Events List

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Term 1

Week 8

Mon 17

Tue 18

Wed 19

Thu 20

Fri 21

Monday 17 – Saturday 22 November 2014

UniversalAssemblyUnit: A Space Animation StudioLecture Hall, 6pm

Giulia Foscari: Elements of VeniceLecture Hall, 6pm

AA Member Visit: Constructing WorldsThe Barbican, 6.30pm

DSDHA: Why Architecture Must Never Stand StillLecture Hall, 6pm

Friday Lectures Mark Cousins – The Gest[ure]Lecture Hall, 5pm

Night School: Crude HintsThe Soane Museum, 6.30pm

Longitudinal Section through the Museum & Crypt, detail of an etching from John SoaneVisit night.aaschool.ac.uk to find out how to take part in Crude Hints at the Soane Museum this winter.

Madelon Vriesendorp, Sketches for Duffy’s Rocks, 1974, Pencil, 16x25cm, COA, © Madelon VriesendorpJoin AA Night School and Madelon Vriesendorp on Friday 21 November for a candlelit evening of collecting and casting at the Soane Museum. Advance booking essential: night.aaschool.ac.uk

Lectures & Events

Evening LectureUniversalAssemblyUnitA Space Animation StudioMonday 17 November, 6.00Lecture HallIn an age of multi-platformed, hyperlinked experiences, the work of UniversalAssemblyUnit focuses on space and digital storytelling. The talk will address their reasons for setting up a practice and their trajectory – starting with their architectural education, to working in digital arts and production. UniversalAssemblyUnit was formed by AA graduates Oliviu Lugojan-Ghenciu, Samantha Lee, William Gowland and Zhan Wang. Together they explore projects at the nexus of technology, arts and spatial practice. Recent projects have included live visuals and stage production at the Royal Festival Hall and Barbican Theatre, a series of 3D-scanned fashion editorials for Tank, and web-based projects that explore interactive digital landscapes.

What’s Next Lecture SeriesGiulia FoscariElements of VeniceTuesday 18 November, 6.00Lecture HallElements of Venice was conceived as a way of testing and applying Rem Koolhaas’s strategy, set forth at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale, of dissecting architecture into fundamental elements. Research undertaken by Giulia Foscari isolates Venetian facades, walls, stairs and ceilings and presents each element as the product of political and cultural shifts that have occurred since Venice’s foundation, therefore demystifying the notion that the city has remained unchanged throughout its history. Giulia Foscari (AADRL 2007) has worked as an architect, curator and educator in Hong Kong and Buenos Aires. After a year at Foster + Partners, she was the first person on the ground to open the OMA Hong Kong office. Since 2013, Giulia has shifted her focus back to her hometown, Venice. She was a part of the AMO Biennale team and published Elements of Venice, developed as parallel research to Rem Koolhaas’s Elements of Architecture. The book will be available for sale after the lecture.

AA Members’ Event Member Visit Constructing Worlds Exhibition at the BarbicanWednesday 19 November 6.30–8.30Join AA Membership for an exclusive tour of the exhibition, Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age, at the Barbican, with a special talk by Barbican Curator, Alona Pardo. Entrance is free, but booking is essential. Currently fully booked, to join the reserve list please e-mail events@aaschool.ac.uk

Evening LectureDeborah Saunt & Tom Greenall (DSDHA)Why Architecture Must Never Stand StillThursday 20 November, 6.00Lecture HallDSDHA’s studio was founded on a persistent search for new forms of beauty through active design, research and agency. Projects have evolved over a unique design methodology that uses tactics developed through 15 years of parallel research in academia and on the ground. The lecture will focus on research carried out in the studio and as part of Deborah Saunt’s recently completed PhD at RMIT Europe. The work of the London-based DSDHA studio based in London, spans across the boundaries of architecture, landscape and urbanism. DSDHA is best known for its innovative approach to urbanism, sustainability and public engagement. Their projects have been recognised with 12 RIBA Awards in the last decade, and they have twice been nominated for the European Union Mies Van Der Rohe Prize for Contemporary Architecture.

