Architectural Association

Annual Review 2018–19 (Academic Year) Reflecting on the past allows us to think more clearly about the future. The first edition of the Architectural Association School of Architecture Annual Review presents facts and figures of the 2018–19 Academic Year, celebrates our accomplishments and envisions new aspirations.

3 INTRODUCTION More than a school, throughout its history the School. Each had an average size of 12 students, At the AA we share a drive to learn from, Architectural Association has been a referent for mostly led by two or more tutors: a student to teacher speculate on and redefine the world around us. We Introduction the production – when not the origin – of new and ratio that no other school can match. From issues of are here to further our research agendas; to meet relevant forms of inquiry, discourse and radical housing to fashion, politics to ethics, sustainability to our antagonists and allies; to define common ground practice in architecture schools, cultural institutions representation, business models to play and codes to in our projects; to assist one another in our quest and offices worldwide. With more Pritzker Prize and chaos, each and every one of the units opened up the for knowledge; to contribute to the architectural RIBA Gold Medal winners than any other institution study of architecture to historical and contemporary community; to experiment and, ultimately, to serve in the world, the school is also a place where many paradigm shifts and produced new ideas and and challenge a society that not only wants, but careers beyond architecture have begun. projects. A good example is ‘The Trade of Reclaimed needs better ways of living together. While one could The AA is the oldest independent school of Building Materials in the UK’, a research and design point to the AA Bar (28,555 cappuccinos and lattes architecture in the UK only because it always, platform developed by the students in ‘Opalis’, served), the Library (highest satisfaction rating of any fearlessly and critically, looks into the future. The Diploma Unit 18, led by Maarten Gielen, Lionel AA facility), the AA Bookshop (17,000 books sold), the challenges that we all face today as citizens and as Devlieger and Aude-Line Dulière. The work of the unit Archives (174 requests for Rem Koolhaas’ Diploma architects are growing in scale and complexity, and, was exhibited in the Front Members Room at the AA project), our publications (AA Files relaunched with while some questions span hundreds of years, the in December, published in Architectural Research a new Editor in Chief), the Digital Prototyping Lab, emergence of new technologies, changing power Quarterly and nominated as the best architecture Hooke Park, the unit system, the international body structures and the ethical imperatives of our present project of the year by the Design Museum in London. of students and academic staff or the domestic scale are transforming architecture today into a new, Our Graduate School is a hotbed for of the school’s home in the centre of London as some exciting and challenging discipline. experimentation and advanced architectural studies. of its most distinctive and significant elements, the The facts, figures, accomplishments, academic The PhD programme organised a series of symposia essence of the Architectural Association is an idea; agendas and cultural programmes detailed in this and debates, including ‘Table of Contents’, which an idea that defines democracy as a relentless design Annual Review together comprise an image of who discussed issues of research and methodology, and process, independence as an indefatigable journey we are and what we do, and reveal some of the ‘Domestic Frontiers’, organised by our PhD by Design in the quest for alternatives and excellence as a tangible contributions that the AA has made this year programme, ‘The City as Project’, led by Pier Vittorio project to be constantly redefined, constructed and to the world we live in. Aureli and Maria Shéhérazade Giudici. produced. The vast educational landscape of the school In tandem with the school’s many programmes This year we inaugurated a series of initiatives includes a five-year Undergraduate programme, of study, our Public Programme of exhibitions, with the aim of producing transversal conversations ten Postgraduate programmes including a PhD symposia and publications empowers students and throughout the school, offering multiple spaces programme and a series of Special Courses and academic staff to develop research and work that for focused collective debate. Open Seminars, Part-Time Studies, which consists of the Foundation resonates with and redefines the most pressing free and open to everyone is where we welcomed Course, Professional Practice Part 3, the Summer issues within our society, and to debate different invited guests such as Academy Award-winning School and more than 50 worldwide courses forms of knowledge and practice. The first lecture director Laura Poitras and social entrepreneur Hilary that form the Visiting School. The wide scope of of the year was given by Wolfgang Tillmans, whose Cottam. The Positions series bridged Postgraduate research and work at the AA enables different topics work in relation to Brexit develops new forms of programmes, alumni and external experts, and and agendas to be developed independently and activism and political engagement. In January we the Winter and Spring Juries brought students in parallel with one another, giving students the introduced New Canonical Histories, a lecture series throughout the school in front of a select group of technical, historical and disciplinary knowledge that questions and broadens the spaces of reference critics, curators, journalists and architects to discuss needed to grow as architects and, more importantly, within our discipline. Among the 13 exhibitions the different academic agendas within the AA and the space to position themselves with respect to presented throughout the year, the AA Gallery hosted their relation to the world. contemporary global challenges. ‘War in Raqqa: Rhetoric vs Reality’ in partnership with The AA is a unique place to study and work, and it In the Undergraduate programme we were joined Amnesty International, which was accompanied by is thanks to our students, staff, tutors, alumni, friends by 30 new internationally-acclaimed academic a series of talks that allowed students, researchers, and guests that we continue to expand the horizons staff and unit collaborators who contributed to journalists and policymakers to discuss the role of the possible. I hope that this first report inspires the ground-breaking dialogue that is fundamental of architecture in the post-war reconstruction of you to engage with the school in the coming year as to an education at the AA by expanding the areas conflict zones. we embark on a new journey, and that you will join us of expertise available and providing new ways of in our commitment to continue to shape the future learning and teaching. This year there were 33 and re-imagine how we want to live together. design units on offer in the Intermediate and Diploma Eva Franch i Gilabert Director

4 INTRODUCTION 5 INTRODUCTION Contents People 48 Students Academic Staff Administrative Staff Alumni Academic 8 Members Academic Programmes Foundation Course Undergraduate Postgraduate PhD Programme Finance and 60 Professional Practice Visiting School Summer Programme Sustainability Taught Degree Awarding Powers (TDAP) Office for Students (OfS) Financial Report Collaborations Income / Expenses Partnerships Key Figures Fundraising and Sponsorship

Public 24 The Year 64 Public Programme Lectures Symposia in Projects Open Seminars Exhibitions Publications Bookshop Social Media Global Map 78 Spaces 42 The Year 80 Bedford Square Workshops In Figures Library Archive Hooke Park Wakeford Hall Appendices 82 Academic Governance Corporate Governance Academic Staff Administrative Staff Benefactors, Donors and Supporters Prizes and Awards

6 INTRODUCTION 7 INTRODUCTION To add to this academic curriculum, a series of initiatives were launched to generate dialogue Academic throughout the school in the form of Open Seminars available to both the school community and public. Programmes The Directions series sparked conversations amongst students, staff and the new AA Director that allowed Academic members of our community to express their visions for not only the 2018–19 academic year, but also the future of the school. The Positions series brought The academic programmes at the together leading alumni of the school, the heads of Architectural Association allow us Postgraduate programmes and a range of invited to forget our labels as architects, specialists from different disciplines to debate their approaches and methodologies, while also discussing as artists, as economists, as their common ground about particular topics. The writers, as poets, and we become AA Bar provided the atmosphere for Cocktails and citizens of the world. The 2018–19 Conversations that brought together units to discuss academic year brought a series varying teaching methods and approaches while sipping on designed drinks. of important conversations to Finally, Open Juries were formed as an the forefront of architectural opportunity for cross-school conversation, where education and contemporary students from Foundation to PhD-level were invited culture through new and familiar to present their work to a panel of invited critics. The Winter Jury focused on showcasing a selected project voices and projects. Every course, from each unit and programme from the previous programme and unit throughout academic year, while the Spring Jury invited students the school operates under a to present their work under one of three themes: highly specific and idiosyncratic urban, rural or cosmic. methodology, which offers each 7 Foundation Course student a myriad of options and 110 First Year possibilities. 87 Second Year 96 Third Year 129 Fourth Year First Year and the Intermediate School (2nd & 3rd 100 Fifth Year Year) allow students to broaden the horizons of how architecture is physically manifested in the world, 529 Total Undergraduate students to holistically consider how we design our cities, to imagine a future for our environment, and to redefine how we want to live together. In our Diploma School 10 AAIS (4th & 5th Year), lively, informed debate permeates 13 Design + Make life in the studio spaces, and as students hone their 87 Design Research Laboratory research skills, developing proposals into high-level 21 Emergent Technologies and Design design portfolios, they begin to refine not only their 6 History and Critical Thinking voices as designers, but also ways of individually 43 Housing and Urbanism articulating their academic agendas to carry with 13 Landscape Urbanism them into their future professional careers. The 26 PhD Programme Postgraduate provision (formerly known as the 8 Projective Cities Graduate School) consists of ten postgraduate 23 Sustainable Environmental Design programmes (including a PhD programme), offering advanced studies for students with prior academic 250 Total Postgraduate students and professional experience a wide range of topics from sustainability, housing and landscape urbanism, to robotics, material fabrication and history and 779 Total students theory.

Academic Programmes Academic 15 Intermediate School units 18 Diploma School units 10 Postgraduate Programmes 50 Academic staff with PhDs 102 RIBA Part III candidates 779 44 Visiting School programmes 8 SPACES Total full-time students 9 INTRODUCTION Click for more information regarding regarding information more Click for FOUNDATION COURSE UNDERGRADUATE COMPLEMENTARY STUDIES Drawing on several pedagogical practices with The 2018-2019 cycle saw 10 new units join the AA: Formed of History and Theory Studies (HTS), Media experienced tutors and visiting consultants, the three within the Intermediate School (15 units in total) Studies (MS), Technical Studies (TS) and Professional Foundation Course in 2018–19 continued to offer and seven within the Diploma school (18 units in total). Practice (PP/Part I and APP/Part II), Complementary dynamic, cross-disciplinary teaching that allows All new tutors attended a series of tailored induction Studies comprise a required and essential part of the students to explore the possibility of a future sessions as part of a series of support mechanisms Undergraduate provision. Students obtain a range career in architecture or the arts. Throughout the that were introduced throughout the school for of architectural knowledge and experience through academic year, scale, materiality, interpretation, staff and students. Additionally, the unit selection term-long courses and shorter projects conducted representation, site, scenario and inhabited process was scrutinised after 26 students did not individually and collectively. structures were explored. Students developed skills obtain a place with any of their selected tutors, which History and Theory Studies courses develop through the forensic examination of microsites; the led to the development of a revised system that will oral and written knowledge related to critical analysis of colour and volume; and observations be implemented at the beginning of the 2019-20 architectural discourses and different ways of relating to the body and the city, supported by academic cycle. thinking. Media Studies asks students to consider workshops that encouraged the translation from In 2018-19 three Diploma units delivered an traditional forms of architectural representation observation to material interpretation. Open Seminar series (Pier Vittorio Aureli, Maria alongside experimental forms of information and Shéhérazade Giudici – Domestication and its communication technology. Technical Studies Discontents, Eyal Weizman, Christina Varvia and facilitates the in-depth investigation of material, Merve Anil – Evidentiary Aesthetics, Indy Johar structural and environmental factors of architectural and Joost Beunderman – Welcome to the Boring design, leading to detailed submissions that build Revolution), broadening knowledge of their academic upon the ideas and ambitions of projects developed agendas both internally and externally. within the units. Professional Practice introduces To ensure the equity and rigour of assessment students to practice and the role of an architect procedures at the school, the Internal Assessment through seminars that cover subjects such as Committee was established and the end of year professionalism and ethics, running a business and external examination process was substantially the regulatory environment. revised. External Examiners for the first time saw a cross-section of different units. In the previous system, examiners would see up to a maximum of two units (from each of the Intermediate and Diploma School). This year the system expanded permitting a wider context for discussion concerning academic standards and teaching at the school. The response from the students and examiners was extremely positive.

10 ACADEMIC 11 ACADEMIC Foundation Course the Foundation regarding information more Click for Studies or, Diploma Programme School Complimentary the Undergraduate regarding information more Click for INTERMEDIATE UNITS DIPLOMA UNITS POSTGRADUATE MSc/MArch EMERGENT TECHNOLOGIES The AA Postgraduate School continued to develop AND DESIGN (EmTech) 1 Tools for Architecture – The Age of Hedonism 1 London Supernova: The Pataphysics an ever-growing portfolio of innovative research EmTech investigates new synergies of architecture Fredrik Hellberg and Lara Lesmes of Urban Fragmentation projects within our ten programmes including the and ecology through the critical intersection of Miraj Ahmed and Martin Jameson PhD programme. The courses provide advanced computational design and fabrication. This year 2 The Disease and the Remedy studies for students with prior academic and for the AA Terrace, students utilised innovative Ana Araujo 2 Living Matters professional experience. The school offers MA/MSc fabrication methods of incremental formed zinc Kostas Grigoriadis and Elia Zenghelis (12 months), MArch (16 months), MFA (18 months) and panels with plastic joint cases that were designed 3 The New Forest and its Digital Creatures MPhil (20 months) degrees for a range of expertise and printed in studio, resulting in a curved and Nannette Jackowski, Ricardo de Ostos 3 The Architectural Media Complex from sustainable design, housing, urban planning tessellated canopy structure. To provide a more and Nathan Su Merve Anil, Christina Varvia and Eyal Weizman and history and theory, to robotics, emerging cross-disciplinary approach, the seminar course technologies, performance, landscape and design Scientific Methods, led by Programme Head Mike 4 Postvacancy: Vanishing and Emerging, 4 Remote Sensing – The Coast of Europe through making. Weinstock, was open to both programme and PhD Communities and Architectures John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog The AA is a Partner Institution and Affiliated students and Studio Master Elif Erdine co-organised Arantza Ozaeta Cortázar Research Centre of The Open University (OU), UK. All the Table of Contents doctoral symposium at the and Álvaro Martin Fidalgo 5 Form, City & Density taught postgraduate degrees at the AA are validated School, which was an open event for the school Andrea Guazzieri and Umberto Napolitano by the OU. community and public. 5 Architecture 'in the Expanded Field': 0° 0" 00" ≤ ≥ ∞ Ryan Dillon and David Greene 6 Nobody's Home MArch ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM (DRL) MA HISTORY AND CRITICAL THINKING Guillermo López and Jack Self The DRL interrogates the broader relationships of IN ARCHITECTURE (HCT) 6 Kiss (Y)Our Primitive Future: A city with no architecture by considering the futures of living, work The History and Critical Thinking in Architecture houses, a house with no rooms, a room with 7 Fluid Territories: The North Sea and culture through advanced methods in design, programme is a platform for engagement with the no walls Platon Issaias and Hamed Khosravi computation and manufacturing. This year the DRL contemporary through critical analysis into history Brendon Carlin and James Kwang-Ho Chung continued to develop its research agenda with a and the politics of historiography. This year, as 8 Collisions and Displacements: Architecture residency scheme at Autodesk BUILD Space (Boston part of the Gallery Takeover series, the programme 7 A Hard Day's Night of Transition Technology Centre) and through its collaboration hosted an exhibition entitled The Sketch: Lines of Amica Dall, Anthony Meacock and Giles Smith Bozar Ben-Zeev and Maria Fedorchenko with AKTII engineers. The programme marked its Inquiry that used drawings from the AA Archive and twentieth anniversary with exhibitions at the Building student work to create a vibrant arena for exchange 8 Politics of a Strip Block: Communities Beyond 9 If this is a Bassoon, I am a Baboon Centre, London; Zaha Hadid Gallery, London; and at within the AA Gallery. The theme of the annual HCT Two Havanas Stefan Laxness and Antoine Vaxelaire the AA for the Silver Gala fundraising event. These debates was What is Contemporary, which brought Francisco González de Canales occasions offered an opportunity for the programme in visiting speakers including Mario Carpo, Leopold and Nuria Álvarez Lombardero 10 Constructing Interactive Space to disseminate the work and research to a larger Lambert, Joan Ockman and Anthony Vidler. Students Carlos Villanueva Brandt audience beyond the school. and staff attended the international conference 9 Deep-Fried Pig's Head with Pickled Gooseberry: Bauhaus and Greece, organised by the Athens Opposing Placelessness 11 City of Broken Relationships MSc/MArch DESIGN + MAKE School of Fine Arts and the Stuttgart State Academy Amandine Kastler, Christopher Matthews, Shin Egashira The programme explores design at the point of of Art and Design, for the 100th anniversary of the Christopher Pierce physical production and generates new protocols foundation of the Bauhaus. 12 Material World within the realm of experimental architectural 10 Post Inigo Minns and Manijeh Verghese construction. The research conducted demonstrates MA/MArch HOUSING AND URBANISM (H&U) Valentin Bontjes van Beek and Winston Hampel a vision for architectural education in which making Housing and Urbanism enables students to 13 The Boring Revolution is central to the act of design itself. This year the understand and address the complexities of 11 Second Nature – Architectural Grafting Joost Beunderman and Indy Johar programme introduced its revised curriculum, urban transformation through design learning Matilde Cassani and Silvana Taher which aimed to create a more balanced assessment and investigation focusing on the politics and 14 Gardening at Night: Revisiting the Architecture of work in order to improve both the built projects practicalities that are shaping change in cities today. 12 Isolated but Connected II of the Garden and written essays. Based on research completed This year the programme conducted a workshop in Taneli Mansikkamäki and Max Turnheim Pier Vittorio Aureli and Maria Shéhérazade Giudici at Hooke Park, programme co-head Martin Self Warsaw, Poland initiating two years of collaboration contributed a chapter to the publication Rethinking with the Warsaw University of Technology and 13 Crude Hints Towards an Architectural 15 Play Process, Sequence and City Wood (Birkhäuser) and Studio Tutor Zachary Mollica the city of Warsaw. In addition to the pedagogical Academy of the Future Lucy Styles and Simon Taylor participated in the robotic-focused conference, benefits and cultural exchange with students and Alex Butterworth, Lily Jencks and Jessica ROB| ARCH that took place in Zurich. staff of another architecture school, the partnership Reynolds 16 The Ecological Revolution II: ECOnstruct enhanced the application of design approaches Jonas Lundberg and Andrew Yau within a different context and enabled students 14 City of Beds to develop their dissertation. Programme Head Aristide Antonas and Georgios Eftaxiopoulos 17 Technique Under Reification Lawrence Barth contributed to the transformation Theo Sarantoglou Lalis and Dora Sweijd of planning policy in Warsaw and of national spatial 15 The School of Athens planning in the North, whilst Jorge Fiori took part in a Xristina Argyros and Ryan Neiheiser 18 Opalis, Developing the Market for Second Hand project on mobility infrastructure and urban equity in Building Components in the UK Latin America. Lionel Devlieger, Aude-Line Dulière and Maarten Gielen

