CLIENT STYLE: PIERRE D’AVOINE & COLETTE SHEDDICK LECTURE AT THE AA

Katerina Zacharopoulou, an MA History & Critical Thinking student, describes the lecture by architects Pierre D’Avoine and Colette Sheddick in which the pair question the idea of authorship in architecture from the client’s perspective.

HISTORY AND CRITICAL THINKING: FIELD TRIP TO PARIS

MA History & Critical Thinking student Gili Merin walks us through the vast explorations their group undertook across Paris, discovering the many villas and maisons designed by Le Corbusier.

Universities today can no longer operate as autonomous entities in the city. They need to question the established norms, critically evaluate their role in society, and propose new modes of learning as well as new collaborations between academia and the city.

– Xristina Argyros and Ryan Neiheiser, Intermediate Unit 15

Our unit envisages a building as the expression of specific and temporal needs, and thus as a pretext for amplifying uses and giving more. We are interested in unstable spaces- spaces for social encounters- these event fields that make a building remarkable, flexible, and ‘intemporal’.

– Salwa and Selma Mikou, Intermediate Unit 16

COUPLE FORMAT: The Identity Between Love and Work

AA Conversations publishes an excerpt from Shumon Basar’s review of his FORMAT lecture series from Summer 2016 for the online journal e-flux architecture.

CURRENT PREOCCUPATIONS: ROTOR lectures at the AA

MA History & Critical Thinking student Carolina Bettarello reviews the recent lecture by Rotor, a collective whose recent expansion to include a deconstruction unit explores the possibilities of material reuse within architecture.

FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD- Intermediate 9 Unit Trip

Third year student Jake Parkin takes us through the many food explorations he encountered on his unit trip to Oslo and Lyngør,  Norway, with Intermediate 9.

We believe that architecture ultimately exists in our minds as an experience, therefore we are interested in developing methods where a designed experience informs the architecture and not the other way around.

– Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg, Intermediate Unit 1

TANÉ KINCH

NOTES ON THE AA EXPERIENCE: Unit Interview Day

After being awarded the 2016 KPF Travelling Fellowship, AA Fifth years Anthony Shung You Ko, Jonathan Cheng, Lorenzo Luzzi, and Zipu Zhu ventured along the Yangtze River to discover its present day role in China.

THESSALONIKI: FOLDED FORCE: REVELATIONS: The 2015 Greece AA Visiting School

AA Greece Visiting School Director Alexandros Kallegias describes the 2015 programme in Thessaloniki and their installation ‘Eos’, ahead of this year’s school in Chania.

AA Part I Year Out student Matteo Agnoletto questions how an object can be transformed to have a different function as he designs the Street Fighter Lounge Chair- a Ducati motorbike and lounge chair hybrid. 

THE (NEW) MONUMENT, PATCHWORKING ENTROPIES

Summer School 2016 – Unit 7
Taught by Alvaro Velasco Perez, AA PhD Candidate & Javier Anton

MEMORY DEVICES

Summer School 2016 – Unit 6
Taught by Onur Ozkaya, AA MSc 2007 (EmTech) and Vikrant Tike AA MA 2010 (AAIS)

2 SECONDS CITY

Summer School 2016 – Unit 5
Taught by Sabrina Morreale, AA Dipl2016 & Valerio Massaro, AA MPhil 2017 (Projective Cities)

LONDON (TEASING) TIME

Summer School 2016 – Unit 4
Taught by Ana Marti Baron & Clement Blanchet

FILMSCAPES

Summer School 2016 – Unit 3
Taught by Aphrodite Stathopoulou & Melanie Wavamunno

SUBLIME OASIS IN-TRANSIT

Summer School 2016 – Unit 2
Taught by Arantza Ozaeta Cortázar and Álvaro Martín Fidalgo

CLOCKWORK LONDON

Summer School 2016 – Unit 1
Taught by Antoine Vaxelaire, AA Dipl(Hons) 2013; Ariadna Barthe, AA Dipl2014; Frida Escobedo & Derek Dellekamp

IN WHICH ANNIE GIVES IT THOSE ONES

Last year, AA Member and architect Gaurav Sharma organised a Members screening of the rarely seen ‘In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones’, a film, set in New Delhi, about a group of architecture students in their final year of college.

THE CURURÚ TOAD & THE ADVENT OF ELECTRICITY – The 2015 Amazon Visiting School

AAVS Amazon Director Nacho Marti describes the strange relationship between the arrival of electricity in the rainforest and the Cururú Toad’s eating habits, encouraging applications for this year’s agenda: Digital Vernacular.

Head of AA Exhibitions and co-Director of the 2016 Albania AA Visiting School, Vanessa Norwood describes how the programme began as an invitation to advise on the renewal of four historic buildings in Tirana.

Riyad Joucka, Director of the Dubai AA Visiting School explains the brief for the programme this year, which will focus on new ways of engaging with the public within the site of the Expo 2020.

Nanotourism is a creative strategy through which we wish to change the perception and understanding of our contemporary world. We understand nanotourism beyond tourism: it is an attitude to improve specific everyday environments and a strategy to open up new local economies.

 – Aljoša Dekleva, Director of AAVS Slovenia

AA Part 1 Carlotta Conte together with Richard O’Hanlon and Peter Dew describe their Calais Kids Space – a project for the refugee and migrant camp known as the ‘Jungle’ – and encourage you to support their crowdfunding campaign which ends on Friday, 1 July.