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Beyond Entropy, When Energy Becomes Form PG 6

Diploma 7: Kiteweb in Beirut PG 4

If you go to the Greenwich Observatory, there is a line inscribed into the ground. It is, in a sense, an act of writing. Tom McCarthy: Greenwich Degree Zero PG 10

Member visit to Littlehampton PG 16

Indepedent Means PG 2 VERSO

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AARCHITECTURE CONTRIBUTORS Architectural Association (Inc.) News from the Julin Ang Registered Charity No. 311083 2 Independent Means Architectural Association [email protected] Company limited by guarantee Issue 12 / Spring 2010 Registered in England No. 171402 4 Diploma Unit 7: Kiteweb in Beirut www.aaschool.ac.uk Ed Bottoms Registered office as above [email protected] ©2010 6 Beyond Entropy, All rights reserved Mollie Claypool Published by the [email protected] When Energy Becomes Form Architectural Association, 36 Bedford Square, Jan Nauta London WC1B 3ES [email protected] 8 Camouflage: A Catalogue of Effects

Contact: Lucy Priest 10 Tom McCarthy: Greenwich Degree Zero [email protected] www.fletcherpriest.com Nicola Quinn +44 (0)20 7887 4033 Stefano Rabolli Pansera 12 One Angel Lane Please send your news items for the next [email protected] issue to [email protected] 13 Enabling: The Work of Minimaforms Kristen Woods EDITORIAL BOARD [email protected] Alex Lorente, Membership 14 Public Occasion Agency Brett Steele, AA School Director Zak Kyes, AA Art Director 16 Members’ visit to Littlehampton

EDITORIAL TEAM Nicola Quinn, Managing Editor 18 New and Forthcoming from Wayne Daly and Claire McManus, Graphic Designers AA Publications: Spring 2010 Scrap Marshall and Manijeh Verghese, Student Editors 19 Book Launches and Events at the

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Sue Barr AA Bookshop Valerie Bennett Kathleen Formosa Esther McLaughlin 20 AA Honorary Memberships Luisa Miller Charlotte Newman 21 News Theo Spyropoulos

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Recent visits to the AA Archives by the Twentieth 15 units of about 17 students each; Rowse’s aim being Independent Means Century Society and Archives for London have to encourage teamwork, analytical enquiry and provided something of an opportunity to consider problem solving, with research and planning projects By Edward Bottoms afresh and present to outsiders the history of the for housing schemes and slum clearances replacing the Association. Perhaps unsurprisingly the majority of esquisse. These changes eventually proved extremely questions, comments and feedback received tended to popular with students: in fact, they demanded that focus upon the remarkable survival of the AA’s fiercely they should go further, and set out their ideas in their independent tradition of self-governance. This status infamous ‘Yellow Book’ of June 1937 and in the has arguably proven to be one the Association’s journal FOCUS. They met with opposition, however, greatest strengths, permitting the school to operate from the AA Council and Rowse’s superior – the with a freedom and flexibility dreamt of in the state Director of Education, HS Goodhart-Rendel. Matters sector, avoiding many of the strictures of came to a head in May 1938 when, in an attempt to bureaucracies, committees and research assessments. reverse the move away from the Beaux-Arts, Rowse Yet for all this, it is relatively unknown that for a was dismissed by Council and replaced by the French period of just over 30 years, from 1939 to 1970, the classicist Fernand Billerrey. AA’s founding body was essentially disenfranchised. Against this background the Board of Since the publication of Sir John Summerson’s Education, which provided a sizeable annual grant brief centennial history of 1947 it has become to the AA, was becoming extremely concerned. In something of a commonplace to describe the AA June 1938 the Council was finally informed that the as having been formed by ‘a pack of troublesome Board would withdraw funding “unless immediate students’.1 Whilst certainly true, the AA was very steps were taken to stop the students controlling the much a reaction against the vested interests and affairs of the Association through their voting inadequacies inherent in the system of articled powers.” Consequently, new battle lines were opened pupilage, the founding ‘students’ not establishing what up, with the Council proposing to make all new we would consider a school but taking as their students probationary members, without voting organisational model that of an association, or club, powers or the ability to stand for Council. The with all members correspondingly possessing the following month, forced by the prospect of complete ability to vote for a General Committee. This internal conflict, and strike action, Goodhart-Rendel situation endured unchanged through the resigned and in truly dramatic fashion, at midnight development of a more formal schedule of evening during the end-of-term dance, it was announced that classes in the 1860s and 70s, major reorganisation and the unit system was to be retained. Nevertheless, even reforms of the 1880s and 90s and the eventual launch while celebrations for this victory were taking place a of a Day School in 1901. Indeed, admittance to the postal ballot of all AA members was being prepared on Day School was conditional upon full membership the issue of probationary membership. The of the parent association, a fact that prevented women mobilisation of the entire AA membership’s voting from becoming students until 1918. powers heavily outnumbered the students’ voting All this was to change in a handful of turbulent capacity and in January 1939 the student vote was years from the mid 1930s onwards. As Elizabeth formally abolished. Darling and Mark Crinson have written, a cocktail In the years immediately following the war the of a highly politicised student body, new staff issue of the student vote was repeatedly raised. appointments and demands from the Board of However it was not until 1956, after lengthy Education resulted not only in the final banishment of negotiations, that the then Ministry of Education the Beaux-Arts system and the introduction of a agreed to some concessions – allowing students course structure and curriculum based upon limited voting rights but still not permitting them to modernist principles, but also in the loss of the student stand for Council. Ironically enough, it was not until vote. The catalyst can be traced to the appointment the late 1960s when the AA was negotiating for entry of EAA Rowse in 1933 as head of the AA’s newly into the state university system, via merger with established School of Planning, and then, two years Imperial College of Science and Technology, that later, as successor to the Principal, Howard Robertson. the issue was thoroughly re-examined. Indeed, the Rowse was heavily influenced by the visionary restoration of full membership and voting rights was sociologist Patrick Geddes and set about introducing passed by Council in the spring of 1970, just months sociological methods of organisation and town after Imperial withdrew citing concerns at the planning. He brought in a raft of young, left-wing reluctance of the school community to accept and [1938 Parody Menu] ‘A dish best served cold... 1938 student parody of the Special Extraordinary Meeting to decide tutors and in 1936 changed the entire academic be bound by the merger terms. on student vote. The menu refers to key staff and Council members, including Geffrey Jellicoe, Stanley Hamp, structure so that the old five-year course structure was HS Goodhart-Rendel, Frank Yerbury and Fernand Billery.’ replaced with a unit system combining students into Edward Bottoms is the AA Archivist 2 3 AA School Work and School Life: AA Workshop and Installation, October 2009 Diploma Unit 7: Kiteweb in Beirut By Julin Ang

