A review of Phyllis Lambert’s lecture last year on her book Building Seagram where she discussed commissioning the Seagram building and working with influential architects like Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson.
AA Head Librarian Eleanor Gawne reviews the 17th International Confederation of Architectural Museums conference that she attended on behalf of the AA and its relevance to the development and management of AA Collections.
Etien Santiago, a PhD candidate at Harvard describes his experience at The Building symposium that took place at the AA at the beginning of June as the first in a series of transatlantic conversations.
A symposium organised by AA PhD candidate Gabriela Garcia de Cortazar and José Aragüez, a PhD candidate at Princeton, as the first in a series of events organised on either side of the Atlantic Ocean
This year’s event honoured Paul Finch, Peter Wynne Rees, Phyllis Lambert, Christina Smith, Stuart Lipton, Michael Sorkin, Kenneth Frampton and Paul Oliver.
HTS Course Tutor Zaynab Dena Ziari describes this year’s writing prize winners, whose texts demanded as much of their audience as they did of their authors.
Co-founders of this new lecture series and its associated format, Gonzalo Herrero Delicado and Fru*Fru explain their collaboration and how through these bed-based chats they aim to create a new virtual space for conversation.
AA graduate Kasang Kajang writes about the collaborative nature of the practice she works for in Barcelona, Cloud 9, headed by AA Diploma Master Enric Ruiz-Geli.
Vere van Gool and Mary Wang, founders of MISS, describe their recent event, Ellen’s Perfect Night In, where Ellen van Loon, partner at OMA, transformed the AA Lecture Hall into her studio and invited us to share in her experiences.
San Rocco’s Giovanni Piovene and Pier Paolo Tamburelli reflect on their Book of Copies exhibition that was staged at both the 13th Architecture Biennale in Venice as well as at the AA last term.
Artist and HTS tutor Alison Moffett describes a series of work within her current exhibition, “A Room with a View” on show now at Schleicher Lange Galerie in Berlin
5th year Manon Mollard explains the playful work of Diploma 11 during first term – the construction of toys that allow us to better understand and engage with the city.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
AA DLab 2013 director Elif Erdine and tutor Alexandros Kallegias describe the 1:1 interactive and kinetic prototype, Light Forest, that was the output of their visiting school and will soon be installed in the Back Members’ Room.
The third and final instalment of the symposium series, “On the verge of criticism,” looks at the relationship between architects and mass media, content and format as well as criticism and its audiences.
