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The question of good design can only apply if there is a clear application for its existence. Post-notes to the Enzo Mari Autoprogetazione Revisited Student Workshop PG 2

Fireworks PG 5

LA in 2009 PG 6

Letters for Monica Pidgeon PG 14

Recent Members’ Events and Trips PG 12 VERSO

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AARCHITECTURE CONTRIBUTORS Architectural Association (Inc.) News from the Frederik Bojesen Registered Charity No. 311083 2 Post-notes to the Enzo Mari Architectural Association [email protected] Company limited by guarantee Issue 11 / Spring 2010 Registered in England No. 171402 Autoprogetazione Revisited www.aaschool.ac.uk Ema Bonifacic Registered office as above [email protected] ©2010 Student Workshop All rights reserved Valentin Bontjes van Beek Published by the [email protected] 5 Bernard Tschumi: First Works Fireworks Architectural Association, 36 Bedford Square, Stefano Branca London WC1B 3ES [email protected] 6 LA in 2009

Contact: Mollie Claypool 9 The Student Forum and Participation [email protected] [email protected] Nicola Quinn +44 (0)20 7887 4033 Braden Engel 10 London’s Shadows Please send your news items for the next [email protected] issue to [email protected] 12 Recent Members’ Events and Trips Korey Kromm EDITORIAL BOARD [email protected] Alex Lorente, Membership 14 Letters for Monica Pidgeon Brett Steele, AA School Director Oliviu Lugojan-Ghenciu Zak Kyes, AA Art Director [email protected] 16 First Works: Emerging Architectural

EDITORIAL TEAM Nicola Quinn, Managing Editor Experimentation of the 1960s and 1970s Wayne Daly and Claire McManus, Graphic Designers 19 AA Bookshop Spring Highlights Scrap Marshall, Student Editor

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 20 New from AA Publications Sue Barr Ed Bottoms 22 New from Bedford Press Valerie Bennett Luisa Miller Charlotte Newman 23 News

Printed by Cassochrome, Belgium 25 News Briefs

1 AA Workshop, 21–25 September 2009 Post-notes to the Enzo Mari Autoprogetazione Revisited Student Workshop By Valentin Bontjes van Beek

The question asked from the outset of this project was: Korey had the following to say: in what way would the role of the architectural I, like you, choose to think that the most students differ from the role of the artist, on a productive part of the Autoprogettazione project lies practical level and in terms of public evaluation. In in a reflection on how one learns, in this case, to build other words, how can an exhibition contribute to one’s own furniture. I built two versions of one of an education of second, fourth and fifth year students Mari’s tables, using different materials for each. in a school of architecture? The main aim – I thought Mari’s project is fascinating because it takes – would be an opportunity to place something in the some of the design decision-making away whilst public realm. Nothing more! intensifying the effect of other decisions. It collapses Certainly I hoped that a task of construction design parameters – like what rules govern its form, would provoke some thought about design, utility and and how to join the pieces together – but puts more the ability to understand ‘the build’, as a benchmark emphasis on design decisions that seem to be more for a didactic discourse. However, I was concerned quantifiable, like cost and material standardisation. mainly with my role of directing the outcome, and far The result is an object that can be digested thoroughly less with the possibility of handing ascendancy of the by the spectator, and additionally defended by the Enzo Mari Furniture Pieces A page from the exhibition guide show over to the students, for better or for worse. designer regarding the decisions taken. In many ways, that was exactly what happened, very Since the show, I have had two friends ask for much to the credit of the students. my drawings to make the same table I had. Both This student workshop was held in conjunction friends have sent me a picture of the table without me with the Enzo Mari exhibition, the focus of which was asking for it. his 1974 book, Autoprogettazione. Focusing on Mari’s One friend had built the table exactly to Mari’s self-empowering instructions of his easy-to-assemble instructions, but had painted it red to match a vase furniture, students were asked to react to the initial that now sits on top of it. The second friend extended material presented and a brief, all in the timeframe of the top surface to fit into a corner of his room. The 96 hours. The results of the workshop were displayed variables of construction were dependent upon the in conjunction with the AA exhibition and became individual spaces, and the reasons for ‘designing’ the part of the exhibition catalogue. tables were quite clear. Looking at the photographs The AA provided one room for all three in my inbox, I realised that perhaps these ‘designed’ students to work in, the material for the construction inaccuracies were Mari empowering the non-designer of one piece of furniture and a budget of £200 per to design, that Autoprogettazione is actually realised student. in the individual manipulations of each object built. The students were asked to get the Enzo Mari That being said, how do you, as a tutor, teach Autoprogettazione book, choose one piece of furniture a student to rationalise a design? What is the benefit and construct the piece as instructed, and then of rationalising a design? Can good design transcend fabricate the same piece again but alter the instruction any kind of reasoning? If so, when? by a ratio of either 30% or 70%. My Response: Korey Kromm (one of the student contributors) was The content of discourse clearly was a design asked to respond to the workshop/exhibition. He intention, something that Mari called ‘… a fragment added that the questions I posed to Enzo Mari for the of ideas useful to design as a discipline’. To comment exhibition guide seemed to be well-intended, but were on the Autoprogetazione and design as a discipline, one not actually fully answered by Mari! would need to become a part of it and produce the piece of furniture, as instructed. Not unlike the way students become part of a unit for one year and The Enzo Mari Exhibiton at the AA 2 3 Public Programme, Fireworks, 6 November 2009 Bernard Tschumi: First Works Fireworks

Enzo Mari Furniture under construction by AA students. Photos Sue Barr subsequently take either a more favourable or less if there is a clear application for its existence. This favourable position towards it – indifference is lethal. often varies from the time of conception to the point Bernard Tschumi’s Firework Display Once the year is completed a post-rationalisation of application. In the example of the friend who emerges. To either follow or discard a direction, painted the table red to mach the vase one might talk concisely, is one way of stumbling on a rationale of good design with a temporary delusion of bad taste, towards design, especially if energy is directed towards but then again this can become something even more the fabrication of something that already exists in highly esteemed, superseding any previous design drawings. reasoning or intent. The benefit of a rational design in an academic environment, alongside other reasons, is that it opens Valentin Bontjes van Beek is a First Year Master discourse. There is less mystery in the design Korey Kromm is a Fifth Year AA Student approach. A mystification of any design construct, formally or otherwise, holds particularly young students hostage. A reasonable way for them to deal with this is to mimic a design or alternatively to suffer a sense of alienation. To be able to follow or anticipate a design direction is empowering and arguable – something you wish for in any school of design. The construction of an object - in this case to a utilitarian result – is not so dissimilar from a mathematical equation. The manipulation of an amount on either side has an effect on the balance of the equation. On the one side, you have a sincere desire to overcome the obstacles to the construction and functioning of a piece of furniture; on the other, a sense of irony about the task of building the object itself. The question of good design can only apply The assembled crowd braving the rain. Photos Valerie Bennett 4 5 AA Unit Trips

