AA School Winter Public Programme 2013/14

AA SCHOOL WINTER 2013/14 PUBLIC PROGRAMME

All events take place at 6pm in the Lecture Hall unless otherwise stated

16.1.14

Ceràmica Cumella: Shaping Ideas / Modelando Ideas 6.30pm Book Launch, AA Bookshop A celebration with Toni Cumella of the launch of his publication Ceràmica Cumella: Shaping Ideas / Modelando Ideas, based on the 2012 exhibition in the AA Gallery

17.1.14

Exhibition Openings amid.cero9: Third Natures 6.30pm AA Gallery

Sue Barr: The Architecture of Transit 6.30pm Front Members’ Room

Motion Studio 6.30pm Back Members’ Room and Bar

Graduate School Honours 2013 6.30pm Graduate Gallery

18.1.14

Cristina Díaz Moreno & Efrén G a Grinda Third Natures Saturday Gallery Talks 11am Member Event, AA Gallery An informal walk-through of ‘Third Natures’ in the AA Gallery with exhibition curators and AA tutors Cristina Díaz Moreno and Efrén G a Grinda. Complimentary fresh coffee and pastries will be available.

All welcome.

20.1.14

Jose Castillo A City is not a House Housing & Urbanism MArch Phase II Keynote Lecture Jose Castillo is an architect and urban planner living and working in Mexico City with a degree in architecture from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, as well as a Masters in architecture and Doctor of Design from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. A tutor at the Universidad Iberoamericana and Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, as well as fellow of the Mexican National Endowment for the Arts (Fonca) programme, Castillo also undertakes frequent guest lecture posts around the world. His built work and writings have appeared in numerous publications and he has curated many notable international exhibitions.

21.1.14

Dean Hawkes Imagining Environments SED MArch Phase II Keynote Lecture Dean Hawkes is emeritus professor of architectural design at the Welsh School of Architecture and emeritus fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge. His books include, The Environmental Tradition, The Environmental Imagination and, most recently, Architecture and Climate. He received the PLEA Award in 2000 for his contribution to teaching, research and practice of environmental design in architecture, and the RIBA Annie Spink Award in 2010 for his contribution to architectural education. Hawkes’ buildings have won four RIBA Architecture Awards.

22.1.14

Mark Burry Scratching the Surface of Parametric Design Possibility EmTech MArch Phase II Keynote Lecture This lecture will examine Antoni Gaudí’s studio-based architectural design research from 1912 – 1926, detailing major findings and interpreting them as parametric insights that go wider and deeper than many contemporary formal preoccupations.

With his investigations into generative design, the richness of Gaudí’s pre-digital parametric design warns us to avoid the creative constraints that parametric software may inadvertently impose were it to lead rather than aid the way we design.

Mark Burry is an architect, writer and the founding Director of RMIT University’s Design Research Institute (DRI). In addition to his research into Antoni Gaudí in

Barcelona, his works focus on putting design theory into practice by ‘challenging’ architecture and digital design, as well as transdisciplinary design education and practice.

23.1.14

Jeff Kipnis In Praise of Sloth, Indolence and All Other Forms of Torpor 7pm DRL MArch Phase II Keynote Lecture The lecture will reaffirm the existential project as the sine qua non of architecture’s greatest value to the world and in passing will introduce one or two major advances to parametric design theory in honour of the DRL. Jeffrey Kipnis is an architectural critic, theorist, designer, filmmaker, curator and educator. He taught at the AA from 1992 – 95, where he was the founding director of the Graduate Design Programme.

24.1.14

Flavio Manzoni Ferrari Design: L’emosione e la regola 7pm DRL MArch Phase II Keynote Lecture Since January 2010 Flavio Manzoni has been the Director of Ferrari Design. He has worked on the SA Aperta, the F12berlinetta, the 458 Speciale and his latest ‘Cavallino’ creation: the Hypercar LaFerrari. Prior to his work with Ferrari, Manzoni was known for his work on the Lancia Dialogos and the Maserati 3200 GT concepts. He has worked for numerous leading car manufacturers including SEAT, Lancia, Volkswagen and Fiat.

