News
- Final Presentations 2016
- FINAL PRESENTATIONS 2014
- INTERIM PRESENTATIONS 2014
- DAY BEFORE FINAL REVIEW
- WORKING IN THE WORKSHOP 2013
- WORKING IN THE STUDIO
- INTERIM PRESENTATION 2013
- INTRODUCTION DAY 2013
- After City After Party!
- FINAL REVIEW!
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 – 20:00 (closed … 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. Founded … Read more
- 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
- Bits, Bytes, Fragments in 2018
Bits, Bytes, Fragments, Scraps, Shards and Moments. I guess I’m just hopelessly fascinated by the realities that you can assemble out of connected fragments. – Junot Diaz It’s like this puzzle. You spend ages putting things together – things … Read more
- 2017 NOW!
What is architecture NOW, today? What is contemporary? We architects spend so much of our critical and intellectual efforts looking either to the past or the future, we often have little left to reflect on what architecture is now, and … Read more
- 2016 LONDON-TIME
Monday 4 – Friday 22 July In the summer of 2016, when you land at one of London’s airports, most of you will change your watches while still on the runway to London-time, GMT 0:00. But what is London; beyond … Read more
- 2015 ECCENTRICITY
Monday 6 – Friday 24 July 2015 Like many global cities, London is defined by its unchanging institutions and familiar, iconic imagery. The 2015 AA Summer School will challenge the ordinary and ask participants to design and re-describe London as … Read more
- 2014 UNBUILT LONDON
The further backward you can look, the further forward you can see. – Winston Churchill From Cedric Price’s Fun Palace, to Winston Churchill’s War Room, and the hundreds of spaces, buildings, and years in between and since, London is characterised by … Read more
- 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 21 June 2018.
1) You can make an application by completing the online application here:
Summer School 2018 Application | Bits Bytes Fragments
If you are not able to make an online application, email visitingschool@aaschool.ac.uk for instructions to pay by bank transfer.2) Once you complete the online application and make a full payment, you are registered in the programme. A CV or portfolio is not required.
____All participants travelling from abroad are responsible for securing any visa required, and are advised to contact their home embassy early. After payment of fees, the AA School can provide a letter confirming participation in the workshop.
____An AA certificate will be awarded on completion of the programme. Credit for the course should be organised 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 Visiting School requires a fee of £1950 per participant, which includes a £60 Visiting membership fee and a deposit of £350 which is deducted from the total fee. The deposit will reserve your place, but the full fee is required to participate.
This fee also includes lunch Mon-Fri in the AA Restaurant.
If you are already a member, the total fee will be reduced automatically by £60 by the online payment system. Fees do not include flights or accommodation, but accommodation options can be advised. Students need to bring their own laptops, digital equipment and model making tools. Please ensure this equipment is covered by your own insurance as the AA takes no responsibility for items lost or stolen at the workshop.- 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.ukDirector Summer School
Natasha SandmeierDirector Visiting School
Christopher PierceVisiting School Coordinator
Andrea Ghaddar
Student Work
- 2018
- UNIT 1 OMNITOPIA: Towards a New Species of Space
- UNIT 2 AN HOUR IN LONDON
- UNIT 3 BROKEN CLAY-GONS
- UNIT 4 ANTROPOTYPES. The Self and the Palimpsest
- UNIT 5 SUMMER SCHOOL AS A STAGE
- UNIT 6 BUBBLEBUST!
- 2017
- UNIT 1 MINIMOU, LAND OF STUBLIMENESS
- UNIT 2 HYPERLINKED
- UNIT 3 C.R.A.P Clashing Rubbish Assembling Props
- UNIT 5 STUDIO STATE
- UNIT 6 THE BEAUTY IN THE BEAST
- 2016
- UNIT 1 CLOCKWORK LONDON
- UNIT 2 SUBLIME OASIS IN-TRANSIT
- UNIT 3 FILMSCAPES
- UNIT 4 LONDON (TEASING) TIME
- UNIT 5 2 SECONDS CITY
- UNIT 6 MEMORY DEVICES
- UNIT 7 THE NEW MONUMENT
- FORMAT EVENTS
- 2015
- Unit 1 – Public House City
- Unit 2 – Ordinary Eccentricity
- Unit 3 – Occult Infrastructure
- Unit 4 – Float
- Unit 5 – Eccentric Urbanism
- Unit 6 – PeepShow London
- Unit 7 – City in pieces
- Unit 8 – False City
- 2014
- Unit 1 – BABYLON
- Unit 2 – MIND THE GAP
- Unit 3 – UNBUILD TO (BETTER) BUILD
- Unit 4 – LIVE LOAD
- Unit 5 – LONDINIUM
- Unit 6 – THROUGH THE PEEPHOLE
- Unit 7 – LONDON STUMPS
- Tabula Loop
- Interim Review
- FORMAT with Shumon Basar
- 2013
- UNIT 1 – I WANT YOUR ROOF
- UNIT 2 – LONDON’S ARK-ITECTURE
- UNIT 3- A MUSEUM OF RAIN
- UNIT 4 – WATER: A LOVE STORY
- UNIT 5- INVERSE LONDON
- FORMAT WITH SHUMON BASAR 2013
- PRESENTATIONS & CONVERSATIONS
- PARTY IN THE PARK!
