Guest Lecture Series

Each semester the Liverpool School of Architecture holds an open series of guest 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 guest lectures are a hybrid format (via a zoom link) to enable participation should travelling to LSA not be possible.

Our Autumn semester series runs on Wednesday lunchtimes at 1pm in the Reilly Lecture Room, 25 Abercromby, Square L69 7ZN.

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

Spring Semester 2024 Archive

Simona Orsina Pierini Male child wearing shorts standing halfway up a staircase, they have just dropped a cube with large letters on each face down the stairs.

31st January 2024

Prof. Orsina Simona Pierini from Politecnico di Milano Milanese domestic interiors

AB Rogers Mixed group of people in two rows some sitting some standing. Geometric furniture.

February 7th 2024

Ab Rogers Maggie’s at The Royal Marsden

Simon Malam Donald Insall Victorian church with steeple, the hall is surrounded by scaffolding.

February 14th

Simon Malam Creative Conservation and Living Buildings 

Alistair Fair Row of two story urban houses with pitched roofs. A row of cars is parked in front.

February 21st 2024

Dr Alistair Fair Building Modern Scotland: The New Towns, 1945-97

Ellis William Architects Outside a brick auditorium at night, there is traffic on the road. Illuminated text reads Yoko Ono Lennon Centre, Home of the Tung Auditorium.

February 28th 2024

Ellis William Architects: Speakers Mushtaq Saleri & Jade Meeks

Yasmeen Lari Smiling Pakistani woman with grey curly hair standing in a vaulted coridor.

March 6th 2024

Yasmeen Lari Lessons from the Global South: 3Ds - Decarbonise, Decolonize, Democratise Architecture

Mark Swenarton Book cover with just text reading, Housing Atlas Europe 20th Century

March 13th 2024

Professor Mark Swenarton The Making of the Housing Atlas

LSA and the World World maps with marker points overlayed on countries where LSA Alumni have come from.

March 20th 2024

LSA and the World

Robert Nicholls Middle aged man with short whitye hair standing next to a bronze sculpture of John Lennon.

March 20th 2024

Professor Robert Nicholls: Liverpool, what I learned, and didn't learn, includes the Professor Robert P Nicholls Travel Award at 14.00

100 Years of Validation Lecture Woman with hair tied back leaning on a wooden table. Behind them is abstract painting.

March 20th 2024

Professor Lesley Lokko RIBA’s 100 Years of Validation Lecture

Lesley Lokko Live Stream Woman with hair tied back leaning on a wooden table. Behind them is abstract painting.

March 20th 2024

Professor Lesley Lokko LIVE STREAM - Celebrating 100 years of RIBA validation 1924 - 2024

From competition to building site Render of a brick and concrete building with wooden widows and geometric shape.

March 21st 2024

Dr Marco Iuliano: From Competition to Building site, the new challenges of the Liverpool School of Architecture

Stephen Lawrence Day Cardboard placards at a street protest, one reads

April 17th 2024

Stephen Lawrence Day: Kudzai Matsvai: NSPIRE, ENQUIRE, ASPIRE

XJTLU Anniversary LSA24 logo and Box with text XJTLU 10 Years of Alumni over a blurred background of celebrating students flying a dragon kite.

April 24th 2024

Celebrating Ten Years of XJTLU Alumni

Paolo Scrivano A vintage airline ticker with a chinese temple and stylised jet plane on the cover, next to it is a red book containing the teachings of Chairman Mao.

May 1st 2024

Dr Paolo Scrivano Un regard qui louche: The People’s Republic of China in the eyes of European architects, 1949-1975

Rashid Ali Young black male with shaven head, trimmed beard and buttoned up shirt.

May 8th 2024

Rashid Ali Cultivating a Design Narrative

Autumn Semester 2023 Archive

Professor Adnan Moshed Brick built courtyard. On a wall a man sits holding a baby.

27th September 2023

Professor Adnan Moshed: Spatializing Freedom The Design of BRAC Regional Offices in Rural Bangladesh

Creating better places together Map of an urban area, pins are placed at various points with cardboard luggage tags hanging from them.

