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LONDON FESTIVAL OF ARCHITECTURE 2010: The UKs largest

celebration of architecture returns to the capital 19

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JulyPress Release May 2010

Three weekends, 16 days, over 300 events, 250,000 visitors, star names and an unrivalled

variety and vibrancy of installations, exhibitions, debates and dialogue, the biennial London

Festival of Architecture (LFA) returns to the capital with a bang.

Established in 2004, LFA is a celebration and exploration of buildings, streets, spaces and

places in the capital and highlights Londons reputation as an international creative hub. Since its

inception, LFA has engaged and excited a new audience helping to place architecture firmly at

the forefront of the cultural agenda and shift its status from a specialist interest for the few, to anessential consideration for the many.

A varied and colourful programme of events including exhibitions, debates, dance, breakfast

picnics, street markets, workshops, talks, parties, guided walks, bicycle and boat tours will see

London, a heavy place of bricks, steel and concrete, invaded by a lighter city of canvas, tents,

towers and pavilions.

Run in conjunction with a broad range of cultural partners including the British Council, Tate

Modern, London Metropolitan University and V&A, LFA provides a platform for many of the

leading figures of architecture and urbanism including; Daniel Libeskind, Sir John Ritblat,

Francine Houben, Rafael Vinoly, MVRDV, Alain de Botton, Rem Koolhaas, Ken

Livingstone, Ed Jones, Sir Terry Farrell, Stephen Bayley, Deyan Sudjic, and Wayne

Hemingway to debate and discuss timely themes and burning questions, addressing key issues

such as how can we make London a better place to live and work in.

Centrally curated by three leading architectural institutions, RIBA London, The Architecture

Foundation and New London Architecture, LFA is structured over three weekends across

three London hubs: Central London (19th

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June), East London (26th

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July) united under the Festival theme, The Welcoming City. In addition to each weekendhub, a core series of activities and one-off events will run throughout the Festival scattered far

and wide across the capital. In the true spirit of The Welcoming Citypractices London-wide will

also be opening their doors to the public and engaging with their local communities to provide a

rich insight into the profession through open studio tours, events and school visits.


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LFA Highlights (*See hub backgrounders for further event information)

Weekend 1, June 19 - 23

CENTRAL: NASH RAMBLAS

RIBA London is opening the festival with a West End hub that celebrates John

Nash's key north-south route between two Royal Parks (Regents Park and St Jamess)

uniting a wealth of architectural, historical, cultural and commercial offers. NashRamblas highlights the origins of the route in the early 19th century and explores

contemporary, as well as the future, plans and potential for this area as a majorpedestrian destination.

Highlights of Nash Ramblas programme include:

Duke of York Steps A fascinating and totally unique showcase of the potentialfor renewable energy at work. A team of architects and the Royal Engineers havedeveloped a lift concept that uses water weights to counterbalance a lift cart,powered by renewable energy sources pumping water back to refill the system.

Regent Street Windows: A selection of Regent Streets best known shopsincluding Banana Republic, Anthropologie, COS, Oasis and Austin Reid team upwith a selection of Londons hottest architects to create a series of visionarywindow displays set to rival the world famous Christmas lights. In addition, Libertywill also hold an in-store design treasure trail.

Speakers Crescent: Housed in a landmark pavilion on Park Crescent RIBA hosta two-day programme of diverse talks and conversations. Nash Saturday takes

in talks and stories inspired by John Nash, the Georgian city and contemporaryLondon particulars while International Sunday features presentations anddebate from global practices as far ranging as Colombia, Poland and theNetherlands.

Nash Ramblas iPhone App: Acomprehensive guide to the key architectural andfestival sites along Nashs route. Produced by RIBA especially for the Festival,the app includes specially compiled galleries featuring rare archival images thatprovide unique access to the heritage and stories behind some of Londons mostfamous sights. Available from the App Store in June.

Following Nash: An open-air exhibition in The Regents Park charting the historyof the streets and spaces we know today from the early 19th century, through to

its 20th century reconstruction, its additions and embellishments. The exhibitionpresents an open exploration of how the route might be further enhanced as acentral pedestrian artery for 21st century London

50 Years of London Architecture: An iconic photographic exhibition illustratinga cross section of new architecture in London over the past five decades. Theexhibition has been organised by the Architecture Club, Ken Powell chairs thecuratorial committee.


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EAST: HIGH STREET 2012

The second weekend focus is the section of streets that stretch from Aldgate to Stratford

and represent the last 6km of the London 2012 Olympic Marathon and the historicgateway into the City, as well as a wider current streetscape and regeneration strategy.

The High Street will host a series of activities and interventions, coordinated by TheArchitecture Foundation in collaboration with Design for London as a local deliverypartner, and with the support of London Borough of Newham and Land Securities.

