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Lunchtime Lecture, organised by First Year Studio staffFranz Xaver BaierSpatial Existence and ArchitectureMonday 27 February, 1.00Lecture Hall ‘The space we inhabit is not primarily the geometric and concrete. How we arrange our lives is not identical to the blueprints of architecture, its buildings, paths, squares and cities. Living space has its own architecture, its own geometry. It is a different reality and extends right through and beyond the built environment.’ Franz Xaver Baier is Prof Dr for architecture (art and design research and theory) at Munich University of Applied Sciences. In 2000 he published a new edition of the influential Space. An Architecture of Real Space (Raum: zu einer Architektur des gelebten Raumes, Walther König).

Enabling Evening Lecture Series, organised by Stephen and Theodore Spyropoulos Chris SalterEntangledMonday 27 February, 6.00 Lecture HallPerformance, that is, a focus on dynamic and temporal processes over static objects and representations, is generating a lot of interest currently in relationship to architecture but there is no agreed definition or context. Architecture as performative falls either into the scenographic, or the kinetic, or is seen as an event that destabilises traditional notions of spatial representation. This talk aims to examine from theory, history and practice, how it might be possible to grapple with the architectural repercussions of environments increasingly marked by flux: not only of that of technology, but the temporal nature of political and ecological instability itself. Artist Chris Salter is Associate Professor for Computation Arts and Director of the Hexagram Centre for Research-Creation in Media Arts and Technology at Concordia University, Montreal. He collaborated with Peter Sellars and William Forsythe before co-founding the collective Sponge, whose works cover artistic production, theoretical reflection and scientific research. Salter’s per-formances, installations, research and publications have been presented at festivals and conferences around the world, including the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale. His first book Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance was published by MIT Press in 2010.

Evening Lecture hosted by Chris LeeAlexander d’Hooghe and Luk PeetersSuburban Formology: Forms to organise infrastructural logisticsTuesday 28 February, 6.00 Lecture HallThe presentation will focus on the re-activation of late-modernist templates about architectural interventions on infrastructure. Since the Second World War many of these templates have been ambitious statements on behalf of society, which nevertheless were either forgotten or ridiculed. Today, however, the field possesses the means and insights to upgrade and realise some of these concepts, such as the open platform-building, the megastructure, the monumental grouping. The practice seeks to learn from failed attempts historically, but nevertheless, in cannibal-ising history, aims to insert a sense of continuity into the modernist project. D’Hooghe and Peeters are partners in the Organization for Permanent Modernity, an architectural and urban design firm comprised of an academic group at MIT in Boston and a profes-sional practice stationed in both Boston and Brussels. The formalisation and objectification of infrastructural elements is central in their current work. Projects include a masterplan for the slaughter-house district in Brussels (including a 25,000-square-metre market building); a series of public facilities and town cen-tres around Brussels; a plan for the pro-tection and expansion of the coastline between France and The Netherlands (2009); and a competition-winning entry for a large landfill in South Korea (2008). See orgpermanentmodernity.com

Evening Lecture, hosted by Roz BarrJan de Vylder and Jo TaillieuOver/AboutWednesday 29 February, 6.00 Lecture HallJan de Vylder and Jo Taillieu are co-founders of the Brussels-based practice architecten de Vylder Vinck Taillieu. Their office is founded on the principle of ‘giving place to daytime dreaming – believe it or not – on all kinds of things which seemingly have nothing to do with each other, although might do … it is an off-shore studio for making furniture, objects or anything else that does not belong to the pure practice of architec- ture.’ Other projects include residential schemes and masterplanning. Both partners are active in education and lecture at architecture schools world-wide, including at TU Delft, La Chambre/Horta in Brussels and Sint Lukas in Bru- ssels and Ghent. Their work is exhibited internationally. Among many honours their veterinary practice in Malpertuus re-ceived a Belgian Building Award in 2010.See architectendvvt.com

