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Issue 15 News from the Architectural Association AARCHITECTURE VERSO AARCHITECTURE CONTRIBUTORS Architectural Association (Inc.) News from the Erandi de Silva Registered Charity No. 311083 Architectural Association [email protected] Company limited by guarantee Issue 15 / Summer 2011 Registered in England No. 171402 www.aaschool.ac.uk Eleanor Dodman Registered office as above [email protected] ©2011 All rights reserved Hugo Hinsley Published by the [email protected] Architectural Association 36 Bedford Square Emma Letizia Jones London WC1B 3ES [email protected] Contact: Naoki Kotaka [email protected] [email protected] Nicola Quinn +44 (0)20 7887 4033 Paul McAneary Please send your news items for the next [email protected] issue to [email protected] Jan Nauta EDITORIAL BOARD [email protected] Alex Lorente, Membership Brett Steele, AA School Director Martin Self Zak Kyes, AA Art Director [email protected] EDITORIAL TEAM Liam Young Nicola Quinn, Managing Editor [email protected] Claire McManus, Graphic Designer Scrap Marshall, Danielle Rago and Manijeh Verghese, Student Editors Cover image: The Looking Machine c 1983, Image courtesy of the Cedric ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Price Estate, London. Two articles Shumon Basar celebrating the life and work of Cedric Valerie Bennett Price appear in this issue on pages 4–7 Kathleen Formosa Roz Jackson Joanne McCluskey Esther McLaughlin Roger Mead Charlotte Newman Simon Whittle Printed by Cassochrome, Belgium AARCHITECTURE Issue 15 2 Bedford Square Fundraising Update 3 Building Works Begin in Bedford Square 4 Wish We Were Here 6 The Archive as a Productive Space of Conflict 8 Writing as Architecture 10 Projects Review 2011 14 Magic Format 16 New Forms of Practice 18 The Autopoiesis of Architecture 21 Membership Events 24 AA Timeline 2010/11 28 Faceted House 1 30 Honours Students 2011 32 Foster + Partners Award 33 The Dennis Sharp Prize 34 New from AA Publications and Bedford Press 36 Photo Library: Call for Collections 38 Hooke Park Building Begins 40 Spring 2011 School Meetings 41 AA Tohoku Earthquake Action 42 News 1 News Bedford Square Fundraising Update AA community relaxes on the terrace. Photo Valerie Bennett Following last year’s summer announcement of locating the Library and Archive, building a Lecture the AA’s receipt of its largest-ever gift in the form Hall and transforming the Main Entrance, Display of the Norah Garlick bequest established to support and Exhibition Spaces of the School. the launch of our new rural campus being designed During the past year students and special and built by AA students in Hooke Park in Dorset, we projects attracted significant income. The future have for the second year running another important funding of existing Scholarships and Bursaries new gift to announce to the AA. continues to be an important focus. A new award will Thanks to the immense generosity of a be announced in the Autumn and a further legacy long-time and dear friend of the AA who wishes at announcement with regard to supporting students this point in to remain anonymous until final details later in the year. are arranged in the coming weeks, I am immensely All donations enrich the future of the AA pleased to announce the AA’s receipt of a pledge and a make a real difference not only to our students, for an enormous and extremely generous seven-figure but also to the architectural debate worldwide of donation that will help launch, in the most important which the AA seeks to be an essential part. No matter way imaginable the AA’s ambitious new series of how large or small the gift, your contribution is building projects in Bedford Square. highly valued. As we approach the School’s centenary of being based in Bedford Square we are in the planning Brett Steele, AA Director stages of a capital campaign. We seek to create better facilities, host the best tutors and revolutionise If you would like to find out more about the AA’s teaching methods in order to retain our reputation capital campaign and projects currently underway as a world leader in architectural education. where your donation could make a difference, please In January 2010, the London based architects use the contact details below. Wright & Wright delivered a ten-year masterplan that provides a framework to guide development in the Esther McLaughlin, Head of Development coming years. This includes rebuilding the workshops [email protected], and improving accessibility around the School’s +44 (0)20 7887 4090 buildings. From there, major projects include re- 2 News Building Works Begin in Bedford Square Nos. 32–39 Bedford Square. Photo Valerie Bennett Works have now begun on the first phase of the at basement level between Nos. 38 to 37 and from AA’s Masterplan. This