Architecture Masters

For the fifth episode ofArchitecture Masters at Home, we’re joined byPeter Murray andNick McKeogh. Like many organisations trying to adapt to these challenging and quickly changing circumstances, at the LFA we’ve naturally been re-examining our core purpose and thinking about how we can continue to support the profession and the wider city. The LFA was …

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In Episode 4 ofArchitecture Masters at Homewe’re joined by the Managing Editor of theArchitects’ Journal,Will Hurst. Founded in 1895, the AJ remains the journal of record for the architecture profession in the UK. We talk about the role of a Managing Editor, about producing an entire issue from home, and balancing the resources of …

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For the third episode of Architecture Masters at Home we’re joined by Steven Harding, founder of Goodfellow Communications. Goodfellow run the press and PR for the LFA, helping the festival and our partners reach new audiences, both during the festival and throughout the year. Tamsie and Owen talk to Steven about the importance of good …

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Welcome to the second episode of our new format podcast – Architecture Masters at Home. In this episode LFA Director Tamsie Thomson and LFA Deputy Director Owen Wainhouse discuss this year’s festival theme of ‘power’ and how it relates to architecture – particularly in our new world of working from home. Every year the London …

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From our homes to yours – welcome to our new format festival podcast – ‘Architecture Masters at Home’. Whilst we all get accustomed to working from home, we wanted to bring you some insights from the festival and our key partners as we look at how the wider architecture sector adapts to working in different …

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On the programme this week is the designer Paul Priestman. Paul started his business designing the packaging for Boots’ Number 7 cosmetics. Some 30 years later PriestmanGoode, the firm he started along with Nigel Goode, has become the go-to firm responsible for designing many of the seats, aircraft cabins, carriages, berths, beds, hotel rooms and …

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On the programme this week our guest is Patrik Schumacher, Principal of Zaha Hadid Architects. When Patrik joined the practice in 1988, Zaha Hadid had just four other employees, based out of a couple of rooms in a converted Victorian school on Bowling Green Lane in Clerkenwell. And the practice had no built work to …

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Our guest this week is Deborah Saunt, co-founder of the architecture practice DSDHA. Deborah was born in Australia but moved as a child to the UK via a brief stint in Kenya. It was in Scotland that she first studied architecture at Edinburgh College of Art. She later studied via a scholarship at the University …

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On the programme this week our guest is Hattie Hartman, Sustainability Editor at the Architects’ Journal. The Architects’ Journal was founded in 1895 as The Builder’s Journal and Architectural Record, before being taking its current name in 1919. Some 100 years later the journal still remains one of the profession’s most respected and widely read …

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Our guest this week is the architect Piers Gough CBE. Piers was born in Brighton in the south of England and in 1965 began his studies at the Architectural Association in London – studying under Peter Cook (of Archigram frame) and Elia Zenghelis (who when on to co-found the Office of Metropolitan Architecture). It …

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