AA Community Cluster Lunchtime TalkIliona Outram Khalili and Julian FaulknerGetting Grounded – Super Adobe construction using the earth under our feetThursday 1 March, 1.15 Lecture HallSuper Adobe is a rammed earth technology, pioneered and developed by the late Iranian architect and author Nader Khalili. This malleable form of construction allows for a range of versatile structures and is particularly suited to the creation of earth domes, which are environmentally friendly, ecologically sound, affordable, flood-, fire- and earthquake-resistant with excellent sound and thermal insulation. Iliona Outram Khalili and Julian Faulkner will describe the construction process and provide an insight into the benefits of building with earth. Iliona Outram Khalili is a graduate of the AA, and served from 1991 an extended apprenticeship in the humanitarian goals of Cal-Earth (California Institute of Earth Art and Architecture), a nonprofit organisation founded by Nader Khalili, becoming a director and a ‘master builder’. She worked closely with her late husband, particularly on ‘Emergency Sandbag Shelter and Eco-Villages’, which shows how to use sandbags and barbed wire – the materials of war – for peaceful construction purposes for temporary and permanent shelter. She now focuses entirely on the work of Ansari Sustainable Living, assisting in the building of Sustainable Living Eco-Villages around the world. Julian Faulkner, co-founder and CEO of Small Earth Ltd, constructed the first Super Adobe building in Europe for the Philippe Rothier Foundation pour L’Architecture in Brussels in 2005. Shortly afterwards he took Small Earth to Nepal where he designed and built an eco-village of more than 50 domes to house street children, their carers and staff. He built the first Super Adobe composting toilet in the UK at the Pestolozzi International Village in Sussex and more recently completed an earth-form amphitheatre and contoured playscape incorporating the UK’s largest earth-dome complex at Hounslow Heath Infants School in West London.

Designing Fabrication Series, curated by Alan DempseyNieto SobejanoCombinatorial SpaceThursday 1 March, 6.00 New Soft RoomThe practice Nieto Sobejano is most interested in projects that seem to emerge from the attempt to connect anomalies, associations of random, arbitrary facts, which are freely available and need only an idea to explain them.

Since arbitrariness is hardly compatible with the coherence that the practice of architecture demands, Nieto Sobejano feel obliged to establish certain rules to work within the existing or created limits that allow disparate elements to compose an intelligible portrait, as with the pieces of a puzzle. This interpretation of the project as a mosaic, of fragments forming a unitary whole, questions the existence of a conscious starting point as an original and unique moment. It acknowledges, rather, that the key element of an architectural piece resides in the ties between unrelated events. The idea that every work mirrors another suggests an architecture conceived as a combinatorial mechanism, a play of multiple reflections in which work only takes on meaning when viewed as a whole. Based in Madrid and Berlin, the practice Nieto Sobejano has developed a reputation for projects that marry a contemporary architectural language with traditional settings or historic structures. Projects include the Madinat al Zahra Museum in Córdoba, recipient of a 2010 Aga Kahn Award for Architecture, and extensions to the Joanneum Museum in Graz, San Telmo Museum in San Sebastian and Moritzburg Museum in Halle. Partners Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano graduated from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura Madrid and the GSAP Columbia University, New York. They teach at the Universidad Europea de Madrid and the Universität der Künste of Berlin. From 1986 to 1991 they were editors of the architectural journal Arquitectura. Their work has been published in various Spanish and international magazines and books and has been exhibited widely.

Open JuriesIntermediate Unit 1Friday 2 March, 10.00 Studio 1Diploma Unit 3Friday 2 March, 10.00 32 SFBAll are welcome to attend.

History & Critical Thinking Debates Friday 2 March, 1.00 New Soft RoomHistory & Critical Thinking Debates are organised and hosted by Marina Lathouri and John Palmesino.Visiting speakers:Philipp Misselwitz (Head of the Department of International Urbanism, University of Stuttgart), ‘Camp Cities – participatory planning in precarious and informal urban environments’; and Zissis Kotionis (architect, critic, Head of the School of Architecture, University of Thessaly), ‘The Multitude, the Commons and Architecture’. Many of the emerging urban formations and forms of urbanity are

partially or completely novel institutional orders or systems of relations. What is it, then, that is being named with the term city? Would that mean that emerging spaces are also spaces for a new politics? Is it possible that the various regimes of the architectural project might still engage conceptions of space, conflicts of appropriation and norms of use nearing the juridical delimitation of the public and private domains?