12 ACADEMIC 13 ACADEMIC Postgraduate programmes the Postgraduate regarding information more Click for MSc/MArch LANDSCAPE URBANISM (LU) MFA SPATIAL PERFORMANCE AND MSc/MArch SUSTAINABLE MPhil ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN The Landscape Urbanism programme investigates DESIGN (AAIS) ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN (SED) (Projective Cities) the role that designers can play when confronted with AAIS engages with alternative methods of The programme engages with real-life projects Projective Cities is an interdisciplinary research policies and regulations that are currently shaping collaboration between multiple creative across building types in both cool and warm climates, and design programme that examines multi-scalar landscapes and territories across the globe. This professions. Programme Head Theo Lorenz and aiming to improve the environmental quality in cities, questions arising at the intersection of architecture, year, a change to the curriculum allowed for student Research and Development Tutor Tanja Siems achieve independence from non-renewable energy urban design and planning. This year, thesis projects projects to be linked more closely to the social and presented work at conferences at the Trinity Laban sources and develop environmentally sustainable placed focus on the direct impact and relevance political context that they selected to work within, Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London; the architectures. This year SED embarked on a new of contemporary disputes about urban policies, resulting in a greater awareness of the specific needs Alexander S Onassis Foundation, Athens; and two international collaboration with SOS School of development models and design practices, especially required to address. The publication, Landscape as gatherings linked to student projects located in and Sustainability at Mario Cucinella Architects in in relation to housing and forms of collective living. Territory (ACTAR) authored by Design Tutor Clara about the city of Madrid. Tutor David McAlmont Bologna, Italy. A new book Environmental Evolution Working with sites located in Shanghai, Amsterdam, Oloriz Sanjuan, was funded by a grant awarded by performed BlackOut at the National Portrait Gallery, of London Housing by Programme Head Simos Beijing, Athens, Barcelona and London, students the Graham Foundation. Programme Head Jose London. Yannas and Jorge Rodriguez was submitted for established contact with new stakeholders, Alfredo Ramirez co-organised the Design Agency publication. Programme Head Paula Cadima was municipal authorities, universities (Barcelona within Earth Systems conference in collaboration co-editor of an Architectural Science Review special School of Architecture and the National Technical with the University of Westminster and University of issue. A contingent of staff, recent graduates and University of Athens), cooperatives and architectural Greenwich, which took place at the AA. current students participated in the PLEA 2018 collectives, such as Lacol and Arquitectos de conference in Hong Kong. Cabecera. Prospective graduate Wojciech Mazan will curate the Polish Pavilion at the 2020 Venice Architectural Biennial, exhibiting a project for rural Poland that follows the enquiry of his research project within the programme.

14 ACADEMIC 15 ACADEMIC PHD PROGRAMME PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE UK SHORT COURSE PROGRAMME The Open University (OU), as part of the AA/OU The autumn 2018 and spring 2019 Professional The 2019 Summer School had a more expansive Affiliated Research Centre Institutional Review, Practice courses were attended by a combined total range of agendas than in previous years and aimed to commended the doctoral studies programme for of 102 candidates, 27 of whom were AA graduates. build a larger and more diverse audience. The overall its rich and vibrant research culture, student-led Several new speakers were introduced including intent was to create opportunities for students and symposia, training bursaries and research travel Sarah Lupton, Manos Stellakis, Kate Marks, Laura professionals at all levels and to engage with global grants, and staff initiative in successfully applying for Ilomeini, Roger Zogolovitch, Nigel Calvert, Nigel leaders in their fields. HEA Fellowship accreditation. The OU also approved Ostime and Simon Foxell. 12 candidates from a range Operating under the collective title A Heated a continuation of the AA/OU ARC Agreement for a of different architecture practices took the course Curriculum the programme was spearheaded by a further three years, which commenced in May 2018. as Continuous Professional Development (CPD). 86 revamped Summer School and took place both in Five new students enrolled at the beginning of candidates sat the examinations, 42 in the autumn Bedford Square and Hooke Park. An international the academic year, and subsequently submitted their and 44 in the spring, and the overall pass rates collection of tutors and speakers (Andrea Bagnato, research proposals and Supervisor nominations were 90 percent and 77 percent for each session Shumon Basar, Tatiana Bilbao, Fernanda Canales, for registration with the OU. Eight probation respectively. Rory Hyde, Ivan Lopez Munuera, OMMX, Jennifer reviews/mini-VIVAs were completed and seven A series of changes to the examination Sigler, Violette Van Parys and Troy Therrien, among VIVA examinations were held, all with successful process were implemented for the 2018–19 cycle. others) were brought together to deliver a wide range outcomes. An Examination Board was formed to draft the of contemporary agendas and an extensive public questions, scenario and to guide answers for all programme of events. four written papers. The examination assessment criteria was changed from pass or fail to reflect typical academic practice, and for candidates that have failed particular sections a range of resit options were considered. The scenario and examination questions are based on a ‘real-site’, and a group tutorial session was introduced to address points of clarification. Professional Practice Professional Visiting School

16 ACADEMIC 17 ACADEMIC or the PhD Programme regarding information more Click for the regarding information more Click for VISITING SCHOOL GLOBAL PROGRAMMES VISITING SCHOOL Amazon Cusco Lima New York The AA Visiting School (AAVS) continued to travel the LOCATIONS Asinara Delhi London Osaka globe and touched down in locations ranging from Bandung Dubai Los Angeles Paris Cusco, Barcelona and Budapest to Jeddah, Chengdu Bangkok El Alto Lugo Richelieu and Melbourne. These cities provided the context Barcelona Guatemala City Lyngør São Paulo for a wide range of new and existing short, part-time Beirut Hooke Park Melbourne Stuttgart experimental programmes throughout the 2018–19 Berlin Istanbul Mexico City Tokyo cycle. Close financial scrutiny improved returns to Brussels Jeddah Miami Vienna include grant and individual funding/sponsorship Budapest Koshirakura Moscow Zurich success, and a structure was put in place to lead the Cambodia Kuwait Mumbai development of the AAVS. Chengdu Las Pozas Naples Over the course of the year, three key objectives were achieved. Firstly, significant work was undertaken to clarify the structure of part-time studies at the AA. This meant focusing the activity of the AAVS on its global programmes in order to bring a clear purpose and direction to its mission – the important marketing and sponsorship benefits that followed bore out the value of this process. Secondly, mechanisms were introduced to more robustly monitor all programmes, as well as to provide support in securing alternative funding streams that will continue to be a primary target for growth in 2019–20. Finally, preparations were made to launch a global call for ‘pilot’ proposals that will vastly extend the network of the AAVS and diversify the staff engaged in its programmes.

18 ACADEMIC 19 ACADEMIC The AA’s TDAP application underwent the final Established by the Higher Education and Research stages of scrutiny during the 2018–19 cycle. The QAA Act 2017 (HERA) as the independent regulator of Taught concluded their scrutiny in November 2018, and final Office for higher education in England, registration is required evidence was provided by the school in December for continued access to student support systems Degree 2018. The QAA’s final report was presented to the Students (OfS) for designated undergraduate and postgraduate Advisory Committee on Degree Awarding Powers courses thus enabling eligible students to access (ACDAP) at their meeting in May 2019, and following student finance for funding purposes; and to maintain Awarding this the application was considered by the QAA Board a Tier 4 sponsor license for the purposes of recruiting in June 2019. If successful, it will be recommended international students. to the Privy Council, who will grant a final decision in Providers of higher education are Following an application submitted on 1 August Powers autumn 2019. required to register with the Office 2018, the AA secured registration with the OfS on In preparation for a successful application, the for Students (OfS) in order to be 18 March 2019, with confirmation that the initial school produced a TDAP Implementation Plan and conditions of registration had been satisfied; (TDAP)* Academic Framework for the post-TDAP period. officially recognised as providing further, that Tier 4 students sponsored by the AA The school’s five-year ARB/RIBA Part 1 and 2 course higher education in the UK. commencing enrolment in the 2019-20 academic will be internally validated in September 2019, the year will enjoy the full privileges that this registration TDAP gives UK higher education Foundation Course in February 2020 and the Taught affords. The regulatory framework will be fully institutions the right to award Postgraduate Programmes in May 2020. The AA has implemented across the sector from 1 August 2019. bachelor’s and master’s degrees. also identified aspects that need reinforcement for the future of the school, focusing on investment in The AA’s application for TDAP capacity building throughout different areas of the was supported by the Architects institution. Registration Board, the Royal Institute of British Architects and *As of 1 October 2019 the AA is pleased to announce that it has been granted Taught Degree Awarding The Open University. Powers by the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council.

20 ACADEMIC 21 ACADEMIC DISABLED ARTISTS MAKING SPONSORSHIP 2018–19 DIS/ORDINARY SPACES Collaborations Material World, led by Inigo Minns and Manijeh Partnerships • Chengdu Wide Horizon Investment Group Verghese (Diploma 12), worked with Jos Boys’ • Maeda Corporation Design Office initiative Disabled Artists Making Dis/Ordinary and Sponsors • Fundació Caixa d’Enginyers and Roca Barcelona Spaces that pairs artists with architectural education • Universidad Científica del Perú Lima programmes across the UK for collaborative projects. • Taisei Corporation and Takenaka Corporation The unit received funding from the initiative to • Jotun Paint NOK and Lindals organise a series of workshops with deaf artist Aaron Different programmes and courses Williamson. This year the AA launched at the AA regularly collaborate with Partnerships in Design, an initiative IN-KIND SPONSORSHIP 2018–19 organisations, institutions and SIR JOHN SOANE’S MUSEUM for enabling students and alumni In collaboration with the Sir John Soane Museum • Mas Rodó practices around the world. This Lily Jencks, Jessica Reynolds and Alex Butterworth to produce a series of installations • Tool Rental, Lindal Gruppen AS, Laing and Boat Hire year, several such collaborations (Intermediate 13) hosted Crude Hints towards an designed to improve the School’s • Fibro Beton, Mimarizm / YAPI, Arch2O and Arkitera occurred, from a launch event for Architectural Academy of the Future, an exhibition spaces. In collaboration with • Montien Hotel, Conduit House Limited, Faculty of a fashion line to an exhibition of of student projects inspired by the museum’s select partners, these installations Architecture at Chulalongkorn University architectural laboratory. Following Soane’s • PLP Labs Theoretical Sex Toys. description of his ‘house-museum’ as an ‘academy of intended to showcase the state- architecture’, designs included spaces for discourse, of-the-art technologies and WALLPAPER* debate, exhibition and inhabitation, each questioning equipment available at the school. PARTNERSHIPS Through the partnership established with Wallpaper* how architectural academies of the future can Magazine for the 2018 Silver Gala, a collaborative engage with the city. Europe project was developed to promote the facilities The remit of the programme was to create • Animalesque (Berlin) – TU Berlin of the school’s new Digital Prototyping Lab to A-COLD-WALL */ NIKELAB 1948 opportunities for students to solve real problems using • Barcelona – The Caja de Ingenieros Foundation - prospective students and professionals. Wallpaper* Play: Process, Sequence and City led by Lucy Styles creative solutions. Those who took part worked with Fundació Privada De La Caixa D’Enginyers paired with the Digital Prototyping Lab and the and Simon Taylor (Diploma 15), provided students real users, received technical support from design and IAAC Canadian artist and novelist Douglas Coupland to an opportunity to spend two weeks working with partners and specialist guidance from academic • Istanbul – Bligi University and Fibrobeton design and fabricate an original piece for the issue A-Cold-Wall* and NikeLab 1948 as part of their studio experts. Projects are made possible by in-kind • Moscow – Service Contract APEX Project Bureau of the magazine titled Handmade X: With Love. project to conceptualise and execute an immersive donations, and full installation support is provided by and National Research University Higher School The resulting Forest of Theoretical Sex Toys was sound installation for a capsule collection launch. In members of the Partnerships in Design initiative. of Economics exhibited at the Salone del Mobile in Milan and will a week-long fabrication period, students produced The first workshop happened over two days in • Paris – École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture be auctioned in autumn 2019 to support scholarships 4500 slip-cast clay pyramids that were installed at July 2019, and focused on improving the lighting in key de Versailles (ENSA-V) and bursaries for AA students. the NikeLab 1948 showroom in Shoreditch, London. spaces around the school: the Lecture Hall, the Bar and • Milan – Politecnico di Milano and Ideas Bit Factory During the event, visitors were encouraged to walk on the Front and Rear Members’ Rooms. The workshop the piece, generating different sounds as the impact was supported by iGuzzini and Xicato, and was run by Oceania of feet crushed the clay casts into chunks, shards and Francesco Anselmo, a professional lighting designer • Melbourne – The University of Melbourne eventually dust. and Technical Studies tutor at the school. Middle East / Africa • Dubai – In5 FZ-LLC • Jeddah – Effat University

Asia • Chengdu – Wide Horizon New Town Development Co. Ltd • Delhi – Sushant School of Art and Architecture • Java – PT Polymindo Permata and Institut Teknologi Bandung • Osaka – Takenaka Corporation • Ring of Fire – Taisei Corporation and Takenaka Corporation

Americas • Lima – Pontifica Universidad Católica Del Peru • Miami – Florida International University College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts, Miami Beach Urban Studios • Cusco – The Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas • New York – Cooper Union and New York Institute of Technology

22 ACADEMIC 23 ACADEMIC SYMPOSIA Public The school was involved with a variety of symposia during the 2018-19 academic year. The PhD Programme Programme organised Table of Contents, which aimed to examine the different routes of research Public undertaken at the AA by focusing on not what the research is, but how it was formulated. The Design Agency within Earth Systems conference The Public Programme is an was organised in collaboration with the University ever-evolving collection of of Westminster and the University of Greenwich, lectures, exhibitions, publications, and invited participants to reflect upon not only the complicity of design in the destruction of the workshops, symposia, open planet, but to also imagine how relations between seminars, gallery talks, building socio-political and earth systems can be viewed visits and performances dedicated differently through design. Organised by the ‘City as to contemporary architectural a Project PhD’ by Design Programme, the premise of Domestic Frontiers was to reframe domestic culture. Events are free and open space as a battlefield of practices for planning and to the public, and bring together counter-planning. Architecture of the Immersive thousands of members, visitors, Internet, organised by Lara Lesmes and Fredrik critics and provocateurs through Hellberg together with James Taylor-Foster (Curator of Contemporary Architecture and Design at ArkDes), architectural discourse. was an event that took place both in the Lecture Hall and in virtual reality. Media in Architecture, 10 Lecture series across the year the Territory and the Urban brought together 74 Evening lectures researchers, architects and artists to explore the use 5 Symposia of media and representation of space as a form of 1 Conference multi-scalar investigation. 13 Exhibitions 28 Open seminar sessions Table of Contents Design Agency within Earth Systems LECTURES Domestic Frontiers The Public Programme started the year Architecture of the Immersive Internet introspectively: stating positions through Media in Architecture, the Territory and the Urban conversations between Postgraduate programme staff, recent graduates of the school and experts from related disciplines; setting directions through conversations between the new Director of the AA, Eva Franch i Gilabert, and the different constituencies of the association (students, staff, members and alumni); and performing analysis through a series of artist-led lectures organised by Parveen Adams, with responses by Mark Cousins. In January attention shifted outward to question a post-Brexit understanding of ‘home’, and to expand disciplinary frameworks and rewrite architectural history through a series titled New Canonical Histories. Additionally, groups from units throughout the Intermediate and Diploma Schools discussed their agendas and common interests over drinks at the Cocktails and Conversation events.

