Architectural Association School of Architecture

The Berlin Senate Department of Urban Development and the Environment is opening a Europe-wide call for projects for the Urban Intervention Award Berlin. For the first time, this prize is being offered in collaboration with Deutsche Wohnen AG and will for this reason be expanded to include the new Urban Living Award.

This year Deutsche Wohnen AG will award prize money in the amount of €3,000 to the winners of the two categories in the Urban Intervention Award Berlin, ‘Build’ and ‘Temporary’, as well as the winner of the Urban Living Award. Only projects that have been realised in the past five years may be submitted. Interested architects can submit their work by 24 August 2013 (postmarked by this date) to the following address:

Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung und Umwelt Berlin
Werkstatt Baukultur Kommunikation Oberste Denkmalschutzbehörde
Susanne Walter
Reference: Urban Intervention Award 2013 or Urban Living Award 2013
Am Köllnischen Park 3
10179 Berlin

For more information, visit the competition website.

Established in 1836 when the RIBA awarded the Silver Medal for the first time for the best architectural essay, these are the RIBA’s longest-living awards and are widely regarded as the most prestigious international awards in architectural education.

Schools of Architecture can nominate two of their best design projects for the Bronze Medal (for Part 1 students), two for the Silver Medal (for Part 2 students) and one for the Dissertation Medal (from either Part 1 or 2). The deadline for submissions for the Dissertation Medal is 5pm, Monday 15 July. Submissions for design projects for the Bronze and Silver Medals must be made by 5pm, Monday 9 September.

Schools must send their entries to the RIBA electronically on a CD/DVD or a USB drive together with the completed Student Nomination Form and Tutor Information Form attached. These forms can also be downloaded from www.presidentsmedals.com/documents.aspx. Dissertations need to be submitted in hard copy as well as a PDF. RIBA staff will upload the entries to the award’s website and prepare submissions for judging.

For more information visit the RIBA website.

Photo Library

Monday 29 July – Sunday 1 September closed, and by appointment only through the summer

Normal hours resume 23 September, Monday – Friday 10.00–1.00 and 2.00–6.00

AA Bookshop

Open Monday – Friday, 10.00–6.30, Saturday 11.00–5.00. Closed Monday 19 – Monday 26 August

Library

Monday 24 June – Friday 26 July, open 10.00–6.00, closed Saturdays

Library closed Monday 29 July to Sunday 1 September inclusive

Monday 2 – Friday 27 September, open 10.00–6.00, closed Saturdays

Term-time – Normal hours will resume from Monday – Friday 10.00–9.00, Saturday 11.00–5.00

Introduction Week for New Students Monday 23 September 

Term 1: Monday 30 September to Friday 20 December (12 weeks)

Term 2: Monday 13 January to Friday 28 March (11 weeks)

Term 3: Monday 28 April to Friday 27 June (9 weeks)

Graduate School MA/MSc Students 

Research/Preparation/Submission of Final Dissertation

Term 4: Monday 30 June to Friday 26 September (13 weeks)

Tuesday 11 June, 6.30pm

The Garden Museum,
Lambeth Palace Rd, London SE1 7LB 

The evening's conversation will focus on the process of collaboration between the architect and landscape designer.

A few tickets remain. When booking, AA Members can take advantage of a discounted ticket price (£10 off) by entering the code: DPIH10.

More information can be found on the Garden Museum's website. 

The role of external examiners is to look at portfolios submitted by students for RIBA Parts 1 and 2 and exemptions, and to agree to pass lists which are then forwarded to the RIBA. 

Examiners view Intermediate student work for AA Intermediate RIBA/ARB Part 1 (Third Year portfolios) on Tuesday 18 June and Diploma student work for AA Finals RIBA/ARB Part 2 (Fifth Year portfolios) on Wednesday 19 June.

Mary Bowman studied architecture at the University of Virginia and at the AA. She worked for Foster and Partners from 1988–98 where she was made Associate in 1993. In 1999, Mary joined the architectural practice of Walters and Cohen where she was a Director. She has been an external examiner at Chelsea College of Art from 2001–05 and has taught at the AA. Mary joined Gustafson Porter in 2002 and was made a Company Director in 2004. Together with Kathryn and Neil, Mary is responsible for the direction of the office.

