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Month October 2011

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TERM 1 WEEK 6 (OPEN WEEK): Monday 31st October to Friday 4th November

Oct 30, ’11 8:00 AM

SCHEDULE FOR WEEK 6: Monday 31st October to Friday 4th November
(Brief 2 Project 2: Reconstructed London – The Architectural Boundary)

OPEN WEEK:

Design Tutorials are scheduled at specific time, to allow you to attend the different events of the Open Week. In particular do not miss the Open Jury Portfolios 2010/11 on Friday.

On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, there are a series of Digital Workshops: make sure you have laptop with software installed (AutoCAD, Rhino, Vectorworks).

In Green, workshops for Monia, Alex, and Ingrid’s students;

In Blue, workshops for Valentin, Max, and Sarah’s students;

In Orange, workshops for everyone;

Monday 24th October:

10:00 – 11:00:     Cleaning and organizing the First Year Studio;

11:00 – 18:00:     Tutorial with Individual Tutors (confirm your time slot with your tutor);

18:00:                    The Room for the Boomsbury Festival: Digital Submission;

18:00 – 19:00:     Talks: Forms of Teaching and Learning, [First Year Studio]. Series of talk with AA tutors and AA graduates on different forms of teaching and learning. Tutor: Shin Egashira (Dip 11).

Tuesday 25th October:

10:00 – 21:00:     Workshop: Rhino with Thomas Jensen [First Year Studio]:

                               10:00 – 12:00: Lesson 1 – Rhino Interface and 2D;

                               12:00 – 21:00: Individual tutorials and questions;

18:00 – 21:00:      Workshop: Rhino with Yheu Shen [First Year Studio] – Individual tutorials and questions;

10:00 – 13:00:     Workshop: AutoCAD with Gabriella Gama [Building 39 First Floor Front];

14:00 – 21:00:      Workshop: Rhino with James Kwang-ho Chung [First Year Studio];

Wednesday 26th October:
10:00 – 18:00:     Tutorial with Individual Tutors (confirm the time with your tutor);

14:00 – 18:00:     Workshop: Rhino with Thomas Jensen [First Year Studio]:

                               14:00 – 15:00: Lesson 2 – Rhino 3D;

                                15:00 – 18:00: Individual tutorials and questions;

18:00 – 21:00:     Workshop: Rhino with HyunSuk Yi [First Year Studio] – Individual tutorials and questions;

Thursday 27th October:

10:00 – 13:00:      Workshop: Rhino with Yheu Shen [First Year Studio] – Individual tutorials and questions;

14:00 – 18:00:     Workshop: Rhino with Thomas Jensen [First Year Studio]:

                              14:00 – 15:00: Lesson 3 – Rhino extract drawings;

              15:00 – 18:00: Individual tutorials and questions;

10:00 – 13:00:     Workshop: AutoCAD with Gabriella Gama [Building 39 First Floor Front].

18:00 – 21:00:     Workshop: Rhino with HyunSuk Yi [First Year Studio] – Individual tutorials and questions;

18:00 – 21:00:     Workshop: Rhino with James Kwang-ho Chung [First Year Studio] – Individual tutorials and questions;

Friday 28th October:
10:00 – 18:00:     Tutorial with Individual Tutors (confirm your time slot with your tutor);

10:00 – 18:00:     AA Event – Open Jury Portfolios 2010/11;

Saturday 29th October:
10:00 – 13:00:     Workshop: AutoCAD with Gabriella Gama [First Year Studio];

10:00 – 13:00:     Workshop: Rhino with HyunSuk Yi [First Year Studio];

10:00 – 13:00:     Workshop: Rhino with Yheu Shen [First Year Studio];

10:00 – 18:00:     Workshop: Rhino with James Kwang-ho Chung [First Year Studio];

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FY Talk: Dip 11 Graduates

Oct 28, ’11 8:00 AM

Monday First Year Talk: Forms of Teaching & Learning.

Diploma 11 Shin Egashira & Graduates

Date: Monday 31st October;

Time: 18:00 – 19:00;

Location: Lecture Hall;

Series of talk with AA tutors and AA graduates on different forms of teaching and learning.

