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While October of This Year Marks a Birthday for the AA, Aarchitecture AArchitecture 20 Time While October of this year marks a birthday for the AA, AArchitecture commemorates its own 20th edition with a diachronic account of the school’s alumni and layered history using Time as its theme. As Brett Steele noted at June’s graduation ceremony, the architect’s universe is defined by an assortment of temporal modes: real time, machine time and dead time all contribute to a resolution. In this sense, the newsletter can be read in two ways – either following exchanges between students and alumni or exploring the relationship between time and architecture as a profession. The interview serves as this issue’s leitmotif, bringing together distinct generations and world views in a genealogy that traces the student–tutor relationship. Mike Davies, of News from News Architectural the Association Roger Stirk Harbour + Partners, and first year student Assaf Kimmel converse about the architect’s fashion and the role of technology in the architectural project. Educator and writer Dalibor Vesely and his former student, Iolanda Costide (AADipl 1980) reflect on the AA’s ‘Golden Age’. And Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason and the editors commemorate the band’s stage designer Mark Fisher (AADipl 1971) as well as the essential role architecture played for the band. AArchitecture 20 / Term 1, 2013/14 www.aaschool.ac.uk © 2013 All rights reserved Published by the Architectural Association 36 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3ES Please send your news items for the next issue to [email protected] Student Editorial Team: Eleanor Dodman Radu Remus Macovei Roland Shaw Editorial Board: Zak Kyes, AA Art Director Alex Lorente, Membership Brett Steele, AA School Director Graphic Design: Claire McManus AA Photography: Valerie Bennett and Sue Barr Printed by Blackmore, England Architectural Association (Inc) Registered Charity No 311083 Company limited by guarantee Registered in England No 171402 Registered office as above Cover: Exploded AA logo by Rosa Nussbaum AArchitecture 20 Time While October of this year marks a birthday for the AA, AArchitecture commemorates its own 20th edition with a diachronic account of the school’s alumni and layered history using Time as its theme. As Brett Steele noted at June’s graduation ceremony, the architect’s universe is defined by an assortment of temporal modes: real time, machine time and dead time all contribute to a resolution. In this sense, the newsletter can be read in two ways – either following exchanges between students and alumni or exploring the relationship between time and architecture as a profession. The interview serves as this issue’s leitmotif, bringing together distinct generations and world views in a genealogy that traces the student–tutor relationship. Mike Davies, of News from News Architectural the Association Roger Stirk Harbour + Partners, and first year student Assaf Kimmel converse about the architect’s fashion and the role of technology in the architectural project. Educator and writer Dalibor Vesely and his former student, Iolanda Costide (AADipl 1980) reflect on the AA’s ‘Golden Age’. And Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason and the editors commemorate the band’s stage designer Mark Fisher (AADipl 1971) as well as the essential role architecture played for the band. Head of Foundation, Saskia Lewis, writes about the qualitative advantage of not having enough time to produce architecture, whilst Arabella Maza (Diploma 8 student) reflects on one particular consequence of our lack of time – the all-nighter. Fourth Year student Marko Milovanovic recounts the number of times his models broke and were reshaped in the exhibited form. And AA photographer and tutor Sue Barr reflects on the varied First Year work produced in her course, The Violet Hour, proving that the adage – of being in the right place at the right time – still applies. Whether time is short, exhaustive or nostalgic, we seem always to exploit it as a productive, formative and projective tool. Student Editors: Eleanor Dodman – Diploma 9 Radu Remus Macovei – Intermediate 1 Roland Shaw – Diploma 4 Contents 2 Form as a Predicate of Time 3 The Time (Table) of Your Life 4 The Tense of Modernity 7 An Unrestrained Belief in the Golden Ratio 8 The Question of Honours 11 A Rather Bad Building and a Rather Good Armadillo 12 Architecture hits The Wall 15 The All-Nighter 16 Adventures in Time 19 The Violet Hour 24 A Hole and Two Handrails 27 In Praise of the 1970s 30 Electric Purples and Magic Carpets Smith Passage – Via Christina 33 A Fish out of Water 34 Meandering Through 36 Machine Time Territories 38 A Deck of Cards 40 Modelling Time 42 Shadow Cities, Contextualisers and Transformers 44 ‘Ching’ – A Short Etymological Exposé 46 Time and the Student Project 48 Look After Your Certificate 50 In Sleep 52 Letter from a Young Architect 