Visiting School

Architectural AssociationSchool of Architecture

Prospectus 2013 – 14Book 6

www.aaschool.ac.uk/visiting

Photos throughout by Sue Barr, Valerie Bennett, Clem Blakemore, Irmgard Reiter, Inez Tan and Jeroen van Ameijde

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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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2013 – 14Visiting School Structure

AA School, LondonAutumn Semester ProgrammeA Coruña. On the EdgeSeptember – December 2013

Spring Semester ProgrammeMoscow. MicrorayonsJanuary – May 2014

The Semester Programme is a full-time 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.

DirectorNaiara Vegara

AA School, LondonSummer School7-25 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.

DirectorNatasha Sandmeier

AA School, LondonOne Year Abroad Programme2013–14

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 DirectorBrett Steele

AA School, LondonNight School2013–14

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.

DirectorSam Jacob

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AA School, LondonIndependents Group2013–14

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.

DirectorAlan Dempsey

AA School, LondonVisiting Teachers ProgrammeMay 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.

DirectorHugo Hinsley

2013 – 14Visiting School Structure

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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 ofstudent 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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Hooke Park, DorsetLociMAKEBouyancyJanuary 2014

Hooke Park, DorsetMakeLabApril 2014

DirectorLuke Olsen

DirectorJeroen van Ameijde

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Hooke Park, DorsetMaeda WorkshopApril – June 2014

DirectorShin Egashira

AA School, LondonVisioning ArchitectureJuly 2014

DirectorsTrevor FlynnAnderson IngeAlex Kaiser

Hooke Park, DorsetSummerMAKEDangerous DwellingsJuly 2014

London / Hooke Park, DorsetAA DLABREDJuly 2014

DirectorLuke Olsen

DirectorElif Erdine

United Kingdom 2013 – 14

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Paris, FranceFootware – Reinventing ShoesNovember 2013

Principality of LiechtensteinAlpine AA – Forms of WeatherFebruary 2014

Rome, ItalyForm as UnknownJanuary 2014

Madrid, SpainTrans-Computational MembranesSeptember 2013

DirectorJorge Ayala

DirectorsPeter StaubTeresa Cheung

DirectorsLorenzo VianelloArturo Tedeschi

DirectorManuel Jiménez García

2013 – 14Europe

Athens, GreeceCipher City – RevolutionsMarch – April 2014

DirectorAlexandros Kallegias

Reykjavik, IcelandNew GroundApril 2014

Paris, FranceDigital AuthenticityMarch 2014

Istanbul, TurkeyUrban InterventionsMarch – April 2014

DirectorsMattia GambardellaMassimo Santanicchia

DirectorJorge Ayala

DirectorElif Erdine

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Barcelona, SpainBodega – Enological MetabolismJuly 2014

Lyon, FranceMud Body and Scripts May 2014

Cologne, GermanyOMU’s Idea of the CitySpring – Summer 2014

DirectorsEdouard CabayCarles Sala

DirectorsStephanie ChaltielMarie-Perrine Placais

DirectorSam Jacoby

Lugo, ItalyLugo LandApril 2014

DirectorSue Barr

Ivrea, ItalyFactory FuturesJuly 2014

Muxagata, PortugalMuxagata Building WorkshopJuly 2014

DirectorsTommaso FranzoliniPierre CutellicMaria Shéhérazade Giudici

DirectorsShin EgashiraPedro JervellMafalda Nicolau de Almeida

Bilbao, SpainComputing ToposJuly 2014

DirectorsMaider Llaguno MunitxaClara Olóriz Sanjuán

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Berlin, GermanyBerlin Take-awayJuly 2014

DirectorsOlaf Kneer Marianne Mueller

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Muscat, OmanPatterns February 2014

Amman, Wadi Rum and Petra, JordanEroded MorphologiesMay 2014

Tel Aviv and Negev, IsraelDrifting Rooms – The Wind ChamberApril 2014

DirectorOmid Kamvari

DirectorKais Al-Rawi

DirectorGary Freedman

2013 – 14Africa/Middle East

Nomadic Design StudioUnknown FieldsJuly 2013

DirectorsKate DaviesLiam Young

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Nicosia, CyprusCyprus – UN Buffer ZoneSeptember 2014

DirectorsKostas Grigoriadis Pavlos Fereos

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Bangkok, Thailand From Abstract to ConcreteDecember 2013