Friday Lecture SeriesMark CousinsPoetics of ClichéFriday 2 March, 5.00 Lecture HallThe cliché represents an insoluble problem for language and art in modernity. Technology, cities and forms of signification all entail a radical increase in the volume and density of discourse. This produces both a standardisation of discourse and a revulsion from this standardisation. A new type of tension develops between the standard and the rare or the original – a different tension from that between the copy and the original. The lecture course followed this tension by giving attention to the notion of the cliché, whether it be in language or in the arts, architecture and design, and its role in politics and administration. The question of the cliché even extends to people’s lives when they are considered to be living clichés, a new type of zombie. Final lecture in the series: Friday 9 March

Artist Talks Series, organised by Parveen AdamsAnri SalaFriday 2 March, 6.30 Lecture HallAnri Sala’s works provide a co-ordinated experience in which video, light and sound play their part in the opening of space. He works by ‘improvising rules yet not letting them become a contract’, a matter ‘of de-railing without having rails’. Sound and light displace speech and representation. He releases the voice and the gaze. It is always compelling. His work often engages with spatial and political issues (Dammi i Colori, 2003 and 1395 Days Without Red, 2011, made in collaboration with Liria Begeja, a collaborative film project with Šejla Kameric). Sala studied art at the Albanian Academy of Arts (1992–96) and video at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs, Paris and film direction in Le Fresnoy-Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing. His forthcoming solo show in 2012 is at the Pompidou Centre, Paris.

Exhibitions run to Saturday 24 March, Monday to Friday 10.00–7.00, Saturday 10.00–5.00. Lina & Gio: The Last HumanistsAA Gallery This exhibition explores for the first time the relationship between two seminal figures in 20th-century design. Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992), best known for the buildings she designed and built in Brazil – the House of Glass (1950–51), Museum of Art, São Paulo (1957–68), among others – was a prolific designer, architect, writer and curator, committed to the promotion of the social and cultural potential of architecture. Before adopting Brazil as her home country in the 1940s, Bo Bardi lived in Milan, where she collaborated with renowned architect Gio Ponti (1891–1979). Ponti is perhaps better known as the founding editor of the design magazine Domus. He was also a productive architect, designer, writer and curator, having designed the famous Pirelli Tower in Milan (1950), and collaborated with many renowned designers (Piero Fornasetti, Pier Luigi Nervi, among others) as well as organising many editions of the Milan Triennial exhibition of the decorative arts. Curated by Ana Araujo, AA tutor and founder of the Travesia Institute, the exhibition focuses on the crossovers between Bo Bardi’s and Ponti’s approaches to design. It includes drawings, artefacts, film footage and writings covering the work of both architects. Sponsored by the Embassy of Brazil, London.Forthcoming: Roundtable Event, Thursday 15 March, 6.00 The Work of Lina Bo Bardi: Photographs by Iñigo Bujedo AguirreFront Members’ RoomDocumentation of Lina Bo Bardi’s built works in the Brazilian cities of São Paulo and Salvador de Bahia including the influential Sesc Pompeia community centre in São Paulo (1977–86).

Homes of the American DispossessedPhotographs by Ben MurphyAA BarHomeless settlements exist here as liminal spaces – ghettoised counter-cultures, disregarded by the surrounding communities, and identifiable by the make-shift dwellings created out of found or donated materials as much as by the inhabitants themselves. Dwellings are hidden in woodland, under freeways, or on embankments where their occupants can live without fear of eviction, while others deliberately confront the society that has rejected

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them, with their conspicuous siting on roadsides, in industrial areas or public spaces. Murphy’s photographs focus on the habitats created by displaced and forgotten individuals in and around Reno, Nevada and the Californian cities of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Sacramento, Fresno and Ontario. The series of images examines how, with limited resources in insecure environments, a sense of home and identity is achieved and established through an improvised architecture, and how these temporary homes inevitably fall apart or are deconstructed to leave no trace of their existence.

Sarah EntwistleIn Short, in Theory, and With a Bit of LuckBack Members’ Room‘The condition of biography is fundamentally flawed. The grotesque processes of condensation and distortion involved in the selection and combination of a life’s details condemn any attempt to fall way short and the best we can do is fall again, fall longer.’Stuart Bailey, ‘On Biography (Masculin) or Public Image Limited’, Dot Dot Dot The private archive of Clive Entwistle (1916–1976) whose project was once described by Le Corbusier as ‘casting a great light as from an unlimited flash of lightning’, contains rich and varied material. Entwistle was often on the cusp of consummating his architectural visions. His competition entry for the Liverpool Cathedral in 1960 was highly commended in the architectural press, although it was awarded to Sir Frederick Gibberd. In New York he developed the principal scheme for Madison Square Garden but did not see out the project. Sarah Entwistle appropriates elements of her grandfather’s legacy – intricate but decayed architectural models, drawings and photographic portraits – and returns them to a raw material, allowing an intimate reimagining of his work. She explores formal interplays to evaluate a legacy of perceived failure, while working to reinsert this once influential and charismatic figure back into the collective architectural memory.