55 Probable Worlds 56 AA Bookshop Recommends 57 Happy Birthday, Dom-ino! 58 AA Publications 60 Bedford Press 62 AA News Next Issue’s Theme School Announcement Student Annoucement 1842: 1 September, The Association of Architectural Draughtsmen (AAD) was founded 2 Form as a Predicate of Time Eugene Han, Diploma 8 tutor, addresses the relationship between form and time. Diploma8 Projects Review installationat the AA Members’evening, Photo 2013. Valerie Bennett No clearer artefact of time exists than environments. This is precisely where form. While spatial distance allows for Diploma 8 pursues its project of establishing simultaneity of form in presentia, time a common form through the reconciliation operates in absentia. This concept is seen of descriptive and prescriptive systems. most clearly through contemporary digital Due to the provision of time within such information management, or as analytics. systems, possibility becomes possible, and With descriptive and prescriptive means a discussion of simultaneity and polyvalence of identifying data, analytics engines look of form in architecture can be imagined. It for patterns in various sets of time in order is in this sense that the unit believes that an to organise data structures. In turn, these agenda fundamentally set on form exceeds structures use information to summarise a practice of mere technique. Because tendencies, and more importantly, to project of the relationship between time and form possibilities. Thus, what originates as an such an agenda admits the signification accumulation of unstructured information of context, placing at its root the collective, becomes endowed with meaning. the uncertain, and the indeterminate in Such a treatment recalls the mid- architecture. The unit approaches form as century structuralist position that context a predicate of time itself – as a trace – of imbues form with meaning and motivation what we understand as time. in an otherwise value-free constellation of things. As form is invested with meaning, the presentation of an organised structure of information can affect how we come to terms with, and influence, our collective 1846: September 16, Charles Gray’s letter to Builder see Diploma work 8 please of the visit To http://pr2013.aaschool.ac.uk/dip-8 3 The Time (Table) of Your Life Carlos Villanueva Brandt, Diploma 10 tutor, reflects on time and everyday life. Diploma 10 Projects Review installation installation Review Projects 10 Diploma atthe AA Members’evening, 2013. Bennett Valerie Photo In the upper deck of a double-decker bus, rolls past. Commanding two full rows, a time moves slowly enough for the mind large family, possibly visitors or immigrants, to stray, to eavesdrop, observe and imagine, chats happily in another language. to piece together the fragments that make Behind them, a man’s newspaper headlines up the space of life. the death of 120 protesters in Cairo: a time In the front row a man talks loudly, for revolution; now is a time for change after no mobile in sight, to an imaginary audience. the revolution. The eloquent sermon of this preacher or The bus transports a community madman will put the world to right; politics, timetabled for change. Talking of time sex, football, crime, religion and gibberish beyond the bus, did you know that it all form part of his topical diatribe. takes only one minute for the Tube to travel Outside, our strictly predetermined, from Portland Place to Euston? ‘Just a loosely timetabled route enters the Minute’ without repetition, hesitation or Congestion Zone; no extra cost for the deviation. And, according to the Standard, bus as it enters Zone 1. Exclusive or if you take the Tube into town, house inclusive, it is hard to tell: is it a timely prices rise by £150,000 a minute, with an ASBO for the poor man’s car? increase of £770,000 between Vauxhall Back inside, a father and son in Chelsea and Green Park. blue, discuss the chances of glory in the Does time relate to numbers or does imminent London Derby: can the Gunners it relate to life? be brought to heel? A timeless territorial In front of us a Zebra crossing controls honour is at stake. Through the window, the different flows of time. the ever-changing language of architecture 1847: February 3, Robert Kerr invited to speak at the AAD and To see the work of Diploma 10 please visit please visit see Diploma work 10 of the To http://pr2013.aaschool.ac.uk/dip-10 proposed founding of a school for architecture 4 The Tense of Modernity Costandis Kizis, a current PhD student questions modernity and its relationship to time. When it comes to modernity, time is a ii. Le Goff: time-consciousness paradox. Despite being coined to express of modernity a present condition, we usually examine We already see that modernity is a tense- modernity as a thing of the past. This sensitive notion – it is paradoxical to say inability to find the righttense for modernity that ‘modernity was’.
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