The LSA is Moving

The London School of Architecture is moving to 4 Beechwood Road.

The LSA has been deliberately itinerant in its first decade – moving from Somerset House, to Soho, to Mare Street, and then to Orsman Road. Our new space at 4 Beechwood Road takes the most important elements of our previous premises – a large open-plan, flexible studio – and builds upon this foundation. Our aim with this move is to shape the space, with the help of our students and Practice Network, into a home for the LSA that will continue well into the future, providing support and opportunities for growth for the School and our students.

Our new premises at Beechwood Road will amount to just over 5000 sq ft of space accessible to our students. An Edwardian parish institute building – ‘Holy Trinity Institute’ named after the adjoining Ewan Christian church of 1879 – it comprises 4 floors of offices and seminar rooms.

On the ground floor will be a large open plan studio, echoing the space at Orsman Road, for use by students and faculty for learning and teaching. This space will be highly flexible – serving as seminar room, lecture theatre, study space and refectory.

On the first floor, a smaller seminar room will serve as overspill and provide a dedicated teaching space for our Part 0 outreach programmes for local young people, and for our in-person Part 4 programmes aimed at professional practice.

The basement will space will allow the LSA to host workshop facilities. An additional 1000 sq ft of space will be occupied within Holy Trinity Church, including storage facilities for the school. These expanded facilities will also create opportunities for new and exciting partnerships which will in turn evolve our programmes, including our Part 2.

Learn more about the move and see the answers to some FAQs here.