When I deliver the lecture I don’t need notes, but I’m relying on a text that’s in my head. Perhaps the reason I do not use a word processor is that, in a sense, I am one.

– Mark Cousins, Head of History and Theory Studies at the AA
in conversation with History and Critical Thinking MA Student
Gili Merin

Amazon Visiting School Director Nacho Marti uses the principles of the Japanese Judo master Kyuzo Mifune to describe this year’s agenda that focuses on adaptable floating architecture in Mamori Lake.

HTS WRITING PRIZES 2017: What is excellence in writing?

HTS Tutor and organiser of the 2017 Writing Prizes Silvana Taher questions what defines excellence in writing – is it “a thorough survey of the past, a personal self study, a true and genuine understanding of our current standing in the world?” No, she says, it is simply the students.

JAMES MAK
Phantom Surface: A Night in Tokyo

AA HONOURS 2017: RORY SHERLOCK, DIPLOMA 14Breaking the Bottleneck Appropriation of the Internet in the Nile Delta  

AA HONOURS 2017: JOSHUA PENK, DIPLOMA 11

Confluence A strategy for the archaeological excavations and development of Convoys wharf

AA HONOURS 2017: JISOO HWANG, DIPLOMA 10Shared Roof

AA HONOURS 2017: JONATHAN CHENG, DIPLOMA 17"Where Is The Center?"

AA HONOURS 2017: NATHAN SU, DIPLOMA 9

Through Leviathan’s Eyes

We can describe the relationship between words and images as follows. The word is a determinative force. It is determining what the image is about. The image itself is resisting this determination and trying to escape it.

– Wim Nijenhuis, author of ‘The Riddle of the Real City’

SYMMETRY SENTIENCE :: ZnO: The Athens AA Visiting School 2016

Athens AA Visiting School Director Alexandros Kallegias describes the FIBROUS family of architectural prototypes developed in their 2016 experimental research that they intend to continue into 2017’s agenda

Kais Al-Rawi, Director of the Jordan AA Visiting School, describes this year’s exploration that will transport participants from the Wadi-Rum desert to otherworldly Martian landscapes.

WEAVE.X: AA SUMMER DLAB 2016

AA Summer DLAB directors Elif Erdine and Alexandros Kallegias give an intricate review of the pioneering research of AA Summer DLAB, whose prototype ‘Weave.X’  has pushed technological boundaries.

TS3 HIGH PASS COMMENDATION 2017by Erik Hoffmann, AA 3rd Year Intermediate Unit 3

TS3 HIGH PASS WITH DISTINCTION 2017by Ignatio Putra, AA 3rd Year Intermediate Unit 9

TS5 HIGH PASS COMMENDATION 2017by Ludovica Cirillo, AA 5th Year Diploma Unit 15

TS5 HIGH PASS WITH DISTINCTION 2017by Jisoo Hwang, AA 5th Year Diploma Unit 10

Editors of DUE, and AA Third Years, Sofia Pia Belenky and Tobias Hentzer Dausgaard divulge the exciting inner workings of their AA publication, explaining its importance in remaining vocal and in the ‘now’.

UNKNOWN FIELDS: THE DARK SIDE OF THE CITY

A review of the powerful Term 1 lecture by Unknown Fields Division founders Kate Davies and Liam Young which explored their vast global investigations into ‘The Dark Side of the City’.

THE (DIS)ENCHANTED SUBJECT OF ARCHITECTURE: BETWEEN NEOLIBERALISM AND NEOBAROQUE

History & Critical Thinking MA student Lennart Wolff reviews the Term 1 symposium in which a group of theorists discussed the possibility of a critical architecture, and going beyond, to critique the very notions of critique itself.

As the design was for an international sports event that brings together countries from around the world, I wanted to express the concepts of “diversity” and “connection.” I combined different shapes that, at first glance, didn’t appear to be connected.

– Asao Tokolo, artist and winner of the 2020 Tokyo Games logo design

A BREATHING CYBORG!

Following on from the article where a group of four First-Year students described the invention of a new drawing machine – the Coligopulmogram – here, History and Critical Thinking MA student Chris Doray continues this conversation, reviewing the device as a breathing cyborg.

FAKE NEWSby AA 3rd Years Sofia Pia Belenky and Tobias Hentzer Dausgaard, Editors of DUE

COLIGOPULMOGRAM (CPG)by Quentin Martin, James Lysaght, Tamara Rasoul, and Caspar Schols, AA First Year students

ONCE UPON A TIME…IN THE AGE OF METABOLISM

MA History & Critical Thinking student Chris Doray details the Term 1 Art & Architecture lecture at the AA by Pierre-Jean Giloux on Machinami, Japanese Urban Landscapes, which contemplated the notion of superimposing history and ruins.