27.1.14

Rem Koolhaas Evening Lecture Rem Koolhaas founded OMA in 1975 with Elia and Zoe Zenghelis and Madelon Vriesendorp.

He heads the work of both OMA and AMO, the research branch of OMA, operating in areas beyond the realm of architecture such as media, politics, renewable energy and fashion. He is a graduate of the AA and in 1978 published Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan.

Koolhaas has won several international awards including the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2000 and the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2010 Venice Biennale. Koolhaas is a professor at Harvard University where he conducts the Project on the City.

28.1.14

Ivana Wingham Mobility of the Line 6.30pm Book Launch, AA Bookshop The line is the constitutive element of every drawing and forms the core element of any design – for art, architecture, urban design or design in general. It resists reduction to simple linearity and instead takes on complex and dynamic forms that attract the viewer in various ways, consciously and suggestively. This book celebrates the manifold aspects of the line, using unique examples from architecture, design and art, combining interviews with designers and essays by various authors.

Ivana Wingham is Head of the Architecture Programme at Brighton University.

30.1.14

Manuelle Gautrand Manuelle Gautrand Architecture: To Re-Enchant the City Evening Lecture To ‘re-enchant the city’ and thus reinvent, renew, innovate, propose the unexpected answers, bring emotion, to be bold and plural are the founding principles of the architecture of Manuelle Gautrand, who founded her namesake studio in 1991 and serves as its principal architect and director. Her team of 15 architects develops projects for public contracting authorities as well as private firms in France and internationally. Among the firm’s recent works are the Origami office building in Paris; La Gaité Lyrique, an old Parisian theatre transformed into a centre for contemporary and digital arts and music; the Lille Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art; and La Cité des Affaires in Saint-Etienne, an administrative and office building.

31.1.14

Mark Cousins Scenography 5pm Friday Lectures This year’s Friday lectures by Mark Cousins continue into Term 2. The lectures are concerned with how works of art, drama and literature, as well as architecture, are presented in the world. There is a zone of transition between everyday life and the art object, which marks the very difference between them. At the same time, this positioning of the art work is itself artful and its means are often drawn from other arts. This zone constitutes a culturally

recognised form of presentation and recognition. The consequences for artistic theory will be explored.

Five lectures in Term 2 will take place at 5pm on the following Fridays: Friday 31 January; 7, 21, 28 February; 7 March

3.2.14

Ciro Najle The Generic Sublime Evening Lecture The Generic Sublime takes the project of the skyscraper to a new level of architectural megalomania: to organise the territory through its assimilation in the synthetic field of competition and synergy of a single complex building. Expressions of a ‘future anterior’, these archaic configurations transcend their conditions of existence and self-estrange as a result of extensiveness, employing any form of rationale as a means for the propagation of its canon: brutal indifference.

Ciro Najle is the director of GDB General Design Bureau, an architectural office and research lab in Buenos Aires.

He is Dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, and a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Najle is the founder and former Director of the Landscape Urbanism Graduate Design Programme at the AA.

4.2.14

Antony Gormley Making Space Evening Lecture Antony Gormley will speak about the use and investigation of the language of architecture in his work, a lexicon that he has consistently revisited in order to explore the space and place of mind and body in space at large.

Antony Gormley has had a number of solo shows at venues including the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil; Deichtorhallen Hamburg; State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg; Kunsthaus Bregenz; Hayward Gallery, London; Kunsthalle zu Kiel; Malmö Konsthall; and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen. Major public works include the Angel of the North (Gateshead, England), Another Place (Crosby Beach, England) and Exposure (Lelystad, The Netherlands). He has also participated in major group shows such as the Venice Biennale and the Documenta 8, Kassel Germany. Gormley won the Turner Prize in 1994 and was made an Officer of the British Empire in 1997. Since 2003 he has been a member of the Royal Academy of Arts and since 2007 a British Museum Trustee.