Amidst wild gestures, terrible Arabic pronunciation between Diploma 7 students and local children. and our taxi driver’s confused phone call to our local The handle of each kite formed the connector for guide, we finally arrived on a busy shopping street in each node of the adjustable elastic web. Each child left the Palestinian refugee camp of Bourj el-Barajneh. A the workshop with their own kite, personally few minutes later our guide, Mariam, emerged from a decorated to their own taste. mysterious corner and warmly rescued us from our The workshop took place in two locations. The confusion. first one was in a local community centre in Bourj “What do you want to see?” she asked. el-Barajneh camp, and organised in collaboration with “Everything,” we replied. local NGOs: El-Rahelet (The Outings), the Women’s Immediately we were thrust into a maze of Programme Centre and Social Support Society. The twisting, narrow alleyways. These streets, often barely second took place at El Buss camp in South Lebanon, wide enough for three to walk abreast, were at once just outside the city of Tyre. With UNRWA’s help, we fascinating. We were a far cry from London’s neatly staged a workshop with children at Deir Yassin paved city sidewalks – as well as the smog and shouts School. In each case, our arrival was accompanied of Beirut proper. There was no perceptible link by 40m2 of white ripstop nylon, four sets of bamboo between where we began and where we reached. Our blinds, 170 laser-cut kite-handles, armfuls of bright confusion was exacerbated by the lack of any form of orange kite tails, a mini sewing machine and an street numbers, names or structured urban pattern. essential abundance of enthusiasm. This dense fabric of the city is a part of Beirut We set up our stations: one for lashing bamboo veiled from most visitors. A city of diversity and together, one for marking out the kites, one for the contradiction, its exuberant nightlife is juxtaposed sewing of pockets and tails and one for attaching the Children of the Beirut refugee camp, Borj el-Barajneh, celebrate the completion of their kites. Photo Elaine Wong with the raw concrete skeletons of bombed-out flying line. Above, on the rooftop of the community buildings and the impoverished living conditions of its centre looking towards the Beirut hills, an elastic refugee camps. The city’s tenuous hold on peace is web is set up awaiting the children’s creations. expressed in the plight of those who remain displaced Evidently excited, the children began to in the aftermath of war. Bourj el-Barajneh camp, our arrive an hour and a half early. Amongst growing destination, is Beirut’s largest case in point. Since its anticipation we thought it best to begin and establishment in 1948, it has become an increasingly surrendered to the chaos, noise and joy of the permanent home to more than 16,000 registered children’s creative fervour. At the end of the workshop, refugees within a chaotic 1.6km2. Conditions are we appreciated their surprise at the strange damp, overcrowded, and lack basic infrastructure. construction assembled from their efforts – their Lebanon’s significant Palestinian refugee drawings stood out against the whiteness of the kites population, a total of 422,188 registered with whose fluorescent tails danced in the wind on the UNRWA (UN Relief and Works Agency), forms rooftops of a concrete-block camp. approximately 10% of Lebanon’s total population. With thanks to: David Bakis, Lena and Melek Many displaced families in Palestinian refugee camps (Social Support Society), Mariam al-Shaar (Women’s suffer abject poverty, discrimination and restricted Programme Centre, Sahar (Active Ageing House), rights. Regarded as foreigners, the majority of Fadi Dabaja, Ahmed from Mar Elias, David refugees rely on foreign aid for the provision of Sigurdsson, Fawzi Kassab, Hoda el-Turk (UNRWA, education, health and social services. Lebanon), The teachers at Deir Yassin School, With this in mind, the 2009 AA Diploma 7 El Buss. installation project, ‘Kiteweb.Lebanon’, proposed the idea of ‘play’ as a catalyst for social engagement, Julin Ang is a fourth year student interaction and delight in disadvantaged communities. Our proposal was a lightweight canopy structure that directly reflected the creative activities of children involved. Strung between existing structures, an adjustable elastic web formed the structure of the canopy. The shelter itself consisted of handmade kites; the result of a joint workshop The completed Kiteweb.Beirut, overlooking the camp of Borj el-Barajneh. Photo James Rai 4 5 AA Research Clusters

‘Max Planck was thrilled by the fact that work Method of Investigation Beyond Entropy, When Energy is not dissipated but it remains stored for many Beyond Entropy, when Energy becomes Form is a years, never diminished, latent, in a block of method: by refusing multidisciplinary collaboration, stone until, one day, it may happen that this it promotes the systematic collision of different Becomes Form same block falls upon a passerby and kills him. disciplines in order to produce a specific new content. Indeed, in every artist or scientist, the principle Each participant shares his or her own specific By Stefano Rabolli Pansera of continuation of energy is interlinked with expertise with the others. the research of happiness and of death. Even in The cluster is divided into eight groups of architecture this research is related to the research, each comprising an architect, an artist and a material and to energy, without this observation scientist. Nuclear Energy (Vittorio Pizzigoni, Alberto it is not possible to understand any Garutti, Giuseppe Celardo), Electric Energy (Salotto construction, neither from the static point of Buono, Massimo Bartolini, Dario Benedetti and view nor from the formal point of view.’ Riccardo Rossi), Gravitation (Eyal Weizman, Carlos – Aldo Rossi, a Scientific Autobiography, 1981 Garaicoa, Peter Coles), Mass (Rubens Azevedo, Arie Schlesinger, Vid Stojevic), Thermal energy ‘The real challenge is not to be tolerant, but (Ines Weizman, Wilfredo Prieto, David Clements), sharing our own intolerance with the Potential Energy (Julian Loeffler, Peter Liversidge, intolerance of the other’ Roberto Trotta) Chemical Energy (Territorial Agency, – Slavoj Zizek, Lecture at ICA, 2007 Nina Canell, Amanda Chatten), Mechanical Energy (Shin Egashira, Attila Csorgo, Andrew Jaffe). In this process, the architects act as catalysts of Against Multidisciplinary Collaboration the discussion, re-framing the issue of energy in light and Sustainability of its spatial relevance, and maintaining the dialogue Beyond Entropy, When Energy Becomes Form between artist and scientist. The work is articulated in promotes the collaboration of artists, architects and three phases: the initial period consisted of a series of scientists on the theme of energy. By embracing this lectures, debates and conversations that culminated in position, we simultaneously refute both ‘sustainability’ a visit to CERN. In the second phase, the prototypes as a field of research and ‘multi-disciplinary will be produced and exhibited at the Venice collaboration’ as a method of investigation. Architecture Biennale; and finally eight bespoke Sketches of the Mass Energy group (Ariel Schlesinger, Rubens Azevedo and Vid Stojevic) for the prototype of the installations will be presented at the Venice Art self-balancing architecture. Field of Research Biennial in June 2011. The theme of the cluster derives from the urgency The relationship between prototype and final with which energy has been addressed in recent years installation is open: the prototype is both an in political, economic and scientific debates, but not independent piece of work and a preliminary step yet in cultural ones. Indeed, within the architectural to the construction of the final installation. The debate, energy has often been considered either as prototype could be a storyboard for a film as easily an exclusively technical issue or as something related as a set of drawings for a master plan; a scientific to the rhetoric of sustainability, to be treated from experiment, or the first type of a series of an ecological (and ultimately technical) point of view. interventions. This research programme rejects the notion On 27 February 2010 all the participants of ‘sustainability’ and offers the architects the gathered in Geneva in order to visit CERN, the Large opportunity to reappropriate this theme of energy Hadron Collider and Atlas, one of the four points as a conceptual problem. Rather than focusing on where the collisions happen and are mapped, for the implications of energy in relation to the built conversations and initial brainstorming. environment, the ambition is to consider the very notion of energy, before any conventional Stefano Rabolli Pansera is Intermediate 5 Unit architectural application. Master and Curator of the Art, Architecture We aim to construct new sensibilities on the and Energy Research Cluster notion of energy by investigating the relationship between energy and form: are these two principles oppositional? What about energy and space? Can we www.beyondentropy.aaschool.ac.uk imagine a form that doesn’t mimic energy but informs This project is generously supported by a new relationship between space and time? What Olivetti Direct Technology Solutions is the relationship between entropy and time?