LA [with capitals], Diploma 12 Hollywoodland, is characterised by paradox and LA in 2009 ‘There is a place where America’s manifest destiny collides absurdity. into the Pacific Ocean, a place where the feeble Route 66, the The lack of homogeneous form throughout the roadway of the American dream terminates; this is expanses of the low-rise residential dwellings of our Dogtown’ said Stacy Peralta in the beginning of the American dreamers breaks the urban plan of Georgian documentary, Dogtown & Z-Boys. He was describing subdivisions into individual plots of protection. Each a small area of Santa Monica where skateboarding dwelling buys into a mass-produced fantasy of unique took life. Los Angeles skateboarding, surfing, muscle domesticity featuring all forms and styles; the cars, drugs, hippies, congested ten-lane highways, affordable means of reaching their Hollywood dream. infrastructure, infrastructure and more From the primordial pioneer settlements in infrastructure. Venice Beach to the real estate bonanza of the 20s LA lala-land, laid back land. But that’s not a bad through the big-time speculators of ‘The City of the thing. LA understands that behind the big professional Future’, LA, its residents, homes and dreams are dream there is nothing, it witnessed the end of the woven into the intricate textures of this renowned ‘American Dream’, it knows that life is more than a western symbol: Hollywood. series of goals and achievements. There is plenty of sun there. Los Angeles… a constant holiday… By Stefano Branca, a third year student LA… an oversized place with big ideas and big architecture. It’s a robot, a socialist project, the place where NASA lands its spaceships, the name of a LA Point of Departure, Intermediate 1 religious city and a land of pornography. LA can be Los Angeles, the city of asphalt, was the arrival and whatever you want it to be, LA – the post future city departure point for Inter 1’s road trip across the which still dreams of the future. western states of the US in the search for the archetype of car-chitecture – the drive-thru. Driving By Oliviu Lugojan-Ghenciu, a fourth year student in a convoy of assorted vehicles – RVs, SUVs, compacts and the ubiquitous Mustang, burgers were both eaten and given away in Barstow, money and The Carcass of a Modernist Dystopia, reality were lost in Las Vegas and nomadic cities were Intermediate 5 found in Quartzite. London to Los Angeles and back: a Banhamesque, Gas stations, diners, motels, coffee shops, freewheeling trip across the urban landscape of diluted burger joints, dead cinemas, dead roads… car culture Hollywood culture. in the states was pursued relentlessly across the No discussion of LA is complete without the interstate highways for nine days. dreaded yet omnipresent Hollywood icon flashing in Accommodation was provided by RVs; our familiar neon lit memories. This ‘Sign’– the Recreational vehicles, C Class, sleeps eight … fulcrum of the city’s realities and disillusions, Bertolt motorised caravans, homes on wheels, mechanisms for Brecht wrote in 1942: exploring the American landscape. Vehicles treated with pride and derision: in the instant desert city of ‘Every day, to earn my daily bread Arizona a common bond was created with the tens of I go to the market where lies are bought thousands of Americas retirees exploring the Hopefully American continent whilst the residents of Venice I take up my place among the sellers. Beach in LA saw Inter 1’s arrival in these white beasts Hollywood.’ as a violation of both the eyes and precious parking – Poems 1913–1956 laws, causing confrontation and restless sleep. As unit members dropped the vehicles off at This pillar of twentieth century society has evolved, ‘Campworld’, their temporary holding pen in Los extolling the Brecht lament: Lies. Lies that were once Angeles, and expelled the ‘grey’ and ‘black’ water from and still are being peddled as products of evasive the guts of their strange ‘homes’, questions of the intent accompanying both the cineastes and average highway, car culture and the ‘America Dream’ were spectators through their quotidian understanding of left unresolved, awaiting further dissection in the escape. The sign: a magnet for American dream heart of London’s own car culture, the congestion Diploma 12, Highway 101, Los Angeles. Photo Tom Lea seekers envisaging their idealised Arcadian city. zone of Bedford Square. However we have witnessed the shadow of these great ‘American expectations’. Even with their film By Scrap Marshall, a third year student and student industries and their multinational corporations as editor of AArchitecture fertile as ever, the land at the feet of Mount Olympus, 6 7 AA School Life The Student Forum and Participation By Frederik Bo Bojesen

AA logo in human form AA Panto 1930. Photo AA Archive Hollywood. Photo Stefano Branco

The other day somebody told me that students of This is why student participation and architecture, statistically speaking, are the hardest involvement is so crucial, and it is in this territory that working across the different fields of study. the Student Forum manoeuvres. The Student Forum Perhaps that would explain why the people is structured as a voluntary organisation acting in the in charge of the recent vote on the director’s position common interest of the student body. We arrange needed to stalk the corridors of the AA interrogating events and support student initiatives, from the students they met as to whether they had voted; supporting the recent DRL party in the bar to approximately 60% of the undergraduate school arranging, planning and executing the end of term student body ultimately participated in the decision parties, co-ordinating student travel bursaries, of who should be the director of the AA. financially and logistically supporting student initiated It is the notion of involvement that interests me. sports activities, promoting communication between Are we, the students, living in a time when life is the council and the student body by active comfortable to the extent that we cannot be bothered participation and, starting this year, getting involved to seek renewal and change, when the aim is to with student accommodation. To clarify the role and become the next starchitect and the means to achieve rights of the Forum we are currently working on a it a flawless portfolio? new constitution that will help to crystallise its aims, In my eyes, the AA is not simply the potential roles, budget and responsibilities. The foundation and for a flawless portfolio, a sensibility for architectural aim of the Student Forum is one and the same thing; space, a name on a diploma. It is a space for potential student participation. connections, a place of communication dismissing Students are the AA. But if studying at the AA formal boundaries, a place that allows and historically becomes simply a series of sprints between deadlines, demands students to confront and challenge the norm. or a marathon towards a diploma, the AA and its A school where the pressure of the curriculum, the students sacrifice the heart to keep only the head. uncertainty of the end of year table, competition from Get involved, or die trying. fellow students all combines to create a unique set of thoughts and processes but, as importantly, creates Frederik Bo Bojesen is a third year AA student and a framework where friendships, experiences and a member of the Student Forum. Intermediate 1, RV Living. Photo Costantino Sambuy experiments can happen. 8 9 AA Exhibition, 27 February – 19 March 2010 & AA Staff Projects