Highlights of High Street 2012 include:

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Hyperlympics with feld72: Uses the communication and unifying power ofsports and spectacle to discover the potential of the High Street in an Olympics

of the everyday. From a base in Stratford, the whole area of the High Streetwill be used as a temporary Pre-Olympic-Playground with a variety ofinterventions and activities, focused upon the sporty, performative potentialof the city structure.

Highway to 2012 Challenge at Discover Children's Story Centre: Workingwith artists, designers and architects children are encouraged to build theirown street in the lead up to 2012. From tower blocks to tiny shops, hospitals tohotels, street signs to stations, market stalls to shopping malls it will be a funfirst taste of master-planning with a packed programme of weekend eventstaking in model making, art workshops, storytelling and street parties.

Alternative Bus Tours of East London: Explore High Street 2012 and the

east of the city in a variety of alternative tours - from psychogeographies andpotted histories to mobile performances and trailers for the areas future designlandscape.

Service: A temporary skills exchange platform set up by Household and SaraMelin in a vacant retail unit in Stratford. Learn how to mend your damageddomestic goods - from un-bound books to wonky chairs - in expert anddesigner workshops, or collaborate on local projects including personalisedmap-making. Fix the home and the city with new found skills..

Temporary Stratford Museum: A combination of artefacts, artworks andmore will occupy the unlikely site of a disused lobby in the singular StratfordShopping Centre, creating a fragmentary window into the past and future,

amongst the shop-fronts of the present, and examining the layers of ongoingand extreme change in this dynamic slice of the city.

Olympic Park Viewing Gallery: A rare chance for the public to visitNewhams rooftop Olympic Park Viewing Gallery, from where Stratfords pitchto the IOC sealed the deal to bring the 2012 Games to London, and theQueen, Jason Donavon and the worlds dignitaries have surveyed the work inprogress.


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Weekend 3, June 30 July 4

SOUTH: BANKSIDE URBAN FOREST

The final weekend of the Festival brings focus to the area stretching between the

culturally vibrant South bank of the River Thames and the Elephant and Castle

neighborhood further south. Taking its cues from Witherford Watson Mann architectsBankside Urban Forest scheme, it will create multiple opportunities for exchangebetween Festival visitors and local residents. This hub is coordinated by The

Architecture Foundation, with support of Better Bankside and Design for London.

Highlights of Bankside Urban Forest include:

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The Union Street Urban Orchard: During LFA and beyond the site of 100 UnionStreet in SE1 will be transformed into an urban orchard and community garden.Built with the help of the local community and an array of other volunteers the

garden will regenerate a disused site in Bankside and create a place forexchange between local residents and visitors to the Festival.

!The Oikos Project: A collaborative project between progressive theatreproduction company, The Red Room and The Architecture Foundation thatsees the Berlin based art/architecture practice Kberling & Kaltwassercreate atheatre building completely out of recycled and reclaimed materials. Speciallycommissioned plays produced by The Red Room dealing with the effects ofClimate Change on our contemporary society will be programmed in the space inSeptember.

!Portavilion: Showcase of Berlin based architecture and art collective Raumlaborand their experimental bubbletecture, a mobile bubble shaped tent and socialspace. The bubble will be touring the parks of five East London Boroughs, as well

as setting up camp on the lawns of the Tate Modern gallery on 2 July, serving asa temporary performance space for dance projects, workshops and lectures.

!Moss Your City: Norwegain architectural practice PUSHAK has designed ainstallation for The Architecture Foundation featuring a spectacular undulatingmoss landscape. PUSHAKs approach to design is based on understanding localconditions such as climate, materials and resources. The installation takes itsinspiration from Witherford Watson Manns Bankside Urban Forest strategy.

!Food Exchange @ Borough Market: Based around the elements of food,community, exchange, knowledge and architecture, the event will gather togetherchefs, medical herbalists, guerilla scientists, food historians and story tellers fora series of workshops and demonstrations, all aimed at promoting communityspirit through learning and eating.

!Sweet Sculptures: Model of the tallest NEO Bankside Pavilion and Tate Modernmade entirely from sugar cubes. The models, made to a scale of 100:1, will be onshow to the public from Friday 2nd - Sunday 4th July.

!Friday Late on the Southbank: LFA coordinates a late opening of the culturalinstitutions and businesses along the Southbank on Friday 2 July. From TateModern and the National Theatre to the Design Museum there will be activitiesand events taking place as part of the London Festival of Architecture celebratingand discussing issues relating to architecture.


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Throughout the festival a wide-ranging core programme, and one off, events will be

running alongside the main weekend activities. Highlights include:

!Love Your Street: A key capital-wide programme that brings together buildingand landscape professionals with local communities to pro-actively improvestreets, spaces and places. It will also include the design of spaces, reduction

of clutter, clean ups and repairs.

The V&A: is hosting 1:1 - Architects Build Small Spaces a series of full-scale architectural installations around the museum exploring the power ofsmall spaces, in commissions from seven internationally renowned architects.In collaboration with The Architecture Foundation, talks from Rural Studio andJeremy Till, a workshop with Rintala Eggertsson, and a special Friday Late ofmusic, performance and events take place for the LFA.