- 2012
- UNIT 1 – STAY UP
- UNIT 2 – BODY BUILDING
- UNIT 3 – REVISITING THE FUN PALACE
- UNIT 4 – POP UP CITY
- UNIT 5 – PERIPHERY PARTY
- DAY 1 – INTRODUCTIONS
- PRESENTATIONS & REVIEWS
- PARTY IN THE PARK
- FORMAT with SHUMON BASAR
- 2011
- Unit 1 – A Tale of 3 Cities
- Unit 2 – Backroom Bauprobe
- Unit 3 – Installation City 3013
- Unit 4 – Amazing Stories From The City
- Unit 5 – Cities From The Story
- Day 1 – Introductions
- Presentations & Reviews
- Party In The Park
- 2010
- Celebration
- Futuro Noir
- Minutes of Night
- Night Shapes
- Performing Structures
- Presentations and Reviews
- Reviving Robinhood
- 2009
- 2008
- Unit 1 – WORST-CASE SCENARIO
- Unit 2 – MEMORIAL TO FUTURE PAST
- Unit 3 – ARCHITASTROPHE
- Unit 4 – LONDON Y-Z
- Unit 5 – A CATASTROPHIC SILENCE
- Unit 6 – FACTORY FOR PASSE LONDON
- Presentations and Studio
- Introduction Day 1
- 2007
- Unit 1 – MOVE IT UP, REV IT UP
- Unit 2 – RANDOM INTERNATIONAL
- Unit 3 – DRAWING PROUEN
- Unit 4 – LLC
- Unit 5 – BLAH BLAH ARCHITECTURE
- Presentations and Studio
- 2006
- Unit 1 – MAZES
- Unit 2 – JACK THE HOMES
- Unit 3 – FUTURED ECOLOGIES
- Unit 4 – MOBILITY ATTACHMENTS FOR THE FOOT
- Unit 5 – THE FUTURE IS A DESIGN PROBLEM
- Unit 6 – WORD STATE
- 2005
- Unit 1 – LUNCHBOX PACKED
- Unit 2 – SLOWTOWN
- Unit 3 – CREATION OF A TIME MACHINE
- Unit 4 – ALL ABOUT BIG BENJAMIN
- Unit 5 – PULSE CITY
- Unit 6 – INSIDE/OUTSIDE: LONDON ZOO
- Presentations and Studio
- 2004
- Unit 1 – ICONOCLASM
- Unit 2 – ROLL AND CROSS
- Unit 3 – TAMAGOTCHI URBANISM
- Unit 4 – REBRANDING SITE
- Unit 5 – WHAT’S NEW
- Unit 6 – PLASTIC SURGERY
- 2003
- Unit 1 – REELS, WHEELS, TRACKS
- Unit 2 – URBAN UNDERGROUND
- Unit 3 – URBAN SYNC
- Unit 4 – THE STOREFRONT
- Unit 5 – TOWER OF BABEL
- Unit 6 – BRANDALISM
- 2002
- Unit 1 – WATER DIRECT
- Unit 2 – ARTICULATED LINE
- Unit 3 – EXPO LONDON 2002
- Unit 4 – SMART OBJECTS
- Unit 5 – PERFORMING STRUCTURES
- Unit 6 – DASHING LONDON
Staff
- Want to Teach?