Most of the critical attention given to architecture irreplaceable constituents of the city. Simultaneously, London’s Shadows in large cities is directed at the larger built works by we love to watch people while putting ourselves on the big-name architects. But the inherent ambivalence display. It’s a selfish courtship not without harmful By Braden Engel of London as a city is born of the experiences afforded effects. The rain in London brings about a wonderful by its shadows. These ‘shadows’ are the silent pheno- slow-down of movement. Because of the sea of menal events that occur every day behind the noise of umbrellas bouncing off each other walkers must London’s iconic architecture. It seems that these blind compose themselves and step carefully to avoid intervals are more architectural than the most popular impaling a passer-by. As a victim, I can admit to buildings themselves. To look to the shadows is to see silently likening the flow of umbrellas across the street the city from a new perspective, effectively to lily pads or leaves drifting along a river’s current. transforming the artefacts that initially cast the shade. At this point the street is not really the conduit of transportation it is typically imagined to be, but more Coming-Out is Going-In a crime scene born out of and undoubtedly yielding ‘Exit’ and ‘entrance’ are traditionally thought of as more voyeurism. Whether for recreation or self- ‘going out’ and ‘coming in’ respectively. Paradoxically, preservation, the watching and being-watched in the the orientation based activity of commute is ultimately shadow of the parks and street transforms the parks disorienting. Take the Tube, for example. The and streets themselves. underground tunnels pass under and across the historic (sometimes confusing) street network above, Water Foul which offers a different navigational task on foot to Walking along the Thames can be quite pleasant, the American grid. But efficiency is not clarity. despite the nuisance of the river’s fowl – the gulls and Perhaps the intervals are simply misunderstood. What pigeons. You barely notice the architecture behind you if to exit is really to go in (to the ‘street culture’), and when you’re fixed on the disgusting buildings across to enter is really to come out (of the object, the the river. Squeezed up to the railing to the point enclosure)? They are not separate though, they of toppling into the brown water, how could one turn participate in each other, so flatten the interval: around and look up? Instead we stare out, lean on the coming out is going in. Nolli’s figure-ground blurs railing or sit on the bench and watch the pigeons, into a turgid grey. In the commute any hope for ducks and seagulls party with the detritus of lunches efficiency must be abandoned along with the very idea past. What is truly foul about the Thames waterside of being ‘on time’, instead one accepts a dizzying in London is not the waterfowl, but the crippling progression of going-in-and-out-and-in-and-out more positions in which we are subdued to gaze into a like a sick joke and more telling of our actual transfer. dislocating mirror. Walking on one bank, we can only look to the other, which, accurate or not, becomes the Queue Tales only way of relating to our bank, the reflection of From the messy congestion of boarding a bus to the the other. The identity of our side depends on the gaze surprisingly civil etiquette displayed in an ATM we direct away from it. How different the perspective queue, the idea of organising ourselves into a line of the duck floating in the middle must be. (sometimes politely, sometimes not) plays a significant Two approaches: Plato’s Allegory of the Cave role in city life. The word ‘queue’ comes from the and Peter Pan. In both, the shadows are at first taken Latin cauda, or cōda, meaning ‘tail’. Churchill as reality. But where Plato’s philosophical protagonist famously coined the term ‘Queuetopia’ to explain the retreats to the wisdom and understanding of daylight, possible consequences of Britain under Socialist rule, Peter chases his mischievous shadow in an effort to where his Conservatives chose the way of the ladder: finally catch it. Which is most rewarding for today’s ‘Let all try their best to climb. They [socialists] are for students of architecture? the queue’. Climb upward or wait in line. Perseverance or patience? Are there more differences between In the Spring term the AA put on an exhibition running a marathon and waiting for hours to get into entitled London +10 exploring the work of Wimble-don than simply the speed of the queue? Or, Diploma Unit 10, run by Carlos Villanueva is there really ever a point when in the city we are not Brandt since 1986. The unit experiments with part of diverse ways of engaging with the city has for a queue? Perhaps as more active agents we might avoid the last ten years focused on London. Here the anonymity of the tail (do bulldogs have tails?). Braden Engel muses on the shadows of London.

Watching While Being Watched Braden Engel is a Visiting Tutor in the AA H&T London’s parks, public squares and pavements are MA programme A queue waiting at the foot of the Lloyds Building. Photo Braden Engel 10 11 AA Membership & Development Recent Members’ Events and Trips

Members are shown around the Olympic Stadium site in Stratford by Populous architects. Photo by Camille Steyaert María José López de Heredia guiding AA Members through 130 years of winemaking tradition at Zaha Hadid’s Viña Tondonia, La Rioja. Photo Maureen Diffley

AA Members enjoy a private view of the David Chipperfield and Jan Kaplický, exhibitions at the Design Museum. AA Members in front of the old sailing club in San Sebastian. Photo Alex Lorente Photo by Eva Sopeoglou. 12 13 AA Radio Letters for Monica Pidgeon By Ema Bonifacic

Monica Pidgeon in the AD Office

In Memory of Monica a word which they felt described or was important to On Monday 23 November the AA played host to Monica: the name of a person, of a place, of a project, the Monica Pidgeon Memorial Symposium and of a colour she liked, of an object she always kept on her Reception on behalf of the event organiser, Peter desk, something she liked doing, an adjective describing Murray, Chairman of Wordsearch. The AA her character, a season of the year she enjoyed and so Radio also caught up with some of the guests and on. The letters and words were shared along with the a tie-in broadcast was recorded. Monica, who was thoughts and memories behind them, coming together the former editor of Architectural Design, passed in conversation as collective storytelling. away in September at the age of 95. The The audio recordings Monica Pidgeon herself assembled guests in the Lecture Hall were made of some of the most influential architects of the treated to reminiscences and tales of Monica twentieth century are valuable not only for their from the likes of Ken Frampton, Michael content but also for the emphasis they give to the voice, Manser, Sam Webb, Ed Jones, Barbara the experience the rhythm and tone of speech which is Goldstein, Stephen Albert and Victoria different to that of a printed page. In this spirit, and the Thornton, plus videoed eulogies from Richard spontaneous spirit of storytelling, this radio broadcast Rodgers and Norman Foster. The event was takes us from Bloomsbury to Buckminster Fuller to chaired by Peter Murray and followed by a Berlin, Lunches at L’Escargot, St Anne’s Close, Walter drinks reception in the AA Library. A busy event Segal, Jacobsen stools, Saturday afternoon Talks in attended by many big names in architecture was the garden, Team X and CIAM, Pidgeon Audio Visual, a true testament to her lasting influence in and the Independence, Dedication, Passion and Loyalty architecture and architectural publishing. of Monica Pidgeon. An article on Monica appears in the current Recorded on Saturday, November 21, 2009 at AA Files (issue 60). the AA. Listen online at www.aair.fm

Dargan Bullivant, Barbara Goldstein, Kenneth Ema Bonifacic is an alumna of the AA who has Frampton, Peter Murray and Su Rogers joined the AA worked on the AA Radio Radio for an informal and inspired conversation about Monica Pidgeon, her life, her work and her friendships. We entitled the radio broadcast ‘Letters for The AA Radio is the radio station of the students A selection of AD Covers Monica Pidgeon’. The ‘letters’ represent two things: of the AA. Interested in joining or contributing? letters of the alphabet and spoken letters of recollections Get in touch via email ([email protected]) or and reflections. Each participant was asked by the AA in person – Taneli Mansikkamaki and Umberto Radio to choose five letters from the alphabet, each for Bellardi Ricci, Diploma School. 14 15 AA Exhibition and Lecture Series, 6 November 2009 – 13 February 2010 First Works: Emerging Architectural Experimentation of the 1960s and 1970s