Friday Lecture SeriesMark CousinsThe Gest[ure]Friday 21 November, 5.00Lecture HallThis year’s Friday lectures follow from the previous three years. The Gesture is considered as a fundamental cultural act, one which is not restricted to the human body or indeed the human being but which indexes a movement in the world which has a strong affective dimension. The lecture course considers this from the point of the origins of drawing and issues which normally slip out of the net of architectural theory such as shape and movement. The final lecture of Term 1 takes place on Friday 5 December (Week 10).

Night SchoolCrude Hints: AA Night School at the Soane with Madelon VriesendorpFriday 21 November, 6.30Sir John Soane’s Museum 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3BP.The artist Madelon Vriesendorp will introduce her own collection of mass-produced treasures and esoteric trinkets before leading a candlelit tour of the spaces and objects of the Soane Museum. A workshop will follow in which participants will learn how to make paper casts from items in the Soane collection. By the end of the evening an alternative set of antiquities will have been created, which participants will be able to take home. Madelon Vriesendorp is an artist and founding member of OMA. Her paintings have been widely published and exhibited. An Honorary Fellow of the RIBA, she has taught at numerous universities, including the AA. About Crude Hints: In the 1813 text, ‘Crude Hints Towards an history of my house’, the architect, teacher and collector John Soane presents his house-museum as a future ruin and speculates on how its remains might be interpreted upon future discovery. Continuing in this tradition, the AA Night School invites speakers to reflect on Soane’s house and collections, and to host their own ‘academy of architecture’ for the evening.£30 / Advance booking essential, please see night.aaschool.ac.uk

Exhibitions

Exhibitions are open from Saturday 15 November to Saturday 13 December, Monday to Friday 10.00–7.00, Saturday 11.00–3.00

All Purpose (À Toutes Fins Utiles) AA GalleryAll Purpose (À Toutes Fins Utiles)The architect Auguste Perret (1874–1954) was dedicated to defining an architectonic character peculiar to the then recently discovered material of reinforced concrete. A series of themes spreads throughout Perret’s work. The facades, the sovereign shelter, the inclusion of one space in another and the structural expression all constitute the fundamental elements of his method and can be found in every scheme. For this exhibition each one becomes the starting point for a new project. The final set of design propositions gives a clear view of Perret’s repertoire: column, profile, structure, shelter, cabinet, room, portico and vault. Developed with a third-year studio at ENSA-Versailles, the projects on display evoke proto-architectures and inhabitable open structures as opposed to architectural answers to predetermined functional requirements. The approach refers to Perret’s pronouncement during the construction of Palais d’Iéna, ‘a vast, all purpose shelter. Today it houses civil engineering equipment. Tomorrow we could have sculptures exhibited here’. Organised by Cédric Libert and Thomas Raynaud. Supported by ENSA-Versailles and Fondazione Prada

Foreign Correspondence Front Members’ Room & AA BarWhile a written description of a place can originate entirely in the imagination (travel writers who never travelled are not uncommon), a photographic survey results from the direct engagement of a photographer and an environment. The challenge of representing a city lies in identifying the political, social and economic markers embedded in ordinary spaces whose very familiarity makes them imperceptible to those who experience them daily. The makers of these pictures are outsiders invested in understanding the complexity of their adopted surroundings. They utilise a range of visual resources, from the seemingly objective typology to the lyrical snapshot, as a way of establishing a critical dialogue with the history of the medium and its documentary impulse. The exhibition, curated by Arturo Soto, contests the assumption that a foreign view is inevitably imposing or naive. It instead asks what is gained or lost by attempts to make visible the social and ecological impact of the built environment on everyday lives.

Director’s Selection Projects ReviewGraduate GalleryPresenting choices by Brett Steele of the best student work produced during the last academic year.

