Events List, 23–28 January 2012

First Year Open Jury Monday 23 January, 38 Second Floor Back, time to be announced.

Open to all Architecture and Education Series organised by Mark Cousins Charles Rice Domestic Interiors Monday 23 January, 6.00 Lecture Hall While it might be assumed that architecture and the domestic interior enjoy a natural relation defined through housing and enclosure, the lecture will argue that the interior emerged historically at the moment when architecture became modern. It will chart the sometimes uneasy relation between architecture and the interior, and point to key theoretical problems that have emerged through this relation.

Charles Rice is Professor of Architectural History and Theory, and Head of the School of Art and Design History at Kingston University in London, where he is a senior researcher in Kingston’s Modern Interiors Research Centre. He is author of The Emergence of the Interior: Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity (Routledge, 2007), and is editor of The Journal of Architecture (Routledge/RIBA).

H·O·R·T·U·S Roundtable Discussion and Harvest Night Tuesday 24 January 5.00 AA Lecture Hall, Front Members’ Room H·O·R·T·U·S stimulates the emergence of novel material practices and related spatial narratives. In this exhibitionrelated event Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto will discuss with guests the design philosophy of the project and its relevance for contemporary architecture and urban design. The event is structured around three ‘moments’: two conversations and a hands-on harvest event, which will see the public engaging directly with the garden. _conversation One: H·O·R·T·U·S ‘How To’ will present the design&make of the prototype installation and the potential applicability of these emergent materials and spatial protocols for masterplanning in large regional landscapes. The conversation will unveil the details of the biological mechanisms at work, as well as the algorithmic design technique employed, the sensing and actuating devices and innovative digital interfaces embedded in the gardening apparatus. _conversation Two: ’Systemic Design as Critical Practice’ will involve critical thinkers and designers, discussing how systemic design practices can acquire a critical role in shaping a new notion of urban ecology within contemporary architectural discourse.

The evening will end with ‘The Harvest’; a hands-on event curated by the students of AA Inter10 where saturated photo-bioreactors will be harvested.

Schedule 5.00 Introduction 5.15 H·O·R·T·U·S ‘How To’, Marco Poletto and Claudia Pasquero, directors ecoLogicStudio and AA Inter10 Unit Masters with: Catherine Legrand, evolution biologist; Simon Park, Biolumenescence; Mats Broden, knowledge-sharing; Immanuel Koh, digital interface; Andrea Bugli, ecoLogicStudio, parametric design; 6.15 ‘Systemic Design as Critical Practice’, Lucy Bullivant with: Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto; Alisa Andrasek, Biothing, AA, Bartlett; Alex Haw, Atmos, RCA; 7.30 The Harvest, Front Members’ Room and AA Bar, curated by AA Inter10 students Practice1: bio-oil extraction Practice2: cooking super-snacks Practice3: weaving bio-fabrics Members’ Event OMA/Progress Curator Tour Barbican Art Gallery Tuesday 24 January, 6.15 An early evening curatorial tour of the current major exhibition at the Barbican on OMA. This exhibition is the first major presentation of OMA’s work in the UK and is curated and designed by the Belgium-based collective Rotor.

To make their portrait of OMA, Rotor have enjoyed unprecedented behindthe-scenes access and the opportunity to ask candid questions. The result is a compelling selection of materials from archives, collections and OMA offices across the globe.

To book a place, please email: events@aaschool.ac.uk or call 020 7887 4034 Tickets for AA Members £10.00.

Community Cluster Film Series ‘Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio’ Tuesday 24 January, 6.30 AA Cinema View trailer here: http://citizenarchitectfilm.com H&U MArch Jury Friday 27 January, 10.00 Studio 2 Housing & Urbanism candidates present their dissertation projects.

All welcome Friday Lecture Series Mark Cousins The Poetics of Cliché Friday 27 January, 5.00 Lecture Hall This term Mark Cousins’ Friday evening lectures will deal with the fact that

commonplaces nonetheless frequently exercise a powerful attraction – it will attempt to account for this by reference to the Imaginary. The series will take place on the following dates: 3 February, 2 March, 9 March.

Artist Talks Series organised

by Parveen Adams Becky Beasley Feet & Hinges (and Other Literary Models) Friday 27 January, 6.30 Lecture Hall Christy Lange has noted that Beasley’s ‘sculptures and photographs, as mute and minimal as they appear, unexpectedly open on to literary worlds’. Working between sculpture and photography – often printing at a 1:1 scale – allows Beasley to ask sculptural questions of the photographic and to interrogate the sculptural from the position of the photographic object.

Conceptual and instinctual attitudes are bound intensely into the centre of her practice.

Becky Beasley lives and works in St Leonards on Sea, UK. Exhibitions include: Art Now, Tate Britain (2012); Spike Island, Bristol (2011); The Outside, Francesca Minini (2011); 13 Pieces 17 Feet, Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (2010); British Art Show 7: In The Days of the Comet (touring 2010/11); Structure and Material, Arts Council Collection (touring 2010/11); La Carte D’Après Nature, curated by Thomas Demand, NMNM, Monaco (2010) Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (2011).

