SPOT THE DETAIL

Sue Barr, photographer and head of the AA Digital Photostudio, reveals the spaces that contained the series of close-up photographs that were the subject of the Spot the Detail competition at the AA’s Birthday Party earlier this year.

@AAConverse:

Happy Christmas -wishing everyone good conversations over the break! http://t.co/jZxnqLry4a

8:55 AM 26 Dec 13

@AAConverse:

Trance Tribal Christmas – Are You Ready??? http://t.co/C1uAT1jDtR

10:51 AM 20 Dec 13

@AAConverse:

Warming up for tonight http://t.co/KosbZaLfKp

10:50 AM 20 Dec 13

MARY MEDD 1907-2005: Researching a Life in Education and Architecture

Head Librarian Eleanor Gawne describes the recent Members event celebrating the life and work of Mary Medd through the different books, images and archival material in the AA Collections.

MUSEUM OF MISCLASSIFICATIONby Lara Michaela Daoud, AA 3rd Year Intermediate Unit 13

@AAConverse:

Dont forget – #AAChristmasParty – Trance Tribal Christmas – this Friday in the Lecture Hall from 8pm onwards http://t.co/UQAB8VzVkQ

12:08 PM 16 Dec 13

Hans Skotte often quotes the jazz song “T’aint What You Do (It’s The Way That You Do It)” to convey the importance to being aware of your actions, as much as your outcomes, when working in this type of practice. “Not What, But How” has become a motto that we feel captures our approach to design and building.

 – WORKSHOP Architecture

UNIT TRIP: LA LA LAND

Vidhya Pushpanathan and Eleanor Dodman explain the highlights of Diploma Unit 9’s trip to Los Angeles earlier this term

MARINA LATHOURI
On Voice

NINETY

In advance of the private view, photographic archivist Byron Blakeley gives us a preview of the new exhibition in the corridor of 37 Bedford Square of a selection of images from the AA Photo Library’s extensive collection.

@AAConverse:

“Bunk(bed)s are like storage for children” – Neave Brown on maximising space in small houses

6:55 PM 03 Dec 13

@AAConverse:

“In 1950 it was very daring to say you liked modern art; it was very very daring to say you liked modern architecture!” – Neave Brown

6:28 PM 03 Dec 13

@AAConverse:

Neave Brown in conversation with Mark Swenarton (another version of which will appear in the next AA Files) http://t.co/zyPevrcwDV

6:12 PM 03 Dec 13

HOUSE FOR A HOUSEby Oliver Pershav, AA 4th Year Diploma Unit 9

@AAConverse:

Elias in First Year designs an office for AA Conversations as part of their 5-week brief to reimagine the AA http://t.co/iKwULs3Au6

11:26 AM 26 Nov 13

@AAConverse:

Happy Birthday Priji! @AAVisiting http://t.co/ZAfjGxQH02

11:21 AM 26 Nov 13

Vere van Gool and Mary Wang decided to start MISS, a platform to celebrate femininity in design, after several conversations about what was not being said.

UNIT TRIP: Ottoman Phantoms

AA 3rd Year Stefan Jovanovic describes Inter 12’s journey to Istanbul and the individual research he carried out surrounding the disappearing culture of theatre and performance.

AA graduate John Naylor announces his new Visiting School in Haiti that aims to create open source research around bamboo as a building material

THE VISITING SCHOOL GLOBAL SUMMIT

Visiting School Coordinator Priji Balakrishnan writes about the Global Summit organised in October that brought under one roof the many directors of the AA’s expanding Global School for a two day conference.

VANESSA NORWOOD
Things I have learnt, things I am learning and some things I may never get. (Excerpt from the book The Architect's Guide to Effective Self-Presentation)

@AAVisiting:

Bangkok Visiting School — coming up! http://t.co/JKRfrsdGvU

7:28 AM 14 Nov 13

AA graduate Scrap Marshall (AADipl2012) describes the visiting school at the Bauman Family Tree Farm in Eugene, Oregon

UNIT TRIP: Take a walk on the wild side

AA 2nd year, Ema Hana Kačar takes us along on the Inter 9 Unit trip to the Arctic landscapes of Aalto – Finland.