The history of virtual travel and immersive experiences extends well into the Middle Ages. Without leaving their room, many Christians undertook a pilgrimage to the Holy Land using only devotional manuscripts and the affective power of imagination. If done correctly, these imaginative journeys would not only provide the devotee with the benefits of physical pilgrimage, […] Read more

On December 4th, guest critics Hamed Khosravi (AA), Marina Otero Verzier (RCA- Het Nieuwe Instituut), and Gabriele Mastrigli (UNICAM) will review 13 in-progress theses from the Architectural Association’s PhD programme. Join us at 9 am at 33 Bedford Square, First Floor, Front Room; full abstracts available here End-of-Term crits 1912. Schedule: 9.00 Sebastian Clark The […] Read more

Join us and guest critics Manolis Stavrakakis (AA, UCL), Adam Kaasa (RCA), and Platon Issaias (AA, RCA) for an afternoon of presentations from 1.30 pm onwards at 33 Bedford Square, First Floor, Front room Full abstracts here: june19_abstracts Programme 13.30 Brendon Nikolas Carlin Big-House, No-House Towards a New Non-Typological Architecture(s) 14.15 Enrica Maria Mannelli The […] Read more

Join us on Wednesday 27 March at 2 pm, 33 Bedford Square, first floor, front room, for an afternoon of presentations and discussions with guest critics Jon Goodbun (RCA) and Jeremy Lecomte (ENSAV). You can find all the abstracts here: march19_abstracts Programme 14.00 Enrica Maria Mannelli THE SOCIAL FACTORY Social Movements from Autonomy to Precarity: […] Read more

Join us on Wednesday 12 December at 2.30, 32 Bedford Square, first floor, front room, for an afternoon of presentations and discussions with guest critics Barbara Penner (UCL) and Christophe van Gerrewey (EPFL). You can find all the abstracts here: december18_abstracts Programme 14.30 Enrica Mannelli THE SOCIAL FACTORY Social Movements from Autonomy to Precarity: Italy, […] Read more

Architecture and Labour Space and the Production of Subjectivity Video of the Symposium organised by the ‘City/Architecture’ PhD programme, Friday 13 November 2015. Part 2 of 3: Peer Illner, Peggy Deamer, and roundtable with P. V. Aureli, Peer Illner, Peggy Deamer, Fabrizio Ballabio, Andreas Rumpfhuber, Fabrizio Gallanti Scroll down for abstracts and timing of the presentations […] Read more

Architecture and Labour Space and the Production of Subjectivity Video of the Symposium organised by the ‘City/Architecture’ PhD programme, Friday 13 November 2015. Part 2 of 3: Fabrizio Ballabio, Andreas Rumpfhuber, Fabrizio Gallanti Scroll down for abstracts and timing of the presentations 00:06:30 min Fabrizio Ballabio (Architectural Association, AYR) The Palace, the Pulpit and the Plant. […] Read more

Architecture and Labour Space and the Production of Subjectivity Video of the Symposium organised by the ‘City/Architecture’ PhD programme, Friday 13 November 2015. Part 1 of 3: Pier Vittorio Aureli, Francesco Marullo, Maria Sheherazade Giudici Scroll down for abstracts and timing of the presentations We must start speaking about workers again, with programmes and projects that […] Read more

A Seminar series by Pier Vittorio Aureli & Maria Shéhérazade Giudici Fall Term 2017 Architectural Association, London, PhD Program ‘City/Architecture’ The seminar will focus on a critical history of domestic architecture from its origins to the present. Why we live in houses? Why has this become the predominant way of living? Why has the history […] Read more

First published in The Real Review 1, Spring 2016. Notes on Ann C. Huppert, Becoming an Architect in Renaissance Italy: Art, Science, and the Career of Baldassarre Peruzzi. Between the 14th and 16th century the European city developed from being civitas to what the architectural historian Manfredo Tafuri defined as machine for the extraction of […] Read more

Though not to be published until 2005, in 1998 Toyo Ito – one of the architects featured in MoMA’s exhibition, A Japanese Constellation[1] [1] Held at the New York Museum of Modern Art, Spring and Summer of 2016, curated by Pedro Gadahno. – wrote a striking essay titled “Shedding the Modern Body Image: Is House […] Read more

The second of the two articles by Platon Issaias on the critique of the idea of urban informality through the example of the urbanisation of Athens. Read more

This essay is the first installment of a two-part investigation on the history of the Greek city and its distinct domestic architecture. The two essays aims to a critique of the popular category of ‘informal urbanism’ by interrogating the underlining relation between urban management and architectural form Read more

The garden not only creates a minimum condition for a life, but it is the spatial device through which the power of the sovereign dominates the territory. In the harsh landscape of Iran gardens were micro-cosmos; camps that protected life and let it flourish within the tabula rasa. Read more

The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room. And only one activity: clearing away. His need for fresh air and open space is stronger than any hatred. Read more

Meyer's goal was to transform the collective potential of co-operation in architectural production, as a means of rescuing the working class from capitalism. Meyer perceived architects as workers, and for him, co-operation was both a collective mode of production and the link between architecture and the masses. Read more

A graduation project for the second-year program of The Berlage, led by Amir Djalali, Francesco Marullo, Hamed Khosravi, and hosted by Technische Universiteit Delft, November 2012 - June 2013. Read more

A critical stance towards the role of images is not to refuse them, but to open a gap—a critical distance—between images and their experience. Read more

The more the “office” fulfilled its own effectuality, the more its plan became empty Read more

What we should ask ourselves is not “What does this monument mean?”, but “What is this monument capable of doing?” Read more