Architectural Association School of Architecture

The course will explore 3D devices that can scan the unnatural post-industrial landscapes in an attempt to fuse the accidental qualities of discovery – such as Willson’s trial and error of calcium carbide – with the mathematical precision of laser-scanned environments. Students will form their own architectural ‘carbide’, a fusion of scans and digital modelling to generate a landscape that materialises from Willson’s place of decay into a new architectural ground.

Full details about the school available at www.aaschool.ac.uk/STUDY/VISITING/ottawa.

Current AA students can apply for 6 available scholarships reducing the fee to £100 from £635. Scholarships will be awarded on a first come first served basis.

Contact programme director Tobias Klein: office@kleintobias.com for further details.

6.30pm, 32 Second Floor Back

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The British Council has launched an open call for exhibition proposals for the British Pavilion at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia.

The Biennale will take place from 7 June to 23 November 2014. The title of the 2014 Biennale is 'Fundamentals' and overall Director Rem Koolhaas has called on national pavilions to respond to the theme 'Absorbing Modernity: 1914–2014'.

Deadline for submissions is 21 June 2013. Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed on 5 July and an announcement will be made on 10 July.

For more information, including how to apply and Koolhaas' complete statement, visit the British Council website.

Van Alen Institute is pleased to announce the launch of Ground/Work, an international architecture competition seeking innovative designs for a new street-level venue to house the Institute’s work space and public programs. Since 1982, the Institute has occupied the sixth floor of its building at 30 West 22nd Street in Manhattan, where a diverse program of competitions, curatorial initiatives, and public events has made Van Alen an influential center for design innovation. This year, the Institute is making its public-oriented mission central to the reinvention of its own office and event space, transforming the ground floor and lower level of its building to house its entire organization.

Ground/Work invites emerging designers, up to ten years out of school, to propose bold visions for a light and highly flexible ground-floor space that is visible, accessible, and participatory in public life, with a strong connection to the street and the city at large. 

The Call for Portfolios runs from May 15 to June 13, 2013. Up to three finalists will be selected to compete in the second phase of the competition. The winning team will have four months to complete design work for construction in winter 2013.

View the competition website and submit your portfolio.

Cities are the greatest social experiment in human history, built for people, by the people. P D Smith and Leo Hollis, both experts on the modern metropolis, will explore why cities can make us happier. Wandering the shantytowns, favelas, downtowns, eco-cities, and sacred sites of cities across the world, they peer into the future of the city. 

Thursday 13 June

Drinks at 6pm and talk at 6.30pm

Bloomsbury Publishing, 50 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DP

Cost: £10 / Students £6 

Visit Bloomsbury for more information and to book.

The exhibition coincides with Out of India – a series of events, talks, films, displays and a special late evening programme that celebrates the architectural stories of urban India's past, present and future.

Additionally, an evening symposium on 22 May features Charles Correa, Richard Sennett and AA Honorary Member Joseph Rykwert in conversation:

Architecture as Symbol

This design-build workshop, held at Archip College of Architecture, Prague, will introduce key techniques of creating architectural space. Through direct hands-on engagement with materials, participants will explore two distinct working methodologies – linear and non linear / planned and spontaneous / ordered and chaotic – and recognise their distinct influence on architectural proposition. Participants will construct models of rooms exhibiting tactile material qualities and spatial possibilities. Tomas Pohnetal, a graduate of the AA School of Architecture, will lead the workshop.

The foci of Material Formations will be threefold:

To learn the most fundamental space-making techniques, by hands-on investigation of materials

To gain understanding of different working methodologies used to explore and construct spaces

To develop creativity and judgement in identifying and evaluating various spatial possibilities

Application deadline is 31 May.

For more information, visit the Archip website.

The Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects Drawing Prize 2013
The Jonathan and Victoria Ball Award

Following the success of the competition that was run for the first time in 2011, the Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects, with the support of RIBA, is offering drawing prizes to students from the London Schools of Architecture. 

The prize money has been increased following a donation from Jonathan and Victoria Ball.

The aim is to encourage excellence in traditional drawing, but computer generated images will also be considered.

Schools are invited to submit one drawing for RIBA Part 1 and one for RIBA Part 2.
The first prize is £300, with a runner up of £150, in each category.

Format
Drawings should be reduced to A3 and mounted on foam board. There should be no indication of the student identity or school.
Student details, including home address and e-mail address, and on School headed paper, should be placed in a sealed envelope, labeled Part 1 or Part 2, to be taped, firmly, to the back of the board.

Submission

AA students should submit to the director's office by Friday 14th June 5pm.

Closing Date
Winners will be contacted, by e-mail, on 26 June.

Exhibition
All entries will be exhibited at a number of city locations. Last year’s winning drawings are at
http://architects-livery-company.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=drawing+prize
Enquiries
Mrs Jaki Howes  Ms Anne Markey
WCCA Masters of Students

jaki.howes@btinternet.com                           

a.markey@londonmet.ac.uk

Submissions are now open for The Architectural Review’s 2013 Global Architecture Graduate Awards (GAGAs). Send us your graduating project and you could win a £2,500 cash prize and have your work published in the pages of the special October issue of The Architectural Review.

An international jury of academics and practitioners will select the world’s best undergraduate and postgraduate architecture, and entry is free. Projects can be any programme or scale, and in any location around the world. We are looking for a strong critical position that engages with its context, while also being relevant to larger architectural discussions.

For all the details of making a submission, visit the website at: www.architectural-review.com/gaga

The deadline is midnight, 5 July 2013

RIBA Journal are running a drawing competition that includes hand-drawn, computer-rendered or any blend
of the two.