Notices

Student and Member EventAA Film Club PresentsRear Window (Within Without film series)Wednesday 12 November, 6.30AA Cinema

Media Studies Workshops3D Studio Max 1 / Joshua Newman Monday 17 November, 10.00–5.00 39 First Floor FrontThis workshop course will introduce students to modelling and animation in Autodesk 3D Studio Max, with emphasis on digital space for architectural projects.

Media Studies WorkshopsDigital Workflows 2 / Kasper Ax Maya, Maxwell Render and FelixSaturday 22 November, 10.00–6.0032 Second Floor Back Digital Workflow sessions focus on workflows rather than singular applications. Session 2 covers advanced modelling techniques in Maya and visualisation techniques in Maxwell and Felix. Free-form 3D modelling with Nurbs and polygons will be introduced as tools for simulating objects and environments in 3D-modelling software, as well as an introduction to performance-based simulation, where a design can be tested in a given environment. Visualisation tutorials focus on the representation of the modelled design. Students are welcome to bring their own studio work for testing. A basic knowledge of Maya workspace is recommended.

Week 8 Diary

Mon 17 November

10.00 AA Media Lab3D Studio MaxJoshua Newman39 First Floor FrontSee Notices

11.30 HTS DiplomaBiopolitics: The house as the black hole of architecture Mark Cousins37 First Floor Front

11.30 Housing and UrbanismShaping the Modern CityNick Bullock & Hugo Hinsley H&U Studio

2.00 HTS DiplomaCommanding Architecture: Power and Urban DestituencyThanos Zartaloudis37 First Floor Front

2.30 Housing and UrbanismCities in a Transnational World: Jorge FioriH&U Studio

3.30 HTS DiplomaArchitecture and the Mobile PhoneVisions – utopias and dystopias Chris Turner37 First Floor Front

6.00 Evening LectureUniversalAssemblyUnitLecture HallSee Lectures and Events

Tue 18 November

10.00 HTS First YearConcepts of Architecture seminarsFabrizio Ballabio North Jury RoomMollie Claypool Rear Second Presentation Space (north end)Lionel Eid South Jury RoomPol EsteveStudio 2Winston Hampel Rear Second Presentation Space (south end)12.00 LectureProjects Versus BuildingsBrett SteeleRear Second Presentation Space

11.30 SEDThermal PerformanceNick BakerSED Studio

1.00 Architecture and Urbanism (AADRL)Design as ResearchLecture Hall

2.00 Landscape UrbanismLecture SeriesNew Soft Room

2.00 Media Studies First YearPeripheral Landscapes Sue BarrNorth Jury Room Translation Object to Drawing Shin Egashira33 First Floor Back Materiality of Colour Antoni MalinowskiFirst Year StudioCut and PasteAlison Moffett33 First Floor FrontVideo Joel NewmanSouth Jury Room Taking MeasureCaroline RabourdinRear Second Presentation Space

6.00 What’s Next Lecture Series Giulia FoscariLecture HallSee Lectures and Events

Wed 19 November

10.00 Media Studies Second YearDa-Da-DigitalKasper Ax39 First Floor Front (Computer teaching space)Field WorkKate DaviesSouth Jury RoomDrawing in the Nation’s Cupboards Seeing your way to drawAnderson Inge33 First Floor FrontPainting Architecture 1Alex Kaiser32 Second Floor BackThe Household Glitch Mounted RegimentOliviu Lugojan-Ghenciu33 First Floor Back Exhibition PracticesCapucine Perrot33 Ground Floor Back

10.00 HTS DiplomaBrave New World RevisitedVisit to the National Sound ArchivesEdward Bottoms37 First Floor Front

10.30 EmTechMasterclassesNew Soft Room

11.30 SEDTransitional SpacesPaula CadimaSED Studio

11.30 HTS DiplomaMilan XX: La Nebbiosa (The Misty)MetanopoliRoberta Marcaccio 37 First Floor Front

2.00 Media Studies First and Second YearActive Matter Shany Barath & Gary Freedman33 First Floor Front

2.00 Media Studies Second YearProjection, Speculation and Works on PaperMiraj Ahmed32 Second Floor BackShapes of Fiction A: MetacameraCharles Arsène-HenrySouth Jury Room1 – Replica StructuresValentin Bontjes van Beek33 First Floor Back