 

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TERM 1 WEEK 5: Monday 24th October to Friday 28th October

Oct 24, ’11 9:00 AM

SCHEDULE FOR WEEK 5: Monday 24th October to Friday 28th October
(Brief 2 Project 2: Reconstructed London – The Architectural Boundary)

Monday 24th October:

10:00 – 12:00:     Dismantling and Cleaning Bedford Square & Studio Space;

15:00 – 15:30:     Conclusion of the Brief 2 Project 1: Reconstructed London. The Room for the Bloomsbury Festival;

15:30 – 17:00:     Presentation of Brief 2 Project 2: Reconstructed London. The Architectural Boundary;

17:00 – 19:00:     Tutorial (time to be confirmed with each tutor);

Tuesday 25th October:

10:00 – 12:00:     HTS Canonical Comparison, Seminars (3rd of 7 sessions);

12:00 – 13:00:     HTS Canonical Comparison, Lecture by Chris Pierce (3rd of 7 sessions);

13:00 – 14:00:     First Year Student meeting with Brett Steele in Rear Second Presentation Space

14:00 – 17:00:     MS (3rd of 7 sessions);

Wednesday 26th October:
10:00 – 18:00:     Tutorial (time to be confirmed with each tutor);

12:00 – 14:00:      Hands-On Workshop: Introduction to Orthogonal Drawings & Projections by Valentin.

Thursday 27th October:

14:00 – 17:00:     TS (3rd of 7 sessions);

Friday 28th October:
10:00 – 18:00:     Tutorial (time to be confirmed with each tutor);

12:00 – 22:00:     Thrilling Wonder Stories 3. Organised by Liam Young and Geoff Manaugh (take some time to go), http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/VIDEO/lecture.php?ID=1611;

Also during the week, it is important you check and go to see the other AA Events and Lectures.

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First Year Juries

Oct 24, ’11 8:00 AM

Friday 11th November: INDIVIDUAL JURY

Brief 2 Project 2: Reconstructed London. The Architectural Boundary;

 

Monday 14th November: FIRST PORTFOLIO JURY

Brief 1: The Architect’s Self-Portrait & The Architect’s Dream;

Brief 2 Project 1: Reconstructed London. The Room for the Bloomsbury Festival;

Brief 2 Project 2: Reconstructed London. Architectural Boundary;

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Brief 2 Project 2: Reconstructed London. The Architectural Boundary

Oct 24, ’11 8:00 AM

Transgressed Boundaries
Tutors: Monia De Marchi, Alex Kaiser, Ingrid Schroder
The distillation of rooms that we constructed for the Bloomsbury festival defines a set of arbitrary boundaries that mark private space but can at the same time be transgressed. Using these observations we will define and then draw boundaries. We will questions if the boundaries are visible or invisible, physical or ephemeral, soft or rigid, explicit or hidden, social or political, economic or cultural, … We will investigate and address how these disguised divisions are not always reconciled with the physical barriers that shape the room. As we draw we will need to find the means to reveal these divisions. Each drawing that you produce represents a part of a larger puzzle: you will develop and work on five A1 drawings of a boundary while questioning: how do you set a boundary? And how do you transgress a boundary? Also you
will think how the five drawings can be sequenced in the form of an argument, and each notation will provide the fundamental link of the sequence. Are your drawings organized in sequence? Or are they layered? Do they have a specific
order or can we move them around? How are they combined? At the same time you will keep record of a fast (written down in almost a surrealist fashion) series of thoughts.

Conjugated Boundaries: Obscure objects of Desire
Tutors: Valentin Bontjes van Beek, Sarah Entwistle, Max Kahlen
What makes a boundary a boundary? To what degree do our perceptions and preconceptions affect our understanding of a boundary? We will begin by focusing our investigations and observations of ‘conjugated boundaries’ at 6 dense spatial and programmatic junctures within the Architectural Association. Students will first analyse and interrogate these territories through precise measured drawings that establish both the material and immaterial boundaries at work upon these sites. The outcome will be a series of detailed surveys, that record and translate defined conditions of boundaries. These drawings then set the ground for more speculative approaches to the junctures, posing questions of where are boundaries malleable. What spatial devices can we erase or add to interrupt, extend and generate boundaries in their broadest sense?

 

OVERALL OUTPUT
Each student will investigate a boundary that can be measured and will read short texts suggested by the tutors, while developing a written intention and five A1 drawings.

