Nigel Coates Exhibition Talk

Series : Exhibition Tour
Date : October 15 2019
Time : 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location : Betts Project
Ticket Price : £0.00

Join architect and AA alumnus Nigel Coates as he talks through his current exhibition Nigel Coates: David in Voxtacity at Betts Project.

The works in David in Voxtacity emerge from a theoretical environment Coates calls Voxtacity which revives the area of Vauxhall in London, as a pleasure garden in the more recent tradition of the expo or the theme park.

The exhibition comprises of a series of paper sculptures and watercolours portraying a collection of buildings and pavilions that epitomise the historic layout of the eighteenth century gardens. Each of these abstractions is a variation of Michelangelo’s iconic figure and explore how the three levels of a building can generate fluid humanistic connotations.

Meet at 6:25pm at Betts Project, 100 Central St, London EC1V 8AJ. A glass of wine will be served on arrival. Find out more about Betts Project.

This event is open to AA Members (including AA Students and Staff). Become a member. Booking is essential. Book your place using the form below.

AA Students go for free – the booking fee will be refunded to students if they attend the event

Image: David No.6, 2019, Nigel Coates, courtesy of Betts Project

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Building Visit: ONE Putney with Tyen Masten

Series : Building Visit
Date : October 25 2019
Time : 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location : ONE Putney
Ticket Price : £0.00

This event was originally on 10 October and has been postponed to 25 October

Join us for a tour of the recently completed ONE Putney with Tyen Masten, former AA Academic Staff, current AA Member and founder of PHASE3.

Building description provided by PHASE3:

ONE Putney aims to transform a neglected stretch of Putney town centre while establishing a new dialogue for future developments along this main thoroughfare. Simultaneously, mitigating the scale of the high street and the adjacent neighbourhood required a thoughtful response in order to create a well-proportioned and well-crafted building for the future.

The six-storey BREEAM Excellent building includes 15 residential apartments, a shared rooftop terrace and green roofs. The design plays with interlocking volumes, reinterpreting the original structure in a new way. Curved corners emphasise the continuous lines along the high street and Montserrat Road, activating more pedestrian space. Horizontal and vertical elements are formed from precast concrete, echoing townscape materials. Carefully respecting scale and the relationship between the high street and bordering residential road, the mixed-use development establishes a strong identity and active retail frontage, with the rear elevation stepping down to reflect the height of two-storey terraced housing behind.

Please meet at 3:55pm at the entrance to ONE Putney, 89-95 Putney High Street, SW15 1SR. The tour will last for approximately 1 hour.

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Series : Silver Gala
Date : November 19 2019
Time : 6:30 pm - 11:59 pm
Location :
Ticket Price : £0.00

Silver Gala

Tuesday 19 November 2019
36 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3ES

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Series : Silver Gala
Date : November 19 2019
Time : 6:30 pm - 11:59 pm
Location :
Ticket Price : £0.00

Silver Gala

Tuesday 19 November 2019
36 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3ES

The Silver Gala is an important event to raise funds for the Public Programme and Publications at the AA. Guests who attend this evening are helping us to keep our lectures, symposia and exhibitions free and open to everyone and proceeds from the 2018 Silver Gala made possible the revival of AA Files, the long-standing and globally-renowned journal of the AA.

The Silver Gala also offers AA students and staff the opportunity for us as individuals, and as a School, to reach out to networks who could potentially contribute to the success of the AA in the future.

We invite all students and members of staff to distribute invites to the gala. Should any of your selected individuals accept the invitation to attend, you will receive a free ticket to the event. Download this pack of useful material, send your invitations, and if your invitee indicates your name when making their booking, we’ll let you know.

Alternatively, buy your guest a ticket using the form below and your ticket will be for free.

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Members’ Screening: Metropolis (1927)

Series : Members' AA Cinema Screening
Date : November 27 2019
Time : 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Location : AA Cinema

Join us for a screening of Metropolis (1927) Directed by Fritz Lang

This influential German science-fiction film presents a highly stylised futuristic city where a beautiful and cultured utopia exists above a bleak underworld populated by mistreated workers. When the privileged youth Freder (Gustav Fröhlich) discovers the grim scene under the city, he becomes intent on helping the workers. He befriends the rebellious teacher Maria (Brigitte Helm), but this puts him at odds with his authoritative father, leading to greater conflict.

Only open to AA Members (including AA Students and Staff). Book your place using the form below.

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Members’ Event: Bauhaus Exhibition Tour with Ines Weizman

Series : Exhibition Tour
Date : December 9 2019
Time : 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Location : RIBA
Ticket Price : £0.00

Join us for a members’ tour of RIBA exhibitions Beyond Bauhaus – Modernism in Britain 1933–66 and László Moholy-Nagy in Britain: Between the New Vision and the New Bauhaus.