4th October 2023

Jo Harrop: Creating better places together

CJ Lim Once Upon a China Book Cover

11th October 2023

CJ Lim: 'Once Upon a China'

Gavin Hale-Brown Three children looking in through an internal window set in a brick wall. on the window is a paper cutout world and a rainbow coloured text reading

18th October 2023

Gavin Hale-Brown, Henley Halebrown: Architecture & Society

Bernhard Koenig Four men and one woman, all wearing casual clothes superimposed against a cloudy blue sky.

25th October 2023

Bernhard König: Breathe Earth Collective: Breathing Cities

Adam Nathaniel Furman Cheerful man wearing glasses and a wide brimmed hat.

1st November 2023

Adam Nathaniel Furman, ANF: Productive Deviance

Polly Gould 4 abstract statues in watercolour against a grey sky.

8th November 2023

Polly Gould, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL: Architecture for an Extinct Planet

Muyiwa Oki Young man with short cropped afro hair wearing a fluffy sage shirt.

15th November 2023

RIBA President Muyiwa Oki Please note, this lecture starts at 12.30pm and takes place in Building 502 (Teaching Hub), Lecture room 2

Venice Biennale Fellowship 3 images showing the LSA exhibition at Venice

22nd November 2023

Venice Biennale Fellowship Programme Launch Please note, this takes place in room G18

Katie Lloyd Thomas Medieval parchment, with the title 'Chimneys' visible at the start.

29th November 2023

Katie Lloyd Thomas, Newcastle University: Instructing Architecture: how writing organises building

Matias Del Campo Two cross sections of AI generated buildings

6th December 2023

Dr Matias Del Campo, University of Michigan: Tectonics of the Latent Space - Designing with Artificial Intelligence

William Gates Panel of three AI images, a man behind a window, a man smiling at a table illuminated by two lightbulbs, and another planting a tree.

6th December 2023

William Gates: Incorporating Generative AI into Architectural Pedagogy of Teaching

Ilze and Heinrich Wolff A man and a woman standing and looking at building models, behind them is a relief model of a site plan.

13th December 2023

Ilze and Heinrich Wolff

2022/23 Lecture Archive

Venice Fellowships Woman wearing a mask standing in front of patchwork

Venice Fellowships Programme Launch

Introduced by Sandy Britton
12th October 2022

Collage image of photographs of african village life, architectural plans and pressed flowers

Ilze Wolff

A cottage to breath in: Refusing museums, making homes
26th October 2022
Head and Shoulders of a young white man with short cropped ginger hair and moustache. He is wearing round glasses

David Jourdan

Computational design of self-shaping textiles
2nd November 2022
Black woman with long dark hair, wearing a blue top and smiling. She is standing in open plan office with balloons floating on the ceiling

Dr Bridget Ogwezi

Senior Academic Development Manager at ANSYS UK
9th November 2022
Open cast mine in Norway

David Grandorge

The Colin Rowe Lecture Series at RIBA
10th November 2022
Middle aged white man wearing a Dark blue coat, blue shirt and grey hat standing in front of a featureless wall

Panu Savolainen

Aalto University in Finland
16th November 2022
White man with light brown hair and beard, wearing a grey shirt, standing in a cathedral

Rob Hopkins

Director AHR Architects
23rd November 2022
Identity in the Architectural World

Identity in the Architectural World

30th November 2022
White woman with short blonde bobbed hair and wearing glasses. She is gesticulating with her hands

Dr Ella Chmielewsk

University of Edinburgh
7th December 2022
How Do We Live? In the global South

How Do We Live? In the global South

14th December 2022
WHite man with short hair and beard building a model structure consisting of stacked ceramic columns each flailing widely at the top

Richard Youel

Model Making as a Design Tool
22th February 2023

Brick built block of flats looked at from below against a blue sky

International Women’s Day

8th March 2023

Middle aged man wearing a jacket and tie on the right, on the left text saying A-Z Fire Safety Design Principles, Ian Abley

Prof Julie Bregulla & Ian Abley

Fire Safety Symposium
15th March 2023
A vintage car and caravan parked by the roadside. A white woman is standing by the open door of the caravan Photo credit, Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading pulled over in a lay-by with trees behind. A woman stands by the door and a dog looks out from inside the caravan.