CERN, the assembly line of the collider tunnel and the cryogenic test analysis. Photos Valerie Bennett 6 7 AA School Work and School Life: AA Exhibition, 5–20 February 2010

Zebra stripes. Leopard spots. Schools of fish. Snake receding inward – an ephemeral quality that gave the Camouflage: A Catalogue of Effects scales. Dazzle patterns. It seems bizarre to envision exhibition a sense of ambiguity and made us question architecture constructed out of these exotic raw the true perception of surface. By Manijeh Verghese materials yet it is not the elements themselves that The fourth honorary wall-relief was one that construct our view of camouflage. Rather, it is how projected off the wall immediately adjacent to the they work in producing interactive optical effects that entrance from the AA bar – the table. The multi- serve to disguise or transform the perception of the faceted structure of the table was created out of more object in question. Intermediate Unit 6 used these strips of wood and MDF than one can imagine. Its tools to exhibit our interpretation of camouflage as sculptural form dominated the space and functioned part of a two-week exhibition that transformed the like a jewel box; housing the original foil models Back Members’ Room at the beginning of February. created by the unit within its complex configuration. Each of us began with one of the animal or Designed to have a stratified topography, the layers military camouflage patterns and through researching within the table were specifically planned to catalogue their origins and techniques, we produced a series models according to their effects as well as the of abstract patterns to create similar optical effects. camouflage techniques that were employed in creating These 2D patterns were explored further when these models such as shading, surface grain, translated into 3D hand-held foil models that tested bandwidth, tonality and perforation. Placed like an how optical effects transformed the perception of iceberg that seemed to float in the middle of the room space and threshold. The optical effects included as it emerged from the unknown depths of the wall, depth, the inversion of depth, false volume, hidden there seemed to be no clear distinction between where spaces and the distortion of surface. These 2D and 3D the wall ended and the table began but rather they studies formed the basis for the exhibition. seemed to coalesce into a single overarching object. Entering the Back Members’ Room, one was The form of the table extended out of a confronted with an array of stripes that seemed to two-dimensional wall pattern showing perspectival wrap around every visible surface; varying their ambiguous spaces. With all its horizontal surfaces thickness as they twisted and turned over vertical, painted white and its vertical surfaces rendered black, horizontal and angled planes. Our 2D patterns had the table became a three-dimensional continuity been exploded in scale and combined to create a of the wallpaper that surrounded it. The table then seamless expanse of wallpaper that morphed from branched midway into two arms that housed models Optical illusions transform the Back Members’ Room. Photo Jin Uk Lee dazzle stripes to perforated holes to hidden corners at two different levels. The first arm had the models and ambiguous depths as your eye traversed the room. embedded within the table creating a flush tabletop to The far wall was covered in stripes creating look down onto what appeared to be a ‘city of models’ illusions of three dimensional space. In two instances with specific cut-aways to get glimpses of the models the stripes actually came off the wall, transforming from certain vantage-points. The second arm into triangulated wall reliefs. These wall reliefs, in displayed models at varying levels starting from addition to another on the adjacent wall, were used table-height and reaching eye-level through the to house screens, showing the origins of each type creation of the ‘table-scape’ topography. The multi- of camouflage, the various patterns of each student level, angular, faceted form of the table served as a and another showing our models. The reliefs were macrocosm of the models within – objects that needed installed at different heights, starting from waist-level to be appreciated in the round in order to be moving to eye-level and ending with one that was understood. The exhibition began with ambitious nearly at ceiling height; all with angled screens within ideas and seemingly unrealistic plans that to create a more interactive experience for the viewer. miraculously, through hard work and close It wasn’t only along the stripes that a 3D collaboration we were able to make into a reality. projection of space was achieved. The most successful By translating our early work from the first term into spatial effects could be seen on the far wall where an occupiable scale, we realised the true architectural patterns of dots morphed into scales and in certain potential of these camouflage tools. Rather than areas became perforations that glowed with a subtle remaining as abstract patterns and models, they luminescence, thereby bestowing a sense of mysterious became more tangible as spaces and surfaces to depth and confusion onto the wallpaper. Along this interact with and inhabit. As Neil Leach once wrote same wall, an entire portion appeared to be pushed in “Camouflage is addressed, perhaps less in architecture – the circular perforations receding in scale and in itself than to the subjective processes by which human space into some unknown, virtual, in-between zone beings experience architecture.” that was behind the wall but not quite outside. Depending on the angle it was viewed from, this Manijeh Verghese is a third year student and The tablescape topography with the catalogue of models housed within. Photo Jonathan Dawes portion of the wall seemed to be flat, projecting out or a student editor of AArchitecture

8 9 Public Programme: AA Lecture, 12 March 2010 Tom McCarthy: Greenwich Degree Zero

