Lecture hosted by Informal Cities Cluster and Housing & Urbanism Mukesh Metha Open to all AA students Wednesday 26 October, 6.30 Lecture Hall (tbc) Mukesh Metha is an architect and entrepreneur who has been working on rural development and slum rehabilitation projects including the prestigious Dharavi Redevelopment Project (Mumbai), one of Asia’s largest and most notorious slums. The discussion will focus on the Slum Free Cities initiative in India. Intermediate Unit 1 Lecture Series Jason Griffiths Bone Yard Foreclosure Open to all AA students Thursday 27 October, 1.00 32 Second Floor Back Jason Griffiths will discuss failures of suburban development in Phoenix, Arizona and beyond. Led by Mark Campbell and Stewart Dodd, Inter 1 has been preoccupied with desolate USA towns, cities and landscapes. This year the unit continues the theme, visiting failed housing projects in Phoenix and California’s ‘Miracle in the Desert’, the Salton Sea. See Lecture and Book Launch below Lecture and Book Launch Jason Griffiths Manifest Destiny: A Guide to the Essential Indifference of American Suburban Housing Thursday 27 October, 6.00 Lecture Hall Manifest Destiny is about the contradictory dream of manufactured suburban America. It presents a first-hand account of ordinary houses, first photographed in 2003 during a road trip across the US. The book – winner of a DAM award at the Frankfurt Book Fair – presents a compromised view of a bucolic world full of perfect homes. Despite this abject and at times empty picture Manifest Destiny suggests a place of tragic beauty and the enduring, strange allure of the Arcadian dream. Jason Griffiths is a partner in Gino Griffiths architects and works in the American southwest. His multidisciplinary approach to architecture includes working on competitions, buildings, furniture, writing and photography. He has won many international awards and has exhibited and published widely. Built work includes The Lowest House in the Mojave Desert, Siouxland Transit Bus Stops and Scottsdale Arts Camera Obscura. He has taught and lectured in Europe, the US and Mexico. See ginogriffiths.com
Thrilling Wonder Stories 3 Friday 28 October, 12.00 Created by Liam Young (AA Unknown Fields Division and Tomorrows Thoughts Today) and Geoff Manaugh (BLDGBLOG), in association with Studio-X NYC and Popular Science ‘We have always regaled ourselves with speculative stories of a day yet to come. In these polemic visions we furnish the fictional spaces of tomorrow with objects and ideas that also chronicle the contradictions, inconsistencies, flaws and frailties of the everyday. Slipping suggestively between the real and the imagined, these narratives offer a view from which to survey the consequences of various social, environmental and technological scenarios. Thrilling Wonder Stories chronicles such tales in a sci-fi storytelling jam with musical interludes, live demonstrations and illustrious speakers from the fields of science, art and technology presenting their visions of the near future. Join our ensemble of mad scientists, literary astronauts, design mystics, graphic cowboys, mavericks, visionaries and luminaries for an evening of wondrous possibilities and dark cautionary tales.’ See thrillingwonderstories.co.uk, twitter: @wonderstories #tws3, tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com
AA Archives Opening Party Wednesday 2 November, 5.00–7.00 Members and students are invited to celebrate the reopening of the Archives in its new home in 32 Bedford Square. Saturday Members’ Morning: Gallery Talks God & Co: François Dallegret Beyond the Bubble Gallery, Saturday 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. Members’ Building Visit: One New Change, London EC4 Friday 18 November, 1.45 Free event; please RSVP by emailing events@aaschool.ac.uk Venice Biennale Trip for Members Friday 25 to Sunday 27 November; cost £325 The last chance to visit the 54th International Art Exhibition – the trip comprises entry to Biennale sites, three roundtable events, accommodation at the Fondazione Cini on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore and an evening meal with the group. Speakers include: Bice
Curiger, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Germano Celant, Paolo Baratta, Diana Baldon, Giovanni Carmine and Okwi Enwezor. To book a place, please email events@aaschool.ac.uk V&A Postmodernism: style and subversion 1970–1990 Wednesday 23 November, 8.30–10.00 Private early-morning tour with Glenn Adamson, exhibition curator For full details of all membership events, see aaschool.ac.uk/ membership/benefits/events.php
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, curated by French architectural critic Dominique Boudet. presents the architectural and spatial projects of Brussels-based 51N4E. 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. Visitors can explore work across issues as diverse as the legacy of gold mining within Aboriginal homelands and managing Europe’s population. AA Prizewinners Front Members’ Room AA student work is the school’s greatest asset and the AA awards celebrate achievement in work ranging from outstanding writing to technical projects. Tracer Fire Joel Newman Back Members’ Room This installation piece explores the juxtaposition of the beauty and violence of ballistic weapons and the highly wrought nature of their machinery.
