THE HIDDEN DRAWINGS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM

AA 3rd year Ali El-hashimi (Intermediate Unit 10) tells us more about his process of selecting drawings in preparation for a workshop he ran with The Bridget Riley Foundation and The British Museum.

AA ISTANBUL VISITING SCHOOL 2015: CELLULAR INTERVENTIONS

Programme Director of the AA Visiting School in Istanbul Elif Erdine describes their 2015 agenda that resulted in a 1:1 architectural installation on the entrance facade of Bilgi University’s Architecture Department.

AA ATHENS VISITING SCHOOL 2015: SYMMETRY SENTIENCE

Alexandros Kallegias, Director of the AA Athens Visiting School, explains the research and projects carried out by students under their new agenda, Symmetry Sentience, in collaboration with the AKTO Art & Design College.

CRYPTO-ARCHITECTURE

AA second year Sofia-Pia Belenky of Intermediate 14 reflects on the unit’s trip to India where they investigated their site of Varanasi and its neighbouring lands. 

DIGITAL CRAFTSMANSHIP, THE AA_AARHUS VISITING SCHOOL (originally published in AArchitecture 27)

Eléonore Audi (Dip6) and Moad Musbahi (Inter1) reflect on their experience attending the new AA Visiting School that took place in the Aarhus School of Architecture during August of 2015.

OF DREAMS AND SPACES – STORIES FROM TAKÉO, CAMBODIA

AA 4th Year James Mak, founder and chairperson of Project Little Dream, describes the experiences that led him to write his book Of Dreams and Spaces – Stories from Takéo, Cambodia.

AA XX 100: WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE 1975-2015

Helen Castle, Editor of AD, tells us about the recent collaboration with AA XX 100 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of AD’s Women in Architecture issue in 1975.

AA XX 100: MoMoWo CONFERENCE

Dr Elizabeth Darling, Dr Lynne Walker, and Yasmin Shariff review the recent MoMoWo conference (the first of three) with AA XX 100 that explores ‘women designers, craftswomen, architects and engineers between 1918 and 1945’.

AA XX 100 WIKIPEDIA EDIT-A-THON: WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE

AA Librarian Eleanor Gawne reviews the recent Wikipedia Edit-a-thon that was hosted by AA XX 100 to raise the wikipedia profiles of AA women in architecture.

A VISIT TO OSTRAVA

Head of AA Exhibitions Vanessa Norwood describes her trip to Ostrava in the Czech Republic over the summer and discovers the new cultural uses for which the city’s industrial heritage is being transformed.

HUT ON STILTS

AA graduate Nozomi Nakabayashi(MArch 2012) describes the now-completed Hut on Stilts and the often arduous process through which it was constructed.

HTS WRITING PRIZES 2015: The essay as a design project

HTS Course Tutor Sylvie Taher describes this year’s winners of the History and Theory Writing Prizes across the Undergraduate School, and the growing trend to treat writing as another form of the architectural project.

HOUSING LONDON: Quantity vs. Quality & Urban vs. Suburban

In this review of the 2nd and 3rd Housing London lectures, AA graduates Lionel Eid, AADipl2013 and Vere van Gool, AADipl(Hons)2014 continue the conversation from the debates they participated in via text message.

HOUSING YOUNG LONDON: Quantified Quality

Antonis Papamichael, AADipl2014 reviews the debate Housing Young London: Are we facing an exodus? which he participated in as part of the Housing London Lecture Series and questions the role of the architect in providing solutions to the ongoing Housing crisis through the lens of his Diploma project Alcoves.

OMMX: Reflecting an Equilibrium

Paul Linton Cowie, Oxford University Philosophy tutor and diehard fan of OMMX was commissioned to write this review after he wondered on social media “just which is the better suffix to ‘OM’: ‘A’ or ‘MX’? All will be revealed in this candid tell-all expose.“

CIPHER CITY: REVOLUTIONS

Visiting School Director Alexandros Kallegias discusses the 2014 edition of the Athens/ Istanbul research agenda and the interactive prototype they constructed – Kinetic Haze.

MAKING WITH MADELON: Craft Sunday on a Monday

AA 4th year Hélène Solvay describes the feast of creation and creatures initiated by Madelon Vriesendorp as part of her workshop over Open Week in Term 2.

THE STEEL COLUMN

AA 2nd year Ali El-hashimi reviews Intermediate 13’s unit trip to Brno in the Czech Republic as an ode to the columns at Mies van der Rohe’s Tugendhat Villa

FEDERALLY PROTECTED

AA 3rd year Joshua Harskamp describes one incident during Inter 1’s unit trip to Texas over Open Week that involved a run-in with the police.

THE RIGHT TO THINK

AA First Year Moad Musbahi reviews Elia Zenghelis’ workshop during Open Week on The Public Interior

UNIVERSAL ASSEMBLY UNIT: A Space Animation Studio

AA 3rd year Emily Hayden reviews UniversalAssemblyUnit’s lecture, as part of the What’s Next series, questioning how architects can construct worlds rather than buildings.

WHITE: AA SUMMER DLAB 2014

AA Summer DLAB directors Elif Erdine and Alexandros Kallegias discuss the output of their Visiting School in 2014: White, a concrete cast structure that blends into the forest of Hooke Park by day and glows via solar-charged pebbles by night.

JULIA KING & ASIF KHAN IN CONVERSATION

Clementine Blakemore reviews the Julia King & Asif Khan lecture that opened the Public Programme series this term as a conversation on their joint graduation project and subsequent divergent forms of practice.

THE ARCHITECTURE OF DAVID LYNCH

Timothy Ivison reviews the recent launch of Richard Martin’s book “The Architecture of David Lynch” and the subsequent AAActions session with Martin about the topic of Architecture and its Image.

A CLOCKWORK JERUSALEM

Lionel Eid, AA Dipl2013 reviews Sam Jacob’s lecture on the British Pavilion at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale as an unfolding of dual narratives.