Architectural Association School of Architecture

Athens access available
Athens is an access management system that provides remote access to the online databases and journals subscribed to by Architectural Association Library.
 
If you would like an Athens account, please email Simine Marine at simine.marine@aaschool.ac.uk or fill out a form at the library issue desk. You will receive a registration email to set up your unique password, usually by the next working day. Help is also available in the library on how to use this new service.

Please note: Only subscribing members and those with borrowing rights to the library are entitled to an Athens account.
 

New Library Guides on Library Website
As well as the Library Guide and Shelf Locations Plan three new library guides are up on the library website:

Using the library catalogue

Finding journal articles +journals

Advance searching techniques

We hope these guides will make it easier to use the library catalogue, and to find journal articles and journals using these searching techniques.

AA Summer Architecture School now accepting applications for Summer 2011. Deadline for applications is 6 June. A late deadline of 20 June is also possible but may incur a fee. 

Visit the website at http://summerschool.aaschool.ac.uk/ for more information about the programme.
Read about AA Visiting Schools worldwide here

For more information about the AA Summer Architecture School programme and submission requirements, please visit the website at http://summerschool.aaschool.ac.uk. Deadline for submissions is 26 April. These can be emailed to visitingschool@aaschool.ac.uk or posted to the AA, 36 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3ES.

Spring Term, 8 weeks, Tuesday 26 April to Friday 17 June
Please note the following public holiday:
Monday 30 May (Spring Bank Holiday)

AA Undergraduate Bursary application forms for the 2011/12 academic year are available from Sabrina Blakstad in the Registrar’s Office. The deadline for completed applications to be returned is Friday 13 May.

Easter Vacation Opening Hours
Reopening on Tuesday 26 April with normal term-time hours.

The AA’s innovative teaching tradition attracts the interest of academic visitors from all over the world. In response to this interest we offer a three-week programme to give teachers of architecture an opportunity to participate in discussing the teaching and research of the school, and to engage in a debate about approaches to architectural education.

The programme offers an opportunity for detailed discussion of ideas and methods of education; meetings with students and teachers in all parts of the school; and involvement in the student review and assessment activities. Participants will present work for debate in a seminar on educational ideas and methods. Immersion in the culture of the school through its programme of lectures, seminars and exhibitions is encouraged. Visits are also organised to important examples of architecture and planning in London, a city that offers a rich historical and contemporary record and is a laboratory of urbanism and architecture.

The programme is open to a small group of participants who are currently teaching architecture or related subjects, and will run for three weeks in the summer term.

Proposal
Applicants will be selected on the basis of a short written proposal (about 2000 words) which outlines the issues of architectural education that they find particularly interesting and challenging. In addition they should submit a statement of their teaching and research experience, and a curriculum vitae.

Applications
The deadline for applications is 4 March. Material can be submitted in digital form, either as a Word document or a pdf. It can be submitted by email and a hard copy need not be sent by post.

Fees
There is no fee for this programme but participants are expected to pay a £50 Visiting Membership fee.

Read biographies of RIBA Validation Panel (pdf)

9.30 Coffee, tea and croissants – AA Restaurant (tutors and guests)
10.30 Juries
1.00 Lunch – AA Restaurant  (tutors and guests)
2.30 Juries
5.30 Summary discussion, Lecture Hall (tutors, guests and students)
6.30 AA Archive Exhibition opening and drinks

The Open Jury, curated this year by the Academic Head and staff and students from the History & Critical Thinking (HCT ) Masters Programme, is a one-day event to see some of the best work currently in progress from across the AA. Presentations will be given from all parts of the school – from Foundation to the Graduate School – giving the opportunity to openly discuss work from a range of units and programmes.

The eight sessions, each consisting of four or five presentations, have been grouped and loosely themed, placing the emphasis on table discussions in small groups with related topics, sites and methodologies. Each session will be moderated by a student from the HCT programme. While a few guests are invited from outside the school, the primary intention of the day is internal debate, focusing on the different design agendas and approaches through the presentation of selected student work. This school-only event will enable students and tutors to wander from room to room to see work in progress in different units and programmes in an intensive, productive day of discussion.

The sessions will be followed by a summary discussion in the Lecture Hall. A brief ‘post-mortem’ description of each session will be made after the event, together with examples of work seen on the day.
 

