The AA Archives
The Architectural Association Archives consist of 500 cubic feet of documents and in excess of 2000 architectural drawings, paintings and works on paper. It documents the administrative and educational history of the AA and acts to preserve examples of the Association's material culture and graphic output. The process of gathering together and listing all surviving material was started in 2007 and a long-term cataloguing project is underway to make accessible the Archives' complete holdings and ongoing accessions.
Recent Additions to the AA Archives
2008/9 AA Diploma Honours portfolios.
Student Portfolio of John Toovey ITS, FRIBA, FRSA, FTS, AA Dip Hons, 1951–56.
Student Portfolio of Stephanie Morland, AA Dip, 1945–50
Student Portfolio of Stephen Macfarlane, FRIBA, AA Dip Hons, 1945–50.
Student Portfolio of Douglas Cole, AA Dip, 1955–57.
Student Portfolio of Walter W. Fisk, AA Dip Hons, 1932–34.
'Penguin Factory' project, 1947: Christopher Knight, Stephen Gardiner, Peter Dickinson and others.
Shirley Knight, student portfolio, 1914–15.
2007/8 AA Diploma Honours portfolios.
Album of watercolour sketches and photographs relating to a 1949 excursion to Leptis Magna by AA students, Herbert Morel, Ian Colquhoun, Kenneth Browne and P Davidson.
Graduation project of Rodney Gordon, architect of the Tricorn Centre, Portsmouth (AA: 1953–57).
AA Archive: Online Articles and Resources
AAir Radio interview with Paffard Keatinge-Clay [Recalling work with Le Corbusier, Sigfied Gideon and Frank Lloyd Wright]
Scrap Marshall, 'A Bigger or Smaller Picture', AArchitecture, Issue 7.[drawings by the Smithsons in the AA Archives].
'Burlington's Copy of I Quattro Libre', AArchitecture, Issue 7.
Edward Bottoms, 'The Royal Architectural Museum in the Light of New Documentary Evidence', Jnl of History of Collections, 19:1 (2007) [AA's Relationship with the 19th-century Cast Museum].
'If Crime Doesn't Pay: The Architects' Revolutionary Council', AArchitecture, Issue 5 [AA Archive's collection of ARC posters].
'Corb At The AA'. AArchitecture, Issue 4 [Corbusier's 1947 Lecture at the AA ].
'The Purple Patch To SexyMachinary: 100 Years of AA Student Journals, AArchitecture, Issue 1.
List of Architectural Association Presidents, 1847– 2008
Professor Walter Bloom and Edward Bottoms: 'The Banister Fletcher Medallion'. Conference paper at the XIV International Numismatics Conference, Glasgow, September 2009.[AA's Architectural Medal Collection]
Forthcoming
AA Archive Exhibition: AA Bar, 8 to 19 February 2010 – see Exhibitions
Policies
Archive Reader Admissions
Document Handling Guidelines
AA Archives Acquisition Policy
For all enquiries please contact AA Archivist, Edward Bottoms
edward@aaschool.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7887 4049