initial phase is primarily related the old bookshop to the corridor adjacent to the to the workshops and third floor lateral openings, restaurant. Services diversion works commenced or connections between buildings. on Monday 1 August, to clear the areas in preparation Phase 1, known as The Essential Works for the structural works. phase has been further broken down into Phase 1A and Phase 1B. Phase 1B is the works to be undertaken from 19 Phase 1A is the works undertaken during the September 2011 to July 2012 and consists of the summer period from 18 July to 18 September 2011 following: and consists of the following: Nos. 39 to 37 16 Morwell Street Structural alteration works to the basements of Nos. Stripping out of finishes and services to the basement 39 to 37 to form the new Digital Prototyping area. of 16 Morwell Street, installation of new services, Forming of the new service duct from the basement of structural screed and partitions to form the new No. 39 to the roof, demolition of the rear extensions to Model Making area. New ventilation services are Nos. 38 and 37, replacing the structural floor slabs in being provided to serve a new paint spray booth. the basements of Nos. 39 and 37, upgrading the This requires a new service duct to be formed through pavement vault areas to serve as new plant rooms the existing floors from ground floor up to the roof. including new boilers serving Nos. 39 and 37 and the Data and services diversions are underway, together installation of services and finishes to complete Digital with the installation of temporary partitions at each Prototyping. level to screen off the work area. Cutting through Works to risers in all three buildings will the concrete floors, to form the new ducts commenced necessitate data and services works to all floor levels, on 1 August. which will be carried out in a phased approach to reduce the disruption to school operations Nos. 39 to 32 Bedford Square The existing yard area to the rear of Nos. 38 and 37, A new service riser will be formed through the roof once enlarged with the removal of the rear extensions, of No. 39, which will provide extraction services to will be excavated to increase the usable area. Digital Prototyping as part of Phase 1B works. Structural opening will be formed through party walls Building Works, AA, July 2011 – July 2012 of Nos. 39 to 38, 38 to 37, 34–36 to 33 and 33 to 32 at third floor level. Additionally openings will be formed 3 Events Wish We Were Here By Scrap Marshall and Jan Nauta A wall of Cedric Price’s sketches with remakes of his furniture designs. Photo Sue Barr ‘I have a soft spot for human beings – Cedric Price’ (POA), the aforementioned badges, and last but by no read the text on the hundreds of badges given away means least... the first public tasting of the CPSavoury, free as part of the exhibition Wish We Were Here – a lamb and rosemary bun, devised by chef and friend The Mental Notes of Cedric Price. Occupying the Front of Cedric Price, Fergus Henderson, that ‘was inspired Members’ Room for the month of March, the badges by Cedric’s cheeks’. were but one of many fragments that were brought Rather than a formal showing of completed together to present the thoughts and ideas of architect, projects, the reproduced furniture displayed the work thinker and badge aficionado Cedric Price. and research as ongoing and incomplete; drawings, The exhibition assembled three bodies of films, excerpts of lectures and conversations, books current research: a project for publication entitled and an interactive portal, all in a fragmented manner. Cedric Price – Complete Works by Samantha With a thick black carpet, the Front Members’ Room Hardingham, Hans Ulrich Obrist’s Conversation became part study, part lounge – creating an informal Series archive and an interactive online project atmosphere to navigate leisurely through the varying conceived at the Department for Exhibition Design forms of the mental notes of Cedric Price. and Curatorial Practice at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe (HfG) by students Kilian Scrap Marshall is a Fourth Year AA Student Fabich and Stella-Sophie Seroglou, supervised by and Student Editor of AArchitecture. Wilfried Kühn, Armin Linke and Markus Miessen. In addition, newly commissioned for the Jan Nauta is a Fifth Year AA Student. exhibition was the remaking of a range of furniture designed by Cedric Price for the Robert Fraser Gallery, Wish We Were Here – The Mental Notes Duke Street, London (1961–66), selected pieces of of Cedric Price, Exhibition, 5–26 March 2011, ephemera retrieved from the AA Archive and the AA Front Members’ Room Cedric Price Estate by the Public Occasion Agency 4 Ephemera sourced from both the Cedric Price Archive A student engages with HfG’s interactive online and the AA Archive.