2.00 Housing and UrbanismCritical UrbanismLarry BarthH&U Studio

2.00 Landscape UrbanismHistory and TheoryDouglas SpencerStudio 2

2.00 HTS DiplomaThe Robinson InstituteCritique of the CityPatrick Keiller37 First Floor Front

2.00 SEDEnvironmental MappingJorge RodriguezSED Studio

3.30 HTS DiplomaTalk the WalkExhausting a Project Rather Than an Aimless Drifter Ryan Dillon37 First Floor Front

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5.00 Professional Practice Third YearPaperwork / Preparation of essays and presentationsJavier CastañonRear Second Presentation SpaceFifth Year Compulsory course for Part 2Forum and Discussion Kathy GalLecture Hall

6.30 AA Film Club PresentsRear WindowAA CinemaSee Notices

6.30 AA Members’ TripConstructing Worlds exhibitionThe BarbicanSee Lectures & Events

Thu 20 November

10.00 TS First Year Technical Synthesis – introduction to Integrated DesignGiles Bruce, Federico Montella (Environment)Evan Greenberg, Nacho Marti (Materials)Ben Godber, David Illingworth (Structures)First Year Studio

10.00 HTS Second YearCulture of Architecture seminarsZaynab Dena Ziari Rear Second Presentation SpaceShumi Bose 32 Second Floor BackAlison Moffett 32 First Floor BackRicardo Ruivo 32 First Floor Front12.00 LectureReligionMark CousinsRear Second Presentation Space

10.00 HTS Third YearCategories of Architecture seminarsSylvie TaherLecture HallSusan ChaiSouth Jury RoomNerma Cridge Studio 2Manolis StavrakakisNorth Jury Room12.00 LectureRietveld Schroder House (1927)Mollie Claypool and Ryan DillonLecture Hall

10.30 SEDThermal Simulation IHerman Calleja & Gustavo BrunelliSED Studio2.00 Workshop on Thermal SimulationHerman Calleja & Gustavo BrunelliSED Studio

2.00 Housing and UrbanismCritical UrbanismLarry Barth32 Second Floor Back

2.00 TS Third Year Structures – masterclass in structural behaviourLarge-span structuresPhil Cooper, Manja van de Worp & Giancarlo TorpianoLecture Hall

3.30 TS Second YearStructuresStructural types, structural layouts, bending actions Phil Cooper, Manja van de Worp & Paola DaroRear Second Presentation Space

6.00 Evening LectureDeborah Saunt & Tom GreenallLecture HallSee Lectures and Events

Fri 21 November

10.00 Building ConservationVisit: Nash LondonChris Betts & David Hills

10.00 EmtechMasterclassesNew Soft Room

11.30 Architecture and Urbanism (AADRL)SynthesisDoreen Bernath & Winston HampelLecture Hall

11.30 PhD SeminarMark Cousins 33 Ground Floor Back

2.00 Building ConservationJoinery & Ironmongery Charles Brooking33 First Floor Front

2.00 HTS Diploma‘Props’ and other Attributes: on Exhibition-Making and Fashion Design TutorialsJudith Clark37 First Floor Front

3.30 HTS DiplomaVanishing PointRobert SmithsonAlison Moffett 37 First Floor Front

4.00 Building ConservationLondon Estates; Developers & the Building ProcessPeter Guillery33 First Floor Front

5.00 Evening LectureMark CousinsLecture HallSee Lectures and Events

6.30 Night SchoolCrude HintsThe Soane MuseumSee Lectures and Events

Sat 22 November

10.00 AA Media LabDigital Workflows 2Kasper Ax32 Second Floor BackSee Notices