Evening Lecture Freek Persyn Double or Nothing Tuesday 4 October, 6.00 Lecture Hall As part of the exhibition, this lecture will focus on five topics which highlight aspects of the work of 51N4E. This will be done using elements on show at the AA, intertwined with in depth explanations of some recent projects and more general reflections on the ambition of 51N4E. Freek Persyn established the practice of 51N4E, together with Peter Swinnen and Johan Anrys, and combined his partnership with freelance work for Xaveer de Geyter Architects until 2003, one year before 51N4E was awarded the Rotterdam Maaskant Award for Young Architects. In parallel with his practice work, he has been assistant professor at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Ghent, visiting critic and studio master at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam and, currently, visiting professor at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, Switzerland. He lectures and serves as a jury member in various institutes both in Belgium and abroad. Conference X-Change / Independents’ Group Thursday 6 October, 10.00 Lecture Hall This is the inaugural meeting of the Independents’ Group to launch a research platform for interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration between five leading independent architecture schools, advanced manufacturing partners, and technical, cultural and media organisations to undertake project-based research. Resulting collective work will be disseminated to a wide audience through exhibitions and publications. The one-day event will address current divisions between academia and practice; between design culture and industry; and within sectors of the building industry. Presentations from academic and industrial pioneers will examine how developments in communications and manufacturing technologies offer academic and professional opportunities for overcoming these divisions. Schedule 10.00 Conference opening, Brett Steele and Alan Dempsey Academic Partners 10.10 Alan Dempsey 10.30 CCA, Ila Berman 10.50 HKU, Jonathan Soloman and Tom Verebes 11.10 CAFA, Yufang Zhou 11.30 RMIT, Jane Bury 11.50 break
Industry Consultants 12.00 Buro Happold, Wolf Mangelsdorf 12.20 Arup, David Glover and Ed Clarke 12.40 1:One, Benjamin Koren 1.00 Design to Production, Fabian Scheuer 1.20 Lunch Industry Partners 2.20 Frener + Riefer, Michael Riefer 2.40 Rieder Concrete, Wolfgang Rieder 3.00 Laing O’Rourke / Explore Precast, Anna Winstanley 3.20 Zahner Metals, Bill Zahner and Gary Davies 3.40–5.00 Roundtable discussion Nicholas Pozner Prize Thursday 6 October, 6.30 Front Members’ Room The Nicholas Pozner Prize for Single Best Drawing is awarded annually in memory of Nick Pozner. The prize is a tribute to the talent and promise he showed in the AA Diploma School, reflected in the precision and beauty of his drawings. At the end of each academic year, drawings are nominated from across the Undergraduate School and a final shortlist selection made by jury. The award seeks not only to identify some of the best graphic work produced at the AA each year but also to inspire future years at the School as we continue to explore new techniques and modes of representation in relation to design work. The recipient of the 2011 award will be announced at this event.
Exhibitions are open to Wednesday 26 October, Monday to Friday 10.00–7.00, Saturday 10.00–5.00 Double or Nothing 51N4E AA Gallery Double or Nothing presents the architectural and spatial projects of Brussels-based 51N4E. Curated by French architectural critic Dominique Boudet, the show re-examines a selection of recent projects from the large-scale Skanderberg Square, the most important public space in Tirana, larger than Red Square in Moscow and twice the size of St Peter’s Square in Rome, to the intimacy of Arteconomy, an extension of high steel walls encompassing a Belgian farmhouse and featuring a 3 x 3-metre day bed composed of knitted woollen tubes. Double or Nothing aims to challenge the visitor to look beyond architecture’s surface conventions and their representation. The accompanying publication Double or Nothing (AA Publications, £25), is available to purchase.
Visions of the Future AA School Honours Students Front Members’ Room Four AA School students graduating this year join luminaries such as Peter Ahrends and Sir Nicholas Grimshaw in receiving full Honours for their studies at the AA School. This accolade is the highest award the School can bestow on a student, recognising prestigious excellence and talent. The exhibition enables visitors to explore the Honours work across issues as diverse as the legacy of gold mining within Aboriginal homelands, solutions to Haiti’s cholera epidemic, floating desert city tourist destinations and managing Europe’s population. Tracer Fire Joel Newman Back Members’ Room Inspired by the phosphorescent trail of tracer bullets in the night sky Tracer Fire explores the juxtaposition between the beauty and violence of ballistic weapons – their mesmerising, burning trail belying their destructiveness upon impact, and the highly wrought nature of their machinery at odds with the havoc they wreak. An installation piece projected simultaneously on to the surfaces of a darkened room, the experience is one of being caught in crossfire or at a fireworks display. The immersive work also exploits the concept of persistence of vision, as our eyes fill up with afterimages, adding another dimension to the piece. Joel Newman’s previous work has been shown at the ICA and Whitechapel Art Gallery. He has taught video at the AA School since 1998.
