POLITICS OF FABRICATION I

Intermediate Unit 8 Selection of Final Portfolios

2010-07-01T21:53:00.002+01:00

Congratulations to all Intermediate Unit 8 Students for their amazing portfolios.

Atta, Gary, Karl, Kayvan, Lyza, Maud, Max, Merve, Olivia, Stavros, Uliana and Yong

Our best wishes to Costa Rivetti.

Projects Review Exhibition

2010-06-27T20:06:00.005+01:00

External Examinors RIBA

2010-06-21T19:50:00.000+01:00

Congratulations to all 3rd year students!
Elisabeth Adams and Neil Thomas reviewed the work of all our 3rd year students.

Atta Yousefi Presentation
(C) Valerie Bennett

Max Hacke pinning up his drawings

Karl Karam prepare for his presentation

Exhibition Schedule

2010-06-17T16:45:00.003+01:00

Please be time to do your asigned work.

Exhibition Images

2010-06-14T21:43:00.005+01:00

Congratulations

2010-06-13T14:54:00.001+01:00

Congratulations to all 2nd year!You did a great job the whole year. Best whishes in your future careers.

Francisco+Nuria

Exhibition meeting

2010-06-13T14:53:00.002+01:00

Nest Wednesday 16th of June we will meet in Inter Unit 8 space to talk about exhibition. lease bring your portfolios in aUSB to decide what pictures will be on the wall.

Thanks to all!!

2010-06-11T13:18:00.003+01:00

Thanks to all!

Intermediate (Part 1) Final Check

2010-06-09T20:02:00.002+01:00

Monday 14th June 2010
Lecture Hall AM
Table 4
Inter 8

10:00 Uliana Apatina
10:30 Gary Dupont
11:00 Max Hacke
11:30 Karl Karam

Tuesday 15th June 2010
Lecture Hall AM
Table 3
Inter 8

10:00 Yong Taek Kwon
10:30 Maud Sanciaume
11:00 Kayvan Sarvi
11:30 Amir Yousefi

It is extremly important to be on time for your review.

Last tutorials before 3rd year tables

2010-06-05T08:43:00.002+01:00

Tuesday
10.00 Karl
10.30 Yong
11.00 Uliana
11.30 Atta
12.00 Max
12.30 Kayvan

Thursday
10.00 Gary
10.30 Karl
11.00 Uliana
11.30 Atta
12.00 Yong
12.30 Max

2.00 Kayvan
2.30 Maud

Exhibition: Havana The death body of Paradise

2010-05-31T19:35:00.003+01:00

Intermediate Unit 8 Exhibition in the Architectural Association

From 3rd to 18th June 2010

http://havanadeathbody.blogspot.com/

http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/PUBLIC/WHATSON/exhibitions.php

Thanks to all students for their work and involvenement in this exhibition.

2nd Year Final Tables

2010-05-29T21:33:00.001+01:00

Monday 7th of June
Lecture Hall AA

09:30 Merve Anil
10:00 Stavros Papavassiliou
10:30 Ielyzaveta Rudyk
11:00 Olivia Wright
11:30 Costa Rivetti

Please be on time for you review

Tutorials

2010-05-29T08:00:00.002+01:00

Moonday 31st May
3.00 Olivia
3.30 Yong

Thursday 3rd June
1.30 Maud
2.00 Karl
3.00 Stavros
3.30 Merve
4.00 Olivia
4.30 Lyza

5.00 Exhibition Opens

Friday 4th June
12.00 Gary
12.40 Uliana
3.00 Atta
3.40 Max
4.20 Kayvan

Tutorials

2010-05-26T19:01:00.009+01:00

ext tutorials will be divided between Thursday afternoon, Friday afternoon and Saturday morning.

Friday 27th May
2.30 Stavros
3.00 Merve
3.30 Max
4.00 Uliana
4.30 Gary
5.00 Kayvan
5.30 Maud

Saturday 28th May

11.00 Karl

11.30 Lyza
12.00 Atta

TS3 Final Jury

2010-05-25T19:52:00.006+01:00

Technical Studies Final Jury will be the next Thursday 27th May from 10am to 2pm in 38 Bedford Square Building , Ground Floor Room G.02. Please be on time.

After Final Jury tutorials

2010-05-21T14:09:00.004+01:00

Nest tutorials in Inter Unit 8 Space
Saturday 22nd May
10.00 Karl
11.00 Maud
11.30 Yong
12.00 Uliana
12.30 Atta

Monday
10.00 Olivia
10.30 Gary
11.00 Stavros
11.30 Max
12.00 Lyza
12.30 Kayvan
2.00 Merve

3rd Term Final Jury

2010-05-18T20:00:00.008+01:00

Inter Unit 8 3rd Term Final Jury will be held in 38 Bedford Square Room G01 (Ground floor front room) in two sessions –10am-1pm and 2pm-6pm. Jury critics will be Edgar Gonzalez (Brisac & Gonzalez Architects), Ludovico Lombardi (Zaha Hadid/Bartlett Urban Design Master Tutor), Nathalie Rozencwaig, Michel Da Costa Goncalves (Inter Unit 5), Marco Poletto (Inter Unit 10), Lucy Bullivant (Communicating Architecture), Evan Greenberg (AA EmTech Master Tutor), Alberto Sabater Alloza (IDOM), Mark Campbell (Inter Unit 1) and Mauricio Puentes (Universidad de Valparaiso).