Juries 10.30–1.30
Lecture Hall, Interdisciplinary Narratives
Intermediate Unit 5 – Beyond Entropy (Northern Italy); Unit staff: Stefano Rabolli Pansera, Roz Barr
AAIS; Unit staff: Theo Lorenz & Tanja Siems
Intermediate Unit 2 – Crafted Narratives (London, South Kensington); Unit staff: Takero Shimazaki, Ana Araujo
Diploma Unit 11 – A City Stripped Bare (London, Hackney and Dalston); Unit staff: Shin Egashira

Rear Presentation, Contemporary Cities
Housing & Urbanism – Inner Periphery of London; Programme Directors: Jorge Fiori, Hugo Hinsley
Intermediate Unit 13 – Formless (London); Unit staff: Miraj Ahmed, Martin Jameson
Diploma Unit 5 – (R)epublic: Third Natures – Carnal and Mundane Assemblies; Unit staff: Cristina Diaz Moreno, Efren Garcia Grinda, Tyen Masten
Projective Cities – A Contemporary City; Programme Directors: Christopher Lee, Sam Jacoby

North Jury Room, Systems of Design Method
Intermediate Unit 9 – Bullish (Barcelona); Unit staff: Christopher Pierce, Christopher Matthews
DRL; Programme Director: Theodore Spyropoulos
Intermediate Unit 4 – Envelop(e): Locus (Paris); Unit staff: Nathalie Rozencwajg, Michel da Costa Gonçalves
Diploma Unit 16 – Adaptive Ecologies 3 – Composite RE-Formulation; Unit staff: Jonas Lundberg, Andrew Yau, Tom Tong

South Jury Room, Projective Futures
Diploma Unit 17 – Latent Territories: Airside Global Metropolis; Unit staff: Theo Sarantoglou Lalis, Dora Sweijd
Diploma Unit 6 – Never Never Lands: Prospecting to Dreamtime (Australian ‘Never-Never’); Unit staff: Liam Young, Kate Davies
Landscape Urbanism – Prototypical Urbanities (China); Programme Director: Eva Castro
Diploma Unit 9 – iContext; Unit staff: Natasha Sandmeier

Juries 2.30–5.30
Lecture Hall, The Vernacular and Corporate America
Intermediate Unit 1 – The Lost Highway (Mississippi River); Unit staff: Mark Campbell, Stewart Dodd
Diploma Unit 8 – Corporate Domain, Corporate Complex, Compositional Frameworks; Unit staff: Eugene Han
Intermediate Unit 3 – Burning Wastelands (Silicon Valley); Unit staff: Nannette Jackowski, Ricardo de Ostos
Intermediate Unit 12 – Deep Copy; Unit staff: Sam Jacob, Tomas Klassnik
Foundation; Saskia Lewis, Takako Hasegawa, Matthew Butcher, Flora McLean

Rear Presentation, Space and Politics
Diploma Unit 10 – Direct Urbanism: Engagement or Control? (London, Crossrail); Unit staff: Carlos Villanueva Brandt
Intermediate Unit 8 – Politics of Fabrication II (Little Havana, Miami); Unit staff: Francisco Gonzales de Canales, Nuria Alvares Lombardero
Diploma Unit 4 – Polity and Space: The Coast of Europe; Unit staff: John Palmesino, Ann-Sofi Rönnskog
Intermediate Unit 7 – Eastern Promises: Shopping Transfers (Moscow); Unit staff: Maria Fedorchenko, Tania van Preussen
Diploma Unit 14 – Volker Bradke: Architecture Between the Generic and Common (Rome); Unit staff: Pier Vittorio Aureli, Barbara Campbell-Lange, Fenella Collingridge

North Jury Room, Adaptation and Environmental Technologies
Diploma Unit 7 – Architecture and Earthquake Design (Haiti and L’Aquila); Unit staff: Simon Beames, Kenneth Fraser
SED – Sustainable Environmental Design; Programme Director: Simos Yannas
Diploma Unit 18 – Energy Attack Team: Architecture and the ‘Third Industrial Revolution’; Unit staff: Enric Ruiz Geli, Edouard Cabay, Nora Graw
Intermediate Unit 10 – The self-organising City: [Network Oasis] (Arabian Desert); Unit staff: Claudia Pasquero, Marco Poletto
Emtech – Emergent Technology; Programme Directors: Michael Weinstock, George Jeronimidis

South Jury Room, Craft, Fabrication and Technology
Diploma Unit 19/ Design + Make - Big Shed (Hooke Park); Unit staff: Martin Self, Piers Taylor, Kate Darby
Intermediate Unit 6 – In-fill/ Out-fits: Prototypes for Urban Dwelling (Hong Kong); Unit staff: Jeroen van Ameijde, Oliver Ottevaere
Diploma Unit 3 – Completing Beauvais Cathedral; Unit staff: Peter Karl Becher, Matthew Barnett Howland Diploma Unit 13 – The Principles of New Ornament; Unit staff: Oliver Domeisen
First Year; Valentin Bontjes van Beek, Tobias Klein, David Green, Samantha Hardingham, Sarah Entwhistle, Ingrid Schröder

Monday 28 March, The Dreamers (dir. Bernardo Bertolucci, 2003), 115 mins

AA Cinema is at 37 Bedford Square.