Saturday Members’ Morning: Gallery Talks God & Co: François Dallegret Beyond the Bubble AA Gallery, 5 November 11.00 Tom Weaver introduces François Dallegret Building Visit: One New Change, London EC4 Tuesday 18 November, 1.45 Free event; please RSVP by emailing events@aaschool.ac.uk For full details see www.aaschool.ac.uk/ membership/benefits/events.php
AA Council Meeting Monday 3 October, 6.30 32 Bedford Square First Floor Back Please note this is the rescheduled date for the meeting originally planned for Monday 26 September. This ordinary general meeting will include the Director’s Report, addressing academic plans, preliminary enrolment numbers, demographic spread and the academic and cultural programme for the year; plus updates on Membership and, from the Building Committee, a masterplan update. AA Council Meeting Schedule for 2011/12 Monday 7 November Monday 12 December Monday 23 January Monday 5 March Monday 14 May Digital Prototyping Lab Laser Cutter Induction Lecture Tuesday 4, Friday 7, Tuesday 11, Friday 14, Tuesday 18, Friday 21 October, Rear Second Presentation Space, 1.00 The Digital Prototyping Lab will be giving Laser Cutting Induction Lectures in weeks 2, 3 and 4. All students (new and returning) who have not had the Laser Training session and who wish to use Digital Prototyping Lab’s laser cutting facility this year MUST attend one of the induction sessions. Complementary Studies All Autumn Term Complementary Studies Courses this week (please refer to the timetable at the front of the Complementary Studies Course Booklet), available from the Co-ordinator’s Office, Second Floor, 36 Bedford Square. Library Notices New Library Guides on Library Website As well as the Library Guide and Shelf Locations Plan three new library guides are up on the library website: Using the library catalogue Finding journal articles + journals Advance searching techniques We hope these guides will make it easier to use the library catalogue, and to find journal articles and journals using these searching techniques. Library Tutorials, Autumn Term The library is offering library tutorials on Wednesdays at 10.30 starting this week on Wednesday 5 October. If you would like to come to one, please sign up in advance at the issue desk or email library@aaschool.ac.uk If you would like your unit or course to have a special library tutorial related to the work of your unit or course, please contact Hinda Sklar at
hsklar@aaschool.ac.uk We can also give individual tutorials at any time. Early Closing: Tuesday 11 October The library will close at 4.00 for preparations for a dinner in the library. Friday 21 October The library will close at 4.00 for preparations for an event in the library.
10.00 TS Diploma Course Studies in Advanced Structural Design Brief History of Structural Design Emanuele Marfisi 37 First Floor Front 10.30 Sustainable Environmental Design (SED) London 2020 Team Presentations 36 Rear Second Presentation 11.30 Housing & Urbanism Shaping the Modern City Hugo Hinsley and Nick Bullock H&U Studio 11.30 HTS Diploma Course The Independent Group – tracing parallels in visual and urban culture The Artist as Anthropologist: surrealism, sociology and the street Victoria Walsh 37 First Floor Front 2.00 Housing & Urbanism Cities in a Transnational World Jorge Fiori H&U Studio 2.00 HTS Diploma Course Design Infrastructures Return of Infrastructures and Systems Maria Fedorchenko 37 First Floor Front 4.00 SED Introduction to Autumn Term Events Programme staff 36 Rear Second Presentation 6.30 AA Council Meeting 32 Bedford Square, FFF
10.00 TS Diploma Course Form Energy and Environment Comfort: Fact or Fiction? Mohsen Zikri 37 First Floor Front 10.30 History & Critical Thinking Architecture, Aesthetics, History Mark Cousins 38 First Floor Back 11.30 HTS Diploma Course The History of Homecoming The Home/house and its Role in Architecture Mark Cousins 37 First Floor Front 1.00 HTS Diploma Course Architecture and the Construction of Subjectivity Labour and the Question of Subjectivity Pier Vittorio Aureli Studio 2 (Please note: all other sessions take place on Wednesdays at 10.00) 1.00 Laser-cutting Induction Digital Prototyping Lab 2.00 History & Critical Thinking Narratives of Modernity Marina Lathouri 38 First Floor Back 2.00 SED Myths & Theories of Sustainable Architecture: Sustainable What? Simos Yannas 32 First Floor Back 2.00 TS Diploma Course Form and Matter Materials in Design Christina Doumpioti 37 First Floor Front 3.30 HTS Diploma Course Ornament – Barbaric Splendour or Architectural Sophistication? Oliver Domeisen 37 First Floor Front 4.00 SED Refurbishing the City: Cities in Evolution Jorge Rodriguez 32 First Floor Back 6.00 Exhibition-related Lecture Double or Nothing Freek Persyn Lecture Hall
