Members of the School Community are encouraged to vote in the referendum for the Director of School. Ballot materials containing your unique voter code will be sent via post and email on 9 November. Voting will be open from 9.00 am on 9 November until 5.00 pm on 20 November. Voters are encouraged to vote online via the AA website. More details on how to vote to follow.

Tutorials with Anderson Inge and Philip Cooper on Monday 30 November, 10.00–6.00

Half-hour sessions for project teams from all three courses. Sign up on sheet outside TS office door, 39/2/3, on second floor, 39 Bedford Square.

Pascal Schöning will be officially opening the new AA Cinema on Tuesday 10 November, 37 Bedford Square Ground Floor (behind Photo Library)
You are invited to join us for drinks, ice cream and popcorn at 6.00.

The room will now only be for film and AA lecture archive viewing.? Bookings will be available from the week beginning 16 November, 10.00 to 6.00 (via a sign-up sheet on Photo Library door).

Following the AA Council’s call for a School Community meeting last week, AA School Director, Brett Steele requests a meeting with members of the School Community in order to outline his vision for the next five years, and to seek your support for his reappointment. Please make every effort to attend this important meeting.
    
Please note that the meeting is open only to members of the School Community, i.e., currently enrolled students at the AA School, contracted AA employees and Council members.

After the fireworks and exhibition opening on Friday 6 November, the
AA Student Forum Party will start at 8.30 and end late – in the Back Members' Room and First Year Space.

With guest critic Hardy Blechman

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Brett has called an Administrative Staff Meeting on Monday 2 November at 1.00 in the Lecture Hall.

Presentation of the cluster and a roundtable discussion moderated by Alan Dempsey with Mike Weinstock, Rob Stuart Smith, Martin Self, Jonas Lundberg, Marta Malé-Alemany and Jeroen Van Ameijde

Workshop/Exhibition organised by the AA Digital Prototyping Lab and Digital Platforms in collaboration with the Student Forum, in Open Week, 2–6 November
 
Workshop BlogSpot /
CNC Fabricated Video-logging Installation for the AA
Open Week workshop, 2-6 November 2009
 
Organised by the AA Digital Prototyping Lab and AA Digital Platforms in collaboration with the Student Forum.
 
For this workshop, students of all parts of the school are invited to participate in a design+build exercise creating an interactive installation for temporary placement in the AA Back Members' Room. The brief is to design a place to record video messages in private and broadcast them to a wider audience, bringing activities that are currently taking place in invisible social networking sites back into the public social scene.
 
In five days, selected participants will work in  teams on aspects such as digital interface design, electronic equipment setup and an overall installation design that will be constructed out of plywood using the facilities in the AA Digital Prototyping Lab. Through this short and intensive format, the workshop offers an opportunity to learn about digital design and fabrication processes, digital media and interactive installation design.
 
Students who are interested in joining the workshop should make sure they can be available full-time for its entire duration. A non-refundable workshop fee of £35 on acceptance of your application. As the number of places is limited, students are advised to apply early to dpl@aaschool.ac.uk.
 
Workshop tutors: Jeroen van Ameijde, Frank Owen, Maciej Woroniecki
For more information: www.digitalfabrication.net
 
 
BlogSpot Installation
Video-logging Installation in the AA Back Members' Room
6 November–8 December
 Installation produced during an Open Week workshop organized by the AA Digital Prototyping Lab and AA Digital Platforms in collaboration with the Student Forum.

All Undergraduate classes in HTS, TS, MS, PP and FP will be suspended to allow students to attend and take part in the Open Week activities.
AA Research Clusters will hold events during this week – further details will appear on the website in the events section and in Week 6 Events List.

Events
Monday 2 to Friday 6 November, 10.00 daily 16 Basement Open Room
Open Workshop: Zbigniew Oksiuta
Biological Habitat

Zbigniew Oksiuta is an artist and architect experimenting with the possibility of designing biological structures. Oksiuta concentrates in his research on reducing of space to the very necessary minimum: to the physiological existence based primarily upon the verifiable physical, chemical and biological parameters. His projects examine dynamic systems that transfer information and energy through liquid mediums. Using biological polymers as building materials he develops liquid, jelly-like and rigid 3D membranes as a kind of biological fabricators at a human scale under different gravitation conditions: on earth, underwater and in space.

Zbigniew will work with a group of students from across the school who will learn how to design a human-scale biological enclosure. The workshop will culminate in a presentation of the week's work on Friday and a lecture by Zbigniew Oksiuta on his research into biological future (see below).  
 

Monday 2 to Friday 6 November, 10.00 daily
Open Workshop: BLOGSPOT/CNC-fabricated video logging installation
Organised by the AA Digital Prototyping Lab and AA Digital  Platforms in collaboration with the Student Forum

Beyond Entropy: Cluster Event
Tuesday 3 November, 6.00 Lecture Hall
This first cluster conversation will moderated by Stefano Rabolli Pansera, guests will include the Cuban artist Wilfredo Prieto and Roberto Trotta, a Physicist from Imperial College.


