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In seeking the solutions to environmental and social crises, the answer might be found in any return to pre-metropolitan conditions of inhabitation. Landscape Urbanism Guest Series PG 5

AAIS Interprofessional Studio PG 14

Literature is a hybrid, bastardised medium generally, and essentially so. States of Disintegration PG 10

Landscape Urbanism Guest Series PG 5

Strawberry Tables: A Potted History PG 12 Verso

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aacit r h ecture Cnbuto tri ors NOAB TE OUT THE DESIGN News from the Architectural Alisa Andrasek The first six issues of AArchitecture, 2 Learning from Denise (and Bob) Association [email protected] established in 2006, looked to establish Issue 9 / Summer 2009 a new title in the AA’s ever-evolving 4 Forming Greg Lynn FORM aaschool.ac.uk Andrzej Blonski series of magazines and journals and [email protected] in doing so revisited the legacy of ©2009 numerous short-lived AA publications. 5 Landscape Urbanism Guest Series All rights reserved Giles Bruce Since the publication of the seventh Published by the Architectural [email protected] issue, the magazine has looked to shift 6 Visiting Schools 2009/10 Association, 36 Bedford Square, direction even further, in its structure, London WC1B 3ES Mike Davies now including a student editor, and in its form, as a newsletter with a more 9 Re-reading Palladio Contact: Ricardo de Ostos standardised and repeating format. [email protected] [email protected] At the same time alternative modes 10 States of Disintegration Nicola Quinn +44 (0)20 7887 4033 of publication continue to be explored Henderson Downing though Bedford Press, established at the To send news briefs: [email protected] AA in 2008. In this and future issues it is 12 Strawberry Tables: A Potted History [email protected] hoped that AArchitecture will respond Merlin Eayrs to the changing context of the AA and 14 AAIS: Interprofessional Studio Editral o i Board [email protected] its public programme to communicate Alex Lorente, Membership student projects and writing. Brett Steele, AA School Director Marina Lathouri 16 AA Student Trips around the World Zak Kyes, AA Art Director [email protected] Architectural Association (Inc.) 19 Urban Geometry from Solar Geometry Editral o i Team Theo Lorenz Registered Charity No. 311083 Nicola Quinn, Managing Editor [email protected] Company limited by guarantee Wayne Daly and Claire McManus, Registered in England No. 171402 20 AA/IE: Business School Workshop Graphic Designers Kate MacTiernann Registered office as above Scrap Marshall, Student Editor [email protected] 21 Embodied Patterns Lecture Series

Acknowledgements Markus Miessen Shumon Basar [email protected] 22 New from AA Publications Valerie Bennett Eugene Han Nora Nilsen 23 The Canon and its Disjunction Olaf Kneer [email protected] Luisa Miller Christopher Pierce Pavlos Phillipou Andrea Palladio: His Life and Legacy Nathalie Rozencwajg [email protected] Sandra Sanna 24 Hooke Park Visit Yvonne Tan Tanja Siems Tom Verebes [email protected] 25 Le Corbusier’s Paris: Printed by Cassochrome, Belgium Douglas Spencer [email protected] A Tour with Richard Dunlap

Theo Spyropoulos 26 News [email protected] 27 News Briefs

1 AA Lecture and Symposium, 30 April—1 May 2009

Learning from Denise (and Bob) By Scrap Marshall

In the afterword to Having Words, a collection of heavy. After a brief lecture on the current work of her essays published as part of the AA’s Words series, joint practice with Venturi, students from across the Denise Scott Brown discusses the energy and intensity school provided one image from their current work, of her shared career with husband Robert Venturi. As a very brief spoken outline and a question to her an architect, planner and one of the most provocative regarding an issue raised by the projects. Quickly thinkers and educators of her generation, she also (‘get to the question…’ to quote Brett Steele), interests acknowledges the fight for identity concomitant in and issues arose, with the projects drifting into the such a partnership. After the two events coinciding background. with the launch of the book – an evening lecture and Whether discussing questions of ornament and a symposium the following morning – Scott Brown’s structure or the problems of both physical and social identity, it seems, has never been in question. context, the concentration, insight and clarity of her The lecture, ‘Towards an Active Socioplastics’, written work became fully evident in this quick and was taken from the essay of the same name in Having punchy format. Alma Wang’s Intermediate 3 project Words and stretched to well over two hours. The essay, regarding ‘narrative infrastructures’ became a one of 12 in the book, covers 15 sub-categories and discussion on the different means and merits of describes biographically – or as she says, ‘parably’ – approaching a problem – artistically or scientifically. the origins of her attitude towards socially responsive Denise’s suggestion that beauty can be a by-product architecture and planning. From her tricontinental of a scientific or functionalist methodology showed upbringing and education, her time at the AA, and the her modernist sensibilities, but she also noted that, as influence of her mentor Herb Gans at Penn, to her with writing, a visual and artistic approach can be a own research and teaching with the ground-breaking tool to test, criticise and bring to light a problem. Her Denise Scott Brown giving her lecture. Learning from Las Vegas and Levittown research insistence, however, was that an artistic approach studios, she conveys both the rigour and emotional should never come at the expense of science. In Kyle’s involvement that contributes to her stance that Schertzing’s Emtech project, simple wooden elements ‘making should be associated with ideas’. are combined to become friction-based structures. His The essay shares the ‘cool warmth’ of the question ‘how would you use them in your own work?’ writing of her mentor, Gans, and provides a brought laughs from the guests but also fundamental fascinating and detailed study of the growth of an questions of scale, weight and weather which are often obviously ongoing education. A committed teacher, brushed aside. Scott Brown’s desire is that the essays and her life’s Not only did this session show an architect, work become a ‘quarry’ of information, a ‘living will’ academic and educator still open to new ideas, to help guide her ‘architectural grandchildren’ and it’s questions and the possibilities of the future, it perhaps fitting that the compilation is brought to provided a counterpoint to the traditional evening fruition through the school where she first started to lecture. It showed that when students participate in formulate her own architectural identity. the discussion, theories, attitudes and indeed the However, transferred to a long and image-heavy lecturer can really be questioned. lecture, the constant flux between this ‘quarry’ and The evening lectures, unique in their inception a masterclass in both planning, and the development continue to be relevant and provocative but often end and use of the diagram became exhausting. That’s not in glassy-eyed silence from the audience. If somehow to say the lecture lacked relevance or wit, but in her the qualities of Denise’s morning session could be foreword to Having Words, she insists the writing translated into some of these evening events, then they should be ‘cogent and graphic without the need for could become even more productive and enjoyable for pictures’, whereas the lecture suffered from an the audience, student or otherwise, and the presenters abundance of such pictures. Trying to fit in 50 years themselves. of work into two hours is a tall order for anyone, let alone someone as prolific as Scott Brown. Scrap Marshall is a second year student and student The following morning, however, saw one of editor of AArchitecture the most interesting, student involved and relevant symposiums – with as few consonants as the lecture hall has seen all year: image-light and discussion- The Symposium with Venturi and Scott Brown. Photos Valerie Bennett 2 3 AA Lecture, 11 March 2009 AA Lecture Series, February—March 2009 Forming Greg Lynn FORM Landscape Urbanism Guest Series By Douglas Spencer

M atthew Gandy preparing for his talk. Photo Valerie Bennett

Landscape Urbanism’s annual programme of public of recent entanglements between the body and lectures assembled a range of designers, historians and technology in urban space’, he offered significant theorists to consider the discipline’s current practice, insights into how urban infrastructures are, significance and scope. simultaneously, the means through which the city is Charles Waldheim, who originally coined the joined to ‘nature’ and through which its inhabitants term ‘Landscape Urbanism’, adopted an historical are socially segregated. perspective in order to assess the significance of its Infrastructural concerns were also the focus distinctive contributions to urban design. In his of Kelly Shannon’s Water Urbanism in Asia. She lecture, Planning, Ecology and the Emergence suggested the ways in which water-based Greg Lynn presenting his new book, Greg Lynn FORM. Photo Valerie Bennett of Landscape, he presented Landscape Urbanism’s infrastructures could function as both a “structural origins in the late 90s as an historical moment of and a structuring” agent to ameliorate some of the Greg Lynn was at the AA on 11 March 2009, in ‘It’s unlike a chronological monograph. We ripped distinct and lasting significance – an ‘epistemological problematic conditions identified in Gandy’s talk. conversation with Ross Lovegrove, Mark Rappolt the thing apart into topics. I think concepts would be paradigm shift’ – whose origins might best be located Introducing a range of projects drawn from her (former editor of AA Files) and publisher Robert too strong a word… So topics; like structure, aperture, in examples such as Ludwig Hilberseimer’s mid- practice, she argued for the integrative and strategic Violette. The event, entitled Discussing Architectural colour, massing. These were all headings and we century project for Lafayette Park in Detroit, in which potential of the discipline, echoing Waldheim’s Publications, focused on the status of architectural would then rip things apart and reassemble them the Marxist architect’s plans engaged strategically argument. theory – and more broadly design – publications, and under those headings, and as a way of putting them with the economic, ecological and ethnic conditions Philosopher and critical theorist David marked the publication in October 2008 of the Rizzoli in a context we invited contributors to come in and of the prototypical Fordist city. Cunningham provided the final lecture, Metropolitics: book, Greg Lynn FORM, edited by Greg Lynn and contribute. So they weren’t asked to write about a Andreas Ruby too dealt with the question of Critical Theory, Collectivity and the Right to the Mark Rappolt. project or me but to write about the topic. Like strategies, though he focused upon ‘defamiliarisation’ City. Offering a timely and pertinent corrective to the Greg Lynn is the leader and founder of Greg geometry. We got a mathematician to write about rather than realpolitik. His paper, Strategies of notion that, in seeking the solutions to environmental Lynn FORM. In addition to architecture he studied geometry. And Mark’s introduction clarifies that. So Estrangement, took a broadly Brechtian line, propped and social crises, the answer might be found in any environmental design and philosophy, and is a writer when you come to the book, the only thing that helps up with some Tschumi, in arguing for the capacity return to pre-metropolitan conditions of inhabitation, and theorist as well as an architect and designer. Prior you navigate it is Mark’s introduction where he talks of certain techniques to alienate us from customary he argued that the potential for ‘new kinds of relation to starting his own firm he worked in the offices of both biographically and autobiographically, as well spatial perceptions and hence reawaken our sense of between individual and collective subjectivity’ exists Peter Eisenman and Antoine Predock. He is also a as putting all the contributors into a context. And also active engagement and participatory invention. within the given conditions of metropolitan life. professor of architecture at the University of Applied for me the audience is very important when you do a In ‘Cyborg Urbanisation’, geographer Matthew Through the valuable, insightful and wide- Arts Vienna, a studio professor at UCLA, a visiting publication… for this book I really wanted to put a lot Gandy approached the difficult conceptual ground on ranging contributions offered by these speakers we professor at Yale School of Architecture and is on the of effort into having friends that are not architects and which the biological, the human and the technological continue to critically engage with the potentials of executive council of the Institute for Architecture and friends that I admire for their creativity as well as are intermeshed – significant territory for LU’s our discipline, whilst opening its development on to Urban Studies in New York. colleagues. So I tried to get the colleagues and friends methodology – drawing upon a range of literary, a broader realm of theory and practice. in the book in some way that it was significant and filmic and urban examples. Suggesting the ‘tension helped the argument.’ – Greg Lynn between threatening and liberatory understandings Douglas Spencer is an AA LU Course Tutor 4 5 AA Visiting Schools, Summer 2009 Visiting Schools 2009/10

