Open Events

Open Lecture Series
2023-24

The Open Lecture Series hosted by the Leeds School of Architecture.

Joslin McKinney

2nd May 2024
Joslin McKinney - University of Leeds
Marko Jobst

11th April 2024
Marko Jobst - Leeds Beckett University
Pascal Bronner

21st March 2024
Pascal Bronner - FleaFolly Arc
itects
Elena Palacios Carral + Lola Lozano Lara

7th March 2024
Forms of Living
Amir Gohar

15th March 2024
Amir Gohar - UWE Bristol
Nic Clear

30th November 2023
Drawing Ghosts: Hauntology and Affect
Perry Kulper

23rd November 2023
Visual Catalysts
Peter Baldwin

16th November 2023
Diaohanous Bodies - Tall Tales and Mythrepresentation
Rahesh Ram

26th October 2023
Conjuring up the Jinni (Three Manifestations)
Smout Allen

19th October 2023
Proving Grounds + Instrumental Architectures
Neil Spiller

12th October 2023
The Poetics of the Island of Vessels

Open Lecture Series
2022-23

Significant and regular open lectures with eminent guest speakers organised and hosted by the Leeds School of Architecture.

Professional Practice Symposium

1st February 2023
Jonathan Hago
Jan Kattein
Jessica Revnolds
Marsha Ramroop
Dr Debbie Whelan

23rd March 2023
"Authorities and
hierarchies of heritage"
+Workshop:
"Contested Heritage:
Maggie Thatcher and
Nelson Mandela"
Simon Hudspith

16th March 2023
"Contemporary UrbanDesign; Learning from Medieval Cities"
Andrew Harland

18th May 2023
"Ageing well? Unpacking
the legacy of Queen
Elizabeth Olvmpic Park"
+Workshop (1430 - 1600)
"Walking in the shoes of
others"
Fieldworks

1st December 2022
Six lectures exploring the role of Fieldwork investigtion withing design practice
David Saunders

10th November 2022
"Forest to final formvertical integration in the UK timber supply chain"

Open Lecture Series
2021-22

Significant and regular open lectures with eminent guest speakers organised and hosted by the Leeds School of Architecture.

The Politics of Architectural Drawing: Spanish Schools of Architecture 197x-199x

April 2022
Mariá Álvarez García, Leeds School of Architecture
Eco Parametric and Circular Architecture

April 2022
Arthur Mamou-Mani, Mamou-Mani Architects
What are you working for? Front A History and Future of Architectural Labour

March 2022
Charlie Edmonds, Future Architect Front
Building Community Resilience through Architecture: The Sharanam Centre for Rural Development

March 2022
Jateen Lad, Jateen Lad Architects
Walking Away: Alternative Practices in South America

March 2022
Gustavo Crembil
Urbanisms for Homeless Species: Microlaboratories

March 2022
Camilo + Diego, Husos Architects
Museum of London: A Case Study in Adaptive Reuse

March 2022
Anne Fehrenbach, Stanton Williams
A Work On Progress

February 2022
Will Meynell, Studio Bark
Rural Regenerative Development: How can industrial and agriculture abandoned buildings in rural areas serve as catalysers for regenerative development?

February 2022
CLARA, Centre for Rural Future
ProxyAddress: Architecture Beyond Buildings

February 2022
Chris Hildrey, Hildrey Studio
Professional Practice Symposium

January 2022
Nisha Kurian, (We Made That)
Naomi Rubbra, (Footwork Trust)
Ben Cross, (General Projects)
Sowmya Parthasarathy, (Arup)
Indy Johar, (Dark Matter Labs)
Sarah Mills, (Chair)
Selected works of BGY & Growing an Architectural Practice

December 2021
Paul White, Buckley Gray Yoeman
COP26 and Landscape Architecture

December 2021
Jane Findlay, President of the Landscape Institute
Working Fast - Working Slow

November 2021
Thomas Randall-Page

Open Lecture Series
2020-21

Significant and regular open lectures with eminent guest speakers organised and hosted by the Leeds School of Architecture.