Exhibitions are open to Saturday 11 February, Monday to Friday 10.00– 7.00, Saturday 10.00–5.00 Critical Territories Groundlab and Plasma Studio AA Gallery Critical Territories presents the work of two practices, Groundlab and Plasma Studio, which share a transdisciplinary approach and operate at multiple scales, from product and building design to landscape and masterplanning.

The installation – a site-specific grid arrangement of light boxes covered with technical drawings – has been conceived to immerse visitors in the systemic approach of the practices and their preoccupation with grids, ground and context. A plethora of conceptual and presentation models floating loosely within this grid communicate recurring aims, ideas and spatial and phenomenological effects. Among the projects on show are the Xian International Horticultural Expo and the Longgang Masterplan.

H·O·R·T·U·S ecoLogicStudio Front Members’ Room H·O·R·T·U·S (Hydro Organisms Responsive to Urban Stimuli) is a new exhibition from ecoLogicStudio that engages with the notions of renewable energy and urban agriculture through a new gardening prototype. Over a fourweek growing period, flows of energy (light radiation), matter (biomass, carbon dioxide) and information (images, tweets, stats) will be triggered to induce multiple mechanisms of self-regulation and evolve novel forms of self-organisation.

H·O·R·T·U·S proposes an experimental hands-on engagement with these notions, illustrating their potential applicability to the masterplanning of large regional landscapes and the retrofitting of industrial and rural architectural types, as exemplified in the project ‘Regional Algae Farm’ developed by ecoLogicStudio for Österlen on Sweden’s Baltic coast.

ARTitectural Production Curated by Friedrich Gräfling AA Bar The title ARTitecture evokes the close connections between fine art and architecture from the medieval period till today. In this exhibition three artists – Jorinde Voigt, Anne Hardy and Hynek Martinec – will offer their perspectives on the links between the disciplines, opening up a broader discussion that asks: Where are the contact points between architecture and art today?

How do they compete or profit from their close relationship? The exhibition will be accompanied by a roundtable discussion at the AA on Wednesday 8 February. Both the exhibition and the roundtable event are sponsored and supported by the Czech Centre London and Kleine Wundertüte.

Public Piracy: Augmentation for Civic Misuse Diploma Unit 1 Back Members’ Room Set within the context of Diploma 1’s unit agenda – developing prototypes for the information revolution – this twoweek exhibition offers a first glimpse into the operations of the unit and its explorations into the lost public space of the City of London, an area that epitomises the tension between the scarcity of the real and the abundance of the virtual.

The exhibition showcases a series of treacherous, surprising, critical and transformative devices all prompted by our technologically augmented perception of today’s reality. Among these, the show articulates positions towards our post-web 2.0 culture, and proposes tactics and strategies

for reclaiming civic space through the amalgamation and augmentation of mere physicality via our digital avatars.

As a consequence, a kind of architecture is introduced in the in-between of data highways, sensorial accumulations, social web applications, CCTV, data archives, Skype and web platforms on the one hand, and within the actuality of public spaces, cultural institutions, ecclesiastical spaces, banks and civic structures on the other.

TS3 and TS5 Notices Launch of New Online Tutorial Booking System Third and Fifth Year students can now book their TS tutorials online at www.aaschool.ac.uk/ts-booking Students should refer to (and retain) the booking process email from Belinda (dated 12 January). The system is updated to reflect TS tutor availability two weeks in advance. Please contact Belinda with any questions or queries or if additional support is required from the TS team.

TS Staff and Tutorial Schedule Third Year (tutorials held on Thursday afternoons): Wolfgang Frese Clive Fussell Duncan Macaulay Fernando Perez Manja Van de Worp Fifth Year (tutorials held throughout the week): Javier Castañon (Mondays and Thursdays) Kenny Fraser (Friday mornings) Mehran Gharleghi (Wednesdays) Martin Hagemann (Fridays) David Illingworth (Tuesday afternoons/ evenings) John Noel (Wednesdays) Additionally, Third and Fifth Year students can book to see Giles Bruce (Environmental/Monday afternoons) and Christina Doumpioti (Materials/Thursday afternoons) for specific queries.

All bookings can be made through the new online tutorial booking system but please see Belinda with any questions or queries.

Term 2 and Term 3 Key Dates Option 1 Interim Juries: Monday 13 to Friday 17 February Option 1 Final Submission: Monday 5 March Option 2 Interim Juries: Monday 5 to Friday 9 March Option 2 Final Submission: Monday 23 April TS3 and TS5 High Pass Panel: Thursday 3 May TS3 and TS5 High Pass Exhibition: Friday 4 May

AA Annual General Meeting The AA Annual General Meeting has been rescheduled to Monday 5 March.

The previously scheduled meeting on Monday 23 January will now be used for an ordinary meeting of Council. Starting time for both meetings remains at 6.30.

AA Bookshop Notices Temporary Closure The AA Bookshop reopens on Monday 23 January in its new location at 32 Bedford Square back.

Members’ Discount on January Titles Members receive a 20 per cent discount on the month’s featured titles and up to 50 per cent discount on selected offers.

