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A New School for a New Century: Part 1 – The Founder’s Story, November 2010–October 2015
England’s first new independent architecture school in over 150¹ years, the London School of Architecture opened in 2015 with a single academic programme: a Part 2 diploma. Today the school has 57 staff, 103 students, 77 students-in-waiting, 127 alumni and 180 practice partners. Departing as chief executive in June 2021, LSA founder Will Hunter reflects on the decade-long story of why and how the school came into being
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World squares for all: Trafalgar Square’s transformation
Peter Buchanan on Foster+Partner’s balancing act between the needs of traffic and pedestrians, the ceremonial and the everyday, the old and the new
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The energy story of architecture
Barnabas Calder on architecture from prehistory to climate emergency
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Identity & belonging
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Denise Scott Brown on learning by doing
Denise Scott Brown talks to Citizen about her Las Vegas and Levittown design studios which she ran as a teacher, about learning by doing and how to synthesise design teaching with other disciplines
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