Positions Around the Table Directions Analysis HOME: Questioning Post-Brexit Relationships AA Collections Talks Critical Practice New Canonical Histories Cocktails and Conversation AA X Amnesty International New Canonical Histories

24 SPACES 25 PUBLIC Click for more information regarding the Public Programme regarding information more Click for OPEN SEMINARS EXHIBITIONS SEPTEMBER 3 Open Seminar Throughout the autumn three Open Seminar series Exhibitions this year began with a series of Gallery Book Launch The Boring Revolution ran in parallel. Linked to different Diploma Units, Takeovers by Postgraduate programmes and 19 Footnotes, Backgrounds, Sheds Session 1: Wicked Problems – sessions were led by in-house academic staff Diploma units, followed by a collaboration with Evening Lecture by Hugh Strange Architects From Treatment to Prevention in and invited experts. A new format for the Public Amnesty International in the form of an exhibition AA Honours 2018 with Zsuzsa Photographs by Max Creasy conversation with Hilary Cottam Programme, the seminars proved to be very effective and a series of events presenting their investigation Peter, Etienne Gilly, Shaan Patel Essay by Elizabeth Hatz in communicating the research and ideas being into the impact of conflict on civilians in Raqqa, Syria. and Dalia Frontini Matsuura 10 developed within the academic programmes of the A series of related interviews with alumni who have 4 Membership and Alumni Event school to a public audience. challenged or dealt with the topics of urgency and 19 Sept – 20 Oct Evening Lecture Exhibition Tour Evidentiary Aesthetics introduced the means and conflict through their student work or in their current Exhibition Wolfgang Tillmans in Denise Scott Brown: Wayward Eye modes by which architecture – as a contemporary practice were published on AA Conversations in the AA Honours, Prizes and conversation with Marko Betts Project set of techniques and as a body of knowledge – can build-up to the opening of the exhibition. Exemplary Projects 2017–18 Milovanovic become an investigative and evidentiary mode Open Seminar through which to interrogate contemporary politics AA Honours, Prizes and Exemplary Projects 5 Domestication and its and conflict. Welcome to the Boring Revolution The Sketch: Lines of Inquiry (HCT Takeover) OCTOBER Symposium Discontents explored how recent cultural and socio-economical Pushing the Boundaries: 2019 Arts Table of Contents Session 1: Village – Architecture shifts such as Brexit, Trump, the rise of the far right, Foundation Shortlist 1 Organised by the PhD Programme and the Rise of Sedentary Forms wider institutional distrust and structural discontent DRL Work in Progress Positions of Life have questioned our existing models, practices, Roadside Picnic: The Trade of Reclaimed Building Forward with Platon Issaias, 8 instruments and institutions. Domestication and its Materials in the UK (Diploma 18 Takeover) Marina Lathouri, Marie-Louise Positions 11 Discontents focuses on the history of settlements Ongoing Investigations (Diploma 3 Takeover) Raue, Patricia Roig Canepa, Jingru Recursive with Simos Yannas Directions from prehistory to today, seen from the perspective En La Arena Se Ha Bañado La Sombra (In the Land Cyan Cheng and Zoe Svendsen Paula Cadima, Jorge Fiori, The AA as a Hotbed of of one of the most controversial issues of human the Shadow has Bathed) Lawrence Barth, Edmund Fowles, Experimentation history: the process of domestication. War in Raqqa: Rhetoric vs Reality (In partnership with 2 Madeleine Kessler and Jim AA Students in conversation with Amnesty International) Membership and Alumni Event Coleman Eva Franch i Gilabert Evidentiary Aesthetics Right to Host Building Visit Welcome to the Boring Revolution Binary is for Computers Light House 9 12 Domestication and its Discontents Boundaries as a Project Across Time Gianni Botsford Membership and Alumni Event Analysis: Drawing Out Practice Projects Review 2018–19 Building Visit Adventures of the Black Box Blueprint for the Future: AA Project Narratives 2019 Sun Rain Room Tom McCarthy in conversation Tonkin Liu with Mark Cousins Organised by Parveen Adams and Mark Cousins AAConversations 74 Evening lectures 26 PUBLIC 27 PUBLIC Click for more information regarding the regarding information more Click for 15 Bloomsbury Festival 30 6 Book Launch Around the Table Open Workshop, organised by Walking Tour Open Seminar Open Seminar Staging Urban Landscapes – On celebrating ‘madness’ Foundation A Celebration of the Architecture Evidentiary Aesthetics The Boring Revolution The Activation and Curation of Liza Fior and the Vacuum Cleaner Colour and Space of Bedford Square Session 2: Resolution with Session 4: Digitising Development Flexible Public Spaces (James Leadbitter) Antoni Malinowski Benedict O’Looney Laura Kurgan – Rethinking the Economics B Cannon Ivers of Land and Housing in the Book Launch 16 22 Evening Lecture 4th Industrial Revolution in 14 The University is Now on Open Seminar Positions Weapons of Choice conversation with Alastair Parvin Open Seminar Air – Broadcasting Modern The Boring Revolution Autonomous with Theodore Organised by Kate Davies Domestication and its Architecture Session 2: Trustlessness – Spyropoulos, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Drawing Water: Drawing as 7 Discontents Joaquim Moreno Don’t Ditch Decentralisation in Maria Giudici, Vere van a Mechanism of Exploration Around the Table Session 5: Monastery – conversation with Preston J Byrne, Gool, Nicholas Zembashi and with Tania Kovats On Perfectionism The Domestication of Landscape Open Seminar Doma and Ehab Marie Coulon Thomas Curran in conversation in Late Medieval Europe Domestication and its 31 with AA Student Forum Discontents Open Seminar 23 Evening Lecture 15 Session 6: Capital – Evidentiary Aesthetics Open Seminar Weapons of Choice Open Seminar Directions The Emergence of Domesticity Session 1: Slow and Fast Violence The Boring Revolution Organised by Kate Davies Domestication and its The AA as an Incubator of Ideas in the Early Nation States – Seminar in Memory of Session 3: Value Paradigm – Marshmallow Laser Feast Discontents AA Alumni in conversation with Paul Virilio (Re)debating Who Creates Value? with Barney Steel Session 4: Grid – The Principle Eva Franch i Gilabert 22 Why that Value? Who’s Value? of Rectangular Subdivision in Evening Lecture and Book Launch 17 with Brett Scott 23 — 14 Ancient Greece and Rome 17 Archigram Presents... Book Launch Exhibition Fundraising Event Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton and Selected New Titles Membership and Alumni Event The Sketch: Lines of Inquiry 9 Silver Gala David Greene with Mike Webb Drawing Matter Film Screening Organised by the MA Analysis: Drawing Out Practice from New York Human Flow History and Critical Thinking From Stasi City and ‘Undead Sun’ 17 Nov – 1 Dec Open Seminar programme to ‘Suspended Island’ Exhibition 26 Domestication and its Book Launch Jane and Louise Wilson in AADRL Work in Progress Evening Lecture Discontents Moholy’s Edit – The Avant Garde conversation with Mark Cousins Critical Practice: Forms of Session 2: City – Early Cities in the at Sea 1933 NOVEMBER Organised by Parveen Adams and 19 Alliance with Freek Persyn Near East and Indus Valley Chris Blencowe and Judith Levine Mark Cousins Positions (51N4E), Pooja Agrawal and Finn 1 – 15 Engaged with Michael Weinstock, Williams (Public Practice), Rory 18 24 Exhibition 12 Elif Erdine, Theo Lorenz, Maciej McGrath (OK-RM) and Flavien Directions Around the Table Pushing the Boundaries: Evening Lecture Woroniecki, Theo Sarantoglou Menu (Office for Cities) The AA as a Global Community On Channelling Anxiety 2019 Arts Foundation Shortlist Critical Practice: Rethinking Lalis and Siobhan Davies AA Members in conversation with into Creativity Clients with Peter Swinnen (CRIT), 27 Eva Franch i Gilabert Sara Lopez in conversation 1 Maarten Gielen (Rotor), Yeoryia 20 Open Seminar with AA Student Forum Evening Lecture Manolopoulou (AY Architects) and Membership and Alumni Event The Boring Revolution 19 Ways of Seeing: Experimental Giles Smith (Assemble) Building Visit Session 7: What is Analysis: Drawing Out Practice Open Seminar Architecture with Holly Hendry, Smithson Plaza Anastrophic Design? The Line Domestication and its Chris Hildrey, Lawrence Lek and 13 Deborah Saunt with Etienne Turpin and Andrew Hewish in conversation Discontents Public Practice, chaired by Justin Open Seminar Konstantina Koulouri with Mark Cousins Session 3: Town – Planned McGuirk and Theodore The Boring Revolution Open Seminar Organised by Parveen Adams and Settlements in Ancient Egypt Spyropoulos Session 5: Trojan Horses and Dark The Boring Revolution Open Seminar Mark Cousins and China Matter – How Do We Shift the Session 6: Third Horizon of Evidentiary Aesthetics 5 Cultures of Decision Making? Governance with Marco Steinberg Session 5: Material Aesthetics – 20 25 Open School Event with Dan Hill Architecture is Matter Slowing Bloomsbury Festival Directions From Beijing’s Palace to Africa’s Open Seminar into Form Digital Prototyping Lab The AA as a Pedagogical Project Malindi: Fourteen Problematics Open Seminar Evidentiary Aesthetics Open House AA Academic Staff in between Forms and Politics Evidentiary Aesthetics Session 4: Algorithmic War 28 Angel Lara Moreira conversation with Jianfei Zhu Session 3: The Incident – The Long with Laura Poitras Open Seminar Eva Franch i Gilabert Duration of the Split Second Domestication and its Bloomsbury Festival Positions 21 Discontents Walking Tour 26 Grounded with Emmanuel Membership and Alumni Event Evening Seminar Session 7: Enclosure – Colonial London’s Street Trees Symposium Vercruysse, Martin Self, Eduardo Film Screening Elements of Domestication Appropriation from Europe to Paul Wood Design Agency within Rico, Jose Alfredo Ramirez, New Town Utopia James Westcott Asia and the Americas Earth Systems James Mak, Alison Cheng, organised by the Bloomsbury Festival Organised by Jose Alfredo Hussam Dakkak, Kate Davies and City/Architecture PhD Programme AA Little Architect Workshop Ramirez, Lindsay Bremner Spandana Gopal Yes SHE Can! and Ed Wall Dolores Victoria Ruiz Garrido Keynote Speakers: Neil Brenner, Stuart Elden, Design Earth and Marti Franch

28 PUBLIC 29 PUBLIC Evening Lecture and Book Launch 5 JANUARY 11 Open Seminar 5 An Anatomy of Influence Open Seminar Open Day Lecture Evidentiary Aesthetics Membership and Alumni Event Thomas Daniell in conversation Domestication and its 7 Bring Back Experimentation Secrecy Film Screening with Jeremy Till Discontents Housing and Urbanism in Architecture Crofton Black and Edmund Clark Soane Medal Lecture: Denise Session 8: Park – Greening and MArch Keynote Asif Khan Scott Brown 29 Primitive Accumulation in the Accommodation – Architecture AA Book Group Evening Lecture Modern Western City as a Common Framework 14 January Book Group 6 CLIMAVORE: What is Above is Christopher Lee AA Collections Talk Exposure by Olivia Sudjic Book Launch What is Below 12 Objects of Dissent Unorthodox Ways to Think the City Cooking Sections (Alon Schwabe Membership and Alumni Event 8 Eszter Steierhoffer, Nayia 23 Teresa Stoppani and Daniel Fernández Pascual) Film Screening Sustainable Environmental Yiakoumaki and Thomas Around the Table Mountain Design MArch Keynote Hockenhull, chaired by Corinna Recognition 8 30 Architecture as Excuse – Gardner Organised by Quotidien and Winter Jury Symposium Book Launch Social Agency, Informality and AArchitecture Pablo Bronstein, Pedro Gadanho, Domestic Frontiers Still Beautiful Participation within the Built 15 Beatrice Galilee, Manon Mollard Organised by the City / David Grandorge Environment Open Seminar Book Launch and Rowan Moore Architecture PhD Programme Michael Smith Masis Evidentiary Aesthetics The Town of Tomorrow – 12 – 13 Frequencies 50 Years of Thamesmead 11 Exhibition 9 Susan Schuppli Ben Weaver and Peter Chadwick HOME: Questioning DECEMBER Roadside Picnic: The Trade of Emergent Technologies Post-Brexit relationships Reclaimed Building Materials and Design Membership and Alumni Event 25 Border 4 in the UK MArch Keynote Film Screening Cocktails and Conversation Michelle Provoost, Platon Issaias Open Seminar Diploma Unit 18 Beyond Real and Virtual – Citizen Jane: Battle For The City Urbanisms and Michael Young, chaired by The Boring Revolution Towards an Augmented Reality Jane Jacobs Francisco González de Canales, Florian Idenburg and Manijeh Session 8: Conscious Cities – Francis Aish Nuria Álvarez Lombardero, Kostas Verghese Can Neuroscience Inform the 17 Grigoriadis, Elia Zenghelis and Built Environment? 10 New Canonical Histories Carlos Villanueva Brandt 12 with Araceli Camargo and Design Research Laboratory Retelling History... Open Seminar Hugo Spiers MArch Keynote Salma Samar Damluji 28 Evidentiary Aesthetics Dialogue In Between Nature, AA Collections Talks Liquid Traces Technology and Architecture 18 Archiving the Image Lorenzo Pezzani Melike Altinisik Cocktails and Conversation David Baldwin, Manon Janssens, Future Societies Fiona Orsini, John Sheridan and 13 Arantza Ozaeta Cortázar, Álvaro Abigail Wharne, chaired by Around the Table Martin Fidalgo, Inigo Minns, Helen Thomas Copyright Manijeh Verghese, Indy Johar, Organised by AArchitecture and Joost Beunderman, Carlotta Conte 31 Quotidien and Jack Minchella New Canonical Histories #AllMustFall AA LAWuN Event 21 Lesley Lokko ‘Meet Me Under the Chandelier’ HOME: Questioning Organised by Patricia de Souza Post-Brexit Relationships Leao Muller, David Greene and Homeland FEBRUARY Eddie Farrell Maria Shéhérazade Giudici, Sam Jacob and Merijn 1 14 Oudenampsen, chaired by Florian Cocktails and Conversation Membership and Alumni Event Idenburg and Manijeh Verghese Domestic City Building Visit Brendon Carlin, James Kwang- The Department Store 22 Ho Chung, Aristide Antonas, Squire and Partners Membership and Alumni Event Georgios Eftaxiopoulos, Andrea Building Visit: 1A Earl’s Court Guazzieri, Umberto Napolitano, New Canonical Histories Square Guillermo Lopez and Jack Self From Canon to Community: Sophie Hicks Shifting Priorities at Tate Modern 2 – 8 Frances Morris All Day Open Week Workshop AA Polar Lab – Constructing 15 an Antarctic Atlas Cocktails and Conversation Directed by Giulia Foscari and Earth Systems Francesco Bandarin Miraj Ahmed, Martin Jameson, Guest collaborator: Accurat John Palmesino, Ann-Sofi Guest speakers: David Walton, Rönnskog, Jonas Lundberg and 13 Klaus Dodds and Camilla Nichol Andrew Yau 30 PUBLIC Exhibitions 31 PUBLIC 18 25 27 AA Collections Talk Critical Practice Around the Table Slow Seeing – The Analog in Affording Risk Esoteric Photography Rory Hyde, Selasi Setufe and Organised by Quotidien and Daniel Blochwitz, Juliet Hacking, Eva Franch i Gilabert AArchitecture Gil Pasternak and John Spinks, chaired by Sue Barr 26 28 A Home for Al New Canonical Histories 19 Building Visit Weaponised Architecture: Open Seminar Salter’s Hall Towards a Revolutionary Evidentiary Aesthetics Julian de Metz (dMFK) Practice of the Discipline Artificial Phenomenology Léopold Lambert Adam Harvey Evening Lecture New Hybrids MARCH 21 Julian Leinhard New Canonical Histories 1 The Architecture of Closed Worlds Open Seminar Symposium Lydia Kallipoliti Evidentiary Aesthetics Architecture Across Realities – Field Philosophy / Operative The Architecture of the Immersive 22 Theory Internet Membership and Alumni Event Eyal Weizman with Christina Organised by Space Popular and Exhibition Tour Varvia and Merve Anil James Taylor-Foster A Home for All: Six Experiments in Social Housing 26 Feb – 8 Mar Book Launch Shumi Bose Exhibition Possible Mediums Ongoing Investigations Kyle Miller and Sean Yendrys Cocktails and Conversation Diploma 3: The Architectural Making and Un-Making Media Complex Cocktails and Conversation Shin Egashira, Aude-Line Dulière, Internet Architectures Lionel Devlieger, Maarten Gielen, Lara Lesmes, Fredrik Hellberg, 4 8 16 Amica Dall, Anthony Meacock and Taneli Mansikkamäki, Max HOME: Questioning Cocktails and Conversation Remembering John Andrews Giles Smith Turnheim, Stefan Laxness and Post-Brexit Relationships Pedagogical Architecture (1950–2019) Antoine Vaxelaire Exodus Ana Araujo, Lily Jencks, Jessica Madelon Vriesendorp, Gurminder Reynolds, Alex Butterworth, 19 K Bhambra and Jan Willem Xristina Argyros, Ryan Neiheiser, Membership and Alumni Event Petersen, chaired by Florian Maria Fedorchenko and Bozar Building Visit Idenburg and Manijeh Verghese Ben-Zeev Southbank Centre Archive Matt Ferrer (Jonathan Tuckey 5 13 Design) New Canonical Histories Membership and Alumni Event Work, Body, Leisure: Building Visit March Book Group On Architecture and Automation Royal Opera House A Clockwork Orange Marina Otero Verzier and Nick Stanton Williams by Anthony Burgess Axel with Ayesha Hameed, Maria Shéhérazade Giudici and Eva 13 — 22 20 Franch i Gilabert Exhibition Book Launch En La Arena Se Ha Bañado X-Ray Architecture Membership and Alumni Event La Sombra (In the Sand the Beatriz Colomina Film Screening Shadow Has Bathed) Wall (Mur) Álvaro F Pulpeiro 27 Book Launch 6 14 An Architecture Manifesto Book Launch Film Screening Nadir Lahiji Positions on Emancipation Nocturno: Ghosts of The Sea Nikos Katsikis in Port APRIL Álvaro F Pulpeiro 7 23 New Canonical Histories 15 Membership and Alumni Event The Extreme Challenge of Gallery Talk Film Screening Building in Antarctica Introduction to Civil War – The Fog of War – Eleven Lessons Hugh Broughton, moderated by A Frontier Fiction From The Life of Robert S Giulia Foscari and Francesco Álvaro F Pulpeiro McNamara Bandarin

