Autumn Events List Week 4 17–22.10.2011
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Lectures and Events Open to all AA Students TS Diploma Course: Process in the Making Thursday 20 October, 10.00 38 First Floor Front Organised by Wolfgang Frese Guest speaker David Bennett is a consultant specialising in the design, specification and workmanship of site-cast (ready-mixed) concrete for projects ranging from private dwellings to multi-storey buildings. David also has a keen interest in materials and innovative ‘cements’ that have been developed to compete with and replace plastic, aluminium and even low-grade steel. Evening Lecture Global Conversations Thursday 20 October, 6.00 Lecture Hall Global Conversations will traverse the globe in 60 minutes, starting in Chernobyl and ending in Chile, showing a slice of the past, present and forthcoming AA Visiting Schools. From Tokyo to Paris, from the AA’s home-based Summer School and dLab to the Hooke Park programmes, we’ll glimpse the extraordinary work, events and discussions that have been happening. Whether you want to see a cosmology of work from 2011 or what’s going to happen in 2012 why not take 60 minutes to immerse yourself in the Visiting Schools that make up our world view. Alan Colquhoun and his Writings: A Celebration Friday 21 October, 2.00–6.30 Lecture Hall To celebrate his 90th year and his overwhelming contribution to architectural history, the AA is hosting a special event dedicated to Alan Colquhoun. Educated at Edinburgh College of Art and the AA, Colquhoun worked in practice with John Miller in addition to over 50 years of teaching at the AA in the 1950s and 60s, the then Polytechnic of Central London in the mid 1970s and from 1978 at Princeton University. Colquhoun will be the guest of honour, and invited speakers include Mary McLeod, Françoise Fromonot, Kenneth Frampton, Bob Maxwell, Jacques Gubler and Stanislaus von Moos. AIA UK Charrette: Theme ’11 Saturday 22 October, 9.00 Lecture Hall Charrette ’11 challenges students to explore how architectural form can create both expressive and rich interior spaces that heighten an understanding of the overall concept or idea. This annual event is a lively opportunity for students to ‘limber up’ early in the academic year, as well as for recent
graduates to revisit the experience of the one-day design exercise. Participants design collaboratively, mentored by a practising architect or interior architect and are encouraged to work in teams ‘representing’ their School or practice; individuals are married-up with a team on the day. Submissions are discussed in the afternoon and prizes awarded to the three most compelling schemes. The Chairman of the Jury this year is Paul Finch OBE. £10 fee includes lunch, refreshments and reprographic services. For further details and registration, please contact Fiona Mckay at chapterexecutive@aiauk.org AA First Year and the Bloomsbury Festival: The Ideas Market Saturday 22/Sunday 23 October, Bedford Gardens Located in Bedford Square as part of the Bloomsbury Festival, the AA will host a series of ‘market stall’ installations in Bedford Square, dedicated to exploring critical conversations related to the area on the subject of art, architecture and medicine from the latter half of the 20th century to present time. A series of formal and informal talks within the AA will offer another opportunity to explore the world of Bloomsbury.
Forthcoming Events AA Archives Opening Party 2 November, 5.00–7.00 Members and students are invited to celebrate the reopening of the AA Archives in its new home in 32 Bedford Square. Saturday Members’ Morning: Gallery Talks God & Co: François Dallegret Beyond the Bubble AA Gallery, 5 November 11.00 Alessandra Ponte (University of Montreal), Laurent Stalder (ETH, Zurich) and Thomas Weaver (AA) will hold an informal conversation and exhibition tour alongside François Dallegret himself. All welcome. See Exhibitions Members’ Building Visit: One New Change, London EC4 Friday 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
Exhibitions 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 some recent projects from the large-scale to the intimate. Double or Nothing from AA Publications, is available at £25. Visions of the Future Diploma Honours Students AA Bar Diploma Honours is the highest award the AA can bestow on a student, recognising excellence and talent. The exhibition enables visitors to explore work across issues as diverse as the legacy of gold mining within Aboriginal homelands, solutions to Haiti’s cholera epidemic and managing Europe’s population. AA Prizewinners Front Members’ Room AA student work is the school’s greatest asset. In recognition of this excellence, the AA awards prizes and distinctions at all levels, celebrating achievement in work ranging from outstanding writing to technical projects. Tracer Fire Joel Newman Back Members’ Room Tracer Fire explores the juxtaposition of the beauty and violence of ballistic weapons and the highly wrought nature of their machinery. An installation piece projected on to the surfaces of a room, the experience is one of being caught in crossfire or at a fireworks display. Joel Newman has shown work at the ICA and Whitechapel Art Gallery. He has taught video at the AA since 1998.
Notices Digital Prototyping Lab Laser Cutter Induction Lecture Tuesday 18, Friday 21 October, Rear Second Presentation Space 1.00 All students who have not had the Laser Training session and who wish to use DPL’s laser cutting facility this year MUST attend one of the induction sessions.