Thanks to all guest critics, students and staff

Pre-Jury Pin up

2010-05-14T08:00:00.007+01:00

Next Monday 17th of May we will have a pre-jury Pin-up in Open Room 3. Please bring your argument, research, drawings, images and models. If you have images in your computer we can project them on the plasma screen.

Morning -2nd year session (Pin-up)
Afternoon- 3rd year session (Round table)

Gary Dupont

Uliana Apatina

Next Week Tutorials

2010-05-08T16:02:00.005+01:00

2nd year tutorials on Monday 10th May Inter Unit 8 space

3.00pm Liza
3.30 Merve
4.00 Olivia
4.30 Stavros

Tutorials on Wednesday 12th May Inter Unit 8 space

3.30 Kayvan
4.00 Yong
4.30 Karl
5.30 Olivia
6.00 Liza

TS3 Interim Jury

2010-05-05T19:48:00.002+01:00

Technical Studies 3rd year will be next Monday 10th of May from 10.00 am to 2pm in 38 Bedford Square, Groung Floor Room G.02. please be on time, since it is a very important meeting.

Uliana Apatina

Maud Sanciaume

Atta Yousefi

External Technical Tutorials

2010-05-02T20:04:00.004+01:00

Next Thursday and Friday we will have an external tutor to help you with your structure solutions. The meeting will be in inter Unit 8 space in the following order.

Thursday 6th May
10.00 Max
10.40 Karl
11.20 Gary
12.00 Uliana

2.00 Atta
2.40 Yong
3.20 Maud
4.00 Kayvan
4.40 Olivia

Friday 7th May
10.30 Stavros
11.00 Merve
11.30 Liza

Tutorials

2010-05-01T19:36:00.002+01:00

Next Monday 3rd of May (Bank Holiday) we will have tutorials outside AA in Myhotel , close to AA, in the following order.
10.00 Karl
10.30 Yong
11.00 Liza
11.30 Olivia
12.00 Merve
12.30 Maud
13.00 Atta
13.30 Stavros
14.00 Gary
14.30 Max

Schedule

2010-04-26T20:52:00.004+01:00

Tutorials

2010-04-23T12:00:00.002+01:00

Tutorials of your skin solutions and advances in your portfolio will be on Thursday 29th of April in Inter Unit 8 Space, Bedford Square Building.

Thursday 29th
3rd year students
10.00 Uliana
10.30 Gary
11.00 Max
11.30 Karl
12.00 Yong
12.30 Maud
1.00 Kayvan
2.00 Atta

2.30 Session about unit portfolios
Please bring your portfolios with you
2nd year students
3.00 Lyza
3.30 Merve
4.00 Olivia
4.30Stavros

Previews

2010-04-22T22:18:00.002+01:00

Lecture Hall
Tuesday 27th Morning Table 5
10.00 Uliana
10.30 Gary
11.00 Max
11.30 Karl

Wednesday 28th Morning Table 2
10.00 Yong
10.30 Maud
11.00 Kayvan
11.30 Atta

Tutorials before Pre-views

2010-04-22T19:22:00.002+01:00

Sunday 25th April
5.30 Max

Monday 26th
11.30 Karl
12.00 Costa
12.30 Yong
1.00 Kayvan
1.30 Merve (?)

Review Portfolios 3rd Term

2010-03-19T23:10:00.004Z

After the break we will have a review of your portfolios the 22th and 23rd of April in Inter Unit 8 space. You should bring a printed version of your portfolio and the models you have done. The order will be as follows,

22th April
3rd year students
11-1.30pm and 2.30pm-4pm
11.00 Gary
11.30 Karl
12.00 Max
12.30 Uliana
1.00 Atta

2.00 Maud
2.30 Yong
3.00 Kayvan

23rd April
2nd year students
11 am-2 pm
11.00 Costa
11.30 Stavros
12.00 Olivia
12.30 Merve
1.00 Lyza

2nd Term Final Jury

2010-03-17T16:56:00.000Z

Thanks you to all critics, students, tutors & visitors

2nd Term Final Jury

2010-03-15T20:43:00.001Z

Inter Unit 8 2st Term Final Jury will be held in 39 Bedfored Square – 1st floor Reading Room in two sessions –10am-1pm and 2pm-6pm. Jury critics will be Jeroen van Ameijde (DRL tutor & Head of Digital Prototyping in AA), Claudia Pasquero (AA Inter Unit 10), Charles Tashima ( AA Academic Head), Melissa Woolford (Director of Nous Gallery), Miraj Ahmed (AA Inter Unit 13), Stefano Rabolli and Goswin Schwendinger (Inter Unit 5) and Tomaz Pipan (Unit tutor in London Metropolitan University).

