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London Festival of Architecture at Various Locations

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Time 15:00
Date 01/06/15
Price Free

The month-long, citywide celebration of architectural experimentation, thinking and practice tackles the workplace.

Google’s office of the future, the National Trust’s Mobile Museum, and SelgasCano’s Serpentine Pavilion are amongst 220 events making up the London Festival of Architecture 2015.

With 69 Partner events, 82 Associated Projects and 62 Open Studios, the London Festival of Architecture (LFA) presents a programme that will put architecture on the map throughout the month of June, celebrating the evolving nature of work and the workplace, and paralleling the diversity and vision found in London.

Keynote talks and debates will tackle key issues central to this year’s theme. From debating how policy and design can encourage creative place making (8 June, Cultivating Creative Cities), looking at international case studies of industrial rejuvenation (18 June, The Working City – Eindhoven, New York and London), charting the past, present and future of the work space, and its impact on social behaviour (22 June, The Changing Faces of Workspace) to looking at the role of arts centres in today’s challenging landscape (29 June, Come Together: 

Reinventing the Arts Centres), these debates will underpin LFA’s key role in advancing the position that architecture plays in place making.

LFA 2015 highlights include:

  • An interactive exhibition exploring the future of the workplace with Google and Cloud Arch Studio

  • The Royal Academy’s 247th Summer Exhibition, with the Architecture room curated by Ian Ritchie

  • A talk at the Serpentine Pavilion with this year’s architects SelgasCano, designers of award-winning co-working space Second Home

  • Unique access to development sites across London including the Olympic Park, Goodman’s Fields, Woodberry Down and Nine Elms

  • An installation exploring the role of the coffee shop as a workspace in London by the Not to Scale Collective

  • A tour with the London Transport Museum of London’s first skyscraper

  • An architecture-themed pub quiz in partnership with The Londonist

  • A Friday Late at the Victoria & Albert Museum to question architecture’s relevance as a tool for social development

  • 1-30 June

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