- 2018 Tutors
Unit 1 Flavie Audi, Samantha Lee and Farvash Ravazi | Unit 2 Eleanor Dodman and Tobias Jewson | Unit 3 Patricia Mato-Mora and Athanasios Varnavas | Unit 4 Sabrina Morreale and Lorenzo Perri | Unit 5 Benjamin Groothuijsse, Caspar Frenken and Korbinian Kainz | Unit 6 Ana Nicolaescu and Sebastian Tiew
- 2017 Tutors
Unit 1
Ariadna Barthe and Antoine Vaxelaire | Unit 2 Bethany Edgoose and Nathan Su | Unit 3 Sabrina Morreale and Lorenzo Perri | Unit 5 Benjamin Groothuijsse, David Schmidt and Korbinian Kainz | Unit 6 Isabel Collado and Ignacio Peydro- 2016 Tutors
Unit 1
Antoine Vaxelaire, Ariadna Barthe, Frida Escobedo and Derek Dellekamp | Unit 2 Arantza Ozaeta and Alvaro Martin | Unit 3 Aphrodite Stathopoulou and Melanie Wavamunno | Unit 4 Ana Marti-Baron and Clement Blanchet | Unit 5 Sabrina Morreale and Valerio Massaro | Unit 6 Onur Ozkaya and Vikrant Tike | Unit 7 Alvaro Velasco Perez and Javier Anton |- 2015 Tutors
Unit 1
Madeleine Kessler and Manijeh Verghese | Unit 2 Arantza Ozaeta and Alvaro Martin | Unit 3 Diego Trujillo Pisanty, Mark McKeague and Tom Schofield | Unit 4 Ignacio Peydro and Isabel Collado | Unit 5 Tamao Hashimoto, Rory Pennant-Rea and Edmund Fowles | Unit 6 Rafael Beneytez and Victor M Cano | Unit 7 Amita Kulkarni and Vikrant Tike | Unit 8 Tom Svilans, Greg Storrar and Dave Reeves- 2014 Tutors
Unit 1: Manijeh Verghese & Madeleine Kessler, Unit 2: Aranza Ozaeta & Alvaro Martin, Unit 3: Ana Marti-Baron & Clement Blanchet, Unit 4: Esteban Salcedo & David Archilla, Unit 5: Javier Pena Galiano, Maria Jose Marcos, Gorka Blas, Kim Sewon Roy, Unit 6: Scrap Marshall, Eleanor Dodman & Pasquale Iannone, Unit 7: Anna Czigler, Aude-Line Duliere, Suzi Pain & Gabriel Sanchiz
- 2013 Tutors
Unit 1: Mark E. Breeze & Dolores V. Ruiz, Unit 2: Manijeh Verghese, Elena Palacios Carral & Madeleine Kessler, Unit 3: Jeffrey Smith, Doug Rice & Robert Horton,Unit 4: Sylvie Taher & Jon Lopez , Unit 5: Arantza Ozaeta Cortazar & Alvaro Martin Fidalgo
- 2012 Tutors
Unit 1: Fran Balaam & Cristina Monteiro, Unit 2:
Manuel Collado & Nacho Martin, Unit 3: Jorgen Tandberg & Umberto Bellardi Ricci, Unit 4: Shaelena Morley & Manijeh Verghese, Unit 5: Mark E. Breeze, Dolores V. Ruiz, Juanjo Ruiz, Eduardo Rega, Beatriz Villanueva & Francisco J. Casas- 2011 Tutors
Unit 1: Alex Kaiser, Trevor Flynn & Anderson Inge, Unit 2: Ingrid Schroeder & Julika Gittner, Unit 3: Lawrence Lek, Onur Ozkaya & Jesse Randzio, Unit 4: Nacho Martin & Manuel Collado, Unit 5: Olga Felip, Albert Serra, Irene Sola, Jaume Farres & Catarina Brito
- 2010 Tutors
Unit 1: Gaspar Libedinsky & Florencia Vetcher, Unit 2: Charles Arsene-Henry & Richard Rhys, Unit 3: Clement Blanchet & Mads Farso, Unit 4: Sarah Baker & Anthony Gross, Unit 5: Noam Andrews & Rene Barownick
- 2009 Tutors
Adam Furman, Marie de Monseignat, Douglas Moffat, Steve Bates, Joshua Bonnetta, Julika Gittner, Sarah Entwistle, Geraldine Dening, David Knight, Europa, Finn Williams, Ulf Hackauf, Inigo Minns and Onkar Kular, Noam Andrews, René Barownick, Yeena Yoon