AA Berlin Laboratory, (zearchitecture.com) in the port of Tel Aviv. The 4–17 September 2009 workshop’s objective is to deliver an atlas of objects/ The exceptional status of Berlin as an island with its prints from each participant to be incorporated into own rule system has given rise to various phases of future theoretical and built projects and publications, intense creative production throughout its history. giving the workshop a wide-ranging material and This output – erratic but often highly influential – intellectual influence. No previous computer/software is inscribed in the city’s fabric as an inventory of past experience is required. Design staff include: and present experimentation and fragmented Christopher Pierce (AA), Christopher Matthews (AA), manifestos. In recent years, Berlin has emerged as a Aaron Sprecher (McGill University), Eran Neuman major platform for contemporary cultural production (Tel Aviv University). within Europe. Labelled ‘poor but sexy’, it has been colonised by a vast creative community making use of AA Summer DLab, the city’s unique economic and spatial conditions and 3–14 August 2009 its concentration of skills. Consistently drawing participants from a diverse AA Berlin Laboratory is an intensive workshop range of design backgrounds and experience, the that explores modes of creative production and their Summer DLab provides an active testing ground for manifestations in the city. Using Berlin as a field for the investigation of computational techniques in investigation, it aims to trace the complex relationship contemporary design processes. As the programme’s between cultural production and the city. The role of format is based on an intense series of exercises and experimentation is at the core of this inquiry. related production methods, students are able to AA Berlin Laboratory will pair AA and exploit the dynamic format of the course as a means to Berlin-based skills. Individual workshop units will simultaneously learn, discuss, and experiment. Beyond be headed by teams with backgrounds in architecture, the use of digital techniques, unit briefs are focused science, art and creative disciplines. The Laboratory on the seamless integration between logical will be hosted by architectural gallery Aedes in its new computational systems and prototyping methods location in Pfefferberg, Prenzlauer Berg, and will be as tested speculation for further development. The accompanied by a series of public events. Intermediate Programme Head is Eugene Han. tutors Olaf Kneer and Marianne Mueller are Programme Directors. AA/IE Madrid Summer School, 16–25 July 2009 AA CSI: Connections, Surfaces, Focusing on the AZCA district in Madrid, this Infrastructures, 8–7 July 2009 studio-based course will emphasise hybrid public The AA/TAU CSI Global School at Tel Aviv initiatives and emergent urban ideas. By collaborating University from 8–7 July 2009 is the first in a series closely with Madrid’s architectural scene and urban of three annual summer workshops focused on planning institutions students will explore the city’s developing innovative techniques for synthesising contemporary challenges and its unique architectural drawing and 3D printing. Working closely with Objet culture. The course will investigate alternative Geometries, international and Israeli students (from architectures and critical ways of working across new programmes in Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem) will be design platforms, collaborative media and material involved in an intensive 10-day programme of making systems in order to visualise proposals and ideas that and testing 2D, ‘thick 2D’ and 3D digital printing and in turn are intended to energise larger political, rapid prototyping techniques. The workshop professional and public discussions about the future programme is inspired by British pioneers of art and of the AZCA district. Participants will be taught by architectural representation – Joseph Gandy, Robert AA and IE school tutors, alumni and guest lecturers Adam, James Stirling, David Hockney, John Outram including emergent young Spanish architects. and Michael Webb – and influenced by Israel’s unique Alongside the design workshop, a public forum cultural heritage for textiles and ceramics. The varied midway through the course will address contemporary material production from CNC milling, laser cutting urban and architectural issues related to the theme of and Objet 3D printing, aiming to emphasise the the workshop. Confirmed guest speakers include Iñaki making and craft of contemporary architectural Abalos, Ricky Burdett and Ross Wimer. The AA production, will be displayed in an end of workshop co-ordinator is Ricardo de Ostos and the IE C aption exhibition at the ZeZeZe Architecture Gallery co-ordinator is Jose Ballesteros. 6 7 AA Symposium, 14 March 2009

Shanghai Summer School, to offer new readings of the urban anatomy, from 14–22 August 2009 which design proposals can emerge. Using the vast Re-reading Palladio The Architectural Association will return to Shanghai resource of maps available in Singapore, participants in August 2009 for its third consecutive AA Shanghai will explore alternative ways of observing the city, and By Marina Lathouri Summer School, to be held at the University of Hong study the urban fabric through its larger geographies. Kong Faculty of Architecture Study Centre. The Conceptual topographies and their translation into intensive nine day studio-based course will investigate physical manifestations will form the basis of our new computational design approaches in architecture discussions. and urbanism within the context of Shanghai. As in previous years this visiting school The conventional point-block tower and welcomes participants with any background and level low-rise sprawl have been the primary (and default) of experience. The hands-on studio-based workshop, typologies of Shanghai’s urban densification and whereby participants propose ideas and designs, will expansion over the last 20 years. Given the be informed by an introduction to contemporary complications arising from the global economic methods of physical and digital mapping and turmoil, it seems that there has never been a more modelling. The programme directors are Nathalie crucial time to challenge and propose alternatives Rozencwajg and Michel da Costa Golcalves to these dominant models of urban growth. This AA visiting workshop will develop computational design Summer Architecture School, tools and research concepts that are able to engage 13–31 July 2009 with the development of alternative social, spatial, This year’s AA Summer Architecture School – structural and material systems. It will attempt to MINICITY: Smallness in an Era of City-Boom R e-reading Palladio Symposium. Photo Valerie Bennett formulate new discourses on contemporary Slow-Down – turns its attention to a reinvigorated computation and production in the disciplines of examination of the micro, the modest and the near On the occasion of the exhibition Andrea Palladio: His of Palladio’s scholarship, the one that concerns the architecture and urbanism. Students will investigate invisible: diminutive buildings, tiny projects and Life and Legacy at the Royal Academy of Arts, the AA analysis of formal structures. Caroline van Eck with code-based modelling and simulation techniques, mini-inserts in small spaces. If, for the time being, the and RA jointly organised a symposium, Re-reading The Virtual Reconstruction of Classical Architecture: experimenting with prototypical forms of high- age of bigness has come to a sudden halt, replaced by Palladio, to look at different aspects of Palladio’s Palladio and Inigo Jones as Architectural Historians posed density, high-rise urbanism. These new tools and all manner of contractions, what are the short term continuing impact, co-ordinated and hosted by me. anew the question of the construction of architectural concepts will be applied to the creation of dynamic effects on our ambitions for the near future? The aim was two-fold: to critically re-examine not history and its relevance to other historical practices, architectural scenarios and urban models in relation Radical slowdown might at first sound like an only Palladio’s architectural production – both built and Werner Oechslin’s talk on Palladianism with or to a site in central Shanghai, which will serve as oxymoron. But what if cities are seen as the and written – but also the several readings and without Palladio demonstrated how history, in its the test-bed for team-based design exercises. aggregation of miniature moments instead of the usual interpretations of this production, and to reflect on multiple interpretations and forms, becomes not only Students will participate in introductory design heroic accounts? Could the ‘iconic’ remain an active the relevance of this distinct architectural knowledge a vehicle of architectural theory but also a source of workshops and seminars, leading to the second phase ingredient – but become invisible instead? While to contemporary arguments and projects. speculation in design. in which they will develop design proposals human achievement in the 20th century privileged the In the late 1940s and 50s, canonical readings The presentations were followed by the responding to a shared studio brief. Alongside global or the intergalactic (remember the space-race?), of Palladio had a strong impact, not only for screening of the filmPalladio: The Architect and his studio-based design tutorials and seminars, a series of the 21st century places its great hopes in the ‘nano’, architectural history and theory, but also on the way Influence in America by James Ackerman and John lectures and presentations will address contemporary whether it is increasingly powerful microprocessors or practicing architects where trying to reformulate the Terry as well as two short films in which two urban and architectural topics related to the theme urgent housing needs for disaster victims around the principles of architectural design after the critique of contemporary architects, Arata Isozaki and Richard of the workshop. The AA Shanghai Summer School world. Big isn’t necessarily always the biggest idea. modernism. Since Rudolf Wittkower’s studies on McCormac, talked about Palladio in relation to their Academic co-ordinator is Tom Verebes. As ever, the Summer Architecture School will Alberti and Palladio which appeared as a book in 1949 work. The final discussion, opened by the examine the topic from a number of compelling (Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism), and contributions of Howard Burns (co-curator of the Designed Geographies: AA Singapore Visiting perspectives: social, cultural, economic, ecological and Colin Rowe’s transfer of Wittkower into the analysis exhibition) and Alan Colquhoun, reiterated in many Workshop, 15–24 July 2009 technological. It will employ London as an of modern architecture in Mathematics of the Ideal respects the question, which, Colquhoun had initially After completing a three-year cycle of studying experimental laboratory of ideas and actions. The Villa, many of the basic tenets submitted in these put forward in his essay Classicism and Ideology – ‘Does Singapore’s dense urban condition through proposals three-week long course — based on the renowned studies have been accepted, popularised, mutated and the classical tradition have a-historical aesthetic value, for high-rise structures, the fourth year of this AA Unit System — emphasises techniques of also attacked. Through these readings the work of or is it bounded by a specific history and therefore a pioneering AA visiting workshop will introduce a new interpretation, recording, drawing, making and Palladio reached the contemporary sensibility as an specific set of inescapable political connotations?’ cycle of study. Our agenda will pursue our research thinking through diverse media types, both analogue architecture of mathematical exactitude and harmonic It is precisely the emphasis placed upon the classical into density through Designed Geographies, and digital. The programme directors are Shumon proportions – the proportional relationships as the tradition, its historiographical and architectural exploring the potential of organisational systems to Basar and Natasha Sandmeier regulative structure of order which would reveal the implications as well as the broader question of history induce new approaches for programmes, site and harmony between the parts and the whole. in architectural design that makes all of the above issues context in growing urban environments. The administrative co-ordinator for all While Lionel March’s paper Remarks on Number as relevant today as they were 50 or 500 years ago. Expanding our outlook on instrumental forms AA Visiting Schools is Sandra Sanna questioned Wittkower’s single geometrical formula, of density we will cross-reference layers of urban [email protected] Pier Vittorio Aureli’s discussion, The Geopolitics of the Marina Lathouri is a Course Master on Histories conditions to propose new ramified readings of the www.aaschool.ac.uk/visitingschool Ideal Villa: Palladio and the Project of an Anti-ideal city and Theories of Architecture and Co-curator of the city. Traditional mapping techniques will be tweaked problematised one of the underlying premises of much Research Cluster, Theorising the City 8 9 AA Alumni Projects

