Directory

Following a degree in History of Art from Cambridge, Alan received his doctorate on Architectural Education in Britain 1880-1914. He is a prolific writer for magazines and author of numerous books. He is joint editor of the journal Twentieth Century Architecture and joint editor of the monograph  series, Twentieth Century Architects. He has curated popular exhibitions, including Modern Britain 1929-39 (Design Museum), 1999; Eric Ravilious (Imperial War Museum), 2003; and Eros to the Ritz: 100 Years of Street Architecture (Royal Academy), 2013.

As professor of architecture and cultural history at the University of Greenwich, Alan taught architectural history and theory for undergraduate and diploma courses from 1999-2012, and has been a frequent external examiner for PhD and other higher degrees. He is chairman of Pollock’s Toy Museum Trust in London, and formerly chair of the Twentieth Century Society (2007-12). An expert on 20th century architecture,  Alan was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2008.

Alan is the Design History Module Leader for the Second Year students at the LSA.

Alberte is an architect, teacher, and member of feminist architecture collective, Edit. Her work looks at architecture and its power to influence and maintain established gender roles within a capitalist system, and is interested in how traces of care and reproductive labour spill into the public realm, disrupting formal notions of public life and space.

Alberte has taught at the University for the Creative Arts, the University of Brighton, and is a First Year Design Tutor at the London School of Architecture.

Alicia Privaro will work with students to explore and encourage practice that cultivates and celebrates real and long-term engagement with communities, local authorities and civil society, connecting with like-minded partners who align design with new forms of political action and intervention.

Bushra Mohamed is an architect, writer and educator. She is the Director of MSOMA Architects, a London-based architecture and research studio that centers diasporic identities, cultures and people within the built environment. The practice works across varied scales from urban public realms to built artefacts and curation.

She is particularly interested in the multiple histories of the African Continent, giving agency to untold stories, as well as synthesising themes of decolonisation and decarbonisation. Bushra has taught at the Architectural Association, Kingston University, and the University of Cambridge. As a writer, she has contributed to several publications, including Sound Advice’s NOW YOU KNOW, the Architectural Review, the AA Files, and is currently working on a publication focused on the African compound house as a multi-generational housing typology.

Bushra joined the LSA in 2023 as a Second Year Design Tutor.

Cecily is an urban researcher and designer with a background in architecture. She leads on public realm projects within the City of London’s Design team, providing urban design expertise for major schemes across the Square Mile. Previously, as Co-Director of Theatrum Mundi, she led research and commissioned studies on the creative industries, local economies, and cultural infrastructure—amplifying the voices of artists, makers, writers, performers, and communities central to urban cultural life. Earlier in her career, she worked at Publica, delivering area strategies and public realm design for key sites in London’s West End.

Cecily is a Second Year Design Tutor at the LSA.

Daniel is an architect and co-founder of Artefact which designs homes, community and cultural projects that reflect the culture of their users. Working collaboratively with clients and communities, his work marries the craft of architecture with a commitment to delivering projects that seek to bring joy to their users while minimising carbon in construction and in use.

Daniel studied architecture at University of Cambridge and the Bartlett School of Architecture. Prior to founding Artefact, Daniel worked as an Associate at Henley Halebrown, leading educational projects, residential developments, masterplans and research studies for Local Authorities across London. He has previously worked at urban design practice Publica, Alison Brooks Architects and MVRDV in Rotterdam. Daniel has taught design studios at the University of Nottingham and Central St Martins. His writing and work have been widely published and exhibited, and he is a mentor on the FLUID Built By Us Programme.

Daniel is a First Year Design Tutor at the LSA.

Dr David Knight is a designer, strategist and author, and a founding co-director of DK-CM, an architecture, planning and research practice which is focussed on making work in public, from buildings and public spaces to design guidance, spatial policy, urban strategy and research.

Eddie Blake is an architect and academic. He has ten years’ experience teaching architecture at several architecture schools, including the Bartlett, Central St. Martins and Royal College of Art.

He also director at Studio Weave – and architecture practice based on London. He has over fifteen years’ experience in practice including master-planning, architecture, public art, exhibition design and design products. Recent projects include the British Museum Visitor Welcome Pavilion, Vestry House Museum, London, and the acclaimed mixed-use Ivy St., London. He writes about architecture and contemporary culture for the Guardian, Architectural Review, Vice, Architects’ Journal, Icon, Metropolis and Real Review among other publications. Through the parallel activities of teaching, criticism and proposition Blake pursues a continuing interest in the way architecture embodies social and cultural ideas.

