Sofia Krimizi studied architecture in Athens and Columbia University GSAPP in New York City. She has taught design studios and research seminars at the Cooper Union, Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania and the Pratt Institute. Roberta Marcaccio received her Masters from the AA and is now a writer and coordinator of communications and research at the Londonbased practice DSDHA. With Shumi Bose she is the co-editor of the forthcoming The Hero of Doubt (AA Publications), a selection of writings spanning the prolific career of Ernesto Nathan Rogers. William Orr is a designer, theorist and musician. He holds an MA in architecture from the University of Toronto and has been developing his PhD research at the AA since 2014. Ricardo Ruivo Pereira is a researcher, educator and architect. He is currently a PhD candidate at the AA. Caroline Rabourdin is an architect and essayist. Trained in Strasbourg with an MA from the Bartlett, she has taught at the École Speciale d’Architecture in Paris, Chelsea College of Arts and the University of Greenwich. Her doctoral research concerns language and the perception of space and mobility. Manolis Stavrakakis has studied architecture at the National and Technical University of Athens School of Architecture (BA, Diploma, MA), and at the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, Columbia University (MSc). He gained his PhD on Michael Ventris from the AA. He has been practising and teaching as an architect since 2005.
Courses in First, Second and Third Year take place in Terms 1 and 2:
First Year Concepts of Architecture Course Lecturers: Brett Steele (Term 1), Pier Vittorio Aureli (Term 2) Course Tutor: Mollie Claypool Teaching Assistants: Fabrizio Ballabio, Pol Esteve, Winston Hampel, William Orr The first course of the History & Theory programme introduces students to a number of well-known architectural projects of past and present, to be accompanied by an introduction to the language and the concepts through which architecture is understood. This is further extended in the second term to provide a fundamental basis for considering the history of architecture and the history of the city.
Second Year Culture of Architecture Course Lecturer: Mark Cousins Course Tutor: Zaynab Dena Ziari Teaching Assistants: Shumi Bose, Ricardo Ruivo, Jingming Wu, Sofia Krimizi The second year of HTS is concerned with the relationship between architecture and other cultural arenas as it deals with questions of style, influence and institutional organisation.
Third Year Categories of Architecture Course Lecturers: Mollie Claypool and Ryan Dillon Course Tutor: Sylvie Taher Teaching Assistants: Susan Chai, Nerma Cridge, Manolis Stavrakakis, Roberta Marcaccio The course will consider the way in which arguments are made in architectural criticism by presenting multiple architectural categories in parallel to different forms of media. Focusing on twentieth- and twenty-first-century examples, students will understand the auxiliary influences on architecture and the different schools of architectural thought that have emerged.
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