society and its media offer us endless fantasies, Joseph McCarthy; and pretty soon we had a States of Disintegration roles, situations to step into and play out. The structure and a whole body of work that was writer’s task, he says, is to create the reality. His doing something meaningful within the present. Markus Miessen in conversation with Tom McCarthy point is brilliant – only I don’t think a writer can MM: What constitutes your interest in states create a total reality purged of fiction. Why of disintegration? would he want to? The writer replays the whole TM: It is sexy: Things fall apart, the centre cannot situation at another level. As Paul de Man would hold. Despite toying with totalitarian structures say, he restates the fact of inauthenticity in in my work with the INS, I am anti-totalitarian increasingly self-conscious ways; but to know in all senses. I am against the master-narrative, inauthenticity is not the same as to be authentic. be it a Hegelian-Marxist, humanist-rationalist, MM: ‘Tintin and the Secret of Literature’, which is a (neo)liberal or what-have-you. These things rather long essay that comes in the format of a need to be blown apart: that’s where good art book, is an interesting hybrid as well. Can you – and good politics – becomes possible. please elaborate on your notion and interest of MM: Together with Hans Ulrich Obrist, I founded the hybrid? the Brutally Early Club in London in 2006, a TM: I like the format of the essay – not the academic meeting point for those people that like to get book or paper, but the full, rich, literary essay up early and discuss issues of their interest with form that you can trace back from David Foster us. What are your thoughts about alternative Wallace to Hazlitt, Bacon or Montaigne. I love forms of the contemporary salon? the way that the essays of someone like Bataille TM: The salon is a really interesting model. It is or Burroughs will veer into fiction, and vice essentially nineteenth century: already by the versa. You could see Moby Dick as a set of essays time Musil is writing The Man Without Qualities framed within a fiction. Literature is a hybrid, there is something quite retro about the crazy bastardised medium generally, and essentially so. salons in that book, something comic about their That’s one of the things that makes it so failure to come to terms with modernity. I am compelling and frustrating, in equal measure. seduced by the notion of the think-tank or secret MM: What role does architecture, physical and committee. You get it a lot in Burroughs’s non-physical, play in your writing? fiction: this shady group that meet round a long, TM: A large one. Remainder revolves around this polished board table and plot either world N ew York, 25 September 2007: INS General Secretary Tom McCarthy and INS Chief Philosopher ‘remembered’ building that the hero has re-built domination or the downfall of the reality studio. Simon Critchley read a joint statement. for him. The parts of the building that he does I would like to see the Brutally Early Club move not remember he has built as ‘blank spaces’: just in that direction. Tom McCarthy is a writer and artist. He has MM: One of the key elements of Remainder is the walls with no detail or texture. And the space MM: Could you please define your concept of worked in Amsterdam as a literary editor, in protagonist’s obsession to try to reconstruct and itself dictates the possible movements within it, audience? British television and as co-editor of Mute re-enact scenes from his past. What is your and hence the ways the narrative might turn. TM: I have not really thought about that much. magazine. His debut novel, Remainder, was first definition of authenticity? This is even more the case when he reconstructs ‘Audience’ comes from ‘audio’, ‘I hear’. So radio published in November 2005, becoming a cult TM: The hero’s definition is inhabiting movements a bank in which a heist is to take place: near the would be the perfect medium, and the truest hit championed by British webzines (3:AM and gestures ‘seamlessly’, with no distance end he shoots someone simply because their audience would be someone like Cocteau’s Magazine’s Book of the Year for 2005) and the between the event and the consciousness of the positions within this architectural ground-plan Orphée, who picks up transmissions as he fiddles literary press. It has just won the Believer Book person performing it. I think this is impossible. suggest this action. with the dial – or like the angels in Rilke’s Duino Award. Markus Miessen recently caught up It’s the same impossible desire experienced by MM: You are the General Secretary of the Elegies, who may or may not hear our cries as with him for an interview. Reproduced here are Thomas Mann’s Tonio Kröger, who wants to International Necronautical Society (INS). they billow endlessly through space. some extracts: simply ‘be’ but finds himselfécarté du monde by Could you please explain the main ambition and MM: What is your next project? his artistic insight [what he calls Erkenntnis]; or thesis of this organisation? TM: I am completing my new novel, C. It’s about Markus Miessen: Tom, your first novel,Remainder , of Hamlet, who longs to rid himself of TM: The INS is a construct that I set up in 1999 by technology and mourning. just won the Believer Book Award. Can you ‘conscience’ and enter the realm of pure ‘action’. semi-ironically reprising the format of early please tell me about the essential narrative of Experience is always mediated – but then there’s twentieth-century avant-gardes: manifestos, Markus Miessen is an alumnus of the AA and the book? this narrative of ‘naturalness’ laid on top of it. committees, denunciations and proclamations. It a former Diploma Unit Master Tom McCarthy: The hero, whose name we never This is what makes people in films, was launched with a manifesto fetishising death: learn, receives eight and a half million pounds in paradoxically, more authentic than us: their I was reading a lot of Blanchot and Derrida and Visit necronauts.org for more information compensation for an accident which ‘involved experience does not seem mediated, despite, or wanted to fold that in. I appointed a committee about the INS. something falling from the sky’. Feeling perhaps due to, being pure media. of writers, artists and philosophers and asked inauthentic and ‘second hand’ as a consequence MM: What is your interest in the blur of fiction them to present reports to the Executive of having to relearn basic movements, he uses his and reality? Council, and we started arraigning other writers money to reconstruct situations in which he feels TM: In his introduction to Crash, Ballard points out and artists to appear in front of the committee in ‘authentic’. that we are surrounded by fictions. Consumer ‘hearings’ that, again, reprised those of Stalin or 10 11 AA Live Spaces Strawberry Tables: A Potted History By Henderson Downing