32 PUBLIC 33 PUBLIC 25 8 22 JUNE 20 JULY New Canonical Histories AA × Amnesty International Book Launch Projects Review 2019 Chong Cuy: A school, formerly? Syria’s Destruction and Gran Mediterraneo 1 – 30 AA School and Bedford 3 Sofia Hernández Reconstruction: Consolidating David Tajchman Exhibition Square Gardens Shumon Basar Power or Pursuing Recovery? Right to Host: 6 Characters in Summer Garden Party and Much Content 26 Apr — 30 May Sawsan Abou Zainedin and Hani 23 Search of a Host Press Preview Exhibition Fakhani with Platon Issaias and Book Launch Sean Gwee, Alexander Zikanov, Eva Franch i Gilabert War In Raqqa: Rhetoric Hamed Khosravi Loveless: The Minimum Dwelling Gabrielle Eglen and other 21 Poetry, Economy and Architecture Versus Reality and its Discontents members of the AA community Projects Review 2019 Amnesty International 9 Martino Tattara and Pier AA School and Bedford 4 Membership and Alumni Event Vittorio Aureli 6 Square Gardens Koolhaas Houselife 26 AA Building Conversations Membership and Alumni Event Graduation Ceremony and Film Screening Symposium Barbican Book Launch AA Building Conversations Exhibition Opening Representations/Investigations Stephen Witherford Projects and Their Consequences Sivill House 5 – Media in Architecture, the Jesse Reiser + Nakako Umemoto Tyen Masten (PHASE3) 24 Vere van Gool Territory 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120,000 Instagram followers 40 PUBLIC 41 PUBLIC Bedford Spaces Square A ten-building campus of 68,000 workshops, prototyping and square feet offers students and computer labs, courtyards and staff an intellectual and academic terraces. home in Bedford Square. Located In 2011, a masterplan was in the heart of Bloomsbury, London designed for the school that the AA’s main site originally could be achieved in phases, occupied 34–35 Bedford Square as and when funds were raised. and now inhabits buildings 32, The first major phase connected 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39 and 4, 16 unit spaces along one ‘street’ Morwell Street (located behind stretching from 33–39 Bedford the square). These Georgian Square at the third level, called homes have been transformed Via Christina. The second into a hub of architectural activity phase commenced in 2017 with and include studio spaces, a the construction of the Digital lecture hall, formal meeting Prototyping Lab in the basements rooms, presentation and public of 36–39 Bedford Square, which programme spaces, a library and was completed during the 2018–19 archive, exhibition space, offices, academic year. a cinema, cafeteria, bar,

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In addition, diverse media and materials postgraduate students comprising the majority of the technical resources that enabled the Library provided a loan available can be accessed year- remaining percentage. An objective for 2018–19 was to promote and the usage and exploration of a and information service for AA round and are continuously being publicise the collections more broadly. To that end, large range of manual and digital Members and research facilities uploaded to the online catalogue. AA Archives partnered with the V&A, RIBA, the Soane fabrication techniques in the for scholars and academics from Museum, the Sorbonne and the Munich Architecture production of architectural models around the world. 3,250 Individual items catalogued in 2018–19 Museum as part of a network, funded by the Arts and 12GB Files acquired from prize-winning Humanities Research Council (AHRC), to examine the and prototypes. AA students documentation of architectural models. Furthermore, 195 Average visits per day 150 Models photographed and filmed a new partnership was formed with Kingston Visits to the DPL: 50 Average visits on Sunday 87.34m3 Volume of material in storage University’s MA course in Curating Contemporary 31,695 Students 48,365 Titles in online catalogue Design, and funding was secured for a Collaborative 12,569 Staff and visitors Doctoral Partnership with Birkbeck, University of In January 2019, the Library responded to user London, to enable the Otto Köenigsberger archive to This year, the Digital Prototyping Laboratory (DPL) – feedback and extended its opening hours to include be catalogued. the AA’s 3D fabrication hub – finalised its expansion Sundays. The move was well-received by students A detailed inventory and appraisal of the entirety from 36 to 39 Bedford Square, almost tripling in and, as a consequence, it continued to operate seven of the AA’s photographic collections was carried out, overall floor area. The lab upgraded the existing days per-week for the remainder of the year. The and as part of this process a significant collection equipment and installed a host of new technologies. Library again received the highest satisfaction rating of over 250 open reel films of lectures and events Since the construction work was completed, use of of any facility, resource or service at the school in at the school was unearthed. Long-term projects the DPL by students and staff has increased, as has the annual student survey, with 93 percent recording were also commenced this year, and a new Research the number of models being produced using new positive feedback. Collections Room was opened to house the non- fabrication techniques. The provision of new online resources continued digital photographic collection, provide a work area The availability of a new, dedicated teaching to grow throughout the academic cycle. Responding for researchers and volunteers, and function as a space has allowed for tutorials to take place to tutor and student requests, the Library took out seminar space and cinema. throughout the year in an effort to make students a subscription to the Association for Computing more self-sufficient with the new equipment. More Machinery (ACM) digital library and set up successful than 75 students have attended inductions for the trials of Global Digimap and Society Digimap. robotic arms and CNC-machine, and can now operate Together with the Archives, the Library this equipment without assistance. Additionally, the successfully organised the AA Collections lecture quantity of work being produced using 3D printing series, which focused on the current trends, has doubled since a review of Health and Safety challenges and politics of collecting and archiving. practices in January 2019 that allows the machines to The talks included Objects of Dissent (14 January), be run over night. Through close co-operation with Archiving the Image (28 January) and Seeing Slowly: the DPL and several units/programmes throughout The Analogue in Photography (18 February). The the school, two papers have been published in peer- talks generated much discussion and attracted reviewed journals as a result of research conducted large audiences. using the facilities now on offer. After many years at the AA, Aileen Smith, Deputy In 2018-19 a new space was introduced to the Librarian, retired in June 2019. Aileen was a stalwart Wood and Metal Workshop. The Workshop Assembly of the Library, integral to its development and Room connects the DPL and the Model Workshop responsible for ensuring a great experience for all and Yard allowing students to move between the students, staff and members. spaces with ease, provides a well-lit and spacious working environment for the assembly of models; and alleviates congestion in the other workshops, which enhances the overall safety of the workshop. Archives 48,365 Titles in online catalogue 44 SPACES 45 SPACES Click for more information regarding the Library regarding information more Click for the regarding information more Click for 2018–19 saw the completion of the Phase 1 construction of Wakeford Hall, a new academic Hooke Park building that will house a library, lecture hall and offices at the centre of Hooke Park, generously supported by the Wakeford Bequest. The construction of a series of new paths was also initiated, including a trail that leads to the highest point of the estate. Annual felling operations were carried out to ensure the health and productivity of Hooke Park is a 140-hectare the working forest, and timber sustainably sourced working forest in Dorset, UK. from the woodland for a range of different projects Comprised of workshops, was also sold to the wider construction market. Working with tutors and staff from throughout assembly spaces, experimental the school, a focus was placed on developing more fabrication equipment and student projects in Hooke Park. As a result, 28 groups student accommodation, the park from various programmes at the school spent time at is occupied year-round by the the site, in addition to participants of some AA visiting schools and short courses. The Hooke Park Build students and staff of the Design + programme received a record number of applications, Make postgraduate programme, and participants joined the construction effort of the and hosts visits and short library. The Maeda Workshop, led by Shin Egashira, workshops for other programmes returned to Hooke Park this year to revitalise an outdoor cooking area and in July, the site hosted a unit at the AA throughout the year. from the AA Summer School for the first time, with Troy Therrien and his students developing a float tank 17 Different tree species in the woods. 159,000 Trees Zachary Mollica took on a management role 44 Buildings and structures in a newly established position as Hooke Park Warden, inheriting responsibility from Martin Self, who had guided the development of the site since 2012. Zachary will be responsible for developing the potential of the woodland as a unique academic resource and leading centre for architectural research. Martin continues to lead Design + Make as Programme Head.

44 Buildings and structures 46 SPACES 47 SPACES Hooke Park Hooke regarding information more Click for People Demographics

Each shade of grey on the pie Postgraduate charts represents a country of origin highlighting the diversity of our student body and staff. Originating from more than 81 different countries our community is truly international, providing a unique and vibrant culture within the school.

Staff Undergraduate

48 SPACES 49 PEOPLE STUDENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Students Jingru Cyan Cheng (PhD Programme) received a commendation in the RIBA President’s Awards for Research Commendation

Jack Isles (Diploma School) was awarded the Kohn Pedersen Fox Traveling Fellowship 2019

Students at the AA come from all Oskar Johanson (Diploma School) was awarded First over the world, with more than 80 Prize in the Avery Review's Essay Prize 2019 for his nationalities represented in the essay ‘Degenerative Ark’ 2018–19 academic year. 20 percent Samuel Little (Diploma School) published of our students are supported ‘Reclamation and Reuse of Building Materials in UK financially by either a scholarship Agriculture’ in the Farmers Guardian or bursary, with £1.2m distributed Lumia Shurong Liu (AAIS) presented her MFA project in 2018–19. Scholarships are ‘It Is’ at Conway Hall in London awarded to new students entering the five-year course in architecture Aoi Phillips (Diploma School) launched Afterparti zine for two or three years, subject to with New Architecture Writers academic progression. Bursaries Noa Segev (AAIS) presented an art installation are awarded on an annual basis to ‘Schweig und Sprechen’ in Camden Market, London students across all programmes. The majority of enrolled students in Naina Gupta (PhD Programme) presented ‘The Hague: Constructing an International Forum’ at the University 2018–19 were female (56 percent). of Oxford

Mohammed Makki (PhD Programme), Milad Showkatbakhsh (PhD Programme) and Yutao Song (EmTech 2015) released a new plugin called ‘Wallacei’ for Grasshopper 3D

Camille Bongard (Year Out) received a Commendation in the Bronze Medal Category for the 2018 RIBA President’s Medals

Nine students (Jeanne Clerc, Lucas Wilson, Chanel Kuo, Chris Kokarev, Ryan Cook, Hangyul Jeong, Lukas Pauer and Voisin Isdahl) were named in the Something Curated list of ‘Graduates to Know from the AA Projects Review 2019’

Tanya Lee-Monteiro (Diploma School) opened ‘Homeless – An Exhibition for Change’ at The Painting Rooms in London

Neba Sere (Professional Practice) took part in ‘Manifestos: Architecture for a New Generation’ at the Design Museum in London

Lukas Pauer (PhD Programme) was selected to participate in AIM 2019, the ‘Alpbach Summit of Emerging Leaders’ in Austria

Work produced by Georgia Hablutzel (Diploma School) and Quentin Dauvergne (Year Out) was published on the Whitechapel Gallery website

50 PEOPLE 51 PEOPLE Postgraduate governance structures throughout the AA. A series of seven online surveys were launched in February and Student Undergraduate Student Life March 2019 under the title of AA Opinions to gather Total data regarding the following areas: Architectural Association, Academic Programmes, Academic Numbers Resources, Departments, The Association, The Organisation and Other, which provided members of the School Community the opportunity to give personal responses regarding school activities and to 900 Being a student at the AA is an contribute to the development of its future plans. entirely unique experience. As With this in mind, and in response to the student- a participatory democracy, the led Architecture Education Declares, a group of AA students formed AAction, to promote education

675 808 school relies on the constant

779 as the primary space to reflect upon the urgency of 760 748 756 728 input and feedback of its climate and ecological breakdown. Through a series constituents in developing the of events and initiatives, both inside and outside the academic programmes, facilities, AA, the aim is to create awareness about the role in 450 which architecture can have in the necessary and 529 515 governance structures and plans theoretical and practical challenges that climate 484 476

457 for the future. change has on the built environment.