Eddie is a Second Year Design Tutor at the LSA.

Fabrizio Matillana is a chartered architect and chartered planner.

He is Deputy Head of Design & Conservation at Islington Council. He leads the design advice on high profile projects in housing, commercial, mixed-use, higher education, civic and life science sectors in strategic and heritage settings. His focus is planning for alternative models to deliver high density housing in inner city contexts.

He has advised the Islington’s New Building Housing Programme, responsible for delivering new council housing. His work has been nominated at the Housing Design Awards 2024. While at Enfield Council he led the urban design advice for the borough’s high profile schemes including Meridian Water Phase 1 and Edmonton Green Shopping Centre, as well as major projects in green belt, brownfield, strategic industrial land and tall buildings. Meridian Water was awarded Planning Awards 2024 for best housing scheme of 500+ homes and Editor’s Pick.

He has experience working on development management of strategic projects, working with and advising on drafting design codes, SPDs and design policies. He has also been urban design expert witness at planning inquiries. He is a member of Design South East and sits in the Bexley and Harrow Design Review Panels. He has been a Built by Us, RCA Practice and Urban Design London Code School mentor.

His research interests are models of hybrid architectural and planning practice that provide strategic design input at city level, such as planning for high density housing, design coding and new metrics for defining perceived density. His research has been published in academic and trade journals including Frontier, RIBA Journal and the RTPI Urban Design Network.

He has supervised RIBA Silver Medal and AJ Student Prize High Commendation winning projects. He has run design modules at the Bartlett School of Planning and been guest critic at the Architectural Association, Bartlett School of Architecture, University of Greenwich and University of Reading.

He was named a RIBA Journal Rising Star in 2020.

Fabrizio is a Second Year Design Tutor at the LSA.

Gill is Director at AOC, a practice of Architects and Designers based in London. The engage in collaborative processes to designs that are particular to place, and make designs that are useful, valuable and joyful. She has been responsible for designing and delivering a range of cultural institutions, exhibitions, and homes. Most recently the Young V&A in Bethnal Green which has been recently described as one of London’s great indoor public spaces.

She studied architecture at the Hull School of Architecture and the University of Westminster. For her final thesis project, she won the RIBA Silver Medal, the SOM Travel Award and the Sergeant Prize for Drawing. Gill taught an MArch design studio at University of Westminster for several years and is a member of the RIBA validation panel.

Gill is a First Year Design Tutor at the LSA.

Hugh Strange is the Design Tectonics Module leader.

Module Leader in Design Speculation, James is a founding director of IDK: A RIBA future winners 2025 practice. (www.idk-o.com)

James is an architect with extensive experience working across the arts, education museum, heritage and exhibition sectors. He is keen on combining his technical expertise with a commitment to building futures that are technologically engaged and conservation led.

Previously, James worked for Herzog and De Meuron in London as part of the delivery team for the Tate Modern extension. Later, as a project architect and senior exhibitions designer at Nissen Richards Studio, he delivered temporary and permanent exhibitions within heritage and conservation contexts including the major refurbishment of the exhibition displays at the Courtauld Galleries. Recently, James delivered the David Bowie Centre and Rotating Displays at the V&A Storehouse, Stratford which opened this summer 2025. He is presently working on a major new archive project at the Museum of London.

James collaborates with a wide range of scientists, thinkers, artists and academics through his platform Postrational: a design and research group that explores environmental futures.  Postrational uses fictional and critical design as a tool to prise open modes of thinking and being that constitute our given reality.(www.postrational.net)

Joanne has a background in architecture, urban design and architectural history and theory. Prior to joining Public Practice Joanne worked at AR Urbanism, alongside community groups to develop design codes to support their neighbourhood plans. She previously worked at Sarah Wigglesworth Architects and Peter Barber Architects where she contributed to the design and delivery of public realm and social housing projects, the production of a housing design guide for a national housing association and a strategic vision for Ebbsfleet Garden City Development Corporation.