When I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries tables are constructed during the most frenetic period in your garden there, I do beseech you send for some of the academic year when time and other resources of them. – Richard III (iii.4) prove to be in extremely short supply. Reflecting such a potentially calamitous context, any potted history of Shakespeare’s lines remind us that a few centuries the strawberry tables would have to acknowledge some ago it would have been a short stroll from Bloomsbury minor mishaps and last-minute adjustments. At least to the celebrated fruit crops grown in the gardens of two of the many memorable structures situated in the Bishop of Ely in that quarter of Holborn now Chings Yard incorporated slightly out-of-control encircling Bleeding Heart Yard. Although the yard’s water features, including Tom Heneghan’s marvellous atmospheric place-name probably stems from the strawberry washing machine that sent a light spray of famous heart-shaped strawberries that once covered sugary liquid into the gathered crowds. the fertile ground (a Strawberry Fayre is still held Last year the architectural press playfully in an adjacent street every June), the gothic tales criticised the AA for being like Ascot or Henley in of lust and murder later attached to the area should maintaining a predictably traditional format for the not be dismissed. For me, the rich fusion of fact grand opening of its summer show. Strawberries were and fantasy entwined in the scarlet tracings of the cited as a contributing factor. Unsurprisingly, when ‘good strawberries’ of Bleeding Heart Yard gets coupled with champagne such conspicuous replicated each year – albeit in a marginally less consumption reinforces charges of elitism. A suitably macabre form – in the AA’s own strawberry-stained effete response might question the luxury status of narrative. For this last instalment in a loose series commercial strawberries, naively pondering whether on the school’s ‘live spaces’, the focus shifts from Richard III would still beseech the Bishop of Ely exhibition interzones to a specific type of object: today. As with the 28 000 kilos devoured during two the strawberry table that supports the thousands of weeks of tennis at Wimbledon, the 560 punnets strawberries consumed at the graduation ceremony annually decanted onto the AA’s strawberry tables are and Projects Review. no longer locally sourced. Indeed, the industrial scale Contemplating an image of graduating students of berry production recently triggered a national row grazing from a strawberry-lined trough in the shape of over the rapid colonisation of picturesque rural two ‘A’s, it struck me that these annual constructions locations by polytunnel cities from zero (complete were ripe for semiotic decoding. Shuttling between with satellite villages of caravans housing underpaid novelty and nonchalance, between experimental seasonal workers). According to the experts, architectural fantasy and a more restrained design strawberries are best eaten fresh from the ground on a economy, the remarkably varied forms have been warm summer’s day when the fruit is still soaking up equally diverse in their choice of materials. Previous the sunshine that releases its most subtle flavours. strawberry tables have ranged from the concrete Given the imbricated legacies of tradition and (Lucy Tilley) to air-cushioned inflatables (Natasha innovation in the strawberry table’s programme and Sandmeier and Jenny Jones; Kenneth Fraser and design, maybe a future tutor will splice the latest Simon Beames). Some tutors have used the design developments in urban farming with old methods of process to test new technology, whether through cultivation to produce vertical strawberry fields for the the use of morphogenetic algorithms to generate a AA. Perhaps at that moment, while toasting their pneumatic strawberry bar (Achim Menges) or via the shared past and unwritten futures, tomorrow’s newly scripted flow of ornately curving CNC milled designated architects will consider the complexity and birch-ply strawberry stands (Anne Save de Beaurecueil contradiction of finally being able to pick their own and Franklin Lee). Others have deployed a more strawberries. minimalist approach such as last year’s free-standing wall of ice on which the strawberries were spread Henderson Downing works in the AA Photo (Stefano Rabolli Pansera). Designed by tutors to a Library. This is the third and final text in the strict deadline and a modest budget, the strawberry AA Live Spaces series. Projects Review Strawberry tables. Clockwise from top: 1996, 2008, 2007, 1987. Photos Valerie Bennett 12 13 AA New Programmes

Diary of Intense Collaboration professionally and creatively and an explanation is ever AAIS: At the café of Theaterhaus Jena, coffee is accompanied elusive. Susan Greenfield, in her articleWhat are we by the sounds of blow torches burning chairs, so that Expecting from Consciousness? in Wired magazine, the leather cushioning and cane lattice start to curl explains the process of finding a model for conscious Interprofessional Studio and crisp but not come off – part of the set design for thought; ‘if we’re to model consciousness, then we Bleak House. would have to know what the salient physical brain/ Around the corner waits the long-anticipated, body process(es) was/were, and what bits of the brain impossible-inflatable. Theo, Inflate, AAIS, Emtech and body we could ignore. The thing is, if we knew and the theatre team have spent three days erecting that, then we would have already solved the problem the inflatable structure. Despite heavy rain and and there would be no need to bother with a model at 40 tonnes of ballast the building is coming to life. all.’ Parastoo is upstairs making a mask, for a This applies well to AAIS. The model we are collaboration with film director Heiko. The mask, like trying to elucidate has highly context-dependent and many scattered around the corridors of the stage variable effects. The brain does not operate in reflects the theatre’s obsession with home-grown hero, remoteness, or function purely as a generator of action Schlemmer and his Platonic puppets. Laura wanders and thought, but is also a recipient from colleagues, the city in search of aquatic plants for her respiratory namely, the immune, endocrine and nervous systems. dress. After turning up at a house on a nearby In an interprofessional environment, as in complex mountain she was told harboured the desired plants, systems, there is not so much an element of role-play, she found not the anticipated shop, but a man as of role relay, learning how to distribute and repeatedly and hysterically shouting ‘Fish Food, Fish contribute skills in a completely different way. The Food’. She sets of for the botanical gardens. beauty is in coming to understand the parts of people Back in London Tanja, Adam, Catharine, that work together, through conversation and projects Heather, Takako and Will are assembling the AAIS and formations of equations within the collaboration. ‘Salon’, which takes on the atmosphere of a laboratory, Temporary Lobby for Theatre House in Jenna. a testing ground, a work in progress and an attempt at By Kate MacTiernan is a participant in the AAIS establishing the equation for collaboration. Interprofessional Studio The IS in AAIS (Architectural Association Schizas, Ioanna Symeonidou, Theaterhaus Jena – AAIS is a re-organisation of how we work Interprofessional Studio) might as well stand for Marco Brehme, Inflate – Nick Crosbie, Will Grindall, Impossible Schedule. Launched only in January, the Webb Yates – Steve Webb, supported by Cultural AAIS had by May designed and built a 300sqm Programme Germany (Kulturstiftung des Bundes) temporary theatre extension for the original Walter New scenography festival performances in Gropius Theatre house in Jena, Germany, in collaboration with various directors and Artists: Der collaboration with five Emtech students. The new Kreis ist Rot – Ulrike Haage and Jan Brueggemeier, inflatable building manufactured by Inflate, a London- ‘Chronicle Perception’ Emma Howes with Takako based company, was erected in just three days, Hasegawa, Bleak House – Heiko Kalmbach, Marsha following a long, intense negotiation process with the Ginsberg with Parastoo Anoushahpour, People German local authorities. This manifested in the 40 watching People – Adam Furman, Atem3 – Laura Boffi, tonnes of ballast required by German regulations Vorplatzspiele – Will Martyr with the Young Theatre whilst the building itself weighed only 900kg. Group. These were supported by the EU Cultural The building, in place for three weeks, worked Programme, the Bauhaus lab and the Theaterhaus as an airy and luminous contrast to the interior of the Jena – Markus Heinzelmann, Jan Brueggemeier and existing theatre, linking it to the public city spaces. Janek Mueller. During this time AAIS participants created a series of Bauhaus Dessau Theater Bauhausbuehne AAIS performances for the ‘crash boom bau’ scenographie performance and installations in collaboration with festival. In parallel, the AAIS opened its month-long Torsten Blume, displaying amongst others Kate salon in the AA’s Front Members’ Room at the MacTiernan’s Intelligent Assembly Required. beginning of May. Here, within the context of our The AAIS ‘Salon’ was curated by Adam current work, we hosted a series of events and talks Furman, with the conversations moderated by Brett reinstating the Front Members’ Room as the AA’s hub Steele, Theo Lorenz, Tanja Siems and Catharine of conversation. These events have already facilitated Patha. In addition, two plays from the Old Vic New many collaborations for the coming year. Voices network were hosted by Heather Lyons. The displayed projects are from the AAIS participants. Event and Project Collaborations Inflatable structure with AA Emtech – Mohamed By Theo Lorenz and Tanja Siems are the organisers Makki, Kostis Karatzas, Maria Mingallon, Pavlos of the AA Interprofessional Studio Performance at the temporary structure. Photos Pavlos Schizas 14 15 AA Unit Trips 2008/2009 AA Student Trips around the World

