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Venice Biennale Trip

Venice Biennale Trip

Series : Members Trip
Date : November 25 2011 - November 27 2011
Time : All Day
Location : venice

Special event for AA Members in Venice.

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Critical Territories and HORTUS

Critical Territories and HORTUS

Series : Saturday Gallery Talk
Date : January 14 2012
Time : 11:00 am
Location : AA Gallery

An informal conversation with curators from GroundLab and Plasma Studio in the AA Gallery and curators from ecoLogicStudio in the Front Members’ Room. Members are welcome and encouraged to ask questions of their own.
Complimentary coffee and pastries will be available in the AA canteen from 11 with the talk starting at half past the hour.

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OMA/Progress exhibition tour

OMA/Progress exhibition tour

Series : Building Visit
Date : January 24 2012
Time : 6:15 pm
Location : Barbican Art Gallery

 

P1010273_6886360153_l oma-3_6886359633_lAn early evening curatorial tour of the current major exhibition at the Barbican on OMA. This exhibition is the first major presentation of OMA’s work in the UK and is curated and designed by the Belgium-based collective Rotor. To make their portrait of OMA, Rotor have enjoyed unprecedented behind-the-scenes access and the opportunity to ask candid questions. The result is a compelling selection of materials from archives, collections and OMA offices across the globe.

 

Image: OMA/Progress. Photograph by: Lyndon Douglas. Courtesy Barbican Art Gallery.

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RSVP: Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre In Conversation with Paolo Rosselli

RSVP: Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre In Conversation with Paolo Rosselli

Series : Saturday Gallery Talk
Date : February 25 2012
Time : 2:00 pm
Location : AA Gallery

Followed by Gallery Talks led by Ana Araujo and Catalina Mejia

Due to demand this event has now been moved from the New Soft Room to the larger Lecture Hall.

In conjunction with the AA Gallery exhibition on Lina Bo Bardi and Gio Ponti, AA Membership is hosting a special event in the Lecture Hall. Paolo Rosselli, the celebrated Italian photographer and architect, will join award-winning Spanish photographer Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre in conversation to discuss contemporary architectural photography.

Rosselli, author of Sandwich Digitale and grandson of Gio Ponti, will talk in-depth about his own work and theories along with photographer, former Goldsmiths lecturer and photojournalist, Bujedo Aguirre who was recently specially comissioned by the AA to photograph the works of Lina Bo Bardi.

Following the talk co-curators of Lina & Gio and The Works of Lina Bo Bardi, Ana Araujo and Catalina Mejia, will lead a tour of the exhibitions in the Gallery and Front Members’ Room.

This event is open to the public with priority given to AA members. Complimentary refreshments will be available.

To register your interest please email events@aaschool.ac.uk
Image: Sesc Pompeia community centre by Lina Bo Bardi (São Paulo), photographed by Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre

Paolo Rosselli
Graduating with a degree in architecture from Milan Polytechnic in 1977, Paolo Rosselli began his career in architectural photography under the guidance of art historian Arturo Schwarz, documenting temples throughout India. Since then his approach to architecture through photography has seen him focus on contemporary architecture, such as his work with quarterly magazine Lotus, and on modern architects such as Giuseppe Terragni. Rosselli has exhibited works at the XLV Venice Biennial (1993, 2004 and 2006 respectively) and has lectured in photography at both Milan Polytechnic and Goldsmiths, University of London. With a back catalogue of more than 20 books published Rosselli’s most recent work is Sandwich Digitale (Quodlibet, 2009). He is currently working on a photography and text project documenting the changing world of India. Rosselli lives and works in Milan.
See www.paolorosselli.com

Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre
With a degree in social sciences and journalism Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre worked as a photojournalist for a newspaper in the south of Spain before moving to London in 1995. He obtained an MA in Photography from Goldsmiths, where he later taught as a visiting tutor. His work in architectural photography began in 1997, working for architectural firms, designers, magazines, newspapers and publishing companies as well as interning at Magnum Photos. In 2002 and 2003 Iñigo was shortlisted for the PhotoEspaña Descubrimientos Award. He has contributed to the AA Photo Library. A list of exhibitions of his work can be found on his website listed below. Based in Barcelona, Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre works as a freelance architectural photographer whilst also exploring his passion for documentary photography. He regularly gives talks and workshops.
See www.inigobujedo.com


