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as technology, collaborations, concept and clientele, as seen through the prism of the word ‘sustainable’. The lecture showcased recent projects by his practice RCTECH-Athens. Peter Blundell Jones (AA Dipl 1972) has written in the 7 February issue of the Architects’ Journal about Cotes Farm, by Evans Vettori. There is also a review of his recent publication, University of Sheffield School of Architecture 1908–2008: A Centenary History in the 14 February issue of AJ. Paris Philippou (AA Dipl 1998) and Pavlos Philippou (AA Dipl 1998, AA H+U MA Dist 2002 and AA PhD candidate) curated an exhibition on the early work of J+A Philippou Architects – Engineers at the Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Cyprus. The exhibition, on show through February, was accompanied by a symposium with contributions from Larry Barth (AA H&U and LU lecturer), Pierre d’Avoine (former AA Unit Master), Dimitra Katsota (AA Dipl 1996) and Stephan Buerger (AA Dipl 1998) and Pavlos Philippou presented papers. Ana Cocho Bermejo, Andrea Balducci Caste and Dao De Li (all AA DRL MArch 2006) discuss the need for flexible and adaptable systems to address the uncertainties of disaster relief in their new book Emergency Deployable, published by Netbiblo. The book includes an introduction by Brett Steele (AA Director) and Theodore Spyropoulos (AA DRL Co-director). Angeliki Koliomichou (AA LU MA 2007) was invited to present her MA project entitled Augmented Waterways
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at the 3rd Seminario de Paisagismo Sul-Americano conference at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil on 28 May. The project was also selected for the Hong Kong Shenzhen Biennale 2008. acd.ufrj.br/historiadopaisagismo/ seminario/inicial.htm The 21 February issue of AJ contained an article celebrating ten years of the AA DRL programme and a feature on the DRL pavilion in Bedford Square. The DRL TEN exhibition ran at the AA from 25 February to 18 March and was accompanied by a publication. The issue also featured a review of the book On Altering Architecture by Fred Scott (Former President of the AA), which was launched at the AA on 12 December 2007. The work of Jorge Martinez Ayala (AA LU MA student) was exhibited at the 7th BIA São Paulo International Biennial of Architecture from 11 November to 16 December 2007. His project, Parque Urbano Buenavista, redefines the Buenavista neighbourhood’s New Library, providing wide open spaces in a high-quality environment to increase the use of the library facilities. Teresa Stoppani (AA H&T lecturer and PhD programme tutor) was a speaker at the interdisciplinary symposium Mobility of the Line at the University of Brighton, 10–12 January, where she presented the paper Material Lines: Apocalypse, Capricci, War and other Disasters, a study of the use of the line in etchings and drawings by Dürer, Piranesi, Goya and the Chapmans. Teresa was also a visiting lecturer at the School of Architecture and Design
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of RMIT University in Melbourne (Autumn 2007. Her lecture course, Paradigm Islands, was based on her current research on contemporary architectural discourses on Manhattan and Venice. The 6 March 2008 issue of AJ features a photograph spread of the recently completed Living Bridge over the River Shannon in the Republic of Ireland by Wilkinson Eyre. Wilkinson Eyre is the practice of Chris Wilkinson (AA Member) and Jim Eyre (President of the AA). Tyler Martiné (AA DRL MArch 2005) recently won first prize in the 10th annual Arquine International Design Competition. His partner on the project was Mike Miller, and they were sponsored by Steinberg Architects. The competition required the design of two 100-storey skyscrapers to celebrate the bicentennial of Mexico’s independence in 2010. Their proposal, developed around the city’s pollution epidemic and specific remediation technologies, looks at developing educational programmes and performative tectonics that can fight this epidemic. GroundLab have won the design competition for Longgang Centre and Longcheng Square with their Deep Ground concept. Collaborators during the competition stage include Arup ILG and InGame. GroundLab comprises Eva Castro (Unit Master Diploma Unit 12 and AA LU Course Director), Sarah Majid (AA LU MA 2005), Alfredo Ramirez (AA LU MA 2005 and AA LU tutor), Eduardo Rico (AA LU tutor), Eva Tsuoni (AA LU MA 2005) and Holger Kehne (Unit Master Diploma Unit 12).
