The Festival is for anyone with an interest in London’s architecture and built environment. LFA doesn’t target specific categories of the built environment industry; on the contrary, it brings together the public and the profession.
LFA is …
CELEBRATORY. Since its origins in 2004, the Festival’s mission has always been to celebrate good design, London as a global hub of architecture, and reveal the underlying potential of emerging designers.
HUMAN. The Festival doesn’t only celebrate buildings, it celebrates the in-between spaces and the people who use them. Communities are at the core of LFA.
INCLUSIVE. The LFA programme is people-led and curated by event organisers; we believe in the power of collaboration with the people who live, shape, and truly know London.
TIMELY. The Festival evolves every year and keeps up with the times. Since 2004, each theme has always responded to real world issues and challenges that everyone faces.
LFA is run by New London Architecture (NLA), the world’s leading centre for the built environment industry. In 2017 LFA was named by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan as one of his design advocate organisations. We work alongside the Mayor’s team to champion architecture, provide expertise and guidance, and help make London a better city
Director
Rosa leads on strategic development, curation and delivery of the festival’s annual programme, competitions and wider consultancy. In parallel, Rosa also teaches architecture at the University of East London. She has co-curated the Montenegrin Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Biennale and has been curator in residence at Vienna Design Week 2020.
Senior Programme Manager
Eliza leads on the general LFA programme, mentor programme and LFA Building Sounds podcast. Eliza holds a MA in Architectural History from the Bartlett, with a focus on community spaces and accessibility and a background in galleries, sculpture foundations and theatre. Eliza also manages The Architecture Diary.
Programme Manager
Sophie leads on collaborations with LFA Destinations and partners. Sophie holds an an MA in Design History from the Royal College of Art and Victoria and Albert Museum, and has a background in communications, digital media, and museum research, delivering events and exhibitions as well as creative campaigns.
Project Manager
Lydia leads on design competitions for the LFA. Lydia holds a BA in Classics from the University of Cambridge, with a thesis on the legacy of fascism in Rome’s public spaces. Lydia has a background in the museums sector, working for Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery on their communications, building projects and public art commissions.
Programme Coordinator
Ellie supports on the general LFA programme, Showroom Showcase and other key LFA projects. Alongside, Ellie coordinates the delivery of Don’t Move, Improve! and wider NLA programming. Ellie holds a Master of Research in Architecture from the Royal College of Art and a BA in Design from Goldsmiths, University of London.
Programme Coordinator
Eugenia supports across LFA Destinations Alongside, Eugenia coordinates the New London Awards, part of the NLA programme. Eugenia studied Architecture at the University of Sheffield and has worked in architectural practices that place social value, placemaking and sustainability, as integral to the collaborative design process.
Programme Coordinator
Connie supports across LFA Destinations and Studio Lates programme. Alongside, Connie works across the NLA programme, supporting the delivery of research, reports and a range of NLA events. Connie holds a BA in History from UCL and has a background in coordinating research and community engagement projects exploring architecture, history and space.
Competitions Coordinator
Katya supports on LFA competitions and commissions, alongside wider NLA events. Katya is passionate about increasing public engagement in art and its institutions.
Curation Panel Member
Tara is a Mayor’s Design Advocate and co-director of award-winning Gbolade Design Studio - an architecture practice specialising in residential and mixed-use developments. She sits on Design Review Panels across London where she advises the council on major planning applications.
Curation Panel Member
João is Senior Programme Manager, Architecture, Design and Fashion at British Council, where he develops opportunities for designers to collaborate internationally and leads on a number of global programmes, including a fund supporting architecture and design biennales and festivals abroad to present work by UK designers, a series of architecture fellowships in Latin America, and design residencies.
Curation Panel Member
Melodie Leung is an Associate Director at Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) where she has been a leading designer within the practice for over 15 years overseeing notable projects across architecture, interiors, product design, and exhibitions.
Curation Panel Member
Fiona MacDonald is Co-Founder and Director of MATT+FIONA, a social enterprise that empowers young people to shape their own spaces through a unique, integrated process of brief creation, designing, making and building. Fiona has worked in outreach and community engagement for almost 15 years. Originally training as an architect, she was most recently Head of Learning at the Design Museum. She also established the National Schools and Young Peo...
Curation Panel Member
A landscape architect by training, Nic Monisse is Monocle magazine's design editor and host of Monocle 24 radio show Monocle On Design. He reports on design and urbanism.
Curation Panel Member
Binki Taylor is partner in participatory place-making organisation, The Brixton Project. We develop cultural projects led by and for communities, to amplify the unique characteristics of place. Binki is an experienced coach-mentor, creative producer, community broker, and board member of the Brixton Pound.