STAVROS

2010-03-14T14:28:00.002Z

QUESTIONING SKINS
Dialog

OLIVIA

2010-03-13T21:57:00.000Z

QUESTIONING SKINS
Ambiguity

LYZA

2010-03-13T21:18:00.000Z

QUESTIONING SKINS
Sharing

ULIANA

2010-03-13T21:14:00.000Z

QUESTIONING SKINS
Revolutionized Freedom

GARY

2010-03-13T21:10:00.000Z

QUESTIONING SKINS
Exchange

MAX

2010-03-13T21:08:00.000Z

QUESTIONING SKINS

Correspondence

MAUD

2010-03-13T21:05:00.001Z

QUESTIONING SKINS
Control/Communication

MERVE

2010-03-13T20:54:00.004Z

QUESTIONING SKINS
Interference

ATTA

2010-03-13T19:27:00.001Z

QUESTIONING SKINS

Pragmatism

YONG

2010-03-13T19:23:00.000Z

QUESTIONING SKINS
In-between

KAYVAN

2010-03-13T19:19:00.000Z

QUESTIONING SKINS

Panopticon

Tutorials next Tuesday 16th March

2010-03-12T20:30:00.000Z

Next Monday 15th of March we will have tutorials with some of you before the Final Jury. They will be in Intermediate Unit 8 space.
2.30 Karl
3.00 Costa
3.30 Yong
4.00 Liza
4.30 Merve (??)

Pin-up W8

2010-03-06T14:04:00.002Z

Last Pin-up before Final Jury will be on Friday 12th March in Open Room 3 from 10am to 7pm.

Tutorials W8

2010-03-06T13:30:00.002Z

Next week tutorials and Pinup

Monday 8th March
11.00 Maud
11.30 Atta
12.00 Kayva

Tuesday 9th March
10.00-12.30 2nd year Open Room 3
Stavros-Merve-Olivia-Liza-Costa

3rd year Intermediate Unit 8 Space
2.00 Max
2.30 Yong
3.00 Uliana
3.30 Atta
4.00 Karl
4.30 Gary

Brief 05 W2

2010-03-05T20:30:00.000Z

W8 Fabrication
08-12 Mar

Readings
Branko Koralevic & Kevin Klinger, Manufacturing Material Effects: Rethinking Design and Making in
Architecture, Routelidge, 2008.
Jennifer Hudson, Process: 50 Product Designs from Concept to Manufacture, Lawrence King, London, 2008

Exhibition Blog

2010-02-28T21:42:00.001Z

http://share-canales-lombardero.blogspot.com/?zx=374c1bb4b184ba91

Tutorials W6 + Grasshopper

2010-02-27T00:34:00.009Z

Next week tutorials will be as follows,

Monday 1st March
11.00Yong
11.30 Maud

Tuesday 2nd March
8.45am-9.45 Grasshopper tutorials
2nd Year-Table review Open Room 3
10.30am -1.00pm Merve-Lyza-Olivia-Stavros-Costa

3rdYear-Tutorials Inter Unit 8 Space
2.00 Atta
2.30 Kayvan
3.00 Gary
3.30 Uliana
4.00 Karl
4.30 Max

Thursday 4th March
Concept review-Inter Unit 8 Space
3.00 Costa
3.30 Maud
4.00 Atta

Friday 5th March
8.45am-9.45 Grasshopper tutorials
10.30 Merve
11.00 Lyza
11.30 Olivia
12.00 Uliana
2.30 Gary
3.00 Yong
3.30 Karl
4.00 Kayvan

Brief 05 W1

2010-02-26T20:35:00.000Z

W7 Materiality
01-05 Mar

Throughout this phase, concepts will acquire more accurate material expressions. Students will work with models and material structures for their explorations in relation to their Technical Studies work.

Seminar by Mehran Gharleghi and Amin Sadeghy. 26 Feb

Readings
Farshid Mousavi and Michael Kubo, The Function of Ornament, Barcelona: Actar, 2008.
Brooke Hodge, Patricia Mears and Susan Sidlauskas (eds.): Skin+Bones, Thames & Hudson, 2006.
Surface Consciousness, AD Magazine, Academy Press, 2003

Brief 05

2010-02-26T20:30:00.003Z

SKIN MATERIALITY

The second half of the term will explore skins’ specific material dimension. This material exploration will rely largely upon physical models, although 2D and 3D construction drawings will also be required and completed during the next term.
(4 weeks)

Seminar - Materiality

2010-02-26T12:31:00.000Z

Next Friday 27th of February there will be a seminar on materiality in open Room 3 at 3pm. see you there.