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King’s Cross Regeneration Tour

King’s Cross Regeneration Tour

Series :
Date : March 9 2012
Time : 12:00 am - 1:00 pm
Location : Kings Cross

Architect Benedict O’Looney will lead a tour of the King’s Cross Regeneration area that is undergoing significant redevelopment. Joining the tour associate architect Jonathon Broughton will give an in-depth talk on the Allies and Morisson masterplanning of the King’s Cross site. In addition to this Stanton Williams architect Richard Wardle will lead a tour through CSM. Richard is the associate responsible for the new campus for the University of the Arts London for Central Saint Martins, where 40,000m2 of studio, teaching, performance and public space has been created within the historic King’s Cross Goods Yard.

Fee £12 for AA Members, £15 for non-Members.
Call 020 7887 4034 or email events@aaschool.ac.uk to book.

Image: University of the Arts Central Saint Martins by Stanon Williams, photographed by (c) Hufton + Crow

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White Cube Bermondsey Tour

White Cube Bermondsey Tour

Series : Building Visit
Date : March 10 2012
Time : 11:00 am
Location : White Cube Bermondsey

Casper Mueller Kneer Architects

Marianne Mueller, Olaf Kneer and Jens Casper of Casper Mueller Kneer Architects, based in London and Berlin, will lead a tour of the recently completed White Cube Bermondsey, the largest of the gallery’s three London sites. Originally a warehouse dating from the 1970s, the gallery offers more than 5440 square metres (58,000 square feet) of interior space on a site of 1.7 acres (74,300 square feet). The building has been altered to include three principal exhibition spaces, substantial warehousing, private viewing rooms, an auditorium and a bookshop.

The gallery tour takes place on the opening weekend of the new Gilbert & George exhibition, London Pictures.

See whitecube.com and www.cmk-architects.com

Tickets: Members £5.00, non-Members £8. To book a place, please contact Joanne McCluskey at events@aaschoo.ac.uk or call 020 7887 4034

Image: White Cube Bermondsey photographed by (c) Paul Riddle

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Ahrends, Burton and Koralek

Ahrends, Burton and Koralek

Series : Book Launch
Date : April 18 2012
Time : 12:00 am - 6:30 am
Location : AA Lecture Hall

Ahrends, Burton and Koralek (ABK) was established in London in 1961 by three AA graduates, Peter Ahrends, Richard Burton and Paul Koralek. By the 1970s, ABK had become known as one of the most creative and versatile of Britain’s younger practices, its workload ranging from college buildings in Dublin, Oxford and Chichester to housing, public libraries, retail and industrial buildings. The book covers 50 years of practice.

Written by architectural author, critic and current AA councillor, Kenneth Powell, and with an introduction by Richard Rogers,
this book was  commissioned as part of the Twentieth Century Architects series by RIBA Publishing, English Heritage and The Twentieth Century Society.

To book a place, please contact Joanne McCluskey at events@aaschool.ac.uk or call 020 7887 4034.

The Prototype House featured in the image was designed by ABK and Frei Otto with Buro Happold. Built in 1985, it uses an experimental structure that consists of roundwood A-frames from which a tent-like tensile timber roof is suspended. Today, the building contains the kitchen and dining space for staff and students at Hooke Park.

Image: ABK Prototype House, Hooke Park, Dorset © James Davies, English Heritage

Read more at:
RIBA Publishing www.ribapublishing.com
English Heritage www.english-heritage.org.uk
Twentieth Century Society www.c20society.org.uk

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Hooke Park Bluebell Watch

Hooke Park Bluebell Watch

Series : Hooke Park
Date : April 28 2012
Time : 11:00 am
Location : Hooke Park

Saturday Day Trip
– 11:00
Hooke Park

AA Membership will lead a series of spring events at Hooke Park this bluebell season.

