Diploma Unit Introductions Lecture Hall 9.15 Introduction 9.30 Diploma 16 10.00 Diploma 17 10.30 Diploma 9 11.00 Diploma 1 11.30 Diploma 14 12.00 Diploma 4 12.30 Diploma 3 1.00 Lunch 2.00 Diploma 8 2.30 Diploma 10 3.00 Diploma 5 3.30 Diploma 2 4.00 Diploma 18 4.30 Diploma 11 5.00 Diploma 6 6.00 Informal meeting for Diploma staff and students, AA Dining Room
Intermediate Unit Introductions Lecture Hall 9.45 Introduction 10.00 Inter 12 10.30 Inter 3 11.00 Inter 13 11.30 Inter 10 12.00 Inter 9 12.30 Inter 4 2.00 Inter 7 2.30 Inter 1 3.00 Inter 8 3.30 Inter 6 4.00 Inter 5 4.30 Inter 2 6.00 Informal meeting for Intermediate staff and students, AA Dining Room
Complementary Studies Course Introductions/Registration 10.00 History and Theory Studies Fourth/Fifth Year 11.30 Technical Studies Diploma Fourth/ Fifth Year 12.30 Media Studies First Year 1.00 Future Practice Fifth Year 1.30 Media Studies Lab Courses (all years) 2.00 Technical Studies Second/Third Year 3.00 History and Theory Studies Second/Third Year 4.00 Media Studies Second Year Lecture Hall 10.00 Building Conservation/Year 1 Visit to RIBA Library 11.50 Historical Development Ice to Fire Alan Greening 2.00 Recording a Building Alan Greening 4.00 Materials and Materials Essay Alan Greening 33 First Floor Back 10.00 Building Conservation/Year 2 Repair Contracts Dan Golberg 11.50 Specification Writing and Visit Dan Golberg 33 First Floor Front 10.30 Sustainable Environmental Design Design Charrette: London 2020 36 Rear Second Presentation 2.00 Complementary Studies Online Registration for HTS Fourth/ Fifth Year and TS Fourth Year 6.30 Exhibition private views
12.30 Graduate School Introductions Graduates must attend their Programme presentations Lecture Hall
10.30 Sustainable Environmental Design New student presentations 36 Rear Second Presentation
11.00 Saturday Members’ Morning: Gallery Talks AA Gallery
Private views: Friday 30 September, 6.30; exhibitions are then open from Saturday 1 to Wednesday 26 October, Monday to Friday 10.00–7.00, Saturday 11.00–3.00 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 colourful 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, designed and published by the AA, will be 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. A year in the making, the video uses motion graphics, with each frame of the animation hand-drawn on a tablet using a digital pen. Each minute of the 20-minute film equates to around 1,500 individual frames, with the whole requiring around 30,000 hand-drawn images. 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. Forthcoming Exhibitions: God & Co: François Dallegret Beyond the Bubble Archizines, curated by Elias Redstone Both 5 November to 14 December Photographs by Rubens Azevedo AA Photo Library, 37 Bedford Square Friday 4 November, open Monday to Friday 10.00–1.00, 2.00–6.00
Saturday Members’ Morning: Gallery Talks AA Gallery, 1 October 11.00 51N4E curator Dominique Boudet will lead an informal talk about the exhibition, with 51N4E partners Peter Swinnen and Freek Persyn. Building Visit: One New Change 18 November, meet at 1.45, One New Change, London EC4M 9AF Situated to the east of St Paul’s cathedral, One New Change is a new mixed-use retail and office development in the City of London. Sidell Gibson are executive architects, working closely with French architect Jean Nouvel on his first major scheme built in the capital. The tour will be led by SGA Partner Sanya Tomic. Nicknamed the ‘Stealth building’ after Nouvel revealed that the design was influenced by the form of a Stealth Bomber, the scheme is fast taking shape on site as its distinctive multi-coloured glass cladding is hoisted into place. Built using the top-down construction method One New Change features a large-scale geothermal heating and cooling system, flexible floor plates allowing for modern office technology and demonstrating pioneering fritting technique. Free event; please RSVP to confirm attendance by emailing events@aaschool.ac.uk