428 In recognition of the academic and personal 225 In 2018–19, a new series of conversations between challenges that all students face while working, 320 293 303 Eva Franch i Gilabert, the School Director and studying and living in London, Ana Ribeiro, a 280 250

244 students, staff and alumni was established. Chartered Clinical Psychologist, began working These progressive dialogues, entitled Directions, with the school in the Spring to provide confidential, 0 addressed the future of the AA and provided an open one-to-one support sessions and open workshops. and transparent forum through which the School The aim is to help individuals cope with a range of 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 Community could be consulted with and directly psychological difficulties including anxiety, panic involved in the development of the 2020–25 Strategic attacks, self-esteem issues and school-related stress Plan, as well as a range of other initiatives that would and this service will continue in future years. Ana come to fruition throughout the year. Beyond this set trained in the UK, France and Brazil, and has years of conversations, a range of dinners were arranged of experience working across the NHS and private for members of each programme throughout the practice, including GP surgeries, community teams school to discuss their individual experiences and and university mental health support. provide feedback in a personal and informal setting. Students are also fundamental to the development of the school through their active 12% participation in governance. Over the last year, student representatives were elected to the UK students Academic Board (AB), the Academic Committee (AC), the Ethics Committee (EC), the Teaching and Learning Committee (TLC) and the PhD Committee, ensuring 23% a diversity of input across all of the academic EU/EEA students 65% International students

20% Students supported by a scholarship or bursary 52 PEOPLE 53 PEOPLE STAFF ACCOMPLISHMENTS Andrea Bagnato (History and Theory Studies tutor) Teresa Stoppani (History and Theory Studies tutor) Academic Nacho Martí (First Year and Technical Studies tutor) co-authored ‘A Moving Border: Alpine Cartographies presented her project ARCHITECTURE_DUST as was shortlisted for the LAGI 2019 Abu Dhabi design of Climate Change’ part of the Birkbeck Arts Week 2019 programme and Staff competition with his project Cloud Field was invited to chair the inaugural event of the POST Ricardo de Ostos (Intermediate School tutor) lectured SCRIPTUM* series in Lima Xristina Argyros and Ryan Neiheiser (Intermediate at the Institute of Architecture and Media in Graz, School tutors) represented Greece at the Venice Austria. Ricardo also gave a lecture with Nannette Dolores Victoria Ruiz, (Director of Little Architect), Architecture Biennale with their exhibition Jackowski (Intermediate School tutor) at the Embassy delivered a talk about the Little Architect programme With ten new units and more than ‘The School of Athens’. They also opened their of Brazil in London at the Universitat Politècnica de València 30 new staff in the Undergraduate construction The Tide (in collaboration with Diller, programmes for the 2018–19 Scofidio + Renfro) and The Prism in Greenwich, Nuria Álvarez Lombardero and Francisco González Mark Cousins (Head of History and Theory Studies) London de Canales (Intermediate School tutors) published an wrote in the Bangkok Post about the protection of Ban cycle, The AA continues to attract article in the Journal of Architecture Plai Nern, Prince Naris’ House, in Thailand leading figures in architecture from Nuria Álvarez Lombardero (Intermediate School around the world. tutor), Manijeh Verghese (Head of Public Programme, Maarten Gielen, Lionel Devlieger and Aude-Line Amica Dall and Giles Smith (Intermediate School Diploma School tutor) and Nerma Cridge (History Dulière (Diploma School tutors), with students Samuel tutors) presented The Sympathy of Things on BBC and Theory Studies tutor) presented at the ‘Fielding Little and Arvind Roy, contributed to Architectural Radio 4 113 Total academic staff Architecture: Feminist Practices for a Decolonised Research Quarterly 77 UK Pedagogy’ symposium Thomas Randall-Page (First Year and Media Studies 28 EU/EEA Jack Self (Diploma School tutor), Adam Nathaniel tutor) and Benedetta Roger won the Architecture 8 International Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg (Intermediate Furman and Giacomo Ardesio opened their exhibition Foundation’s Antepavilion competition School tutors) opened a solo exhibition, ‘Value in the ‘Mean Home’ in Rome Elia Zhengelis, who studied and taught at the school Virtual’ at ArkDes in Stockholm. They also took part in Eyal Weizman and Christina Varvia (Diploma School from 1956 to 1987, returned to the AA this year to ‘Manifestos: Architecture for a New Generation’ at the John Palmesino (Diploma School tutor) spoke as tutors) were nominated for the Turner Prize with their teach a Diploma unit. Design Museum part of the ‘Climate Change at the Building Scale’ practice Forensic Architecture. Eyal also spoke at New staff members included: Lionel Devlieger conference hosted by Columbia/GSAPP, and at the the Barbican Centre as part of Architecture on Stage and Maarten Gielen, the founding members of Lily Jencks (Intermediate School tutor) installed a United Nations in New York series Rotor; Aude-Line Dulière, the recipient of the 2018 pop-up garden in Cabot Square as part of this year’s Wheelwright Prize; Amica Dall, Anthony Meacock London Festival of Architecture Umberto Napolitano (Diploma School tutor) was Theo Sarantoglou Lalis (Diploma School tutor) spoke and Giles Smith of Assemble; Indy Johar and Joost appointed to the Order of Arts and Letters at TEDx Brussels Beunderman, the co-founders of Dark Matter Manijeh Verghese (Head of Public Programme, Laboratories; Christina Varvia, the Deputy Director Diploma School tutor) was selected with Madeleine Oana Stănescu (Diploma School tutor) was As members of the AHRC-funded Architectural of Forensic Architecture; architect, educator and Kessler to curate the British Pavilion at the 17th Venice named as a finalist of the 2019 MoMA Young Models Network, Mark Morris (Head of Teaching and writer Hamed Khosravi and Umberto Napolitano, the Architecture Biennale Architects Programme Learning) and Edward Bottoms (Head of Archives) founder of LAN, among others. participated in meetings that took place in Paris and Farshid Moussavi and Eyal Weizman (Diploma School Kostas Grigoriadis (Diploma School tutor) won the Munich, and also presented papers at the inaugural tutor) took part in the London Festival of Architecture Design and Technical category of the 2018 RIBA V&A Museum symposium. symposium President’s Awards for Research

Shin Egashira (Diploma School tutor) presents his Jose Alfredo Ramirez (Co-Head of Landscape exhibition ‘Beautifully Incomplete’ at the Betts Project Urbanism) presented at The Graz Architecture gallery in London Lectures 2019, the Montevideo Ideas Workshop and the Inter-American Development Bank Seminar on Nerma Cridge (History and Theory Studies tutor) Governance and Urban Growth in Bogotá, Colombia presented a paper at the International Congress of Aesthetics in Belgrade Michael Weinstock (Head of Emergent Technologies and Design, Head of Research) presented at the City as a Living Organism event and delivered a Digital Architecture Open Lecture at the University of Kent

50 Academic staff with PhDs 54 PEOPLE 55 PEOPLE Administrative Staff

During 2018–19 the administrative staff of the AA continued to instigate, maintain and develop the operations and activities of the school. This was achieved through a series of new initiatives that addressed review processes with a focus on staff development, their well-being and health of staff, and an updated scheme for paternity leave.

249 Total administrative staff 81 UK 137 EU/EEA 31 International

Annual reviews were introduced at the AA this year as a centralised process for both academic and administrative staff to provide a platform to discuss and review the previous year, and to set objectives and identify professional development needs for future aims and ambitions. Pilates classes were arranged as part of the AA’s commitment to help improve the health and wellbeing of our community. Free and open to all staff and students, sessions were run by professional instructors and took place in the Barrel Vault on Tuesday evenings. The sessions were extremely well received by all staff that attended and the pilates classes will continue in 2019-20. The AA offers various schemes that provide real benefits to parents and helps balance their family and work commitments. In addition to the statutory entitlement to paternity leave, the AA introduced enhanced provisions that enables the parent to take two weeks of leave with full pay.

113 Total administrative staff 56 PEOPLE 57 PEOPLE ALUMNI ACCOMPLISHMENTS Valle Medina and Benjamin Reynolds (Pa.LaC.E) HIGHEST GOOD, an exhibition by Valle Medina and participated in Constructing (Engaged) Practice Benjamin Reynolds (Pa.LaC.E) opened in Vienna Alumni Lawrence Lek was shortlisted for 2018 Film London conference at Columbia University GSAPP Jarman Award Vere van Gool curated ‘Screen Spaces, a geography Suryansh Chandra and Mostafa El Sayed (Automata) of moving image’ for Het Nieuwe Instituut in New York Nicholas Grimshaw received the 2019 RIBA Royal Gold launched a desktop robotic arm called Eva Medal KooZA/rch, founded by Federica Sofia Zambeletti, Shireen Hamdan, Madeleine Kessler, Sadie Morgan took part in ‘datasutra’ at Anise Gallery in London Nili Portugali’s film And the Alley She Whitewashed and Valeria Segovia Trigueros were shortlisted for Alumni are ambassadors and in Light Blue was screened at the Lund International BD’s Female Architectural Leader Award Fearghus Raftery co-curated 74 years, an exhibition advocates of the school. They Architecture Film Festival in Sweden as part of the Other-Art Network programme and are vital members of the AA Black Panther won the Academy Award for costume included the work of alumni Colin Priest and Kristina Rok Oman and Špela Videčnik’s ‘30m2 Living Unit’ design by Ruth Carter and Julia Koerner Kotov community that raise the global was auctioned profile of the school and contribute MAA led by Melike Altinişik won an international Lucy Bullivant and Alexander Eriksson Furunes to its reputation through their Pierluigi Turco, Andrea Rossi and Gabriele Motta’s competition for the world’s first Robot Science exhibited ‘Dugnad Days’ at the Oslo Architecture achievements and recognition (alumni) practice Parallel Collective won an Museum in Seoul Triennale 2019 international design competition for a School and as some of the world’s most Community Centre in Palermo Stefan Jovanović presented ‘Constellations’ at the Digital Blue Foam, founded by Camiel Weijenberg renowned architects, designers, Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London, in collaboration (alumni) and Sayjel Vijay Patel, was launched at the architectural thinkers and Denise Scott Brown was awarded the 2018 Soane with Patrick Morris and Jack Hardy GRAPHISOFT KCC in Las Vegas educators. Medal Alan Dempsey, Director of Nex, announced a new Stephanie Edwards and Patricia de Souza Leão Sarah Khan won the 2018 RICS East of England Award riverboat terminal on the River Thames, London Müller took part in ‘Manifestos: Architecture for a 9,850 Alumni in Building Conservation New Generation’ at the Design Museum in London 127 Nationalities Ron Arad, along with Eva Franch i Gilabert, won an Neri Oxman and Lawrence Lek participated in ‘AI: award at the T Spain Design Awards Nabeel Hamdi joined the Grenfell Inquiry panel The intent of the AA’s evolving alumni programme is More than Human’ at the Barbican Centre in London to develop a highly engaged and active community John Pawson was awarded a CBE Sabrina Morreale and Lorenzo Perri opened ‘An worldwide, with a focus on supporting young Colin Priest installed the commission ‘Slow Read Encyclopaedia to Harvest Knowledge’ in Bangkok professionals who attended the school through Here’ at the 2019 International Literature Festival in Samuel Essess and Jonathan Wong were shortlisted mentorship, networking opportunities and further Dublin in Dezeen and Mini’s Living Competition Gustafson Porter + Bowman, led by Kathryn learning. The first phase of the attempt to re-engage Gustafson, Neil Porter and Mary Bowman won the with alumni in 2018–19 focused on improving Aleksandra Jaeschke won the Harvard Graduate Lord Richard Rogers was awarded the 2019 Gold Site Tour Eiffel competition communications by segmenting different audiences School of Design’s 2019 Wheelwright Prize Medal by the American Institute of Architects and tailoring the content distributed to each Alumni news items and stories have featured with Lawrence Lek opened ‘AIDOL 爱道’ at Sadie Coles HQ Arthur Mamou-Mani opens robotic choreography increased regularity on the main website, in weekly in London installation at the Sir John Soane’s Museum in London communications and on social media channels. AA Sporadical, an alumni e-newsletter, was launched this Adam Nathaniel Furman created 3D-printed totems Nicholas Grimshaw, Manuel Jiménez García and year and achieved a significant open rate (40 percent). for ITV ident Igor Pantic were named as finalists in the 2019 Specific events for alumni were also held throughout Programme Competition for the Tallinn Architecture the year, including the AA’s first Chinese New Year Biennale celebrations, which attracted 120 guests in London and were held simultaneously in five locations worldwide. Furthermore, a space was allocated in 33 Bedford Square for the AA Residence, a cultural platform open to alumni that furthers the school’s ongoing commitment to innovative practice and acts as an incubator and shared workspace for research. Alumni 9,850 58 PEOPLE Alumni 59 PEOPLE Click for more information regarding regarding information more Click for The AA Weekly e-newsletter, introduced in 2018, now includes news, opportunities, members’ events, Members obituaries and alumni features, as well as details of the academic and public programmes at the school. The development of the format throughout the year has helped to streamline the quantity and frequency of external communications, with a positive impact on the number of subscribers. The introduction of GDPR- compliant mailing preferences saw a 27-percent Improvements to communications increase in the overall number of subscribers. and events were prioritised this year in order to cultivate an engaged, FILM SCREENINGS active community of members, and Human Flow encourage them to make a positive New Town Utopia contribution to the AA. Mountain Citizen Jane: Battle for the City Denise Scott Brown: Soane Medal Lecture 1,551 New members Wall (Mur) The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the The number of registered AA Members continues Life of Robert S McNamara to grow. It currently stands at 7,593, including 705 Robinson in Space students and 290 staff. 1,551 new members were Workingman’s Death welcomed during the 2018–19 cycle, including 920 Visiting School students. Managing the volume BUILDING VISITS and growth of the membership relies on continuing Light House, Gianni Botsford improvements to streamline systems and processes. Sun Rain Room, Tonkin Liu This year a method for simplifying and tightening Smithson Plaza, Deborah Saunt subscription income reconciliation was introduced, 1A Earl’s Court Square, Sophie Hicks however retention of visiting members remains The Department Store, Squire and Partners extremely low, despite improvements made to the Salters’ Hall, Julian de Metz renewal process two years ago. Royal Opera House, Stanton Williams The implementation of a new communications Southbank Centre archive, Matt Ferrer schedule for 2018–19 allowed the school to Danish Embassy and Duke of York Restaurant, strategically consider the material distributed to Alan Dempsey members. Basic segmentation of the AA’s audiences Sivill House, Tyen Masten has facilitated the distribution of specific content to St Paul’s Bow Common, Hugh Strange each demographic, and a more active membership is The Barbican Centre, Stephen Witherford beginning to emerge as a consequence, with faster Waterlow Court, Adam Khan responses and increased attendance at events. Members were brought together throughout the EXHIBITION TOURS year during building visits, exhibition tours, film Denise Scott Brown: Wayward Eye screenings and a series of conversations, and a A Home for All: Six Experiments in Social Housing feedback form was introduced for all events to assist Eric Parry: Drawing in the development of future programmes. The dissemination of printed material to our members continued with the student-led AArchitecture and the relaunch of the membership journal AA Files.

7,593 Registered members of which 4,672 are alumni 60 PEOPLE 61 PEOPLE During the 2018–19 cycle, the Finance Department reviewed the financial framework and Scheme of Financial Delegation. A number of controls on the approvals of budgeted, unbudgeted and over-budget spending were introduced, and improvements were made to Report the controls on capital spending. The department Finance and also worked with budget holders throughout the school to produce a realistic overall original budget for 2019–20 based on steady-state assumptions, and The Finance Department several members of the team attended a VAT training is responsible for providing session to address any compliance issues raised by a financial and management a recent HMRC audit. The department worked with the School Director and the Head of Estates to Sustainability accounting service, including negotiate a favourable rent review outcome on 16–18 timely and accurate annual Morwell Street. statutory accounts, A new sales pricing and credit terms policy was management information and put in place for AA Publications Ltd, with the aim of ensuring its ability to generate revenues that covered budget reports for the all costs without subsidy from AA Inc. This was Architectural Association strengthened with a new inter-company agreement (Inc) and Architectural between AA Inc and AA Publications Ltd. A health Association Publications Ltd. check of the existing accounting system at the school was also undertaken, which determined the need for an upgrade to facilitate the automation of certain Financials £m reporting processes such as the uploading of budgets and the automatic generation of departmental Income 19.7 management information. The reserves policy was Spend -17.6 also reviewed and amended. The actual total income Contribution 2.1 was £19.7m (2017–18: £18.9m) with expenditure of £17.6m (2017–18: £18.1m). The improved annual net surplus of £2.0m (2017–18: £0.9m) was a result of higher than expected student numbers. 779 students enrolled in September 2018 (2017–18: 728). Our freehold and leasehold properties were revalued by obtaining external valuations which demonstrated that market value was in excess of the carrying value in the financial statements, and increased by £10m since the last valuation done in 2011. During the period, the audit was completed, and improving upon the previous year the accounts were signed two months earlier, which met the Office for Students (OfS) deadline of four months from the year-end date.

