Through the eyes of Diploma Unit 10, the London +10 exhibition concentrates on London over the last 20 years and speculates on the relationship between the live realm of the city and its urban fabric. The exhibition includes 40 speculative projects that tackle topics such as politics, crime, sex and terrorism, overlays them on the reality of London and highlights ten key portfolios from 1989 to 2009. The AA’s Diploma Unit 10 has experimented with diverse ways of engaging with the city since the early 1970s when it was set up by Bernard Tschumi. In the last ten years, led by Carlos Villanueva Brandt, the unit has focused this engagement on London and developed the concept of direct urbanism.

The accompanying publication, London +10 edited by Carlos Villanueva Brandt, includes essays from Rowan Moore and Will Self. The book addresses London through ten specific themes that form part of the everyday experience of the city.

The exhibition is open to Friday 26 March. Opening times: Monday to Friday 10.00 to 7.00, Saturday 10.00 to 3.00.

Can architecture facilitate new forms of communication? Can design enable? Can we construct models of interaction as forms of conversations? Using design as a mode of enquiry, the projects by experimental architecture and design studio Minimaforms explore these questions with the aim of opening up discussion.

Founded in 2002 by brothers Stephen and Theodore Spyropoulos, Minimaforms explores ideas of social and material interaction. The exhibition shows recent work including a pavilion developed with Stelarc; and a contemporary redesign of Archigram member David Greene’s seminal Living Pod Project.

In addition, the exhibition showcases Memory Cloud, Minimaforms’ critically acclaimed light installation in London’s Trafalgar Square, a light environment that transformed Trafalgar Square over three nights in October 2008. Based on one of the oldest forms of visual communication – smoke signals – Memory Cloud invited the public to participate by sending text messages that were grafted on to plumes of smoke. The (War Veteran) Vehicle, a collaboration with Krzysztof Wodiczko, is a mobile environment that becomes a communication vehicle, projecting the testimonies of the veterans who engage with it. The vehicle creates a public space of conversation as its shielded envelope ‘opens up’ to stimulate engagement between the veteran and the immediate public. 

The accompanying publication, Enabling: The Work of Minimaforms is published by AA Publications.

The exhibition is open to Friday 19 March. Opening times: Monday to Friday 10.00 to 7.00, Saturday 10.00 to 3.00.

www.minimaforms.com

Exactitudes is inspired by the energy and diversity of streetlife in different cities across the world. Working together since 1994, Versluis and Uyttenbroek systematically document the dress codes of different social and cultural groups, inviting strangers off the streets to be photographed in their studio. Each 'Exactitude' comprises a group of 12 individual images. Portrayed in an identical frame and in the same pose, the initial uniformity and striking similarities between people is heightened. Presenting almost a scientific anthropological record, the subject's individuality resists and ultimately undermines stereotypes; reflecting a desire to both fit-in and stand-out from the crowd.

Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek graduated from art school in Rotterdam respectively in 1986 and 1992, and have worked together since 1994 on Exactitudes. They worked in cities including Casablanca, Beijing, Rio de Janeiro, Bordeaux, New York, London and Paris. Their work has been published widely, including in Le Monde Magazine, Wound, la Repubblica, Zoo, BPM, The Independent Magazine, The Guardian, ID, L'Uomo Vogue, New York Magazine etc.

Exactitudes is currently on display as an outside exhibition on The Embassy of the Netherlands in Berlin. The real artworks can be seen at the Deutsches Hygiene Museum in Dresden in Germany from 27 March.

The fourth edition of the book will be published in June (010 publishers, Rotterdam).

An exhibition-related lecture by Ari Versluis will take place on 10 March.

In 2009 Atelier One turned 20 and to mark the occasion the practice has produced a book which highlights the people and work of the practice. Liquid Threshold documents the inspiring diversity of Atelier One's work charting projects undertaken with artists, architects and designers, including Marc Quinn, Anish Kapoor, Will Alsop, Mark Fisher and Ron Arad. Featured projects include Rachel Whiteread's Turner Prize winning House, Singapore Arts Centre and Gardens By the Bay, which when completed will be the largest conservatories in the world.

The book includes appreciations of the work from an external perspective, including a previously unpublished photo essay by Magnum photographer Peter Marlow. Taken over the course of 16 years, it is this photo essay that the Liquid Threshold exhibition presents especially curated for the AA.

Liquid Threshold: 20 Years of Structural Engineering is available at the AA Bookshop for £34.00.

With special thanks to Peter Marlow and Magnum

An exhibition-related Lecture will take place on Wednesday 3 March, 6.00.