Rafael Moneo with Francisco Gonzalez de Canales

Toyo Ito

Toyo Ito, 9 November 2009 From my point of view, the 1970s were a turning point Toyo Ito presented an extensive series of projects of the city of Tokyo. Perhaps the technological, utopian dating from 1964 to 2009, precisely illustrating visions which had evolved out of the late 1960s could the vastness of his architectural aptitude. Rather be assigned to the 1970s due to Expo70. A futuristic, than focusing on descriptive self-reflection of technological, utopian vision was integrated by creating several of his works, it is perhaps most poignant various forms of architectural experiments in the 60s. to look to the origins of his architectural This was later confronted, or encountered, by the practice, first established as Urbot (Urban Robot) political ideology of the student movement that began in 1971 and the cultural and architectural in the later years of the decade. For example, it was right conditions surrounding this event. In this after Expo70 that I wished to go back to university, but excerpt from his lecture, Ito reflects on what he as a result of student revolutions, the universities had believes was a changing point in Japanese been closed. There was no choice but to start my own avant-garde architecture enabling the outlining small practice in Tokyo. of the beginning of his own architectural I had been involved in the early stages of design practice. for the Expo70 Tower by Kiyonori Kikutake. Earlier The audience at Toyo Ito’s lecture. Photos Valerie Bennett 16 17 AA Bookshop schemes were to have a multitude of capsules attached architects were looking for is an invaluable lesson. to this tower, but in the final design there were only five I would say it is difficult to believe that one could see AA Bookshop small capsules. a constant sense of what those years were, yet jumping At the same time there was another influential from one architect to another enables us to put the architect who was not related to Metabolism named students closer to the meaning of the recent past. Spring Highlights Kazuo Shinohara, who designed a project called House What could be said of more direct contact with in White, built in 1966. In contrast to the Metabolist the protagonists of history and of those times? In the BIOTHING agenda, his architecture focused on larger isolations or end, it was quite compelling to see each of us employ BIOREBOOT: THE ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION PROSTHETICS separations, interiority and minimalism. For example, a different way of writing and of graphic expression OF R&SIE(N) the plan of the House in White is explained through with pen and pencil and in the making of models. We square forms, with a column in the exact middle. There enjoyed the days when we could have our own is one off-centre straight line; simple compositions to personality and express it with the composition of divide the rooms. I believe Shinohara influenced my drawings before buildings were built. Today it is much generation of architects, as we began to look at utopian more continuous between students in both language views which were realisable through the interior. and representation. I would say the little diversity that Perhaps it is the notion of the tendency of the isolated happens is both refreshing and rewarding. space, a minimal form, whose spirit can be recognised Now I would like to say something about the in current architectural practice in Tokyo. value of the first work. I think the very first work has My Aluminium House (1971) came out of this a special meaning for what it is to be an architect. period of transition. For me, this building represents We were left with this reality of possibility, with this Giovanni Corbellini. 228 pp, 16 pp col. ills not only its functionality or built appearance, but also encounter which is not any more just thinking or 50 x 240 mm, paperback my personal agenda, the inherited confusions from dreaming about what you are able to do. Instead, we Milan 2010 Metabolism and new changes in terms of a sense of were testing our own ability with something that was £25.00 Alisia Andrasek value. It is the chimney-like form of the Aluminium actually going to be built, transformed into something Essays by Frédéric Migayrou and Joseph Grigely House that represents the capsule. It is in the plan of that changes the scale of the reality in which we were Lambros Orleans Edited by Zak Kyes THE ARCHITECTURE OF Conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist the house, in the timber, that shows and interiority, working, from drawings and models into the actual Text in English and French. EMERGENCE: THE EVOLUTION OF and Zak Kyes. 144 pp, 72 pp b/w ills with light coming through in the sleeping area. The thing. It is difficult to believe that, whatever else FORM IN NATURE AND CIVILISATION 64 pp, b/w ills 150 x 205 mm paperback outside, clad in thin aluminium, symbolises an architects have forgotten, they have not forgotten what 136 x 185 mm, paperback 2009 January 2010 ephemerality or non-heroic view of the sensitivity the very first work means. £23.95 surrounding the Aluminium House in comparison to Finally, this brings me to make a comment about £9 the capsule of Metabolism. The capsule of the the exhibition as a whole. I was talking with Brett BREATHABLE Aluminium House is the capsule from the Expo70 [Steele] and Francisco [Gonzalez de Canales], and I said On this page are highlights of books Tower that has fallen and landed on the ground, that there is something that changes the meaning of the by AA staff and visitors to the AA, symbolising the end of Metabolism and the beginning exhibition in that at the same time you have included selected by AA Bookshop Manager, of a new architecture. both first works and first projects. I would not say that Charlotte Newman. these are the same thing, that where the personality AA Bookshop features AA publications alongside a comprehensive of the architect emerges is where one can find the first range of titles from publishers Rafael Moneo, 27 November 2009 work. In my view, this is something that changes the worldwide. AA Members receive 20% In his lecture Rafael Moneo contrasted his first entire meaning of this exhibition, this mixture of first disocunt on AA Publications and a 10% work, the Diestre Transformer Factory works with first projects. discount on new releases featured on the (Zaragoza, 1965–1967), with his most recent bookshop website www.aabookshop.net project, the Northwest Science Building for Lecture selections and transcription by Mollie Open Monday to Friday 10am Michael Weinstock Columbia University. However, it is in the Claypool, DRL and HTS programme staff to 6.30pm, Saturday 11am to 5pm. beginning moments of the lecture that we can 280 pp , extensive col. & b/w ills 190 x 245 mm, paperback AA Bookshop look for Moneo’s most valuable statement on his London 2010 aabookshop.net inclusion in the exhibition. It is here that Moneo £29.99 took to commenting on the importance of the [email protected] Edited by Cero 9 T +44 (0)20 7887 4041 nature of the First Works exhibition, outlined in Text in Spanish and English F +44 (0)20 7887 4048 three distinct comments. 352 pp, extensive col. & b/w ills 170 x 215 mm paperback This is a very pertinent exhibition under a three-fold Madrid 2009 £48.95 condition. It covers, in a very efficient way, the taste and flavour of the1960 s and 1970s. Today, I’ve found that students and schools of architecture are very reluctant to pay attention to history. To offer the students this very close glance of how things were and what 18 19 AA Publications New and forthcoming from AA Publications

Minimaforms AA Agendas 10 Books of OMA AA Agendas 9 Experiments in Communication London +10 Edited by Brett Steele and Zak Kyes Making Pavilions Theodore and Stephen Spyropoulos Carlos Villanueva Brandt 978-1-902902-84-5 Edited by Martin Self and 160 pp, extensive col. & b/w ills c 280 pp, extensive col. & b/w ills £ tbc Charles Walker 240 x 200 mm, paperback 253 x 187 mm, paperback 160 pp, extensive col. & b/w ills Spring 2010 February 2010 For more than 30 years OMA has been dedicated to a 249 x 170 mm, paperback 978-1-902902-86-9 978-1-902902-83-8 critical architectural project through the thinking, Spring 2010 £22.50 £30 making and production of architectural publications. 978-1-902902-82-1 Books of OMA will survey this oeuvre, while at the same £15 This book highlights the work of the design and London +10 focuses on London over the last 20 years, time challenging the twentieth-century legacy of architecture practice Minimaforms. Founded in 2002 interpreting it as a ‘live city’ and speculating on the architectural monographs. In so doing Books of OMA Over the past four years the students of the by brothers Stephen and Theodore Spyropoulos, the relationship between the live realm of the city and its engages with the material and technical possibilities of Architectural Association’s Intermediate Unit 2 have practice has developed a diverse body of work that urban fabric. In parallel to this central topic, the book publications today, both as a site for the dissemination designed and built a series of experimental pavilions. explores new forms of interactive communication. includes a number of speculative projects carried out by and realisation of architectural agendas, as well as their Structured to follow a year in the life of the unit, this Using installations as a primary mode of research, the the AA’s Diploma Unit 10 that have attempted to communication. book presents the processes of the pavilions’ design studio creates public performance-based interventions integrate this realm into the design of alternative urban The book is conceived and edited by Brett Steele and production, from concept ideas to workshop that engage material and social interaction. The book strategies. and Zak Kyes, with newly commissioned texts fabrication. Essays by the unit’s tutors, Charles Walker features recent work developed in collaboration with The book addresses London by means of themes and extensive unpublished material. Books of OMA and Martin Self, explain the ambitions and pedagogic Krzysztof Wodiczko (a vehicle for veterans), a pavilion such as politics, control, crime, sex, integration, events, will be published following the exhibition staged basis of the programme, rooted in the idea of produced with the performance artist Stelarc, a video time, infrastructure, architecture, regeneration and at the Architectural Association in April/May 2010. experiential learning. Through the voices of students, piece with Warp recording artist Mira Calix and terrorism. These form part of the everyday experience A facsimile of one of OMA’s book projects will tutors and anonymous critics, both the educational thecritically acclaimed light installation in Trafalgar of London and inform the concept of Direct Urbanism. be published on the occasion of the exhibition by validity of this innovative design-build programme Square, Memory Cloud. Accompanying the projects The structure of the book is governed by these specific Bedford Press. and its architectural output is explored. are texts by Archigram’s David Greene, Stelarc, themes, each one expanded by means of a topical article, Krzysztof Wodiczko and Marie-Ange Brayer, among a short essay and selected illustrations of related others. projects. In addition a series of essays by contributors, The publication accompanies an exhibition at including the writer Will Self and the journalist Rowan the Architectural Association in February/March 2010. Moore, provide an overview of London, questioning and celebrating the city and generating possible scenarios for its future. 20 21 Bedford Press NEWS New from Bedford Press