£19.7m 62 SPACES Income 63 FINANCE Income Expenses

Salaries (49%)

Occupancy (19%)

Scholarships and Bursaries (7%)

Tuition Fees (89%) Academic Resources (5%) Publications (2%) Donations and Legacies (4%) Legal, professional and other (5%) Other Income (5%) Outsourced Suppliers (4%)

Trading Expenses (3%)

Interest and Depreciation (3%)

Actuarial Adjustments (1%)

Membership (1%)

Publications and Public Programme (1%)

64 FINANCE 65 FINANCE Fundraising activity this year has been led by the new Director, and focused on the initiation of two Key Figures Fundraising annual events to raise funds for the AA and make the case for supporting new programmes and strategies for the school. and The Silver Gala, held in November 2018, raised more than £50k in support of AA Publications and Sponsorship helped relaunch the flagship journal, AA Files. Issue 76 was published in June 2019 as a result of the money raised. The event also catalysed several partnerships SUMMARY INCOME STATEMENT – AUDITED 2018–19 has been an important and collaborations that have permeated the work of year for fundraising at the the school throughout the year. £000’s 2017-18 Actual 2018-19 Actual The Summer Garden Party in June of this year Architectural Association. further highlighted the need to support scholarships INCOME The completion of two major and bursaries at the AA, which aims to ensure that Tuition Fees 15,619 17,493 building projects, made possible the extraordinary education provided by the school Publications 543 432 through philanthropic support, is made available to the most exceptional students, Donations and Legacies 1,339 807 irrespective of financial means. As a result of the allowed the school to dedicate event, a number of new scholarships and prizes are Other Income 1,367 968 attention to a new set of integrated now being established for the 2019–20 cycle. Total Income 18,868 19,700 fundraising strategies that A major project to expand and refurbish the EXPENSES permeate the organisation at Digital Prototyping Lab was completed during the year, accommodating an extensive range of Salaries and Wages 9,034 8,693 all levels. contemporary modelling and robotic technologies in Scholarships and Bursaries Awarded 1,118 1,228 the buildings on Bedford Square. A single donation of Occupancy 3,212 3,421 £1.5m from Christina Smith, an AA member, made the Membership 242 257 project possible. At Hooke Park in Dorset, the first phase of Academic Resources 811 863 construction of its centrepiece building, the Wakeford Publications 581 150 Hall Library, was completed. The new facility, Public Programmes 170 88 supported by Nora Garlick and the Wakeford family, Legal and Professional 351 291 will create opportunities in the coming years for new academic programmes and research to take place at Trading Expenses 301 453 Hooke Park. Outsourced Supplier 914 782 Other Expenses 809 750 Total Indirect Costs 17,543 16,976 Operating Surplus 1,325 2,724 Interest and Depreciation 546 605 Investment Losses 8 6 Actuarial Adjustments -121 85 Net Operating Surplus 892 2,028

66 FINANCE 67 FINANCE The Year in Projects

68 SPACES 69 PROJECTS Projects Review Projects regarding information more Click for FOUNDATION

Alex Evdokimov Vasco Giovannoni Shanice Natalia Anastasia Papaspyrou Tatiana Watrelot Lilian Wichmann Maria Setia Muliati Putri Tuya Naz Duzagac Maria Edmee Orombelli Julia Pawlowska Thomas Germain-Pendry Deri Mungo Russell Beatriz Marco Sanchez-Peral

FIRST YEAR

Ron Zaum Anvi Aggarwal Mia Aoun Ishita Arora Florencia Bacci Maria Alejandra Bigott Shivank Sareen Raluca Scheusan Linden James Seddon Pakki Shen Ivan Solianik Ssu-Kuo Oscar Lo Le Qian Toby Tang Picasso

Nursel Burce Gecit Muhittin Can Binan Xuqianqian Denise Cao Yoav Carmon Joanna Man Hey Chau Wan Xuan Cheryl Cheah Ching-han James Chiang Karina Taran Aude Grace Yiwalo Tollo Kin Ho Tse Daphna Turbowicz Oleksandra Viazmitinova Shengqi Wang Elliot Watt

Jihyun Choi Sung Ho Scott Choi Shanna Sim Ler Chung Ryan Darius Iro Davlanti Lo Diana Dulina Hanna Franziska Fastrich Pei-Cheng Mabel Wu Jin Xie Hiroaki Yamane Hongxin Yang Lok Sze Rachelle Yau Ziyi Yuan Ghita Zahid

Anthony Flouty Adelina Garifyanova Danya Gittler Alexandra Golovina Isabel Gonzalez Vasundhara Goyal Melis Gurdal Pierre Zebouni Xinyi April Zhang Lingfei Fei Zhao Qinyuan Agnes Zhou Solveig Lola Audrey Jappy Marine Marie Zovighian Elena Zubareva

TOOLS FOR THE DISEASE ARCHITECTURE: AND THE AGE OF THE REMEDY HEDONISM

Luca Haberstock de Carvalho Lynn-Sacha Hanna Xiaoya Yolanda He William Hedley Laura Hepp Puze Huang Solveig Lola Audrey Jappy Chia Cheng Ng Yu-Fu Jeff Huang Thomas Yun Tima Rabbat Brian Chung

Yuyi Jiang Damian Nicholas Kam Nikola Kechrimpari Laetitia Khachwajian Seonwoo Kim Sari King Angelina Kiryukhina Aleksandar Aksentijevic Farah Bizrah Nethra Ganesan Jean Kouassi Chanel Kuo Lana Nsouli Deniz Ozcan

THE NEW FOREST AND ITS DIGITAL CREATURES

Michal Klonecki Barbara Koch Tamar Kraft Won Ho Lee Yingqi Leo Li Yue Li Guanyu Alex Lin Gemma Raad Athena Thrasyvoulou Zhongshan Zou Jia Qing (Charlotte) Chan Ludvig Julius Holmen Zhi Wee Lee

Jiayi Tina Lin Jianfeng William Liu Julia Barbara Lubner Bora Malko Lucia Martinez-Botas Ferial Massoud Natalia Miskelly Reina Mun Shobha Narendran Caspar Schols Daniel Peter Tayar-Watson Maciej Tomaka Kechao Xiang Chiao Yang

70 PROJECTS 71 PROJECTS POSTVACANCY: DEEP-FRIED VANISHING PIG’S HEAD AND EMERGING, WITH PICKLED COMMUNITIES GOOSEBERRY: AND OPPOSING ARCHITECTURES PLACELESSNESS

Qian Yang Mohamad Riyad Yassine Naz Babaoglu Tsolmon Bat-Enkh Paulina Burzynska Gaetano Drago Logan Paine Logan Paine James Wallis Dana Wazni Emily Zinselmeier Malek Arif

Jia Long Feng Norman Fong Veronika Kaneva Hoi Ching Lee Tara Malek Gilani Sze May Wong Weina Zhang Anahita Brahmbhatt Oz Caspi Tiffany Cheung Ylam Déme Elsa Jacob César Jucker Hyunuk Kim

ARCHITECTURE ‘IN THE POST EXPANDED FIELD’

Sherif Shenata Sinan Asdar Alice Baseian Dariya Cheremisina Romain Conti-Granteral Judi Diab Haya Morowa Noah Robinson-Stanier Daniel Swarovski Masha Tatalovic Yixia Xu Tamir Aharoni

Thomas Faulkner Maite Garcia Lascurain Efe Gole Maya Kleiman Camille Puech Theo Sykes Paul Vecsei Ammara Asdar Tomiris Batalova Gianfrancesco Brivio Sforza Jean-Baptiste Coulomb Gabrielle Eglen Ellen Hu Yewen Jin Fernandez

KISS (Y)OUR PRIMITIVE FUTURE: A CITY WITH SECOND NATURE: NO HOUSES, ARCHITECTURAL A HOUSE WITH GRAFTING NO ROOMS, A ROOM WITH NO WALLS

Zi Min Ting Isabel Alves Santos De Castro Sung Vin Cho Cindy Jiachen Cui Kamal El Kharrat Zhehao Hong Daria Nepop Chu Ying Ng Natacha Palomeque Coll Dajeong Yoon Alexander Zikanov Edoardo Albertini Petroni

Georgia Kestekoglou Kah Ling Kong Kin Yat Uno Lam Vian Rasool William Keaton Seddon Ruoning Wu Gina Yan Ying Zhang Tung-Hua Chen Elisa Commanay Sebastian Cornwell Rashad Fakhouri Anastasia Fedotova Anya Glik Dalal Itani

A HARD DAY’S ISOLATED BUT NIGHT CONNECTED II

Polina Aleshkina Zhuo Chen Isabelle Doumet Bour Chiang Huang Altan Jurca Avci Emma Magnusson Igne Jurgaityte Yee-Fei Tan Kelly Van Homrigh Anne Lise Agossa Zhaniya Alimzhanova Farida Aliyeva

POLITICS OF A STRIP BLOCK: COMMUNITIES BEYOND TWO HAVANAS

Quentin Martin Caterina Pereira Martin Lior Ramon Ife Somefun Leo Sun Martin Wecke Armaan Bansal Salomé Hirsch Sofia Krivashina Ziyad Mourad Rojan Nekourouymotlagh Chia Ng Romain Rihouet

CRUDE HINTS TOWARDS AN ARCHITECTURAL ACADEMY OF THE FUTURE

Carmen Maria Bisono Carlo Alberto Campolo Defne Cengic Laetitia Chauveau Yin Ning Lee Marina Matinopoulou Mira Otkay Carlos Uribe Ron-fu Rocky Yeh Stephanie Cheung Nata Dzhmukhadze Gyung Lee Da Kyungjoo Min

72 PROJECTS 73 PROJECTS REMOTE CITY OF SENSING: BEDS THE COAST OF EUROPE

Vivian Olawepo Jin Gyeong Ryu Peixuhan Zhang Beduro Bae Thanida Buranasujja Yi Hin Chan Jack Isles I-Chun Lin Daria Moussavi Joyce Ng Irene Squilloni Lingge Yang

Karl Herdersch Yue Jiang Vedika Kapur Hotaru Kawaguchi Yu Lian Lilian Pala Tommaso Tugnoli Tanit Cabau-Wolf Eva Ibañez Fuertes Marina Gubbins Ye-Jin Lee Tanya Lee-Monteiro Katayoun Nekourouymotlagh Sahir Patel

THE SCHOOL FORM, CITY & OF ATHENS DENSITY

He Wang Tzu-Shuo Wu Bolurin Adedipe Andrea Agostini Youngchae Ahn Beatrice Boselli Angelica Rimoldi Arefeh Sanaei Jocelyn Tang Thanas Apilikitsmai Mujung Ryan Chiu Mateo Deza

Luciana Bondio Joiris De Caussin Pierre-Edouard Joseph Tamara Husam Rasoul Qing-nan Meng Nicolaos Moustroufis Sapolachet Sankosik Zacariah Hong Abhinav Jain Dina Khaki Jasen Kok Adi Krainer Shu Kui Lee Theodora Maria Makri

LONDON SUPERNOVA: THE NOBODY’S PATAPHYSICS HOME OF URBAN FRAGMENTATION

Anna Soonchi Der Mariana Valenzuela Lombera Clarissa Wen Chua Shidi Fu Mohd Nor Hafizah Chi Yan Matthew Mark Ho Molly Mummery Estelle Tan Marcus Yau Hexuan Yu Sophia Alami Gouraftei Sofiia Astrina

Michael Ho Hei Young Kwok Christoph Lenhart Aoi Phillips Yamashita Ainhoa Schapira Perez Oratai Taechamahaphant Zi-Ken Toh Anna Bryłka Jeanne Clerc Fiona Cuypers-Stanienda Oren Karev Mizue Katayama Ashirai Zeyn Musikavanhu James Pulman

FLUID LIVING TERRITORIES: MATTERS THE NORTH SEA

Siong Yu-Hsiang Wang Wai Yin Yuen Leong-Nin Chan Hangyul Jeong Vittoria Lenzi Loh Li-Zhi Elias Tamer Emma Voisin Isdahl Maximillian Worrell Aarohi Bakeri James Dreu Judy El-Hajjar

Elizabeth Low Kevin Leung Agnoletto Matteo Nathalie Reifschneider Chui Sze Laura Vitzthum Ke Yang Mamoru Hoshi Joseph Instance Mikolai Karczewski Jie Hao Lau Patricia Moericke Nicole Hui Min Ng Buster Ronngren

COLLISIONS THE AND ARCHITECTURAL DISPLACEMENTS: MEDIA COMPLEX ARCHITECTURE OF TRANSITION

Maria Bessarabova Yee-thong Chai Lola Conte Alia A O Durda Erik Hoffman-Meyes Sara Ibrahim-Abed Raya Shaban Yuki Terado Catalin-Ioan Crina Dessislava Dimitrova Yat Fai Fan Luca Gamberini

74 PROJECTS 75 PROJECTS William Handyside Alan Robert Lock Katarzyna Anna Lengiewicz Sergey Nadtochiy Olimpia Presutti Jonathan Tin Yao Law York Tsing Yeung Henry Jiao Oskar Johanson Karim Fouad Anushri Patel Calvin Po Sadia Rahman Serwan Saleme

GARDENING IF THIS IS A AT NIGHT: BASSOON, REVISITING I AM A BABOON THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE GARDEN

Samir Abillama Chiyan Ho Celine Przedborski Hana Shokr Annie Chan Chloe Hudson Sixuan Li Pranav Vakharia Kai Hang Yau Francesco Maria Bozzerla Jiehui Avery Chen Love di Marco

CONSTRUCTING INTERACTIVE SPACE

Juana Horcajo Ryan Cook Vidhi Goel Jane Ling Omer Hadar Leticia Dadalto Hunter Doyle Caroline Esclapez Noah Gotlib Georgia Hablutzel Tobias Hentzer Dausgaard Jinah Kim Ronghua Lei

PLAY: PROCESS, SEQUENCE AND CITY

Carolin Bongartz Roy Coupland Matina Dimaraki Rawan El Hariri Olivier Jauniaux Shou Jian Eng Minju Kim Paolo Emilio Pisano Ines Tazi Andreea Vasilcin Hasan Yehia Mahmud Julian Bachle Gian Andrea Diana Al-Rashid

CITY OF THE ECO BROKEN LOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS REVOLUTION II: ECONSTRUCT

Andrew Kwok Kyung Kuk Kang Jake Parkin Man To Lam Nabil Randeree Nga Fong Lisa Chan Wei Wuan Gwee Tzu-Hsaing Lin Aleksandar Stankovic Nam Sung Wong Tsz Yan Wong Xinyi Zhang

Phillip Chee Fai Chung My Yen Dang Daniel Vladimir John Hambly William Michel S Himpe Jae Whan Kim Idil Ece Kucuk Timothy James O'Hare Maryam Abdulla Salem Thanaporn So Jae An Kevin Ka Yu Chan Kwang Yi Goh Elizabeth Danielle Hardie Ka Shut Carson Leung Almana Alfalasi Amornkasemwong

MATERIAL TECHNIQUE WORLD UNDER REIFICATION

Simonpietro Salini Dor Schindler Esha Sikander Younseo Song Alix Biehler Pui Quan Choi Wai Yue Tom Liang Thao Phuong Nguyen Zahra Sarbuland Young Bin Shin Ao Tan Tuan Anh Tran

Jacopo Colarossi Iman Datoo Ali el-Hashimi Tekla Gedeon Chris Kokarev Tsz Chun (David) Lam Chak Hin Leung Yoav Caspi Antonin Hautefort Jou-Yu Nelly Huang May Ibentoumert Zineb Lemseffer Ming Yi Lim Ali Mirzaei

OPALIS, DEVELOPING THE MARKET THE BORING FOR SECOND REVOLUTION HAND BUILDING COMPONENTS IN THE UK

Ioana Man Fadekemi Ogunsanya Russell Royer Zhongtian (Chris) Yuan Xiangxue Chen HyunJun Kim Calle Pettersson Ignatio Bhaskara Putra Clara Schwarz Zineb Sentissi Malgorzata Ewa Stanislawek Pierre Vaubourg

76 PROJECTS 77 PROJECTS Selin Arisal Liu Cho Marion Delaporte Sihyun Kim Seunghun Lee Samuel Little Caterina Miralles Tagliabue Sie-Jhih Chen Taizhong Chen Tian Chen Jianfei Chu Ece Bahar Elmaci Badanoz César Fragachán Pengfei Gao

DESIGN RESEARCH LABORATORY

Ananya Nevatia Arvind Roy Xuecheng Wang Cuicheng Zhang Ege Acar Kemal Arda Alkin Pendar Golfeshan Chenlong Gu Otrebor Jean-Francois Lavado Omar Kaddourah Casiana Kennedy Taeyoon Kim Dahyun Kim

Giulia Arienzo Maria Laura Barriola Arranz Abhinav Bellam Shijie Cai Alfredo Romero Chavez Yanming Chen Xiangfan Chen Melis Küçüktunç Bhavatarini Kumaravel Suyang Li Qiquan Lu Ali Rais Nicholas Rawitscher Torres Simon Rosa Perez

Shiri Dobrinsky Yunzhu Duan Andrew Friedenberg Michel Ghulmiyyah Roshni Prakash Gera Misbah Shehreen Weiqi He Didem Sahin Zhongya Sun Yuet Sum Samantha Chai Ogulcan Sulucay Atahan Topçu Lara Vartziotis Dingming Wang Hidayathullah Baig

EMERGENT TECHNOLOGIES AND DESIGN

Elisavet Konstantinidou Man Mei Lam Jianbo Li Qing Li Huiyuan Li Qi Liu Madhuri Machchhi Xiujing Wang Yuzhi Xu Yuxuan Zhao Aysu Aysoy, Kai Yeh Medha Bansal, Saumil Nagar, Medha Bansal, Nikolai Jia Wen Hu Vladimirov

Haotian Man Edward Meyers Miroslav Ivanov Naskov Evangelos Polykandriotis Salih Ege Savci Aldo Silvano Sicilia Aleksander Skworz Adelina Koleva, Fun Yuen, Aysu Aysoy, Yukie Takasu Jia Wen Hu, Archit Mathur Saumil Nagar, Sri Krishna Jia Wen Hu, Adelina Koleva Sri Krishna Subramanya Bhat, Saumil Nagar, Fun Yuen Kai Yeh Subramanya Bhat Yukie Takasu, Nikolai Vladimirov