Further details available here

http://ribajournal.com/pages/may_2013_ribaj_eyeline_competition_211687.cfm

Held during Clerkenwell Design Week these seminars will focus on CV presentations and interviewing insights for students and graduates they prepare to seek out good design jobs / positions. The seminars will take the form of talks and presentations followed by question and answer sessions.

Practicing experts assisting -

·         Jon Blakeney, Managing Director @ i-am associates
·         Narinder Sagoo, Partner @ Foster + Partners
·         Scott MacTavish, Director @ Place Careers
·         Rees Bushell, HR Manager @ Hawkins\Brown
·         Robin Panrucker, Talent Development @ Gensler

Tuesday 21 May 12:30-13:30
Wednesday 22 May 12:30-13:30

Domus Clerkenwell
50, Great Sutton Street
London EC1V 0DF

To attend email - david.kong@domustiles.com 

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Monday 13 May, 6.30

34–36 Bedford Square, Rear Presentation Space  

Christina Smith will be appointed as Trustee of the AA Foundation.

The AA attracts the interest of academic visitors from all over the world because of its innovative teaching tradition. As a response to this interest we offer a three-week programme that develops a comparative debate on aims, strategies and methods of teaching architecture, as well as giving teachers with very diverse experience and backgrounds an opportunity to participate in discussions about the teaching and research of the AA.

There will be meetings organised with teachers and students throughout the school, and the visiting teachers will also attend juries, reviews and other events during the three weeks. Please make them welcome during their visit.

This year the programme runs from 20 May to 7 June with the following participants:

T Jason Anderson, Adjunct Professor, California College of the Arts, USA

Kim Nam Chow, Course Leader, Diploma in Architecture, Singapore Polytechnic

Beatrice De Carli, Lecturer, School of Architecture, Polytechnic of Milano, Italy

Chris Doray, Lecturer, Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver, Canada

Asim Hameed, Lecturer, Department of Architecture, Comsats IIT, Pakistan

Konstantinos Ioannidis, Associate Professor, University of Stavanger, Norway

Asif R Khan, Associate Professor, Al Salama Institute of Architecture, Kerala, India.

Emanuele Naboni, Associate Professor, Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark

Otitoola Olufikayo, Lecturer, Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Osun State, Nigeria

Anastasios Tellios, Lecturer, Post graduate studies, Hellenic Open University, Greece

Lavanya Jothi Venkatachalam, Assistant Professor, Sathyabama University, India

Ewelina Wozniak-Szpakiewicz, Lecturer, International Centre of Education, Cracow, Poland.

For information about the programme please contact Hugo Hinsley or Priji Balakrishnan.

Applications for the RIBA Wren Insurance Association Scholarships must be submitted by 5.00 on Monday 20 May in order to be considered for one of five scholarships worth £5,000 each. At the time of application, students must be enrolled in an RIBA-validated Part 2 professional qualification course in the UK, and starting their final year in September 2013. The scholarships aim to support outstanding Part 2 students who have the potential to make a significant contribution to the field of architecture.

Please refer to the eligibility criteria, guidance notes and application form on the RIBA website.


Contact hayley.russell@riba.org with further questions about the scholarship and/or your eligibility.

Foundation Thursday 16 May, 10.00 Rear Second Presentation Space

First Year Friday 17 May, 10.00 33 First Floor Back and Front, and Lecture Hall

Intermediate Unit 2 Friday 17 May, 10.00 Rear Second Presentation Space

Intermediate Unit 6 Thursday 16 May, 10.00 Lecture Hall

Intermediate Unit 9 Tuesday 14 May, 10.00 Rear Second Presentation Space

Intermediate Unit 11 Tuesday 14 May, 10.00 33 First Floor Back and Front 

Diploma Unit 2 Tuesday 14 May, 10.00 Lecture Hall

Diploma Unit 16 Wednesday 15 May, 10.00 Lecture Hall

Diploma Unit 17 Thursday 16 May, 10.00 33 First Floor Back and Front

Diploma Unit 18 Thursday 16 May, 10.00 New Soft Room

Forthcoming:

Intermediate Unit 1 Friday 24 May, 10.00 Rear Second Presentation Space

Intermediate Unit 3 Wednesday 22 May, 10.00 33 First Floor Back and Front

Intermediate Unit 4 Wednesday 22 May, 10.00 Lecture Hall

Intermediate Unit 5 Friday 24 May, 10.00 Lecture Hall

Intermediate Unit 7 Thursday 23 May, 10.00 Lecture Hall

Intermediate Unit 8 Friday 24 May, 10.00 33 First Floor Back and Front

Intermediate Unit 10 Monday 20 May, 10.00 Rear Second Presentation Space

Intermediate Unit 13 Tuesday 21 May, 10.00 Rear Second Presentation Space

Diploma Unit 1 Thursday 23 May, 10.00 33 First Floor Back and Front

Diploma Unit 4 Monday 20 May, 10.00 Lecture Hall

Diploma Unit 5 Friday 24 May, 10.00 32 Second Floor Back

Diploma Unit 6 Wednesday 22 May, 10.00 Rear Second Presentation Space

Diploma Unit 8 Wednesday 22 May, 10.00 32 Second Floor Back

Diploma Unit 9 Tuesday 21 May, 10.00 New Soft Room

Diploma Unit 11 Tuesday 21 May, 10.00 Lecture Hall

Diploma Unit 14 Thursday 23 May, 10.00 Rear Second Presentation Space