Keller Easterling is an architect and writer from New York City and a professor at Yale University. Her book, Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades (MIT, 2005) researches familiar spatial products that have landed in difficult or hyperbolic political situations around the world. A forthcoming book, Extrastatecraft: The Power of Matrix Space (Verso, 2013), examines global infrastructure networks as a medium of polity. Easterling has lectured and published widely in the United States and internationally. Her research and design work has been most recently exhibited at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, the Rotterdam Biennale, and the Architectural League in New York.

Antón García-Abrilis associate professor in the School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Madrid. He received the Spanish Academy Research Prize in Rome in 1996. In 2000 he established the award-winning Ensamble Studio, leading a research team on the architectural application of conceptual and structural experimentation. He has been visiting professor at Harvard GSD and Cornell. Ensamble was selected by SANAA to participate in the 2010 Venice Biennale. Projects including the Music Studies Centre and the SGAE Central Office in Santiago de Compostela and more recently the Truffle in Costa da Morte (Spain) have been internationally published. In 2009 he founded the Positive City Foundation to research the urban phenomenon.

Jeffrey Kipnis is Curator of Architecture and Design at The Wexner Center for the Arts, and a Professor in the Department of Architecture at the Ohio State University. Kipnis previously taught at the AA, Harvard University, The Cooper Union, and Columbia University. He is the founder and first director of the Graduate Design Programme of the Architectural Association of London. His publications include Choral Works: The Eisenman/Derrida Collaboration, as well as numerous critical and theoretical essays for periodicals such as Assemblage and El Croquis. He collaborated with architects Reiser and Umemoto (RUR Architects) in designing the Water Garden in Columbus, Ohio and the Kansai-Kan National Diet Library. In 2009, he received the Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Amanda Levete has spent her career exploring the transformative potential of space through buildings and furniture pieces. She works with diametrically opposed elements, the organic and the man-made, to create the unexpected and is recognised for her ability to bring visionary projects to fruition realising the ambitions of private and public sector clients. Levete has received a number of international commissions, including a new gallery, courtyard and entrance for the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Levete is a trustee of Artangel, the Young Foundation and the Arts Foundation. She is a regular TV and radio broadcaster and writes for numerous magazines. She trained at the AA and worked for Richard Rogers before joining Future Systems as a partner in 1989.

Brendan MacFarlane studied at Sci-Arc and Harvard GSD. He has been visiting professor at these schools and at the Bartlett, the Berlage Institute and the University of Florida, among others. He is co-founder with Dominique Jakob of Jakob + Macfarlane, a Paris-based practice. Its work explores digital technology both as a conceptual consideration and as a means of fabrication, using new materials to create a more flexible, responsive and immediate environment. Recent projects include the Euronews Headquarters in Lyon, the FRAC Architecture Exhibition Centre in Orléans, and the High School of Art and Communication of Pau. The practice was among those selected by France for the 2002 Venice Architecture Biennale, and in the International selection in 2004 and 2008. 

Paul W Nakazawa is Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He works internationally as a practice and business adviser to firms in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism and allied professions. He has served as a managing principal and board director for architectural companies in Boston, Chicago, New York and London. He was one of the founders of AMO, the research and development arm of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture. He presently serves as chairman of the board of advisers for Snøhetta, New York. Nakazawa received his BA and MBA from the University of Chicago, and MArch I from the Harvard GSD. He is a registered architect with significant building experience, ranging from museums to heavy industrial construction.

Carol Patterson completed her undergraduate study at the University of California-Berkeley and received her Masters degree from Columbia University. She has worked for many acclaimed offices including Rogers Marvel in New York and Norman Foster and Arup in London. She has also worked with Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam from 2000–03 and again in London since 2006. Patterson had primary responsibility on the Seattle Public Library and was the lead architect for the Whitney Museum and Los Angeles County Museum of Art extensions. She now oversees the design and construction of the new Rothschild Bank headquarters in London. 

Emmanuel Petit is an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at Yale University. He is the author of Irony, Or, The Self-Critical Opacity of Postmodern Architecture (Yale Press, 2013), is supported by the Graham Foundation and was nominated for a 2013 Gustave O Arlt Award in the Humanities. He is editor of Stanley Tigerman's Schlepping Through Ambivalence: Writings on An American Architectural Condition (Yale Press, 2011), and editor of Philip Johnson: The Constancy of Change (Yale Press, 2009). Petit is curator of the travelling exhibition Ceci n'est pas une rêverie: The Architecture of Stanley Tigerman (New Haven & Chicago, 2011-12). He is a partner in the architecture firm Jean Petit Architectes S A in Luxembourg City and co-founding partner at EPISTEME Architects in New Haven.

