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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
Mar 23

Nigel Coates: Liberating the Plan
Mar 23

AN INTERVIEW WITH ELLIOTT WANG, SECOND YEAR REP
Feb 23

PART 4 LAUNCH
Feb 23

IN MEMORIAM – CLIVE SALL
Feb 23

Our Design Charrettes – an insight into life at the LSA
Feb 23

BOOK NOW – OPEN EVENING WEDNESDAY 8 MARCH
Feb 23

An Interview with Emily Dew-Fribbance: LSA Alumna and First Year Design Tutor
Feb 23

Pathways: Optic Translations
Jan 23

Thursday Talks: Questioning How we Embed Sustainable Design in Practice
Jan 23

An Interview with LSA alumna Betty Owoo
Jan 23

Interview with Marianne Krogh – Rethinking water as a planetary and design element in the making of the Danish Pavilion at Venice Biennale
Dec 22

What do our students think of studying at the LSA? We spoke to Second Year student Semi Han
Dec 22

Hear from our Alumni – An Interview with Calven Lee
Dec 22

National Saturday Club Programme
Nov 22

LSA Alumnus Jack Banting published in FRAME
Nov 22

2022/23 Design Think Tank Module Launches
Nov 22

Mentoring can transform the architecture profession – for good
Nov 22

APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN FOR 2023/24
Nov 22

Alternative Routes To Registration: An Evening with ARB (17/11/2022)
Nov 22

Circular architecture needs material passports
Nov 22

Apply To The LSA: Online Intro (23/11/2022)
Oct 22

LSA Registrar
Oct 22

London School of Architecture announces strategic collaboration with Black in Architecture
Aug 22

LSA Summer Design Charrette
Jul 22

How fire has shaped London – from 1666 to Grenfell

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Architectural Education as a Situated Practice and the Little Free Library

Architectural Education as a Situated Practice symposium

At the end of June, the London School of Architecture (LSA) hosted a discussion on the topic of ‘Architectural Education as a Situated Practice’ as part of this year’s London Festival of Architecture.

The festival’s theme of Belonging inspired the question of how an architecture school might belong within its surrounding context and how this relationship might inform the education it offers. 

Architectural Education as a Situated Practice symposium

Throughout this academic year, the LSA has been working with residents of the neighbouring Dalston Gardens’ Estate to design and build a new Little Free Library, replacing the existing book cabinet first installed by residents shortly after Covid. This collaboration builds on the LSA’s work with residents, which first started with the Dalston Pavilion in 2024.  

To further explore this approach to architectural education and belonging, the LSA hosted an event bringing together practitioners whose work engages with these themes. 

The Little Free Library, Dalston Garden Estate

We heard from: LSA Head of School and founder of Baxendale and Other People’s Dreams, Lee Ivett; Part 0 Programme Leads and founders of RC/YYC, Roy Coupland and Ya Ya Chen; founder of Unit 38, David McEwan; Senior Lecturer at Kingston and founder of Hayatsu Architects, Takeshi Hayatsu; founders of Matt+Fiona, Matt Springett and Fiona MacDonald;  and Part 2 Architectural Assistant Maria Wood. 

Architectural Education as a Situated Practice symposium

Presentations were followed by conversations amongst attendees around specific themes explored in the presentations as well as tours of the Little Free Library led by LSA Part 2 students who helped design and build the structure. 

The LSA looks forward to continuing to work with residents and contributing to Dalston Gardens Estate! 

The Little Free Library, Dalston Garden Estate

Photography by Ana-Maria Molnar.