Architectural Association School of Architecture
Prospectus 2013 – 14 Book 6
Visiting School
www.aaschool.ac.uk/visiting
Photos throughout by Sue Barr, Valerie Bennett, Clem Blakemore, Irmgard Reiter, Inez Tan and Jeroen van Ameijde
Visiting School In the world of present-day architecture the AA alumnus Rem Koolhaas was one of the first to write, design and diagram his globetrotting into a contemporary conscience. The AA has taken that nugget of an idea and transformed it into its own ‘council of architecture’ – the AA Visiting School. In more than 50 workshops, laboratories and nomadic studios, one Night School, one One-Year and two Semester Abroad programmes, a Summer School, Visiting Teachers Programme and Independents Group, a wide spectrum of students of all ages and backgrounds will convene at Bedford Square, London and around the planet to make, think, discuss and debate, thus actively shaping the future of architecture. Where cultural externalisation has so often been about exporting an established and dogmatic model to far flung places, the aim of the AA Visiting School is to completely invert that practice. It is learning, exploring, collaborating and experimenting with a diverse group of international partners – schools, cultural institutions, local teachers and practitioners – in order to reimagine the shape, form and expectations of architectural education. No two of the Visiting School’s programme agendas are alike, a defining characteristic that is clearly visible over the following pages. The scale, material and methods are unique to each, but what they share is the AA’s unquenchable thirst for the unknown.
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Visiting School Structure
2013 – 14
AA School, London One Year Abroad Programme 2013–14 The AA offers places to students from overseas schools of architecture who wish to take part in a AA unit during a year away from their home institutions. Students are accepted into the Second, Third or Fourth Year. The three-term, 32-week programme involves students in all aspects of undergraduate life at the AA.
AA School Director Brett Steele
AA School, London Autumn Semester Programme A Coruña. On the Edge September – December 2013 Spring Semester Programme Moscow. Microrayons January – May 2014 The Semester Programme is a fulltime 15-week studio-based course open to undergraduate and graduate students from around the world. The programme is integrated with the AA’s undergraduate history and theory seminars and media studies courses. Director Naiara Vegara
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AA School, London Night School 2013–14 The AA’s Night School is an on-going speculative project dealing with alternative models of architectural education. It aims to turn an architecture school inside out, offering what are usually internal activities to a wide audience of professionals, clients, other creative practitioners, the general public as well as students.
Director Sam Jacob
AA School, London Summer School 7-25 July 2014 The three-week, full time AA Summer Architecture School presents a challenging programme of design studios, field study, seminars and lectures that emphasise the importance of both practice and theory in contemporary architecture.
Director Natasha Sandmeier
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Visiting School Structure
2013 – 14
AA School, London Visiting Teachers Programme May 2014 A short programme to give teachers of architecture an opportunity to engage with the teaching and research of the school and to develop a debate about the aims and strategies of teaching architecture.
Director Hugo Hinsley
AA School, London Independents Group 2013–14 Led by two of the world’s leading independent architecture schools – AA School and SIAL at RMIT – The Independents’ Group is an international research platform for interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration that brings together academic and industry partners to develop prototypes for the future of the built environment.
Director Alan Dempsey
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Global Schools In less than a decade AA Global Schools have developed from a few scattered experimental workshops into a global network of more than 50 diverse, highly resourced and ambitious programmes running throughout the entire calendar year. Each one challenges different aspects of architecture and the workshop, and collectively have started a revolution in architectural thinking and production. These programmes are focused on highly attuned agendas that immerse a wide variety of student types into a temporary world (lasting from a few days to several weeks) often unlike anything its participants have ever previously known. Programme directors – current and former AA staff and graduates – work with other subject-specific experts/collaborators to invent workshops that are dramatically different in scale, focus, method and outcome, often responding to regional issues and specialties.