5.2.14

Ellen van Loon Ellen’s Perfect Night In Organised by MISS Using fragments of video, music, material and memories, the architect Ellen van Loon will present the cultural artefacts that have influenced her work as a designer.

Ellen van Loon has been head partner at OMA since 1998 and has led several

award-winning building projects including the Rothschild Bank headquarters, the Prada Transformer Pavilion, Casa da Musica, De Rotterdam and the Dutch Embassy in Berlin.

This event is part of MISS – the platform that celebrates femininity in design with events and publications that address issues on gender-roles, class systems and cultural stigmas in design discourse.

6.2.14

Ben van Berkel Motion Matters Evening Lecture When we talk of motion within architecture we not only refer to buildings and their potential effects, but also to shifts or twists in the integrated practice of the profession. ‘Motion’ encapsulates the past, the present and the possible future of architecture.

Ben van Berkel graduated from the AA in 1987. With Caroline Bos, he co-founded Van Berkel & Bos Architectuurbureau in 1988, and ten years later the pair established UNStudio, a network of specialists in architecture, urban development and infrastructure which has realised projects including the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, a facade and interior renovation for the Galleria Department Store in Seoul and a private villa in upstate New York. Van Berkel is Professor of Conceptual Design at the Staedelschule in Frankfurt am Main and was recently awarded the Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor’s Chair at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

7.2.14

Type vs Typology 10am Symposium Organised by Sam Jacoby During the nineteenth century, a deliberate turn away from ideas of imitation and truthto-nature towards concepts of abstraction or objectivity emerged and fundamentally altered the knowledge and practices of many disciplines. In architecture, this shift resulted in theories of type and design methods based on typology, complementary concepts through which architecture as both a modern form of knowledge and knowledge of form was to be consolidated.

The one-day symposium will bring together academics and practitioners to discuss the potential of type and typology and the problem of the historicity of disciplinary knowledge.

Participants include Larry Barth (AA), Tarsha Finney (UTS), Sam Jacoby (AA), Adrian Lahoud (UCL), Christopher Lee (Harvard, Serie Architects), Jacques Lucan (ÉPFL), Rafael Moneo (Havard), Hyungmin Pai (University of Seoul), Dominic Papa (AA, S333) Schedule: 10am – 1pm Morning session (four presentations) 1 – 2pm Lunch break 2 – 4.30pm Afternoon session (three presentations) 4.30 – 6.30pm Break in proceedings (note lecture by Mark Cousins at 5pm) 6.30pm Concluding event (two presentations)

7.2.14

Mark Cousins Scenography 5pm Friday Lectures

10 – 14.2.14

OPEN WEEK 10.2.14

Performance and the City Out of the Black Box: Scripted Spaces, Immersive Theatre and Event Productions 10am Symposium Organised and hosted by Stefan Jovanovic and Takako Hasegawa The symposium invites leading figures in art, performance and theatre, whose professional practices push various limits beyond the white cube and black box, to explore alongside participants creative endeavours in relation to the audience experience – both in constructed spaces as well as in the urban context, thus addressing the role of scripted spaces in immersive theatre/environments.

Participants include Felix Barrett and Maxine Doyle, Jessica Grindstaff and Erik Sanko, Ant Hampton, Mariana Pestana, Fabien Riggall and David Rosenberg Schedule: 10 – 10.10am Introduction and Welcome 10.10 – 11.40am Presentations Panel 1 speakers

11.40am – 1pm Roundtable discussion and audience Q&A moderated by Carlos Villanueva Brandt 2 – 3.30pm Presentations Panel 2 speakers 3.30 – 5pm Roundtable discussion and audience Q&A moderated by Inigo Minns 5pm Keynote Lecture: Eva Franch I Gilabert, Architect, Storefront for Art and Architecture 6pm Lounge Discussion

11.2.14

Mark Campbell The Fall 11am Paradise Lost Cluster Lecture On 22 November 1963, President John F Kennedy was assassinated as his motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza, Dallas.