Hooke Park Open Saturdays will take place during bluebell season with dates to be confirmed dependant on the bluebell calendar.
See Bluebell Watch, www.aaschool.ac.uk/aalife/hookepark/hooke.php for updates.

In addition, on Saturday 28 April AA members are invited to a special tour of the site that will incorporate existing buildings designed by collaborations between ABK, Frei Otto, Buro Happold and Edward Cullinan, as well as the recently completed Big Shed (see below). After lunch, the group will be led on a ramble through the bluebell-adorned woodland, weather permitting.
For more information, see www.aaschool.ac.uk/membership/benefits/events.php

Tickets
Including return train from London: Members £55pp, AA Students £45pp
Excluding travel: Members and Students £25pp

The AA’s Hooke Park is a 350-acre working forest in Dorset, southwest England. It is a unique site for experimentation and fabrication for visiting groups of AA tutors and students, to run  activities in the workshop or within the forest itself as an alternative to the central London environment of Bedford Square.

An exciting new phase of development is underway at Hooke Park – the AA aims to develop the campus as a site for exploring rural architectures, crafts of construction, and sustainable timber technologies. A new graduate design course, Design & Make, based at Hooke Park is now in its second year. Together with students in Diploma 19, this year they have designed and built the first of a series of planned new structures. This is part of a strategic plan for Hooke Park, which has been developed by the AA in consultation with West Dorset Council, the local community and professional advisors and consultants.

Image: Hooke Park Big Shed © Valerie Bennett

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Foraging Workshop with Georgie Corry-Wright

Foraging Workshop with Georgie Corry-Wright

Series : Hooke Park
Date : May 5 2012
Time : 12:00 am - 8:00 am
Location : Hooke Park

Ticket: £75 including return train fare from London, taxi to and from Hooke Park, foraging, cooking, lunch and all refreshments

This intimate workshop with Hooke Park resident and IRCH (International Register of Consultant Herbalists) Medical Herbalist, Georgie Corry Wright, is open to a maximum of 12 people. The morning will be spent foraging the extensive forest at Hooke Park with Georgie who will then guide participants through creating a menu for lunch with the fresh ingredients.
Cooking and eating will take place in the famed ABK Prototype House (above), now used as the Hooke Park kitchen and dining space. Georgie’s knowledge of the medicinal and herbal plants of the UK is unsurpassed and her passion for the subject, natural teaching style, and keen sense of humour make her a joy to learn from.

To book a place, please contact Joanne McCluskey at events@aaschool.ac.uk or call
020 7887 4034.

Image: Hooke Park entrance. Photograph © Valerie Bennett

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Weekend Trip to Madrid

Weekend Trip to Madrid

Series : Members Trip
Date : May 18 2012 - May 20 2012
Time : All Day
Location : madrid

AAIS 24-hr Event and Contemporary Architecture Guided Tour

Tickets including 2 nights 3* B&B: £295pp sharing twin room/£365pp single room
2-Day Pass exluding B&B :
£165pp

Those joining this weekend trip to Madrid will be able to participate in, and have exclusive access to, Angles of Incidence (AoI) 40°, 3° by AAIS. The Architectural Association Interprofessional Studio present a 24-hour creative exchange spanning from 22.00–22.00 (19-20.5.12) evolving from the intimate setting of a private dinner through to a local market, featuring architectural installations, DJs and culinary delights. The project aims to expose a hidden ‘worknet’ between multiple professions and their products.

Over the course of the weekend project architects from architectural firms including: West 8, Burgos y Garrido, Langarita-Navarro Arquitectos and Churtichaga+Cuadra Salcedo will take the group on guided tours of recently completed work including the Matadero arts complex and Madrid Río. Set in 148,300 square metres the redevelopment of Matadero Madrid has seen the transformation of a dilapidated slaughterhouse into a sleek and modern space for the arts. Madrid Río, designed by West 8 and three Madrid-based firms led by Ginés Garrido Colomero, is the largest intervention in the city, converting a disused section of motorway into parkland.

