London Festival of ARchitecture History - 2016 - Community

On June 25, to coincide with Pride in London, the LFA held its first Pride Breakfast and launched a new support network for architects in the LGBT community. Alongside from the tasty rainbow bagels and prosecco, the event offered a debate chaired by Evan Davies, journalist and BBC presenter, on diversity within the architecture profession and how representation of the LGBT community can be improved.

As the closing event of the LFA 2016, 2015 Turner Prize winners Assemble, a collective based in London who work across the fields of art, architecture and design, gave a keynote lecture on the connection between communities and the process by which places are made. The lecture was followed by a discussion on their work moderated by NLA Chairman Peter Murray.

A six-part season, “Architecture on TV”, at the British Film Institute Southbank explored the role of television in British architecture. The programme comprised rarely seen screening material and Q&As answered by a panel of selected experts. The screenings included Nairn’s Journeys later commented by writer and filmmaker Jonathan Meades and Transport as Architecture: Ballard to Banham commented by writer and journalist Paul Morley.