture school'
Stirling Gallery
5.30 pm - 6.30 pm
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Thursday 1st December
Professor Fiona Mclachlan
Ethereal Material: Colour Strategies in Architecture
Photo: Urs Siegenthaler Zurich
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Guest Lectures and Talks
Each semester the Liverpool School of Architecture holds a quest lecture and talk series, with noted practitioners from the fields Architecture, Design and Art invited to speak to our undergraduate and postgraduate cohorts.
For any queries please contact Sandy Britton on sandy.britton@liverpol.ac.uk
All lectures and talk, unless otherwise stated, take place on Wednesdays at 1PM, are Hybrid and free open access. In some cases prior booking via EventBrite or Zoom is required, for Hybrid events booking is essential.