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Michael Shamiyeh (AA H&T MA programme) had an article entitled Design New Futures published in Volume magazine, December 2007. The article explores the relevance of the creative-analytical approach at work in architectural design in solving (complex) problems for strategic business thinking and innovation. He was subsequently invited to present his findings at McKinsey Germany in March, and gave a talk on 8 April in Amsterdam for the Masters of Intervention Series with Andrew Bullen. Joyce Chan’s (MSc SED 2006) poster presentation of her Masters Dissertation Project Outdoor Comfort in a Hot and Humid Climate won the Best Poster Award at the PLEA 2007 International Conference Sun, Wind & Architecture in Singapore, November 2007. A six-page article by Joana Goncalves (AA SED MA 1997) in issue no. 21 of Pos, the journal of the Faculty of Architecure & Urbanism of the University of São Paulo, reports on the lectures and seminars given there last year by Simos Yannas (AA SED Course Director). An article by Simos Yannas on the pedagogic approach and recent projects of the AA’s Masters programme in Sustainable Environmental Design appeared in issue 9 of Axis, the Journal of the Caribbean School of Architecture. The third edition of Em Busca de uma Arquitetura Sustentavel para os Tropicos by Oscar Corbella and Simos Yannas, to be published in Rio de Janeiro later this year, now features
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English and Spanish summaries in addition to the original Portuguese text. The Winter 2008 issue of 2A Architecture & Art, published in Dubai, is devoted to the Gulf Research Project undertaken by the AA E&E SED programme in collaboration with Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the American University of Sharjah, and features a detailed presentation of SED group’s research results and design proposals. Vesna Petresin Robert (AA Member) curated, with Kjeld Kjeldsen, the exhibition Frontiers of Architecture 1 – Cecil Balmond, which attracted over half a million visitors to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark. In addition, she co-wrote an essay with Cecil Balmond for the first in the series of publications Frontiers of Architecture, entitled Inform. Vesna also gave a talk, with Brian Eno and Tom Philips, about Architecture and Music at the Royal Academy on 21 April and co-wrote a monograph, Solutions for a Sustainable City: Arup in Beijing, which will be published by Black Dog in June 2008. amazon.com/Cecil-BalmondFrontiers-Architecture-I/ dp/8791607167 royalacademy.org.uk/events/ focusdays/architecture-and-music2,424,EV.html Laurent-Paul Robert (AA Member) has created visual effects for the feature film Stardust, 2007 and was a technical director on The Bourne Ultimatum, 2007 and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2007.
AADVD 2007, designed by Vasilis Stroumpakos (AADP, Ex-DRL Tutor), received first prize at the European Design Awards. EDA is an annual pan-European graphic design competition. AADVD 2007 was designed by Vasilis (www.00110.org) and implemented by the AADP team. ed-awards.com Timothy Brittain-Catlin’s (former History & Theory Studies tutor) latest book, The English Parsonage in the Early Nineteenth Century, will be published in May by Spire Books in association with English Heritage. Designed by Allon Kaye, and with photographs by Martin Charles, it will be his third book this year. David Adjaye (AA Councillor and former Diploma Unit Master) has recently been awarded an OBE. The 10 April 2008 issue of AJ features an interview with Adjaye. Guess the Building Win a Drink at the AA Bar Last Issue: Canterbury Cathedral In tribute to Peter Barefoot who died last year, this issue’s Guess the Building features one of his images (top of page). Peter was an alumnus of the AA and one of our former Honorary Secretaries, as well as an extensive contributor to the Slide Library’s collection of over 150,000 images of historical and contemporary architecture, from which this image is taken. If you guess correctly you win a drink on us at the AA Bar. E-mail your guess to contribute@aaschool.ac.uk
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