Drawing 1: PLAN in scale 1:20; Drawing 2: PLAN in scale TBC; Drawing 3: SECTION in scale TBC; Drawing 4: Axonometric or Isometric Projections; Drawing 5: Notation;

INDIVIDUAL JURY: Friday 11th November
Brief 2 Project 2: Reconstructed London. The Architectural Boundary;

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The Rooms for the Bloomsbury Festival – Photos by Sue Barr

Oct 22, ’11 8:00 AM

The Rooms for the Bloomsbury Festival – Photos by Sue Barr

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Brief 2: Reconstructed London – The Room for the Bloomsbury Festival

Oct 21, ’11 8:00 AM

The making of the rooms for the Bloomsbury Festival.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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FY Talk: Dip 4 Graduate – Thomas Fox

Oct 17, ’11 8:00 AM

Monday First Year Talk: Forms of Teaching & Learning.

Diploma 4 – John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog & Thomas Fox.

Date: Monday 17th October;

Time: 18:00 – 19:00;

Location: Lecture Hall;

Series of talk with AA tutors and AA graduates on different forms of teaching and learning.

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TERM 1 WEEK 4: Monday 17th October to Friday 21st October

Oct 16, ’11 8:00 AM

SCHEDULE FOR WEEK 4: Monday 170th October to Friday 21st October
(Brief 2: Reconstructed London – The Room. The Bloomsbury Festival)

Monday 17th October:

10:00 – 13:00:     Construction of the Rooms for the Bloomsbury Festival; Possible access to the Bedford Square;

13:00 – 14:00:     First Year Student meeting with Brett Steele;

14:00 – 17:00:     Construction of the Rooms for the Bloomsbury Festival;

17:00 – 17:30:     Securing and cleaning all the material from Bedford Square;

18:00 – 19:00:     Talks: Forms of Teaching and Learning, [Lecture Hall]. Series of talk with AA tutors and AA graduates on different forms of teaching and learning. Tutor: John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, Diploma 4; Students: Thomas Fox;

Tuesday 11th October:

10:00 – 12:00:     HTS Canonical Comparison, Seminars (2nd of 7 sessions);

12:00 – 13:00:     HTS Canonical Comparison, Lecture by Brett Steele: Chartres Cathedral / Centre George Pompidou, Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers;

14:00 – 17:00:     MS (2nd of 7 sessions);

Wednesday 12th October:
10:00 – 17:00:     Construction of the Rooms for the Bloomsbury Festival;

17:00 – 17:30:     Securing and cleaning all the material from Bedford Square;

Thursday 13th October:

10:00 – 13:00:     Construction of the Rooms for the Bloomsbury Festival;

17:00 – 17:30:     Securing and cleaning all the material from Bedford Square;

14:00 – 17:00:     TS (2nd of 7 sessions);

Friday 14th October:
10:00 – 15:00:     Construction of the Rooms for the Bloomsbury Festival;

15:00 – 16:00:     Finishing installations, cleaning, and opening;

17:00 – 18:00:     Time to be Confirmed: Securing all equipments;

Saturday 14th October:
10:00 – 17:00:     Bloomsbury Festival. All Students need to be present;

17:00 – 18:00:     Time to be Confirmed: Securing all equipments;

Sunday 15th October:
10:00 – 17:00:     Bloomsbury Festival. All Students need to be present;

17:00 – 18:00:     Time to be Confirmed: Securing all equipments;

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TERM 1 WEEK 3: Monday 10th October to Friday 14th October

Oct 9, ’11 8:00 AM

SCHEDULE FOR WEEK 3: Monday 10th October to Friday 14th October      (Brief 2: Reconstructed London – The Room. The Bloomsbury Festival)
Monday 10th October:
10:00 – 13:00 Pin‐Up: Final Proposal for Rooms for the Bloomsbury Festival with detailed design, materials, costs and making procedures;
14:00 – 18:00 Group Tutorials;
Tuesday 11th October:
am: HTS 1st Year Courses (2nd of 7 sessions);
pm: MS 1st Year Courses (2nd of 7 sessions);
Wednesday 12th October:
10:00 – 13:00 Pin‐Up: Making the Rooms for the Bloomsbury Festival;
14:00 – 18:00 Group Tutorial: Making the Room;
18:00 – 20:00 Talks: Forms of Teaching and Learning, [1s Year Studio Space];  Tutor: Dip 9 (2007,2008,2009); Graduates: Amandine Kastler, Tarek Shamma.
Thursday 13th October:
am + pm: TS 1st Year Courses (2nd of 7 sessions);
Friday 14th October:
10:00 – 13:00 Jury: Making the Rooms for the Bloomsbury Festival;
14:00 – 18:00 Group Tutorial;
18:00 – 19:00 AA Lecture: Krzysztof Wodiczko, War, Conflict, and Art: Projections, instrumentations, designs;