AA DRL Digital Materialism in search of hallucinogenic plants. Their struggle for Studio visits LA existence and promotion of eco tourism in order to As the DRL embarks on a new research agenda called survive was mirrored in the Darwin foundation, the Proto-Design, the programme set out to engage a custodians of the Galapagos Islands, who also seem to global network of researchers and practitioners. The be fighting a similar battle of invasive factors affecting studio trips ranged between Hong Kong, New York, the delicately balanced ecology. Tokyo, Vienna and Los Angeles. Our Los Angeles trip In the Galapagos Islands we walked on freshly over ten days engaged a community of architects, hardened lava fields which, for me personally, was one designers, programmers and fabricators with our of my favorite experiences to date, and tripped over speculative thoughts on systemic deployment and land iguanas which were alarmingly comfortable in nonlinear fabrication scenarios for housing. Ray the presence of humans. The islands provided some Kappe shared with us his home and designs for of the most breathtaking views, and we enjoyed modular homes. Neil Denari shared his New York walking on fine sandy beaches and swimming with sea influences of dead rock stars along with the design and turtles and sharks. While on the islands we visited the production of his HL23 project on the High Line. Darwin Research Centre and have since been We visited the office of Thom Mayne and the vehicle exploring strategies for future development which has design department of Art Center. We were educated in formed the basis of our projects this year. We realise LA based housing and urbanism issues by Dr Dana a fine balance needs to be drawn between enjoying Cuff and her City Lab department, had joint the Islands and conserving them. Many species are presentations and discussions with Casey Reas and his in danger of extinction since the increase in tourism. D RL. Photo Jie Yuan students at the UCLA Media Art programme and with 173,000 tourists visited the islands last year bringing Sci-Arc’s Tom Wiscombe, Peter Testa and Elena with them an uncontrollable amount of rubbish and Manfredi. waste. If time is taken to venture off the main tourist In the mix was inspirational archi-tourism from drag one sees that under the veneer of paradise there is LA, San Diego, San Francisco and Las Vegas. an Archipelago fighting for existence. Of course the islands will always be here, however the magic that By Theo Spyropoulos, co-director of the AA DRL gave birth to the Origins of Species by Charles programme Darwin over 150 years ago will not, and with its permanent disappearance goes a vital chapter of the way we have come to view mankind and our own Intermediate Unit 7 Travel around evolution. South America After surviving two weeks travelling through Texas By Merlin Eayrs, a third year AA student with Blind Steve Buscemi, I was relieved to join Inter 7. Photos Oliviu Lugojan-Ghenciu Inter 7 Intermediate Unit 7 for a memorable trip around Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. Our first stop on Intermediate Unit 4 in Tokyo, the long voyage around South America was Lago 1–7 April 2009 Agrio or ‘Sour Lake’ deep in the Amazonian ‘Big Ideas, Small Buildings’ Rainforest. Here we viewed the ravages of the oil Lots of surprises just around the corner – Yvonne industry hiding in clearings made in the rainforest, Japanese Culture experience, bringing the unit insidiously eroding the delicate ecosystem. We then closer as a team, architectural stimulants, design journeyed down river in canoes until we reached an inspirations, Japanese working cultures, visiting some idyllic wilderness where we stayed for three days in good architects’ offices – Vicky open huts – the hypnotic sounds of the forest lulling The discussions we had with the Japanese us into deep sleep each night. Our charming hosts – architects on their home ground and their responses the few tribesmen who have resisted the colour TVs to their projects clarified our interests surrounding the and trinkets of visiting oil companies desperate to subject. – Sarah drive them off their homeland – took us fishing for The visit to the Toyo Ito, SANAA and Sou piranhas and on night excursions through the jungle Fujimoto offices gave us an insight into their differing Inter 10. Photo Yu Won Kang Inter 4. Photo Nathalie Rozencwajg 16 17 AA Alumni Projects design and management processes and methodology, AA Intermediate Unit 10 which was definitely the biggest eye opener of the visit to MIT Urban Geometry from trip!– Calvin During the Easter Break Intermediate Unit 10 It was great to see the buildings, and speculate travelled to Boston to see the work of the Media Lab on the concept and the reasons for certain elements. and SENSEable City Lab at the Massachusetts Solar Geometry However in most cases we were able to see the Institute of Technology (MIT). This year’s unit is architects who designed them, and by the end of the working towards creating a machinic playground set By Giles Bruce week it was taken for granted we could get the answers in the urban environment of Oxford Street. The to any of our building questions. – John projects have been developed through the study of Humour, questions, sensitivity, self renewal, cybernetic systems of various plants and evolved Giles Bruce received the Best Paper Award example, a professional occupant who works all day relationships, duality: Sou Fujimoto! – David through digital workshops and 1:1 prototypes. The at the 2008 PLEA (Passive Low Energy will only need solar access in the evenings. A family or Lunch on the grass, meeting Toyo Ito, visiting unit had previously attended the Architectural Architecture) hosted in University College elderly occupants are on the other hand likely to great buildings and all the unit dinners we had. I will Machines symposium at the AA in February, and it Dublin, Ireland, between 22nd and 24th benefit from solar access in terms of passive solar miss that time, xx – Kahee was agreed between fellow students that the October 2008. The paper was entitled ‘High heating, day lighting and amenity because they are The highlight of the Unit trip was the visits to presentation from SENSEable Cities, the research Density, Low Energy, Achieving Useful Solar home during the day. the three (Toyo Ito, SANAA, Sou Fujimoto) initiative at MIT, was one of the most interesting and Access in Dublin’s Multi-storey Apartment This highly selective approach to solar access as architects’ offices, which provided a good spectrum dynamic parts of the symposium. Developments’, and was based on his a function of occupancy patterns provides a useful for comparison, as well as a clearer understanding of Visiting MIT was relevant to the unit as their dissertation for his MArch in Sustainable generator for urban form. The two occupancy types how the offices organise and materialise ideas. – Kai research eventually leads to the creation of new Environmental Design in the AA Graduate are oriented with respect to the sun – continuous Somehow I felt ‘at home’ in Tokyo, although it technologies and machines, a particular interest of School, for which he qualified in 2007, with occupants in a block facing south, and on the top-most was my first time in the city. Perhaps it is the Intermediate 10. Bizarrely, upon arriving in the Media distinction. stories, and variable occupants facing east and west similarity, with my home city in Vietnam, of how the Lab we entered a studio that looked more like a catching the morning and evening sun only. This city organises itself, how the neighbourhood playground than a research lab: monkeys made out of Within the long list of issues to be considered in an basic massing may then be chamfered according to the community played an important part in forming the LEGO, an inflatable elephant and a miniature environmental master-plan, there are many apparent permanent and variable occupancy patterns. The relationships between people, buildings, streets. How helicopter. It was clear that this was a creative setting, contradictions. Take for example the relationship resulting form ensures the highest density of people walked in the little streets and greeted each and the projects presented to us turned out to be more between density and solar access. Both are desirable in development possible; at no time is solar access other. When there is a community, there is awareness polished and sophisticated than our first impressions terms of sustainable design. High-density cities are ‘wasted’ when the occupants are not at home to avail between its individuals; of each other and of how each indicated. Projects such as the City Car and the New more efficient in terms of transport and utility of it. fits within that community – and they compare York Talk Exchange both aspire to develop the way in networks. However, high-density cities have taller The question of optimising solar access in the themselves to each other too. I was so comfortable in which we communicate in modern urban buildings and narrower streets, and in such urban context of high density developments offers Tokyo that I took the extraordinariness, the environments. It was particularly interesting to morphologies solar access becomes difficult, and the quantifiable benefits in terms of energy reductions for abnormality, the absurdity of architecture as an consider the possibility that these projects may soon benefits of solar energy in terms of building energy space heating/day-lighting/ventilation, but most obvious part of the city – I understood the reason for become a reality, as demonstrated by a prototype of performance and improved amenity cannot be importantly offers improved amenity. The scheme this amazing catalogue of architectural explorations the City Car, a stackable electric vehicle used in an realised. A balance must be struck between these two proposed here represents one of many possible and investments, the lifespan and variety of the urban transportation network (whereby users would be apparently contradictory issues. compromises between the two issues, and buildings, the rivalry between them – they fit exactly able to pick up a car from key points of convergence Relating urban geometry to solar geometry is demonstrates how apparent contradictions of in the context of the city. – Kien and leave it at a stack at the end of their journey) which not a new area of research. The solar envelope, environmental master-planning can be a catalyst for had not yet achieved the correct shape, but developed in UCLA by Ralph Knowles, defines new sustainable urban morphologies. Yvonne Weng, Vicky Chen, Sarah Ho, Calvin nevertheless functioned. maximum enclosing volumes for city blocks within a Chua, John Naylor, David Hellstrom, Kahee Park, After being introduced to the workings of MIT, set of temporal and spatial parameters in order to Giles Bruce is an alumnus of the Kai Ong, Kien Pham. the students of the unit introduced our own research avoid overshadowing adjacent plots. The system is AA Graduate School in a high-speed presentation, attempting to sum up used in the USA, however it is unknown in more our projects in three slides and three sentences each. northerly latitudes. This turned into an entertaining event for the In Dublin, Ireland (53˚N), the balancing act audience. The wide range of projects undertaken by between high volume solar envelopes and solar access the unit do not necessarily follow the preconception of is especially challenging, given the shallow altitude of the Intermediate Unit 10 title ‘EcoMachines’. Our the winter sun. In the Irish climate, there is a good work, perhaps less structured and refined than the case for maximising solar access and benefit from work of MIT, still provoked interest amongst the passive solar gains. However solar energy is most students and staff, and resulted in many informative useful in the coldest months when the sun is lowest in discussions between the two schools, during the the sky, a fact that seriously limits the height of remaining time of our visit. developments. The key strategy in overcoming this limitation is to be highly selective in terms of where Nora Nilsen, a second year AA student and when solar access is provided. There is no point in designing an apartment for solar access if no one is at home. In this regard, occupancy becomes critical. For 18 19 AA Visiting Workshop, Madrid, Spain, 18 April 2009 AA Lecture Series, March 2009 AA/IE: Embodied Patterns Lecture Series Business School Workshop By Alisa Andrasek By Ricardo de Ostos

Mike Weinstock (AA Academic Head) and Alisa Andrasak with Philip Ball. Photo Sue Barr