The tour will be led by Ines Weizman, director of the Bauhaus Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture and Planning and a professor of architectural theory at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, as well as Pete Collard, curator at the RIBA.

Meet in the entrance foyer of RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London, W1B 1AD at 5.55pm.

Ines Weizman is director of the Bauhaus Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture and Planning and a professor of architectural theory at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. She is founding director of the Centre for Documentary Architecture (CDA). In 2014, her edited book Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence was published by Routledge. The book Before and After: Documenting the Architecture of Disaster, co-written with Eyal Weizman, was published in the same year by Strelka Press. Her latest book Dust & Data. Traces of the Bauhaus across 100 Years was published in 2019 with Spector Books. The installation ‘Repeat Yourself’: Loos, Law and the Culture of the Copy was shown at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2012, and in 2013 as solo-shows in the Architecture Centre Vienna and the Buell Architecture Gallery at Columbia University, New York. Earlier research and exhibition projects include Celltexts. Books and other works produced in prison (together with Eyal Weizman), first exhibited in Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turino (2008, 2009, 2014, 2015). In 2019 she curated the exhibition of the CDA The Matter of Data: Tracing the Materiality of ‘Bauhaus Modernism’ that was shown at the Bauhaus-Museum Weimar and the Liebling Haus in Tel Aviv.

Open to AA Members. Become a member. Book your place using the form below.

AA Students go for free – the booking fee will be refunded to students once their attendance at the event is confirmed

Image: RIBA exhibition ‘Beyond Bauhaus’, Edmund Sumner, 2019

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1000 Forms of Dumplings – Celebrating 2020 Lunar New Year at the AA

Series : Reunion
Date : January 24 2020
Time : 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Location : 36 Bedford Square
Ticket Price : £0.00

As the symbol of family reunion and good fortune, dumplings are the stars of any table for a celebratory Lunar New Year. While the symbolic meaning may be shared across cultures, the form of dumplings has been transformed in different cuisines. This year at the AA we will gather with our creative minds and hands to explore the art of wrapping and celebrate the diversity of the AA community through the making of dumplings. There will be small prizes for those who get the lucky bites! We will name and document the dumplings so please be prepared for the photo-shooting and drawing session for your own creation.

The event is organised by the AA Chinese Alumni Group and coincides with Jury in Translation as part of the wider Architecture in Translation project. While the Jury in Translation celebrates the wealth embedded in different linguistic and cultural contexts in the production and dissemination of ideas, discourse and debate in architecture, the Lunar New Year celebration explores another dimension of translation through creating an immersive context – the transformed space, the sound, the smell, the colour and the act of beating rice cakes together are all non-linguistic forms of translation.

As a ticketed event a contribution of £15 is required to cover the costs involved. Your contribution grants you access and includes food and one free drink. There will also be a cash bar available.

Programme:

The evening will include dumpling making, rice cake beating, food, drink and Karaoke. .

The event is open to all (students/alumni/members/public wishing to connect) but booking is essential. Make your contribution and book your ticket using the form below.

Co-curated by Chen Zhan, AA Dipl and Jingru (Cyan) Cheng, AA PhD & M.Phil

Image credit: Painting by Andrea Goh, AA PhD Candidate; Composed by Chen Zhan, AA Dipl.

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Building Visit: The Standard with Orms

Series : Building Visit
Date : January 27 2020
Time : 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Location : The Standard, London
Ticket Price : £0.00

John McRae, Director of Orms, and project architect Simon Whittaker will lead AA Members on a tour of their recently completed project in King’s Cross, which saw the conversion of the brutalist former offices of Camden Council into a boutique hotel.

As lead consultant, Orms was responsible for the exterior architecture / shell and core, and worked alongside interior designer Shawn Hausman Design and interior architect Archer Humphryes.

Orms began the conversion from offices to a contemporary boutique hotel by retaining and cleaning the original brutalist concrete frame. The façade’s existing precast concrete panels formed an integral part of the building’s structure and so could not be removed or altered without significant structural remodelling. Adding three new-build storeys to the existing structure was a key component of Orms’ brief, and to accommodate the additional weight of the three new floors, Orms collaborated with Structural engineers Heyne Tillett Steel to add new steel columns to the existing structure. These were threaded like needles down through the existing waffle slabs to the 1st floor transfer slab and concrete columns below.

Please meet at 5:20pm at the entrance to The Standard, 10 Argyle Street, London WC1H 8EG. The tour will last for approximately 1.5 hours.