In the spring of 2010, the novelist and artist succeed in blowing up time, he just blew himself up. Tom McCarthy gave a lecture as part of the AA Therefore, he becomes orphic: this person who gets Artist’s Talk Series. McCarthy discussed four blown up and torn to pieces at the border, at the limit, of his projects. The thread connecting them all at the degree zero. each of these together, beyond their obvious When we began researching this whole episode visual and literary nature, was their conceptual to make this piece, what was surprising was how the use of film and other technological media. Each newspapers that reported it had wildly disparate project was in dialogue with the next through accounts of what had happened. They couldn’t agree this thread. Perhaps the piece of work which on the date, or the time it had happened. And, beyond most eloquently described this connection was the facts, the speculation ranged from conspiracy Greenwich Degree Zero, an installation which theories, which were actually credible in this case, incorporated objects, film and text, made in through to all kinds of different theories about why collaboration with artist Rod Dickenson. In Boudin did it. What was interesting is that, in a sense, the accompanying excerpt from the lecture, Boudin tries to disappear twice. He disappears once, McCarthy takes the audience through the when he disintegrates with the bomb and then he conceptual development of the project. disintegrates again behind his own mediation. We became fascinated, not just this event, but with the very notion of the event and the relationship In 1894 a French anarchist named Martial Boudin between an event and its mediation. We decided to blew himself to pieces with a bomb he was carrying take this event to its absolute degree zero, to the point Tom McCarthy giving his lecture at the AA just a few feet away from the Greenwich Observatory of the suppressed event, of the event that didn’t in south east London. It was assumed that he had been actually quite happen, of the event in absence. We trying to blow up the Observatory. Joseph Conrad took it to the point at which this event kind of published the novel The Secret Agent in 1907, which happens, deciding to make it so Boudin has blown in part fictionalises Boudin’s story. I grew up in up the Observatory successfully, has blown up time Greenwich. When I was 16 or 17, I became aware of successfully. We did this through the media itself. the Boudin incident through Conrad’s novel. It struck Therefore what you see in the installation are me as a symbolic story and, in turn, Greenwich struck reproductions of the newspapers that reported it, but me as a symbolic place. It is the seat of time; the we’ve changed one word here and one word there. novelist’s obsession. Time comes from Greenwich, Instead of ‘attempt’, it is ‘successful attempt’. We have where it is transmitted around the world, totally made it seem as though the Observatory has blown up. arbitrarily. For unlike the latitudinal division of the globe by which the equator and poles are dictated Lecture selection and transcription by Mollie by actual physical and magnetic and gravitational Claypool, DRL and HTS teaching assistant qualities of the earth, longitudinal lines are totally arbitrary, they could be anywhere, they do not affect a fiction. If you go to the Greenwich Observatory, there Tom McCarthy’s novels include Remainder, is a line, inscribed into the ground. It is, in a sense, Men in Space and the forthcoming C, due to an act of writing. be published later this year. Tom McCarthy When Rod Dickenson and I made this project, discussed Remainder with Markus Miessen in what really sparked our imagination about this episode issue 9 of AArchiteture. He has also published was this sense that Martial Boudin’s real target in his stories, essays and articles on literature, doomed act was not really the building; it was time philosophy and art and a work of literary itself. He was trying to blow up time; an artist of the criticism entitled Tintin and the Secret of impossible. We get a glimpse of this in The Secret Literature. Agent; Conrad shows Boudin in anarchist meetings, drawing endless circles, covering his paper with circles. Conrad calls it ‘the symbolism of a mad artist attempting the inconceivable.’ Of course, he didn’t Tom McCarthy discusses Martial Boudin, the man who tried to blow up Time. Photos Valerie Bennett 10 11 AA Alumni Projects AA Exhibition, 26 February – 26 March 2010 One Angel Lane Enabling: By Lucy Priest The Work of Minimaforms

One Angel Lane. Photo: Tim Soar

One Angel Lane, formerly known as Watermark a pixelated image of the water, is used to create a Place, replaces the redundant international telephone dappled façade. The lower waterside buildings have exchange, Mondial House, on a site that fronts the clear glass cladding protected by a massive five-storey river next to Cannon Street station. The site has an timber structure redolent of historic wharf structures important place in the history of the Thames and is and responsive timber louvres, which protect the Machina Speculatrix Interface performance. Photo Stephen Spyropoulos defined by the boundaries of the working river. The lower pavilion. These are designed to work together to northern edge is the line of the Roman wharf, and the give character and animation to the new public square. ‘Steelyard’ under Cannon Street station was a German Intrinsic to this development is the re-use of a Enabling: The Work of Minimaforms puts forward Opening Performance: Hanseatic trading post – the largest medieval trading third of the existing buildings, using the subterranean a series of questions: Can architecture facilitate new Machina Speculatrix post in Britain. imperial structure to support the new metric column forms of communication? Can design enable? Can (A Machine that Watches) The strategic viewing corridor to St Paul’s grid above. This results in less demolition and large we construct models of interaction as forms of Machina Speculatrix (A Machine that Watches) is Cathedral informs the height and massing of the new savings in time, energy and materials. Roof terraces of conversations? Using design as a mode of enquiry, a sound and light experiment that was performed in building. Twin rectangular blocks to the north are a breathtaking scale allow building users to enjoy the the projects by experimental architecture and design the central courtyard of the Architectural Association attached by a full-height atrium, and the fluid forms riverside setting and distant views, while high-level studio Minimaforms explore these questions with the in London. Minimaforms collaborated with composer of the lower pavilions enclose a south-facing open sedum roofs encourage wildlife to inhabit the city. aim of opening up the discussion. Founded in 2002 and Warp recording artist Mira Calix on an opening square with a restaurant to encourage active use. by brothers Stephen and Theodore Spyropoulos, night performance as part their exhibition ‘Enabling: This, together with the pedestrianisation and Lucy Priest is an alumna of the AA Minimaforms explores ideas of social and material the Work of Minimaforms’. widening of Angel Lane to the east of the site, more interaction. The exhibition shows recent work The experiment, a sonic homage to Walter than doubles the existing public space and creates the including the (War Veteran) Vehicle, a collaboration Grey Walter’s early photo-tropic autonomous robots largest riverside square in the City of London. The Architect: Fletcher Priest Architects with Krzysztof Wodiczko; a pavilion developed was developed as live generative sonic choreography new building and its setting form a strategic part of Location: City of London, UK with Stelarc; a contemporary redesign of Archigram that shaped the space of the AA through the the City of London’s initiative to encourage access Client: Oxford Property Group, UBS Global member David Greene’s seminal Living Pod interaction of a thousand sonic creatures. to the river and develop a unified river walkway. Asset Management, CORE Project; and Memory Cloud, Minimaforms’ The accompanying book, Enabling: The Work In order to enjoy the magnificent views along Size: 74,735 m ² / 800,140 ft ² critically acclaimed light installation in London’s of Minimaforms was previewed in issue 11 of the river from Tower Bridge to Westminster, the Date of completion: July 2009 Trafalgar Square. AArchitecture and is available from AA Publications. building is clad in high-performance glazing. Dot- Engineer: Watermans (Structures and Services) matrix glass, with a palette of colours derived from Contractor: Sir Robert McAlpine www.minimaforms.com/enabling 12 13 Public Programme Public Occasion Agency By Jan Nauta and Scrap Marshall

Preview leaflet of the Exactitudes exhibition Iain Sinclair inaugurated the POA with his lecture ‘Ghost Milk, Calling Time On The Age of The Grand Project’. Photo Valerie Bennet The Public Occasion Agency (POA) has been The POA would like to thank: its guests, established as a framework for a student organised its reviewers, its collaborators, its members, Belinda series of lectures and events within the public Flaherty, Philip Hartstein, Zak Kyes, Wayne Daly programme of the AA. It actively aims to expand our and Claire McManus. field of knowledge by the staging of events. As part of the Association we feel a need for an independently operating performance structure that challenges POA events 001–007 the questions that we ask, or should ask, ourselves 001 23 February: Iain Sinclair (lecture), review as architects. by Samantha Hardingham The POA assumes the contrariety of the 002 27–19 March: Exactitudes (exhibition) cultural environment to be an energetic force of 003 4 March: Work Your Talk (sharing session), production. For this reason the POA systematically review by Camille Steyaert collaborates with various parts of the wider AA 004 10 March: Ari Versluis (lecture), review community to actualise a wide, but always focused, by Mark Campbell range of events. 005 9 March: Beyond Entropy (conversation Since February the POA has manifested its at the ICA), edited by Marlie Mul identity by staging a series of events in and around the 006 27 May: Samantha Hardingham and AA that focus on the idea of the city through a pair of David Greene (conversation), ‘social goggles.’ For each of our events, which include 007 28 August: POA (Venice Biennale) lectures, conversations and exhibitions, we produce a ‘preview leaflet’ that prepares and creates the audience. Jan Nauta is a fourth year student After each event we commission an individual to Scrap Marshall is a third year student and student conduct a review, which is published in the same leaflet editor of AArchitecture format. These separate preview and review documents, as well as a set of commissioned photographs of the events, eventually form a single booklet, forming the ongoing public archive of the Public Occasion Agency. The POA invited Stefano Rabolli Pansera to the ICA to speak about the ‘Beyond Entropy’ cluster. Photo Richard Birkett 14 15 AA Membership: March 2010 Members’ visit to Littlehampton By Kristen Woods