Within a recent condition of emergence of new intentionality may not be properties of things, he knowledge unifications stretching beyond disciplines, argues that they are not properties of humans either: Embodied Patterns is a DRL seminar highlighting key they are the properties of ‘material engagement’, that ideas from science and computation, increasingly is, of the grey zone where brain, body and culture relevant to design practice. As old relationships with conflate. Within the history of Material Praxis being time, scale, information, matter and even the nature embraced by an emerging generation of architects, of reality itself are becoming increasingly destabilised, particularly those working generatively with code and design ecology is going through rapid changes its impact on processes of materialisation, the question triggered by those scientific and technological shifts. of agency is being reframed from the sole In an attempt to encourage cross-pollination deterministic input of the author to the collective, of ideas from design and science, we invited a science open-sourced and ever poised at the edge between writer, a scientist and an architect who brings human and non-human. Malafouris’s approach offers technology and scientific thought to the forefront a very precise theoretical framework highly lacking of his practice, to participate in mini-lecture series within current architectural theory. He is the AAI E Workshop in Madrid. Photo Tobias Klein entitled Embodied Patterns. co-editor of recently published volume entitled Philip Ball is a science writer and a consultant Material Agency: towards Non-Anthropocentric The AA/IE workshop is an interdisciplinary engaged with hands on interactive tasks like mapping editor for Nature magazine. With architecture’s Approach. collaboration between the Architectural Association data fields, designing public surfaces (by designing recent interests in performance, behaviour and Finally, Michael Silver is an architect actively School and the IE Business School in Madrid. In its first and thinking after), building urban furniture with systemic logics often sourced from embodied patterns employing ideas from science to re-write established second round on 18 April 2009, it took the form of cardboard boxes and designing 1:1 2d installations in in nature, Ball’s books, such as The Self-Made architectural protocols. His lecture, Technology needs a short and intense one-day exchange between the school’s car park. Students were inquisitive, Tapestry are frequenting on architectural reading Architecture: MP3s, Supercomputers and Fibre Placed AA architectural design tutors and MBA business upfront and highly interested in new and diverse lists. Re-occurring patterns found within poly-scales Composites, recognises architecture as a potent students. The course is part of a large body of solutions for public space. In a world where creativity of nature are invaluable resources for re-thinking home for invention: from homemade tools developed interdisciplinary events arranged by the IE to welcome and diversity are mere professional tautologies the AA generative logics, organisational and material within the discipline to re-inventing construction their new intake. Created with the intention of IE exchange marks an exciting dialogue of what can performance within built ecologies. processes. In a more general framework of current expanding their students’ horizons the welcoming become an intense collaboration in the future. Lambros Malafouris’s research spans across convergence of matter and information, this work courses also included acting classes given by members The AA would like to thank the great assistance the disciplines (from archeology to neuroscience is explicitly targeted towards the big elephant in the of the London Shakespeare Globe Theatre team. and hospitality of David Bach (Associate Dean MBA to philosophy) and centuries (from Paleolithic through room of architecture – truly sustainable design Led by director Brett Steele, tutors Eugene programmes), Camino de Paz (IE executive director Bronze Age to the future technologies). At the core processes. This new design ecology is able to adapt, Han (Unit Master, Intermediate Unit 8), Nathalie MBA programmes) and the whole IE team. of it is a non-anthropocentric relational approach learn and transcode its proto-architectures into Rozencwajg (Unit Master, Intermediate Unit 4), to agency, and an exploration of the implication of this unstable patterns of increasingly complex conditions Tobias Klein (First Year Tutor) and I prepared briefs Ricardo de Ostos is an AA/IE workshop Co-ordinator approach for the understanding of the active nature of of its host. based on the theme think_design/public space. Bilingual and a Unit Master of Intermediate Unit 3 material culture and the built environment. He multicultural classes of 22 to 40 business students were introduced ‘material agency’. While agency and Alisa Andrasek is an AA DRL Course Master 20 21 AA Publications AA Members’ Private View, 8 April 2009 New from AA Publications The Canon and its Disjunction Andrea Palladio: His Life and Legacy By Pavlos Philippou

M odel of the Palazzo Chiericati, 1971, Vicenza, Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio

The Royal Academy of Arts in conjunction with the being affiliated with the avant-garde. While for the AA arranged an AA Members’ Private View of their former group Palladio’s work exemplifies the AA Words 1 AA Agendas 7 exhibition, Andrea Palladio: His Life and Legacy. This ‘paradigm’ to be inventively criticised, for the latter Supercritical Articulating Grounds: was a wonderful opportunity not only to peruse the group his works epitomises the conventions to be Peter Eisenman, Rem Koolhaas, Jeffrey Kipnis, Mediating Environment and Culture exhibition amidst a less crowded and more engaged critically reinvented. Robert Somol Anne Save de Beaurecueil and Franklin Lee audience than usual, but also to discuss the exhibits This is where the contribution of this 120 pp, b/w ills 160 pp, extensive col & b/w ills with two key figures in the endeavour: MaryAnne exhibition, alongside the arguments of writers such 180 x 110 mm, paperback 249 x 170 mm, paperback Stevens (RA curator) and Eric Parry (exhibition as Robin Evans, Stan Allen and Christopher Hight, October 2009 June 2009 designer and AA President 2005–2007). is registered. Instead of viewing Palladio’s work as ISBN 978-1-902902-51-7 ISBN 978-1-902902-71-5 The exhibition celebrated the quincentenary emblematic of a homogeneous totality called ‘High £12 £15 of Palladio’s birth and is the collaborative effort of the Renaissance’ (purged from mannerist eccentricities), Royal Academy and the Centro Internazionale di what we are offered here is a plural rethinking of In January 2006 Peter Eisenman and Rem Koolhaas Work from the AA’s Diploma Unit 2 fuses two Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio (Vicenza), in architectural discourse. The issue, then, is not to came to the AA for an evening of conversation about seemingly mutually exclusive paradigms in recent association with RIBA. Before London, the exhibition demonstrate that classical architecture was not architecture, ideology and the city. Their dialogue is architectural discourse, mediating between was presented in Vicenza; currently it is on show in sufficiently and coherently formalised, but, conversely, the centrepiece of the first volume of ‘AA Words’, a technological performance and the manipulation of Barcelona, and will travel to Madrid. It was curated by to illustrate the constitutive and irresolvable tension series emphasising the written word as the basis for ground, defined here as the external and internal Guido Beltramini (Centro Internazionale) and riddling an allegedly rigid system. This is not critical debate by contemporary architects and circulatory systems that structure social organisations. Howard Burns (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) in architecture’s deficiency but its inexhaustible theorists. Each architect states his own views about In the process, the unit defines a new social agenda collaboration with MaryAnne Stevens. generative possibility; in other words, what enables the the terms of architecture, including its theories and and aesthetic philosophy for transforming established Despite Palladio’s protracted influence and the formation of intricate objects that can undergo relationship to the city and other forms of critical and design strategies, and lends conventional notions of role of Britain (from Inigo Jones, to Rudolf Wittkower insistent analysis without yielding singular cultural practice. After their presentations come the sustainable design a new civic and cultural relevance. and Colin Rowe) in the dissemination of his works as interpretations. Ultimately, the point is not to settle responses to their work from Jeffrey Kipnis The projects are all either located within or influenced canonical, this was the first exhibition on his work to on Palladio’s ‘rightful contemporary heirs’, but to and Robert Somol. by a Brazilian context, rich in sculptural, variegated be held in London for over 30 years; for an architect as engage the dynamic aspects of typological exploration landscapes and African as well as indigenous Indian prominent as Palladio, this warrants consideration. As as the avenue to problematise forms that respond to influences. Innovative design proposals shown in this numerous references in professional publications and contemporary reality. book illustrate symbiotic relationships between urban the wider media still confirm, Palladio is one of those society, environmental conditioning and landscape by central figures whose works are seen as ‘foundational’ Pavlos Philippou is an alumnus of the AA Diploma articulating ground organisations to mediate and both by those broadly described as pursuing a more programme and the AA MA H & U programme synchronise both environmental and cultural flows. conservative design agenda and those considered as (Dist) and a PhD candidate at the AA. 22 23 AA Membership and Development AA Member’s Trip, 16 May 2009 Hooke Park Visit Le Corbusier’s Paris : By Mike Davies A Tour with Richard Dunlap By Andrzej Blonski

