British Library Pavilion (photo: David Grandorge)

London Festival of Architecture 2010: International Architecture Student Festival

The International Architecture Student Festival 2010 will bring together UK and international design students with local communities to create a series of site-specific interventions as part of the London Festival of Architecture 2010. Reflecting the global economic downturn as well as the issue of climate change, the student teams will be asked to respond creatively to these issues in designing their intervention. The result should be a series of unique projects that will surprise and delight visitors to the LFA 2010, introducing local people to architecture and students to the realities of construction. The Student Festival will be co-curated by ASD Projects with Pippa Gueterbock and The Architecture Foundation.

Should you wish to express an interest in getting involved please email a.markey@londonmet.ac.uk.

To download the full brief please click here. For further information visit the London Festival of Architecture 2010 at http://www.lfa2010.or

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Anne Markey of ASD Projects and Pippa Gueterbock of EDAW were directors of the Student Festival in 2006 for the London Architecture Biennale and again in 2008 for the London Festival of Architecture

National Architecture Student Festival London Festival of Architecture 2008

The second National Architecture Student again brought together higher education students from across the UK with pupils from London schools and community groups over the course of a year, culminating in a series of temporary ‘interventions’ in key public spaces at each of the five LFA2008 Hubs.

The resulting interventions were a series of unique and exciting projects which interpreted LFA2008’s theme of FRESH!, Students chose sites (each of which had a specific brief to guide students in the design process) across the LFA2008 Hubs. These represented a range of different types of public spaces in the capital, from Bloomsbury squares and historic Clerkenwell to riverside sites and parks.

The Final Review took place at Goodenough College during the Festival month of July. The review panel, which included a selection of key figures from the built environment professions, reflected on the interventions’ strengths, weaknesses and how well they answered the brief alongside local people who had been involved in the projects.

Prizes were awarded to students for those who best met the brief’s 4 key themes of ‘Reveal’ the genus-loci or sense of place, ‘Reuse’ materials in construction and reuse the intervention post-LFA, ‘Signpost’ the LFA to passers-by, ‘Inclusive’ of diverse local people and those with accessibility challenges.

A book documenting the National Architecture Student Festival 2008 has been published and can be purchased direct from ASD Projects for £10. Please e-mail a.markey@londonmet.ac.uk for further information.

NASF 08 was supported by CABE Space and sponsored by Cundall.

National Architecture Student Festival London Architecture Biennale 2006

The first National Architecture Student Festival brought together students from architecture and urban environment higher education courses across the UK working with children from schools in the Biennale boroughs of Camden, Islington, The City of London and Southwark. Together they designed and built major ‘interventions’ along the 2006 London Architecture Biennale 5km walking and cycling route.

The impressive interventions - temporary structures and installations - added colour, and forms and provided seating and shelter in public spaces along the Biennale route as well as signposting the route. Students were asked to create designs that refer to the spatial qualities, the history of each chosen site, or the way that it is used, abused or misused currently by people. They were also asked to consider themes such as environmental impact and future of the place.

140 Boomerangs (Photo: Je Ahn)