God & Co: François Dallegret Beyond the Bubble, curated by Alessandra Ponte, Laurent Stalder and Thomas Weaver Archizines, curated by Elias Redstone Private views: Friday 4 November Exhibitions are open Saturday 5 November to Wednesday 14 December Networks, curated by Francisco Gonzáles di Canales
Private view: Friday 18 November Exhibition open Saturday 19 November to Wednesday 14 December See next week’s Events List for full details or go to www.aaschool.ac.uk/exhibitions
British Summertime Ends Please remember to turn clocks back by one hour at 2.00am on Sunday 30 October. The clocks will go back to 1.00am as British Summer Time is over. Student Meetings with Brett Steele Intermediate and Diploma students Monday 24 October, 1.00 Rear Second Presentation Space Foundation and First Year students Tuesday 25 October, 1.00 Rear Second Presentation Space Graduate School students Wednesday 26 October, 1.00 Lecture Hall AA Film Club @ AA Cinema Wednesday 26 October, 6.00 Pascal Schöning’s Choice: ‘films, where you remember the lead music forever’ Once Upon a Time in the West 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 28 October, 9.30 Second Floor Rear Presentation Room The course is compulsory for all new Graduate students, and 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 use of bibliography and referencing systems. Advance Notice Open Week Complementary Studies Monday 31 October to Friday 4 November All HTS, TS, MS, PP/Third Year and FP/ Fifth Year courses are suspended in this week to allow for participation in Open Week activities, resuming in Week 7.
10.00 TS Diploma Course Studies in Advanced Structural Design Compression and tension structures Emanuele Marfisi 37 FFF 10.30 Sustainable Environmental Design (SED) Phase I Studio Programme Staff SED Studio 11.30 HTS Diploma Course The Independent Group Playtime: ‘This is Tomorrow’ (Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1956) Victoria Walsh 37 FFF 11.30 Housing & Urbanism Hugo Hinsley, Nick Bullock Shaping the Modern City H&U Studio 1.00 Brett Steele Student Meeting Intermediate/Diploma students 36 SFB 2.00 Housing & Urbanism Cities in a Transnational World Jorge Fiori H&U Studio 2.00 Spatial Performance & Design (AAIS) 33 FFF 2.00 HTS Diploma Course Design Infrastructures Formalising Interactivity and ProcessMaria Fedorchenko 37 FFF 4.00 SED Doing Research Simos Yannas 36 SFB 5.30 SED Sustainable Community Phillip Tabb 36 SFB
10.00 HTS First Year Canonical Comparisons: Florence Duomo / Monadnock Building Chicago Chris Pierce, Brett Steele with Mollie Claypool, Emma Jones, Alison Moffett and Zaynab Dena Ziari 36 SFB Seminars also take place in NJR and SJR 10.00 TS Diploma Course Energy Performance of Buildings Natural Energy Sources and Forces Mohsen Zikri 37 FFF 10.30 History & Critical Thinking Narratives of Modernity Marina Lathouri 33 FFF
11.30 HTS Diploma Course The History of Homecoming The Homecoming and the ‘Return’ as a Figure of Knowledge Mark Cousins 37 FFF 1.00 Brett Steele Student Meeting Foundation/First Year students 36 SFB 1.00 Media Studies First Year Life Drawing Trevor Flynn 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 NJR Translation Object to Drawing: Shin Egashira 33 FFB Life Moments: Elif Erdine 32 SFB Information Design: Heather Lyons 39 FFF Materiality of Colour: Antoni Malinowski First Year Studio Video Joel Newman SJR 2.00 TS Diploma Course Form and Matter Physical Material Computation 1 Christina Doumpioti 36 SFB – Note change of venue for this week only 2.00 SED Myths & Theories of Sustainable Architecture The Passive House Rosa Schiano-Phans 32 FFB 2.30 History & Critical Thinking Architecture, Aesthetics, History Mark Cousins 33 FFF 3.30 HTS Diploma Course Ornament 19th Century (2) Style as Formal Eclecticism or Historical Evolution? Oliver Domeisen 37 FFF
