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Nov 23

STEFAN BOLLINGER APPOINTED AS CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
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STEPHEN LAWRENCE DAY FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP
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APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN FOR OUR PART 2 MARCH FOR 2024/25
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Open Evening – 7 December 2023
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BOOK PART 4 NOW: SHORT COURSES – MODULAR LIFELONG LEARNING – FUTURE PRACTICE
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IN MEMORIAM – PETER BUCHANAN
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The LSA is Moving
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Become a Critical Practice Tutor at the LSA for 2023/24
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Become a Design Tutor at the LSA for 2023/24
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Pathways: Exhibiting Forms
Jun 23

City as Campus: The Furniture Practice
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Summer Show 2023: FLAARE Futures Workshop
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Summer Show 2023: Meet Your Future Employer
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Summer Show 2023: Close to Home
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WE ARE SEEKING A NEW FINANCE MANAGER
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Nigel Coates: Liberating the Plan
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AN INTERVIEW WITH ELLIOTT WANG, SECOND YEAR REP
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PART 4 LAUNCH
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IN MEMORIAM – CLIVE SALL
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Our Design Charrettes – an insight into life at the LSA
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BOOK NOW – OPEN EVENING WEDNESDAY 8 MARCH
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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
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Apply To The LSA: Online Intro (23/11/2022)
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LSA Registrar
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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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Voices on: Architecture and Fire Safety
Jun 22

JOB OPPORTUNITY:  DESIGN TECTONICS TUTOR
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JOB OPPORTUNITY:  DESIGN DIRECTION MODULE LEADER
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JOB OPPORTUNITY:  DESIGN HISTORY TUTORS
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JOB OPPORTUNITY:  DESIGN CITIES MODULE LEADER
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Voices on: Architecture and Displacement
May 22

Job Opening: Design Think Tank (DTT) Module Co-Leader — Apply by 20.06.2022
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You’re invited to the LSA Summer Show 2022
Mar 22

LSA students shortlisted for London Festival of Architecture design competition

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Akari Takebayashi

Akari Takebayashi is an LSA tutor practicing and teaching in London and Japan, previously in NYC and KY in the United States. She studied architecture at University of Pennsylvania for her Master’s degree (graduating in 2009) and at the Pratt Institute for BArch in New York (graduating in 2002). After working for three leading architectural practices in New York City, in 2009 she co-founded the architectural firm D.O.T.S. whilst simultaneously teaching architecture at University of Kentucky as a full-time faculty member until 2014.
More recently, Akari has taught and reviewed architectural studios at multiple universities across the UK including: UAL Central St Martins; Newcastle University; and The Bartlett / UCL. Her current academic research explores the process and architecture of naturally sourced materials such as stone.
After working for an architectural practice in London, she founded an architecture and design firm Studio Takebayashi in 2019. The interest of the practice resides in material and ideational potential of architecture.