This year's theme: Roaring 20s
Staff speakeasy 6.00–8.00
Post-crash bash for all 8.00–1.00

AA Photo Library is offering a special price on Christmas cards until 18 December: ten for £5.00. A series of postcards is available at ten for £2.50. Both cards and postcards are available from the AA Bookshop as well as the Photo Library.

The Annual General Meeting of the Architectural Association, Inc. takes place on Monday 7 December at 6.30 p.m. The meeting convenes in the first floor front room of 39 Bedford Square, WC1. Please contact the Office of the Company Secretary at secretary@aaschool.ac.uk or on 020 7887 4047 to request an advance copy of the agenda.

All MS2 Submissions should be handed into Belinda in the Coordinator’s Office by 5.00 on Friday 4 December.

Student teams will present their investigations of a range of challenging structures, including numerical and model analyses. All welcome.

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Beijing Visiting School, Digital College of Crystal
Super-Blend
Saturday 30 January–Sunday 7 February

Price: £500, including £50 Visiting Membership
See Beijing Workshop

Undergraduate students are reminded that Submission Hand-In Week will take place in Week 1 of the Spring Term, from Monday 11 to Friday 15 January. Submissions should be given to Belinda in the Co-ordinator’s Office on any day during this week between 9.00 and 4.00. Submissions after this will be classified as LATE and it is at the discretion of the assessing tutor whether this will affect the final result.

The following are due for submission:

First Year
History & Theory Studies: Essay 2
Technical Studies: Case Study written report and Structures supporting write-up
Note: All submissions must be completed and passed before entry to the Second Year

Second Year
History & Theory Studies: Essay 1
Technical Studies: Structures
supporting write-up     
Note: All submissions must be completed and passed before entry to the Third Year

Third Year
History & Theory Studies: Essay 1
Technical Studies: Structures
supporting write-up
Professional Practice written report
Note: All submissions must be completed and passed before submitting for AA Intermediate (RIBA/ARB) Part 1/Entry to the Fourth Year

Fourth Year
History & Theory Studies: Two course papers
Note: All submissions must be completed and passed before entry to the Fifth Year

Fifth Year
History & Theory Studies: One course paper (or one thesis if this option undertaken by student)
Future Practice: course paper
Note: All submissions must be completed and passed before submitting for AA Diploma (RIBA/ARB) Part 2

Student teams will walk-test 2-metre-span bridges of their own design and fabrication, to prove load-carrying performance. For this competition, ‘all successes must fail’ too, at a prescribed maximum load. Similar events will take place on Thursdays 3 and 17 December. All welcome

more details to follow

The AA Photo Library is starting a weekly Film Club in the newly opened cinema in 37 Bedford Square. Every Wednesday we will be showing a film at 6.00. Open to all AA students but space is very limited – seats are first-come, first-served.
 
Showing Federico Fellini's Roma on Wednesday 25 November, hosted by Byron Blakeley
 
'Acclaimed director Federico Fellini brilliantly demonstrates why he is regarded as the last of the epic filmmakers, delivering a thrilling personal memoir with this monumental and outlandish tribute to his beloved Rome - The Eternal City.
 
If you would like to host a film night, please email filmclub@aaschool.ac.uk

Programme Book Loans
All programme books borrowed for the vacation must be returned  by 12.00 midday on Monday 11 January.

Christmas Vacation Opening Hours
From Monday 4 January to Friday 8 January, 10.00 to 6.00, closed Saturday 9 January. Normal term time hours resume from Monday 11 January.

Introducing the AA School of Architecture with an opportunity for potential Foundation and First Year students to meet students and staff and to view presentations of current work.

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

Full-fee Baylight Scholarship
Thanks to the generosity of the Baylight Foundation, the AA is able to offer a number of full-fee scholarships to British students entering the Diploma School.

Applicants must complete the undergraduate application form by
10 January 2010, stating their interest in an AA scholarship. Candidates need to demonstrate outstanding merit and need. Students whose work is considered to be of scholarship standard will be asked, after the entry interview, to complete a scholarship application form, provide financial information and prepare a portfolio for the Committee.

Evening dates in the spring term have been set aside for student-initiated Public Program events. The nature of these events is not fixed. It could be a lecture, an interview, a performance, a workshop and it is up to you to decide on the appropriate format. Architects, poets, artists, musicians, politicians, scientists, journalists, revolutionists, fantasists, enthusiasts, dreamers or seekers …

So who do you want to invite to the AA?

Speak up comrades, claim your authorship!

Email to studentsinvite@aaschool.ac.uk
stating:
*your name and year
*WHO you want to invite
*WHY
*what type of EVENT you propose
*if you have any contacts with this person*
Deadline this Friday

Selection will be made on the basis on high demand, originality and availability. For organisational purposes, please propose someone still alive,..

The School Community is invited to a space planning presentation on Friday 13 November at 1.00 in the Lecture Hall, at which Fiona Duggan and her team of space planning consultants will present their latest summary of findings, questions and alternative strategies for how the AA might choose to organise itself at the school in Bedford Square.

Students will have the chance to engage Brett and the rest of the academic management body in an open debate in order to answer to all the questions that the students would like to pose directly to him or to the others involved in the decision-making process at the AA. Also attending the debate will be:
Charles Tashima, Academic Head
Shumon Basar, Director of AACP (Critical Projects and Cultural Practices)
Mike Weinstock, Director, Emergent Technologies programme and Technical Studies (attending the meeting as the head of projects and research)
Jorge Fiori, Chair of the Graduate Management Committee and Director of Housing & Urbanism programme