10.00 HTS Diploma Course Architecture and the Construction of Subjectivity: The rise of Perspectival Space and the invention of the Architectural project Pier Vittorio Aureli 37 FFF 10.00 Projective Cities Sam Jacoby and Chris Lee 38 FFB 10.30 SED Soft Computations Simos Yannas 36 SFB 11.30 HTS Diploma Course Domestic Ruination She’s Lost Control Mark Campbell 37 FFF
1.00 Brett Steele Student Meeting Graduate School students Lecture Hall 2.00 HTS Diploma Course The Theory 750 Paul Davies 37 FFF 2.00 Landscape Urbanism Critical Territories Douglas Spencer 32 FFB
Ross Adams, Daniel Ayat, Roberta Marcaccio 32 FFB Seminars also take place in 32 SFB, 32 FFF and 33 FFB 10.00 HTS Third Year Architectural Coupling (+) CIAM/Team 10 vs Alison and Peter Smithson Mollie Claypool and Ryan Dillon with Ivonne Santoyo Orozco, Shumi Bose, Orit Goldstein-Mayer, Emanouil Stavrakakis 36 SFB Seminars also take place also in 38 FFB and SFB
10.00 HTS Diploma Course Architectural Doppelgangers… Ownership of the image or the law of photography Ines Weizman 37 FFF 10.00 Building Conservation/Year 1 Northamptonshire, Church weekend Alan Greening
10.00 TS Diploma Course Process in the Making The Heavyweight Wolfgang Frese 38 FFF
10.00 Building Conservation/Year 2 Visit to Queen’s House, Greenwich Natasha Brown 2.00 Buildings and Engineering Works of the Royal Dockyards 1700–1900: Construction, conservation and reuse Jonathan Coad 33 FFB
1.00 Inter 1 Lecture Series: Jason Griffiths Open to all AA students 32 SFB
11.00 A&U (DRL) Synthesis Mollie Claypool, Ryan Dillion 36 SFB 12.00 Symposium: Thrilling Wonder Stories 3 Lecture Hall
3.30 Housing & Urbanism The Reason of Urbanism Larry Barth H&U Studio
2.00 HTS Diploma Course Outside Space and Inner Space Threshold: Sutherland’s Window and the ‘2 Mile Wide Piece of Paper’ Francesca Hughes 37 FFF
3.30 TS Diploma Course Technology Transfers or Technomimetics Processes 1: Production and Transformation John Noel 37 FFF
2.00 TS First Year Examplars/Case Study: Falling Over Ben Godber, David Illingworth 33 FFF
5.00 TS Diploma Course Environmental Modelling and Simulation Daylight Simulation Simos Yannas 33 FFF
2.00 TS Second Year Structures: Composite Structures Phil Cooper, Anderson Inge 36 SFB
5.00 Professional Practice The Architect and the Law (1) – Contract Law, Construction Law Javier Castañon 38 FFF
3.30 TS Third Year Structural Assessment by Back Analysis Phil Cooper, Anderson Inge 36 SFB
5.00 Future Practice Fifth Year Hugo Hinsley Lecture Hall – note change of venue
3.30 TS Diploma Course Environmental Engineering of Tall Buildings: Design strategy 3 – Servicing and Sustainability Ian Duncombe 37 FFF
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
5.00 SED Experimental Green Strategies Terri Peters 36 SFB 6.30 Evening Lecture Mukesh Metha Lecture Hall (tbc)
3.30 Housing & Urbanism Critical Urbanism Larry Barth H&U Studio 6.00 Evening Lecture/Book Launch Jason Griffiths Lecture Hall
9.30 Emtech Masterclass series Mike Weinstock and guests 33 FFF 10.00 HTS Second Year Architectures – their pasts and their cultures Profession Mark Cousins with Ryan Dillon,
9.30 Graduate Plagiarism Lecture Fleur Rothschild All new graduate students must attend 36 GFB
2.00 AAIS 36 SFB 2.00 Histories & Critical Thinking Architecture Knowledge and Writing Thomas Weaver 32 SFB 2.00 Landscape Urbanism Machining Landscapes Tom Smith 32 FFB 2.00 TS Diploma Course Small in Large Applied SIL techniques Martin Hagemann 37 FFF 3.30 HTS Diploma Course Polity and Space A Nature: contemporary sovereignties John Palmesino 37 FFF
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