Open to AA Members (including AA Students & Staff). Become a member. Book your place using the form below.

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Building Visit: Coal Drops Yard

Series : Building Visit
Date : March 2 2020
Time : 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Location : Coal Drops Yard, Coal Office Restaurant
Ticket Price : £0.00

Join us for a tour of Coal Drops Yard with Tasmin Green from Heatherwick Studio.

Opened to the public in October 2018, Coal Drops Yard is a new retail quarter and public space designed by Heatherwick Studio. The project includes the restoration and transformation of two Victorian industrial buildings, and the addition of a curving roof that provides a new upper storey and connection between the buildings.

Tasmin Green joined Heatherwick Studio in 2012 and acted as the Project Leader during both the design and build of Coal Drops Yard.

Please meet at 4:55pm outside the Coal Office Restaurant, 2 Bagley Walk, Kings Cross, London N1C 4PQ. The tour will last for approximately 1.5 hours.

Booking is essential. This event is open to AA Members and Alumni (including AA Students and Staff). Become a member.

AA Students go for free – the booking fee will be automatically refunded to students once their attendance at the event is confirmed

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Exhibition Tour: SOM’s Anatomy of Structure – The Future of Art and Architecture

Series : Exhibition Tour
Date : March 13 2020
Time : 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location : Ambika P3, University of Westminster
Ticket Price : £0.00

Join this private tour of SOM’s Anatomy of Structure – The Future of Art and Architecture exhibition at the University of Westminster.

The exhibition by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in collaboration with Princeton University, TU Delft, and Global Robots, explores robotics and the future of art and architecture around five themes: Research + Future, Efficiency + Economy, Hierarchy + Order, Scale + Form, and Creation + Collaboration.

The tour is for AA Members, alumni and students and will last for 2 hours with a short talk at the end led by Bill Baker, structural engineering partner at SOM, and Mark Sarkisian, structural and seismic engineering partner in SOM’s San Francisco office.

Ambika P3, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS

Booking is essential. This event is open to AA Members and Alumni (including AA Students and Staff). Become a member.

AA Students go for free – the booking fee will be automatically refunded to students once their attendance at the event is confirmed

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Guided Tour of The School of Athens Exhibition

Series : Exhibition Tour
Date : October 10 2020
Time : 7:30 pm
Location : Benaki Museum

Join Ryan Neiheiser and Xristina Argyros, founders of Neiheiser Argyros, curators of The School of Athens exhibition and tutors of AA unit City/Hall: Community and Collective Form (Experimental 15), for a guided tour of their exhibition at the Benaki Museum in Athens followed by a drinks reception.

Inspired by Rafael’s fresco “The School of Athens” – a utopian vision of a free, open, informal, and common space for learning – the project recognises that common spaces within the university – unprogrammed spaces for impromptu conversation, casual gossip, heated debate, pop-up lectures, networking, and informal teaching – are vital to the institution’s continued relevance and vibrancy.

The School of Athens exhibition was first shown at the Greek Pavilion at the 16^th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2018. The new show at the Benaki Museum has been expanded and redesigned for the new context and represents the evolution of an ongoing research project into the architecture of the academic commons.

The project was produced as part of an international student collaboration between the Architectural Association in London and the National Technical University of Athens. Academic institutions included in the exhibition range from Plato’s Academy of Athens, the Carpenter Center by Le Corbusier, the ‘Infinite Corridor’ at MIT in Cambridge, the Athens Conservatory, and the voids of SANAA’s Rolex Learning Centre, among others.

Attendees must register to attend using the form below, and will be required to buy a ticket to the exhibition on entering the museum as well. The tour will start at 7.30pm EEST so please arrive early to buy your tickets beforehand.

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CURATOR LED VISIT OF ZOE ZENGHELIS EXHIBITION

Series : Members' Event
Date : June 26 2021
Time : 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Location : AA Gallery

Hamed Khosravi, curator of the first retrospective exhibition of the works of Zoe Zenghelis: ‘Do you remember how perfect everything was?’ will lead a tour for AA Members. Booking is essential and numbers are strictly restricted in line with Covid restrictions.

‘Do you remember how perfect everything was?’ presents and reviews Zenghelis’ early paintings from the 1960s, her years at OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture), through to recent works made in 2020. Stretched between abstract metropolitan tectonics and landscape structures, the exhibition represents an enquiry into absent architectural projects.
Hamed Khosravi is an architect, researcher, and educator. He is a Studio Master at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, running Diploma Unit 7 and the Projective Cities MPhil programme.

Please note: Refreshments will be available

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