Yu Sun Chenyun Tong Mingming Wang Lu Wang Zhiming Wang I-Tzu Wang Yiying Wu Yukie Takasu, Jia Wen Hu Archit Mathur, Kai Yeh Yukie Takasu, Adelina Koleva Rita Roesch, Yufeng Zhai, Abhinav Chaudhary, Miguel Kutay Mert Kilcioglu, Maritza Katerina Ostrogradskaya, Ti Long Fu Escallon, Neil Deep Singh Grewal Regina Rubio Martin Shivani Akar

HISTORY AND HOUSING AND CRITICAL URBANISM THINKING

Jiatong Yang Xiaodan Yang Chen Yu Tao Yu Genhui Yu Chendan Zhang Rui Zhao Souvik Chowdhury Rishika Dhawan Isobel Lord Ekaterina Popova Beenish Tariq

Xuan Zhou Prabhat Arora Alaa A K Ikbarieh Aseem Ahmed Cho-long Baek Caleb Baldwin Irfan Abdul Bhakrani Yasmina Aslakhanova Aisana Baimakhanova Ziyue Ju Sungeun Jun Zakria Mohamed Yousry Nachamon Poolsrup Marcel Rofatto

78 PROJECTS 79 PROJECTS PROJECTIVE CITIES

Marina Samvelyan Jingchao Sheng Stamatina Tharrouniati Khanittha Torchareon Szu-minTseng Biying Wang Stefan Weber Lucas Wilson Gianna Bottema Dimitris Chatziioakeimidis Pengyu Chen Wojciech Mazan Witthawat Prabhasawat

AA INTER LANDSCAPE PROFESSIONAL URBANISM STUDIO

Wei Wen Miao Yu Wei Wen Miao Yu Xian Chen Minxiang Huang Huace Wang Huajing Wen Yunshi Zhou Nasha N Bahasoean Li'er Chen Justine Mary De Penning

Daniel Kiss Eunji Lee Wanxin Li Jianxin Liang Deng Liu Elena Luciano Rafael Martinez Yuan Gu Denghui Lian Aimee Rebecca Lam Tunon Aijin Ying Lumi Liu Tom Park Noa Segev

SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL PHD DESIGN

Swadheet Shaturvedi Yuxi Tong Yasmina Yehia Ananya Bhattacharya Valeria Chairopoulou Drishti Chatrath Eleni Axioti Stefan Cristian Popa Georgios Eftaxiopoulos Nam Hyun-Jae Yujin Kim Qing (Lucia) Liu

Manasi Chaudhari Rakshith Chhatrala Shibani Choudhury Varsha Kakuturu Vishesh Khurana Tony Lahoud Allen Lai Elena Palacios Carrel Lukas Pauer Ioanna Piniara David Setiadi Milad Showkatbakhsh Aiman Tabony Chiara Toscani

Sakshay Malik Khayati Mitra Lance Monfort Rana Munir Maria Andre Osoy Begum Peker Radhika Raj Alvaro Velasco Perez

DESIGN + MAKE

Melissa Romo Pablo Ruiz Buenrostro Kim Tan-Afuan Yingying Wen Yong Yu Wyatt Armstrong

Patrick Birch Hasan Danish Omar Eqbal Luis Gil Hilla Gordon Raza Kazim Nasia Pantelidou

Ciro Romer Shengning Zhang Francisco Adriasola Thomas Dawson Jack Fogel Unha Park Florencia Rodriguez

80 PROJECTS 81 PROJECTS SLOVENIA ALBANIA CROATIA MONTENEGRO SLOVAKIA

2 1 1 1 1 Global Map 1

ICELAND NORWAY SWEDEN FINLAND RUSSIA

UK 2 6 1 2 1 1 2 2 4

86 DENMARK POLAND LITHUANIA BELARUS 10 50

3 12 1 1 1 6

CANADA

IRELAND BELGIUM GERMANY CZECHIA HUNGARY ROMANIA UKRAINE KAZAKHSTAN MONGOLIA 15 AA 8 2 SCHOOL 1 5 16 1 4 2 USA 1 5 1 2 4 1 4 5 10 2 1 1

13 13 5 SPAIN FRANCE NETHERLANDS SWITZERLAND AUSTRIA BULGARIA TURKEY AZERBAIJAN

3 13 28 9 3 2 13 8 2 12 1 CHINA 23 4 5 1 1 1 1

DOMINICAN ANTIGUA & MEXICO REPUBLIC BARBUDA PORTUGAL MOROCCO ITALY GREECE EGYPT ISRAEL IRAN SOUTH KOREA JAPAN 75 78 2 24 9 3 6 3 28 5 1 1 1 1 5 6 10 4 9 1 3 19 19 1 2 2 1 3

GUATEMALA COSTA RICA NICARAGUA COLOMBIA VENEZUELA NIGERIA MALTA LIBYA JORDAN INDIA BANGLADESH HONG KONG MACAU TAIWAN

1 1 47 3 15 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 15 7 6

PANAMA PERU BOLIVIA MALAYSIA THAILAND VIETNAM PHILIPPINES

1 14 5 1 1 2 2 5 1 7

SINGAPORE BRUNEI INDONESIA AUSTRALIA

13 3 6 2 1 2 2 ARGENTINA BRAZIL

2 1 3

URUGUAY

SAUDI UNITED ARAB 1 LUXEMBOURG CYPRUS LEBANON ARABIA BAHRAIN EMIRATES PAKISTAN NEW ZEALAND

1 4 2 1 1 1 1 1 3 5 5

Undergraduate Students Postgraduate Students Staff 82 GLOBAL MAP 83 GLOBAL MAP 281k 159k The Year Instagram likes trees in Hooke Park (Approx.) in Figures 100% success in VIVA examinations 17k 77 33 13 books sold issues of AA Files published total undergraduate units exhibitions to date 4,500 1,551 slip-cast pyramids new members 529 779 250 50k undergraduate students full-time students graduate students raised at Silver Gala (sterling) 87.34 28,555 m3 of archival material in storage cappuccinos and lattes, 8,080 herbal teas, 7,916 filter coffees, 1,856 pots of tea

65% 30.5k 10 50 international students YouTube followers new undergraduate units academic staff with PhDs

84 FIGURES 85 FIGURES SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEAM (SMT)

Senior Chair of Senior Management Team/School Director Eva Franch i Gilabert Management Ex-officio Appendices Chair of Academic Committee Team Michael Weinstock Ex-officio

The Senior Management Team Company Secretary (SMT) is responsible for the Holly Bowden Ex-officio management and operations of the AA School. The SMT is Head of Academic Resources advisory to the School Director, Paul Crosby undertaking such delegated duties Ex-officio as are defined in the AA Scheme Head of Estates and Facilities of Delegation. The SMT operates Anita Pfauntsch at the level of strategic leadership Ex-officio and serves as the primary Head of Finance and management interface between Strategic Development the AASchool, its Academic Board Salah Mirza and academic committees, and Ex-officio the Council. In 2018-19 two teams Head of Human Resources that support SMT were formed: Tehmina Mahmood The Academic Resource Team Ex-officio (ART) and The Communications Resource Team (CRT). Head of Public Programme Manijeh Verghese Ex-officio The ART is responsible for the management and operations of academic resourcing of the AA Head of Teaching and Learning School and is advisory to the School Director, Mark Morris undertaking such delegated duties as are defined Ex-officio in the AA’s Scheme of Delegation. The ART provides strategic advice and oversees the management Head of Visiting School and operations of all academic resources serving Christopher Pierce as an interface between the AA School Academic Ex-officio Resources and the Academic Committee, the Academic Board, and the Senior Management Team School Registrar (SMT). The ART is chaired by the Head of Academic Belinda Flaherty Resources and/or the School Director. Ex-officio The CRT is responsible for the management and operations of the outreach efforts and public facing areas of the AA School and is advisory to the School Director, undertaking such delegated duties as are defined in the AA Scheme of Delegation. The CRT operates at the level of strategic leadership, management and operations, and serves as the primary management interface between the AA School, the School Community, the Architecture Community and SMT. The CRT is chaired by the School Director and/or the Head of Public Programmes.

86 SPACES 87 APPENDICES ACADEMIC RESOURCES TEAM (ART) COMMUNICATIONS RESOURCES TEAM (CRT) The IAC was formed to ensure the equity of treatment for all students and that the assessment Chair of Academic Resources Team/Head Chair of Communications Resources Team/Head of Academic processes are appropriate, rigorous and fair, and of Academic Resources Public Programmes conducted within the Academic Regulations of the Paul Crosby Manijeh Verghese AA School. The IAC will operate throughout the Ex-officio Ex-officio Governance annual cycle: reviewing and enhancing recruitment and enrolment strategies, supporting induction Administrator to the Academic Resources Team/ Administrator to the Communications Resources in learning outcomes and assessment strategies, Assistant to the School Director Team/Assistant to the School Director continuous review of student evaluation and Roberta Jenkins Roberta Jenkins convening on defined dates to confirm the internal Ex-officio Ex-officio The Academic Board is the assessment recommendations for progression academic body charged with and the award of the professional qualification School Director School Director (where relevant) for endorsement by the Board(s) of Eva Franch i Gilabert Eva Franch i Gilabert responsibility for the academic Examiners. Ex-officio Ex-officio governance of the AA School The EC is the overarching committee for the and its programmes of study. consideration of ethical issues arising from all Head of Photo Studio Head of Digital Platforms Chaired by the School Director, aspects of the School’s business and to determine Sue Barr Zeynep Carrozza necessary actions. The EC oversees and monitors Ex-officio Ex-officio the Academic Board maintains the AA’s Ethical Guidelines and how the principles strategic oversight for the contained within it are embedded across school. Head of Catering Head of Membership development, monitoring, quality It operates with delegated authority from the Pascal Babeau Alex Lorente of standards and enhancement Academic Board and reports to the Academic Board Ex-officio Ex-officio and Council on all matters relating to ethical issues. of teaching and learning, and Head of Library Head of Design approval of the School’s Academic Eleanor Gawne (Interim) Regulations. Its activities recognise ACADEMIC BOARD Intermediate School Ex-officio Boris Meister the aims and objectives of the (AB) Representative Ex-officio Costandis Kizis Head of Workshop AA’s Articles and By-laws. The Chair of Academic Elected William Fausset Events and Communications Manager Academic Board delegates Board/School Director Ex-officio Anna Chantarasak responsibilities to, and monitors Eva Franch i Gilabert Diploma School Ex-officio the progress, effectiveness and Ex-officio Representative Head of Audio Visual Maria Shéhérazade Joel Newman Outreach and Development Associate recommendations of the AA Academic Board Giudici Ex-officio Dena Ziari School’s academic committees Administrator/ Elected Ex-officio which comprises: the Academic School Registrar Head of Model Workshop Committee, Teaching & Learning Belinda Flaherty Complementary Studies Trystrem Smith Publications Distribution Manager Ex-officio Representative Ex-officio Andrew Whittaker Committee and the PhD Committee. Javier Castañón Ex-officio In 2018-19 the school formed two Chair of Academic Ex-officio Head of Digital Prototyping Lab new committees, the Internal Committee Angel Lara-Moreira Archive and Photo Library Assistant Assessment Committee (IAC) and Michael Weinstock Postgraduate School Ex-officio Byron Blakeley Ex-officio Representative Ex-officio the Ethics Committee (EC). Platon Issaias Head of IT Chair of PhD Committee Elected Julia Frazer Simos Yannas Ex-officio Ex-officio Postgraduate School Representative Deputy Head of IT Chair of Teaching and Zachary Mollica Mattie Bielecki Learning Committee Elected Ex-officio Mark Morris Ex-officio Head of Visiting School Head of Archives Christopher Pierce Edward Bottoms Quality Assurance Ex-officio Ex-officio Facilitator Christopher Pierce Undergraduate Student Ex-officio Representative Fiona Cuypers- Stanienda Elected

88 APPENDICES 89 APPENDICES Undergraduate Student Complementary Studies ETHICS COMMITTEE Undergraduate Research Awards and Intermediate School Representative Representative (EC) Academic Staff Member Publications Representative Staff Dor Schindler Javier Castanon Monia De Marchi Maria Shéhérazade Member Corporate Elected Ex-officio Chair of Ethics Appointed Giudici Amandine Kastler Committee/ Appointed Elected Governance Postgraduate Student Postgraduate Degree School Director Undergraduate Representative Representative Eva Franch i Gilabert Academic Staff Member Student Representative Intermediate School Alvaro Velasco Perez Platon Issaias Ex-officio Ryan Dillon (PhD by Design) Representative Staff Elected Elected Appointed Milad Showkatbakhsh Member Ethics Committee Endorsed Ryan Neiheiser MEMBERS WHO FINANCE AND Postgraduate Student Postgraduate Degree Administrator/School Postgraduate Academic Elected SERVED ON COUNCIL RESOURCES Representative Representative Registrar Staff Member Student Representative DURING THE 2018-19 COMMITTEE Stefan Weber Zachary Mollica Belinda Flaherty Paula Cadima (PhD by Research) Diploma School PERIOD Elected Elected Ex-officio Appointed Elena Palacios Carral Representative Staff Mohammad Dastbaz Endorsed Member Mary Bishop George Sawtell (Chair) External Member Head of Professional Head of Teaching and Postgraduate Academic Christina Varvia Joanna Chambers Victoria Thornton Bob Aylett Practice, Part 3 Learning Staff Member School Director Elected (Vice President) Appointed Paul Crosby Mark Morris Emmanuel Vercruysse Eva Franch i Gilabert Mohammad Dastbaz Ex-officio Ex-officio Appointed Attending Complementary Studies David Gibson Observer Representative Staff Eva Franch i Gilabert REMUNERATION AA Council Member Chair of PhD Committee Quality Assurance Student Representative Head of Teaching and Member (School Director) COMMITTEE Attending Simos Yannas Facilitator Naina Gupta Learning Inigo Minns Sam Jacob Ex-officio Christopher Pierce Elected Mark Morris Elected Dan Marks Joanna Chambers David Ex-officio Attending Trevor Morriss Porter Victoria Thornton ACADEMIC Head of Visiting School External Member Postgraduate Joel Newman Nick Viner (Chair) COMMITTEE (AC) Christopher Pierce Chair of PhD Committee Barbara Penner School Registrar Representative Staff Timothy O’Hare Ex-officio Simos Yannas Appointed Belinda Flaherty Member David Porter Chair of Academic Ex-officio Attending Marina Lathouri George Sawtell Committee Undergraduate Student Elected Rory Sherlock Michael Weinstock Representative Academic Staff Victoria Thornton Appointed Phillip Chee Fai Chung Representative PHD COMMITTEE Postgraduate (President) Elected Teresa Stoppani INTERNAL ASSESMENT Representative Staff Catherine du Toit Secretary to Academic Elected Chair of PhD Committee COMMITTEE (IAC) Member Nick Viner Committee/School Undergraduate Student Simos Yannas Theo Lorenz Registrar Representative Student Representative Ex-officio Chair of Internal Elected Belinda Flaherty Georgia Hablutzel Sahir Patel Assessment Committee/ Ex-officio Elected Elected Secretary to School Director AUDIT AND RISK PhD Committee/ Eva Franch i Gilabert COMMITTEE Foundation Course Postgraduate Student Postgraduate School Ex-officio Representative Representative Co-ordinator Mary Bishop (Chair) Juliet Haysom Yasmina Aslakhanova TEACHING Clement Chung Head of Teaching and David Gibson Elected Elected AND LEARNING Ex-officio Learning Rory Sherlock COMMITTEE (TLC) Mark Morris Intermediate School Postgraduate Student PhD History and Theory Ex-officio Representative Representative Chair of Teaching and Research Costandis Kizis Aysu Aysoy Learning Committee/ Marina Lathouri Internal Assessment ESTATES AND Elected Elected Head of Teaching and Appointed Committee INFRASTRUCTURE Learning Administrator/School COMMITTEE Diploma School School Director Mark Morris PhD Architectural Design Registrar Joanna Chambers Trevor Representative Eva Franch i Gilabert Ex-officio Pier Vittorio Aureli Belinda Flaherty Morriss Maria Shéhérazade Attending Appointed Ex-officio Joel Newman Giudici Secretary to Teaching Victoria Thornton Elected and Learning PhD Foundation Course/First Catherine du Toit (Chair) Committee/Quality Mark Cousins Year Representative Staff Nick Viner Assurance Officer Appointed Member Emma Newbury Alexandra Vougia Ex-officio Practice Doctorate in Elected Architecture/Research Undergraduate Funding Academic Staff Member Michael Weinstock Miraj Ahmed Appointed Appointed

