A seminar with Alessandro Porotto (TU Delft/ KU Leuven) organised by the Architectural Association’s PhD programme, on Wednesday, May 25, at 6 pm UK time on Zoom https://aaschool.zoom.us/j/85453764303… This talk explores the Interwar collective housing projects developed in Vienna and Frankfurt. Hof et Siedlung constitute two alternative typo-morphological models, each of them refers to a […]

Dialogues towards an unveiling of architectural agency: a one-day symposium organised by the AA PhD Candidates Friday, November 26, 2021 Governmentality, an expression originally formulated by the 20th-century French philosopher Michel Foucault, combines the terms ‘government” and “rationality”. Government in this sense refers to an activity meant to shape, guide, or affect the conduct of […]

Over two days, we will discuss 16 ongoing theses on Zoom. Join us at the link below and check out the full abstracts here: 200620_Abstracts Programme Day 1 – Tuesday, June 23, 2020 AM session with guest critics Hamed Khosravi and David Burns 10 am Anna Font Vacas 10.40 Enrica Maria Mannelli 11.20 Takako Hasegawa […]

Join us on zoom (link below) for a seminar with Hans Teerds Organised by the AA PhD Programme Wednesday 27 May 2020, 18:00 London time Spatial thinking is political thinking, the German-American philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) once wrote. It is political, not because it is concerned about a specific space nor place, but since it […]

On Friday 15 December, at nr 33 Bedford Square, first floor, front room, we’ll discuss 14 in-progress researches with the Diploma 14 students and guest critics Jeremy Lecomte (ENSA Versailles), David Burns (RCA), Fabrizio Ballabio (EPFL Lausanne), Platon Issaias (RCA) and Mark Campbell (AA). You can download the abstracts here: abstracts_web Morning session 10-13, afternoon […]

Join us tomorrow, December 6, at nr 32 Bedford Square, first floor, front room, for our end-of-term presentations with respondents Marina Otero Verzier (Het Nieuwe Instituut), Jon Goodbun (RCA), Adam Kaasa (LSE), Manolis Stavrakakis (UCL Bartlett) and Mark Campbell (AA). Full abstracts available in pdf format here: 1217_abstracts Schedule: 12.00 Lukas Pauer, Symbolic Sanctuary Markers: Ancient Megalithic […]

A Seminar with Adrian Lahoud, Dean of the School of Architecture, Royal College of Art, London  Organized by the City/Architecture PhD Programme Wednesdsay 25 October, 6.30 pm. 33 Bedford Square, First Floor, Back Room. Protection from the natural environment is a fundamental human need. Architecture’s primary role is to satisfy this need. Or so a […]

hello world   he program “city-Architecture” asks for an innovative and radical understanding of the discipline of architecture in light of the problems and questions that characterize the contemporary city. In the last decades we have witnessed the increasing divergence between the practice of architecture and the reality of the city. While architects have narrowed […]