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Joel Newman, Tracer Fire, at the AA

Oct 8, ’11 8:00 AM

Joel Newman, Tracer Fire at the AA

18 September 2011 – 26 October 2011;
AA Back Memebers’ Room;

Make sure you don’t miss the exhibition by Joel. Joel has shown work at the
ICA and Whitechapel Art Gallery. He has taught video at the AA since 1998.

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OMA/Progress at the Barbican

Oct 6, ’11 4:59 AM

OMA/Progress at the Barbican

6 October 2011 – 19 February 2012;
Barbican Art Gallery;

The exhibition of OMA’s works and ideas opens today at the Barbican. OMA was co-founded in 1975 by Rem Koolhaas as the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, OMA.

Download the calendar for events and lectures: http://www.barbican.org.uk/media/events/12472omatalksevents.pdf

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Technical Studies Course Term 1

Oct 1, ’11 8:00 AM

The Term 1 course: Exemplars by Ben Godber and David Illingworth, runs for 3 hours on Thursday afternoon from 2:00pm.

Refer to the weekly Events List for locations/venues; and to the Course Booklet for Lecture/Seminars schedule and bibliography.

This course aims to equip students with the skills to critically engage with existing buildings and works of architecture through the examination of structure. The year will be divided into groups, with each group being assigned a case study building in London. As such, London will be our principal teaching resource. Students will be encouraged to get under the skin of their case study buildings, to see them ‘in the flesh’, to draw them, to conduct research into them, to produce physical models and, above all, to ask questions. What is that element of the building for? What loads is it subject to? Why this particular geometry? Why was this material chosen? How was it constructed?
Weekly lectures given by the course tutors aim to provide students with a sound qualitative understanding and appreciation of fundamental structural principles: forces and loads; form and geometry; and mechanics of materials. The course will conclude with each group of students presenting their case study to their peers along with the submission of a brief written report.

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Media Studies Courses

Oct 1, ’11 8:00 AM


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can find the Media StudiesCourse for First Year here:

http://www.aa-mediastudies.net/MS-Core/MSC_CoursesFY_T01.aspx

Click on the course to see list of enrolled students, time and location.

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The First Year Studio

Oct 1, ’11 8:00 AM

Some different aspects of the First Year Studio.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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History and Theory Studies Course Term 1

Oct 1, ’11 8:00 AM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Term 1 course: Canonical Comparisons, by Chris Pierce and Brett Steele runs for 3 hours on Tuesday mornings.

Seminar: 10:00am – 12:00pm;

Lecture: 12:00am – 1:00pm;

Course Lecturers: Christopher Pierce + Brett Steele
Course Tutor: Mollie Claypool
Teaching Assistants: Emma Jones, Alison Moffet, Zaynab Dena Ziari

In this course, we will analyse in-depth some of the most important Western European architectural projects and texts from Classical Greece to the Enlightenment, but not as standalone works. We will intentionally collapse the historical narrative by pairing a pre-modern project with a modern
counterpart. In this way, the course seeks to not only closely scrutinize significant buildings, which are generally agreed to represent key moments in the history of architectural thinking/production, but also to raise entirely new questions in relation to them with the objective of developing and engaging
the students critical faculties of creative thinking and interpretation in relation to architectural history and theory.
On a week-by-week basis students will learn ways to comprehend and analyze wildly different buildings via different forms of scrutiny, but which will include conventional methods of architectural description (plan, section and elevation, materials and technologies), and be introduced to the more discursive methods of twenty- and twenty-first-century writers who have given distinctive insight to these works.

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First Year – HTS Website

Oct 1, ’11 7:00 AM

For info on the HTS courses, please check the website:

http://aafirstyearhts.wordpress.com/

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