Ironically the plaza was so architecturally nondescript the major television networks chose not to include it in their coverage.

Instead, the most complete record of Kennedy’s assassination is the Super-8 film shot by Abraham Zapruder, a Ladies Apparel Manufacturer and committed amateur photographer.

This lecture discusses how the Zapruder film marks the advent of a uniquely American space. One created through media – film, television – and rich in the suspicion, paranoia and narrative absurdity that would culminate in the ‘fascist potentiality’ of action films such as Dirty Harry (1971) and the Death Wish (1974) series, and the ‘switched on’ intellectual angst of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation (1974) and Alan J Pakula’s The Parallax

View (1974). In these terms, the Zapruder film not only illustrates an act in which, through the coincidental historic event, the architecturally nondescript becomes exceptional, but also marks a moment when the US falls from grace.

11.2.14

Mark Campbell & Pier Vittorio Aureli in conversation A Real Rain 1pm This conversation between Pier Vittorio Aureli and Mark Campbell is the first in a series of film commentaries run as part of the Paradise Lost Research Cluster that explore the intersection of architecture, film and complication. Using Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (1976) as a starting point, the conversation will cover the post-industrial urban disillusionment of the 1970s, exemplified in New York, in addition to the saturated photography of Stephen Shore, transcendental cinema of Kazuo Ozu, abstract photography of Lewis Baltz and the cinematic expressionism of Scorsese and Paul Schrader.

Mark Campbell is the Director of the Paradise Lost Research Cluster and a member of the Histories and Theories and Design faculties at the AA. Pier Vittorio Aureli is a founder of Dogma, a member of the Histories and Theories and Design faculties at the AA, and the Davenport Visiting Professor of Architecture at Yale University.

11.2.14

Marianne Mueller & Fran Cottell Paradise Lost Cluster Lecture Concrete Geometries is an AA research cluster that explores the relationship between spatial form and social practice – how geometric aspects of space influence social environments and provide settings for social relations. Research Director Marianne Mueller, contributing artist Fran Cottell and guests will discuss this work and also present a new website that makes this archive public.

Marianne Mueller is an AA graduate, ex-unit master and runs the Berlin Visiting School. She is also director of Casper Mueller Kneer, an architectural practice based in London and Berlin. She has written about the work of the cluster for OASE Journal and presented it with Fran Cottell at the Rethinking the Social in Architecture conference at Umea School of Architecture, Sweden.

Fran Cottell is a fine artist and Senior Lecturer at Camberwell College of Arts.

She has been staging installations and social interactions since the 1970s.

Her work is currently being shown at the Whitechapel Art Gallery and has been published in the ebook, House: from Display to BACK to FRONT 2012/13.

12.2.14

amid.cero9 Third Natures: A Micropedia 1pm Book Launch Published in tandem with the exhibition of the same title at the AA in January, Third Natures presents the work and ideas of Spanish architects Cristina Diaz Moreno and Efrén Ga Grinda and their Madrid-based studio amid.cero9.

12.2.14

Anthony Vidler Troubles in Heterotopia – Occupied Spaces: New York and Istanbul to the ‘68 Revolution Evening Lecture Occupation politics, while new in the current neoliberal economic regime, has long been a staple of political action.

The lecture will consider the political practice and theory of ‘occupation’ since 1968, and review its effects with reference to the spatial, political and theoretical activism of Foucault, Deleuze, Lefebvre, Althusser, Badiou, Balibar (the theorists of ‘68), with respect to the temporal theories of traditional Marxism.

Anthony Vidler is a historian and critic, trained in architecture at Cambridge, who has taught at Princeton, Cornell, UCLA, and most recently at Cooper Union and Brown University. His recent books are James Frazer Stirling and Histories of the Immediate Present.

