
What happens between a strong portfolio and a practice that can actually survive? How do you go from one good commission to a body of work that people trust? Who helps you hold your nerve in an uncertain economy?
The AA Architecture Incubator: Professional Masterclass Series is a new programme of high-impact, small-cohort sessions designed to support:
Focused on rebuilding belief and trust in the profession, the series equips practitioners to navigate today’s unstable conditions with clarity, creativity and strategic intelligence. Each masterclass is intimate, direct and inspiring, held in a cosy Georgian room at the AA, bringing together leading voices across architecture, design, development and commissioning.
The arc of the series will take place over five masterclasses that map the development of a practice from first steps to major commissions:
Across this arc, two themes recur:
We welcome expressions of interest from AA graduates and from the wider international community. The full programme of speakers will be announced gradually through early 2026.
Marko Milovanovic is an architect, filmmaker and curator. He is the founder of Mylomark Production and Publishing and of the educational conversational platform Free School Of, through which he develops films, editions and public forums that treat conversation as a fundamental form of knowledge and a shared architectural medium. A graduate of the AA, Marko has contributed to award-winning projects, including the Stirling Prize-nominated 100 Liverpool Street with Hopkins Architects. Since 2008 he has written extensively on politics, culture, art and urban regeneration, curated AA Dialogues at the AA with interviews featuring figures such as Wolfgang Tillmans and Es Devlin, and was awarded the architecture fellowship at the British School at Rome in 2014. He has served as a trustee and Honorary Officer on the AA School’s Board of Directors. Marko is the 2024 recipient of the Royal Academy of Arts Architecture Fellowship for his project Temptation of Influence, shown at the RA in 2025 and accompanied by a feature-length documentary. Marko teaches film in relation to architecture at the AA with Fearghus Raftery, and their unit’s work can be seen here. For more material visit here.
Skills of each of the five masterclasses are listed in the accordion pull down sections above.
The programme welcomes participants aged 18 or above, whether you’re interested in architecture, art, design, filmmaking, curating or publishing, a PhD candidate or young professional.
We welcome early expressions of interest to attend one or more masterclasses in the series. If you register your interest before general applications open in February 2026 using the Priority / Early Registration 50% Scholarship link, you will be eligible for up to a 50% scholarship for each masterclass you indicate interest in, subject to acceptance and availability.
Early Registration:
General Applications Opening in February 2026:
Note: For paired sessions in July (Masterclasses 1 and 2) and September (Masterclasses 4 and 5), if you book both masterclasses when general applications open in February, and do so before the scholarship deadlines set in the individual programmes, you will receive a 50% scholarship for the second programme.
Fees do not include accommodation or travel.