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Events at the LSA

Each semester the Liverpool School of Architecture holds a number lectures, with noted practitioners and academics from the fields Architecture, Design and Art invited to speak to our undergraduate and postgraduate cohorts. These lectures are free and open to attend by members of the public or professionals, however registration is required.

To improve accessibility many of the lectures are a hybrid format (via a zoom link) to enable participation should travelling to LSA not be possible.

For any queries please email lsaevent@liverpool.ac.uk.

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Lectures & Events 2025

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FIlm Archive

Since 2020, the Liverpool School of Architecture Guest Lecture Series has been presented either virtually over Zoom during lockdown, or hybrid, with practitioners from the fields Architecture, Design and Art speaking to our staff, undergraduate and postgraduate cohorts. Click here to view some of the archived recordings.

A straight tarmac pathway leading towards the horizon, people can be seen in the distance. On the left is a sandy beach with an island on the horizon, on the right a marine lake. Overlayed is the text

22nd - 24th November 2025

AHRA UK: Conceptualising Environment(s): continuity and change
Architectural Humanities Research Association 22nd annual international conference, hosted by the University of Liverpool School of Architecture

Previous Lectures 2024-25

CJ Lim Stylised image of a mechanical process.

2nd October

Prof. CJ Lim (UCL)
Dreams and Disillusions

Housing Struggles Aerial photograph of a west Afican City, on the left is overlayed the text

9th October

Housing Struggles & Socio-Spacial Justice in Urban Africa

Ab Rogers Large angles rectangular panels in primary colours inside a warehouse space.

16th October

Ab Rogers
Ab Rogers Design, ARD

Hélène Binet Three quarter view looking up at the corner of a modernest building.

23rd October

Hélène Binet
Lecture + Book launch
5.00PM, Reilly room

James Browne View across the slated rooftops of a Scottish city, a shipbuilding crane is visible in the background, hills are visible on the horizon.

30th October

James Browne Stallan-Brand

Venice Fellows A group of people standing on stone steps leading up to a classical brick and stone pavilion. Behind are mature trees.

6th November

Amber Potts and Alice Holmes
Venice Fellows, University of Liverpool

Muyiwa Falaiye Smiling bald middle aged black man wearing glasses and a collarless shirt. They are standing outside in front of a sign reading Institute for African and Diaspora Studies.

19th November

Professor O. Falaiye Anthropology, Colonialism and the fate of Africa

Armor Gutierrez Inside a rural building made from rough bricks with a pitched roof and simple rendered walls.

27th November

Armor Gutierrez Sugarcrete®, a Global Material for a Global Crisis

Samaneh Moafi Rendered aerial view of a city with photographs of war damage superimposed.

11th December ONLINE

Dr. Samaneh Moafi
Assistant Director, Forensic Architecture

Grassed mound with a path to a building with a pitched roof and a large tree at the entrance.

7th February 2025

Terrain
Arc Ikko Kobayashi

pencil drawing of 19th century buildings with a lagoon in front and a see wall to one side.

12th February 2025

Women Architects in Finland: The pioneering role of Aino
Marsio Aalto
The lecture examines the figure of Aino Marsio (1894-1949), the first wife of Alvar Aalto (1898-1972), from the years of her education at the Helsinki University of Technology up to her premature death in January 1949.

Heritage Tourism in Africa Text reading

3rd March 2025

Heritage Tourism in Africa: Beyond Monuments to Living Traditions

Dr Adun Okupe
Principal Advisor, Red Clay, Nigeria

Hybrid 1-2pm GMT
University of Liverpool,
School of the Arts Library

Women in Architecture Stylised heads of women agains a backdrop of a wall and arch, of varying ethnicities all are wearing hardhats.

5th March 2025

Women In Architecture
Staff & Student Event

Celebrating Women’s Day at the University of Liverpool with an event dedicated to honouring the trailblazing women in architecture!

New Silk Road Red banner with the text

19th March 2025

New Silk Road: The Architecture of the Belt and Road Initiative

Lecture and book launch with Professor Michele Bonino and Dr Francesco Carota.