Part of the second cohort of Public Practice, Joanne joined Greater Cambridge Planning Service as Principal Urban Design Officer. Her role sat within the joint planning service’s multi-disciplinary Built and Natural Environment Team and involved working on the masterplan for Northstowe New Town. She supported the development of Cambridge Biomedical Campus and contributed to the design code for an urban extension to the east of Cambridge.

Joanne is a Critical Practice Tutor at the LSA.

Maria-Chiara studied in Milan and has almost 20 years of professional experience, working for several well-known architectural practices including Kengo Kuma and Associates, OMA and Amanda Levete Architects, as well as founding her own studio. PiM.studio Architects, through research and design, try to re-articulate the relationship between architecture, humans, and all other living beings.

She joined David Chipperfield Architects in 2022 and led the successful competition for the LSE Firoz Lalji Global Hub in London, for which she is now the project architect. In addition to her architectural work, Maria-Chiara teaches at the London School of Architecture, has lectured in various schools and has been an Architecture Ambassador for the RIBA National Schools programme. She is devoted to supporting and encouraging women working in the built environment.

Maria-Chiara is a Second Year Design Tutor at the LSA.

Mat Barnes is the director of CAN, an Architecture and Ideas studio based in London. Since its formation in 2016, CAN has built a reputation for creating striking and idiosyncratic projects across public art, architecture and furniture design. CAN’s work is widely published and has won multiple awards, including two RIBA awards and a Wallpaper* furniture design award. CAN was included in the Observer’s Top 5 architecture of 2020 and Mat received the RIBA Rising Star award 2021. Mat has presented CAN’s work across Europe and previously taught at the University of Liverpool.

Nana Biamah-Ofosu will engage with our students on how our economy, industry and practice will change as we meet the challenge of the climate crisis through challenging the ways we design, construct, and collaborate that establish truly sustainable and regenerative design practices, and which acknowledge and enable a built environment for all.

Nicola Antaki is a practising architect, educator and researcher. Her focus is on the potential for collective (co)design approaches to enable (young) people to develop urban agency. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at ENSAPLV in Paris and runs Collective Design Practice in London. She has a PhD Architectural Design from the Bartlett School of Architecture and Development Planning Unit in 2019.

Nicola is a First Year Design Tutor at the LSA.

Roy Coupland is a qualified architect having studied at the University of Kent, the Architectural Association and the University of Cambridge. He is currently working for Niall McLaughlin Architects having previously worked at Matheson Whiteley, David Chipperfield Architects and Herzog & de Meuron. Roy is a co-founder of S.o.U.P, a collaboration focused on exploring new methodologies of shaping the built environment through community engagement. He is also actively engaged in developing new environmentally-driven approaches to working with existing buildings.

Roy Coupland is Part 0 Coordinator at the LSA and runs the Part 0 National Saturday Club programme with Yang Yang Chen.

Dr Ruth Lang is an architect, curator, and writer, whose work explores how the processes of contemporary architectural practice can better respond to the Climate Emergency. This research led to the publication of “Building for Change: the Architecture of Creative Reuse” with gestalten. She has exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Jerwood Gallery, and was a research fellow for the Future Observatory at the Design Museum.

Ruth is the Head of Part 2/MArch Programme.

Siraaj spent three years working predominantly on affordable housing for London architecture practice Allies and Morrison, where he qualified as an architect. He then spent six months living, working and educating in Nairobi, Kenya for an architectural NGO after which he returned to the UK and spent three years working for Stanton Williams as part of the team designing the new Museum of London.

Siraaj is passionate about educating and diversifying professions in the built industries, and directs Accelerate at Open City, a programme that encourages young people from under-represented backgrounds to explore careers in the built environment.

Siraaj is a First Year Design Tutor at The LSA.

Yang Yang studied at Mcgill University in Montreal, the Architectural Association and the University of Cambridge. She is a qualified architect currently working for Witherford Watson Mann and has previously worked for Niall Mclaughlin Architects and Bjarke Ingels Group in New York City. Yang Yang is a co-founder of S.o.U.P, a collaboration focused on exploring new methodologies of shaping the built environment through community engagement. Yang Yang is also actively engaged in developing new environmentally-driven approaches to working with existing buildings.

Yang Yang runs the Part 0 National Saturday Club programme at the LSA with Roy Coupland.