Guest Lecture Series Film Archive

Since 2020, the Liverpool School of Architecture Guest Lecture Series has been presented either virtually over Zoomn during lockdown, or hybridly, with practitioners from the fields Architecture, Design and Art speaking to our staff, undergraduate and postgraduate cohorts.

Below are archived recordings of some of the most recent lectures.

Please note: we are currently migrating to a new streaming server so some lectures may not be available, we hope to have the migration complete by the begining of 2024. In the meantime if there is a particular lecture you wish to view that is not available please contact us here.

Robert Maxwell Memorial Lecture

Robert Maxwell

Kenneth Frampton Reflections on the predicament of Architecture: seven points in retrospect

A new lecture series entitled to alumnus Robert ‘Bob’ Maxwell (1922-2020). Maxwell, who graduated in Architecture and then took his diploma in Civic Design at the University of Liverpool in 1949, taught at the Bartlett, the AA, and was Dean at Princeton University.

Click here to watch the the inaugural lecture delivered by Kenneth Frampton, Emeritus Professor at Columbia University - Reflections on the predicament of Architecture: seven points in retrospect.

Spring & Autumn Lecture Series 2024/25

Community Events March/April 2024

Spring Lecture Series 2024

Mixed group of people in two rows some sitting some standing. Geometric furniture.

Ab Rogers: Maggies at the Royal Marsden

Wednesday 7th February
Outside a brick auditorium at night, there is traffic on the road. Illuminated text reads Yoko Ono Lennon Centre, Home of the Tung Auditorium.

Mushtaq Saleri and Jade Meeks: The Yoko Ono Lennon Centre

Wednesday 14th February
Smiling Pakistani woman with grey curly hair standing in a vaulted coridor.

Yasmin Lari: Lessons from the Global South: 3Ds - Decarbonise, Decolonize, Democratise Architecture

Wednesday March 6th
Cardboard placards at a street protest, one reads

Stephen Lawrence Day: Kudzai Matsvai - INSPIRE, ENQUIRE, ASPIRE

Wednesday 17th April
A vintage airline ticker with a chinese temple and stylised jet plane on the cover, next to it is a red book containing the teachings of Chairman Mao.

Dr Paolo Scrivano: Un regard qui louche - The People’s Republic of China in the eyes of European architects, 1949-1975

Wednesday 1st May
Young black male with shaven head, trimmed beard and buttoned up shirt.

Rashid Ali: Cultivating a Design Narrative

Wednesday 8th May

Autumn Lecture Series 2023

Map of an urban area, pins are placed at various points with cardboard luggage tags hanging from them.

Jo Harrop: Creating better places together

Wednesday 4th October
Three children looking in through an internal window set in a brick wall. on the window is a paper cutout world and a rainbow coloured text reading

Gavin Hale-Brown, Henley Halebrown: Architecture & Society

Wednesday 18th October
Four men and one woman, all wearing casual clothes superimposed against a cloudy blue sky.

Bernhard König, Breathe Earth Collective: Breathing Cities

Wednesday 25th October

Young man with short cropped afro hair wearing a fluffy sage shirt.

RIBA President Muyiwa Oki

Wednesday 15th November
3 images showing the LSA exhibition at Venice

Venice Biennale Fellowship Programme Launch

Wednesday 22nd November
Medieval parchment, with the title 'Chimneys' visible at the start.

Wednesday 29th November

Katie Lloyd Thomas, Instructing Architecture: how writing organises building
Two cross sections of AI generated buildings

Dr Matias Del Campo: Tectonics of the Latent Space

Wednesday 6th December 2023
Panel of three AI images, a man behind a window, a man smiling at a table illuminated by two lightbulbs, and another planting a tree.

William Gates: Incorporating Generative AI into Architectural Pedagogy of Teaching

Wednesday 6th December 2023
A man and a woman standing and looking at building models, behind them is a relief model of a site plan.