13.2.14

Chuck Hoberman Transformable: Building Structures that Change Themselves 1pm EmTech Lecture Inventor Chuck Hoberman will speak about his pioneering work in transformable design with projects that range from public art and kinetic facades to dynamic sets for live entertainment. He will discuss the process of realising large-scale transformable structures, starting from inventive concept through engineering and fabrication.

Chuck Hoberman is the founder of Hoberman Associates, a multidisciplinary practice that utilises transformable principles for a wide range of applications including dynamic architecture, transformable stage sets, consumer products, deployable shelters and structures for aerospace.

13.2.14

Michael Maltzan Evening Lecture Michael Maltzan is the founder and principal of Michael Maltzan Architecture. He holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

14.2.14

Open Jury With Michael Maltzen & Anthony Vidler All day

17.2.14

Sébastien Marot Berlin, A Green Archipelago: The Genesis of a Hopeful Monster Evening Lecture In 1977 Oswald Matthias Ungers (OMU) and Rem Koolhaas (OMA) collaborated on the project/manifesto ‘The City in the City: Berlin, A Green Archipelago’, which is considered to be the hybrid and ultimate fruit of their interaction. Following the recent critical re-edition he has produced of that text (together with Florian Hertweck at Lars Müller Publishers, 2013), Sébastien Marot will sort through the ingredients the two architects and their collaborators (Hans Kollhoff, Arthur Ovaska and Peter Riemann) invested in this collective endeavour.

Sébastien Marot, a philosopher by training, has taught at many schools of architecture and landscape design in Europe and North America, and currently teaches environmental history at the École d’Architecture de la Ville et des Territoires in Marne La Vallée, Paris.

Chief editor of Le Visiteur from 1995 to 2003, he recently launched Marnes: documents d’architecture.

18.2.14

Mies 1:1 The Golf Club Project Christiane Lange, Julian Heynen and Paul Robbrecht, chaired by Valentin Bontjes Van Beek Roundtable Discussion The design for the Clubhouse of the Krefelder Golfclub (1930) by Mies van der

Rohe was never built, until 2013, when it was constructed as a life-size model that could be entered. MIES 1:1 The Golf Club Project is an unusual experiment, an architecture exhibition made up of only the 1:1 model. Curator Christiane Lange invited Belgian architect Paul Robbrecht (Robbrecht en Daem architects, Gent) to develop the model’s structure, based on the original plans. The project was completed in May 2013, on the original site in Krefeld. As an example of mature architectural language, the 1:1 model distils Mies’ concepts and can be seen as a unique object d’architecture.

19.2.14

Emmanouil Stavrakakis Michael Ventris: How Did the Architect Decipher the Script?

6.30pm Member Event, New Soft Room Most can agree that Michael Ventris’ decipherment of Linear B is one of the great moments of decipherment in the twentieth century. It is widely acknowledged that his discovery was the most remarkable because he was not a professional scholar but an architect who trained at the AA. His decipherment was accompanied by a curiosity as to how he had been able to make this achievement. At the time of his death some obituaries suggested that perhaps it was something to do with his training, and there the matter has rested.

Although he may have lacked others’ experience in the field, his advantage came not just from the conventional category of his ‘brilliance’ but also from the forms of analysis, which he acquired and developed as part of an architectural training.

Emmanouil Stavrakakis is an architect and PhD candidate at the AA. His thesis is titled ‘The Architecture of Linear B’, (Director of Studies, Mark Cousins, Supervisor, Spyros Papapetros).

20.2.14

Xaveer De Geyter Works Evening Lecture In 1988 Xaveer De Geyter started Belgianbased XDGA practice, which illuminates the hidden paradoxes and conflicts of the (sub)urban life. Over the past decade, larger architectural commissions in Belgium have been completed, such as the Kitchen Tower and the Place Rogier in Brussels, and two buildings for Ghent University.