Deborah Saunt established DSDHA with David Hills in 1998 and in 2010 the studio was shortlisted for both the RIBA Stirling Prize and named BD's Architect of the Year. DSDHA has been involved in significant urban design proposals including Waterloo City Square, the redesign of Parliament Square with Foster & Partners, and most recently improvements to the public realm between The Albert Memorial and The Royal Albert Hall, as well as regeneration projects such as Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. Deborah is currently studying for her PhD at RMIT, is a Fellow of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, and a member of various judging panels, including Chair of the RIBA Awards Group, and the Architecture Commission for the Campus de la Paix à Genève. She writes and broadcasts on architecture, has held numerous teaching positions including the Architectural Association and University of Cambridge and has recently been an invited professor at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Benedetta Tagliabue was born in Milan and graduated from the University of Venice. In 1991 she joined Enric Miralles’ studio where she eventually became a partner. In 1998, the partnership won the competition to design the new Scottish Parliament building and despite Miralles’ premature death in 2000, Tagliabue took leadership of the team as joint Project Director, and the Parliament was successfully completed in 2004, winning several awards. In 2009 she won the World Architectural Festival Award within Category Top Future Project for Shanghai Pavilion. 

Sarah Whiting has been Dean of the School of Architecture at Rice University since January 2010. Whiting has taught modern urban history, contemporary architectural theory, and studio at Princeton, Harvard, IIT, the University of Kentucky and the University of Florida. Whiting’s writing and editing have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, from ANY to Wired. She is currently completing a manuscript on scale and urbanism, called Superblock City, and she edits a book series with Princeton University Press called POINT. Whiting cofounded WW with her partner, Ron Witte, in 1999. She has served as a Design Partner for numerous projects, including the Golden House in Princeton and WW’s winning design for the San Jose State University Art Museum. Prior to WW, Whiting worked with the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in The Netherlands, where she was a designer for the Euralille masterplan. 

Elia Zenghelis studied and taught for 20 years at the Architectural Association in London. He is one of the original founders of OMA in partnership with Rem Koolhaas until 1987, when he established Gigantes Zenghelis Architects in Athens with Eleni Gigantes. He has been Professor at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts and thesis tutor at the Berlage Institute for 19 years. He has served as External Examiner at the Bartlett School of Architecture, the Architectural Association and the Edinburgh College of Art, and seven times as juror on the Mies van der Rohe Prize for European Architecture. As an architect he has won the Mies van der Rohe award for Checkpoint Charlie (Berlin, 1989) and the Eternit award for the same building. He has served the Greek Ministry of Culture in numerous appointments, including Commissioner for the Greek Architecture Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2000.

Dates can also be found in the Diary and the Week 8 Events List

History and Critical Thinking MA Thesis Reviews 

Monday 10 June, 10:00–1:00, 2:00– 6:00

37 First Floor Front

Jury includes Marina Lathouri, Mark Cousins, John Palmesino, Thomas Weaver, Ryan Dillon, Brian Hatton and Yeorgia Manolopoulou

Architecture & Urbanism (AADRL) Phase 1 Final Juries

Thursday 13 – Friday 14 June, 10.00
16 Morwell Street Studios

Critics include Evan Douglis, Marc Fornes, Jenny Wu and Marta Malé-Alemany, among others

Landscape Urbanism End of Year Jury

Friday 14 June, 2.00

32 Second Floor Back

Guests include Jeffrey Paul Turko, Claudia Pasquero and Susannah Hagan

Emergent Technologies and Design MSc/MArch End of Term Juries

Tuesday 11 June, 11.00

EmTech Studio 

Projective Cities MPhil Phase II Jury

Friday 14 June, 1.00

33 First Floor Front

28 June, 10.30–8.00

Housing is back on the agenda as both a political necessity and potential economic catalyst. Some architects are producing thoughtful exemplars which recognise our present needs and aspirations. What do you consider to be good housing? Is mass house building right for the future?

Join Suffolk RIBA for a celebratory event on Friday 28th June 2013 at Snape Maltings on the Suffolk Coast.

Speakers: Rowan Moore, Crispin Kelly, Fred Scott and Eoghan Sheils.

The 6.30 evening Love Architecture Talk 'Housing is Architecture' by Peter Salter will be followed by supper and a Suffolk sunset.