2012/13 Tuition Fees: Undergraduate and Graduate SchoolsThe AA Council has ratified the fees for the main school programmes for the next academic year, as follows. Undergraduate School Foundation £16,077Undergraduate (yearly, First to Fifth Years) £17,814Graduate School MA/MSc £20,883MArch (16 months; for additional fourth term) £6961 MPhil/PhD Research Degrees (tuition fee level for 2012/13) £18,713 MPhil Projective Cities (20 months; for additional 8 months) £12,474 AAIS Postgraduate Diploma in Spatial Performance and Design (12 months) £16,077AAIS (part time, two days per week for two years; tuition fee level for 2012/13) £6429Conservation of Historic Buildings, AA Diploma, part time, one day per week for two years; tuition fee level for 2012/13) £5799 OtherSummer School 2012 £1600D-Lab1 2012 £1320D-Lab2 2012 £1970Global Workshops (20011/12) £645Part 3 Programme Pre-registration £250Seminar series registration £845P3 Exam £545Weekend Seminar ‘Contract Game’ £20

There is an additional £60 membership fee and £35 Student Forum fee per year.

Scholarships and bursaries are available; see www.aaschool.ac.uk/ scholarships Please note that tuition fees for the 2013/14 academic year are subject to change. Any changes to tuition fees will be announced in January/February 2013.

Advance Notice: TS3 and TS5 (Option 2) Interim Jury Schedule Monday 5 to Friday 9 March Third Year Juries will take place in Studio 2 and Fifth Year Juries in Studio 1 – see the timetable below. Students are reminded that TS tutorials are not available during this time. Monday 5 March1.00 Diploma Unit 112.00 Intermediate Unit 13Tuesday 6 March10.00 Intermediate Unit 410.00 Diploma Unit 22.00 Intermediate Unit 52.00 Diploma Unit 145.00 Intermediate Unit 12

Wednesday 7 March10.00 Diploma Unit 810.00 Intermediate Unit 92.00 Diploma Unit 172.00 Intermediate Unit 74.30 Diploma Unit 16Thursday 8 March10.00 Diploma Unit 110.00 Intermediate Unit 82.00 Diploma Unit 102.00 Intermediate Unit 34.00 Diploma Unit 18Friday 9 March12.30 Diploma Unit 41.00 Intermediate Unit 12.00 Diploma Unit 63.30 Intermediate Unit 104.30 Intermediate Unit 24.30 Diploma Unit 5

Advance Notice: TS3 and TS5 (Option 1) Final Submission Friday 9 March The following units are required to submit their Final TS Submission to Belinda in the Co-ordinator’s Office on Friday 9 March at 10.00 sharp:Intermediate Unit 3Diploma Unit 3.

AA AGM Date ChangeThe Annual General Meeting of the Architectural Association will now be held on Monday 26 March. The previously announced date of Monday 5 March will be used for an ordinary meeting of Council.

Advance Notice: May/June 2012 Bank Holidays The AA Community is reminded that all premises will be closed on the Bank Holidays in Term 3:Monday 7 May (School re-opens on Tuesday 8 May)Monday 4 June and Tuesday 5 June (School re-opens on Wednesday 6 June)

10.30 Sustainable Environmental Design (SED)Refurbishing the City Part IIProgramme staff SED Studio

1.00 Lunchtime LectureFranz Xaver BaierLecture Hall

2.00 AAIS 33 FFB

6.00 Evening Lecture Chris Salter Lecture Hall

10.00 HTS First YearHistory of Architecture – a critical outlineArchitecture and the Project of the City Parts 1 and 2 Double lecture session with Pier Vittorio Aureli – no seminars this weekMollie Claypool, Emma Jones, Alison Moffett and Zaynab Dena Ziari36 SFB