The office has won two prestigious competitions: one for the design of the Place Schuman in Brussels and one for the construction of the new Antwerp Province Headquarters. In recent years, XDGA has been working on an international level through competitions and large-scale realisations.

21.2.14

Mark Cousins Scenography 5pm Friday Lectures

21.2.14

Anton Burdakov Build-up 6.30pm Artist Talks Series Organised by Parveen Adams Through object-making and site-specific installations, Anton Burdakov explores transitions between spaces and states, focusing on architectural dimensions of personal relationships and goals. His installations frequently serve as backdrops for photographic studies of the communal effort of making. As an idea turns into form, many possibilities are lost.

In his projects, Anton tries to preserve this initial ambiguity.

Anton Burdakov lives and works in London and Berlin. He studied neuroscience at the University of Cambridge and completed an MA in Fine Art at the RCA. He often works collaboratively, curates exhibitions and shows his work internationally.

21.2.14

Andreas M Dalsgaard: The Human Scale 7pm, AA Cinema Member Event A study of human behaviour in cities, The Human Scale meets thinkers, architects and urban planners across the globe. It questions our assumptions about modernity, exploring what happens when we put people at the forefront of our urban planning.

Limited seating assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.

24.2.14

Eva Franch I Gilabert Eva’s Paella Party Organised by MISS While peeling shrimp, chopping onions and heating the stove, Eva will discuss the potential of food as a medium for conversation. How can we explore cooking as part of architectural discourse? And how can spices become tools of self-expression?

Her award-winning paella will be shared with the audience. Arriving with an empty stomach is recommended.

Eva Franch I Gilabert is the executive director and chief curator of Storefront for Art and Architecture (SFAA) in New York. Prior to joining SFAA, Eva practised as an artist and architect and taught at Rice University. Eva, together with a curatorial and design team, will represent the US at the 2014 Venice Biennale.

25.2.14

Lionel Devlieger & Maarten Gielen of Rotor Objet Trouvé Evening Lecture Rotor is a Brussels-based collective that studies the flows in industry and construction. For this lecture two of its members will reflect on the role of the found object in their methodology as designers and curators, and talk about their longlasting efforts to stimulate re-use in the building industry.

Lionel Devlieger trained as an architect and engineer in Ghent and Rome.

In 2006 he joined Rotor where he is now researcher and project manager. Since 2010 he has been visiting professor at institutions including Ghent University, UC Berkeley and the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.

Maarten Gielen started his career at the age of 15, selling decorative items and objects found at scrap merchants and flea markets. In 2005, he established Rotor where he currently works as designer, manager and researcher.

26.2.14

Phyllis Lambert Building Seagram Evening Lecture Building Seagram (Yale University Press, 2013) tells the biography not just of this important building, but of the culture post-war design, including the significant part corporate patronage played in the era’s real estate development, and of the project’s substantial role in shaping landmark legislation and zoning laws in New York City. Phyllis Lambert provides an unprecedented personal history of her experience managing the project, as well as the working relationship between van der Rohe and Johnson, offering a detailed scholarly assessment of the design and construction process and the building’s cultural legacy and life in the city over a half-century.

Phyllis Lambert is an architect, preservationist, lecturer, historian, scholar, curator, patron, citizen activist and critic of architecture and urbanism. She is Founding Director and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal. An honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of

British Architects, Lambert is recognised internationally for her contribution to the advancement of contemporary architecture, as well as her concern for the social issues of architecture and the role of architecture in the public realm.

27.2.14

Dante Bini & Nic Bini Building with Air This evening’s talk will describe the invention and evolution of the remarkable ‘Binishell’ structural system and subsequent ‘air-powered’ construction methodologies, which have become more technically daring and aesthetically complex.