Fees:

School Dates

Intermediate (Part 1) Final Check

Monday 10/Tuesday 11 June, 10.00,

Lecture Hall

Diploma Committee

Wednesday 12/Thursday 13 June, 10.00, Library

Diploma Honours Presentations

Friday 14 June, 2.00, Lecture Hall

The PhD Programme is having its end of year presentations by 15 of its current research students on Monday 3 June and Tuesday 4 June in 33 FFF.

Review Panel   Pier Vittorio Aureli, Doreen Bernath, Paula Cadima, Mark Campbell, Marjan Colletti, Mark Cousins, Jorge Fiori, Hugo Hinsley, George Jeronimidis, Marina Lathouri, Douglas Spencer, Brett Steele, Tom Weaver, Mike Weinstock, Simos Yannas 
Monday 3 June  33 FFF

Session One  10.00-11.30  Chair: Marina Lathouri
Gabriela García de Cortázar Galleguillos
City Detours
Supervisors: Mark Cousins, Pier Vittorio Aureli
As the city expanded in the nineteenth century, walking (and other forms of direct experience) could no longer be the only source of its knowledge. Representations of the city on the other hand, because of their dependency to subjective vision and their insufficient ability to record, pro­vided a partial and incomplete version of it. Knowledge of the city, therefore need­ed devices that could make up for these insufficiencies. These devices, functioning as a sort of prosthesis, propose a detour from the absolute perfection of maps and the fickleness of experience. This research examines ten hybrid devices for orientat­ing oneself in London. They use different media (diagrams, description, drawing) and deal with different aspects of the city (measures, movement, moments). By doing so, the thesis explores issues of transcrip­tion, of remembering and forgetting, and of being lost and finding things out.

Patricia Martin del Guayo
Environmental Perception of Urban Spaces in Spanish Cities
Supervisors: Simos Yannas, Paula Cadima
The way people use public spaces is strongly influenced by the environmental conditions experienced in these spaces. Urbanisation has not only changed the environmental properties of our surround­ings, but it has also affected our relation­ships and interactions with them. This research project addresses these issues by studying people’s environmental per­ceptions of urban public spaces. With field studies in Soho Square, London and sev­eral locations in Spain the project investi­gates the factors influencing environmental perception with the aim of developing appropriate design strategies and tech­niques for improving environmental conditions in outdoor urban spaces.

Session Two  11.45-1.15   Chair: Douglas Spencer
Jingming Wu
The Invented Chinese Classical Garden
Supervisors: Mark Cousins, Doreen Bernath
The Chinese classical garden has been a popular topic in Chinese architecture for almost 30 years. Used to refer not only to landscape, but also to architecture and urban design, it has been a key concept in Chinese contemporary architecture. Why did the Chinese classical garden assume such a role in preference to other forms of traditional architecture? This study investigates the construction of the concept of the Chinese classical garden in relation to twentieth-century architectural history and theory writing.

Alexandra Vougia
Estrangement and the Metropolis: An Enquiry into the Urban Form and Matter
Supervisors: Marina Lathouri, David Cunningham
This research project makes an enquiry into the nature of the concept of estrangement – how it was initially used by political and social sciences to characterise an inherent condition of modernity where one experiences community as something external to oneself, and the ways in which it later migrated into art practices and the urban discourse of the early twentieth century. The thesis investigates how this concept enforced certain types of architectural form presenting the narrative of the modern metropolis and the ‘estranged’ human collective that inhabits it through an integral conception of city and architecture.

Session Three  2.00-3.30   Chair: Doreen Bernath
Emmanouil Stavrakakis
The Architecture of Linear B
Supervisor: Mark Cousins, Spyros Papapetros
Most would agree that Michael Ventris’ decipherment of Linear B is one of the twentieth century’s great moments of identification. It is widely acknowledged that his discovery was the more remarkable because he was not a professional scholar. He was an architect. His reading was accompanied by a curiosity as to how he had been able to make this achievement. At his death some obituaries suggested that perhaps it was something to do with his training as an architect. There the matter has rested. The hypothesis of this thesis argues that while Ventris lacked others’ experience in the field, his advantage came not only from the conventional category of his ‘brilliance’; it was also indebted to the forms of analysis, which he had acquired as part of an architectural training.