Studio Integrate
www.studiointegrate.com

Mehran Gharleghi,BArch MArch (The Architectural Association)Mehran Gharleghi received his Master of Architecture from the Emergent Technologies and Design Master Programme at the Architectural Association. He is an architect and researcher. He has been collaborating with prominent architects in Iran since 2002 and recently collaborated with Plasma Studio and Fosters and partners in London. He has been jury member in Diploma unit 10, intermediate unit 7&8 since 2008. He lectured at the Smart Geometry09, AA Fab Research Cluster Symposium and ACADIA 2009.

Mehran Gharleghi has been interviewed in the book entitled ‘Conversation With the Young Architect' in which he seeks the current role of young architect through a conversation with award winnig architect Nasrine Faghih. Mehran Gharleghi and Amin Sadeghy exhibited their ‘Responsive Pneumatic Systems' research at London's Design Festival 2009. Amin Sadeghy BArch MSc (The Architectural Association)Amin Sadeghy received his Master of Science from the Emergent Technologies and Design Master Programme at the Architectural Association. He is an architect and researcher. He has been collaborating with prominent architects in Iran since 2002 and collaborated with Fosters and Partners in London. He lectured at AA Fab Research Cluster Symposium 2009. He has been jury member in intermediate unit 8 since 2008. He lectured at the AA Fab Research Cluster Symposium. Mehran Gharleghi and Amin Sadeghy recently exhibited their ‘Responsive Pneumatic Systems' research at London's Design Festival 2009.

GARY Dupont

2010-02-21T21:54:00.000Z

QUESTIONING SKINS

EXCHANGE

Team
Gary DUPONT
Laura CAMBRA RUFINO
Beatriz DEL CATILLO DE LA FUENTE
Tania GARCÍA-ALBERTOS FARIÑA
Cristian GARCÍA-PARRADO SÁNCHEZ-CORTÉS

MADRID WORKSHOP 2

2010-02-21T13:11:00.004Z

Stavros' Team

Lyza's Team Atta's Team

Maud's team

Gary's Team

Kayvan's Team

Tutorials 2nd Year + 3rd Year

2010-02-20T12:00:00.003Z

Next week we will divide Tutorials+Pin-up as follows,

Wednesday 24th February
2.00-5.00pm Tutorials (Round Table) 2nd Year
Inter Unit 8 Space Morwell
5.00pm Gary
5.30pm Atta
6.00pm Karl

Friday 26th February
Tutorials (Round Table) 3rd year
Open Room 3

2.00 pm Uliana
2.30 pm Max
3.00 pm Kayvan
3.30 pm Maud
4.00pm Yong

Bring your schematic skin designs and sketches of your material solutions.

5.00pm Seminar for all students in Open Room 3

Brief 04 W5

2010-02-19T20:30:00.000Z

W5 Interaction/Participation
22-26 Feb

The ability of skins to work as interfaces that can draw upon individual participation is a recurrent interest in contemporary society. Students will explore this dimension in their designs through performative diagrams.

Readings
Bruno Latour, Making the things Public, Atmospheres of Democracy, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Markus Miessen and Shumon Basar (eds), Did Someone Say Participate? An Atlas of Spatial Practice, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Bullivant, Lucy (ed.), 4dsocial: Interactive Design Environments, AD Magazine, Academy Press, 2007.

References
Rafael Lozano, Body Movies, Rotterdam, 2001.
BIX, installation in the Kunsthaus , Graz, 2003.

MADRID WORKSHOP

2010-02-18T19:32:00.000Z

Inter Unit 8 will be in ETSA Madrid , Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, from the 15th to the 19th of February. There we will be working with Madrilean students and tutors.

Sunday 14th
11.00 am
Atocha Train Station
Main Entrance
(Tube station: Atocha Renfe)

Monday 15th
12 am
ETSAMadrid
Avenida Juan de Herrera, 4

Main Entrance

(Tube station: Ciudad Universitaria)

Tuesday 16th

09.30 am
Tuñon & Mansilla Office

(Tube station: Cuatro Caminos)

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
10.00 am

ETSAMadrid
Avenida Juan de Herrera, 4

Thursday 18th

5.00pm

Visit to Rafael Moneo Office

Meeting point XS7 ETSAMadrid @4.15pm

Friday 19th

3pm Final Presentation

Aula Magna ETSAMadrid

KAYVAN

2010-02-12T22:22:00.001Z

QUESTIONING SKINS

MAUD Sanciaume

2010-02-12T22:11:00.002Z

QUESTIONING SKINS

LYZA Rudyk

2010-02-12T22:06:00.003Z

QUESTIONING SKINS

Brief 04 W4

2010-02-12T20:30:00.004Z

W11 WORKSHOP AT THE ETSAM, MADRID.

