[12] The LSA offers a two-year postgraduate programme that is validated by The University of Liverpool and supported by a network of over 200 practices across London.
[32][33] In 2019 the LSA launched Citizen magazine[34] with Isabel Allen as its Editor-in-Chief and graphic designer Simon Esterson as Art Director.
[43] For events, the LSA has formed partnerships with leading cultural institutions including the Architecture Foundation,[44] the Design Museum,[45][46][47] the London School of Economics,[48] and the Royal Academy of Arts.
[49] Described internationally as ‘possibly the most ambitious’[50] of alternative educational models, the LSA has been connected with ‘radical’[51] forms of architectural teaching and been said to show how ‘innovation and high standards are perfectly compatible’ and how ‘beneficial change can be achieved within existing institutional frameworks’.
[14] One critic found the architecture ‘a bit prosaic’ but ‘the students are evidently taught to consider the big picture and how the city works’ while another said ‘the founding principles of the LSA are quite revolutionary – but as with all pioneering ideas, only time will prove whether or not it is successful.’[29] The LSA has been linked to other innovative models in arts education, such as Open School East, Islington Mill Academy, Arts Emergency, the School of the Damned and the Silent University.