The exceptional work of two LSBU Architecture Apprenticeship students who work at international design firm, Scott Brownrigg, was recognised at the WCCA Architecture Apprentice Awards 2024 with:

Last week, LSBU Careers Hub successfully organised another edition of the BEA Autumn Careers Fair.

This year, due to a record 60 industrial partners attending, the fair extended over two days, where employers from Civil and Building Services Engineering (October 10) and Architecture and Construction, Property and Surveying (October 12) visited LSBU to share 1525 job opportunities with over 300 LSBU students that attended the fair.

These were a vibrant couple of days that demonstrated LSBU’s commitment to high-quality student employment.

We look forward to next year!

Please see the following messages posted on: LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram about the BEA student presentations to Historic England.

Please click here for details of an article by Stephen Lovejoy, which is featured in Building Design.

The LSBU Hub has been shortlisted for a World Architecture Festival 2023 ‘Completed Buildings: Retrofit award’. The winners will be announced between 29^th November – 1^st December in Singapore. The link to the category is below.

https://www.worldbuildingsdirectory.com/search/?_sft_waf_year=2023&_sft_waf_category_status=shortlist&_sft_waf_category=waf-completed-buildings-higher-education-and-research

There is further information here and in this Guardian story on the World Architecture Festival awards.

Please also see the following tweet and links on Twitter and LinkedIn promoting the brilliant news that LSBU Hub has been shortlisted for a World Architecture Festival award.

Title: Point of Creation: Exploring practices at the limit of the ‘analogue’ and ‘digital’ in architecture

Speakers: 5

Attendees: 25

Summary: The evolution of digital technology has brought us to a watershed moment that requires radical redefinition of the meaning of architectural design and our understanding of the process of creation. New tools impact the practice of architecture and the role of the architect must be redefined. This symposium invited the speakers to examine the challenges and opportunities emerging from new digital processes and platforms to contemporary design and drawing in the field of architecture.

Photo: Dr Elisavet Hasa presenting her research on digital infrastructures of solidarity care

The Symposium took place on 9th June 2023. 

Please read here for the full article in Dezeen, titled: "Gender pay gap worsens at biggest UK architecture studios". The article features quotes from BEA's Head of  Architecture, Professor Igea Troiani. 

The School of BEA would like to offer its congratulations to Nelton Barbosa, (Level 07 Apprentice), who won the Runner Up prize as Employee of the Year at the Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects Apprenticeship Awards. 

We are delighted to announce that Piotr Smiechowicz - a July 2019 graduate of the LSBU architecture programme - has been awarded a RIBA Silver Medal Commendation in the RIBA President's Medals international design competition; Piotr is a student of MArch: Master of Architecture Studio 23 (co-led by Professor Lilly Kudic and Luke Murray), and his project, which received this award is called MoonCatcher.   

The President's Medals is the oldest competition for students of architecture in the world, with a history spanning 185 years; it is considered to be both the most prestigious, and the most demanding competition in which to succeed, and we want to send Piotr congratulations on behalf of all the architecture team, the School of the Built Environment and Architecture, and LSBU as a whole.  This is a great achievement, and builds on the very strong record LSBU architecture has established for success in the President's Medals.

Piotr received his Commendation from RIBA President Professor

Scholarships for PhD studentships are available at London South Bank University for September 2021 admission.

LSBU- SBEA Doctoral Scholarship Programme

The School of the Built Environment and Architecture (SBEA) at the London South Bank University (LSBU) is one of the largest schools in its field in the UK. SBEA has recently sharpened its research focus. It has two research centres on: Civil and Building Services Engineering, and Integrated Delivery of the Built Environment; and two research groups on: Acoustics and Digital and Robotic Architecture. Its aim is to pursue world-leading research which has impact on national policies and governance, on practices in industry, and on the wellbeing of society.

The LSBU-SBEA Doctoral Scholarship Programme is pleased to offer two scholarships for PhD Studentships for September 2021.

Details of the scheme

1. The studentships are funded for 3 years and cover the tuition fees and a monthly stipend.
2. The studentships are available to UK and EU

Max Rayner, an architecture student from London South Bank University’s (LSBU) School of Architecture and Built Environment, has won the prestigious Gatwick Diamond Business Apprentice of the Year award. The Apprentice of the Year was sponsored by Reigate & Banstead Borough Council. 

Max, who won the award, is a level six apprentice studying for a BA (Hons) Architecture at LSBU, while employed as an Architectural Assistant by urban planning and architecture consultancy, Woods Sanders & Co Ltd.

Luke Murray, head of architecture at LSBU, said  “Winning Apprentice of the Year is a great achievement for one of our aspiring students and a very great honour for LSBU’s School of Architecture.” “Max Rayner’s success in this competition shows how well the University has prepared and equipped students for employment in their chosen field.”

The Award has received a lot of attention and was tweeted by Tim Loughton, MP for East Worthing and Shoreham.

The Gatwick Diamond Business awards were announ

A number of our architecture students and alumni have received recognition in the RIBA London Student Awards which celebrate some of the best work from architecture schools in London. The awards will also showcase the students’ projects online to a global audience. The following LSBU students were winners in the 2020 awards:

• Michael Crook: Award Winner, from the MArch: Master of Architecture Studio 20, led by Onur Ozkaya and Dele Olubodun
• Sarah Nottet-Madsen: Award Winner, from the MArch: Master of Architecture Studio 20, led by Onur Ozkaya and Dele Olubodun
• Jack Biggerstaff: Commendation, from MArch: Master of Architecture Studio 23, led by Professor Lilly Kudic, Luke Murray, Monika Jociute and Teoman Ayas
• Dola Moni Mukta: Commendation, from the BA[Hons] Architecture Studio 04, led by Todor Demirov and Daniel Tang.