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United Kingdom
2013 – 14
Hooke Park, Dorset LociMAKE Bouyancy January 2014
Hooke Park, Dorset MakeLab April 2014
Director Luke Olsen
Director Jeroen van Ameijde
Hooke Park, Dorset Maeda Workshop April – June 2014
AA School, London Visioning Architecture July 2014
Director Shin Egashira
Directors Trevor Flynn Anderson Inge Alex Kaiser
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United Kingdom
2013 – 14
Hooke Park, Dorset SummerMAKE Dangerous Dwellings July 2014
London / Hooke Park, Dorset AA DLAB RED July 2014
Director Luke Olsen
Director Elif Erdine
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Europe
2013 – 14
Madrid, Spain Trans-Computational Membranes September 2013
Paris, France Footware – Reinventing Shoes November 2013
Director Manuel Jiménez García
Director Jorge Ayala
Rome, Italy Form as Unknown January 2014
Principality of Liechtenstein Alpine AA – Forms of Weather February 2014
Directors Lorenzo Vianello Arturo Tedeschi
Directors Peter Staub Teresa Cheung
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Europe
2013 – 14
Paris, France Digital Authenticity March 2014
Reykjavik, Iceland New Ground April 2014
Director Jorge Ayala
Directors Mattia Gambardella Massimo Santanicchia
Istanbul, Turkey Urban Interventions March – April 2014
Athens, Greece Cipher City – Revolutions March – April 2014
Director Elif Erdine
Director Alexandros Kallegias
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Europe
2013 – 14
Cologne, Germany OMU’s Idea of the City Spring – Summer 2014
Lugo, Italy Lugo Land April 2014
Director Sam Jacoby
Director Sue Barr
Lyon, France Mud Body and Scripts May 2014
Barcelona, Spain Bodega – Enological Metabolism July 2014
Directors Stephanie Chaltiel Marie-Perrine Placais
Directors Edouard Cabay Carles Sala
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Europe
2013 – 14
Ivrea, Italy Factory Futures July 2014
Bilbao, Spain Computing Topos July 2014
Directors Tommaso Franzolini Pierre Cutellic Maria Shéhérazade Giudici
Directors Maider Llaguno Munitxa Clara Olóriz Sanjuán
Muxagata, Portugal Muxagata Building Workshop July 2014
Berlin, Germany Berlin Take-away July 2014
Directors Shin Egashira Pedro Jervell Mafalda Nicolau de Almeida
Directors Olaf Kneer Marianne Mueller
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Europe
Nicosia, Cyprus Cyprus – UN Buffer Zone September 2014 Directors Kostas Grigoriadis Pavlos Fereos
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Africa/Middle East
2013 – 14
Muscat, Oman Patterns February 2014
Tel Aviv and Negev, Israel Drifting Rooms – The Wind Chamber April 2014
Director Omid Kamvari
Director Gary Freedman
Amman, Wadi Rum and Petra, Jordan Eroded Morphologies May 2014
Nomadic Design Studio Unknown Fields July 2013
Director Kais Al-Rawi
Directors Kate Davies Liam Young
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Summer School presentations, July 2013, AA School, London
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Asia
2013 – 14
Bangkok, Thailand From Abstract to Concrete December 2013
Beijing, China Su(pe)rReal January 2014
Directors Mark Cousins Jing Rakpanya
Director Li-Qun Zhao
Shanghai, China Urban Formation July 2014
Penang, Malaysia Streetware July 2014
Director Tom Verebes
Director Naiara Vegara
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Asia
2013 – 14
Beijing, China The Losing Intelligence July 2014
Taipei, Taiwan Generative Glass July – August 2014
Director Yan Gao
Director Immanuel Koh
Singapore Objectify July – August 2014
Seoul, South Korea Emerging Corporate Territories August 2014 Directors Hussam Dakkak Costantino Sambuy Beom Kwan Kim Jin Kim
Directors Nathalie Rozencwajg Michel da Costa Gonçalves
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Asia
2013 – 14
Koshirakura / Tokyo, Japan Koshirakura / Tokyo Workshops August – September 2014
Moscow, Russia Re-Programming: Culture Clusters July 2014
Director Shin Egashira
Director Maria Fedorchenko
Bangalore, India Breed and Evolve December 2013
Taiwan Taiwan Project January 2014
Director Shajay Bhooshan
Directors John Palmesino Ann-Sofi Rönnskog
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Americas
2013 – 14
São Paulo, Brazil Vem Pra’ Luta November 2013
Medellín, Colombia Nanotypologies December 2013