15-19 February

This one-week workshop with the GEP Unit (Andres Perea, Paula Montoya, Izaskun Chinchilla, and Jose Luis Vallejo—Ecosistema Urbano) at the ETSA Madrid will explore democracy in current societies through individual spatial experimentation.

augmentedbook
AA-ETSAM workshop
Madrid feb-2010

Foreword
Architects are failed readers. We are trained to browse on books to extract the
maximum information out of images, charts, tables and legal manuals. The missing text
linking one piece of info to another is replaced by creativity.
But architects also live among books. They are companions and instruments for our
creative work as well as objects of desire for potential knowledge.
This AA-ETSAM one-week workshop in Madrid presents a challenging opportunity for a
collaborative design studio around books --reconsidering contents, contexts and
containers.
By infiltration methods, students are expected to develop consistent experimentations
on design procedures manipulating previous existing materials, binding and unbinding,
infiltrating and relocating information.

Chapter one: the aim of the workshop
The raw materials are 13 booklets produced by inter unit 8 students at the AA. These
booklets are dealing with designs for politically involved scenarios. Collaborative group
of students will transform these booklets through a series of particular operations whose
aim is to imprint and feed with information the initial document.
The title of the workshop refers to the paradox of books as self-contained but extensive
systems. From a concise and coherent piece, the book unfolds as a major expression of
collaborative connections. Architects become editors who convert a book into a pod in
which to cultivate information.
As a local tribute to James Joyce’s procedures, the only condition of this transformation
is not deleting anything and increasing the contents (minimum x2) inserting texts,
images, drawings, instructions, prototypes etc…
Measuring unit will be bytes.
Following those constraints the aim of this workshop is to change the nature of the
book augmenting its attributes and transforming them into something different by
modifying some of the following aspects:

Type of book 1
o Physical aspect
o Contents
o Order of the contents (chapters)
o Reading sequence
o Beginning and ending

Note 1
Taxonomy of books (relating themes and containers)
Fiction
Scientific books
Pop-up books
Illustrated albums
Atlas
User’s manuals
Graphic novels
Object- books
Music scores
Travel guides
Cooking books
Recorded books

Chapter two: operating manual for transformations
Students will select concepts and architectural evidences in the AA material liable to be
transformed or further developed. Amongst other possible operations we propose (not
to be taken literally):
􀂙 Apply new patterns to be used over the existing projects
􀂙 Transform what is extensive into intensive
􀂙 Propose a reversible version of the scheme
􀂙 Extract one or several pieces proven as inefficient and insert a replacement
􀂙 Swift form mundane to extraordinary
􀂙 Map the budget inside the proposal
􀂙 Trace maps to link several projects
􀂙 Increase the graphic material to describe a scheme
􀂙 Increase the conceptual material of a project with examples.
􀂙 Change the working context of a programme
􀂙 Reduce carbon dioxide emissions of whatever contained in the book
􀂙 Transformation of the object-book
􀂙 Increase in four degrees the “working temperature” of the book
􀂙 Merge books together to change the scale of the proposals
􀂙 Define grammar to be applied to book contents

III Research Seminar on Urbanism

2010-02-08T00:46:00.000Z

Next Monday 8th of February tutor Nuria Alvarez Lombardero will be lecturing in UPC Barcelona her Phd Research work. "Breaking the Boundaries of Modern Urban Planning."

Pin-up W3

2010-02-07T20:30:00.002Z

Before leaving to Spain we will have a pin-up on Friday 12th Feb in Open Room 3 from 10am to 7pm. Bring a selection of your work till date and the lastest drawings.

Tutorials W3

2010-02-06T00:19:00.003Z

Tutorials will be in Inter Unit 8 space as follows,

Tuesday 9th of February
10.00 Costa
10.30 Uliana
11.30 Atta
12.00 Stavros

2.00 Karl
2.30 Kayvan
3.00 Maud
3.30 Max

Wednesday 10th of February
10.00 Yong
10.30 Gary
1.00 Merve
1.30 Olivia
2.00 Liza

Brief 04 W3

2010-02-06T00:12:00.000Z

W3 Transparency/Reflection/Projection
08-12 Feb

Transparency is a fundamental property for any politically healthy environment. Projection and reflection are increasingly important for representational purposes in political activation. Therefore, students will test these three qualities through drawings and conceptual models.

Readings
C. Rowe and R. Slutzky Transparency, Birkhauser, 1997, pp.21-56.
Josep Quetglas, “Fear of Glass: The Barcelona Pavilion”, in Architecture Production, N.Y: Princeton Architectural Press, 1988, pp. 122-151.
Jeffery Kipnis, "The Cunning of Cosmetics", Du 5 no.706 (May 2000), pp.6-9.