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Living Architecture: An incredibly ambitious architectural project. LivingArchitecture are building a series of remarkable houses around the UK,available for rent, designed by some of the greatest names in contemporaryarchitecture, including Peter Zumthor, Michael and Patty Hopkins, MVRDV,JVA and NORD. The idea is to give the public a close and intimate experienceof what it is like to sleep, eat, bathe and loaf in a house designed by a greatarchitect.

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International Student Architecture Festival:International ArchitectureStudent Festival: Building on the success of the Student Festivals in 2006and 2008 The IASF, coordinated by London Metropolitan University inpartnership with Pippa Gueterbock and The Architecture Foundation,asks design students to create a series of site-specific interventions for HighStreet 2012 and Bankside Urban Forest responding to the theme of Reduce,

Reuse, Recycle.

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International Architecture Showcase: The British Council and TheArchitecture Foundation are bringing together a broad spectrum of excitinginternational architecture projects within the International ArchitectureShowcase programme. This project will see more than 30 embassies andcultural institutes around London presenting a series of exhibitions,installations, events and talks programmes to highlight the dynamicarchitectural projects that are emerging from their respective countries.

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Sky Rides: Cycling has always been a big part of the LFA, its sustainable,fun and a great way to explore the nooks and crannies of the city. This yearthere is a tour for everyone in the LFA Sky Rides hosted by some of theleading urban thinkers of today including Wayne Hemingway and StephenBailey. Tours include subterranean London, French London, green London,football London, sketching London, 17

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Talks, walks, books, buildings and dogs: Throughout the festival therell beample talks, including those from Sir Terry Farrell, Stephen Witherford,Kirsty Wark, Janet Street-Porter, Ken Livingstone and cecil Balmond.Walks including a Blue Badge guided walk around the Festivals threeweekend hub areas, downloadable iPod tours, an iPhone treasure hunt andan audio described tour of the Bankside Urban Forest for the blind andpartially sighted.


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Notes To Editors:The Festival will take place from 19 June to 4 July 2010, encompassing three weekends and two interveningweeks. Each weekend has a different geographic focus: Central: Nash Ramblas (Portland Place/ RegentStreet), East : High Street 2012 (Whitechapel, Bow and Stratford in the East) and South: Bankside UrbanForest (Southbank and Bankside Cultural Quarter). The Festival will incorporate complementary initiativesthe International Architecture Student Festival, the International Architecture Showcase, Love Your Streetand Open Studios. Affiliated talks, installations, exhibitions, pavilions, walks, bike rides, performances andBig Breakfasts will take place throughout the Festival. The theme of the festival is The Welcoming City, areference to the design of cities, which are amenable, tolerant and engaging, as well as to the Olympic

slogan for 2012 that London welcomes the world. Follow the London Festival of Architecture on Twitter tofind out all the latest news: www.twitter.com/LFA2010

The London Festival of Architecture is produced collaboratively by Londons leading architectural

organisationsThe Architecture Foundation (AF), New London Architecture (NLA) and the Royal Institute ofBritish Architects London (RIBA)in coordination with a broad range of cultural and professional partners.

Peter Murray is Founding Director, alongside co-Directors Sarah Ichioka (The Architecture Foundation), NickMcKeogh (Pipers Projects) and Tamsie Thomson (RIBA London).

The London Festival of Architecture is sponsored by Arts Council England, Land Securities and the LondonDevelopment Agency. For more information and to register an event please visit www.lfa2010.org

CORE PARTNERSThe Architecture Foundation is a non-profit agency for contemporary architecture,urbanism and culture. We cultivate new talent and new ideas. Through our diverseprogrammes we facilitate international and interdisciplinary exchange, stimulate criticalengagement amongst professionals, policy makers and a broad public, and shape thequality of the built environment. We are independent, agile, inclusive and influential.Central to our activities is the belief that architecture enriches lives.www.architecturefoundation.org.uk

NLA is the centre for Londons built environment. Our programme of exhibitions, eventsand publications brings together leading professionals in the public and private sector,politicians and the general public, to share knowledge and identify the challenges andopportunities of the capital's built environment.The NLA galleries, based in The BuildingCentre feature the Pipers Central London model and are open to the public 6 days aweek attracting over 2500 visitors from London and abroad each week. The NLA will be

the official headquarters for LFA2010. For more information please visitwww.newlondonarchitecture.org

RIBA London is the body for architecture and the architectural profession in the capitalcity and is the largest RIBA region in the UK. It represents over 12,000 members andco-ordinates a diverse programme of events, competitions, CPD programmes, awardsand policy initiatives that together promote excellence in the profession and campaignsfor design quality in London. RIBA London works with government and a range of other

partners to improve the delivery of public buildings, new homes, public spaces and newcommunities. For more information visit: www.architecture.com/ribalondon

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