Architectural Association School of Architecture

Yazici, S: 2010, Creating Space with Material Intelligence, Mimarlikta Malzeme, Vol. 05 No.15, pp. 53–63, Turkish Chamber of Architects Press, Istanbul (ISSN 13066501)

The AA Concrete Geometries Research Cluster received an overwhelming 415 submissions from all over the world. The Cluster organised by Marianne Mueller and Olaf Kneer (Dip 1 tutors) will feature a selection of the work in a forthcoming exhibition, symposium and publication. Thanks to everyone who participated!

See www.concrete-geometries.net

AD magazine Volume 80 Issue3 (May/June 2010) features ecoLogicStudio's practice profile and discussion of Inter10 approach to the redesign of Dubai World Lagoon as a Coral Garden.

See more on http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/109924136/home

ecoLogicStudio (claudia pasquero and marco poletto, AAInter10 tutors' practice) and other 14 italian architects were selected for the Padiglione Italia exhibition @ the 12th International Architecture exhibition.

Read Fabrizio Gallanti in Abitare: http://www.abitare.it/highlights/ailati/

Join Publlc Works for food and drinks from 7.00 at their studio on 1-5 Vyner Street, London E2.

Lise Autogena, with many others, has been involved in setting up a new mooring on the Thames, then refurbished a boat in Rotterdam, the Zeldenrust III, to bring it over to London. She is back now and are looking forward seeing Lise again and listening to a truely amazing story.

From an email from Lise

'Dear all
I have now finally arrived at Tower Bridge with Zeldenrust III, after the most fantastic journey through Holland, Belgium and finally across the sea and into the Thames Estuary, to my new mooring right in front of Tower Bridge. We left Rotterdam on the 21st March and arrived in London early Saturday morning on the 10th April, having waited for a quiet sea in Belgium for two weeks. A huge rainbow saluted us before leaving Belgium, and a group of dolphins accompanied us the whole way across the sea. Apart from Martin's jokes, it was a truly magical crossing across a calm sun-filled sea, and we sailed into London as the morning haze lifted from the Thames and daylight broke over London. It was a truly magical climax after three years of ship building and six years of dreaming of a new mooring in London.

Lise'

<strong>Serie designs new urban core alongside Grimshaw</strong>

Serie Architects (Chris Lee, AA Projective Cities Director and Kapil Gupta, AAGDG '98) has been selected alongside Nicholas Grimshaw to design and renovate four large disused factories in Hangzhou, China, with Grimshaw overseeing two factories and Serie overseeing one. The other remaining factory will be designed by Berlin based Pysall Ruge Arkitekten.
 
The four disused factories, totalling 50,000sqm is envisioned to form the main urban core for a new city centre, named Hangzhou Xintiandi. Located 6km north east of the present city centre of Hangzhou, the new city centre is dedicated to cultivating knowledge based and creative industries and will involve the construction of 1.1 million square metres of mixed-use development on a 56.7-ha site.
 
http://www.serie.co.uk/HTML%20Files/News/News_Hangzhou.html

The temporary structure will contribute to the celebration of the Games, reinforce awareness of the City of London, strengthen the City’s links with the City Fringe, and with the regeneration of East London. The competition for the design of the project is open (but not limited) to architects, designers, artists, product designers, and/or any other disciplines. The Architecture Foundation encourages design teams to suggest bold and innovative yet realisable designs for this temporary structure.

The competition is open to entries until 28 May via the AF website, where full details are available. Download the brief at www.architecturefoundation.org.uk

A shortlist of design teams will be announced in June, and awarded £1000. A selection of entries will be on public display during the London Festival of Architecture 2010, where the public will be invited to comment on the designs. The winning team will be announced in July.

This is a collaborative ideas competition on rethinking the urban environment 
through participatory architectural projects with the local community and challenging 
participants in investigating new methods of collaboration through a series of scenarios 
and design interventions.