The email said to meet near the coffee stand and to features. The cafe’s colourful and clever design was look for the woman with the red beret. Feeling like inspired by an onion drying shed, sash windows and a secret agent on a special mission, I darted my way a Victorian doll’s house. Periwinkle-blue sash windows through the morning commuters at Victoria Station comprised the front elevation framing the coastline hurrying towards the rendezvous point. There I met and the occasional fishing boat. With a pull of a pin, Luisa Miller from AA Membership who was the front façade gates swung open revealing an accompanying the group of AA Members on the day’s unobstructed view of the coastline. With the sounds sojourn to Littlehampton. Not knowing anyone, I and smells of the sea around us, our group enjoyed nervously introduced myself and shook hands with the a lunch of fish and chips plus mushy peas – something others. One of the best aspects of the member outings of a first for this American. After lunch, we left the Asif Khan brings his West Beach Café to life by opening up the sash-window ‘gates’ that comprise the façade is meeting new people who share an interest cafe and headed to another Littlehampton of his doll’s-house inspired design. in architecture. Two of us were AA students, one an architectural gem. architect from Paris, another an alumnus working for During the short taxi ride, it was explained to over 25 years, an artist, an art lover and two employees me by three English people how to make a proper cup of the AA. Once our small group had gathered, we of tea. Boil the water, heat the china cup with the hot were handed our train tickets and so our outing began. water then boil the water once again. Pour the water Settling into small groups on the train, the over the tea and wait until it’s steeped before adding conversations flowed while we made the 90-minute the milk or sugar. A valuable life lesson proving that journey out to the Southern English coast. an AA Membership event can be quite educational. Stepping off the train with the sun shining, Along the boardwalk sits the East Beach Cafe the smell of salt in the air and sounds of seagulls designed by Heatherwick Studio. Each of us remarked squawking, I was immediately thankful for this brief on the cafe’s stepped shell describing it like a meteor hiatus from London. We made our way to the beach that fell from the sky or a giant piece of driftwood that where we met Asif Khan, a recent AA graduate and washed ashore. However described, the cafe appears the architect of the award-winning West Beach Cafe. more like sculpture than building in this otherwise Standing at almost two metres tall and wearing a large conservative beach town. Once photos were snapped pair of powder-blue shoes, Asif, together with we headed inside for afternoon tea and cake. All of us his client and cafe owner Jane Wood, explained the sat together and again, Jane and Asif shared with us project to us including the design process and the history of the project and how the design came challenges. Asif and Jane chatted more like friends to fruition. who’d been on a cross-country road trip together than With the late afternoon sun setting, we headed an architect and client. Like a proud father talking towards the train station and back to London. Sitting about his child’s first football match, Asif explained together on the train, I exchanged my email and the design intent, where the various materials and mobile number with the people I met. Though the furnishings were manufactured and told of how he day passed quickly, I felt relaxed and revived looking came to design the cafe. forward to the next membership outing. Once inside, with a hot cup of coffee in hand, I sat at one of the long benches and listened as Asif Kristen Woods is a student on the Spring Semester pointed out the cafe’s intricate details and design Programme 2010 On the other side of the bay Members’ visit Heatherwick Studio’s East Beach Café for tea. Photos Luisa Miller 16 17 AA Publications AA Bookshop New and forthcoming from Book launches and events AA Publications: Spring 2010 at the AA Bookshop