 

First film series in Spring Term will be curated by Pascal Schöning,  ‘Films where you remember the lead-in music for ever’ …

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Trustees of the Michael Ventris Memorial Fund will make four extraordinary awards of up to £2000 each to architects or postgraduate students of not less than RIBA, Part 1 status, or candidates of a comparable level of achievement. The award is open to applicants from all countries.

The Michael Ventris Memorial Fund was founded in 1957 in appreciation of his contribution to the fields of Mycenaean civilisation and architecture. Michael Ventris, an ex-AA student, architect and classical scholar was responsible for deciphering, together with John Chadwick, Linear B, a syllabic script that was used for writing Mycenean Greek, an early form of Greek. It is intended that the Fund support a specific and identifiable project that reflects his fascination with classical architecture and its culture. In addition to this award, it is important to note that a parallel award is being administered by the ICS for Mycenean studies.

Applications must be written in English and should be submitted to the Academic Head of the Architectural Association School of Architecture, 34–36 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3ES from 21 February to 11 March. Applicants should give particulars of their qualifications and academic record as well as outline of intended research, including projected costs. Applications should not exceed six single-sided pages (A4). They may be submitted either as hard copy or by email to academic@aaschool.ac.uk (pdf files are preferred). Applicants must also supply the names and addresses of two referees and, at the same time, ask the referees to write independently in support of their applications. Award money will be made available in September. For further information, please contact academic@aaschool.ac.uk

Recommendations for the awards will be made to the Trustees by an advisory committee appointed by the Architectural Association, comprising the Director of the School, Academic Head, a selection of two to three academic staff and the Trustees of the Fund.

Successful candidates will be required to submit a written report to the Committee on the work that the Award has enabled him/her to complete. S/he may be invited to make a public presentation of the results at the AA.

The Jury has been changed from Friday 28 to Monday 31 January. It will take place between 2.00 and 6.00 in 16 Basement Morewell Street.

During the first weeks of the Winter Term, the Undergraduate School, from Foundation to Diploma, will be having their end-of-term Juries. This is an opportunity to see some of the work happening across the School. We encourage everyone to come and take part.

Intermediate Unit 1    
Friday 14 January, 10.00 32 Second Floor Back
Intermediate Unit 2    
Tuesday 11 January, 10.00 Lecture Hall
Intermediate Unit 3    
Tuesday 18 January 32 Ground Front / Bookshop
Intermediate Unit 4    
Wednesday 12 January, 10.00 South Jury Room
Intermediate Unit 5    
Friday 14 January, 10.00 33 Ground Floor Back
Intermediate Unit 6    
Friday 28 January, 10.00 38 First Floor Front
Intermediate Unit 7    
Thursday 13 January, 10.00 33 First Floor Front
Intermediate Unit 8    
Friday 14 January, 10.00 16 Basement Morwell Street
Intermediate Unit 10    
Friday 21 January, 10.00 32 Ground Front/ Bookshop
Diploma Unit 5    
Thursday 13 January, 10.00 Rear Ground Presentation Room
Diploma Unit 6    
Friday 14 January, 10.00 32 Ground Front/Bookshop
Diploma Unit 9    
Friday 14 January, 10.00 32 Ground Back/Bookshop
Diploma Unit 10    
Thursday 13 January, 10.00 Unit Space (36 / 3rd Floor)
Diploma Unit 16    
Wednesday 12 January, 9.00 to 6.00 32 Second Floor Back
Diploma Unit 17    
Thursday 13 January, 10.00 to 6.00 32 Ground Floor Front
 

Winter Term HTS and TS courses will start in Week 2 (17 to 21 January) as per the listing below. Venues will be confirmed in the relevant Events List. Attendance is compulsory at all Complementary Courses.

First Year HTS
Tuesday 18 January, 10.00

Second Year HTS
Thursday 20 January, 10.00

Second Year TS Option Course
Thursday 20 January, 2.00
Materials at 2.00 and Environmental Design in Practice at 3.30.
See registration list posted outside Belinda’s office.

Third Year HTS
Thursday 20 January, 10.00

Deadline: Wednesday 1 December, 5.00.
Students must submit to the MS office Top Floor, 33 Bedford Square.