Bluebells in Hooke Park. Photo Valerie Bennett

A student at the AA in the heady days of the late 60s, A steep climb up through bluebell covered Photo Caroline Grübel an AA tutor in the late 70s and AA councillor in the forest slopes, the oldies with pacemakers and 80s, I was persuaded to stand for Council again in the aluminium crutches at full throttle, led to an My first time to Paris from St Pancras International. annotated, giving evidence of his interests and noughties and find myself enjoyably back in the AA experimental AA students’ bridge, leaping How appropriate that our only international rail influences, in cultures other than his own. fold, while still practising in London and around the eccentrically across a ravine. This in turn led to an connection should move to the heart of London and Next – the apartment at Porte Molitor where Le world. extraordinary flying saucer habitat, hovering with the spectacular Barlow shed restored with great Corbusier lived until his death in 1965. The building In my absence the AA has acquired a country absolute integrity well above the ground. Only sensitivity and to great effect. Early morning was a speculative development, contemporary with estate called Hooke Park in Dorset which it has been accessible by climbing cargo netting, this students’ sluggishness dispelled and the anticipation of the Pavillon Suisse and marked a change from small-scale developing over the last six years. I signed up for a trip timber time machine tolerated no earthly connections. journey and the day ahead heightened. The ‘doll residences to much larger projects. to discover Hooke Park and understand the scale, The workshop, the largest building on the estate, a house’ architecture followed by the hard graffiti urban Fluidity and openness of space, flexibility of range of facilities, environment and potential of the vaulted timber net armadillo of a building was light, landscape of St Denis announced the approach to the arrangement allowing for individual needs, park. I discovered a stunning natural woodland estate, minimal and housed the tools necessary to turn the Gare du Nord. The Kasbah chaos of the station consistency and inventiveness of detail and choice of several experimental buildings and traces of AA natural resources of the forest into architects’ dreams enhanced the sense of arrival in another place. materials and that idiosyncratic bed at table height student activity. Most importantly I also encountered – with a few splinters along the way. Introduced to Richard Stockton Dunlap, our allowing distant views clear of the terrace parapet. If dedicated staff who run and maintain Hooke Park and The refectory with a draped timber roof, an core guide, we sped through the streets of Paris in our only the apartment could be furnished as left by Le provide teaching, guidance and wisdom upon which earth roofed dwelling and a CNC-completed the autobus to the Pavillon Suisse. Quietly apprehensive Corbusier…. AA students, tutors and others who use the park can ensemble. The original architects and engineers, I wondered whether the ambitious programme would On to Villa Savoye, some 40km away in Poissy. draw. members of the group, enthusiastically described their allow sufficient time for Villa Savoye, the last The traffic thankfully light, we arrived on schedule. We were given a forest and ecology overview by experimental labours. destination and for me the main object of the day. The The small gatehouse, the curved driveway set amongst resident forester Chris Sadd, a brisk, no-nonsense grey Logs in piles, luxuriant forest, dappled glades active presence of students at the Cité Universitaire mature trees – and there it was. I confess to a touch of squirrel killer! The less ambulant older members of and oxygen positively effervescing from the trees, enlivened our visit to Pavillon Suisse, giving the emotion as I remembered my fruitless journey to the party were significantly challenged by the speed of Hooke Park is carbon absorption on a grand scale. building a real sense of purpose, as our only Poissy as a student some 30 years before. The weather his short tour of the estate – only a little slower than a This is an extraordinary resource for the whole AA, destination which was not now a museum, exuding the was mixed with outbreaks of heavy showers, but for a cross country run. He elaborated a Darwinian directly as an experimental base, rooted in natural spirit of its influence to the Modern Movement, time there was the sun; the strong shadows the approach to forestry and wildlife on the estate with surroundings and also as an exploratory sustainability becoming a model for a multitude of post war coloration shifting from dark green to pale green and survival of the fittest, culling and pest control. (The platform for the local community and beyond. As a buildings, including the neighbouring Pavillon du then light blue. greys are tree-wreckers.) Council, a Membership and a school community we Brésil built in 1953. Discussion and impressions of the day A magnificent 100ft-high grove of young pacific will explore its future potential, while supporting its At the Fondation Le Corbusier, Villas La continued over a delicious meal completing an coast redwoods, the rockets of the arboreal world, present with care. Roche-Jeanneret, we were welcomed by the Director exhilarating day beautifully planned and executed. stopped the whole party in our scrambling tracks. Michel Richard. Currently closed to the public, Villa Thank you! These wonderful trees reach well over 3000 years old. Mike Davies CBE is an alumnus and former tutor La Roche is undergoing major restoration works. By On enquiring how Chris knew they were 25 years old, of the AA and an AA Councillor special arrangement we were able to visit Le Andrzej Blonski is an alumnus of the AA and an we were all suitably humbled as he quietly announced Corbusier’s library housed in the upper part of Villa AA Member - ‘I planted them’. Jeanneret and view a number of volumes he had 24 25 NEWS N EWS briefs

Walter Hans Marmorek George Basevi, a star pupil of Sir John W elcome to Tehmina Mahmood Bronks Youth Theater’s new venue lamp-posts. On the Northern side of designed by Kasia Korczak (former AA By Colin Bennett Soane. There was nothing in the square designed by MDMA, the practice of Place de Vosges Michael has also Summer School tutor). to mark his work until Walter Martine De Maeseneer (former suspended crystals between the high Walter Hans Marmorek, a life-member Marmorek took up the cause. With his Diploma Unit Master), had its opening arches, throwing rainbows onto the DUNE – Anti-desertification of the AA, passed away on 14 April 2009 customary enthusiasm and great energy on 21–22 March 2009. The building was adjacent walls. When the sun is out this architecture, the project by Magnus at the age of 100. He had been a member he raised the necessary funds to achieve funded by the Flemish Community public space becomes the ‘Rainbow Larsson (Fifth Year student) was of the AA since 1937. Walter was born in this tribute to another dedicated Commission and stands on the Pig Room’. This latest urban art project, featured on BLDGBLOG, and is due to Vienna on 13 May 1908 where he architect. This stands in the central Market in Brussels. Spotting Rainbows, is dedicated to feature in the Out of Water exhibition ValerieBennett qualified as an architect, before coming garden opposite no. 18, where he had spring in Paris. in Toronto. to England in 1937 (shortly before lived when it was first built. The AA has appointed a new head of Olaf Kneer (Unit Master, Intermediate bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/ Hitler came to power). He was the He was awarded a golden doctorate Human Resources, Tehmina Mahmood. Unit 1) has been selected to be a The annual Technical Studies Spaghetti sandstone.html architect at Kitchener Camp near from Vienna University after he had Tehmina is no stranger to the world of member of the MADE Design Review Testing Competition held for the first Sandwich, Kent where, before war broke practised his profession for 50 years. academia. Her mother worked as an Panel. The panel gives impartial, year students took place on 30 April Bonnie Chu (AADipl 2008) was a out, and whilst undertaking the Little did anyone know he would go on administrator at UCL for 28 years, and independent professional design advice 2009 and was won by the all female team finalist in this year’s Buckminster Fuller restoration of the camp, he helped to to work tirelessly and with complete the young Tehmina would accompany at an early stage to development of Nathalie Matathias, Emmanuelle Challenge 2009 with Machineless rescue 3000 German and Austrian Jews enjoyment for a further 20 years, only her to work in her summer holidays. proposals encouraging changes for Siedes, Olivia Francesca Wright and construction strategy based on least and re-train them in building trades. closing his office in Grays Inn Square in Tehmina studied for a BA in design improvement to produce better Chen Zhan, with their structure coming physical strain to build cyclone resistant He then joined the Royal Engineers June 2007, at the age of 99. psychology, and after qualifying went spaces. MADE (Midlands Architecture in at 120 grams, while the entry by shelters for women in rural Bangladesh. as a sapper; his company was firstly He was a most remarkable man both straight into a career in recruitment and the Designed Environment) is the Ioana-Corina Giurgiu, Maria Clara This was Bonnie’s fifth year project with engaged in North Africa, then on professionally and in his private life, working as a consultant. She stayed in regional architecture centre in the West Gradinariu, Tom Hatzor, Sonj Jie Lim Diploma Unit 7. through Italy via Monte Cassino. where his passion for poetry, opera and her first post for a couple of years, Midlands and a member of the national and Golshid Varasteh Kia was deemed challenge.bfi.org/solutions/ll/6/2009?page=1 Whilst in Florence he was charged with music occupied his leisure time. Walter moving on to help set up and run a new Architecture Centre Network. to have won the event’s beauty contest’. retrieving masonry from the river Arno will be greatly missed by his wife and recruitment company. Following this Olaf and Marianne Mueller (also Unit Fabricformwork, a book by Alan in order to help in the restoration of the family along with those who enjoyed the enterprise Tehmina went to work for the Master, Intermediate Unit 1) spoke at Plasma studio, the practice of Eva Chandler (AA Dipl 1996, AA Part 3 destroyed bridges. He became a major privilege of knowing him. Radisson Edwardian hotel chain the Aedes Network Campus Berlin Castro (AA LU Course Director) and 1998) and Remo Pedreschi, published in and was appointed deputy commander initially in the in-house recruitment (ANCB) inauguration symposium, Holger Kehne (Unit Master, Diploma 2008, received a special commendation of the R. E. in Vienna where he finished department. Whilst working here she Educating the Global Architect, Unit 12) together with Groundlab, at this year’s RIBA Awards ceremony for his war service. Instead of moved into the HR department and moderated by Ilka and Andreas Ruby. comprising Eva and Holger, Sarah Majid Academic Research for its’ fusion of demobilisation he was asked to stay on discovered that this was the area in They represented the AA as directors of (AA LU MA 2005), Alfredo Ramirez theoretical research and and supervise the restoration of the war which she wanted to specialise. Moving AA Berlin Laboratory, an AA visiting (AA LU MA 2005 and AA LU tutor) technological innovation in relation to damage to the Schönbrunn Palace. from the Radisson Ewardian Hotel school taking place at Aedes in Berlin in and Eduardo Rico (AA LU MA 2005 new forms of design practice. Back in England, his post war career chain, Tehmina went to work for Le September. and AA LU tutor) has won the Alan and Remo also cast ten tonnes of also included a great deal of Meridian Hotels as their HR Manager competition to develop the building and fabric formed concrete in collaboration conservation work. One of his major until she left to have a daughter. Studio E Architects, of which David landscape design for Horticultural Expo with designer Paul Hensey for their clients, over a period of 60 years, was the Following the birth of her Lloyd Jones (AADipl 1966) is a director, in Xi’an, China. The project is entitled Urban Garden exhibit at the Chelsea Austrian government, commencing daughter, Tehmina took a career break, have been shortlisted in the Public Flowing Gardens and comprises an Flower Show in May 2009. In addition with war damage reparation work to during which time she worked part-time Building Category of the Scottish exhibition hall, conservatories, a 37 Alan, Luisa Auletta (former AA student their embassy at no 18 Belgrave Square, in HR for Fenwicks retail outlet, and Design Awards for their Newark hectare park around an artificial lake and former AA Councillor)and Rowland as his first commission. He also worked studied for her CIPD (Chartered Primary School. The aspiration of both and ancillary buildings. Keable have received grant funding extensively for the German government, Institute of Personnel and Inverclyde Council and the design team from E-Synergy and the Emerald Fund when they returned to London, Development) at the University of was to provide an exceptionally high AA Publication, The World of Madelon to commercially develop the use of designing them a new consulate and Middlesex, which she received in 2008. quality and environmentally responsible Vriesendsorp has been nominated for the fabric formwork in constructing then the ambassador’s residence. From education facility that would inspire the Fernard Baudin Prize 2008, for the rammed earth structures, and to the mid 1970s onwards, in association children and staff that would use it on a Most Beautiful Books in Brussels. The establish a training programme in with the Culpin Partnership, he carried daily basis. nominees were exhibited in Galerie Southern Africa in the use of fabric for out other major projects, including the Anatome, Paris and in Brussels in the self build earthen architecture in the new German school at Petersham. Guerrilla architect Michael Elion spring. The book which was edited by region. The Childrens’ Garden, a 45 During this long association he was (AADipl 2003) has struck again. At Shumon Basar (AACP director) and place Steiner inspired Nursery building awarded the order of merit for his work. Place de Vogues in the third Stephan Trüby (AADipl 1999) and garden by Alan and Luisa’s practice He was moved to initiate a memorial Arrondisement of Paris he has hung 27 accompanied the exhibition at the AA Arts Lettres Techniques, was selected in Belgrave Square, to the architect Swarovski faceted crystals from the curated by Shumon and Stephan and for the RIBA Higher Education Design 26 27 NrEWS b iefs NrEWS b iefs