Bedford Press was initiated by the Architectural renowned legacy of independent publishing. Association (AA), London in 2008 as a publishing The press aims to establish a more responsive CONCRETE GEOMETRIES: APPEAL FOR AA ALUMNI STUDENT REFERENDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR imprint that seeks to develop contemporary models of model of small-scale publishing, nimble enough to SPATIAL FORM IN SOCIAL AND WORK FOR AA ARCHIVES OF THE AA SCHOOL OF publication practice. encompass the entire chain of production in a single AESTHETIC PROCESSES ARCHITECTURE Established as an imprint of AA Publications fluid activity, from initial commission to the final Ltd., Bedford Press is a private press with the dual printing. purpose of establishing an on-site facility for the Bedford Press includes a print workshop production of printed matter for AA School and to equipped with a Ricoh Priport DX 4640PD. The create a new typology of publications that extends products of the press include publications as well as beyond the Architectural Association’s existing ephemera such as pamphlets, posters and limited programme. This initiative builds upon the AA’s edition prints. RodneyGordon, 5 Dip The AA Archives are in the process of Photo:Marianne Mueller cataloguing and making available to The Concrete Geometries Research researchers its holdings of student work, Cluster organised by Diploma 1 Tutors which range from watercolour sketches Marianne Mueller and Olaf Kneer is by Design Class students of the 1870s to seeking submissions of work from the the CNC models and digital Rhino files Photo:BennettValerie fields of art, architecture, sciences and of 2009’s AA Dipl (Hons) students. In The School Community’s referendum humanities that explore the relationship order to supplement these holdings and for the Director of the AA School of between spatial form and social or to fill specific gaps within the Architecture concluded at 5pm on aesthetic processes. Submissions may collections, the Archives have begun to Friday 20 November 2009. The include works of art or design, acquire examples of historic student referendum had 68% voter turnout, with architectural projects or case studies, work. Recent examples of such additions 74% of votes in favour of Brett Steele’s urban studies, research papers, scientific include the student portfolio of Walter reappointment as Director of the School experiments and other forms of inquiry Fisk, a medal-winning student of the for the next five years. that address the objectives outlined. early 1930s, together with the portfolios This referendum is a standard Ten projects and ten texts will be selected of Christopher Knight and Stephen procedure of the School and occurs at by the curatorial board for inclusion in an Macfarlane, two outstanding students the end of every Director’s contract. exhibition, symposium and publication at from the immediate post-war years. We The Director of School’s current the AA in 2010. have also been extremely fortunate to contract concludes on 31 July 2010. The call is open to students, receive the remarkable student drawings Pending reappointment, a new contract practitioners and researchers from the of the brutalist architect Rodney will be issued, effective 1 August 2010. fields of Architecture, Art, Design, Urban Gordon. Amongst other significant Questions about the referendum Informal Meetings In Black & White Design, Geography, Neuroscience, acquisitions are five years of student and its results may be directed to the Radim Peško Tom Benson Behavioural Psychology, Spatial projects kindly donated by John Toovey Office of the Company Secretary. 40 pp, extensive col. ills 36 pp, b/w ills Cognition, Social Science, Ethnography, (AA: 1951–56), latterly Architect to the With thanks to everyone who 165 x 220 mm, paperback with dust jacket 165 x 235 mm, paperback Anthropology and other disciplines London Zoological Society), including participated in this important process. February 2010 April 2010 concerned with such questions. work completed for the inaugural year of 978-1-907414-07-7 978-1-907414-06-0 Deadline for submissions: 12 April 2010 the AA’s Department of Tropical £8 £15 Notification of participants:3 May 2010 Architecture. Exhibition: 12 May – 29 May 2010 Further donations of student work, A group of children playing in the schoolyard forming Published after the occasion of ‘Tom Benson, Registers Public Symposium: from all periods of the AA’s history are a perfect circle, an abandoned tricycle drawing an and Greyscales’ at Stiftung für konkrete Kunst, October 2010 very much welcomed, as the Archives infinity sign, and a gathering of Spongebob plastic cups Reutlingen in 2006, In Black & White is the fourth in For further information visit are attempting to build up as on the dining table: these are some of the found a series of publications by Benson which consider the www.concrete-geometries.net or email comprehensive a collection as is compositions drawn from Informal Meetings, a separation of exhibition and book, employing the [email protected] possible. The AA Archives Acquisition collection of photographs by Amsterdam based graphic publication as a site for reinterpretation rather than Policy is available online at: designer Radim Peško, made during travels and replication. Co-published by Bedford Press and Offset www.aaschool.ac.uk/life wanderings to different cities between 2001 and 2009. Editions. For further information please The photographs show poetic glimpses of seemingly contact AA Archivist, Edward Bottoms: unremarkable encounters between space and [email protected] architecture that suggest their own stories. +44 (0)20 788 4049

