London Festival of Architecture (LFA) is excited to reveal the full programme for LFA2025, taking place across London from
1–30 June 2025. Following the Festival’s landmark 20th anniversary last year, LFA2025 builds on that momentum with a bold and expansive line-up of over
450 events, including
55 exhibitions, over
80 workshops, and
20 installations— all brought together under this year’s theme,
Voices.
Throughout the month of June, audiences are invited to explore the city through new perspectives: to uncover hidden corners, to see familiar spaces differently, and to engage with the many voices shaping London’s built environment today. With a theme rooted in platforming underrepresented voices and championing diverse perspectives, the Festival offers a rich and varied programme that celebrates architecture as a space for dialogue, action and transformation.
Locations: Opening New Doors
Together, these Destinations and Neighbourhoods offer audiences the chance to explore parts of London they may never have visited before, while seeing familiar areas through fresh eyes. They also serve as concentrated hubs of activity, collaboration and celebration throughout June.
People at the Centre: Workshops, Events and More
This year’s programme reflects a significant grassroots energy, thanks in part to an expanded network of community organisers and first-time participants. The Festival has seen a record number of workshops — now the most popular event type — with over 80 individual sessions across the capital. In total, more than 250 event organisers have shaped the 2025 programme, including over one-third who are new to the Festival. This people-led curation, bolstered by 12 briefing sessions and 60+ mentoring meetings, underscores LFA’s commitment to accessibility, collaboration and empowering Londoners to be active city-makers.
Public Realm Interventions That Transform the City
Public installations have long played a vital role in the Festival — trailing new ideas, testing temporary designs, and leaving lasting legacies across the city. This year is no exception. In the Fleet Street Quarter,
Whispers — an innovative sculptural installation by renowned Polish designer Oskar Zięta — will be on display, highlighting the fusion of art, technology, and public engagement. In Fitzrovia,
Fitz&Sits — the result of an open call competition — will reimagine public seating, encouraging moments of connection, play and rest. Meanwhile,
Leaving a Mark in the City, born from the
City Views open call, will introduce a family of interventions that connect visitors to the area’s iconic skyline through imaginative wayfinding at street level.
Voices at the Forefront: A Curated Programme
This year’s
Collections bring the Festival theme to life, offering new ways to experience and understand architecture. Audiences will encounter Emerging Voices, Historical Voices, Industry Voices, Global Voices, Local Voices, Non-Human Voices, and Marginalised Voices, and enjoy the vibrant return of Studio Lates, which will take place every Thursday evening across Clerkenwell and Shoreditch, Southbank and London Bridge, Cambridge Heath and Hackney, and Fitzrovia and Bloomsbury.
Ten Events to Watch
Whispers by Oskar Zięta: Launch Event, 29 May: Set to be unveiled at Ludgate Hill, Whispers will come to life in this thrilling live event, where members of the public will actively participate in its inflation.
Art Park Launch Party, 12 June: An evening of creativity and community as the doors are opened to Art Park, Harrow’s newest creative space in the heart of the town centre.
Picnic and Play, 21 June: A day of fun, play, making and picnicking in one of London’s newest play spaces, designed and built by young people from the Regent's Park Estate in Camden.
AP Sounds: Community-led broadcast, 21 June: Walk around the Palace grounds, hearing interviews with the community, sound art, and performances layered over the actual sounds of the Palace.
A Platform for Change, A Platform for Action
Speaking ahead of the Festival, Rosa Rogina, Director of the London Festival of Architecture, said: “The Festival has always been about testing new ideas and challenging the status quo. Following our 20th anniversary, LFA2025 is actioning the conversations we started — amplifying underrepresented voices and uncovering new perspectives on the city. We invite everyone to take part, whether you’re an architect, artist, community member, or simply curious about London’s future.”
As London continues to evolve, the London Festival of Architecture 2025 offers an open invitation: to imagine new futures, to challenge existing systems, and to ensure that a diversity of voices — human and non-human, local and global — are heard in the shaping of the city.