Aldo Urbinati
Architectural Effects: La Tour Eiffel BIS
Supervisor: Mark Cousins, Thomas Weaver
This thesis is designed as a contribution to architectural aesthetics. What it tries to do is to consider the major ways in which effects, especially in architecture, are to be understood. It starts from the types of effects in which architecture is involved. It tries to clarify their different nature and to establish them both in terms of the architecture itself and the reception of its effects. This is done from the point of view of how effects can still be registered and whose effects have already generated a considerable literature. The strategy of the thesis is to test these 'architectural effects' out against a number of case studies within the history and the literature on The Eiffel Tower.

Session Four  3.45-5.15  Chair: Mark Cousins
Niloofar Kakhi
Identity Disinterred: The Uses and Abuses of a Past in Architectural Representation of a Present
Supervisor: Marina Lathouri, Vida Norouz Borazjani
This thesis focuses on the development of the historicist understanding of collective identity in the architecture of Iran since the modernisation of the country in the 1920s. It aims to clarify the relationship between the use of history and the expres­sion of national and cultural identities by focusing on the development of the archi­tectural discipline – its politics, design, teaching, theory and historiography in Iran and the influence of the west. The thesis ultimately aims to construct a conceptu­al platform for critically assessing such representations of identity in contemporary architecture and revisits the almost ignored value of the contemporary as a means of expressing a collective identity.

Costandis Kizis
Regionalism Falling
Supervisors: Marina Lathouri, Socratis Georgiadis
The thesis discusses the rise and fall of regionalism in modern architecture. The research examines the contrasting dipole of homogenised internationalism and differentiated regionalism to show that these seemingly opposite theses on the issue of place do not necessarily differ. This will be investigated with specific case studies of architectural projects in Greece, which will be compared to relevant schemes from other countries.

Tuesday 4 June
Session Five  10.00-12.30  Chair: George Jeronimidis
Serena Jarvis
Ecological Infrastructure: Examining Spatial Strategies for Integrated Urban Water Systems
Supervisors: Jorge Fiori, Douglas Spencer, Eduardo Rico
Current processes of urbanisation are being characterised by an intensified period of resource stress. This research seeks to examine why the current design of urban water infrastructure is a problem for resource security. It investigates the use of energy that is required to support current urban water infrastructure. The thesis uses the case of London and the Thames Gateway to understand and evaluate the energy intensity of water provision in London. It examines emerging design strategies and uses design as a way of testing and proposing alternative possibilities for the future of water sensitive infrastructure where ecology is linked to urban security.

Ali Farzaneh
Computational Morphogenesis of City Tissues
Supervisors: George Jeronimidis, Michael Weinstock
Recent developments in mathematical biology coupled with the rapid develop­ment of computational tools have allowed the implementation and simulation of biological processes in other fields such as architecture. Such processes from the natural sciences offer great potential in exploring and understanding dynamic models. The research will explore a subset of concepts and techniques from mathe­matical biology for their potential incorpo­ration into the design process, focusing on the morphogenesis of digital objects and their model of organisation through a dynamic model.

Gabriel Felmer Plominsky
Development of a Prototype for Sustainable Social Housing in Chile
Supervisors: Simos Yannas, Paula Cadima
The central problem addressed by this project is the fuel poverty and poor environmental conditions experienced by low-income groups in social housing around Santiago. The research investigates the parameters influencing the environ­mental performance of social housing schemes with the aim of developing low-cost designs for achieving thermal comfort by passive means without the need for any additional source of space heating. The final outcome of the project will be a replicable housing prototype for different urban areas and climate regions of Chile.

Session Six 2.00-3.30  Chair: Paula Cadima
Francisca Aroso Pinto de Oliveira
Fabrication-Based Design of  Responsive Transitional Spaces
Supervisors: George Jeronimidis, Michael Weinstock
The design research is focused on fabrication of physical thresholds between buildings’ internal and external environments. New design paradigms have been abstracted from biological models to inform the engineering and material organisation of a deep transitional zone. Digital design and fabrication techniques are combined to enhance the performative capacity of this new system. Using a subtractive machining process the properties of wood are manipulated to meet the desired performance criteria of light penetration, privacy and views.

Kensuke Hotta
Programmable Architecture:
Towards Intelligent Architecture
Supervisors: George Jeronimidis, Michael Weinstock
This thesis proposes a new strategy for intelligent architecture, compares it to past architectural theories concerned with time-based design methods and discusses past computational and complex theories, highlighting their limitations. Each individual component within the system has the ability to compute data and as a result the component changes its physical behaviour. The greater the adaptability of the rule results in higher levels of computability. The outcome will be compared with computationally-static design outputs, such as a parametrically optimised shapes.

