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Architecture: Patterns, Databases and the Giant Global Graph
A Seminar with Philippe Morel Organized by the AA PhD Programme Wednesday, February 19, 6.30 PM Architectural Association London, 33 Bedford Square, First Floor In 2007, Tim Berners-Lee coined the expression “Giant Global Graph” as a definition of web 3.0 based on the semantic linkages of human and machine-created data objects. 13 years later, architects […]
Taking the Country’s Side: Agriculture and Architecture
A Seminar with Sebastien Marot (EPFL) organized by the AA PhD Programme Wednesday, January 29, 2020 6.30 pm, 33 Bedford Square, First Floor, Back Room Given the environmental predicament which is now ours, our core hypothesis is that no sound reasoning will develop on the future of agriculture and architecture, which both emerged as the […]
End-of-Term presentations
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 […]
End-of-Year Presentations
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 […]
End-of-term Presentations
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: […]
Gardening at Night
Join us at 33 Bedford Square, first floor, front room, on Thursday, December 13, for a day of discussions on the in-progress work of Diploma 14 on the architecture of the garden – with guest critics Sébastien Marot (EPFL), David Burns (RCA), and Pep Avilés (Penn State, editor of Faktur). Morning session 10-13, afternoon 14-18.30. […]
End-of-term PhD Presentations
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, […]
Domestic Frontiers Symposium, 30 November
A Symposium Organised by the City/Architecture PhD programme Friday 30 November 2018 AA Lecture Hall, 36 Bedford Square The overarching premise of this symposium is to re-frame the domestic space as a battlefield of practices of planning and counter-planning. Its frontiers, those separating the space of inside from the outside, the space for production from […]
Elements of Domestication
A Seminar with James Westcott Editor, Elements of Architecture (Taschen, 2018) organized by the ‘City/Architecture’ PhD Programme Wednesday, November 21, 6.30 pm 37 Bedford Square, First Floor “a major modification of the human organism, namely its ability to pay attention, occurred when a major cultural innovation, domestication, was adopted. … the house … should be […]
Domestication and its Discontents: A History of Human Settlements
Open Research Seminar at the Architectural Association ‘City/Architecture’ PhD Programme Pier Vittorio Aureli & Maria Shéhérazade Giudici The seminar focuses on the history of settlements from prehistory to today seen from the perspective of one of the most controversial issues of human history: the process of domestication. By domestication we mean the complex of practices […]