10.00 HTS First Year Canonical Comparisons Parthenon/Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin Chris Pierce, Brett Steele with Mollie Claypool, Emma Jones, Alison Moffett and Zaynab Dena Ziari 36 Rear Second Presentation Space (Please note: seminars also take place in North and South Jury Rooms)
10.00 Projective Cities 38 First Floor Back
10.30 SED Introduction to Autumn Term Project and London Walks 36 Second Floor Rear Presentation 10.30 Library Tutorial Library 11.30 HTS Diploma Course Domestic Ruination: Do you feel lucky? Mark Campbell 37 First Floor Front 2.00 HTS Diploma Course The Theory 750 Paul Davies 37 First Floor Front 2.00 Landscape Urbanism Critical Territories Douglas Spencer 32 Second Floor Front 3.30 Housing & Urbanism The Reason of Urbanism Larry Barth H&U Studio 3.30 TS Diploma Course Technology Transfers or Technomimetics Technologies in Context: an historical overview John Noel 37 First Floor Front 5.00 TS Diploma Course Environmental Modelling and Simulation Tasks and Tools Simos Yannas 36 Rear Second Presentation Space 5.00 Professional Practice Third Year The Road Map Javier Castañon 38 First Floor Front 5.00 Future Practice Fifth Year Hugo Hinsley 32 Second Floor Back
10.00 Conference X-Change / Independents’ Group Lecture Hall 10.00 Design & Make Martin Self 33 Ground Floor Back 10.00 HTS Second Year Architectures – their pasts and their cultures Mark Cousins with Ryan Dillon, Ross Adams, Daniel Ayat and Roberta Marcaccio 32 Second Floor Back (Please note: seminars also take place in 32 First Floor Front and Back and 33 First Floor Back)
10.00 HTS Third Year Architectural Coupling (+) Ecole des Beaux Arts vs Bauhaus Mollie Claypool and Ryan Dillon with Shumi Bose, Orit Goldstein-Mayer and Emmanouil Stavrakakis Rear Second Presentation Space (Please note: seminars also take place in 38 First Floor Back/Second Floor Back) 10.00 TS Diploma Course Process in the Making Players in the match Wolfgang Frese 38 First Floor Front 2.00 History & Critical Thinking Architecture Knowledge and Writing Marina Lathouri, Mario Carpo and Thomas Weaver 38 First Floor Back 2.00 Sustainable Environmental Design Phase I & II Tutorials Programme staff SED Studios 2.00 HTS Diploma Course Outside Space and Inner Space The Art of Memory (and Retrieval) Francesca Hughes 37 First Floor Front 2.00 TS First Year Examplars / Case Study Getting to Know You! Ben Godber and David Illingworth 33 First Floor Front 2.00 TS Second Year Structures Loading Friction and Stability in Building Structures Phil Cooper and Anderson Inge Rear Second Presentation
6.30 Nicholas Pozner Prize 2011 Front Members’ Room
10.00 Building Conservation/Year 1 Geology and Building Stone Eric Robinson 2.00 The Archaeology of Standing Structures and Buildings Brian Dix 33 First Floor Back 10.00 Building Conservation/Year 2 Repair Contracts Dan Golberg 11.50 Specification Writing Dan Golberg 2.00 Specification Exercise Visit Dan Golberg 33 First Floor Front 10.00 HTS Diploma Course Architectural Doppelgangers, Fakes and Déjà vue(s) In Praise of Copying – Theories of Fake Ines Weizman 37 First Floor Front 1.00 Laser-cutting Induction Digital Prototyping Lab 2.00 TS Diploma Course Small in Large Component-based architecture Martin Hagemann 37 First Floor Front 2.00 AAIS 36 Second Floor Rear Presentation Room
3.30 Housing & Urbanism Larry Barth Critical Urbanism H&U Studio 3.30 TS Third Year Structures Have I got the right model? Phil Cooper and Anderson Inge Rear Second Presentation 3.30 TS Diploma Course Environmental Engineering of Tall Buildings: The Importance of Environmental Performance Ian Duncombe 37 First Floor Front 5.00 HTS Diploma Course Polity and Space Observing Transformations John Palmesino 37 First Floor Front (Session 1 only – all other sessions on Fridays at 3.30)
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