Session Seven 3.45-5.15  Chair: Mike Weinstock
Elif Erdine
Generative Processes in Tower Design: Algorithms for the Integration of Tower Subsystems
Supervisors: George Jeronimidis, Michael Weinstock, Patrik Schumacher
The aim of the research is to propose a new systematic design approach towards the recreation of the architectural typology of the tower. The thesis argues that the tower must respond to its environment by changing from a closed building typology of repetitive floor plates to a heterogeneous, differentiated open system that can adapt to the changing conditions within and around it. This argument is supported by principles derived from biological analogies in order to propose computationally generated self-organising systems for the tower typology, with the aim of achieving an integrated model.

Arturo Revilla
ProcessCity: Architecture and the Border Condition
Supervisors: Marina Lathouri, Brett Steele
A growing literature seeks to provide a theoretical foundation for the interde­pendencies between the use of digital tools among design disciplines and their fields of action. In architecture, change has been embraced by the use of sophisticated geometries as instruments for representing and articulating urban and environmental forces. Regardless of their contributions, these tendencies have continuously dis­missed the influences and possibilities that electronic communication networks have on the physical environment. This research  embraces the shift from understanding cit­ies as artefact to systems that evolve, grow and change in ways that might be guided and managed, moving from an emphasis on structure and form to one of behaviour and process. ProcessCity explores inno­vative relations between architecture and emerging forms of public space. To this aim, the thesis focuses on the question of the border, a conceptual, spatial and mate­rial condition for design to articulate local parameters, socio-political implications and material networks, all of which are key influences to the success of architecture’s relation to the city.

Shortlist announced Thursday 18 July. Six buildings will be shortlisted

Winner announced Thursday 26 September at an evening event at Central St Martins in London

This year the prestigious RIBA Stirling Prize for the best building comes of age and celebrates its eighteenth year.

From the rule-breaking Evelyn Grace school in London by Zaha Hadid to a cutting-edge sustainable housing development near Cambridge, past RIBA Stirling Prize winners illustrate the social and economic trends that shape our buildings and environment and show why UK design talent is famed around the world.

2013 RIBA Stirling Prize judges: 

Sheila O’Donnell – architect, O’Donnell + Tuomey

Paul Williams – architect, Stanton Williams and winner of the 2012 RIBA Stirling Prize

Stephen Hodder – architect and RIBA President Elect (commencing 01/09/13)

Dame Vivien Duffield – philanthropist and Chair of the Clore Duffield Foundation

Tom Dykchoff – journalist and broadcaster

Tickets to the RIBA Stirling Prize evening event on Thursday 26 September will go on sale in June. To register your interest email events@riba.org

Visit RIBA for more information.

Tuesday 28 May, 12.30

Lecture Hall

It is essential that at least one tutor and student representative of each unit attend this meeting in order to collect and sign documentation and receive Projects Review exhibition space allocation, a budget form and vital information pack.  

Friday 31 May, 6.30 at ABA Gallery, 70 Cowcross st. London EC1 M 6EL

Dr Raymond Neutra will give an illustrated lecture on the VDL House and compound, which was an ongoing social and technological experiment, designed in three phases: 1932, 1940 and 1966. Aside from the historic interest in Neutra, distinguished visitors and others who started their careers at this location, the compound serves to remind visitors of ongoing design questions addressed at the compound.

Cost £6.00 Docomomo Members, £8.00 non Members

For more information visit DOCOMOMO-UK. 

WEEK 8 LIBRARY OPENING HOURS

Monday 10 June :  open 10-9

Tuesday 11 June : open 10-1

Wednesday 12 June : library closed

Thursday 13 June : library closed

Friday 14 June : open 11-9

Saturday 15 June : open 11-5

WEEK 9 LIBRARY OPENING HOURS

Monday 17 June – Thursday 20 June : open 10-9

Friday 21 June : library closed

Saturday 22 June : library closed

SUMMER VACATION LIBRARY OPENING HOURS

Monday 24 June – Friday 26 July : open 10-6, closed Saturdays

Library closed Monday 29 July to Sunday 1 September inclusive.

Monday 2 September – Friday 27 September : open 10-6, closed Saturdays

Normal term-time hours will resume from Monday 30 September :

Monday – Friday 10-9, Saturday 11-5

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.