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GLAC The project ‘Dune’ by Magnus Larsson workshop at the Istanbul Technical (AA Dipl 2009) was featured in the latest University from 17 February to 24 issue of Wired Magazine (March 2010), March which was based on free form in an article entitled “Visionary structures and materialisation Architects’ Bold Plans to Green the processes. Planet”. www.wired.co.uk/wired-magazine/ The practice of Bostjan Vuga (AA archive/2010/03/start/visionary- Member), SADAR + VUGA, is working architects-bold-plans-to-green-the- on the construction of the Sports Park Photo:Marianne Mueller planet.aspx Stožice, the biggest sports/retail GLAC (Greater London Architecture complex in Slovenia. It consists of a Club) is a non-profit organisation, run Nissen Wentzlaff Architekten, the office stadium, a multi-purpose sports hall entirely by volunteers, that sets up visits of Daniel Wentzlaff (AADipl 1991), have and a multi-level shopping centre, along at home and abroad to buildings and sites designed the new Laufen Forum, which with a recreational park and event of interest, including those not normally was inaugurated last September. The spaces. The sport-related programme One of the many activities of the AA Council this Doris Lockhart, BA HonFRIBA – Doris open to the public, as well as events and building is dedicated to the presentation is scheduled to be completed in July 2010 year has been the revival of the AA’s Honorary Lockhart is a long-standing member of the lectures. GLAC is a corporate member of the Laufen Ceramics brand that while the shopping programme will be Membership category. Honorary Membership of Architectural Association and has served as an of the 20th Century Society and collaborates in the creation of their completed a year later. the AA is the highest classification of membership, AA Council member. In 1997, Doris organised the occasionally arranges joint events with products with international designers. www.sadarvuga.com as specified in the by-laws of the Architectural AA150 auction which raised £180K for scholarships Docomomo. The forum is the design flagship of the Association. The by-laws provide that “Council may and bursaries. She has pioneered the recognition of Visits usually include a talk by the Spanish firm Rocca, one of the largest Asif Khan (AADipl 2007) has produced elect as Honorary Members, illustrious or architectural drawings and models as valued and project architect, or an expert, and a Ceramics Suppliers in the world. The an installation of chairs and tables made distinguished persons…” As distinct from other collectable works of art. She established an important tour of the building. In London they have building is conceived as a monolithic of freeze-dried flowers as part of the categories of membership, Honorary Members named scholarship at the AA in 1999 and currently included, among many others, the structure, similar to the washbasins Designers in Residence program at the are elected by Council, and entitled to all the rights supports the AA School through a bursary via the Gherkin by Foster Associates, Labaan and bathtubs produced by Laufen. It Design Museum, London. Called of AA membership without the need to subscribe. AA Foundation. Dance Centre by Herzog & De Meuron, overhangs an existing parking lot and Harvest, the project aims to produce It is anticipated that Council will award a small Dennis Sharp, AADipl MA RIBA – A King’s Place by Jeremy Dixon and Peckam its interiors are organised along a furniture from plants commonly found number of Honorary Memberships each year to those posthumous award has been made to Dennis Sharp Library by Alsop & Stormer. Recently continuous, concentric circulation in London. The furniture takes who have made similarly outstanding contributions who was a member of the Architectural Association we went to Paris to see Le Corbusier’s system for visitors. advantage of the Gypsophila plant’s to the work and development of the Architectural since joining the AA School of Architecture as a Pavillon Suisse and Maisons Jaoul, www.nwarch.ch natural ability to interlock. The Association and/or those who have made outstanding student in 1954. In 1968, he was appointed Head of Chareau’s Maison de Verre and Aalto’s harvested plant material is put into contributions to architectural education, the History Studies at the AA School, and later served Maison Louis Carre. Mariana de Cillo Malufe (AA H&U MA moulds and freeze-dried over several architectural profession or associated arts in areas as the AA’s General Editor. He was the editor of AA GLAC was formed in 1986 and 2008) taught an urban design workshop weeks before being bonded with a of particular relevance to the purposes and interests Quarterly from 1968–1982. Dennis has championed evolved from the GLC Architecture at São Paulo’s Biennale of Architecture linseed oil-based resin. The project of the AA. architecture and architectural studies on a global Club, an in-house club for GLC in October 2009. There were twelve was on show in The Tank outside the Council welcomes nominations for Honorary scale, serving as chair of the International Committee employees that ran architectural events. workshops and each of them proposed museum until 15 March. Asif is also Membership from any member of the Architectural of Architectural Critics since 1977, as vice president Our subscription is only £10 per year an intervention for one of the host cities exhibiting a new product in Silver for Association. Nominations forms will be available of the RIBA from 1991–1993, and as co-founder of the and small charges are made to book and for the World Cup 2014. Together with Sawaya and Moroni during the Milan for download on the AA website. RIBA Architecture Centre in 1992 (and for which he cover postage and printing expenses. a coordinator and two other architects, Furniture Fair. Council has awarded three honorary served as chair until 1996). Additionally, he authored Some events are free. Mariana proposed an intervention for memberships this year, as follows: Brian Henderson, and edited several books and translations on the Manaus, the capital of Amazonas, where Sohail Qandili (AA LU MA 2009) DA(Edin) FRIBA FRAIA FCSD – Brian Henderson history of architecture, as well as on the work of select For further information please contact most of the Amazon Forest is situated. recently collaborated with friends to win served as President of the Architectural Association architects. Dennis was awarded a life membership Paola von Aulock at: The workshop took place within the second place in the Me’mar awards 2009 from 1987 to 1989. Under his presidency, the AA of the Architectural Association in 1996. He was a [email protected] exhibition’s building and lasted a week. (the most respected annual architectural Foundation was established, of which he has served as long-serving member of the AA Council, and held award in Iran). The project involved chair for the last 10 years. Brian has been instrumental various Council offices, including Honorary Secretary The article Innovative Material Systems urban analysis along with an innovative in a number of fundraising initiatives and has and Vice President. An obituary will appear in the by Sevil Yazici (AA DRL MArch 2006) animated facade at the scale of a single encouraged numerous private donations to the AA next issue of AArchitecture. was recently published in the January block entitled The Khorsand Office Foundation. The AA Foundation currently funds 2010 issue of the journal for the Turkish Block £210K per year in scholarships and bursaries for Chamber of Architects Mimarlıkta www.desmena.com/?p=1636 students at the AA School of Architecture. Malzeme. In addition, Sevil held a 20 21 NEWS BRIEFS NEWS BRIEFS

