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Term 1

Week 6

Mon 4

Tue 5

Wed 6

Thu 7

Fri 8

Alice FoxleyHooke Park, 5pm

Achim MengesLecture Hall, 11am

Mark WigleyLecture Hall, 6pm

Architecture BooksLecture Hall, 6pm

Graduate Open JuryRear Second Presentation Space

Undergraduate Open JuryRear Second Presentation Space

WORKSHOP architectureLecture Hall, 7pm

Monday 4 – Friday 8 November 2013Open Week

Graduate Open Jury & Open DayThe Open Jury: Graduate Portfolios 2012/13Thursday 7 NovemberRear Second Presentation SpaceTimings for this date are to be confirmed. Please check the website for complete details.

Undergraduate Open Jury & Open Day The Open Jury: Portfolios 2012/13with Guest Juror Rahul MehrotraFriday 8 November, 10.00–4.00Rear Second Presentation SpaceThe Open Jury Portfolios 2012/13 is a one-day event that gives everyone the opportunity to see some of the best portfolios and presentations from the past academic year. Discussions will centre around representation: how we produce, discuss and present design work at the AA. This event will also provide an opportunity to speculate on the type of work the school will produce in the coming year. Selected students represent work from Foundation through Diploma. The format mimics a final table review, with each presentation limited to 15 minutes and a rotating group of approximately four tutors at any one time. Guest Juror Rahul Mehrotra is an architect, urban designer and educator. His Mumbai-based firm, RMA Architects, has designed projects for government and non-governmental agencies, corporate clients, private individuals and institutions. RMA Architects has initiated several unsolicited projects driven by the firm’s commitment to advocacy in the city of Mumbai. Mehrotra has written and lectured extensively on issues to do with architecture, conservation and urban planning in Mumbai and India. Presentations will be followed by drinks and an informal discussion. See website and posters for full listings.

Screening and DiscussionWORKSHOP architectureFriday 8 November, 7.00Lecture HallIn advance of the exhibition ‘Not What, But How’ opening on 15 November, the student-led Design & Make studio, WORKSHOP architecture (Clementine Blakemore, Alexander Furunes and Ivar Tutturen) will present ‘Project Hariharpur’, carried out in partnership with the British Council in India earlier this year. A screening of the British Council-commissioned short documentary, A Village in a School, will follow the presentation.

Lectures and Events

MA History and Critical Thinking Open Week Events Architecture Books RoundtableWednesday 6 November, 6.00Lecture Hallwith Shumon Basar, Barbara Campbell-Lange, Mark Cousins, Marina Lathouri, John Palmesino and Brett SteeleAt a time of a pervasive global intelligence, where new books, magazines and journals – in print and online – are being published more than ever before, what kind of artefact might the architecture book be? What are its multiple scales, forms and formats? What are its mechanisms and effects upon architecture and visual culture? How can a credible ‘voice’ be established?Lunchtime RecitalsMonday 4 – Friday 8 November, 1.30New Soft RoomAs part of the Architecture Books and Writing series, the Lunchtime Recitals given by the MA students place emphasis on the act of reading and reciting. Voices and words become a space of everyday exchange.

Hooke Park Lecture SeriesAlice Foxley: Walking, Thinking, Making Landscape Monday 4 November, 5.00The Refectory, Hooke ParkAlice Foxley is a landscape architect based in Zurich. Having grown up on Dartmoor National Park, her work is rooted in the English culture of landscape, and its exploration. In this talk she will describe how her approach to landscape architecture is influenced by the acts of walking, thinking and making. For eight years Alice Foxley worked as Head of Research and Development at Vogt Landscape Architects. She now leads Kingston University’s new landscape architecture programme. She is speaking as part of a landscape-construction workshop with students at Hooke Park. This event is free and open to all.

Emergent Technologies and Design Masterclass Series Achim MengesMaterial Synthesis: Performance and PerformativityTuesday 5 November, 11.00Lecture HallFor this lecture Achim Menges will discuss how materiality no longer remains a fixed property and passive receptor of form, but instead can be transformed into an active generator of design and an adaptive agent of both structural performance and architectural performativity. Achim Menges is an architect and professor at the University of Stuttgart where he is the founding director of the Institute for Computational Design. His practice and research focuses on the development of integral design processes at the intersection of morphogenetic design computation, biomimetic engineering and computer-aided manufacturing, enabling a performative built environment.