You can see details of the awards, in the announcement on the RIBA London Twitter account and on the RIBA London Instagram page

The series of architecture awards won is a

Piotr Smiechowicz, an MArch: Master of Architecture RIBA Part II graduate, has won another international prize with his postgraduate design project, The Moon Catcher.

Piotr completed his studies in academic year 2018-19, working with Professor Lilly Kudic and Luke Murray. Piotr had also won the prestigious RIBA President’s Medals, Silver Medal Commendation, making his work one of the best student projects in the world.
This latest accolade is for the Architecture Masterprize 2020 competition held in Los Angeles (USA) and Piotr won in two categories:

• Best of Best Winner 2020 in Culture Architecture Category;
• Student Winner 2020 in Other Interior Design Category.

This competition is of incredibly high global acclaim, with the professional award going to Tadao Ando for the HE Art Museum project. Please see the link below to review Piotr’s work and the awards he has received.

Architecture Masterprize 2020 - THE MOON CATCHER

The School of BEA would like to extend our congratulations to Pio

Two students were selected for the AJ Student Prize by London South Bank University: Dola Mukta, BA (Hons) Architecture (Undergraduate) and Yianna Moustaka, March (Postgraduate). A big congratulations go out to the students on behalf of the School of BEA.

Dola Mukta, BA (Hons) Architecture (Undergraduate)
Project title Education of Autonomy
Project description In a society where the idea of community is vanishing in between the vastness of tall institutional buildings and skyscrapers, the proposal of a live-work educational centre located near Canary Wharf is a result of the interpretation of socio-economic factors of migrant families in the area, as well as aspiring new entrepreneurs. The research focused on the specifics of the surroundings and the response to these. The architectural approach responds to this data to deliver protected live-work spaces formed by a series of separate buildings used for counselling residents in need, and all facing towards the central market space, a soc

We are delighted to announce that Piotr Smiechowicz - a July 2019 graduate of the LSBU architecture programme - has been awarded a RIBA Silver Medal Commendation in the RIBA President's Medals international design competition; Piotr is a student of MArch: Master of Architecture Studio 23 (co-led by Professor Lilly Kudic and Luke Murray), and his project receiving this award is called MoonCatcher.   

The President's Medals is the oldest competition for students of architecture in the world, with an impressive history spanning 185 years; it is considered to be both the most prestigious, and the most demanding competition in which to succeed, and we would like to send Piotr congratulations on behalf of all the architecture team, the School of the Built Environment and Architecture, and LSBU as a whole.  This is a great achievement, and builds on the very strong record LSBU architecture has established for success in the President's Medals.

Piotr received his Commendation from RIBA Pre

Every year, the Architecture team led by Head of Division for Architecture, Lilly Kudic organise public lectures called ‘The Open Lecture series’. They are a series of public lectures for students of architecture, architecture graduates, and practising architects; the great news being that they are all open access with free admission!

Each lecture involves a celebrated architect and academic exploring the many and varied possibilities for professional practice, and the very different characteristics a career in architecture can offer. The first open lecture of 2019 took place in October and was led by guest speaker, Hugh Broughton, the founder of Hugh Broughton Architects who provided a fascinating insight into his career and plans for the future. The event was a great success with 130 people in attendance!

The next open lecture will take place on Thursday 7th November from 18:30 – 20:00 and will be led by Professor Murray Fraser of The Bartlett School of Architecture. If you are inte

The Architecture team recently received approval from the Architects Registration Board along with The Royal Institute of British Architects to deliver a new level 7 Architect apprenticeship course.  This course will combine the award of MArch: Master of Architecture (RIBA part 2) with the Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Practice (RIBA part 3) and will be the shortest postgraduate architecture apprenticeship course operating in the United Kingdom (43 months).  

Apprentices who successfully complete all elements of the course can graduate from LSBU with immediate access to the UK register of architects. This is an innovative and entirely new route into the profession, combining workplace-based and university-based learning.  LSBU remains the only university in the UK to offer both an undergraduate and postgraduate architecture apprenticeship.

A special thanks to Kira Ariskina; Course Director for Architecture Apprenticeships along with the entire LSBU Apprenticeship team for a

Dr Alex Paurine, one of the Acting Heads of Division for Civil and Building Services Engineering was recently informed by the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) that his team had won the Happold Brilliant Award for 2018/19. The Award recognises excellence in the teaching of building services engineering.

The panel were impressed by the high quality of graduates produced by the university and felt that the project topics studied by the students cover a wide range of building services areas and include sustainability and renewable systems. They commented that LSBU has excellent links with the industry through the advisory panel as well as LSBU staff being involved in knowledge transfer partnership schemes. They also acknowledged that students are supported by experienced, helpful and dedicated staff throughout their course.

The award comes in the form of an engraved crystal chalice and will be presented at the CIBSE President’s Award Dinner on Friday 11 October

The Architects’ Journal recently published a review of our Architecture Exhibition in which they compliment our courses and the recent exhibition. Reviewed by journalist Edmund Wilson, the headline reads ‘It is clear that LSBU is providing a supportive environment in which good work can flourish’.

We are very proud of this independent third party’s review of our student work, the culture of our architecture courses and its bright future.

To read the review in full, please click here:  https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/culture/degree-show-review-2019-london-south-bank-university/10043779.article