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.

ARCHITECTURE & ECRITURE: The 2016 AA Paris Visiting SchoolCaroline Rabourdin introduces the work of Michel Butor and invites you to register for the AA PARIS Visiting School next month (1-10 July)

AA HONOURS 2016: MARIDIA KAFETZOPOULOU, DIPLOMA 9The Crack in the Wall

AA HONOURS 2016: CHRISTOPHER MARK JOHNSON, DIPLOMA 1Shadow of an Approaching City

AA HONOURS 2016: LORENZO PERRI, DIPLOMA 5Brewing Democracy - The Assembly of Le Balai Citoyen in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

AA HONOURS 2016: PANAGIOTIS DEMIRIS, DIPLOMA 14The Theatre and the Bay – A proposal for the Greek coast

Nicolas Cabargas Mori, Marco Corazza, and Tejas Sidnal, AAVS BioMorph Programme Directors, explain more about the intricate research and technologies that their 2016 workshop in Pune, India will explore.

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Kais Al-Rawi, architect, and programme director of the AA Visiting School in Jordan, reveals the approaches the workshop will take as they research in to the depths of marine ecologies in the Red Sea.

REPORTING FROM THE FRONT: THE AA AT THE 15TH VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE

Vanessa Norwood, Head of AA Exhibitions, takes us through the AA-related contributions to Alejandro Aravena’s 2016 Architecture Biennale, detailing the ideas and involvement behind the British and Slovenian Pavilions.

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HTS WRITING PRIZES 2016

AA History and Theory tutor Sylvie Taher tells us more about this year’s HTS and Dennis Sharp Writing Prize winners, and questions the architect’s desire to express themselves through writing.

TS5 HIGH PASS WITH DISTINCTION 2016By Lena Emanuelsen, AA 5th Year Diploma Unit 11

TS3 HIGH PASS WITH DISTINCTION 2016by Henry Si Yuan NGO, Intermediate Unit 9

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CHAINSAW CHOREOGRAPHIES: The 2016 Robotic Fabrications Visiting Schoolby Emmanuel Vercruysse & Zachary Mollica, AA Robotic Fabrications Visiting School

AA ZINESHOP: CALLING FOR SUBMISSIONSBy Sofia Pia Belenky, AA Second Year (Intermediate 14) and AA Bookshop assistant

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THE QAA STUDENT SUBMISSION 2016by AA 5th Year and QAA Student Submission Chair Sabrina Morreale and Projective Cities student Valerio Massaro

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Design + Make postgraduate student Eleni McKirahan opens up a conversation with the AA about the development of the Wakeford Hall Competition as works on the winning designs get underway.