Trip Includes:
Two night stay at central 3* hotel with breakfast, 18.5.12 check-in, 20.5.12 check-out.
– Unique opportunity to participate in Angles of Incidence 40°, 3°, a 24-hour creative exchange by AAIS (see above)
Insider contemporary architectural city tour with Project Architects, comprising work by: West 8, Burgos y Garrido, Churtichaga + Cuadra-Salcedo Architects, Ensamble Studio, Langarita-Navarro Architects.
– ‘The Supper’, an exclusive dining event curated by Ariadna Cantis together with the AAIS

To book please call 020 7887 4034 or email: events@aaschool.ac.uk
Flights are NOT included.

IMAGE: Cineteca by Churtichaga + Cuadra Salcedo © FG+SG

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Processing Environments Symposium at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Processing Environments Symposium at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Series : Visiting School Event
Date : June 19 2012
Time : 12:00 am - 9:00 am
Location : Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Auditorium

With: Iñaki Abalos, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Juan Herreros, Eva Castro and Alfredo Ramirez, et al

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Auditorium, Spain
AA Members are invited to attend a one-day symposium where professionals and researchers in the field of art and architecture will share environmentally-friendly alternative work methods at Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. The event is free of charge. To register for your place follow this link.

Eva Castro and Alfredo Ramirez (Director and studio master of Landscape Urbanism programme respectively) will lecture at the event, along with Inaki Abalos, Alejandro Zaera Polo, Douglas Spencer.

Led by AA tutors and Visiting School directors Maider Llaguno Munitxa and Clara Oloriz Sanjuan, Processing Environments Symposium takes place on 19 June from 9am to 8pm. This event runs in conjunction with the upcoming Bilbao-San Sebastián Visiting School, Computing Topos, 16 to 27 July.

Read more at http://www.guggenheim-bilbao.es/secciones/actividades/actividad_reserva.php?idioma=es&id_actividad=740 

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Private opening, Projects Review

Private opening, Projects Review

Series : Members' Evening
Date : June 25 2012
Time : 12:00 am
Location : Architectural Association

Please join us for the private opening and Members’ Evening at the AA Projects Review exhibition. The evening offers the opportunity to socialise and to view hundreds of drawings, models, installations and photographs documenting the 2011/12 academic year at the AA. Students will be on hand to answer questions about their work.

‘We believe that truly great schools don’t just nurture and support architectural talent: they build audiences for experimentation, out of which new architectural ideas, visions and projects emerge. please join us as part of this audience, which the AA remains committed to promoting at the cutting-edge of architectural culture, practice and learning.’

 

Image: Kitty Travers serving La Grotta Ices on Members’ Evening 2011. Photo by Valerie Bennett
Weblink: lagrottaices.tumblr.com

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2012: A Story To Tell

2012: A Story To Tell

Series : Members Offer
Date : July 5 2012
Time : 12:00 am - 7:45 pm
Location : Southbank Centre

With Saskia Sassen, Will Self, Anna Minton and Stephen Gill

LIMITED TICKETS AT £8 FOR AA MEMBERS, call 02078874034 to book
Tickets £10 from the Southbank Centre. Click here to book.

The visionary architect Cedric Price once imagined a ‘Fun Palace’ occupying the site now taken over by the 2012 Olympic park. The empty industrial landscapes of Hackney have been host to hundreds of projects over several decades, dreams of possible futures by residents, architects, writers, artists and politicians. A panel of speakers – Saskia Sassen, Will Self, Anna Minton and Stephen Gill – will explore how the Olympic regeneration has frozen these dreams in time, while opening the doors to a new set of plans and hopes for East London. The talk will be chaired by Sam Jacob, AA tutor and director of FAT.

This event has been organised by the AA Membership Office and is part of both the London Festival of Architecture and the London Literature Festival.

Image: Fun Palace, perspective (1960–61, unrealised), Cedric Price, now the site of Zaha Hadid’s Olympic Aquatics centre; both AA graduates and former tutors.