Prof Luca Csepely-Knorr

Shaping Tomorrow’s Landscape
15th March 2023

Rust coloured building with prominent vertical ribs and vents, framed by foliage

Rob Leechmere

Jonathan Tuckey Design
26th April 2023
Three children looking in through an internal window set in a brick wall. on the window is a paper cutout world and a rainbow coloured text reading

Gavin Hale-Brown

Architecture & Society
3rd May 2023
Circle with abstract pattern inside representing different types of water flow. Underneath is the text Off-Grid Toilets.

Dr Paco Mejias Villatoro & Dr Junjie Xi

OFF-GRID TOILETS
10th May 2023
Aga Khan Trust for culture logo, a green heptagon with an interior motif to represent a flower.

Inclusive, Sustainable, Innovative

Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2022 & ArCHIAM 10-years
1st - 30th June 2023

2021/22 Lecture Archive

Katy Marks

Katy Marks

A Citizens Design Bureau: weaving with wit and wisdom
30th September 2021
Marina Tabassum

Marina Tabassum

Works
7th October 2021
Rahel Belatchew

Rahel Belatchew

The Challenges for Architecture
21st October 2021
Jim Eyre

Jim Eyre OBE

28th October 2021
The Garden of earthly delights by Hieronymous Bosch, 16th C, Wikimedia commons

Sumita Singha OBE RIBA

Designing for an Ethical World
4th November 2021
LSA COP26 Link

LSA Climate Crisis (Student Climate Action Group)

LSA COP26 Micro-summit
11th November 2021
© Jim Stephenson

Deborah Saunt & Lemma Redda

DSDHA

Back to the Future

Martin Prince-Parrot

Back to the Future: The optimistic case for retrofitting places
2nd December 2021
Three quarter shot of a mans face in black and white

Neil Thomas

Two worlds
24th February 2022
Carbon Counts - Joe Jack Williams Link

Dr Joe Jack Williams

Live at the Liverpool School of Architecture
3rd March 2022
Stylised images of women from different ethnic backgrounds

International Women's Week at the LSA

7th-11th March 2022
Portrait photograph of Aupama Kundoo

Anupama Kundoo

17th March 2022
Castle windows set into a cream coloured wall

Using What We Have

Architectural Histories of Fragments, Ruins, Rationed Resources and Obsolete Spaces
31st March 2022
Abstract image of the Liverpool School of Architecture new building in yellow and orange

LSA 2022 End of Year Show

23rd June - 19th July
Building material in perspex tube

Carbon Counts

Feb-May 2022

2020/21 Lecture Archive

Person sitting alone by a canal in front of the Liver Buildings

Mental health and the Built Environment

Five online sessions of guest talks culminating in a round table discussion will focus on the complex and multi-faceted connections between mental health and the built environment.
Neil Pinder Link

Neil Pinder

POWER
12th November 2020
Courtyard superimposed with an image of a Lunatic Asylum

Dr Burçak Özlüdil

Madness and Architecture: An Archaeology of Lunatic Asylums
Anna Page Link

Anna Page

Secular Retreat, Peter Zumthor: The Process of Making
23rd November 2020
Vintage poster using a maze as a metaphor for mental illness

Professor Matthew Smith

Social Psychiatry and Preventing Mental Illness in the USA 1939-1980
Stephanie Imbeau procession

Stephanie Imbeau

Procession
30th November 2020
Image showing a contemporary health centre design

Karen Flatt

Nurture and Nature – Approaches to Mental Health Design
3rd December 2020
Architecture and heritage for mental health in the community

Stacey Charlesworth & Chris Pickup

Architecture and heritage for mental health in the community
10th December 2020

David Rapp Link

David Rapp

‘Elements‘ Screening and Q&A
16th December 2020
Mental health for all: the role of architecture, design and place

Round Table

Mental health for all: the role of architecture, design and place
International Space Station in orbit over earth

David Nixon

The International Space Station
7th January 2021
Two buildings under construction, on the right using cross laminated timber construction

David Lomax

How CLT Can Save The World
11th February 2021
Woman with megaphone in front of University of Liverpool Victoria Building

UrbanistasNW

Where did everybody go?
18th February 2021
Community Festival Mehr Al Wohnen, Lukas Zieglar

