Movers and shakers

While working on this year’s Serpentine Pavilion, Sumayya Vally, co-founder and director of South African architecture studio Counterspace, appeared on Time magazine’s “Time100 Next” list. The second edition of the now-annual article highlighted “100 emerging leaders who are shaping the future,” with Vally notably the only architect included in the mid-february roundup.

Following the news of Will Hunter stepping down in July 2020, British architectural historian and educator Neal Shasore was announced as the incoming head of the London School of Architecture, an independent institution established in 2011. “I am looking forward to working more closely with them,” Shasore said, “and with our pioneering teaching and operations teams as the school develops over the coming years.”

London’s Royal Academy of Arts has a new head of architecture. After a six-year stint as director of architecture, design and fashion at the British Council and tenures as editor of the journal Blueprint and associate director of the London School of Architecture, Vicky Richardson succeeds Kate Goodwin as the RA’S Heinz curator. In a statement, she emphasized her goal of “curating a program that will be a platform for people from all backgrounds to come together to discuss architecture.”

A preliminary list of the “high-level round table” for the New European Bauhaus initiative has been released. The European Union tapped 18 creatives — from Japanese architect Shigeru Ban to Danish–icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson to BIG’S Bjarke Ingels — to help shape the innovative pedagogical model, dubbed a “new cultural project for Europe” and part of the EU’S coronavirus recovery plan.