Curation Panel Member
Jordan Whitewood-Neal is an architectural researcher, designer and artist whose work focuses on disability, domesticity, cultural infrastructure and the tension between accessibility and retrofitting. He is an Architecture Foundation Young Trustee and Co-founder of the disability centered, research collective, DIS/.
Curation Panel Member
Hadi is a first year Architecture student at Kingston University, who wants to embark to change the social housing sector of architecture for the better. Hadi is a London Neighbourhood Scholarship Trust Scholar for 2022/3.
Chair
Martyn Evans is the Creative Director at U+I. Before joining the Cathedral (U&I) board in 2011, Martyn ran a successful branding and communications consultancy, working in the property, regeneration and urban design sectors. Martyn is a member of the Development Committee of the British Property Federation and a lay assessor for the RIBA London Regional Awards.
Festival Committee Member
Sarah started her role as Head of Architecture at DLUHC in November 2021. She is an architect, urban designer and project manager with over 25 years’ experience helping public and private sector clients deliver residential projects from masterplans to individual homes. Sarah has worked on projects from site finding stage to construction and post-occupation, working closely with design and construction teams as well as being involved in large ...
Festival Committee Member
David is a Partner and Creative Director of Hawkins\Brown architects and the former Director of Design, Exhibitions and Futureplan - V&A 2015-2018. He has led many award-winning projects within the education, workplace, arts and regeneration sectors. David is a dedicated supporter of culture and is the current chair of Tannery Arts. He is a patron of The Drawing Room and a trustee of S1Artspace and Oily Cart.
Festival Committee Member
Emma Cariaga is Joint Head of Canada Water Development & Head of Residential, leading on the development of Canada Water, a 53 acre development project in Central London. She joined the Executive Committee in 2019. Emma is a Non-executive Director of Assura plc, a Non-executive Director of TEDI-London, a higher education provider for future engineers founded by Arizona State University, King’s College London & UNSW Sydney.
Festival Committee Member
Sevra Davis is Director for Architecture Design Fashion at the British Council and in this capacity, she is also the Commissioner of the British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Sevra is an experienced designer, design advocate and leader in design for social innovation. Sevra studied architecture and urban design and worked in professional practice for over ten years in the US, the UK and Finland before moving to roles focused on d...
Festival Committee Member
Tom is a writer, historian and broadcaster about architecture, geographies and cities, and teaches urban and architectural history and theory at University College London and Central Saint Martins. He has written and presented many TV and radio/podcast series on the subjects for the BBC, Channel 4, Netflix, Sky and others, and was previously exhibitions curator at the Royal Institute of British Architects, homes editor at The Guardian and archit...
Festival Committee Member
Pedro Gil is a registered Architect, Director of Studio Gil Ltd, and is appointed by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, on the Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm. He combines architectural practice with academia in his role as Associate Professor at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.
Festival Committee Member
Indy Johar is an architect and co-founder of 00 (project00.cc) Indy, on behalf of 00, has co-founded multiple social ventures from Impact Hub Westminster to Impact Hub Birmingham, along with working with large global multinationals & institutions to support their transition to a positive Systems Economy. He has also co-led research projects such as The Compendium for the Civic Economy, whilst supporting several 00 explorations/experiments in...
Festival Committee Member
Sally Lewis is an architect and urban designer and founded Stitch in 2012. Her team’s approach to partnership working with communities on regeneration projects across London has been rewarded with unanimous planning consents for more than 1600 homes, with over 800 of these homes completed and occupied. Sally is also the founder of The London Neighbourhood Scholarship Trust which promotes a more socially aware and diverse built environment in L...
Festival Committee Member
Peter is Curator-in-Chief of NLA and started the organisation together with Nick Mckeogh in 2005. He founded the London Festival of Architecture the previous year. His role is to oversee the quality of NLA’s output and to act as its public face. He is a Mayor of London’s Design Advocate, Chairman of the Temple Bar Trust, Past Master of the Architects’ Company, a board member of Be First, Barking and Dagenham’s regeneration delivery comp...
Festival Committee Member
Dr Neal Shasore is Chief Executive and Head of School at the London School of Architecture. An architectural historian by training, his work has focussed on architectural culture in twentieth century Britain. He is a Trustee of the Twentieth Century (C20) Society and the Architectural Heritage Fund. © James Jordan Photography for the London School of Architecture.
Festival Committee Member
Manijeh Verghese is the Head of Public Engagement at the Architectural Association, where she is also a Unit Master of Diploma 12, a seminar leader for the AA Professional Practice for Fifth Year course, and a member of the Senior Management Team. She was on the curatorial panel for the 2021 London Festival of Architecture, and is currently an External Examiner at Cambridge University. She also works on independent curatorial projects such as th...
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