10.00 Architecture & Urbanism (DRL) Material Behaviour Lecture Hall

10.00 History & Critical ThinkingDoug Spencer Contemporary forms of architecture and agency 32 FFB

11.30 SEDRefurbishing the City Part IIDissertation Research Programme staff 33 FFF

1.30 Architecture & Urbanism (DRL)Design as Research 2 Lecture Hall

2.00 SEDEnvironmental Design Research: Evaporative CoolingRosa Schiano-Phan 36 SFB

2.00 Media Studies First Year Life DrawingTrevor Flynn 33 GFBThe Violet HourSue Barr 32 FFF

One-To-One Instruments Shin Egashira 33 FFBLight MomentsElif Erdine 36 SJRInformation DesignHeather Lyons 39 FFFColour and LightAntoni Malinowski FY StudioObject Organisation Marlie Mul 32 SFB

2.00 History & Critical ThinkingThe Post-Eurocentric City John Palmesino 32 FFB

2.00 Projective CitiesTheories of the Contemporary CitySam Jacoby and Chris Lee Studio 1

4.00 SEDLessons from Practice: Recent ProjectsKlaus Bode 36 SFB

6.00 Evening Lecture Alexander d’Hooghe and Luk PeetersLecture Hall

10.00 Media Studies Intermediate The Shapes of Fiction No2Charles Arsene-Henry 32 FFFThe Invisible Visible Max Kahlen 33 FFBPainting Architecture Alex Kaiser 32 SFBMatterhorn Bobsleds Tobias Klein 33 FFF 10.30 SEDTerm 1 ResultsSimos Yannas 36 SFB

2.00 Media Studies Intermediate Active Matter II Shany Barath 33 GFBPending StructuresValentin Bontjes Van Beek 32 SFBHeavy Rendering Eugene Han 33 FFFWebCam It + Augment It Immanuel Koh 32 FFF

The Unseen II Goswin Schwendinger 33 FFB 2.00 Landscape UrbanismCritical TerritoriesDoug Spencer New Soft Room

2.00 Projective CitiesTheories of the Contemporary CitySam Jacoby and Chris Lee 38 FFB

2.00 SEDDesign Research ToolsDowndraught CoolingBrian Ford and Rosa Schiano-Phan 36 SFB

6.00 Evening Lecture Jan de Vylder and Jo TaillieuLecture Hall

10.00 HTS Second YearArchitectures – their pasts and their culturesThe Life and Death of Architecture Mark Cousins with Ryan Dillon, Ross Ad-ams, Daniel Ayat and Roberta Maraccio 32 SFB (Please note seminars also take place in 32 FFF/FFB and 33 FFB)

10.00 HTS Third YearArchitectural Coupling (+)S, M, L, XL vs Translations from BuildingMollie Claypool and Ryan Dillon with Ivonne Santoyo Orozco, Shumi Bose, Orit Goldstein-Mayer and Emanouil Stavrakakis36 SFB (Please note seminars also take place in NJR/SJR)

10.00 TS First Year First Applications – Environmental GroupGiles Bruce (Ingrid/Valentin) 33 FFF

10.00 TS First YearFirst Applications – Materials GroupChristina Doumpioti (Alex/Sarah) 37 FFF

10.00 TS First YearFirst Applications – Structures GroupMarissa Kretsch (Monia/Alex) 38 FFF

1.15 Community Cluster Lunchtime LectureIliona Outram Khalili and Julian FaulknerNew Soft Room

2.00 PhD Programme Proposals33 FFF

3.00 Housing & Urbanism Critical Urbanism Larry Barth H&U Studio

6.00 Evening LectureNieto SobejanoLecture Hall

10.00 JuriesIntermediate Unit 1 Studio 1Diploma Unit 3 32 SFB

10.00 Building Conservation Year 1Structural Movement Visit: The House of St Barnabas, Soho and Westminster AbbeyClive Richardson and David Hills

10.00 Building Conservation/Year 2Brixton Market RegenerationRosie Shaw 11.50 Environmental Control and Lighting in Historic Houses/BuildingsLinda Bullock

1.00 History & Critical ThinkingH&CT Debates Visiting Speakers: Philipp Misselwitz and Zissis Kotionis New Soft Room

2.00 AAIS Studio 2

2.00 Landscape Urbanism Machining LandscapesTom Smith 32 FFB

2.30 PhD SeminarMark Cousins 33 FFF

5.00 Friday Lecture SeriesMark CousinsLecture Hall

6.30 Artist Talks SeriesAnri SalaLecture Hall

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