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Oct 25

LSA tutor wins Young Architect of the Year 2025

Oct 25

Open Evening 19 November 2025

Oct 25

AJ Student Prize | Postgraduate Winner: Amy Wilkinson

Sep 25

Hugh Strange Architects Shortlisted for RIBA Stirling Prize 2025

Sep 25

‘Design for Life’ returns this November – Part 4

Aug 25

Lee Ivett appointed as Head of School at London School of Architecture

Aug 25

George Moldovan shortlisted for 2025 Structural Timber Awards

Jun 25

‘A Seat at the Table’ Summer Show 2025

Jun 25

University of the Built Environment

Jun 25

OPEN DAY 11 June 2025

May 25

Future Skills Think Tank

May 25

JOB OPPORTUNITY: HEAD OF SCHOOL

May 25

LSA and UCEM merge

Apr 25

Future Skills Think Tank

Apr 25

Festival of the Future

Feb 25

Sixty years on from the London County Council: legacy, impact, learning

Feb 25

Dr Neal Shasore stepping down as Head of School and Chief Executive of the London School of Architecture (LSA) in February 2025

Jan 25

PART 0 WINS INSPIRE FUTURE GENERATIONS AWARD FOR FURTHER EDUCATION/HIGHER EDUCATION

Jan 25

LSA AND PURCELL ANNOUNCE NEW PARTNERSHIP

Jan 25

LUCY CARMICHAEL APPOINTED CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Dec 24

PART 0 IS AN INSPIRE FUTURE GENERATIONS (IFG) AWARDS FINALIST

Dec 24

WINTER EXHIBITION – WED 11 & THU 12 DEC: CURATED OPEN HOUSE, EXHIBITION AND OPEN EVENING FOR PART 1s

Nov 24

NEW ROLE: RESEARCH ASSOCIATE – FUTURE SKILLS THINK TANK

Sep 24

JOB OPPORTUNITY: MARKETING MANAGER

Sep 24

ATTEND THE BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION SYMPOSIUM 2024

Jul 24

SEE OUR GRADUATING STUDENTS’ WORK

Jul 24

JOB OPPORTUNITY: CRITICAL PRACTICE TUTOR

Jun 24

PlanBEE: Matching young people with work in the Capital

May 24

The Dalston Pavilion

May 24

LSA Graduate Exhibition 2024

May 24

British Empire Exhibition: Call for Participation

May 24

LEAD OUR BRAND-NEW PRACTICE SUPPORT PROGRAMME

May 24

HELP DEFINE THE FUTURE OF EQUITABLE BUILT ENVIRONMENT EDUCATION

Feb 24

24/25 Admissions Open Evening – 6 March

Dec 23

2023 LSA GRADUATES WIN RIBA SILVER MEDAL AND COMMENDATION

Nov 23

STEFAN BOLLINGER APPOINTED AS CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Nov 23

STEPHEN LAWRENCE DAY FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP

Nov 23

APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN FOR OUR PART 2 MARCH FOR 2024/25

Nov 23

Open Evening – 7 December 2023

Oct 23

BOOK PART 4 NOW: SHORT COURSES – MODULAR LIFELONG LEARNING – FUTURE PRACTICE

Aug 23

IN MEMORIAM – PETER BUCHANAN

Jul 23

The LSA is Moving

Jun 23

Become a Critical Practice Tutor at the LSA for 2023/24

Jun 23

Become a Design Tutor at the LSA for 2023/24

Jun 23

Pathways: Exhibiting Forms

Jun 23

City as Campus: The Furniture Practice

Jun 23

Summer Show 2023: FLAARE Futures Workshop

Jun 23

Summer Show 2023: Meet Your Future Employer

Jun 23

Summer Show 2023: Close to Home

May 23

WE ARE SEEKING A NEW FINANCE MANAGER

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The 2018/19 Critical Practice Reader is now online


As part of the Critical Practice Placement module for this year, Director of Critical Practice at the LSA, James Soane, has compiled a list of texts for students to read. The document includes excerpts and articles from world leading thinkers, commentators and academics, including staff at the LSA, all of which has been put together using open source material gathered online.

As Soane notes in his introduction:

There is no single or correct standpoint. The purpose of Critical Practice is to understand judgement, to construct compelling arguments with evidence and to form a position that contributes toward change. Theory in architecture is most pertinent when it informs our practices. And therefore you need to read, listen, learn and to write.

 

In order to make sense of the conflicting forces that inform the production of our environment, we need to understand better the practices
of architecture. The pedagogic model that underpins the LSA is to encourage collisions between grounded ideologies that inform how architects work, with readings and theories whose purpose is to provoke, re-frame and take on our own embedded prejudices. Only by learning from each other can we begin to imagine alternative roadmaps towards the future.

You can find the Critical Practice Reader in full here.