References
Walter Gropius, Total Theater for Erwin Piscator, Berlin, 1927.
Pierre Charreau, Maison de Verre, Paris, 1928/32.
Giuseppe Terragni, Casa del Fascio, Lissone, Italy, 1932-36.
Peter Zumthor, Bregenz Museum, Austria, 1990-1997.

Visits (tbc)
Laban Contemporary Dance Centre, Creekside, Deptford – London, Herzog and de Meuron, 2003.
30 St. Mary Axe Street - London, Foster & Partners, 2004.

Images from Cuba

2010-02-05T14:53:00.000Z

Plaza de la Revolución Havana Vieja

Coppelia Ice Cream Place, Havana

School of Arts, Havana

Nautic Club, Miramar, Havana

Combined Tutorial

2010-01-30T11:35:00.003Z

Inter Unit 8 combined tutorial will be with Inter Unit 10 students and tutors next Friday 5th February in 37 Bedford Square building 1st floor from 10am to 7pm.
http://aainter10.blogspot.com/

Grasshopper Seminar

2010-01-30T11:10:00.004Z

The first seminar of Grasshopper by Jheny Nieto will be from 11am to 1pm next Wednesday 3rd February in Open Room 4. Please bring your laptops to the seminar.

The next seminars will be in the following order,

11am-1pm Sat. 6th February Open Room 3
11am-1pm Wed. 10th February Open Room 3
11am-1pm Wed. 24th February Open Room 3
11am-1pm Sat. 27th February Open Room 3
11am-1pm Wed. 3rd March Open Room 3

Tutorials B04 W2

2010-01-30T11:01:00.003Z

Next week tutorials will be in Inter Unit 8 Space following this order,

Tuesday 2nd February
10.00 Kayvan
10.30 Atta
11.00 Maud
11.30 Liza
12.00 Merve
13.30 Gary
14.00 Stavros
14.30 Costa
15.00 Olivia
15.30 Karl

Wednesday 3rd February
13.30 Max
14.00 Yong
14.30 Uliana

Brief 04 W2

2010-01-29T20:30:00.002Z

W3 Permeability/Porosity
01-05 Feb

Building on the discussing from the first term, the politics of skin openings will be reassessed through students’ designs throughout this week. Each student will provide an efficient system of openings for the skins that is consistent with the political argument being presented.

Readings
Steven Holl, Experiments on Porosity, The Architectural Review, 2006.

References
Steven Holl, Sarphatistraat Offices, Amsterdam, 1996-2000.
Francois Roches I' ve Heard About: Hypnotic Chamber, 2006.

Pin up Brief 04 W1

2010-01-24T20:30:00.003Z

The First Pin-up after our trip to Havana will be on Friday 29th January in Open room 3 Bedford Square building from 10.00 to 7pm aprox. From 4pm to 5 pm Charles Tashima will show Portfolio examples.

Organoponicos

2010-01-23T20:00:00.000Z

Movie about the Organoponicos

"The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil" (2006)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1721584909067928384#

Organoponicos in Avenida de la Independencia, Havana, Cuba

National School of Arts Havana

2010-01-23T19:42:00.000Z

Escuelas Nacionales de Arte de La Habana - Cuba

http://www.atp.com.ar/post/Info/147566/Escuelas_de_Cuba-.html

Tutorial Brief 04 W1

2010-01-22T23:02:00.000Z

First tutorial after Havana travel will be on Tuesday in Open Room 3. From 12 to 7pm we will be reviewing your work to be presented next Friday. Before this tutorial a seminar will be lectured by Jeroen van Ameijde.

Brief 04 W1

2010-01-22T23:00:00.001Z

W1 Shape/Space
25-31 Jan
Skins are not only thin, flat surfaces, but they have also proven their ability to produce and incorporate space within their thickness. Students will evaluate these properties using their own designs by producing a different range of models and schematic drawings.

Readings
David Leatherbarrow & Mohsen Mostafavi, Surface Architecture, MIT Press, 2002.
Richard Sennett, Fall of the Public Man, London: Faber, 1986.

References
Frank Ghery, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, California, USA, 2003.
Herzog and de Meuron, Ciudad el Flamenco, 2005.
Canales + Lombardero Patio House Without House, 2006.

04 Brief

2010-01-22T22:44:00.000Z

QUESTIONING SKINS

After your initial contact with La Habana, students will initiate a systematic questioning of these skins through issues and concepts specific to the relationship between individuals and building skins. These include shape/space; permeability/porosity/transparency; reflection/projection; representation/phenomenology; and participation/interaction. (5 weeks)

Revision of Arguments and Portfolios

2010-01-20T22:06:00.004Z

Next Friday 22nd of January we will review your portfolios. Please bring your work till date and ideas for next steps in your design for Plaza de La Revolucion. We will appreciate if you bring your photos of the trip with you to be share in the Unit. The meeting will be held in Intermediate Unit 8 as we did at the end of the first term.

