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A collection of student projects from the AA's Diploma Unit 6, run by Christopher Lee and Sam Jacoby

  • 164 pages, extensive col. & b/w ills
    249 x 170 mm, Paperback, 2011
    ISBN 978-1-902902-58-6

    £15.00

Originally published in German in 1985 as Die Poetik eines Mauervorsprung, Jan Turnovsky's The Poetics of a Wall Projection is ostensibly a description of a corner within the breakfast room of the Villa Stonborough in Vienna, designed by Ludwig Wittgenstein and Paul Engelmann.

  • 128 pages, extensive b/w ills
    180 x 110 mm, Paperback, 2011
    ISBN 978-1-902902-68-5

    £12.00
  • 160 pages, extensive col. & b/w ills
    249 x 170 mm, Paperback, 2010
    ISBN 978-1-902902-64-7

    £15.00

Out of print. Unavailable for purchase.
Produced annually to accompany the AA School of Architecture's end of year exhibition of student work.

  • 388 pages, extensive col. & b/w ills
    249 x 170 mm, Paperback, 2007
    ISBN 978-1-902902-56-2

    £22.50

This is a manifesto for an architecture that transforms solid materiality into the appearance of energy and spatiality - a cinematic architecture in which the main building material is light.

  • 48 pages, extensive ills
    180 x 180 mm, Paperback, 2006
    ISBN 978-1-902902-48-7

    £7.50

It concentrates on the work of Diploma Unit 11 run by John and Julia Frazer (with Pete Silver and Guy Westbrook) between 1989 and 1996, but includes formative work by the author dating back to his diploma prize-winning project at the AA in 1969 and related research work at Cambridge University.

  • 127 pages, extensive col. & b/w ills
    210 x 210 mm, Paperback, 1995
    ISBN 978-1-870890-47-2

    £16.50

Big Pic Box contains 18 plates, each composed of nine Polaroid images that can be assembled in any arrangement to form a composite work, Nine Times, together with a booklet with colour illustrations of the work from which Nine Times evolved. The images were the most controversial of his work at the time of publication, in both form and content: unlikely combinations of fragments of contemporary living - urban waste, trucks, flowers, animals and images culled from the TV screen - arranged without distinction.

  • 24 pages, 18 full col. plates
    311 x 311 mm, Paperback, 1988
    ISBN 978-1-870890-07-6

    £45.00

A unique record of the symposium hosted by the AA to celebrate the work of Alison and Peter Smithson, this publication also includes specially commissioned essays, among them an important piece on Robin Hood Gardens by Dirk van den Heuvel - co-curator, with Max Risselada, of 'Alison and Peter Smithson: From the House of the Future to a House of Today', Design Museum, London (2004).

  • 104 pages, extensive b/w ills
    215 x 155 mm, Paperback, 2005
    ISBN 978-1-902902-43-2

    £15.00

Architecture, Experience and Thought explores these themes in six recent buildings by Fretton (some completed, some frozen at proposal stage): the Sway Centre for Visual Arts, Quay Arts Centre, Laban Centre for Dance, Open Hand Studios and two houses. Critical assessements of the work are provided by Mark Cousins and Kenneth Frampton.

  • 56 pages, 75 duotone & line ills
    155 x 215 mm, Paperback, 1998
    ISBN 978-1-870890-93-9

    £9.95

Contains Supercritical (Eisenman/Koolhaas), Anti-Object (Kengo Kuma), The Poetics of a Wall Projection (Jan Turnovsky), Having Words (Denise Scott Brown) in grey cloth-bound slipcase.

  • 596 pages, extensive b/w ills
    Hardback, 2009
    ISBN 978-1-902902-87-6

    £46.00
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