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London 2012

London 2012

Series : AA Talks
Date : July 18 2012
Time : 12:00 am - 8:00 pm
Location : Sugarhouse Studios

Emerging Architects & the Park FULLY BOOKED
Sugarhouse Studios

Speakers: Assemble Studio, We Made That, Studio Weave, Asif Khan & Pernilla Ohrstedt and The Klassnik Corporation

The Park constructed in Stratford for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games is one of the largest urban parks created in Europe for more than 150 years. This event brings together young architects and designers who have realised projects in and around the Park. An opportunity to discover more of how emerging practices have engaged in creating experiences and legacies for this area of London. The talk will be chaired by Oliver Wainwright.

This event is now FULLY BOOKED

Weblinks:
Sugarhouse Studios www.sugarhousestudios.co.uk
The Klassnik Corporation www.klassnik.com
Assemble Studio www.assemblestudio.co.uk
We Made That www.wemadethat.co.uk
Asif Khan & Pernilla Ohrstedt www.pernilla-asif.com
Studio Weave www.studioweave.com

Image: Fantasticology, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, by The Klassnik Corporation, We Made That & Riitta Ikonen

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AA Book Launch at the Barbican

AA Book Launch at the Barbican

Series : Book Launch
Date : August 9 2012
Time : 12:00 am - 6:30 pm
Location : Barbican Art Gallery

In Search of a Forgotten Architect: Stefan Sebök 1901–1942 by Lilly Dubowitz

The Garden Room (opposite the gallery on level 3), Barbican Centre

RSVP to events@aaschool.ac.uk

Launched to coincide with the Barbican’s Bauhaus: Art as Life exhibition, which will close the same week (August 12), In Search of a Forgotten Architect: Stefan Sebök 1901–1942 (AA Publications) looks at the work of the Hungarian-born architect. His niece, Lilly Dubowitz, explores his work with, among others, Walter Gropius in Dessau and Berlin in the late 1920s and fellow Hungarian emigré László Moholy-Nagy on his famous Light Prop.

Several of Sebök’s illustrations feature in the Bauhaus exhibition. A discounted rate of £10 (standard price £12) for the exhibition, open to 22.00 that night, is available from the Membership Office. Call 020 7887 4034 to book.

Image: cover, In Search of a Forgotten Architect: Stefan Sebök 1901–1942.
Read more about Bauhaus Art as Life at barbican.org.uk

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Toni Cumella in Conversation with Christopher Pierce and Chris Matthews

Toni Cumella in Conversation with Christopher Pierce and Chris Matthews

Series : Saturday Gallery Talk
Date : September 29 2012
Time : 11:00 am
Location : AA Gallery

AA Gallery Talks return this academic year with industrial engineer and ceramicist Toni Cumella as the first guest. Ceràmica Cumella: Shaping Ideas, curated by Mis-Architecture with AA exhibitions, presents the work of Toni Cumella and the application of his ceramics in some of contemporary architecture’s most significant projects focusing on the four main fabrication processes in use at Ceràmica Cumella – extruding, casting, pressing and revolving. Marking the opening of the exhibition Toni Cumella, joined by Christopher Pierce and Chris Matthews of Mis-Architecture, will lead an informal tour through the Gallery. The event will start at 11.00 with complimentary coffee and pastries available from 10.30.

For more information on Toni Cumella and Ceràmica Cumella: Shaping Ideas see the exhibition listing here.

Image: Santa Caterina Market by Ceràmica Cumella (in collaboration with architects Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue)

Related weblinks:
Ceràmica Cumella: Shaping Ideas aaschool.ac.uk/exhibitions
Ceràmica Cumella cumella.cat
Mis-Architecture mis-architecture.co.uk

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ScanLAB

ScanLAB

Series : Saturday Gallery Talk
Date : January 19 2013
Time : 11:00 am
Location : AA Gallery

AA Gallery Talks return in Term 2 with ScanLAB Projects: 3D Scanning for Architecture, Engineering and The Creative Industries. Matthew Shaw and William Trossell will lead an informal tour through the exhibition, Frozen Relic: Arctic works by ScanLAB in the AA Gallery.
Free event starting at 11.00, all welcome. Complimentary fresh coffee and pastries available from 10.30.

aaschool.ac.uk/exhibitions

scanlabprojects.co.uk

For more Members’ Events listings see here

Image: ScanLAB’s Matthew Shaw and William Trossell © Nick Cobbing, all rights resesrved

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Temporary Services: Public and Mobile Phenomena.