10.00 Atta/Olivia/Kayvan

12.00 Gary/Uliana

2.00 Max/Stavros /Merve/Liza

4.30 Maud/Yong

6.00 Karl/Costa

TS3 Meeting

2010-01-20T20:30:00.000Z

Next Thursday 21st of Janury we will have a meeting with TS3 tutors in Intermediate Unit 8 Space at 3pm. Please bring your work and ideas to organize your work till the end of the year.

Travel to Cuba

2010-01-06T22:37:00.001Z

Intermediate Unit 8 will be in Havana from the 6th to the 19th of January.

Movies

2009-12-23T09:28:00.001Z

There are three movies in the AA Photo Library about Havana,

Habana Blues - Benito Zambrano
Soy Cuba - Mikhail Kalatozov
Buena Vista Club Social - Wim Wenders

Enjoy them!

MAUD

2009-12-22T12:08:00.004Z

BUILDING A POLITICAL ARGUMENT

ULIANA

2009-12-22T11:37:00.001Z

Brief 2 Reassesing Disciplinary Tools

VOID: People as Construction

FULL: Construction as people

1st Term work

2009-12-22T10:41:00.005Z

REASSESSING THE IMMEDIATE

Based on AA school’s everyday life, three small workshops will reassess the relation between the individual and the collective. With a special focus on governance, the aim of these three exercises will be to dismantle previous assumptions in order to reconsider the relation between architecture and politics in everyday, seemingly banal situations. (5 weeks)

1st Term Final Jury

2009-12-11T10:28:00.007Z

Thanks you to all critics, students, tutors & visitors

Review Portfolios

2009-12-11T09:46:00.002Z

Portfolios review will be on Saturday 12th of December in Inter Unit 8 space (Morwell Street building). Please bring your work till date and your proposal for an A3 portfolio.

10.30 Amir/Olivia/Costa/Kayvan/Karl
2.00 Uliana/Liza/Yong/Max/Stavros/Merve

1st Term Final Jury

2009-12-02T00:18:00.002Z

Inter Unit 8 1st Term Final Jury will be held on Open Room 1 (close to Lecture Hall) from 10am to 6pm. Jury critics will be Stefano Rabolli (Inter Unit 5), Ricardo de Ostos (Inter Unit 3+ Madrid Visiting School), Marina Lathouri ( H&T Graduate program), Mania ( TS Intermediate), Eduardo Rico (LU Graduate program),Charles Tashima ( AA Academic Head), Jorge Rodriguez (SED Graduate program), Dora Sweijd (Inter Unit 11) & Alberto Moletto.

6th Workshop Tutorials II

2009-12-02T00:11:00.002Z

Last tutorials before the final Jury will be in Open Room 3 on Monday 7th December in the following order,
Morning
9.00 Uliana
9.30 Gary
10.00 Max
10.30 Karl
11.00 Amir
11.30 Yong
12.00 Maud
12.30 Kayuan
Afternoon
1.30 Stavros + Costa
2.00 Liza + Olivia
2.30 Merve
Please be on time for reviews.

6th Workshop Pin-up

2009-12-01T09:00:00.004Z

Pre-Final Jury will be held on Friday 4th December from 10 to 7pm in Open Room 3.

Cuban Visa

2009-12-01T08:54:00.001Z

Tomorrow, Wednesday 2nd December there is a meeting about the travel to cuba at 10.30 in Open Room 3. Please bring your passports with you.

Meeting about travel to Cuba - Rescheduled

2009-12-01T00:26:00.003Z

Cristian will join us on Thursday 3th December in Open Room 3 @ 5pm to have some drinks and talk about our trip to Havana.

6th Workshop tutorials I

2009-11-30T23:05:00.001Z

Combined tutorials next week will be in the following order at intermediate Unit 8 space on Tuesday 1st December,

10.00 Karl & Max
11.00 Costa & Olivia
12.00 Merve & Liza
2.00 Kayuan & Maud
3.00 Uliana & Amir
4.00 Gary & Stavros
5.00 Yong

Please be on time for your tutorials.

6th Workshop

2009-11-29T13:05:00.001Z

W10 Skins as Urban Mediators between Politics and Individuals
30-04 Dec
Students will be required to establish a political argument to define a skin proposal for the Ministry of Internal Affairs in relation to the Plaza de la Revolución.

Readings
Alejandro Zaera-Polo: “The Politics of the Envelope: A Political Critique of Materialism”, Volume 17 pp. 76-105.
Ellen Lupton, Skin: Surface, Substance, and Design, Princeton Architectural Press, 2002.