Directors Franklin Lee Anne Save de Beaurecueil
Director Sergio Pineda
Kenscoff, Port au Prince, Haiti Experimental Bamboo January 2014
Alto Patache and Santiago, Chile Wandering Above a Sea of Fog January 2014
Director John Naylor
Director Pedro Ignacio Alonso
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Americas
2013 – 14
Aditnálta Department of Ghost Geographies February 2014
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Infrastructure Padrao Fifa April 2014
Director Mond Qu
Directors Anne Save de Beaurecueil Franklin Lee
Los Angeles, USA Machining Adaptive Living June 2014
Chicago, USA Campaigning Architecture June 2014
Director Alvin Huang Kevin McClellan
Director Kirk Wooller
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Americas
2013 – 14
San Juan, Puerto Rico Play With Your Food June/July 2014
Bogota, Columbia Up the River, Up the Mountain July 2014
Directors Jorge X. Méndez-Cáceres Drew Merkle Miguel Miranda
Director Diego Pérez Espitia
San Francisco, USA Post-Industrial Landscapes July 2014
Eugene, USA Marking the Forest August 2014
Director Tobias Klein
Directors Kristin Cross Stewart Dodd
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Americas
2013 – 14
Houston, USA Interscaless: Border City August 2014
Pacific Highway 1 Windscreens August 2014
Director Victoria Goldstein Arturo Revilla
Directors Goswin Schwendinger
New York City, USA Embedded Intelligence Summer 2014 Directors Gil Akos Evan Greenberg Ronnie Parsons
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Australia
2013 – 14
Sydney, Australia Matrix – Non-Discrete Architectures January – February 2014
Broken Hill, NSW, Australia The Arid Zone Garden July 2014
Director Jeff Turko
Director Fionnuala Heidenwreich
Opposite: Building Community, rural India, 2013
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Visiting Schools Student Work
Infloatables, Sydney, February 2012
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Bleaching Green, Madrid, July 2010
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Unknown Fields, Chernobyl to Baikonur, July 2011
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Building Community II, New Delhi, 26 January – 6 February 2013
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Top: Chile by Night, Santiago San Pedro de Atacama 3–11 January 2013
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Bottom: Post-McQueen Embryos, Paris, March 2012
FAAshion, Paris, March 2011
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Top: Tender is the Night, Summer School, London, July 2010
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Bottom: Deserta, Santiago de Chile, January 2011
Top: DLab/Green 02, Hooke Park, Dorset, 23 July – 5 August 2012
Bottom: MakeLAB, Dorset, April 2012
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Information Applications For more information on how to apply, fees, entry and visa requirements to attend an AA Visiting School programme, please visit www.aaschool.ac.uk/visiting
Contacts Alternatively, to obtain further information or to register for any of the programmes listed in this prospectus or on the website please contact:
Applications to any of these visiting schools can be completed online. Online links to apply can be found in each of the individual Visiting Schools programme page.
Visiting School Director Christopher Pierce Visiting School Coordinator Priji Balakrishnan T +44 (0) 20 7887 4014 visitingschool@aaschool.ac.uk Visiting School Office Architectural Association 36 Bedford Square London WC1B 3ES You can also connect to the AA Visiting School Programme via social media on Facebook: www.facebook.com/AAVisitingSchool
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Architectural Association, 36 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3ES T +44 020 7887 4000 F +44 020 7414 0782 Architectural Association (Inc), Registered charity No 311083 Company limited by guarantee. Registered in England No 171402 Registered office as above AA Members wishing to request a large-print version of specific printed items can do so by contacting AA Reception: +44 020 7887 4000 / reception@aaschool.ac.uk or by accessing the AA website at www.aaschool.ac.uk Cover: Chile by Night, Santiago Visiting School, January 2013 Photo JosĂŠ Hernandez
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