Term Dates for 2011/12 Autumn term Monday 26 September to Friday 16 December (12 weeks). The AA will close from Saturday 17 December to Monday 2 January. Winter term Monday 9 January to Friday 23 March (11 weeks). The AA will close from Saturday 31 March to Monday 15 April. Spring term Monday 23 April to Friday 22 June (9 weeks). Term 4 for Graduate School MA/MSc students for research/preparation/ submission of Dissertation: Monday 25 June to Friday 21 September (13 weeks) Departmental Moves The following departments have moved recently to new locations in Bedford Square. AA Bookshop: now at 32 Bedford Square, ground floor front AA Archives: now at 32 Bedford Square, basement Materials Shop: now at 16 Morwell Street Information about any further removals will be posted at aaschool.ac.uk Diploma Unit Introductions Monday 26 September, Lecture Hall Introduction Brett Steele 9.15 Diploma 1 Tobias Klein, 11.00 Diploma 2 Didier Faustino and Kostas Grigoriadis, 3.30 Diploma 3 Peter Karl Becher and Matthew Barnett Howland, 12.30 Diploma 4 John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, 12.00 Diploma 5 Cristina Díaz Moreno, Efrén Garcia and Tyen Masten, 3.00 Diploma 6 Liam Young and Kate Davies, 5.00 Diploma 8 Eugene Han, 2.00 Diploma 9 Natasha Sandmeier, 10.30 Diploma 10 Carlos Villanueva Brandt, 2.30 Diploma 11 Shin Egashira, 4.30 Diploma 14 Pier Vittorio Aureli and Maria Giudici, 11.30 Diploma 16 Jonas Lundberg and Andrew Yau, 9.30 Diploma 17 Theo Sarantoglou Lalis and Dora Sweijd, 10.00
Diploma 18 Enric Ruiz Geli, Edouard Cabay and Juliane Wolf, 4.00 Informal meeting For Diploma staff and students in the AA Restaurant, 6.00 Intermediate Unit Introductions Tuesday 27 September, Lecture Hall Introduction Brett Steele, 9.45 Inter 1 Mark Campbell and Stewart Dodd, 2.30 Inter 2 Takero Shimazaki and Ana Araujo, 4.30 Inter 3 Nannette Jackowski and Ricardo de Ostos, 10.30 Inter 4 Nathalie Rozencwajg and Michel da Costa Goncalves, 12.30 Inter 5 David Greene and Samantha Hardingham 4.00 Inter 6 Jeroen van Ameijde and Brendon Carlin, 3.30 Inter 7 Maria Fedorchenko and Tatiana von Preussen, 2.00 Inter 8 Francisco de Canales and Nuria Alvarez Lombardero 3.00 Inter 9 Christopher Pierce and Christopher Matthews, 12.00 Inter 10 Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto, 11.30 Inter 12 Sam Jacob and Tomas Klassnik, 10.00 Inter 13 Miraj Ahmed and Martin Jameson, 11.00 Informal meeting For Intermediate staff and students in the AA Restaurant, 6.00 Graduate School Introductions Wednesday 28 September, Lecture Hall All graduate students must attend their programme presentations. It is also worth attending all the presentations to learn about the other programmes. 12.30 AAIS 1.00 PhD Programme 1.30 Projective Cities 2.00 Design & Make 2.30 Sustainable Environmental Design 3.00 History & Critical Thinking 3.30 Housing & Urbanism 4.00 Landscape Urbanism 4.30 Architecture & Urbanism (DRL) 5.00 Emtech 5.30 Drinks in the AA Restaurant for Graduate School students and staff
Complementary Studies Course Booklet The Course Booklet will be available on Wednesday 28 September (outside the Co-ordinator’s Office, Second Floor 36 Bedford) Course Introductions/Registration Friday 30 September, Lecture Hall Media Studies First Year, 12.30 Media Studies Lab Courses (all years), 1.30 Media Studies Second Year, 4.00 History and Theory Studies Second/ Third Year, 3.00 History and Theory Studies Fourth/ Fifth Year, 10.00 Technical Studies Second/ Third Year, 2.00 Technical Studies Diploma Fourth/ Fifth Year, 11.30 Future Practice Fifth Year, 1.00 Online Registration for HTS Fourth/ Fifth Year and TS Fourth Year will take place at 2.00 on this day. Registration is compulsory. Course Registration Lists will be confirmed on Monday 3 October at 9.30 (posted outside the Co-ordinator’s Office. All Autumn term Complementary Studies Courses will commence in the week beginning Monday 3 October (please refer to the timetable at the front of the Complementary Studies Course Booklet). 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 will be offering library tutorials on Wednesdays at 10.30 starting in week 2 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.
AA Council Meeting Monday 3 October, 6.30 Please note this is the rescheduled date for the meeting originally planned for Monday 26 September. This is an ordinary general meeting and 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
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