Seminars, Conferences and Exhibitions

Over the course of each year, the Students, Staff and Researchers from the Liverpool School of Architecture collate and collaborate in a number of seminars, conferences and exhibitions both in the School and venues around the UK and Europe.

Past Conferences, Seminars and Exhibitions

Commerce Gallery in Milan presents Umarell 02

Commerce Gallery in Milan presents Umarell 02
13th November 2024

Featuring a conversation with Jocelyn Froimovich, Urtzi Grau, Stefano Graziani, Matilde Cassani, and Giovanna Silva, alongside images by photographer Guido Guidi.
Read more here Vertical image of a traditional asian street scene

Urban Form & Social Space Seminar
21st February 2024

21st February 2024

Celebrating Bangladesh Symposium BRAC Regional office Sujanagar pabna, S M Shafaiet Mahmud.

Celebrating Bangladesh
27 September 2023

Situated in the largest delta in the world, Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated countries and one of the most affected by climate change, but also one of the fastest-growing economies in the world and home of the world’s largest NGO.

Aga Khan Trust for culture logo, a green heptagon with an interior motif to represent a flower.

Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2022 & ArCHIAM 10-years
June 2023

Over the years the University of Liverpool has worked closely with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture.The inclusive and global perspective shared by the two institutions, and the Liverpool School of Architecture’s pre-eminent place in design pedagogy and research, has made it possible to bring this Award exhibition to Liverpool.
Funereal arch decorated with columns and floral relief. Text on a plaque in the middle commemorates Buraimah Afinnia, died 23.7.1914 aged 71 years, and his Mother Rabiyatu, died18.8.1891 aged 94 years.

History Designing Architecture: Performance and Architecture in Africa & its Diaspora
17th May 2023

Adedoyin Teriba, Rixt Woudstra

This presentation will explore the ways in which this type of place making has remained a vital force in how certain buildings are erected amongst people of African descent in West Africa and its diaspora – providing a nuanced contrast to the inductive way of architectural design that dominates the field of architecture in many parts of the world.

Rixt Woudstra is a member of the School's Transnational Research Group and the AHUWA research centre.
Building material in perspex tube

Carbon Counts
Feb-May 2022

A concept of Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Carbon Counts is a striking installation which draws together key metrics for ten materials to illustrate the embodied carbon impacts of each. Carbon Counts ran at the Liverpool School of Architecture from 1st February to July 2022.
ASAUK 2022 Abstract ceramic relief with blue glazing

ASAUK Biennial Conference 2022
August 2022

Running from August 31st – September 4th, 2022, this unique two-part conference took place online and involving ASAUK research colleagues based in Ibadan and Nairobi engaging in the conference themes from Africa based platforms shared across Africa and Liverpool in the UK. This was followed by a smaller in-person conference, hosted by the ASAUK at the University of Liverpool.

Re-Thinking Liverpool’s Railway Heritage Composite image showing a railway cutting over time

Re-Thinking Liverpool’s Railway Heritage
19th April 2022

The design workshop aimed to propose a solution for re-activating Liverpool’s lost railway heritage and connect this once again with the local community.

The LSA Autumn Exhibition

LSA Autumn Exhibition
October 2021

Due to the pandemic our last two summer exhibitions were impossible, so we created this exhibition on the railings of Abercromby Square to celebrate some of the outstanding work produced by our students during 2020 and 2021 despite the difficult learning situation.

Catalysts: Envisioning The Modern City Latif Al Ani, Shorja Street, Baghdad, 1960. Latif Al Ani Collection, courtesy of the Arab Image Foundation, Beirut and Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai.

Crucibles, Vectors, Catalysts: Envisioning The Modern City
March 2021

This online event brings together scholars, researchers and curators to explore the architectural production in the blurred era of independence to the post-colonial period of the mid-20th century, focussing on cities in Africa, Middle East and South Asia.

Global SinoPhoto Awards Global SinoPhoto Awards © Judy Bellah/Alamy

Global SinoPhoto Awards

GSPA is an exciting new international photography competition created by Yintong Betser (Managing Director of ACTIVE) and Lynne Bryant (founder of The Architectural Photography Awards)

Colin Rowe Colin Rowe photographed by Valerie Bennett

Colin Rowe Centenary

Colin Rowe was one of the greatest architectural theorists writing in the English language. A blog commemorating the centenary of his birth, 27 March, 2020, has been set up, click for more information and to help contribute.

BrutalismNow BrutalismNow Link

#BrutalismNow
11th October 2019

From listing "British Brutalism" in the World Monuments Watch to Preston Bus Station’s 50th birthday: so, where are we now?

Building Children’s Worlds

Building Children’s Worlds
May 2019

Looking at how modern architecture has been portrayed in children’s picture books since 1945 and exploring the potential influence of illustrations and portrayals of home.

After Island

After ISLAND at RIBA North
March - May 209

In 2018 we partnered with the British Council to send three of our MArch students to work and research in Venice for a month long period as part of the Architecture Biennale.

Playing Around the Docks Playing Around the Docks

Playing Around the Docks
April 2018

Tate and the Architectural Imagination, a collaboration between the Liverpool School of Architecture and Tate Liverpool to rethink the role of academia within society.