Dante Bini was born in Castelfranco Emilia, Italy, in 1932. After studying architecture in Florence, Bini became interested in the technology of thin shell concrete domes. In 1967 at the invitation of Professor Mario Salvadori, Bini successfully raised a 15m diameter reinforced concrete Binishell at Columbia University, New York. This public success at Columbia launched the Binishell company and the career of a unique architect driven by the imperative for innovation and economy in the construction industry.

28.2.14

Mark Cousins Scenography 5pm Friday Lectures

28.2.14

Exhibition Openings Lynda Gaudreau: Out of Mies 6.30pm AA Gallery

Conrad Koslowsky, Frederik Bo Bojesen, Scrap Marshall and Yannick Guillen: Second House First 6.30pm Front Members’ Room

Will Gowland: Off Grid 6.30pm Back Members’ Room

4.3.14

Werner Sobek The ‘Aktivhaus’ Concept: Building the World of Tomorrow Evening Lecture In order to cope with the ecological, economic and social challenges of the twenty-first century, we need smart systems that allow our buildings to become an active part in our search for a maximum of sustainability in combination with a maximum of user comfort.

Werner Sobek is an architect and consulting engineer. He heads the Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design (ILEK) at the University of Stuttgart. He is also the Mies van der Rohe Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago and a guest lecturer at numerous universities in Germany and abroad. In 1992, he founded the Werner Sobek Group, whose projects are distinguished by high-quality design and sophisticated concepts that minimise the consumption of energy and materials.

5.3.14

Heidi Weber & Naima Jornod in conversation Evening Lecture

6.3.14

Klaus Bollinger Innovative Structures: From Purist Design Concepts to Complex Geometries Evening Lecture The passion for high-quality architecture and innovative structures has motivated the office of Bollinger + Grohmann since its foundation in 1983. As responsible engineers, the firm’s prime focus is the strengthening and enhancement of each individual design. The practice is fascinated by utopias such as those of Wladimir Tatlin – not as unattainable counter-models but as a set goals within reach.

Klaus Bollinger studied civil engineering at the Technical University in

Darmstadt. He has taught at Dortmund University and since 1994 has been a Professor of Structural Engineering in the School of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. He currently practises with Bollinger + Grohmann Engineers in Frankfurt, which he founded with his partner Manfred Grohmann in 1983.

7.3.14

Mark Cousins Scenography 5pm Friday Lectures

7.3.14

Adam Lowe De-materialising and Re-materialising 6.30pm Artist Talks Series Organised by Parveen Adams This talk will focus on the anachronic approach of Adam Lowe’s Factum Arte and on the development of the Lucida scanner and its application for historical and contemporary projects.

Adam Lowe set up Factum Arte in 2001 in Madrid. It works to solve technical challenges for artists, institutions and museums. At its core is the mediation and transformation of information. In 2009, Lowe was awarded the Microsoft Prize for Les Humanities ScientiďŹ que by Sciences Po and established the Foundation for Digital Technology in Conservation. Factum Arte has collaborated with leading museums including the Louvre, the Supreme Council of Antiquities, the British Museum and the Vatican Museum.

13.3.14

Tom Emerson Never Modern Evening Lecture Tom Emerson will present works by his practice, 6a architects, and by his students at ETH Zurich that use bricolage and appropriation to construct new architectural narratives from the debris of history.

Tom Emerson founded 6a architects with Stephanie Macdonald in 2001. The Londonbased practice has recently completed several art galleries and is currently working on a building for Churchill College Cambridge, a studio for Juergen Teller and the MK Gallery in Milton Keynes. Following teaching positions at Cambridge and the AA, he has been professor at ETH Zurich since 2010.

14.3.14

Maison Domino 10am Symposium Organised by Pier Vittorio Aureli & Thomas Weaver

1.4.14

Timothy Brittain Catlin 6.30pm Book Launch, AA Bookshop

4 – 6.4.14

Vienna and Brno Member Trip A weekend architectural trip of the city of Vienna featuring a roundtrip to the Tugendhat Villa in Brno, Czech Republic, recorded on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list.

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