Sally Lewis appointed to London Festival of Architecture Committee

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We’re delighted to announce that Sally Lewis has been appointed to the brand-new London Festival of Architecture Committee, which will work alongside the LFA team year-round on the festival and its connected programmes.

The London Festival of Architecture began in 2004, and has since grown to become the world’s largest annual architecture festival. The festival attracts a vast public audience – well over 800,000 people in 2019 – and a global media audience of millions. The vast majority of events are free, and are staged by a core festival programming team working alongside architecture and design practices and practitioners, leading cultural and academic institutions, artists and many others.

In 2017 the London Festival of Architecture was named by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan as one of his design advocate organisations, and is working alongside the Mayor’s team to champion architecture, provide expertise and guidance, and help to make London a better city.

The Committee is a non-executive advisory group that will advise and inspire the strategic direction of the festival, as well as helping to develop its networks and outreach. With members from across the industry and beyond the committee will both continue and expand on the mission to democratise discussions around architecture, making it more accessible for all, as well as ensuring the festival remains a unique platform to test new ideas and uncover and promote new and emerging architects, designers and practitioners.

Sally’s Committee bio included below:

Sally Lewis makes up one of the 13 Festival Committee members. Sally is the Founding Director of Stitch Architects and Founding Trustee at The London Neighbourhood Scholarship Trust. Sally Lewis is an architect and urban designer with over 20 years’ experience in housing and regeneration in the UK and abroad.

Before setting up Stitch in 2012 she spent eight years working for CABE, published a book on housing in 2004, and led several large regeneration projects in her role as a senior manager in a large London-based consultancy. Under her leadership, award-winning practice, Stitch has grown from a small start-up into a respected and award-winning studio delivering some of the largest regeneration projects in London.

Sally is also member of the Redbridge Design Review panel and an external examiner at Oxford Brookes University – and was a finalist for Building Design. Architectural Leader of the Year Award in 2020.

‘The Colour Palace’ at Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2019, photographed by Adam Scott