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SPACEPILOTS b) Aural Structures, built pilots/ SARCHA John Lyall (AADipl 1973 and former The Nottingham Contemporary art Teresa Stoppani (Former AA HTS intervention in the public realm in Academic staff) had his practice’s gallery was featured in the 12 November Lecturer) has contributed an essay to London, which they hope to realize later waterfront regeneration development, 2009 issue of the AJ. The gallery was the latest issue of Log (Autumn 2009). this year. The Mill, in Ipswich, featured in the designed by Caruso St John, the practice Log 17, guest edited by Mark Foster Overall ‘The Listening Project’ 1 October 2009 issue of the AJ. The of Adam Caruso and Peter St John Gage and Florencia Pita, features essays aims to provide an informal learning project was commissioned by the East (AADipl (Hons) 1984, former AA and conversations focusing on tool and critical instrument for young of England Development Agency and Councillor and former Academic staff) relationships between new media and people to reflect and contribute to the Waterside Regeneration. after they won the design competition materiality in architecture – with an future development of our in 2004. emphasis on sensation and affect. environments. Photo:KazerosNikos Bronks Theatre (see news briefs Teresa’s text – ‘Venetian Dusts’ – mops AA member Stephanie Brandt has set up a They are currently seeking Maria Theodorou (who gained a PhD in AArchitecture Issue 9) in Brussels by Wen Ying Teh (AA Year out student) floors in Venice, immerses itself in collaborative practice between collaborators and funding that will help Histories and Theories of Architeure at MDMA, the practice of Martine de won the Bronze Medal at the RIBA Joseph Brodsky’s haptic experiences of architecture and art called to investigate and develop these the AA) initiated SARCHA (School of Maeseneer (former Diploma Unit Presidents Medals for her project, the city and in Henry James’s stifling ‘SPACEPILOTS’. They recently approaches further. ARCHitecture for All) – an open and Master) was nominated for the Lensvelt ‘An Augmented Ecology of Wildlife palazzo interiors, to scratch beyond the launched a design-research project You can find more details about the independent structure – in Athens in Architecture prize in 2009. and Industry’. surface of Jorge Otero-Pailos’s Biennale entitled ‘Unlocking the City’ with a project and its stages at: 2006. SARCHA’s commitment is to www.presidentsmedals.com/project_ installation The Ethics of Dust: Doge’s one-day live event on architecture and the www.spacepilots.net/projects/ identify issues of concern within the Tom Emerson (Former Diploma Tutor details.aspx?id=2360&dop=true Palace, Venice (2009). senses (and the matters of sound and light unlocking-the-city-01 field of architecture and city conditions and Former Council Member) together www.anycorp.com for spatial design and experiences), and to systematise what appears to be a with Stephanie Macdonald was Corpus Christie College Greenhouse in ‘Sensescapes’, at The O2, The British loose set of questions and research interviewed in the November 2009 issue Oxford by Rick Mather (AADipl 1966 Superfusionlab has been shortlisted in Music Experience Exhibition [BME]. orientations among its associates and of the BD magazine about their Offley and former AA Councillor) Architects the Bexhill-on-Sea RIBA windshelter Unlocking the City is a pilot aiming to within a wider and diverse ‘public’. works project. Tom and Stephanie are was featured in Small Projects Part Two, and kiosk competition along with 9 involve young people in the making of CCR – ΠKΠ: CityCommonResource directors of 6a Architects. AJ 21 January 2010. The greenhouse is a other practices. Superfusionlab was places and get them to engage with and – ΠόληKоινόςΠόρоς is SARCHA’s 2010 frameless glass display box which founded by Nate Kolbe (AA DRL March become excited by their environment programme and it addresses The building award of the British protrudes from an existing stone wall. 2000 and Former Intermediate Unit by exploring and utilising everyday sound architecture’s relation to the economy, Construction awards in October 2009 Master), Lida Vanessa Charsouli, Yas as a design tool for the shaping of places in its broadest sense. SARCHA is went to The Yellow Building designed Rafael Contreras Morales, Matei Denes, Mostashari and Djordje Stojanovic and urban experiences. seeking to work out a framework of by Alfred Hall Monaghan Morris, the Julian Jones and Diego Ricalde (all (all AA DRL March 2000). The next two stages of the project run ‘nomē’ (management) for the practice of Simon Allford (Former Vice AADRL MArch 2009) had their thesis www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/ under the working title of ‘The Listening contemporary city by exploring the President of the AA) and Paul project shortlisted for an exhibition held daily-news/first-look-at-bexhill-on-sea- Project’ and involve Soundmaps and urban accumulation of resources and Monaghan (GradDiplCons AA 1989), by the d3 Natural Systems org in New windshelter-finalists/5209372.article Audio Guides - initially, in the form of their common administration. For and the principal engineer was Adams York, and the project was recently case studies, commissioned by the further information please see Kara Taylor of which Hanif Kara (AA published in the book, Digital Maria Helena Marconell (AA Member) educational department at the BME an www.sarcha.gr Member and former Academic staff) is Architecture: Passages through Hinterlands had several of her prints on display in the O2 together with 40 students of Those interested in becoming a director. Meanwhile the conservation www.passagesthroughhinterlands.com/ Royal Brompton Hospital Christmas Chelsea College of Art and they focus on involved should contact Maria at award went to St Martin-in-the-Fields book/index.html Exhibition in December 2009 and will the area around the O2. [email protected] of which the principal architect was also have a solo exhibition in the public They are now in the process of Eric Parry (AA Dipl 1978 and Former Gianni Botsford (AADipl 1996 and space at the Chelsea & Westminster developing these ideas into: President of the AA) Architects. former Academic staff) talks about his Hospital from 23 May – 5 June 2010). a) a functional, interactive online map Eric Parry Architects were also featured practice’s proposed Garden House in A piece of her work is also included in and sound guide for London (or an area in the 3 December 2009 issue of the AJ Notting Hill in the January 2010 issue the Saatchi online Showdown. of London) that will allow young people in a spread about their office scheme in of AJ Specification. The article focuses www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/showdown/ to explore, share and develop ideas about New Bond Street. on the roof of the project. index.php?showpic=239767 the ways everyday sounds are influencing our perception of landscapes. Schools and Alisa Andrasek (AA DRL Course Another ‘attack’ by guerrilla architect Eva Eylers (AA PhD candidate), pupils aged 14–17 will be able to submit Master) had a show at the Au Franc Michael Elion (AADipl 2003) sees Emanuel de Sousa (AA HTS and download different kinds of data in Centre in Orléans from 11 September Urban Art Project, HALO for Nuit programme staff and AA PhD order to explore how everyday sounds can – 22 November 2009. The exhibition Blanche. HALO was a giant ring of pink candidate) and Kirk Wooller (AA PhD influence our perception of environments presented the work of Biothing, the light, consisting of a helium inflated ring candidate) have published an article in by recording aural landscape scenarios in laboratory created by Alisa in 2001. a few hundred feet in the air above Paris. ARCH+ journal (vol. 195, November both sonic and visual formats. 24 25 NEWS BRIEFS NEWS BRIEFS