Anna Page

The Swiss Genossenschaft: Cooperative Housing
22nd February 2021

Dyson Centre Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios ©CraigAuckland

Dr Joe Jack Williams

The hidden carbon of building – Embodied Carbon
25th February 2021
Indian street scene with Cow looking at camera

Lesley Lokko

Sacred Cows
4th March 2021
Woodcut image of the the Colosseum (1827-84), Regent's Park London

Richard Koeck

History and Future of Immersive Experiences
10th March 2021
Grid representing social exclusion in architecture

Danni Kerr

Your Name's not on the List: The Failure of Space as Social Mediator
11th March 2021
Parkonomics Link

Martin Prince-Parrot

Park-onomics: The Value of Healthy Places
18th March 2021
Future Architects Front Link

Future Architects Front

Grassroots Activism in Architecture
15th April 2021
MYAA & Qatar Foundation

Ali Mangera

Architecture, Culture & Identity in a Globalised World
6th May 2021
Text describing diversity

Symposium

Addressing EDI Issues in Architectural Education at the LSA
13th May 2021
Stephen Lawrence Day Link

Stephen Lawrence Day 2021

A panel discussion looking at the realities of being Black in the profession and exploring why it is so significant that we lost a future Black architect when Stephen was murdered.
20th May 2021

2019/20 Lecture Archive

Vivian Sin

Resilient Infrastructure - How Infrastructure shapes our cities
26th September 2019

CJ Lim

Smartcities, Resilient Landscapes and Eco-warriors
3rd October 2019

Venice Biennale Fellowships

British Council and Fellow Andy Lane launching the 2020 Venice Biennale Programme
Image courtsey of Andy Lane
10th October 2019
Jonathan Falkingham MBE, House

Jonathan Falkingham MBE

House
17th October
Fieldoffice Link

Huang Sheng-Yuan

Living with Sky, Water and Mountain
24th October 2019

Matthew Thompson

LAS Honan Prize Presentation Talk
31st October 2019

Austin Williams

New Chinese Architecture: Twenty Women Building the Future
7th November 2019

Dave King shedkm

The technology of serendipity
14th November 2019

Carl Turner

Turner Works
21st November 2019
Peripherals Of Performance

Prof Sharada Srinivasan

Peripherals Of Performance
3rd December 2019

Neil Elliott & Andrew Levers

Technology in the Built Environment
5th December 2019
M’Hamid Oasis Morocco

M’Hamid Oasis Morocco

Screening and Directors Discussion
6th February 2020
Between the sand and the sea: Oman’s architectural heritage

Between the sand and the sea

Oman’s architectural heritage
12th February 2020
Reilly teaching in the Liverpool School of Architecture, Ashton Street, 1930

Joseph Sharples

Charles Reilly and the Liverpool School of Architecture
13th February 2020

Image © Simpson Haugh

Ian Simpson

One Blackfriars, impacting the London skyline
27th February 2020
Urbanistas NW

Urbanistas

SHE-Builds NW
5th March 2020
John Meunier

John Meunier

Life and works
EVENT POSTPONED

John Meunier and Friends

On Intricacy: an evening with John Meunier and friends

John Meunier, Patrick Lynch, Alan Dunlop and Simon Henley
EVENT POSTPONED

Jim Eyre

Jim Eyre

Wilkinson Eyre
EVENT POSTPONED
©Brock Carmichael – waterfront montage

Michael Cosser & Chris Bolland

Liverpool Architecture: 45 Years of Progress
EVENT POSTPONED
Stephanie Imbeau procession

Stephanie Imbeau

Procession
EVENT POSTPONED

Annelie Kvick Thompson

Grimshaw Architects
EVENT POSTPONED
Paul Monaghan

Paul Monaghan

How we work
June 11th 2020 Online

2018/19 Lecture Archive

How Food Shapes

Carolyn Steel

How Food Shapes Our World
25th September 2018
LIVERPOOL ARCHITECTURAL SOCIETY

LAS Honan Scholarship

2017 & 2018 Student Presentation
9th October 2018
Poseidon

Laszlo Giricz

Liverpool, by 2020 the world’s first ‘climate positive’ city
29th October 2018
VENICE Video Link