DirectorsMark Cousins Jing Rakpanya

Shanghai, ChinaUrban FormationJuly 2014

DirectorTom Verebes

Penang, MalaysiaStreetwareJuly 2014

DirectorNaiara Vegara

2013 – 14Asia

Beijing, ChinaSu(pe)rRealJanuary 2014

DirectorLi-Qun Zhao

Summer School presentations, July 2013, AA School, London

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Koshirakura / Tokyo, JapanKoshirakura / Tokyo WorkshopsAugust – September 2014

DirectorShin Egashira

Seoul, South KoreaEmerging Corporate TerritoriesAugust 2014DirectorsHussam DakkakCostantino SambuyBeom Kwan KimJin Kim

Taipei, TaiwanGenerative GlassJuly – August 2014

DirectorImmanuel Koh

Moscow, RussiaRe-Programming: Culture ClustersJuly 2014

DirectorMaria Fedorchenko

TaiwanTaiwan ProjectJanuary 2014

DirectorsJohn Palmesino Ann-Sofi Rönnskog

Bangalore, IndiaBreed and EvolveDecember 2013

DirectorShajay Bhooshan

Asia Asia2013 – 14 2013 – 14

SingaporeObjectifyJuly – August 2014

DirectorsNathalie RozencwajgMichel da Costa Gonçalves

Beijing, ChinaThe Losing IntelligenceJuly 2014

DirectorYan Gao

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Los Angeles, USAMachining Adaptive LivingJune 2014

DirectorAlvin HuangKevin McClellan

Chicago, USACampaigning ArchitectureJune 2014

DirectorKirk Wooller

Kenscoff, Port au Prince, HaitiExperimental BambooJanuary 2014

DirectorJohn Naylor

Medellín, ColombiaNanotypologiesDecember 2013

DirectorSergio Pineda

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São Paulo, BrazilVem Pra’ LutaNovember 2013

DirectorsFranklin LeeAnne Save de Beaurecueil

Alto Patache and Santiago, ChileWandering Above a Sea of Fog January 2014

DirectorPedro Ignacio Alonso

AditnáltaDepartment of Ghost GeographiesFebruary 2014

DirectorMond Qu

Rio de Janeiro, BrazilInfrastructure Padrao Fifa April 2014

DirectorsAnne Save de BeaurecueilFranklin Lee

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Eugene, USAMarking the ForestAugust 2014

DirectorsKristin CrossStewart Dodd

Houston, USAInterscaless: Border CityAugust 2014

DirectorVictoria GoldsteinArturo Revilla

Pacific Highway 1WindscreensAugust 2014

DirectorsGoswin Schwendinger

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San Francisco, USAPost-Industrial LandscapesJuly 2014

DirectorTobias Klein

New York City, USAEmbedded IntelligenceSummer 2014

DirectorsGil Akos Evan GreenbergRonnie Parsons

Bogota, ColumbiaUp the River, Up the MountainJuly 2014

DirectorDiego Pérez Espitia

San Juan, Puerto RicoPlay With Your FoodJune/July 2014

DirectorsJorge X. Méndez-CáceresDrew MerkleMiguel Miranda

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2013 – 14Australia

Broken Hill, NSW, Australia The Arid Zone Garden July 2014

DirectorFionnuala Heidenwreich

Sydney, Australia Matrix – Non-Discrete ArchitecturesJanuary – February 2014

DirectorJeff Turko

Opposite: Building Community, rural India, 2013

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Bleaching Green, Madrid, July 2010

Infloatables, Sydney, February 2012

Visiting Schools Student Work

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Building Community II, New Delhi,26 January – 6 February 2013

Unknown Fields, Chernobyl to Baikonur, July 2011

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FAAshion, Paris, March 2011Top: Chile by Night, Santiago San Pedro de Atacama 3–11 January 2013

Bottom: Post-McQueen Embryos, Paris, March 2012

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Top: Tender is the Night, Summer School, London, July 2010

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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ApplicationsFor 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

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.

ContactsAlternatively, to obtain further information or to register for any of the programmes listed in this prospectus or on the website please contact:

Visiting School Director Christopher Pierce

Visiting School CoordinatorPriji Balakrishnan

T +44 (0) 20 7887 4014visitingschool@aaschool.ac.uk

Visiting School OfficeArchitectural Association36 Bedford SquareLondon WC1B 3ES

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