AA Summer School 2013

News
After City After Party!
FINAL REVIEW!
Last Days Before the Final Review
Staff Lunch!
In The Studio
Student Show
Each year we take a a morning to present AA student projects to the summer school. This year Lucy Moroney (3rd year), Manijeh Verghese (5th year) and Sam Nelson (5th year) showed their projects and talked to the SS students.
The Interim Presentation
A fantastic day of presentations – each one provoked heated conversation and debate. A great indicator of interesting projects produced by an amazingly engaged group of students.
Working In The Studio
Summer School 2012 begins!
We’ve just launched Summer School 2012 with a fantastic group of students and staff! Welcome everyone!
Unit 3 Installation featured on Dezeen!
“3013 Installation at the Architectural Association” – Unit 3s large scale plywood canopies that scaled the courtyard of Chings Yard up to the terrace at the Summer School 2011 final jury were recently featured on Dezeen.

About
WELCOME
The three-week, full time AA Summer Architecture School presents a challenging programme of design studios, field study, seminars and lectures that emphasise the importance of both practice and theory in contemporary architecture. Based on the AA’s unit system, it offers … Read more→
STUDIO SPACE & THE AA SCHOOL IN BEDFORD SQUARE
The AA’s facilities and studio spaces will be available for use throughout the programme.
Summer Studios are located in 16 Morwell Street (behind Bedford Square).

Opening hours are Monday through Friday 10:00 – 21:00.
Saturday & Sunday 10:00 – … Read more→
AA LIBRARY
The collection in the AA Library, founded in 1862, contains almost 46,000 volumes, including rare and early works, books, periodicals and journals, CDs/DVDs including access to online indexes and JSTOR. Library services are open to all members of the AA.

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MATERIALS WORKSHOP
The Workshop is well equipped with machine and hand tools for working in wood and metal. Facilities are available for working in steel and some nonferrous metals, and for precise working in hardwoods, softwoods and panel products. We have a … Read more→
MODEL WORKSHOP
The Model Workshop is a space where the making of small-scale objects can take place. It encourages exploration and experimentation with materials and techniques and is equipped with a kiln, a vacuum former and some casting facilities. Tutorials are available … Read more→
PHOTO LIBRARY, FILM LIBRARY & CINEMA
Our fully searchable website currently features 8,000 images representative of the broad scope of the main collection, which holds approximately 150,000 slides of historical and contemporary architecture. For educational use, the website includes low-res watermarked images available for downloading (along … Read more→
COMPUTER ROOM
In the Computer Room we aim to provide students with equipment and software they may not have access to at home. We have software such as 3DS Max, Rhino, Maya, AutoCAD and Digital Project on high-power computers. We also provide … Read more→

Agendas
2013 WATERWORLD
You can’t trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it. – W.C. Fields

London has a wacky relationship with water. It turns its back on the very river that runs through it. It has just survived one of … Read more→
2012 APRÈS CITY
“The after-party’s always better than the main event”

As the Olympic Games draw to a close next Autumn 2012, London will be struggling with the question of what to do when the party’s over? Do we all just pick up … Read more→
2011 – STORIES FROM THE CITY
“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

As construction remains stagnant following the global-economic-meltdown, fabrication of an entirely other kind – one of stories – is implanting itself firmly within our architectural culture and tools of production. Architecture … Read more→
2010 TENDER IS THE NIGHT
The three week full-time AA Summer Architecture School offers an exciting approach to architectural design for anyone interested in exploring architecture as a profession or as an extended field of research.The AA Summer Architecture School presents a challenging programme of … Read more→
2009 MINICITY
Is the age of bigness over as the world scales back its architectural and urban ambitions? After years of what seemed like incessant growth taking place from Bahrain to Bangalore, a radical slowdown sets a new pace of activity. This … Read more→
2008 LONDON EVER AFTER
Look out. Life is imitating art. What was once the domain of the disaster movie is fast becoming the real-life plot of our collective futures. From The Day After Tomorrow (eco-Armageddon) to I Am Legend (man-made viral pandemic); cities have … Read more→
2007 LIVE IT UP!
At the start of the 21st century, dreams of tall living are again the height of fashion. But this time around, it’s not the West leading the new wave, but the Middle and Far East. From Dubai to Shanghai, super-skyscrapers … Read more→
2006 RECIPES FOR A FAST-FORWARD FUTURE
We may live in the present, but we dream of the future. Even though we know it’s a time elastically located ahead of us, The Future is also a place that is constantly re-drawn and re-imagined. Though nothing may date … Read more→
2005 QUICKSPACE / SLOWTIME
At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, mechanization firmly took control. The world was forever changed, and with it, our experience of space and of time altered irrevocably. Manual labour was too slow: so, let it die! Machines emancipated man, … Read more→
2004 SHINY and NEW
Looking back on the history of the future, two tendencies stand out the most. We were either hurtling forwards to worse times, in 1984 or Blade Runner, where the sun would never shine and we’d choke on the toxic air. … Read more→
2003 GLOBALLY YOURS
2002 SUBLIME OBJECTS IN MOTION
The design studios will explore the Sublime Object In Motion as a supple body that effects and is affected by change. Using London as an experimental laboratory of effects, participants will investigate relationships and strategies; speeds and resistances; abstractions and … Read more→

Applications
APPLICATIONS
The deadline for applications is 28 June 2013.

To apply online please use the link below.
Online application form

If you wish to apply by post, please download and print the pdf below and send by post to the Visiting School.
PDF application

Application queries can be sent to visitingschool@aaschool.ac.uk.

An AA certificate will be awarded on completion of the programme. Credit for the course should be organized by students at source. Please note that you must be 18 years of age at the start of the Summer School to be able to attend.
FEES
The AA Summer School requires a fee of £1660 per participant, which includes a £50 Visiting Student Membership.

There is a £700 deposit payable.

Fees do not include flights or accommodation. Students need to bring their own laptops, digital equipment and model-making tools.
CONTACT
For more information please contact the Visiting School Office.

Visiting School Coordinator
Architectural Association
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES
Tel: +44 (0)207 887 4014
email: visitingschool@aaschool.ac.uk

Director Summer School
Natasha Sandmeier

Director Visiting School
Christopher Pierce