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Jul 22

Voices on: Architecture and Fire Safety
Jun 22

JOB OPPORTUNITY:  DESIGN TECTONICS TUTOR
Jun 22

JOB OPPORTUNITY:  DESIGN DIRECTION MODULE LEADER
Jun 22

JOB OPPORTUNITY:  DESIGN HISTORY TUTORS
Jun 22

JOB OPPORTUNITY: DESIGN STUDIO TUTORS
Jun 22

JOB OPPORTUNITY:  DESIGN CITIES MODULE LEADER
Jun 22

Voices on: Architecture and Displacement
May 22

Job Opening: Design Think Tank (DTT) Module Co-Leader — Apply by 20.06.2022
May 22

You’re invited to the LSA Summer Show 2022
Mar 22

LSA students shortlisted for London Festival of Architecture design competition
Feb 22

ELEVEN DESIGN THINK TANKS AIMING TO TRANSFORM THE CITY
Feb 22

LSA launches new bursary scheme for students from low-income backgrounds Copy
Feb 22

LSA announces Thomas Aquilina as inaugural Stephen Lawrence Day Foundation Fellow
Feb 22

LSA Tuesday Talks
Feb 22

Meet students, faculty and alumni at our Open Evening — 24.02.2022
Jan 22

Why Apply to the LSA? Thoughts from our Academic Director
Jan 22

Job Opening: Professional Events Co-ordinator — Apply by 18.03.2022
Dec 21

Will Tooze & Daniel Wood — Plan for Chalk Bridge
Dec 21

Siân Wells — Feminist City
Dec 21

Peter Salman — The Deconstruction Institute
Dec 21

Jayden Luk — Grow The City
Dec 21

Jack Morgan — Freedom of Movement
Dec 21

Harriet Stride — The School with Roots
Dec 21

Freddie Hutchinson — Channelsea Tidal Gardens
Dec 21

Dominika Pilch — Kingsland Centre
Dec 21

Carlos M C Pereira — Social Celebration
Dec 21

Amir Hossein Noori — Narratives of De Beauvoir
Dec 21

Sam Butler — The Co-Evolving Workplace
Dec 21

Sam Pywell — Hackney Centre of Change
Dec 21

Ross Langtree — Wick Ridge
Dec 21

Mikolaj Strug — Identity and Accessibility
Dec 21

Dougie Haseler — No Fixed Abode
Dec 21

Jonathan Boon — Arrival Space
Dec 21

Francesca Taplin — Active Cities
Dec 21

Sebastian Maher — Build Back Beta
Dec 21

LSA LAB Director Lara Kinneir chairs UN HABITAT workshop on ‘New Urban Agenda’
Dec 21

Developing Competencies for Tomorrow’s Architect — the LSA at the ARB’s professionalism and ethical behaviour workshop
Dec 21

Neal Shasore announced as part of the British Pavilion Selection Committee for the Venice Biennale
Dec 21

Meet students, faculty and alumni at our Open Evening — 13.01.2022
Dec 21

The LSA Winter Show — View online now
Dec 21

Londown Live Podcast Christmas Quiz Special with Jay Foreman at the LSA — 16.12.21
Dec 21

Applications are open for our 2022/23 academic year
Nov 21

The Art Workers’ Guild hosts the LSA for a day of hands-on making and craft
Nov 21

Open Up! New Ways Through Architecture — An Initiative From The LSA To Widen Access To The Architecture Profession
Oct 21

Join us for our November Talks series featuring Anupama Kundoo, Daniel Barber, Amin Taha and Ebony Shire
Oct 21

Find out more about 2022/23 at our Open Evening — 18.11.2021
Oct 21

Introducing LSA Lab — a new collaborative space for experimental pedagogy
Oct 21

Job Opening: LSA Studio Coordinator — Apply by 15.10.2021
Sep 21

The LSA is offering a one-year SLDF fellowship to a practitioner/educator from underrepresented community to develop its outreach programme— apply by 11.10.21
Sep 21

Breaking Down the Barriers — a panel discussion on widening access to design education — 22.09.21

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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.