Venice Tales and Fellowships

27th November 2018
Ibstock Bricks

Michael H Thomson

An Introduction to Brickwork and Innovations in Brickwork
30th October 2018

The Big Connect

The Big Connect

13th & 14th November 2018
Acrylicize

Paul Arad

Acrylicize. Selling Creativity
20th November 2018
Ragunath Vasudevan

Ragunath Vasudevan

Pragmatic Parametric Poetry
6th December 2018
Spring School 2019

LSA Spring School 2019

24th January 2019

Levitt Bernstein

Levitt Bernstein

Housing Design Handbook: designing for mixed communities
Tim Heatley

Tim Heatley

Designing an Experience
M J Wells

Dr Matthew Wells

Utopia, instrument, and tool: A thematic history of the architectural model
19th February 2019
Geoff Rich

Geoff Rich

Creative Reuse
28th February 2019

Breakfast Brexit Talk

28th February 2019

WHAT NEXT?

Careers Day
28th February 2019
Thelma Silcock

International Womens Day

Decades of LSA Women Alumni
7th March
This Must Be The Place

Professor Robert Kronenburg

This Must Be The Place: Liverpool’s Popular Music Venues
20th March 2019

The Temporality of Building

13th March 2019

NOW WHAT?

Careers Day 2
28th March 2019

Building Children’s Worlds

29th - 31st May 2019
Off Road, Prof. Dipl. Ing. Christian Moczala

Prof. Dipl. Ing. Christian Moczala

Off Road
2nd May 2019
The world as a city

Professor Wolfgang Dokonal

The World as a City
7th May 2019

2017/18 Lecture Archive

A New Cathedral 1960

Dominic Wilkinson

A New Cathedral 1960
28th September 2017
Inhabitable Infrastructures

CJ Lim

Inhabitable Infrastructures
5th October 2017
Cultural Memory and Architecture

Robin Monotti RMA

Cultural Memory and Architecture
10th October 2017
Mutt

Mutt

Everything Else is Still an Option
19th October 2017
Ben Derbyshire Link

Ben Derbyshire RIBA President

'Change is necessary ' The future of the RIBA
26th October 2017
Stephen Bayley Link

Stephen Bayley

Quentin Hughes Memorial Lecture: Seaport - Liverpool’s ineffable sense of place< br />9th November 2017
Welsh Streets Link

Nina Edge & Dr Gareth Carr

The Welsh Streets of Liverpool
16th November 2017
Richard Pare Link

Richard Pare

Architecture and Photography
23rd November 2017
Caroline Voet

Caroline Voet

Dom Hans van der Laan: A House for the Mind
30th November 2017
Professor George Baird

Professor George Baird

Japanness: Atelier Bow-Wow
14th December 2017
Shepard Robson Link

Sheppard Robson

Launch of the 2018 Jicwood prize
1st February 2018
Mark Swennarton Link

Professor Mark Swenarton

Cook’s Camden
15th February 2018
Liverpool Young Architects Link

Liverpool Young Architects

Tales of postgraduate paths
1st March 2018
caravatti

Emilio Caravatti

caravatti_caravatti
8th March 2018
shedkm link

shedkm

A talk in two parts by Director Hazel Rounding
9th March 2018
LSA_RIba Event

LSA_RIBA Education debate

A debate that brings together the RIBA and architectural educators from across the region
11th April 2018
Partington-String

Robin Partington

Alumni Robin Partington talks about his life and work
19th April 2018
Visa Breakfast

Visa Breakfast

19th April 2018
LSA RIBA

BRUTALISM EVENT at RIBA NORTH

RIBA North in collaboration Urban Splash with support from LSA and LJMU
3rd May 2018
Housing RIBA North

HOUSING EVENT at RIBA NORTH

RIBA North in collaboration Urban Splash with support from LSA and LJMU
11th June 2018

2016/17 Lecture Archive

Raw Concrete

Barnabas Calder

Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism
29th September 2016
Japanese-Wood-Craftsmanship Small

Hugh Miller

Japanese Wood Craftsmanship
6th October 2016
Mimesis

Patrick Lynch

Mimesis
13th October 2016
Farm Urban

Paul Myers & Jens Thomas

Farm Urban: Urban food Production
20th October 2016
Alun Jones Dow Jones Architects Title - An Idea About Construction