Temporary Services: Public and Mobile Phenomena.

Series : Saturday Gallery Talk
Date : February 23 2013
Time : 11:00 am
Location : Architectural Association

This exhibition presents photographic documentation and research on a variety of modifications and inventions that people make in public.

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Honorary Members’ Evening

Honorary Members’ Evening

Series : Members' Evening
Date : March 5 2013
Time : 12:00 am - 6:00 am
Location : Architectural Association

Invitation Only Event

AA Lecture Hall

This highest classification of AA membership is reserved as a special honour granted to those members of the organisation whose contribution to the work and development of the Architectural Association or to the education or profession of architects in general, is particularly noteworthy. The six people who were nominated this year are as follows:
David Gray
Herman Hertzberger
Charles Jencks
Eva Jiricna
Joseph Rykwert
Dalibor Vesely

Image: Preparations for AA Carnival © AA Photo Library Collection

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RARE Architecture

RARE Architecture

Series : Building Visit
Date : March 6 2013
Time : 12:30 am
Location : Town Hall Hotel

Tour of the remodelled 1910 Bethnal Green Town Hall that has been converted into a 98 room luxury hotel.

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Maison de Verre

Maison de Verre

Series : Members Trip
Date : April 18 2013
Time : All Day
Location : Maison de Verre

Day trip to visit Pierre Chareau’s Maison de Verre (1928–32) in Paris.

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Canada Water Library

Canada Water Library

Series : Building Visit
Date : May 3 2013
Time : 10:00 am
Location : Canada Water Library

Tour of the the London-based CZWG team’s recently completed Canada Water Library.

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Cultural Hijack

Cultural Hijack

Series : Saturday Gallery Talk
Date : May 10 2013
Time : 11:00 am
Location : AA Gallery

By the curators of Cultural Hijack, artists Ben Parry and Peter McCaughey.

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Ott’s Yard

Ott’s Yard

Series : Building Visit
Date : May 29 2013
Time : 12:00 am - 3:00 am
Location : vPPR ARCHITECTS

A tour of the new residential development Ott’s Yard, in North London.

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Projects Review Exhibition 2013

Projects Review Exhibition 2013

Series : Members' Evening
Date : June 24 2013
Time : 12:00 am - 6:00 am
Location : Architectural Association

The Members’ Evening at the AA Projects Review exhibition.

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San Rocco: Book of Copies

San Rocco: Book of Copies

Giovanni Piovene and Pier Paolo Tamburelli

Series : Saturday Gallery Talk
Date : October 5 2013
Time : 12:00 am
Location : AA Gallery

Giovanni Piovene and Pier Paolo Tamburelli lead an informal tour through the exhibition.

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AA Birthday Party

AA Birthday Party

Series : Members' Evening
Date : October 8 2013
Time : 12:00 am - 1:00 am
Location : Architectural Association

A celebration of the founding of the AA on this date 166 years ago.

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1963 50 Year Reunion

1963 50 Year Reunion

Series : Reunion
Date : November 6 2013
Time : 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location : 33 Bedford Square

A reunion of students from 1963 intake of the school to mark 50 years since they began their studies at the AA.

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Smout Allen + BLDGBLOG

Smout Allen + BLDGBLOG

Mark Smout and Laura Allen

Series : Saturday Gallery Talk
Date : November 16 2013
Time : 11:00 am
Location : AA Gallery

Mark Smout and Laura Allen of Smout Allen who will lead an informal walk through the exhibition Smout Allen + BLDGBLOG: The British Exploratory Land Archive (BELA), in the AA Gallery.

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Institute of Making

Institute of Making

Gaurav Sharma

Series : 10r Building Visit
Date : November 22 2013
Time : 10:45 am
Location : Architectural Association
Ticket Price : £0.00

A tour and talk about The Institute of Making research club’s home at UCL’s Bloomsbury campus.

