Spring Term ends on Friday 19 March.

Please note, this is the correct date – apologies for previous confusion.

The AA Council has now set the fees for main school programmes for the next academic year, as follows:
Foundation £14,595
Undergraduate £16,173
Graduate MA/MSc £18,960
Graduate MArch (16-month) £25,305
Fees for other programmes including Phd, Building Conservation, Summer School and Visiting School will be publicised in next week’s Events List.

Progress Review

First Year
Friday 5 February, 10.00 Lecture Hall

The AA Camera Club is always looking for new material. Membership of the club is extended to all those whose images are selected for the Photo Library. So wherever you are going this holiday, please submit your photographs to Valerie in the Photo Library for consideration.

Friday 22 January, 9.30 Read Open Day details here
For prospective graduate students

The AADRL will review the works of a new three-year Proto-Design research agenda, led by Yusuke Obuchi, Theodore Spyropoulos, Patrik Schumacher, Alisa Andrasek and Marta Malé-Alemany. Jurors include Tom Wiscombe, Matthias Kohler, Paul Nakazawa and Mike Weinstock.

Yusuke Obuchi’s studio, Proto Tectonics, investigates material systems and multi-scalar fractal logic for large-span structures. Digital Materialism, led by Theodore Spyropoulos, is exploring new forms of prototypical housing through evolutionary innovation and morphological novelty. The studio led by Patrik Schumacher and Christos Passas, Interiority, is developing complex, layered and highly differentiated tectonic systems that can start to compete with the best historical examples in terms of their richness, coherency and precision of formal organisation. Alisa Andrasek’s studio, Wetware, pursues computation through the development of poly-scalar coastal infrastructures within high-pressure flooding zones through agency. Marta Malé-Alemany’s studio with Jeroen van Ameijde, Machinic Control, examines architectural design processes incorporating novel digital fabrication methods that are not optimised but instead can be itinerant, adaptive and higly specific.

Guest Lectures will follow the jury on both days at 7.00.
Thursday 21 January:
Paul Nakazawa
Next and Again
Strategist and business advisor Paul Nakazawa will lead a discussion about the progressive and recursive aspects of architectural and landscape practice in the coming post-recessionary period. Employing a narrative about the evolution of the computer industry, Nakazawa speculates about what lies in store for the next decade in practice and professional education.

Friday 22 January:
Tom Wiscombe
Extreme Integration

Jurors include Paula Cadima, Catherine Harrington, Amy Holtz and Alexandros Tombazis.

The SED Phase II Jury will be followed at 6.00 by an Evening Lecture by Alexandros Tombazis, 'Concerning Architecture – Thoughts and Visions'
Alexandros Tombazis and Associates Architects was founded in 1963. The award-winning practice has specialised in low-energy and bioclimatic design since the 1970s, with projects in the Middle East and across Europe. Tombazis lives and works in Athens and among many awards was made an honorary PhD by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2006 and elected as an honorary fellow of the AIA in 1991.

Jurors will include Alan Dempsey, FAB Cluster Curator; Professor Achim Menges, Institute of Computational Design, Stuttgart University; Martha Tsigkari, Design System Analyst, Foster and Partners; Marta Malé-Alemany, Co-Director, Master’s programme, IAAC, Barcelona; Theo Spyropoulos, Director, AADRL; and Wolf Mangelsdorf, Director, Buro Happold.

The EmTech Lecture will follow at 6.00.
Michael Weinstock
The Metabolism of Cities
Michael Weinstock’s book, The Architecture of Emergence: The Evolution of Form in Nature and Civilisation, published by Wiley and available early in February, challenges established cultural and architectural histories by placing human development alongside ecological development. The history of cultural evolution and the production of cities are set in the context of the complex systems of the natural world. The dynamics of individual and collective metabolisms from which intelligence and social and spatial orders emerge are related to the emergence and proliferation of cities.

The Architecture of Emergence charts the proliferation of cities and systems of cities and their extended metabolic systems across the world.
It traces their episodic and irregular expansions, consolidation, collapse
and subsequent reorganisation and also outlines the metrics and dynamics of urban metabolism.

The Open Evening is aimed at prospective new students who are looking to enter the Fourth Year at the AA School. There will be a drinks reception with an opportunity to meet informally with Diploma tutors and students. Students will show portfolios used for entry to the AA, and completed Diploma School portfolios. Questions on the application process can also be answered.

To reserve a place, please call Meneesha Kellay on 020 7887 4051 or email undergraduateadmissions@aaschool.ac.uk.

Core Intermediate
Registration open from Monday 11 to Wednesday 13 January, 12.00.
See Media Studies website at www.aa-mediastudies.net for application procedure.
Enrolment for Core Intermediate courses will be posted on the Media Studies website on Friday 15 January.

Core First Year
Registration open from Friday 15 to Monday 18 January, 12.00.
See Media Studies website for application procedure.

Lab Courses
Registration open from Monday 11 January onwards.
See Media Studies website for application procedure.

Undergraduate HTS and TS Courses begin in Week 2 of the Spring Term, from Monday 18 to Friday 22 January. Please note the schedule below, refer to the Course Booklet and see the full listings in next week’s Events List.
First Year
History & Theory Studies:
Tuesday 19 January, 10.00
Technical Studies:
Thursday 21 January, all day
Second Year
History & Theory Studies:
Thursday 21 January, 10.00
Technical Studies:
Thursday 21 January, 2.00 (Materials) or 3.30 (Environmental Engineering), depending on registered option. Please refer to registration list posted outside Co-ordinator’s Office.
Third Year
History & Theory Studies:
Thursday 21 January, 10.00
Fourth Year
Technical Studies: Depends on registered options – please refer to registration list posted outside Co-ordinator’s Office.
Wolfgang Frese: Thursday 21 January, 11.30
Martin Hageman: Wednesday 20 January, 2.00
Emanuele Marfisi: Thursday 21 January, 2.00
John Noel: Tuesday 19 January, 2.00
Randall Thomas: Tuesday 19 January, 11.30
Simos Yannas: Tuesday 19 January, 4.00
Mohsen Zikri: Tuesday 19 January, 10.00

Progress Review

First Year – Friday 5 February, 10.00 Lecture Hall

The First Year Structures course taught by Philip Cooper and Anderson Inge
culminates with this annual Spaghetti Structures competition. Student teams
collaborate to fabricate and load-test triangulated structures of their own
design. The project gives an excellent opportunity for students to apply the
theory and analytic methods taught in the series of lectures that forms the
backbone of the course.

The competition this year requires a ‘lean-to’ structure capable of sustaining
a considerable rolling load, a type of load that induces quite different
stresses as it moves through different positions along the structure. Most tests
likely to result in what could be termed ‘destructive testing’. All welcome.

This annual event will take place on Thursday 17 December, see next week’s Events List for details. All welcome.

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