2009). The article discusses the recent and the latter received a citation. April 2010. Philippe also had a solo Contemporary Site-specific Art published research on active systems in nature have been completing a workshop and AA PhD Dialogues 2009 Ideology in The exhibition was held at the Istanbul exhibition at Architekturgalerie am by Lambert Academic Publishing (8 and architecture. exhibition for Linz University. Transparency symposium and reflects Technical University and the organisers Weissenho in Stuttgart from 10 December 2009). This research upon issues raised during the event were the Order of Syrian Engineers February – 4 April 2010, and gave publication concerns the latest forms of The book 311 Methods by Arelier AA Intermediate Unit 10 students and their implications for architectural and Architects and the Chamber of lectures at La Chaux-de-Fonds in site-specific and digital art that have d’Architecture Pierre Hebbelinck - exhibited their first term work coral practice. Architects of Turkey Istanbul Switzerland (23 February 2010), INSA: emerged from artists’ interest in new Pierre Hebbelinck and Pierre de Wit gardens in the shelter gallery in Dubai. www.archplus.net Metropolitan Branch. Institut Nationale des Sciences relationships between physical and Architectes, published by the AA to The exhibition featured the students’ Appliquées de Strasbourg (24 March virtual spaces, as inspired by the accompany the Exhibition in May 2009, project, an on-site installation and a Nuria Alvarez Lombardero (Unit Nate Kolbe (AA DRL MArch 2000 and 2010), ENSA: Ecole Nationale contemporary interdisciplinary has been made laureate of the Fernand series of critical movies about Dubai. Master Intermediate Unit 8) gave a Former Intermediate Unit Master) Supérieure d’architecture de Normandie understanding of space as an Baudin Prize, a concourse of the best It was featured in the UAE paper The paper entitled ‘Understanding lectured at the Muenster School of in Rouen (1 April 2010) and the uncontrollably changing informational books published in the French-speaking National and on Abitaire. Gendered Boundaries of Modern Urban Architecture on ‘Digital Fabrication: Architecture Society of the University substance. part of Belgium (or, in this case, by a www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/ Planning’ at the Urbanism & Design to Production’. The lecture took of Cambridge (20 April 2010) Belgian designer). article?aid=/20091221/ Urbanisation Symposium at the place on 10 November 2009 and was part www.en.cop15.dk Peter Higgins (AADipl 1973), has www.prixfernandbaudinprijs.be national/712209909, Catholic University of Leuven in the of a series of lectures on Digital www.guggenheim.org received an RDI from the RSA, www.abitare.it/events/coral-gardens autumn of 2009. She also presented her Architecture. www.centrepompidou.fr a highly regarded honour in the design research work at the third Research www.daniels.utoronto.ca world which only a handful of Angeliki Koliomichou (AALU MA Lorens Holm (former General Studies Seminar on Urbanism in the ETSA ‘atmos’, the practice of Alex Haw www.weissenhofgalerie.de architects (including Norman Foster) 2007) presented her MA project on tutor) has published a book with Barcelona (UPC). (Former Diploma Unit Master) is one have ever won. Urban Morphology and Transformation Routledge entitled Brunelleschi, Lacan, of the participants in THE CLOUD, a AA students, staff and graduates at the 16th International Seminar on Le Corbusier: Architecture Space and the X-Architects, the practice of which vast collaborative project to build a new participated in a major international Victor Orive (AA DRL MArch 2007) Urban Form (ISUF 2009) co-hosted by Construction of Subjectivity. It is a Farid Esmaeil (AA Member) is one of spatial communications platform for the conference and publication was awarded the third prize in the first South China University of Technology development of his PhD research which the principal architects won the 2009 London Olympics in 2012. It proposes documenting the condition of edition of the Premio Fundamentos. and Guangzhou Urban Planning he did with Mark Cousins as part of the Middle East Architect Award for the a giant aerial cluster of transparent contemporary architecture and Herramientas de la Arquitectura held Bureau, in Guangzhou, China, 4–7 London Consortium. The book best Mixed-Use project of the year with occupiable inflatable spaces saturated urbanism. Theodore Spyropolous and by Revista Arquitectura of the Colegio September 2009. interprets the fifteenth century their project ‘Xeritown’, an urban with intelligent LED technology, fed by Yusuke Obuchi (DRL co-directors) Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid Coam. www.urbanfrom.org demonstration of perspective for today complex designed to work in harmony real time information from all over the presented Adaptive Ecologies, The award ceremony took place on the by putting it in relation to contemporary with the landscape and natural world. Related atmos projects included illustrated with current and recent DRL 16 December 2009 and an accompanying Mollie Claypool (AA MA H&T 2009 theories of subjectivity. It explores a link environment through site specific and an installation of a new version of thesis design projects related to a exhibition featuring the shortlisted and DRL and HTS programme staff) between Architecture and climate sensitive architecture and Weather Projection (synchronous social four-year ‘parametric urbanism’ design submissions as well as the winners ran presented her MA dissertation research, Psychoanalysis that has not hitherto planning. Their projects ‘Ain Al Fayda’ sunlight) in London in January 2010 and agenda explored by the programme. until the end of January 2010 at ‘The [dis]Appearance of the been elaborated, and opens the way for and ‘Al Nasseem’ also received the a performance of Lumiskin (luminous Other AA participants include Patrik Fundacion Coam in Madrid. Architectural Object: Narratives of the the Lacanian critique of architecture. Estidama Excellence Award from the responsive enclosures) in February 2010. Schumacher (DRL co-director), whose Subject in Projects of the City’, at the Abu Dahbi Planning Council during project for a new Istanbul Masterplan ‘The What Where When’ is a new Architectural Humanities Research Kit Powell-Williams (AADipl 1975) has the World Future Energy Summit on 19 Phillipe Rahm (Former Diploma Unit was presented; and the ‘Stop City’ website created by Claire McManus Association’s (AHRA) Annual won an open European competition for January 2010, and the practice won the Master) directed the Nantes Symposium project by Pier Vittorio Aureli (Unit (AA Graphic Designer) listing some of Post-graduate Research Conference in a new footbridge at Aveiro, Portugal. Mohammed Bin Rashid Best Business in of Copenhagen 2009 about Climate and Master Diploma Unit 14 and Histories London’s less celebrated creative events, late 2009. In June 2009, The Câmara Muncipal de Consultancy Award. Architecture on 10 December 2009 at & Theories tutor). Work by frequent including exhibitions, films, gigs, Aveiro launched a competition for a new the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, AA visitors Hernan Diaz Alonzo, Bil opportunities, private views, releases, ecoLogicStudio (Claudia Pasquero and 40m span footbridge across the Canal Ahmad Sukkar (AA DRL MArch 2006) School of Architecture in Copenhagen Macdonald, Jesse Reiser, was also talks and workshops. Marco Poletto (Unit Masters Central as the centrepiece of a participated in the Syrian Architecture in the frame of the Climate change included as was the work of Ben Van www.thewhatwherewhen.org Intermediate Unit 10)) has been recently ‘sustainability park’ which will be Awards Exhibition in Istanbul, 9–11 conference, COP15 organised by the Berkel (AADipl(Hons) 1987 and former shortlisted for the competion ‘oxigen developed over the next 3 to 4 years. Nov, 2009 with two entries: the first was United Nations. Phillipe Rahm Academic staff), Bill Dunster (Former Christina Doumpioti (MArch EmTech italia’ by Abitare Magazine, results were The competition submission was made his AA DRL TEN Pavilion entry Architects also had work exhibited at the Academic staff), Yosoke Hayano 2008 and EmTech Studio Master) and published in the December 2009 issue. with Buro Happold and the project is entitled ‘Voronoi Pavilion’, 2007; the Pompidou Cantre from 16 December (AA DRL MArch 2003) and Alejandro Evan Greenberg (MSc EmTech 2008 Their Studio Profile was published in co-financed by the European Regional second was his entry to Sham Spiritual 2009 – 1 February 2010, the Daniels, Zaera-Polo (Former Diploma Unit and EmTech Course Tutor) were invited the AD, they are currently submitting Development Fund (ERDF) – Oasis entitled ‘Dal Lam Ra’ Universal Toronto from 26 February – 26 March Master). for the Elegant Ecotones workshop at a planning application for AqvaHouse Operacional Programme Maiscentro. Sections in Sham Spiritual Oasis: 2010 and has work on display at the the University of Bologna on 11–12 in Turin (a refurbishment for a 4 story The footbridge is expected to be opened A Probe in the Epidermis of the Guggenheim, New York in Eugenia Fratzeskou (AA Member) has February 2010. Christina and Evan were housing complex in Turin, featuring by June 2011. Landscape and the Depth of the Self”, ‘Contemplating The Void: Interventions had a book Visualising Boolean Set guest tutors and jurors, as well as giving a 3D facade/roof system working as a 2008. He was a finalist for the former In The Guggenheim Museum’ until 28 Operations: Real and Virtual Boundaries in a lecture covering current EmTech water collector and vertical garden) and 26 27 NEWS BRIEFS NEWS BRIEFS