Society's Cage: The Shape of Institutional Racism

April 2021
Dayton Schroeter and Julian Arrington - SmithGroup
The Home as a Space of Resistance

March 2021
Elena Palacios Carral - Architectural Association
Dr Samaneh Moafi - Forensic Architecture
Architecture of Decency, Enjoyment and Degrowth

February 2021
Maria Smith - Buro Happold
Andrew Freear - Rural Studio
Future Cities: Questioning Spaces that Promote Wellbeing and Social Inclusion

March 2021
Rhiannon Corcoran and Graham Marshall - University of Liverpool
Nick Dunn - Lancaster University
Creating Liveable Cities - From Macro to Mental

February 2021
Garuth Chalfont - Lancaster University
Alan Simson - Emeritus Professor, Leeds Beckett University.
Architecture Inside-Out

December 2020
Doreen Balabanoff, PhD
J. Davis Harte, PhD
Dialogical Urbanism: Giving a Voice to Those Displaced in the Margins of Buenos Aires

December 2020
Adriana Massida - De Montfort University
Martin Motta - Ministry of Territorial Development and Habitat of Argentina
Florencia Almansi - International Institute for Environment and Development
Green Infrastructure as an Agency For...

November 2020
Martin Felsen - Illinois Institute of Technology
Dr. Gemma Jerome - Building with Nature
Representation in Architecture

November 2020
Michael Russum - Birds Portchmouth Russum Architects
Amin Taha - Groupwork

Symposia
2019-21

Significant and regular open lectures with eminent guest speakers organised and hosted by the Leeds School of Architecture.

Professional Practice Symposium, with Jas Bhalla Architects, Studio Bark, McCloy + Muchemwa and Space Popular

January 2021
Programme
15.00 Introduction: Sarah Mills (Head: Leeds School of Architecture)
15.15 Jas Bhalla (Jas Bhalla Architects) ‘Out of the Ordinary’
15.50 Steve McCloy and Bo Muchemwa (McCloy + Muchemwa) ‘Situating a New Practice’
16.30 Wilf Meynell (Studio Bark) 'Architecture vs The Planet'
17.10 Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg (Space Popular) ‘Architecture Across Realities’
17.45 Q and A
18.00 Close
Technology Symposium 2020: Post Pandemic Futures

November 2020
The 2020 Technology Symposium sought to discuss post pandemic futures and the role architecture will play.
Four tremendous talks began with Ehab Sayed of Biohm exploring the possibilities of organic building materials, with the discussion furthered by Newcastle University Professor of Experimental Architecture Rachel Armstrong’s development of ‘living’ architecture demonstrating the possibilities for buildings to share properties of living systems. Virologist Dr Helene Steiner explained how OpenCell cracked the Coronavirus DNA, and with it the DNA of our cities in relation to movement, transport and infrastructure, before an expansive keynote from Michael Pawlyn founder of Exploration Architecture and Architects Declare who expounded the synthesis of using nature’s genius to drive biomimetic solutions.
Practising Displacement: Modes of Engagement and Representation

February 2020
This symposium will focus on the temporality of displacement.
Organisers Dr Mohamad Hafeda & George Epolito
Speakers Synopsis and Biographies
Keziah Berelson – Printmaking and Play: Picturing Togetherness in Leeds and Wakefield
Dr Ella Parry-Davies – Modern Heroes, Modern Slaves: Performance Temporalities in the Lives of Migrant Domestic Workers
Catalina Pollak Williamson – Cultural Integration through Critical Play
Dr Adam Ramadan – Magazzino 18 and Rashidieh Camp, Suspended in Time
Professor Jane Rendell – To Unsettle?
Dr Romola Sanyal – Upgrading: The Urbanisation of Humanitarian Architecture
Dr Liz Stirling – 105 Women, Leeds: Safe Creative Spaces as Places of Refuge, Connection and Empowerment
Technology Prototypes Symposium

December 2019
The whole School event, presented as part of Technology modules on both the BA and MArch Architecture courses, invited four brilliant speakers to discuss the role prototyping has upon design in their workplace. The range and depth of talks generated in-depth debate between the audience and panel stimulating new ideas for all involved.
Special thanks are extended to all speakers Steve Gittner - Architect and Founder of Gagarin Studio, Darren Paine - Structural Engineer and Founder of DP Squared, Anthony Smith - Senior Lecturer in School of Built Environment, Engineering & Computing at Leeds Beckett University, and Dr Sareen Galbraith - Senior Lecturer in School of Health at Leeds Beckett University.
Professional Practice Symposium, Inter-disciplinary Landscapes of Architectural Production