AA Film Club Pascal Schöning’s Choice: ‘films, where you remember the lead music forever’ The Third Man Wednesday 19 October, 6.00 AA Cinema Library Notices Early Closing: Friday 21 October The library will close at 4.00 for preparations for an event in the library. New Guides on Library Website Three new guides are up on the library website: Using the library catalogue, Finding journal articles + journals and Advance searching techniques. Library Tutorials, Autumn Term Please sign up in advance for tutorials on Wednesdays at 10.30, at the issue desk or email library@aaschool.ac.uk For a library tutorial related to the work of your unit or course, please contact Hinda Sklar at hsklar@aaschool.ac.uk Graduate Plagiarism Lecture Fleur Rothschild Friday 21 October, 9.30 Second Floor Rear Presentation Room All new Graduate students must attend this course, which is open to all Graduate School students. The course aims to help students to recognise what is expected when they are asked to produce an extended written analysis in a UK academic context. Dr Fleur Rothschild helps to devise strategies for developing coherent discussions by adopting a structured, progressive approach to writing. The course considers the importance of incorporating evidence and alternative points of view, and of acknowledging these through efficient use of bibliography and referencing systems. Students will be enabled to improve their performance steadily in producing expository analyses (over 6 sessions). AA Bookshop October Selection Order the AA Bookshop’s selection of new titles online at aabookshop.net AA Members receive up to 50 per cent discount on selected special offers, join at aaschool.ac.uk/membership/join/ subscriptions.php The Architects’ Mass Friday 11 November, 6.00 This year, the 25th anniversary of the event, the architects’ mass will be celebrated at St Patrick’s in Soho Square, recently renovated by Javier Castañon’s practice (see AJ, 20 October). The Mass will be said by Fr Peter Newby (AA and Cambridge, and son of Frank Newby.) All AA staff and students welcome. RSVP: 020 7247 8390 or email architects.mass@blueyonder.co.uk
Diary Monday 17 October 10.00 TS Diploma Course Studies in Advanced Structural Design Emanuele Marfisi 37 First Floor Front (37 FFF) 11.30 HTS Diploma Course The Independent Group New forms for a ‘new attitude’: Parallel of Life and Art (Session extended to 2.00) Victoria Walsh 37 FFF 11.30 Housing & Urbanism Hugo Hinsley and Nick Bullock Shaping the Modern City H&U Studio 2.00 Housing & Urbanism Cities in a Transnational World Jorge Fiori H&U Studio 2.00 AA Interprofessional Studio 33 First Floor Front (33 FFF) 4.00 Sustainable Environmental Design SED) Research seminar: Critical Readings Paula Cadima 36 Rear Second Presentation (36 SFB) 5.00 HTS Diploma Course Design Infrastructures Managing Complexity and Transience Maria Fedorchenko 37 FFF
Tuesday 18 October 10.00 HTS First Year Canonical Comparisons: Chartres Cathedral/Centre Georges Pompidou Chris Pierce, Brett Steele with Mollie Claypool, Emma Jones, Alison Moffett and Zaynab Dena Ziari 36 SFB Please note that seminars take place also in North and South Jury Rooms 10.00 TS Diploma Course Energy Performance of Buildings Mohsen Zikri 37 FFF 10.30 History & Critical Thinking Narratives of Modernity Marina Lathouri 32 First Floor Front (32 FFF) 11.30 HTS Diploma Course The History of Homecoming Odysseus and the Delays of his Return to Ithaca Mark Cousins 37 FFF 11.30 SED Environmental Design Primer: Environmental comfort Nick Baker 32 First Floor Back (32 FFB) 1.00 DPL Laser Cutter Induction Lecture 36 SFB See Notices
1.00 Media Studies First Year Life Drawing: Trevor Flynn 33 Ground Floor Back (33 GFB) 1.00 A&U (DRL) Design as Research Rob Stuart Smith Lecture Hall 2.00 Media Studies First Year Peripheral Landscapes: Sue Barr North Jury Room (NJR) Translation Object to Drawing: Shin Egashira 33 First Floor Back (33 FFB) Life Moments: Elif Erdine 32 Second Floor Back (32 SFB) Information Design: Heather Lyons 39 First Floor Front (39 FFF) Materiality of Colour: Antoni Malinowski First Year Studio Video Joel Newman South Jury Room (SJR) 2.00 TS Diploma Course Form and Matter: Composite Materials and Responsive Materials Christina Doumpioti 37 FFF 2.00 History & Critical Thinking Architecture, Aesthetics, History Mark Cousins 32 FFF 2.00 SED Myths & Theories of Sustainable Architecture: Taming the Cold Simos Yannas 32 FFB 2.00 Projective Cities 38 First Floor Back (38 FFB) 3.30 HTS Diploma Course Ornament – Barbaric Splendour or Architectural Sophistication? 19th Century (1) Oliver Domeisen 37 FFF 4.00 SED Refurbishing the City: Transitional spaces Paula Cadima 32 FFB