Berlin-based nOffice the architectural co-existence of the different existing From 31 January – 6 February 2010 Naiara Vegara (AADipl 2009) had her Winyu Ardrugsa (AA PhD Candidate) March. Darryl also presented research studio of Markus Miessen (AADipl factions. Kristof Crolla (AA DRL MArch 2007 fourth year project published in the presented a paper entitled The New at the Belfast Exposed gallery on the (Hons) 2004 and former Intermediate www.post-traumaticurbanism.com and former D_lab tutor) was invited by Mexican magazine Tomo Arte, Thai Parliament as ‘Mount Sumeru’: subject of Solving Conflict Through Unit Master) has been commissioned the Royal Institute of Technology, Arquitectura y Diseno. The project The ‘State of Exception’ as a Paradigm Urban Design, 8 April. to build a library and mediateque in ‘cocoarchitects’ the office of Daniel Coll School of Architecture in Stockholm to entitled ‘The Aura of Corviale’ consists of Architectural Practice at the 3rd www.tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com North-East Brazil. The office is i Capdevila (AADipl (Hons) 2005 and both lecture and teach the 11th edition of a church in Corviale in the outskirts Samaggi Academic Conference at currently working on two galleries and former EmTech tutor) won the first of his ‘International Workshop Series’. of Rome. The aim of the project was to Imperial College London. The event Jan Pietje Witt (AA Dipl 1999) was a private art collection, as well as a series prize for the Moulin Rouge The workshop, entitled ‘Digital Design create a path guided through contrasts was organised by Samaggi Samagom, included in the exhibition BDA of international cultural projects. In Competition in Paris. and Fabrication in Architectur’, kicked of gradients of light and material the Thai Association in the UK, in Architektur Werkschau 2009 in the November, nOffice launched the off a 4th year design studio by Prof. qualities in order to submerge the collaboration with Imperial College Hamburgmuseum (Aug – Sep 2009) Performa Hub, Performa Biennial’s David Lloyd (AADipl 1974) was recently Ulrika Karlsson and Daniel Norell and passers by into their own world where Thai Society on 30–31 January 2010. as well as in the model exhibit Neue central meeting space at the new Cooper given a Design Award by the focussed on the application of time adapts to a personal rhythm of The paper investigates the recent Neue at the Deutsche Architektur Union building in Manhattan. Hertfordshire branch of the RIBA for algorithmic design in architecture. experiencing space. winning design of the Thai parliament Zentrum in Berlin (Sept – Nov 2009). studiomiessen.com the Drama Centre his practice designed www.tomo.com.mx/2009/04/29/ arguing that the proposal’s return to a His office Studio Witt Architecture & www.nOffice.eu last year at Parmiter’s School in A book of photographs by Mark Pimlott arquitectura-naiara-vegara religious cosmological concept for its Design showed recently completed Hertfordshire. (AADipl(Hons)1985), In Passing, is due spatial and formal organisations runs housing schemes. Steve Hatzellis (AADRL MArch 2003) to be published in Spring 2010 by Jap Carlos Teixeira (H&U the risk of constituting an undemocratic set up WSH Architects in Melbourne David Dobereiner (AADipl 1954) gave Sam books. The book was designed by GradDiplDist(AA) 1994) will have a architecture. Nick Puckett (former First Year Studio Australia in 2004. Last year the practice a slide lecture to the Ecocity 2009 Joost Grootens and is supported by the project entitled ‘Spiral Booths’ built for Master and DRL MArch 2004) showed was awarded the Ideas 2009 Emerging Conference in Istanbul last December. Fonds BKVB. Mark will exhibit his work the V&A Museum’s 1:1 Exhibition in Flooding Jakarta Sinking Indonesia: the Xiamen Energy Masterplan Model Designer award and the Ideas 2009 It was a 20 minute summary of his book at Projektraum-Bahnhofstraße25, in June 2010. ‘Spiral Booths’ is an open a prototype study for water disaster as Part of the Post Oil Cities Exhibition Commendation for the Monash The End of the Street: Sustainable Kleve, Germany, from 17 April – 9 May platform for theatre and dance emergency shelter, 2009, a project by a at the IFA Gallery in Stuttgart Germany University Architecture school project. Growth within Natural Limits and was 2010. composed of six booths and a spiral team including Denny Husin (AA MA (February – March 2010) The project, followed by a lively discussion. staircase, all of them working like a H&U student) was exhibited at the developed with CHORA as part of their Jorge Ayala, Hossein Kachabi (both AA Eugene Soler (AAIS Student) has won condenser of performances that Indonesian Young Architects (AMI) Taiwan Strait Incubator, is an LU MA 2008) and Minjoo Baek (AA LU Anna Del Monaco (AA Member) has the Japanese 44th Central Glass Design fragments the stage into six, and breaks Workshop 2009 and the Jakarta interactive 4m x 4m model which acts MA 2009) with tutor Eduardo Rico edited a book entitled Corviale Competition 2009 with a project the performance space’s continuity, thus Architecture Triennale (November as an interactive diagram and planning (AA LU MA 2003 and LU Tutor) were Accomplished: A Research for Corviale. entitled Carpet Bombing – Iraqi creating new relations between public 2009). The project tries to experiment tool for the scheme. invited to the Creative Nature Function and Disfunction of Social Markets which looks to heal the wounds and artists. It aims to mix a singular, with flood issue in an urban setting, in a www.ifa.de/en/exhibitions/dt/ Workshop in Xi’an, China organised by Housing. The book is published by of a devastated landscape by introducing intricate architectural space with the capital city of a maritime country. All in rueckblick/2009/post-oil-city The University of Southern California Luglio, and its research was directed the concept of the Persian carpet, in the freedom of activities to be programmed all it is an experiment of precaution in Collaboration with Xi’an by Lucio Barbera and Richard Plunz. form of mosaic or painted tiles suitable within it; be they experimental or ‘habitation’ regarding the occurrence of Brett Steele (AA School Director) was International Horticultural Expo 2011. The public building of Corviale is for pedestrian and urban surfaces. The didactic, traditional or contemporary, sea level rises within next 25–50 years. awarded an Honorary Fellowship by The workshop took place from 24–31 known as a great scandal, problem and proposal was shortlisted along with six conventional or avant-garde. RIBA at its annual awards ceremony in January 2010 in Xi’an, China. This myth of modern urban architecture and others and presented in public in Tokyo Elizabeth Hatz (AA Dipl 1977 and February 2010. Given as recognition for AALU garden design is currently under the book is the result of comprehensive in front of 200 people. The theme of the Eleftherios Ambatzis (AADipl 2009) former AA Councillor) is the curator of Brett’s contribution to contemporary construction and will be completed in research about its history, authors and competition was ‘Community recently collaborated with Jose Paixao ev+a 2010, the largest international art architectural education, the selection the next 6 months. identity, developed in partnership by the Gathering’. in the design of a porcelain tureen with event in Ireland from 13 March – 23 May panel highlighted his role not only in Faculty of Architecture ‘L. Quaroni’, silver handles that was exhibited in in Limerick, Ireland. The show is spread providing a vision for the future of the The final year project ofFadi Mansour Sapienza University of Rome, and the A sketch made by Marcelo A. Espinosa Porto and will tour Europe. The project all over the city and this is the first time AA but also in building upon its legacy. (AA Dipl 2009) is being published in Urban Design Programme, Columbia Martinez (AA DRL MA 1999 and H&T was commissioned by Hotel Infante that this annual event, which has been an upcoming edition of AD entitled University of New York, with the PhD 2007) for an Architecture Museum Sagres in Porto, Portugal and was running for over 30 years, is curated by Post-Traumatic Urbanism. A project support of the Lazio Region and the Competition in Monterrey, Mexico in exhibited in Sao Bento metro station. an architect. for Beirut entitled Re-framing the City: collaboration of the Agenzia Territoriale 1995 was selected as finalist in the1 er The hotel invited a group of architects www.eva.ie A Monument of Radical Neutrality Edilizia Residenziale (Regional Agency Premio Fundamentos Tools for and artists to come up with a personal polemically reinterprets the Green Line for Public Housing). Architecture organised by Revista vision for a set of silver handles of a Liam Young (Unit Master, Intermediate in Beirut as a continuous sectional void www.editricesapienza.it/catalogo/ Arquitectura of the COAM in Madrid, given tureen. Their proposal was Unit 7) and Darryl Chen (MA H&U giving the possibility for a public schedapubblicazione.aspx? Spain. It was also part of an exhibition inspired by the trip Portuguese ships (Dist) 2004) have been selected to infrastructure under the patronage idpubblicazione=109 held at the COAM in Madrid from took to China and the climax of their exhibit their Where the Grass is of the Lebanese University that works December 2009 – January 2010. journey when circling the cape. Greener project for ‘Unplanned’ at the twofold, in order to establish a new Superfront gallery in LA, from 25 28 29 The Public Occasion Agency (POA) has been established as a framework for a self-determining public programme at the AA. The POA systematically collaborates with various parts of the wider AA community to actualise a wide, but always focused, range of events. As part of the POA’s institutional enterprise, each event is accompanied by two paper publications, one preview and one review, forming the ongoing public archive of the Public Occasion Agency.