A series of films have been made on the Christina Doumpioti (AA EmTech projects Digital Vernacular from the Renata Bertol (AA H&U MA 2006) currently being exhibited at the Electronic Art, a project of RUHR 2010 work of Eric Parry Architects, whose Course Master) presented her paper student group Pasta, Fribr(h)ous(e) from and Gabriel Duarte (Visiting Teacher’s Superfront gallery in Los Angeles. European Capital of Culture. The principal is Eric Parry (AA Dipl 2009 Fibre Composite Systems: Stress the student group Fibrous and Fluid Programme 2006), partners in the office A book about the project has also been lecture is part of the international and former President of the AA), and as a Growth Promoting Agent, at Cast from the student group Flying CAMPO and based in Rio de Janeiro, published that will soon be available academic conference which will take specifically their work in the City of the CAADRIA 2010 Conference New Animals. Brazil, have been chosen as finalists in at several London bookshops. place in Dortmund during 23–27 August Westminster. Collectively, the films Frontiers, in Hong Kong from 7–10 the international competition organised www.salottobuono.net/projects/ 2010. Eugenia has been recently explore how the practice’s work has been April 2010. Jacobo García-Germán (AA H&T MA by Architecture for Humanity for manualofdecolonization.shtml appointed as an Associate at the School shaped by the rich social, cultural and www.caadria2010.org/index.html 2003) was invited to Pecha Kucha Night a football training centre for a local www.losangeles.superfront. of ARCHitecture for All, Athens, an economic heritage of the area, noting Vol. 11 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, which NGO, in Rio. They have also been org/2010/01/unplanned-research- Editor of the Journal of Fine & Studio how Westminster has continually Zoe Zenghelis (AA Member and former is run by Bevk Perovic Architects, chosen to exhibit their work in the experiments-at-the-urban-scale Art and an author and member of the adapted to create spaces where people Academic Staff) showed paintings in an on March 17 2010. He was also invited Centre for Architecture of the American www.artecontemporanea.com/ DigiMag Editorial Board and DigiCult want to live, play, and work. exhibition that opened earlier this year to teach at the workshop Seminario Institute of Architects, New York manual-of-decolonization Network. Her latest article Art & www.epawestminster.co.uk in London under the title Lost Heritage. Internacional de Projeto Urbano: Chapter – AIA–NY for the exhibition Architecture: An investigation into The paintings were inspired by the Espanha na Cidade at Escola da Cidade Our Cities, Ourselves, organised by the Susanna Sirefman (AA Dipl 1995) the Boundaries of Space was published The office ofNiko Japaridze (AA ruined churches in the North of Cyprus. University Sao Paolo, Brazil from April ITDP. The exhibition will open on June served as the Competition Advisor for in Digimag Issue 52, March 2010. Member), Japaridze Architects, is The exhibition has subsequently 9–17 2010. His firm, GarcíaGermán 24 and, after AIA–NY, will travel to the urbanSHED International Design www.digicult.it/digimag/article. currently building an inflatable travelled to Cyprus. Zoe is a founding Arquitectos, had their models recently several cities around the globe. Gabriel Competition for the City of New York, asp?id=1730 ‘Micro-Dwelling Capsule’ to put on the member of OMA. included in El Croquis Galería de was recently appointed Professor of where she led the creation, development www.sarcha.gr/ViewAssociate. display at the upcoming London Festival Arquitectura’s permanent exhibition Design in the Catholic University of and management of a two-phase, open aspx?associateID=134 of Architecture 2010. The module Joana Goncalves (AA SED Course in El Escorial, Madrid. In addition Rio de Janeiro and, in 2010, is serving international design competition. The they are designing can be deflated to fit Master) is launching a book in June with Nacka Rings Prototipo Periférico Nº2, as host critic at MIT’s Graduate competition, co-sponsored by the New Christine Filshill (AADipl 2001), a suitcase and can be used for shelter Earthscan called The Environmental an experimental housing project by the Programme in Architecture. York City Department of Buildings and together with Francisca Muñoz under any climatic conditions. The Performance of Tall Buildings. firm was selected for the Mies van der the American Institute of Architects NY (Architect University of Chile) and interior will be covered with flexible Tall buildings represent one of the Rohe Award 2009. Andrew Shepherd (Building Chapter challenged the global design Cristina Núñez (Designer Universidad power heated insulation material. most energy-intensive architectural Conservation Course Director) has been community to develop a new prototype Catolica de Chile), has launched Japaridze Architects are currently typologies, while at the same time AION (www.a-i-o-n.com), the studio invited by the Swedish Foundation and standard of sidewalk shed (pavement DESPLEGAR: 24 models of having discussions with a Solar Textile offering the high density work and of Aleksandra Jaeschke and Andrea Di Cultural Heritage without Borders to scaffolding) design that improved architecture in Chile, an attractive and developer at MIT in order to make this living conditions that many believe will Stefano (both AA Dipl 2005), has been participate by giving technical lectures the pedestrian experience while surprising expression of papiroflexia structure together. Solar textile is a new be an important constituent of future ranked as one of ‘newitalianblood’s’ and leading workshops at the restoration maintaining or exceeding the required that combines architecture, play and material which was developed by Sheila sustainable communities. The book TOP 10 in their 2010 ranking. The camp 2010 in Gjirokastra, Albania for safety standards in New York City. divulgence. Presenting 24 of the best Kennedy, a faculty member of MIT’s questions how their environmental ranking lists the most interesting Italian students from the Polis University Chilean buildings from 2006–8 by the School of Design. impact can be lessened and proposes designers based in Italy or abroad. among others. Gjirokastra is a World Gonçalo Furtado (AA member) will jury of the XVI Chilean Architecture www.lfa2010.org future uses for sustainable tall buildings. www.newitalianblood.com Heritage Site. The visit will also include moderate the session on architecture Biannual, the main outcome was to www.kvarch.net www.earthscan.co.uk/ reconnaissance for a trip for the AA and systems research at the international showcase, display and promote Chilean www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/06/ ?TabId=102277&v=511969 On 26 April 2010, Mark Pimlott Building Conservation Course students conference NEXUS 2010. In April he architecture, transforming it into an mit-lecturer-de/#ixzz0fEk50HM4 (AADipl(Hons) 1985) participated in who will be offered the opportunity taught as a guest professor at Barcelona’s innovative agent of tourism. Manuela Antoniu (AA H&T PhD 2007) the discussion Photography: Mapping of attending a similar workshop in school of architecture ETSAB. He DESPLEGAR was financed by the Book Maria Mingallón (AA EmTech MSc has recently had an article published the Civic Space at the Photographer’s September of this year. delivered lectures on Cedric Price, and Reading Promotion Fund 2009 2009) has presented part of her MSc in a special issue (vol. 14 no. 3, Dec 2009) Gallery, London, hosted by Art & Critical design and The Digital of the National Council of Arts and thesis in a paper for the conference: about architectural drawings of the Architecture, with photographer/artists Marco Ferrari (AA H&T MA student) challenge. He is currently supervising Culture and is distributed by Ocho Simulation for Architecture and Urban Sydney-based Architectural Theory Diego Ferrari and Bridget Smith, has recently published Manual of a research project entitled Modelling Libros Editorial. The book is available Design which took place in Orlando, Review, published by Routledge. chaired by Dr Alison Rooke. Mark and Decolonization; a culmination of a Architectural Components in in the AA Bookshop. Florida in April. Tony Fretton (AADipl 1972) have been two-year project in collaboration with Composite Materials. www.desplegar.cl www.simaud.org Marta Malé-Alemany (AA DRL Studio invited to participate in the Twelfth his associates at Salottobuono – an www.cmup.fc.up.pt/cmup/nexus2010/ Master) lectured at the Smart Geometry Biennale Internazionale di Architettura architectural design and research office programa/index.html Conference 2010, March 19–24 in di Venezia by the curator of this year’s that he currently runs in Venice. The Barcelona. In her lecture, she presented exhibition, the architect Kazuyo Sejima. project is about the design of several Eugenia Fratzeskou (AA Member) has work from the 2009/10 DRL Machinic They will produce a collaborative strategies for the transformation of the been invited to deliver a lecture on her Control studio (taught in collaboration installation. The Biennale runs from 29 Israeli settlements in the West Bank. latest research and practice in digital with Jeroen van Ameijde (Head of August through 21 November 2010. The drawings and large-scale physical site-specific art, atISEA2010 RUHR Digital Prototyping)), and included the model of the case-study settlement are 16th International Symposium of 22 23 NEWS BRIEFS NEWS BRIEFS