Order the January selection of new titles online at www.aabookshop.net To join, go to www.aaschool.ac.uk/ membership/join/subscriptions.php Contact the Bookshop at bookshop@aabookshop.net or call 020 7887 4041.

AA Library Athens Access Available Athens is an access management system that provides remote access to the online databases and journals subscribed to by the AA Library. To set up an Athens account, please email Simine Marine at simine.marine@aaschool.ac.uk or fill out a form at the library issue desk.

AA Modelshop The Modelshop is now located in the basement area of 16 Morwell Street.

tbc First Year Open Jury 38 SFB 10.30 Sustainable Environmental Design (SED) Term 2 Project Briefs Programme Staff 36 SFB 11.30 Housing & Urbanism Hugo Hinsley and Nick Bullock Shaping the Modern City H&U Studio 2.00 Housing & Urbanism Jorge Fiori Cities in a Transnational World H&U Studio 2.00 AAIS 33 FFB 4.00 PhD Seminar Mark Cousins 33 GFB 6.00 Evening Lecture Charles Rice Domestic Interiors Lecture Hall 6.30 AA Council Meeting 32 FFF

10.00 HTS First Year History of Architecture – a critical outline Greek Architecture versus Roman Architecture: a critical comparison between two paradigmatic understandings of architectural and urban space Pier Vittorio Aureli with Mollie Claypool, Emma Jones, Alison Moffett and Zaynab Dena Ziari 36 SFB (Please note: seminars also take place in North and South Jury Rooms – return to usual seminar spaces) 10.00 Architecture & Urbanism (DRL) Behaviour Programme staff Lecture Hall 10.30 SED Refurbishing the City Part II Programme staff 33 FFF 11.00 History & Critical Thinking Contemporary forms of architecture and agency Douglas Spencer 32 FFF 1.00 Architecture & Urbanism (DRL) Design as Research II Programme staff Lecture Hall 1.30 SED Refurbishing the City Part II Programme staff 36 SFB 2.00 History & Critical Thinking The Post-Eurocentric City John Palmesino 32 FFF 4.00 SED Environmental Masterplanning Raul Moura 36 SFB

2.00 Landscape Urbanism Critical Territories Doug Spencer New Soft Room 2.00 Projective Cities Theories of the Contemporary City Sam Jacoby and Chris Lee 32 GFB 3.00 Housing & Urbanism Larry Barth The Reason of Urbanism H&U Studio 4.00 SED Environmental Masterplanning Raul Moura 36 SFB

10.00 HTS Second Year Architectures – their pasts and cultures National Identity and Architecture Mark Cousins with Ryan Dillon, Ross Adams, Daniel Ayat and Roberta Maraccio 32 SFB (Please note: seminars also take place in 32 FFF and FFB and 33 FFB) 10.00 HTS Third Year Architectural Coupling (+) Andrea Branzi versus Aldo Rossi Mollie Claypool and Ryan Dillon with Ivonne Santoyo Orozco, Shumi Bose, Orit Goldstein-Mayer and Emanouil Stavrakakis 36 SFB (Please note: seminars also take place in North and South Jury Rooms – return to usual seminar spaces) 10.00 TS First Year First Applications – Environmental Group Giles Bruce (Ingrid/Valentin groups) 33 FFF

5.00 H·O·R·T·U·S Roundtable Discussion and Harvest Night Lecture Hall, Front Members’ Room

10.00 TS First Year First Applications – Materials Group Christina Doumpioti (Alex/Sarah groups) 37 FFF

6.15 AA Members’ Event OMA/Progress Curator Tour Barbican Art Gallery

10.00 TS First Year First Applications – Structures Group Marissa Kretsch (Monia/Alex groups) 38 FFF

6.30 Community Cluster Film Series AA Cinema

2.00 TS First Year First Applications – All Groups One-to-One work First Year Studio 2.00 TS Second Year Term 2 Option Materials Concrete Carolina Bartram 36 SFB

2.00 SED Refurbishing the City Part II: Design Analysis Gustavo Brunelli, Rosa Schiano-Phan, Simos Yannas 32 FFB

3.00 Housing & Urbanism Larry Barth Critical Urbanism H&U Studio

3.30 TS Second Year Term 2 Option Environmental Design in Practice People in Buildings – what do they do and what do they need Giles Bruce 36 SFB

10.00 Building Conservation Year 1 Structural Movements 1&2 Clive Richardson 2.00 Visit The Work of the Cathedral Architect John Burton 33 FFF 10.00 Building Conservation/Year 2 Georgian Garden Buildings Roger White 11.50 Growth of London Estates Harriet Harriss 2.00 Visit to Soane Museum Helen Dorey 33 FFB 10.00 H&U MArch Jury Presentation of dissertation projects Studio 2 1.00 History & Critical Thinking Debates: The City, Politics and Spaces Marina Lathouri, John Palmesino and visiting speakers New Soft Room 2.00 AAIS 32 SFB 2.00 Landscape Urbanism Machining Landscapes Tom Smith 32 FFB 5.00 Friday Lecture Series Mark Cousins The Poetics of Cliché Lecture Hall 6.30 Artist Talks Series Becky Beasley Feet & Hinges (and Other Literary Models) Lecture Hall

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