03 Brief

2009-11-28T12:40:00.001Z

BUILDING A POLITICAL ARGUMENT

After intensively working throughout the term on understanding the relationship between politics of space as defined by architecture and abstract means of government, students will be asked to define their own design proposals, which will be developed in the following spring and summer terms. (2weeks)

Intermediate Unit 8 Life

2009-11-23T10:38:00.005Z

5th Wokshop Pin-up

2009-11-22T20:33:00.000Z

The final Pin-up will be on Friday 27th November in Open Room 4 from 10am till 6pm. After that we will go together to Rafael Moneo´s Lecture in the Lecture Hall.

9th Seminar

2009-11-22T20:26:00.005Z

A seminar by Pier Vittorio Aureli with Diploma 14 students will be on Thursday 26th at 11.30. OPEN ROOM 3 in Bedford Square building.

Pier Vittorio Aureli is an architect and educator. After graduating from the Istituto di Architettura di Venezia, he obtained masters and PhD degrees at the Berlage Institute/Delft University of Technology. His theoretical studies focus on the relationship between architectural form, political theory and urban history. He currently teaches at the Berlage Institute, where he heads the ‘City as a Project’ PhD programme. Together with Martino Tattara he is the co-founder of Dogma, a prize-winning architectural collective focusing on the project of the city.

5th workshop tutorials

2009-11-22T08:38:00.001Z

Tutorials next week will be in the following order at intermediate Unit 8 space,
Tuesday 24th November
10.00 Karl
10.30 Max
11.00 Uliana
11.30 Kayuan
12.00 Amir
12.30 Olivia
Wednesday 25th November
2.00 Gary
2.30 Costa
3.00 Yong
3.30 Liza
4.00 Stavros
4.30 Merve
5.00 Maud
Please be on time for your tutorials. There will be no chages in the order since it is related to your performance last Friday.

TS3 Design Project submissions Meeting

2009-11-22T07:28:00.000Z

All 3rd year students of Intermediate Unit 8 have their meeting with Technical Studies staff and Inter Unit 8 tutors on Thrusday 26th November at 4pm in Inter Unit 8 space (4 Morwell Street Building).

5th Workshop

2009-11-21T08:08:00.002Z

W9 FULL: Construction as people
23-27 Nov
In this exercise, which is complementary to the previous one, students will represent the Ministry of Internal affairs and Plaza de la Revolución through different techniques. They will be specific about how they draw it while understanding the political and representational load of the building.

Readings
Pier Vittorio Aureli, “Rossi: The Concept of the locus as a political category of the city”, in The Project of Autonomy, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2008, pp.53-69.
Christopher C.M. Lee and Sam Jacoby (eds), AA Agendas 5 Typological Formations, Renewable Building Types and the City, London: AA Publications, 2007.
References - Buildings
Giusepe Terragni, Casa del Fascio, 1932-1936.
Aquiles Capablanca, Cuban Ministry of Internal Affairs, 1953.
Alejandro De la Sota, Tarragona Civil Government, 1956-61.
Rafael Moneo, Murcia Town Hall, 1991-1998.
Foster + Partners, London City Hall, 1998-2002.

4th Workshop Pin-up

2009-11-15T21:21:00.001Z

The Final Pin up, with your readings of Havana in an A1 format, will be on Friday 20th November in Open Room 4 from 10am till 6pm.

4th Workshop Students´ Presentation

2009-11-13T21:09:00.005Z

Next Tuesday 17th Novemeber at 9am in Open Room 1 (close to Lecture Hall) you will present your group research work about Havana to your classmates. Please be on time @ 9am.

Then on Wednesday 18th we will have tutorials of your individual studies between 10am to 3pm in Open Room 3 (Bedford Square Building).

4th Workshop

2009-11-12T20:00:00.001Z

W8 VOID: People as construction
16-20 Nov
This exercise considers the Plaza de la Revolución—where Fidel Castro has traditionally addressed his famous speeches—as embodying Cuban politics. As such, students will be tasked with determining how to represent this void while considering that people—not buildings—are what construct politics. The selection of elements to be represented in students´ particular account of reality defines their political reading of the square.

Readings
Roberto Segre, “The Pearl of the Antilles”, in Cruelty and Utopia, Princeton Architectural Press, 2005, pp.134-145.
Hanna Arendt, “Introduction into politics”, in The Promise of Politics, Schoken Books: New York 2005, pp. 93-200.

References - Squares
Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China, 1417.
Plaza de la Revolución, La Havana, Cuba, 1953.
Three Powers Square, Brasilia, Brazil, 1960.
Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1964.

02 Brief

2009-11-12T12:43:00.000Z

REASSESSING DISCIPLINARY TOOLS

These two weeks engage students in reconsidering architectural means of representation at an urban scale in relation to politics and will serve as our first approach to La Habana. Students will be required to complete two exercises to fully recognize the reality of the Plaza de la Revolución before presenting their own design arguments. (2 Weeks)