The architectural ideas competition, which is the first component of the series of events,
runs from 8 March to 31 May and is open to participants, from any country or
territory. To be judged by internationally recognised theoreticians and practitioners
from across the world familiar with community-based built projects such as Sou
Fujimoto, George Kunihiro, Edward Ng, Tatjana Rajic & Urbanalogy the competition
hopes to create new conversations that will contribute meaningfully to the dialogue about
the Asian City and its future.
Three awards of US$2000 will be given to the
following:
* The Collaboration Award
* The Implementability Award
* The Idea Award
For more details, visit the website or email hello@letsnottalkaboutarchitecture.com

Jerome Tsui’s pod-inspired concept for the future of student accommodation has won the prestigious Future Room design competition by impressing a judging panel of the cream of the Capital’s architectural scene.

Jerome Tsui, AA student, won the competition with his entry, titled 'Towards an Undifferentiated Common'. It envisages a future where students live in minimalist, mobile 'pods' situated in common areas on campuses, blurring the boundaries between living and learning.

Student accommodation provider UNITE launched the Future Room competition in collaboration with Blueprint, the leading magazine of architecture and design, and Superfusionlab, an innovative architectural practice which has installed, exhibited and designed projects around the world.

The competition was open to all students in London, challenging them to look ahead to 2050 and think about how students will study, interact and socialise in the future.

Jerome receives a £2,500 cash prize, and will get the chance to hone his design and architectural skills under the expert guidance of judge Nathaniel Kolbe (ex-AA tutors) in a work placement at Superfusionlab.

Nathaniel said: 'Jerome has shown great potential with his design, which impressed us with its bold approach to the future of student living. I am looking forward to seeing more from him during his placement.'

Competition judge and acting editor of Blueprint, Peter Kelly, said:  'The standard of entries was extremely high, but Jerome’s came out on top thanks to his imaginative and ambitious interpretation of the brief. He addressed the issues that students will face in the future with an excellent, original concept.'

Neville Snell, UNITE’s Operations Director for London said: 'This competition has shown the depth of talent there is in London’s universities. The entries offered many intriguing visions of the future, and the ability shown by the students who entered points to a bright future for the city.'

Future Room is the latest initiative from UNITE designed to stimulate and reward innovative student thinking.  Previous projects have included photography competitions and a challenge to immortalise ‘Inspirational Londoners’ in new, original artworks.

UNITE in London
UNITE has 26 properties available to book in a range of locations across London, including three brand new properties set to open in September 2010.

A range of room types are on offer including shared flats for two to seven people as well as studios and one bed flats.  There are no hidden costs as utility bills, contents insurance and in-room internet access are included in the rent price.
See www.unite-students.com

About Superfusionlab
Superfusionlab is an energetic architectural practice, working with professional and academic support. It is constituted of professionals with solid experience built in London’s most prestigious architectural offices. The practice is founded on award-winning architectural competitions and built projects. It has installed, exhibited and designed projects around the world directly.

For more details, see www.etek.org.cy/files/20100408-SPYROPOULOS13.04.10.pdf
www.nomanslandproject.com

In addition to the recent promotion to Associate Professor at Rice, Christopher Hight curated an exhibit called Envelop{e}s at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery

The lecture is part of a series of events organised for the design seminar - Trend design.

For more details, see www.ldvc.net and www.istitutomarangoni.com

In 'Complexity without Contradiction: Cybernetics, Architecture and Enchantment' he will present a critique of the reduction of thought to information in cybernetics and its use within architecture to serve contemporary mechanisms of organisational control.

See http://www.tut.fi/units/ark/pdfs/NAAR2010Conference.pdf

See http://www.newitalianblood.com/index.pl

Marco Ferrari, MA Histories & Theories student, publishes Manual of Decolonization. This two-year project on the transformation of West Bank settlements in Israel was undertaken with associates in practice Salottobuono, his architectural design and research office in Venice.

See http://www.salottobuono.net/projects/manualofdecolonization.shtml

An exhibition of the drawings and a big physical model of our case-study settlement was mounted at the Superfront gallery in Los Angeles. See http://losangeles.superfront.org/2010/01/unplanned-research-experiments-at-the-urban-scale/

A forthcoming book on the project: http://www.artecontemporanea.com/manual-of-decolonization/