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Not What, But How

Not What, But How

WORKSHOP Architecture

Series : Saturday Gallery Talk
Date : November 30 2013
Time : 11:00 am
Location : Front Members Room – Architectural Association

An informal walk around the exhibition space for Not What, But How.

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Tour of Saw Swee Hock Students’ Centre by John Tuomey

Tour of Saw Swee Hock Students’ Centre by John Tuomey

O'Donnell + Tuomey Architects

Series : 10r Series: local building visits
Date : December 3 2013
Time : 11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Location : Saw Swee Hock Students’ Centre
Ticket Price : £0.00

Next in our ongoing 10r Series of events looking at institutions and developments within 10 minutes walk of Bedford Square is a site visit to the new Saw Swee Hock Students’ Centre at the London School of Economics led by John Tuomey of O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects who were selected following a two-stage international design competition in June 2009. The first new building at LSE for over 40 years, this vast new students’ centre includes a reception, offices, bars, a fitness centre, event and media facilities.

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Great Estates Exhibition

Great Estates Exhibition

Peter Murray

Series : 10r Series: local building visits
Date : December 13 2013
Time : 9:45 am - 11:15 am
Location : New London Architecture, The Building Centre
Ticket Price : £0.00

A tour of the current New London Architecture exhibition Great Estates: How London’s landowners shape the city will be given by curator and founder of the NLA Peter Murray

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Tour of Third Natures exhibition

Tour of Third Natures exhibition

Cristina Díaz Moreno and Efrén García Grinda

Series : Saturday Gallery Talk
Date : January 18 2014
Time : 11:00 am
Location : AA Gallery, Architectural Association

An informal walk through Third Natures in the AA Gallery with exhibition curators and AA tutors Cristina Diaz Moreno and Efren García Grinda. Complimentary fresh coffee and pastries available. All are welcome. No RSVP required.

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Michael Ventris. How did the architect decipher the script?

Michael Ventris. How did the architect decipher the script?

Series : Members' Talk
Date : February 19 2014
Time : 6:30 pm
Location : New Soft Room, Architectural Association

Michael Ventris’ decipherment of Linear B is one of the great moments of decipherment in the twentieth century. It is widely acknowledged that his discovery was the more remarkable because he was not a professional scholar. He was an architect, who trained at the AA. This talk will be led by Emmanouil Stavrakakis,architect and Ph.D. Candidate at the Architectural Association. His thesis title is, ‘The Architecture of Linear B’, (Director of Studies, Mark Cousins, Supervisor, Spyros Papapetros).

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Special Members' Screening of The Human Scale

Members’ Screening: Human Scale (FULLY BOOKED)

Members’ Screening: Human Scale (FULLY BOOKED)

Series : Members Trip
Date : February 21 2014
Time : 7:00 pm
Location : AA Cinema

We look forward to welcoming you to our first Members’ event at the AA Cinema. Please join us to for the screening of the Human Scale, directed by Andreas Dalsgaard.

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Additional Members’ Screening of The Human Scale (FULLY BOOKED)

Additional Members’ Screening of The Human Scale (FULLY BOOKED)

Series : Members Trip
Date : February 28 2014
Time : 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location : AA Cinema

We look forward to welcoming you to our second Members’ event at the AA Cinema. Please join us to for this repeat screening of the Human Scale, directed by Andreas Dalsgaard.

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Saturday Gallery Talk: Second House First

Saturday Gallery Talk: Second House First

Conrad Koslowsky, Scrap Marshall, Frederik Bo Bojesen and Yannick Guillen

Series : Saturday Gallery Talk
Date : March 1 2014
Time : 11:00 am
Location : Architectural Association

Our Saturday Gallery talks continute with an informal walk around the exhibition space for Second House First in the Front Members’ Room led by Conrad Koslowsky. The exhibition explores the tension between two contrasting forms of domestic dwelling – the vernacular architecture of the cabin and the ubiquity of the suburban house – through an exploration of the cottages and cabins that surround the lakes of Manitoba.

