The London Festival of Architecture has been appointed a new director, Rosa Rogina, who is the event's outgoing programme director.
An architect, researcher and curator, Rogina served as the London Festival of Architecture's (LFA) programme director from 2016 and has also been involved in the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale and 2020 Venice Design Week.
She takes over from Tamsie Thomson, who has taken on the chief executive role at the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland. Rogina will head up the festival's 2022 programme.
Director brings international festival experience
In addition to her ongoing work with the festival, Rogina was part of the international team behind the Montenegrin Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale and was curator in residence at Venice Design Week in 2020. She also teaches architecture at the University of East London and holds an MA in architecture from the Royal College of Art and an MA in research architecture from Goldsmiths, University of London.
She has extensive writing and speaking credits to her name, and has previously worked at the offices of Dutch studio MVRDV and UK studios Grimshaw and Farshid Moussavi Architecture.

Peter Murray, who is curator-in-chief at New London Architecture (NLA), the organisation behind the festival, said that Rogina's appointment represented a "welcome continuity" for the organisation.
"I'm very pleased that Rosa has agreed to take on the role of director of LFA," s...