Alun Jones

An Idea About Construction
10th November 2016
CJ Lim Food City

CJ Lim

Food City
17th November 2016
Architecture School Debate

Visiting Professors

24th November 2016
Fiona Mclachlan

Professor Fiona Mclachlan

Ethereal Material: Colour Strategies in Architecture
1st December 2016
Photo: Urs Siegenthaler Zurich
Dr Polly Gould

Dr Polly Gould

No More Elsewhere: Antarctica though the Archive of the Edward Wilson (1872-1912) Watercolours
8th December0216
Marco De Michelis

Marco De Michelis

25th January 2017
Marco De Michelis

Life By Design

31st January 2017
Deyan Sudjic

Deyan Sudjic

2nd February 2017
A Gendered Profession

Ruth Morrow & James Soane

A Gendered Profession
9th February 2017
What is the objective of architectural education?

What is the objective of architectural education?

Michael Wilford, Patrick Lynch & Dave King
16th February 2017
Dunlop Link

Professor Alan Dunlop

The North American Gridiron City
21st March 2017
Damascus

Dr. Ataa Alsalloum

Threats and Opportunities in Post-war Reconciliation
23rd March 2017
Ethics and Morality

Ethics and Morality: A discussion

Ian Ritchie, Alan Dunlop, Nick Ray, Michael Wilford and Dr Rosa Urbano Gutierrez, hosted by Johanna Muszbek
28th March 2017
Ethic or Aesthetic-link

Simon Henley

Ethic or Aesthetic?
30th March 2017
Daniel Glenn

Daniel Glenn

Contemporary Indigenous Architecture: Recent Works
27th April 2017
Architecture School Debate

The LSA - an architecture school's future?

Michael Wilford, Patrick Lynch, Dave King, Roger Stephenson, Prof Soumyen Bandyopadhyay, hosted by Ms Johanna Muszbek
4th May 2017
Unknown Futures

School of Architecture Industry Night

15th June 2017

2015/16 Lecture Archive

1st October Joseph Sharples
8th October Carla Molinari Sequences in architecture
15th October Dr Marco Iuliano Stirling thinks
22nd October Cristóbal Amunátegui Things Made Whole
29th October Assemble Collective practice
5th November Ab Rogers and Jimmy Loizeau Nostalgia and Progression
12th November Prof. Ian Ritchie Architecture and Neuroscience
24th November November 2A +P/A The School, A space for education
3rd December Clare Nash RIBA role model
4th February Eric Parry Eric Parry Architects
11th February Irena Bauman Retrofitting Neighbourhoods - Designing for Resilience
18th February Jane Duncan President of RIBA 
25th February Darryl Condon HCMArchitects
3rd March David Nixon International Space Station – Architecture Beyond Earth
10th March David Houghton If we have seen it before it’s the wrong solution
14th April Dr Pedro Leão Neto Contemporary Photography: Architecture, City and Territory
21st April Oliver Heath The Science and Style of Biophilic Design
28th April Toby Wallis and Luke Cooper Collaborative design
5th May Stefanos Roimpas How not to answer questions
12th May Peter Clegg Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

2014/15 Lecture Archive

23rd Oct CJ Lim Food City
30th Oct Jonathan Hendry Foraging
6th Nov Paul Domela On art, body and space and the speculation of an Architecture Biennial
13th Nov Stephanie Strain Assistant Curator of Tate Liverpool on Claude Parent and La Colline de l’Art commission
20th Nov Jay Gort Gort Scott Architects
27th Nov Patrick  Lynch Lynch Architects
4th Dec Raymond Quek Line Wash and Tone, architecture and the metropolis and the thematics of redemption
5th March Michael Wilford Composition and Character
10th March Justin de Syllas Peckham and Finsbury, London’s Pioneering 1930s health centres
12th March Roger Watt Haworth Tomkins Aspects of theatre design
19th March Matt Driscoll Director, Threefold Architects www.threefoldarchitects.com
30th April Sophie Goldhill and David Liddicoat Liddicoat & Goldhill www.liddicoatgoldhill.com