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Members’ Talk: Out of Mies

Members’ Talk: Out of Mies

Lynda Gaudreau

Series : Members Trip
Date : March 3 2014
Time : 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location : AA Gallery, Architectural Association

Leading our next Members’ Talk is choreographer, curator and researcher Lynda Gaudreau whose often minimalist work, developed through series, is essentially a play on quantities of time, space and movement.

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Unfinished Spaces

Members’ Screening: Unfinished Spaces

Members’ Screening: Unfinished Spaces

AA Film Club

Series : Members' AA Cinema Screening
Date : March 21 2014
Time : 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location : AA Cinema

EVENT CANCELLED We look forward to welcoming you to our second Members’ Screening at the AA Cinema, Unfinished Spaces directed by Benjamin Murray and Alysa Nahmias.

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Image © Stillman Rogers / Alamy/Alamy

Trip to Mies van der Rohe’s Tugendhat House Brno and Vienna Weekend

Trip to Mies van der Rohe’s Tugendhat House Brno and Vienna Weekend

Series : Members Trip
Date : April 3 2014 - April 6 2014
Time : 3:00 pm
Location : Tugendhat Villa by Mies van der Rohe

Weekend trip including tour of Mies van der Rohe’s modernist masterpiece, Tugendhat House in the Czech Republic, now featured on the UNESCO World Heritage list. The group will stay in central Vienna and will tour and visit a number of the city’s architectural highlights.

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Courtesy of AA Archives

Building Visit: Lois and Michael Ventris’ 19 North End House

Building Visit: Lois and Michael Ventris’ 19 North End House

Emmanouil Stavrakakis

Series : Members Trip
Date : May 9 2014
Time : 3:00 pm - 3:45 pm
Location : 19 North End

AA Membership is organizing a tour of the house 19 North End for the AA Members on May 9. This tour will be led by AA PHD candidate Emmanouil Stravakis, as a follow up to his lecture on Michael Ventris held at the AA in February.

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AA Librarian Eleanor Gawne with Andrew Higgot

Eric de Maré: Photography framing architecture

Eric de Maré: Photography framing architecture

Andrew Higgott

Series : Members' Talk
Date : May 13 2014
Time : 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location : New Soft Room, Architectural Association

Free event. AA Members and general public all welcome.
No RSVP required

Hosted by AA Membership, this talk is part of an ongoing series of lectures organised by the AA Library, Photo Library and Archives to promote the AA’s collections and further knowledge through collaboration.

Members’ Talk by Andrew Higgott
‘Eric de Maré: Photography framing architecture’
This evening talk is open to Members and the general public. All are welcome, no RSVP required.

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Honorary Members Evening 2014

Honorary Members’ Evening 2014

Honorary Members’ Evening 2014

Series : Honorary Members Evening
Date : May 14 2014
Time : 6:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Location : Lecture Hall

Invitation Only event.

AA Honorary Members event. This highest classification of AA membership is reserved as a special honour granted to those members of the organisation whose contribution to the work and development of the Architectural Association or to the education or profession of architects in general, is particularly noteworthy. Please note this is an invitation only event.

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Rainforest by GUN Architects, photo Valerie Bennett

Saturday Gallery Talk: Rainforest (AA Gallery and Bedford Square)

Saturday Gallery Talk: Rainforest (AA Gallery and Bedford Square)

Series : Saturday Gallery Talk
Date : May 17 2014
Time : 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location : AA Gallery, Architectural Association

This gallery talk is open to all, no RSVP required.
Complimentary fresh coffee and pastries will be available

Our Saturday Gallery talks continute with an informal walk through the exhibition Rainforest led by Jorge Godoy of GUN Architects.

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Front cover image from 'In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones' official booklet.

Members’ Screening: In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones

Members’ Screening: In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones

First UK Screening

Series : Members' AA Cinema Screening
Date : May 29 2014
Time : 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Location : AA Cinema

Free Members Only event, booking required.

AA Membership and the AA Film Club invite you to join us for the first UK screening of Pradip Krishen and Arundhati Roy’s award winning cult classic ‘In which Annie Gives It Those Ones’. RSVP required as limited AA Cinema seating available.

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