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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
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

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Akari Takebayashi

Akari is an architectural designer with significant experience on cultural, commercial, residential and masterplans projects, including a university campus, and large scale public realm / landscape / infrastructure design.

Akari joined Heatherwick Studio in 2015 and has since worked on numerous projects including Pier 55; a park and performance space on the Hudson River in New York; an urban study and space analysis of Covent Garden, London; and a design competition for a sustainable redevelopment of an existing central London Tower. Prior to joining Heatherwick Studio, Akari lived and worked in New York for 13 years and worked at practices including Reiser + Umemoto RUR Architecture DPC, Weiss / Manfredi, and Ennead Architects on numerous cultural and public realm projects, research and competitions.

Akari graduated from her architecture degree at the Pratt Institute in New York and also holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining Heatherwick Studio, she worked as a full time lecturer at University of Kentucky School of Architecture for 5 years and co-founded an architecture research lab, Design Office Takebayashi Scroggin [DOTS] in 2009. Her academic research carried out there focused on the concept of ‘Play’ in architecture and urban space that was implemented into her collaborative experimental projects such as: a series of international awarded architectural installation titled as ‘Massimals’; a winning urban furniture installation entitled ‘Cloud Garden’; and the conceptual development for Cherokee Square Park, in Kentucky.

Akari is a First and Second Year Design Tutor at the LSA.