Mercedes Lucía Vélez-White (AA Dipl engaged the public to participate. Sarai space at CSDS. The studio process for PLATFORMS, a lecture organised Her interview with 2010 Laureates of Collaborative art practice Art in Ruins, 1988) participated in the publication Tom Verebes (Former AA DRL Course plans to bring together artists, at Sushant School of Art and the Pritzker Architecture Prize Kazuko founded by Hannah Vowles (AA of an architectural guide to the city Master) exhibited PPRD / Parametric filmmakers, discursive interlocutors, Architecture, 15 April 2010 Seijima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA Dip1977) and artist Glyn Banks in 1984, of Medellin, Colombia. The book was Pearl River Delta and Brett Steele architects, writers, urbanists, scientists, www.sushantschool.org was published in the April issue of The has recently had their work be the published within the framework of (Director of the AA), contributed to cultural workers, neighbourhood www.apocalypticcreations. Plan, along with her review of SANAA’s subject of projects by Guy Schraenen, an earlier project proposed by Berto the Biennale blueprint guidebook with initiatives and diverse audiences to blogspot.com new Rolex Learning Centre, Lausanne. independent curator; Nic Clear, Muntaner in Argentina for several cities a short essay called Bring Your Own create art works, participatory www.designplus.org.in/writings.html Director of Postgraduate Studies at in Latin America. It was published Crowd: The Architecture of Audience. performances, media works, and www.greha.org Douglas Spencer (AA LU Course Tutor) the Bartlett; Eva Weinmayr, a German by the Diario El Clrin. www.hkszbiennale.org transmissions of different kinds of will present a keynote lecture at the artist working in London and a major signals. Teresa Stoppani (Former AA HTS Nordic Association of Architectural symposium at Tate Britain. Elke Knoess (AA Dipl 1993), Wolfgang Pavlos Fereos, Alkis Dikaios and Kostas Lecturer) has recently published the Research Annual Conference, 2010, Two of Art in Ruins’ catalogues, Grillitsch and Markus Blösl of Peanutz Grigoriadis (all AA DRL MArch 2009) Winyu Ardrugsa (AA PhD Candidate) review After the First Miracle: in Tampere, Finland on 23 April. In part of Guy Schraenen’s historic Architekten, Berlin, created the organised a workshop, No Man’s Land presented a paper entitled The Prayer Greenaway on “Veronese”, in Log, 18, Complexity without Contradiction: collection of art publications, were exhibition design for the Central Project, for the rehabilitation of the and the Metropolis: Subject Formations 2010. Teresa was one of the speakers at Cybernetics, Architecture and included in his exhibition On the Overview Exhibition of the IBA Urban abandoned city of Famagusta in Cyprus. and Spatial Negotiations of the Muslims the open symposium Critical Minds: Enchantment he will present a critique Margins of Art: Creation and Political Redevelopment 2010 in Saxony-Anhalt, Held from the 22 March to 12 April and in Bangkok at the Conference Space, Critical Spaces at the Bartlett School of the reduction of thought to Engagement MACBA Museu d’Art Germany. Titled, Weniger ist Zukunft with invited teams from the AA DRL, Movement and Place in Southeast Asia of Architecture UCL on 8 May 2010, information in cybernetics and its use Contemporani de Barcelona in summer (Less is the future) the exhibition at the DIA/Bauhaus, Why Factory/Delft and at the University of California, Berkeley. where she discussed Giovan Battista within architecture to serve 2009. Recent History is the title of a Bauhaus Dessau runs until 16 October NTU Athens School of Architecture The event was a joint conference on Piranesi’s polemical writings on contemporary mechanisms of feature on Art in Ruins in Architectures 2010. Peanutz Architekten has also the workshop ended with a presentation Southeast Asian Studies organised by architecture. In June she will present the organisational control. of the Near Future, the Autumn 2009 designed two temporary urban to the curators of each team including the research centres at UC Berkeley and paper Relational Architecture: Dense www.tut.fi/units/ark/pdfs/ issue of AD edited by Nic Clear. Artist interventions for the IBA presentation Theodore Spyropoulos (AA DRL UCLA on 2–3 April 2010. The paper, voids and violent laughter at RIBA as NAAR2010Conference.pdf Eva Weinmayr has received Arts of the city of Sangerhausen and the city Course Co-director) and Christos part of the author’s developing research part of the Critical Spatial Practices Council funding to research the work of Bernburg, both in Saxony-Anhalt, Passas (GradDiplDes AA 1998 and at the AA, presents a theoretical research seminars organised by the Ludovico Lombardi (AA DRL MArch of Art in Ruins. I Wonder what the Germany. They have also designed the AA DRL Course Master), as well as a framework on the reciprocal University for the Creative Arts, Kent. 2008) was invited to lecture at the Silence was about is the title of her video Chorwurm, in the Museum of panel of invited critics including relationship between the formation Instituto Marangoni in London on May work included in the exhibition Misty Finsterwalde, Germany. This Areti Markopoulou (Former AA D_Lab of subjectivity and the spatiality Lucy Bullivant (AA Member) gave a 6 2010. The lecture is part of a series of boundaries, Fades and Dissolves in permanent exhibition shows the choire student) of the IAAC. The workshop of negotiation in relation to the prayer lecture on her research for her next events organised for the design seminar Hackney in March 2010. The work is tradition of the region and opens on will be followed by an exhibition of the practice of a particular Muslim group book, Masterplanning Futures – Trend design. accompanied by the publication of an May, 16, 2010. Additionally, they have work at the Metropolitan Works Gallery of Bangkok. (Routledge, 2011), to the Swedish www.ldvc.net interview with Art in Ruins by an contributed an article about Dolmusch in London that will be part of the www.cseas.berkeley.edu Association of Architects, Stockholm, www.istitutomarangoni.com Unknown Passerby in 1994. Art in X-Press – a social and spatial experiment London Festival of Architecture 2010. and to Yorkshire Forward, Leeds, and Ruins exhibition “trap” which they in the theatrics of temporary transit – www.nomanslandproject.com Abhishek Bij (AA DRL MArch 2009) a paper on interactive architecture to Christopher Hight (AA H&T MA 1997 curated with BuroBert, Dusseldorf and to the book POP UP CITY. The book has joined the Sushant School of Art and VIII Magis – Gorizia International Film and Former AA DRL Tutor) was minimal club, Munich was the subject is now available in the AA library. Kostas Grigoriadis, Alex Robles- Architecture, Gurgaon, India as visiting Studies Spring School, Audiovisual recently promoted to Associate of a keynote paper at the Tate Britain www.iba-stadtumbau.de Palacio, Pavlos Fereos and Irene faculty. Currently, Abhishek is a Co‐ Geographies: cinema and visual art Professor at Rice University and curated symposium ‘Art and the Social: Shamma (all AADRL MArch 2009), Thesis Guide for 5th Year (BArch) across performance, installation, an exhibition called Envelop(e)s at the Exhibitions of Contemporary Art in Eric Schuldenfrei and Marisa Yiu were awarded a special mention for their and Unit Master for 2nd Year (BArch) architecture and public space, staged by Pratt Manhattan Gallery. athe 1990s’ at the end of April 2010. (former AA Intermediate Unit Masters) thesis project Urban Reef in the eVolo Projects ‐ Apocalyptic Creations. His University of Udine. She also will chair were selected to curate the Hong Kong skyscraper competition 2010. analytical views on the adopted Design a talk with Renzo Piano at the V&A Nick Puckett (AA DRL MArch 2004 Back cover: Poster advertising the AA edition of the 2009 Hong Kong & www.evolo.us/competition/urban-reef- Methodologies were expressed in the Museum (27 May) along with an evening and Former First Year Studio Master) Visiting Schools in the academic year Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism housing-skyscraper-in-new-york/ following articles: Omnipresent event, Give me More Green in-between, recently collaborated with Robofold 2009/10 and Architecture. This took place at the Models?, published in the October 2009 for the Museum of the Docklands (30 to develop a robotic folding system for future West Kowloon Cultural District Gaurav Sharma (AA member) has been issue of Architecture + Design and Who June). Her essay Softspace: the Studio Joris Laarman. The system from 4 December 2009 to 27 February selected for the The CITY as STUDIO, is in Control?, published in the March emergence of interactive design of four robots simulates production of 2010 with the curatorial concept of the Sarai-CSDS Media Lab Associate 2010 issue of Architecture Time Space installations and a transcript of a Laarman’s Asimov chair by folding it BYOB (Bring Your Own Biennale). Fellowship for Contemporary Art and and People. Abhishek has also presented discussion with Jason Bruges, Moritz from a flat sheet of metal. The prototype Showcasing an open platform composed Media Practices. The City as Studio the following two lectures: Who is in Waldemeyer, Bengt Sjölén and others is currently on show at the Friedman of inventive works and thought– initiative creates contexts for high Control? for Urban Voids: Architects was published in Digital Blur: Creative Benda Gallery in New York City. provoking installations, experiments, intensity inter-disciplinary processes for Public Space at India Habitat Centre, Practices at the Boundaries of www.friedmanbenda.com/exhibitions/ workshops and performances that at different locations in Delhi and at the on 31 March 2010 and Design Processes Architecture, Design and Art, 2010. 2010-03-04_joris-laarman-lab 24 25 Architectural Association Visiting School School of Architecture 2009/10

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