Evening LectureMark WigleyPipeless Dreams: Buckminster Fuller and the Architecture of RadioTuesday 5 November, 6.00Lecture HallThis lecture will explore architecture’s nervous encounter with liquids. Our buildings, like ourselves, are filled with pipes. Water, gas, electricity and information flow inside walls, floors and ceilings, crisscrossing basements and running across rooftops. Yet these tubes are rarely allowed to enter the space. But the ever-expanding repressed world of pipes always has its leaks, blockages and occasional overflows, and the building and the discipline occasionally get covered in what was meant to be excluded. There is an astonishing architecture of pipes, a radical liquid architecture. Mark Wigley is Dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. He is the author of The Architecture of Deconstruction: Derrida’s Haunt (1993) and White Walls, Designer Dresses: The Fashioning of Modern Architecture (1995; both MIT Press), among other titles. He has curated exhibitions at the MoMA in New York, the Witte de With in Rotterdam, The Drawing Center in New York and the CCA in Montreal.

Notices

Term 1 Open WeekUndergraduate students are reminded that all Complementary Studies Courses (HTS, TS, MS, Professional Practice/Part 1 and Future Practice/ Part 2) are suspended this week to allow for participation in the Open Week activities. Teaching in the Graduate School is also suspended this week. The normal timetable will resume next week – commencing Monday 11 November. See next week’s Events List for full details.

AA Council Ordinary General MeetingMonday 11 November, 6.3032 First Floor BackSee website for details

Open Events/EveningsOpen days and evenings provide an introduction to the AA School and the opportunity for prospective students to meet current students and staff, tour the AA’s facilities and view presentations of student work.Graduate Evening Thursday 7 November, 6.00–8.00Undergraduate Evening (open to all undergraduate applicants) Friday 8 November, 6.00–8.00 All events take place in 36 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3ES To find out more and register, visit www.aaschool.ac.uk

Term 1 Library TutorialsThe library will be offering individual library tutorials on weekday mornings during Term 1. Please see Aileen, Bea or Simine in the library back office. New Application Deadlines Undergraduate Deadlines: Early applications close Monday 18 November 2013Late applications close Monday 27 January 2014Graduate Deadlines: Optional Early-Offer applications close Friday 29 November 2013Early (Winter) applications close Friday 31 January 2014Late (Spring) applications close Friday 14 March 2014 Please see the application pages of the website for further details.

Week 6 Diary

Mon 4 November

1.30 Lunch Time Recital New Soft RoomSee Lectures and Events

5.00 Hooke Park Lecture SeriesAlice FoxleyHooke ParkSee Lectures and Events

Tue 5 November

11.00 Masterclass SeriesAchim MengesLecture HallSee Lectures and Events

11.00 MA History and Critical Thinking Open Seminarswith Sam Jacob New Soft RoomSee Lectures and Events

1.30 Lunch Time Recital New Soft RoomSee Lectures and Events

6.00 Evening LectureMark WigleyLecture HallSee Lectures and Events

Wed 6 November

11.00 MA History and Critical Thinking Open Seminarswith Shumon BasarNew Soft RoomSee Lectures and Events

1.30 Lunch Time Recital New Soft RoomSee Lectures and Events

6.00 Evening RoundtableArchitecture Books Lecture HallSee Lectures and Events

Thu 7 November Graduate Open JuryRear Second Presentation SpaceSee Notices

11.00 MA History and Critical Thinking Open Seminarswith Barbara-Ann Campbell-Lange New Soft RoomSee Lectures and Events

1.30 Lunch Time Recital New Soft RoomSee Lectures and Events

6.00 Graduate Open EveningSee Notices

Fri 8 November

10.00 Open Jury & Open DayUndergraduate SchoolRear Second Presentation SpaceSee Lectures and Events

1.30 Lunch Time Recital New Soft RoomSee Lectures and Events

6.00 Undergraduate Open EveningSee Notices

7.00 Screening and DiscussionWORKSHOP architecture Lecture HallSee Lectures and Events

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Design & Make raises the canopy of the timber-seasoning shelter at Hooke ParkPhoto Valerie Bennett