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Lecture Series 2022

The GSA Lecture Series continued throughout 2022. Presentations by a range of local and international practitioners offered the GSA community an opportunity to engage with architects at the forefront of architectural practice and discourse.

Informed by the colonial history of their home in Cape Town, Heinrich and Ilze Wolff established their eponymous architecture firm in 2012 as a vehicle for addressing social inequities, as well as the erasure of indigenous landscapes and narratives.

Manijeh is the Head of Public Engagement at the Architectural Association (AA) where she curates the public programme of lectures and exhibitions including the New Models lecture series that invited practitioners from different disciplines to discuss how their work can change the models around which society is organised.

Kannan is a British-Sri Lankan documentary filmmaker. Kannan studied Psychology at the University of Cambridge and International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford, focusing on new media and conflict. He has taught at Cornell University’s Department of Asian Studies and continues to produce films in collaboration with its Department of Architecture. 

Working with an international creative community of architects, artists, landscape architects, photographers and directors and in close collaboration with local communities in the South and North, LWCircus has developed a methodology that contemplates the implementation of a participatory project through the exchange of cultural codes.

Nana Biamah-Ofosu is a Ghanaian-born qualified architect, educator, researcher and writer based in London. She is a co-founder of Studio NYALI, based in London. The work of the practice aims to centre peripheral identities, cultures and people by examining, challenging and shifting architectural critiques and narratives towards a more inclusive, holistic understanding of the built environment.

Nairobi-based bureau of architects, Cave Bureau’s research and exhibition programmes fall under what we call The Anthropocene Museum. This conjoined title recognises the proposed new geological epoch we are living in. The Anthropocene is a geological time interval starting from the middle of the twentieth century, in which the processes of our Earth have been profoundly altered by human activities taking place since the industrial revolution.

Alberto is a research associate in Architectural Design and Participation under the supervision of Francis Kéré at the Technical University of Munich. He is also currently involved, as a guest lecturer, at the course Advanced Design Studio: New Tools at YALE School of Architecture.