Wednesday 19 October 10.00 HTS Diploma Course Architecture and the Construction of Subjectivity Spaces for Seclusion Pier Vittorio Aureli 37 FFF 10.00 Projective Cities 38 FFB 10.30 SED Climate and Comfort Studies Gustavo Brunelli, Rosa Schiano-Phan 36 SFB 11.30 HTS Diploma Course Domestic Ruination This is Not My Beautiful Wife Mark Campbell 37 FFF
2.00 HTS Diploma Course The Theory 750 Paul Davies 37 FFF 2.00 SED Modelling and Simulation Workshop Gustavo Brunelli, Rosa Schiano-Phan, Juliane Wolf, Herman Calleja 36 SFB 2.00 Landscape Urbanism Critical Territories Douglas Spencer 32 FFB 2.00 Media Studies Intermediate: The Shapes of Fiction Charles Arsene-Henry NJR Active Matter I Shany Barath 33 GFB Replica Structures Valentin Bontjes Van Beek 33 FFB Customised Computation Eugene Han 33 TFR Drawing in the Nation’s Cupboards Anderson Inge 38 SFB The Invisible Visible Max Kahlen 32 FFF Painting Architecture Alex Kaiser 38 FFF Bone-Paper-Scissors Klein 32 SFB Scan It + Track It Immanuel Koh 33 FFF The Unseen I Schwendinger SJR 3.30 Housing & Urbanism The Reason of Urbanism Larry Barth H&U Studio 3.30 TS Diploma Course Technology Transfers or Technomimetics Biomimetics John Noel 37 FFF 5.00 TS Diploma Course Environmental Modelling and Simulation Solar and Wind Studies Simos Yannas 36 SFB 5.00 Professional Practice The Architect’s Office as a Business Javier Castañon 38 FFF 5.00 Future Practice Fifth Year Hugo Hinsley Lecture Hall – note change of venue 5.30 SED Lessons from Practice: Estudio ARKIZ, São Paulo 36 SFB
Thursday 20 October 9.30 Emtech Masterclass series Mike Weinstock and guests 33 FFF 10.00 HTS Second Year The Architect Mark Cousins with Ryan Dillon, Ross Adams, Daniel Ayat, Roberta Marcaccio 32 FFB Please note that seminars take place also in 32 SFB, 32 FFF and 33 FFB
10.00 HTS Third Year Architectural Coupling (+) Mies vs Venturi Mollie Claypool and Ryan Dillon with Ivonne Santoyo Orozco, Shumi Bose, Orit Goldstein-Mayer, Emanouil Stavrakakis 36 SFB Please note that seminars take place also in 38 FFB and SFB
10.00 Building Conservation/Year 1 Development of Secular Building Legislation Helen Ensor 11.50 Planning Law and Conservation Areas Helen Ensor 2.00 The Medieval Church with reference to the way it was used Richard Halsey 33 FFF
10.00 TS Diploma Course Process in the Making, Wolfgang Frese Guest speaker, David Bennett Open to all students 38 FFF
10.00 Building Conservation/Year 2 Cantilever Staircases Sam Price 11.50 The New Profession of Architect Charles Hind 2.00 Country Houses of Ireland John Redmill 33 FFB
10.00 Design & Make Martin Self SJR 10.00 Projective Cities Sam Jacoby, Chris Lee 33 GFB 2.00 HTS Diploma Course Outside Space and Inner Space Reasoning and Repetition Francesca Hughes 37 FFF
11.00 A&U (DRL) Synthesis Mollie Claypool & Ryan Dillion 36 SFB 11.00 Emtech Emergence Seminar Mike Weinstock 33 FFF
2.00 TS First Year Examplars/Case Study: Being a beam Ben Godber, David Illingworth 33 FFF
1.00 DPL Laser Cutter Induction Lecture 36 SFB See Notices
2.00 TS Second Year Structures: Funicular structures Phil Cooper, Anderson Inge 36 SFB
2.00 Landscape Urbanism Machining Landscapes Tom Smith 32 FFB
2.00 Histories and Critical Theories Architecture Knowledge and Writing Marina Lathouri, Mario Carpo, Thomas Weaver 38 FFB
2.00 Symposium: Alan Colquhoun Lecture Hall See Lectures
3.30 TS Third Year Structures Shells, Plates, Tents Phil Cooper, Anderson Inge 36 SFB
2.00 AAIS 36 SFB
2.00 TS Diploma Course Small in Large: Parametric use of components Martin Hagemann 37 FFF 3.30 HTS Diploma Course Polity and Space: Self-organisation John Palmesino 37 FFF
3.30 TS Diploma Course Environmental Engineering of Tall Buildings: Design strategy 2 – Envelope Ian Duncombe 37 FFF 3.30 Housing & Urbanism Critical Urbanism Larry Barth H&U Studio 6.00 Evening Lecture Global Conversations Lecture Hall See Lectures
Friday 21 October 9.30 Graduate Plagiarism Lecture Fleur Rothschild All new Graduate Students must attend 36 SFB See Notices 10.00 HTS Diploma Course Architectural Doppelgangers … Copies Creating Originals or Preservation and the Problem of Authenticity Ines Weizman 37 FFF
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