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.
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’.
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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.
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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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