Wednesday 4 November, 2.00–6.00 Lecture Hall            
Open Jury: Turning Tables
Student portfolios on display from 10.00–6.00
Following on from last year’s showing of student portfolios, S.H.O.W., this year's event will be titled Turning Tables. Around 12 portfolios from across the School on display all day offer the opportunity to see what constitutes AA student work, a unique format of public presentation and discussion in the afternoon is a further innovation. As indicated by the title, the work will be shown and reviewed on the intimate setting of a table. Five to six exemplary students from across the School will present their portfolio from last year, followed by a similar number of AA Members presenting work from their practice. Member-Jurors: Asif Khan, Michael Webb, Sam Jacob, Gianni Botsford and Eyal Weizman
Student-Jurors: Alma Wang (Inter 3), Edith Wunsch (Inter 9), Eleftherios Ambatzis (Dip 13), Amber Wood (Dip 10),Konstantinos Karatzas (EmTech) and Pierandrea Angius (DRL)
Each presentation will be 10 to 12 minutes, followed by a critique. In a review table format, with hard copies of drawings and models on a table – not images on a screen. AA Members will first act as jurors for the students' work; then the table will be turned for students to speak about Members’ work.
The event will be recorded and streamed live to various parts of the School, including the AA restaurant as well as webcast on AATV. With this role reversal we look forward to a lively debate around themes including the process of the development of an architectural project discussing the various stages from design intention, research, methodology and technique.
The list of students and AA Members will be announced shortly.

First Works Lecture Series
The Sin Centre and the Beginning of the Archigram Syndrome  
Thursday 5 November, 1.00 Lecture Hall
Mike Webb will present his Sin Centre in relation to the beginnings of the group of experimental British architects Archigram (Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron and Mike Webb, 1961–74). Mike ‘Spider’ Webb came to public attention with his Fourth Year project published as early as 1959. His thesis project, the Sin Centre for Entertainments in Leicester Square (1961–62) granted him international recognition. Although celebrated and widely published, the Sin Centre was repeatedly rejected by examiners, and Webb was awarded his Diploma only in 1972. A roundtable discussion will include former Archigram members including Mike Webb, Dennis Crompton and David Greene.

First Works Lecture Series
The Sin Centre and the Beginning of the Archigram Syndrome  
Thursday 5 November, 1.00 Lecture Hall
Mike Webb will present his Sin Centre in relation to the beginnings of the group of experimental British architects Archigram (Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron and Mike Webb, 1961–74). Mike ‘Spider’ Webb came to public attention with his Fourth Year project published as early as 1959. His thesis project, the Sin Centre for Entertainments in Leicester Square (1961–62) granted him international recognition. Although celebrated and widely published, the Sin Centre was repeatedly rejected by examiners, and Webb was awarded his Diploma only in 1972. A roundtable discussion will include former Archigram members including Mike Webb, Dennis Crompton and David Greene.


Zbigniew Oksiuta
Evening Lecture
Thursday 4 November, 6.00 Lecture Hall
The Biological Habitat week-long workshop culminates in this Evening Lecture by Zbigniew Oksiuta on his research into biological futures and the Workshop in progress.

The AA Bar will be open on Saturdays from 10.00–4.00.

The AA Council requests a meeting of the School Community on Wednesday 28 October from 1.00 to 3.00 p.m. in the Lecture Hall. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the appointment of the Director of School. The meeting will be chaired by AA President Alex Lifschutz, with Hugo Hinsley (AA Graduate School) and Kathleen Formosa (Company Secretary) facilitating.
Please note that the meeting is open only to members of the School Community, i.e., currently enrolled students at the AA School, employees of the Architectural Association (with the exception of the Director), and members of the Council.

Introduction, Brett Steele, 9.45
Diploma 1 Olaf Kneer and Marianne Mueller, 11.30
Diploma 2 Anne Save de Beaurecueil and Franklin Lee, 10.00
Diploma 3 Alison Brooks and Max Kahlen, 12.00
Diploma 4 John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, 12.30
Diploma 5 Cristina Diaz Moreno and Efrén Garcia, 4.00
Diploma 7 Simon Beames and Kenneth Fraser, 10.30
Diploma 8 Eugene Han and Christopher Yoo, 6.00
Diploma 9 Natasha Sandmeier and Monia de Marchi, 3.30
Diploma 10 Carlos Villanueva Brandt, 2.30
Diploma 11 Shin Egashira, 4.30
Diploma 12 Holger Kehne and Jeffrey Turko, 11.00
Diploma 13 Oliver Domeisen and Tristan Simmonds, 2.00
Diploma 14 Pier Vittorio Aureli, Barbara Campbell-Lange and Fenella Collingridge, 5.00
Diploma 15 Francesca Hughes and Noam Andrews, 3.00
Diploma 16 Jonas Lundberg and Andrew Yau, 5.30
Informal meeting for Diploma staff and students, 6.30

The Open Evening is an opportunity for new students who may wish to enter the Fourth Year, to meet informally with Diploma tutors and students, and to publicise the Baylight Foundation scholarships (see below). Students will show their portfolios used for entry to the AA and completed Diploma School portfolios. The evening will end with a presentation of work by AA Honours students 2008/09.

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.


Another Open Evening will take place on 14 January