Ilze and Heinrich Wolff: Tectonic Shifts - reflections of recent work

Wednesday 13th December

Spring Semester Lectures 2023

Autumn Semester Lectures 2022

Woman wearing a mask standing in front of patchwork

Venice Fellowship Programme 2022 presentations and 2023 launch

Wednesday 12th October
Collage image of photographs of african village life, architectural plans and pressed flowers

Ilze Wolff: A cottage to breathe in, Refusing museums, making homes

Wednesday 26th October
Head and Shoulders of a young white man with short cropped ginger hair and moustache. He is wearing round glasses

Dr David Jourdan: Computational design of self-shaping textiles

Wednesday 2nd November
Black woman with long dark hair, wearing a blue top and smiling. She is standing in open plan office with balloons floating on the ceiling

Dr Bridget Ogwezi: Reactive building skin for hot-humid climates

Wednesday 9th November
Middle aged white man wearing a Dark blue coat, blue shirt and grey hat standing in front of a featureless wall

Panu Savolainen: Northern Vernacular – the past and the future. Energy, comfort and creativity in the historic vernacular architecture of Fennoscandia

Wednesday 16th November
Identity in the Architectural World

BLAC Identity in the Architectural World

Wednesday 30th November
How Do We Live? In the global South

How Do We Live? In the Global South

Wednesday 14th December

Spring Semester Lectures 2022

Mental Health and the Built Environment

Historical and contemporary perspectives on mental health and the built environment

November & December 2020

Five online sessions of guest talks culminating in a round table discussion that focused on the complex and multi-faceted connections between mental health and the built environment.

Madness and Architecture: An Archaeology of Lunatic Asylums

Dr Burçak Özlüdil, Associate Dean, Albert Dorman Honors College, New Jersey Institute of Technology (USA)

Social Psychiatry and Preventing Mental Illness in the USA, 1939-1980

Professor Matthew Smith, University of Strathclyde

Nurture and Nature – Approaches to Mental Health Design

Karen Flatt, Architect & Studio Director, IBI Group

Architecture and heritage for mental health in the community

Stacey Charlesworth, Design Director, ADT Workplace Chris Pickup, Studio Associate Director, IBI Group

Round table: Mental health for all: the role of architecture, design and place

Conferences 2020/21

Crucibles, Vectors, Catalysts: Envisioning The Modern City

This online event brings together scholars, researchers and curators to explore the architectural production in the blurred era of independence to the post-colonial period of the mid-20th century, focussing on cities in Africa, Middle East and South Asia.

Autumn Semester Lectures 2021

Spring Semester Lectures 2021

Two buildings under construction, on the right using cross laminated timber construction

David Lomax: How CLT Can Save The World

Thursday 11th February
Woman with megaphone in front of University of Liverpool Victoria Building

UrbanistasNW: where did everybody go?

Thursday 18th February
Community Festival Mehr Al Wohnen, Lukas Zieglar

Anna Page: The Swiss Genossenschaft, Cooperative Housing

Monday 22nd February AVAILABLE SOON

Dyson Centre Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios ©CraigAuckland

Dr Joe Jack Williams: The hidden carbon of building – Embodied Carbon

Thursday 25th February
LSA Logo 2022 Events Link

Professor Soumyen Bandyopadhyay: An Approach to Design
Indian street scene with Cow looking at camera

Lesley Lokko: Sacred Cows

Thursday 4th March

Grid representing social exclusion in architecture

Danni Kerr: Your Name's not on the List - The Failure of Space as Social Mediator

Thursday 11th March
Parkonomics Link

Martin Prince-Parrot: Park-onomics, The Value of Healthy Places

Thursday 18th March
Future Architects Front Link

Future Architects Front: Grassroots Activism in Architecture

Thursday 15th April
MYAA & Qatar Foundation

Ali Mangera, MYAA Architects: Architecture, Culture & Identity in a Globalised World

Thursday 6th May
Text describing diversity

Addressing EDI Issues in Architectural Education at the LSA

Thursday 13th May Please note: For copyright reasons this video is currently only available to University of Liverpool Staff and Students.
Stephen Lawrence Day Link

Stephen Lawrence Day 2021: Online Panel Discussion

Thursday 20th May
feminae-x-climate-symposium

FEMIN.AE X LSA CLIMATE CRISIS: Why Climate Action needs women - Online Panel Discussion

Thursday 5th July
International Space Station in orbit over earth

David Nixon: The International Space Station