Quality Forum 2009 Exhibition at Steffen Lehmann (AADipl 1991) has presented on 23 April to local recent graduates. [C]Space, by Alan development scenarios into the design callout for ideas on the future growth of RIBA in September, followed by a tour been appointed UNESCO Chair in authorities and an AA LU exhibition Dempsey (AA DRL MArch 2002, domain. the city. Michael’s idea was to use a of the UK, as part of the promotion of Sustainable Urban Development for runs at the Fundacion Metropoli in former tutor, Intermediate Unit 8 and network of pipes placed under the roads, architectural solutions which positively Asia and the Pacific, by the United Madrid until 3 August 2009. AA FAB Research Cluster co-curator) Sarah Akigbogun (AADipl 2005) was a bridges, highways and public spaces that engage with a changing higher Nations. He holds this position in and Alvin Huang (AA DRL MArch runner up in a competition at the would pump cool sea water around the education sector in the UK. It is also addition to his Professorial Chair at the An article featuring the work Diploma 2004) and built by 2007/08 Phase 1 DRL beginning of the year. The brief was to city to lower the outdoor temperature of included within the accompanying University of Newcastle in Australia. In Unit 2 entitled Articulating students and Yusuke Obuchi (AA DRL design ‘an entrance for London’ in the city by 10 degrees in summer, publication ReSolution, and was the UNESCO role, Steffen is now Environmental Grounds was published course co-director) is also featured in response to a drawing by Ralph thereby bringing the temperature down shortlisted for an Off Site Construction working on several large urban design in the Unit Factor Section of the May the issue. Steadman who did the illustrations for to comfort levels and eliminating the Award - Best Off Site Education projects in China, India and Vietnam. 2009 AD (Architectural Design) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Sarah’s need for artificial cooling in the city Project. Energies: New Material Boundaries Winner of the Product Design-Make entry, Baubles and Gems, suggested that In April Jan Pietje Witt (AA Dipl 1999) published by John Wiley and Sons. Prize 2008/2009 Ioseb Andrazashvili London’s gems are not simply the This year 31 First Year students were The practice of Gianni Botsford attended the topping out ceremony of (AA third year student) has exhibited a glittering architectural icons for which successful in making a one minute (AADipl 1996) has won five awards for his design for a new apartment building Project work of several AA Staff and family of furniture at Designersblock in it is famous, but that there are hidden animation over a three week period for their recently completed project, Casa by the water in Kiel, Germany. The alumni will be exhibited at the Syn_ Milan as a part of Milan Design Week cultural gems in places which are more the Video course in Media Studies. A Kike, in Costa Rica. These include the project came as a result of an invited ath(0)isis, Athens from 12–21 June 2009. 2009. The project is set to be further humble. It was published in the AJ on special emphasis was put on keeping the Lubetkin Prize against a shortlist architectural competition for a The AA participants include SUBdV developed for London Design Festival 26 March 2009. work hand drawn and flowing. The including Coop Himmelb(l)au and prominent site in the Kiel city centre, – Anne Save de Beaurecueil and 2009. architectsjournal.co.uk/news/daily-news/ results were startling in their range and Cullum and Nightingale, the AIA UK which Pietje’s practice, Studio Witt Franklin Lee (Unit Masters, Diploma routemaster-bus-is-gateway-to- acumen. Excellence in Design Award in March (Hamburg), won in 2007. All apartments Unit 2), Biothing – Alisa Andrasek (AA Lee McCormack (former AA H&T MA) london/1995985.article www.aaschool.ac.uk/fyrvideo/ 2009 (along with David Chipperfield including the penthouse are overlooking DRL course tutor), Evan Douglis (AA student has founded Formsquare which and Eric Parry), an RIBA International the water and were sold during the Dipl 1981), Miniaforms – Theo manufactures high performance Dennis Sharp (AADipl 1957 and AA 6a Architects has recently completed Award 2008, The Chicago Atheneum construction period. Completion is Spyropoulos (AA DRL co-director), textured and patterned concrete Vice President) has resumed his busy Raven Row, a new contemporary art International Architecture Award 2008 scheduled for October 2009. Servo – Marcelyn Gow (AADipl 1991) products for walls, flooring and schedule taking on the chairing of this centre in Spitalfields. The project was and the IstructE Structural Awards and Small Architecture – Thomas cladding. The practice has recently year’s Scottish Design Awards, and led by director Tom Emerson (Former Community and Residential Structures Liam Young (Unit Master, Intermediate Modeen (AADipl 1997) and Mayssa completed the Bluu Bar in Moorgate, following on from the huge success of Diploma Tutor and Former AA 2008. The project was also shortlisted Unit 7) has his work, Species of Al-Mumin (AADipl 1999). The event London, where they created a large the World Architecture Festival last Councillor) and associate Takeshi for the World Building of the Year at Unnatural History, featured in the has been organised by the Technical 30m2 feature wall and designed and built year he will again be one of the Hayatsu (AAdipl 1997) and includes new the World Architecture Festival in FUTURE.city.past.FORWARD Chamber of Greece / Section of Central the bar front. The novel approach International Judges in Barcelona in galleries excavated behind two Grade 1 November 2008. An exhibition devoted exhibition in the d3 gallery, New York. Macedonia, the Hellenic Institute of allows traditional exterior finishes to be November. Elected as an Executive Listed Georgian houses, flats and studio to the project was held at the University Liam and Darryl Chen (MA H&U Dist Architecture and the Domes used indoors – and striking interiors to Council member of DOCOMOMO spaces for artists in residence. at Buffalo the State University of New 2004) have recently formed urban think International Review of Architecture in reach outdoors. International he is also on the Scientific Construction is underway at the South York, where Gianni recently gave a talk tank Tomorrow’sThoughtsToday to the frame of Synch Festival. formsquare.com Committee for the Mexico Conference, London Gallery where the practice has about the practice’s work, and the explore the consequences of fantastic, synathroisis.net 2010 and he is currently an assessor for designed a new education building and practice was chosen as one of ten perverse and underrated urbanisms. Maria Fedorchenko (AA H&U course the World Heritage Committee converted a neighbouring derelict house international practices to be a Design tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com A project for the Manuel Antonio Pinto master) was invited to give a public submission on Gropius’s Fagus Factory into gallery spaces, café and an artist’s Vanguard by the Architectural Record stairway in São Paulo designed by lecture entitled Commercial Elements (1911). residence. in December 2008. The students of Landscape Urbanism SUBdV, the São Paulo and London of Moscow’s Transformations at the www.6a.co.uk MA completed a two week workshop in based practice led by Anne Save de Moscow Institute of Architecture, Ciro Najle (former Unit Master, ravenrow.org Nuria Alvarez Lombardero (AA H&U collaboration with Fundacion Beaurecueil and Franklin Lee (Unit Department of Urban Design, on Diploma Unit 14 and former Course MA 2008 and AA PhD candidate) has Metropoli. The work dealt with the Masters, Diploma Unit 2) was featured April 9, 2009. Drawing on recent Master LU) gave a lecture entitled The recently lectured her PhD research urban conditions around the coastal in the April 2009 issue of AU. The research into key shopping elements Tectonic Machine at the ITU Faculty of Back cover: Poster for the Thrilling work ‘Women in the City: Breaking front in Alicante, both in the area of the special issue of the Brazilian archite- behind Moscow’s resilient Architecture in Istanbul. The lecture Wonder Stories symposium, Gendered Boundaries of Modern Urban Serra Grossa and in the port terminal. cture magazine focuses on contemp- accommodation of new spatial demands, was part of the Transdisciplines series coordinated by Liam Young, Planning’ in the Postgraduate Urban The projects focused on looking at orary digital design, and includes Anne she introduced the prototypical organised by the Garanti Gallery. Friday 29 May 2009. Designed by Program at both ETSAS (University issues of fragmentation and new urban and Franklin’s article on UN Studio’s methodology of urban diagnostics. AA Print Studio of Seville) and ETSAG (University tissues which would tie the port Mercedes Benz museum in Stuttgart Focusing on the instruments of analysis of Alcalá de Henares). activities to those of the city, generating (by the office of Ben van Berkel and projection, diagrams were Michael Kloihofer (AA fourth year new and unexpected character areas and (AADipl(Hons) 1987 and AA External foregrounded as a means to synthesise student) has won the competition, TEL urban identities based on a renewed examiner) as well as seperate articles key urban templates, generate new AVIV GREEN: from Garden city to seafront for the city. The proposals were featuring the work of AA students and empirical categories and extend ecosystems. The competition was a 28 29