90 APPENDICES 91 APPENDICES Paula Strunden Academic Nathan Su Staff Emmanuel Vercruysse

TECHNICAL STUDIES

DIRECTOR’S OFFICE Dena Ziari Programme Head Andrea Bagnato Javier Castañón School Director Joaqium Moreno Eva Franch i Gilabert William Orr Programme Staff Claire Potter Xavier Aguiló Director’s Assistant Theodosia Panagiotopoulou Francesco Anselmo Roberta Jenkins Georgios Eftaxiopoulos Simon Beames Eleni Axioti Giles Bruce Head of Teaching and Learning Tatjana Crossley Chris Davies Mark Morris Sofia Krimizi Laura de Azcárate Gili Merin Simon Dickens Head of Research Ioanna Piniara Ian Duncombe Michael Weinstock Lena Emanuelsen Kenneth Fraser School Facilitator QAA/TDAP Wolfgang Frese Christopher Pierce MEDIA STUDIES Giulo Gianni Evan Green Chair of Academic Committee Programme Head Pablo Gugel Quiroga Michael Weinstock Kate Davies (maternity leave) Alan Harries Inigo Minns (maternity cover) Elisa Hernández David Illingworth Programme Staff Sho Ito COMPLEMENTARY STUDIES Miraj Ahmed Alistair Lenczner Sebastian Andia Ciaran Malik HISTORY AND THEORY Charles Arsène-Henry Emanuele Marfisi STUDIES Federique Barchelard Nacho Martí Sue Barr Patricia Mato Mora Programme Head Eleanor Dodman Nina McCallion Mark Cousins Shin Egashira Anna Mestre Angel Flores Sanchez Jose Maria Monfa Giux Programme Staff Pedro Garlaschi Anna Pla Català Pier Vittorio Aureli Marko Gilgorov Danae Polyviou Doreen Bernath William Gowland Ioannis Rizos Edward Bottoms Raluca Grada-Emandi Camila Rock Mark Campbell Andreas Harris Aguirre Giancarlo Torpiano Susan Chai Juliet Haysom Andrew Usher Nerma Cridge Matěj Hošek Manja van de Worp Francesca Dell’Aglio Anderson Inge Anna Wai Ryan Dillon Christopher Johnson Angel Lara Moreira William Firebrace Alex Kaiser Ema Hana Kacar Harry Kay Costandis Kizis Oliviu Lugojan-Ghenciu Roberta Marcaccio Antoni Malinowski PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE Mark Morris Inigo Minns Klaus Platzgummer Alison Moffett Programme Head Mercedes Rodrigo Garcia Nicholas Mortimer Theo Lorenz Ricardo Ruivo Pereira Joel Newman Manolis Stavrakakis Thomas Parker Course Master Teresa Stoppani Caroline Rabourdin Paul Crosby Silvana Taher Thomas Randall Page Alexandra Vougia Mattia Santi Lecturers Ines Weizman Francesca Silvi Elizabeth Adams Aikaterini Zacharopoulou Tapio Snellman Maxwell Babbé

92 APPENDICES 93 APPENDICES Eleanor Dodman Unit 2 DIPLOMA SCHOOL Unit 15 EMERGENT Course Tutor Azhar Ellahi Ana Araujo Lucy Styles TECHNOLOGIES Claudio Campanile Helen Evans Unit 1 Simon Taylor Friedrich Grafling Unit 3 Miraj Ahmed Oana Stanescu Programme Head Madeleine Kessler Nannette Jackowski Martin Jameson Michael Weinstock SUSTAINABLE Joseph Robson Ricardo de Ostos Unit 16 ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN Manijeh Verghese Nathan Su Unit 2 Jonas Lundberg Studio Master Macie Woronieckij Kostas Grigoriadis Andrew Yau Elif Erdine Programme Heads Unit 4 Elia Zenghelis Simos Yannas Head of Part 3 Arantza Ozaeta Cortázar Unit 17 Studio Tutors Paula Cadima Paul Crosby Álvaro Martin Fidalgo Unit 3 Theo Sarantoglou Lalis Antiopi Koronaki Merve Anil Dora Sweijd Alican Sungur Studio Masters Unit 5 Christina Varvia Jorge Rodriguez Álvarez Ryan Dillon Unit 18 Gustavo Brunelli UNDERGRADUATE David Greene Unit 4 Lionel Develieger HISTORY AND SCHOOL John Palmesino Aude-Line Dulière CRITICAL THINKING Course Tutors Unit 6 Ann-Sofi Rönnskog Maarten Gielen Nick Baker FOUNDATION Brendon Carlin Programme Head Mariam Kapsali James Kwang-Ho Chung Unit 5 Marina Lathouri Byron Mardas Programme Head Andrea Guazzieri POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL Saskia Lewis Unit 7 Umberto Napolitano Programme Master Course Consultant Amica Dall DRL John Palmesino Herman Calleja Programme Co-ordinator and Anthony Engi Meacock Unit 6 Studio Tutor Giles Smith Guillermo López Programme Head Course Tutors Juliet Haysom Jack Self Theodore Spyropoulos Timothy Benton DESIGN + MAKE Unit 8 Georgios Tsagdis Studio Staff Francisco González de Canales Unit 7 Founding Director Programme Heads Yonathan Ben Tovim Nuria Alvarez Lombardero Platon Issaias Patrik Schumacher Course Consultants Martin Self Ilsa Colsell Hamed Khosravi Tina Di Carlo Emmanuel Vercruysse Raluca Grada-Emandi Unit 9 Programme Co-ordinator Fabrizio Gallanti Georges Massoud Amandine Kastler Unit 8 Ryan Dillon Stefan Popa Studio Master Joel Newman Christopher Matthews Bozar Ben-Zeev Simon Withers Adrian Taylor Christopher Pierce Maria Fedorchenko Studio Masters Tom Woolner Shajay Bhooshan HOUSING AND Studio Tutor Unit 10 Unit 9 David Greene URBANISM Jack Draper Valentin Bontjes van Beek Stefan Laxness FIRST YEAR Winston Hampel Antoine Vaxelaire Course Tutors Programme Heads Specialist Lecturers Pierandrea Angius Lawrence Barth William Gowland Programme Head Unit 11 Unit 10 Apostolos Despotidis Jorge Fiori Thomas Parker Monia De Marchi Matilde Cassani Carlos Villanueva Brandt Mostafa El Sayed Zachary Mollica Silvana Taher Alicia Nahmad Vasquez Studio Masters Studio Staff Unit 11 Klaus Platzgummer Elad Eisenstein Pol Esteve Unit 12 Shin Egashira Alexandra Vougia Dominic Papa PROJECTIVE CITIES John Ng Taneli Mansikkamaki Elena Pascolo Alexandra Vougia Max Turnheim Unit 12 Software Tutors Anna Shapiro Programme Heads Nacho Martí Inigo Minns Torsten Broeder Francesco Zuddas Platon Issaias Sara Saleh Unit 13 Manijeh Verghese Paul Jeffries Rodrigo O’Malley Sam Jacoby Costandis Kizis Alex Butterworth Octavian Gheorghiu Patricia Mato Mora Lily Jencks Unit 13 Evagelina Magnisali Studio Masters Delphina Bocca Jessica Reynolds (maternity leave) Joost Beunderman LANDSCAPE URBANISM Mark Campbell Argyris Angeli Indy Johar Software Consultants Hamed Khosravi Anna Muzychak Unit 14 Carlotta Conte Konstantina Stella Tsagkaratou Programme Heads Erika Suzuki Aristide Antonas Dan Hill Mariana Custodio Dos Santos Alfredo Ramirez Workshop Tutor Amelia Villaplana de Miguel Georgios Eftaxiopoulos Jack Minchella Jurij Ličen Eduardo Rico Spyros Efthymiou Simon Withers Alastair Parvin Federico Borello Unit 15 Studio Master Ryan Neiheiser Unit 14 Clara Oloriz Sanjuan INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL Xristina Argyros Pier Vittorio Aureli Maria Shéhérazade Giudici Studio Tutor Unit 1 Gustavo Romanillos Arroyo Fredrick Hellberg Lara Lesmes

94 APPENDICES 95 APPENDICES AA INTERPROFESSIONAL PHD PROGRAMME PART-TIME STUDIES ESTATES AND FACILITIES STUDIO DEPARTMENT Programme Head VISITING SCHOOL Administrative Programme Head Simos Yannas Head of Estates and Facilities Theo Lorenz Programme Head Anita Pfauntsch Directors of Studies and First Christopher Pierce Staff Course Master Supervisors Hard Services Co-ordinator Tanja Siems Pier Vittorio Aureli Leslaw Skrzypiec Mark Cousins SEMESTER PROGRAMME Course Tutor Marina Lathouri SCHOOL DIRECTOR’S OFFICE Shadrach Tshibola Soft Services Co-ordinator David McAlmont Michael Weinstock Programme Head Sultana Begum Barbara Studzinska-Baranowski Naiara Vegara School Director Course Consultants Second Supervisors Eva Franch i Gilabert Health and Safety Co-ordinator Argyris Angeli Waew Chittawadi Course Master Omar Zahid Andy Dean Mark Campbell Marie-Isabel de Monseignat Director's Assistant VISITING SCHOOL OFFICE Malgorzata Dzierzon Murray Fraser Lavrov Roberta Jenkins Security Supervisor Heiko Kalmbach Maria Shéhérazade Giudici Visiting School Co-ordinator Ebere Nwosu Kyriaki Nasioula George Jeronimidis Course Tutors Jolene Malek Joel Newman Mark Morris Katya Larina Maintenance Mauricio Pauly Joan Ockman Dimitris Gyftopoulos REGISTRAR’S OFFICE Professional Practice Part 3 Lea Ketsawang Renaud Wiser Emmanuel Vercurysse Co-ordinator Grzegorz Korcel Thanos Zartaloudis School Registrar Jennifer Anderson P/T Maciej Koprak Fabrizio Gallanti Belinda Flaherty (maternity leave) Colin Prendergast Caroline Surawy P/T Mariusz Stawiarski Compliance Officer (maternity cover) Krishna Songara Security Grant Writer Marcin Falfus Compliance Co-ordinator Sally Stott Daniel Koroma Ann Sakyi Osman Sesay Syed Ali Wajid Quality Assurance Officer Michal Zaczek Emma Newbury HUMAN RESOURCES

Student Aid and Qualifications Head Officer Tehmina Mahmood FRONT OF HOUSE Sabrina Blakstad Administrator Head Receptionist Undergraduate and Julia Ama Hiroe Shin Shigemitsu Complementary Studies Coordinator Receptionist Rachel Sim Nicole Studzinska ACCOUNTS OFFICE Postgraduate School Co- ordinator / OU Administrator Head of Finance and Clement Chung Strategic Development CATERING AND BAR Salah Mirza Filing Assistant Head of Catering Linda Keiff (P/T) Finance Manager Pascal Babeau Jerome Ilenotuma Deputy Manager/Barman Payroll Manager Darko Calina ADMISSIONS OFFICE Margaret Hayde Catering Assistants Head of Admissions Accounts Staff Aya Ghislaine Djan Jess Hoy (Maternity Leave) Sandra Simmonds Samy Hedin Angie Denney Helga Rotter Admissions Co-ordinators Aneta Krygier Mirella Labejof Simone Rogers George Brown Imogen Evans (P/T) Nicola Amory-Hypolite Accounts Receptionist Giorgia Hashme Lucy Ernest (P/T) Paula Spindler

96 APPENDICES 97 APPENDICES HOOKE PARK ESTATES AA FOUNDATION AA BOOKSHOP PRINT CENTRE WORKSHOPS LIBRARY

Hooke Park Warden P/T Administrator Manager / Sales and Distribution Manager Head of Wood and Metal Librarian Zachary Mollica Amanda Vidler Manager (AA Publications) Photios Demetriou Workshops Eleanor Gawne Andrew Whittaker William Fausset Administrative Coordinator Assistant Head of Archives Laura Ann Kaddey Assistant Bookshop Manager Tom Hatzor Workshop Technician Edward Bottoms CULTURAL PRACTICES Isabel Hardingham Robert Busher Caretaker and Technical Tutor Archives Assistant Charlie Corry-Wright Head of Public Programme Bookshop Assistants P/T Workshop Tutors/Technicians Byron Blakeley Manijeh Verghese Sophie Leigh DIGITAL PHOTO STUDIO Trevor Hewett Forester Kirsten Hadden (P/T) Bill Hudson Cataloguer Christopher Sadd Public Programme Coordinator Head Adam Turnbull Beatriz Flora Catherine Antoni P/T Sue Barr Assistant Workshop Technician (maternity leave) Head of Model Workshop Serials/Systems Librarian Edward Coe Liam Green P/T (maternity cover) DIGITAL PLATFORMS Trystrem Smith Simine Marine

Summer School Public Programme Head Head of Digital Prototyping Library Assistant Shumon Basar Zeynep Görgülü Angel Lara Moreira Patricia Roig ASSOCIATION LAWuN Front-End Web Developer DPL Technician Company Secretary David Greene Jamie Thompson Henry Cleaver Holly Bowden Edward Farrell Consultant Robotic Fabrication Technician Secretary’s Office Assistant Little Architect John Hampson P/T Dylan Wozniak-O’Connor Amanda Vidler Dolores Victoria Ruiz Garrido

Data Protection Officer Holly Bowden AUDIO-VISUAL LAB EXHIBITIONS Head School Director Joel Newman MEMBERSHIP AND ALUMNI Eva Franch i Gilabert AV and Media Technician Head Director's Assistant Thomas Parkes Alex Lorente Roberta Jenkins

Events and Communications Manager COMPUTING Anna Chantarasak PRINT STUDIO Head Membership and Alumni Interim Head of Design Julia Frazer Coordinator Boris Meister Julie Olusegun Assistant Head of Computing Graphic Designer Mattie Bielecki Oliver Long Systems Administrators DEVELOPMENT AND AA Publications (Distribution) Wesley Faure EXTERNAL ENGAGEMENT Angie Denney David Hopkins

School Director Database Administrators/ Eva Franch i Gilabert Developers Paul Fairman Director's Assistant Martin Frost Roberta Jenkins IT Team Leader Development and Outreach Connor McFarlane Associate Dena Ziari IT Support Technicians Ahmet Huseyin Carlton Whittaker

98 APPENDICES 99 APPENDICES Benefactors, Prizes and Donors and Awards Supporters Alex Stanhope Forbes Prize Mike Davies Travel Award Ioana Man, Fifth Year Yasemin Yesilipek, Second Year Ziba Ardalan and Pierre de Weck Joanna Bacon Brian Henderson Prize Peter Sabara Travel Award Deborah Berke Timothy O’Hare, Fifth Year Deri Mungo Russell, First Year Norman Chang Douglas Coupland Dennis Sharp Prize AA Prize Edward Cullinan Malgorzata Stanislawek, Love di Marco, Fifth Year Mike Davies Charitable Settlement Fourth Year Drawing Matter Trust Jiehui Chen, Fifth Year Nicholas Boas Travel Scholarship Piers Gough Fiona Cuypers-Stanienda, Peter Johnson’s Estate Denys Lasdun Award for Fourth Year Kohn Pedersen Fox Excellence in Architecture Aoi Phillips Yamashita, Fourth Year Kim Herforth Nielsen Thomas Faulkner, Third Year Hanif Kara History and Theory Studies Writing Crispin Kelly Henry Florence Studentship Award George L Legendre Yee Thong Chai, Fifth Year Ferial Massoud, First Year John Pawson Deniz Ozcan, Second Year Yana Peel Henry Saxon Snell Prize Gabrielle Eglen, Third Year Patrik Schumacher Abhinav Jain, Fourth Year Richard Sennett Media Studies Annual Prizes Benedetta Tagliabue Holloway Trust Prize Yuyi Jiang, First Year Nader Tehrani Samuel Little, Fifth Year Aimee Chen, Third Year Artur Walther John Robert Arthur Wilson’s Estate Howard Colls Studentship Technical Studies Annual Prizes Roger Zogolovitch Tobias Hentzer Dausgaard, Thomas Faulkner, Third Year Fourth Year Elizabeth Yuen Yi Low, Fifth Year Jack Isles, Fourth Year Student Choice Diploma Honours Julia Wood Foundation Prize Ka Yu Kevin Chan, Fifth Year Vasco Giovannoni, Foundation

Ralph Knott Memorial Prize John Wilhelm Buster Ronngren, Fourth Year

William Glover Prize Daria Nepop, Third Year Ryan Cook, Fifth Year Yu-Hsiang Wang, Fifth Year

David and Beverly Bernstein Award Santiago Benenati, MArch Housing and Urbanism

AAF Travel Award Judi Diab, Second Year

Alexander Memorial Travel Prize Ashirai Musikavanhu, Fourth Year

Jane Chu Travel Award Su Yeon Reina Mun, Second Year

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