Over the course of a day, the AA Lecture Hall will be transformed into a gaming café by the AA Landscape Urbanism Taught Postgraduate programme. Addressing the issue of participation and co-creation of urban projects through the lens of spatial design, game creation, data collection and AI deployment, the students have developed a series of …
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The Future is a Journey to the Past: Stories about Sustainability Mario Cucinella Architects
‘Where does our ability to survive come from? Plants and animals have the same instinct. Nature has created a system, an ecosystem, with marvellous shapes and colours and incredible biodiversity. We have, in part, lost all of this, generating an irreversible change in our planet. The question is whether we can continue to live this …
Jul 04
AT THE END OF THE END OF HSTRY
As part of the Summer Public Programme, Shumon Basar brings together a range of cultural figures for a set of interdisciplinary conversations around change changing.In these presentations and conversations with leading architects, academics, content makers and critics, Shumon Basar explores today’s new endings and new beginnings via multiverses and metaverses, Balenciaga and archipelagos, the Chinese …
Mar 29
Momentum of Light
Momentum of Light explores the interplay between natural sunlight, vernacular architecture and everyday life in the West African nation of Burkina Faso. The exhibition presents a series of images captured by Dutch photographer Iwan Baan during his travels with Burkinabè architect Francis Kéré through Burkina Faso in March 2020, during which they visited communal compounds …
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A New Model for Decolonising Climate Responsive Design
New Models is a lecture series that invites practitioners from different disciplines to discuss how their work can change the models around which society is organised. These conversations will address how we can shift power structures, socio-economic forces and structural inequalities present in society today to give us new tools to rethink the world around …
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Re-Emerge: Upcycled Pavilion 2021 – A virtual launch event
The Architectural Association has a long-standing tradition of designing and fabricating innovative pavilions in Bedford Square, and this year Hassell has collaborated with the Emergent Technologies and Design (EmTech) Taught Postgraduate programme at the AA where they challenged students to produce the pavilion solely out of reclaimed timber. Please join us on Wednesday 3 November …
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A Celebration of the Life and Work of Mark Cousins
For an autumn symposium to celebrate the life of Mark Cousins, his three decades of Friday Lectures and the intellectual generosity of his teaching practice at the Architectural Association. The Symposium will take place on what would have been Mark’s 74th birthday and the AA’s 174th birthday. The day will be organised thematically around a …
Jul 31
Khartoum
A Blue DilemmaAugust 2021 (online) December 2021 (on -site) The School’s agenda explores the intersection of climate change and heritage whilst reflecting on new modes of representation. The continuous reshaping of the flow of rivers is both a cause and effect of human patterns of behaviour that have reshaped settlements at its shoreline throughout history. …