February 2019
The symposium looked the ever more diverse and dynamic landscapes of architectural production, culture and politics, and the wide range of tasks and modes of operation that architectural practitioners engage in besides traditional work in the architectural office. These included work in consultancy, facilitation, policy making, systems planning, event planning and curating, activist and charity work, artistic practices, community projects, journalistic and investigative work, educational work (schools, academia, adult learning), critical and academic writing and publishing.
Guest Speakers: Ruth Morrow, Akil Scafe-Smith, Gayle Appleyard, Dr Rory Hyde
Scene and Sequence: On Cinematic Urbanisms

February 2019
François Penz - ‘Cinema as Spatial Practice of Everyday Life’
Nic Clear -‘Synthetic Spaces: The Moving Image in Teaching, Practice and Research’
Ayah Hatahet - ‘Sentimental Cities’
Lingge Yang - ‘Beyond Boundaries’
Tatjana Crossley - ‘The Constructed Gaze’
Henrietta Williams - ‘Defining a Situated Video Practice and Pedagogy’
Mark Carey - ‘Architecture and Location as Characters: The Cinematographer’s Perspective’
Carla Molinari - ‘All Roads Lead to Rome: An urban journey through sequences’
Mohamad Hafeda - ‘Filming as Negotiating Conflict’
Aude-Line Dulière - ‘Crafted Images: Materials, Means and Meanings in the Construction of Movie Sets’
Brendon Carlin, Maria Paez Gonzalez and Andrew Houston - ‘Tropicality: Traces of a Struggle for Home’
Andreas Antonopoulos - ‘Visual Rhythm: From Still Photography to Narrative Film’ (2018)
Technology Futures Symposium

November 2018
The event invited five brilliant speakers including three Architecture alumni, to discuss the role technical expertise has upon design in their workplace. The talks generated in-depth debate between the audience and panel and were entitled;
‘Social Justice as Integral to Sustainable Energy Futures’
‘Challenging Convention Through Modular Fabrication’
‘From Hodder’s to Uganda through Building Techniques and Material Systems’
‘Building Integrated Technical Food Systems’
‘The Art of Engineering and Design’
Special thanks are extended to all five speakers Dr Anne Schiffer of Leeds Beckett University, Tess Widdowson of Citu, Nick Wright from Hodder + Partners, Dr Andrew Jenkins from Queens University Belfast, and Tim Burton from SHStructures.
Design & Creativity

AET research students are invited to critically address the theme of ‘Design and Creativity’ within the context of its current debate and topical role across the faculty disciplines at large. The purpose of the symposium is to offer a window on student research in the Faculty across the different cultures of the humanities and science, and to provoke interdisciplinary conversations on a topical theme we all address, in different ways, in our work.
Students are asked to propose specific takes on the general theme of ‘Design and Creativity’. Proposals should promote the discussion of current research themes and concerns, as well as bring new areas of research to light.
Students are encouraged to interpret ‘Design and Creativity’ as broadly as possible, and to explore trans-disciplinary conversations around specific issues, rather than close down within established disciplinary constraints. We ask you to be experimental, original, creative, open-minded and provocative.
Speed Dating: Work Placements

Leeds School of Architecture prides itself on its links to local practices and the wider construction industry. As part of the BA (Hons) Architecture extracurricular programme, the school provides students with the opportunity to work in a local practice and experience the ‘real world’ of architecture through a week-long work placement. Students and practices are invited to a ‘speed dating’ event where ‘matches’ are made for the following week.
Thank you to the Practices:
DLA Design, Bauman Lyons Architects, The Harris Partnership, Purcell, Vincent and Brown, Garnett Netherwood Architects, Yeme Architects, GHM Partnership, Niche Design Architects, Bowman Riley, Leeds University Estates , Pearce Bottomley
Coordinator: Dr Simon Warren
This Thing Called Theory

November 2015
19th - 21st November
Guest Speakers:
Andrew Benjamin
Mario Carpo
Mark Cousins
Marco de Michelis
Helene Frichot
Deborah Hauptmann

Inside/Out Lecture Series
Selected videos

The mission of our prestigious INSIDE/OUT series of lectures is to bring the best minds of our generation to inspire and support the work students and staff do across the Leeds School of Arts. To this end, we have flown in renowned speakers from around the globe. In order to enhance the cultural life of Leeds, we make the lecture series open to the general public and available to an international audience online.