31.10.09
30.10.09
3rd Workshop Review
Tutorials of your installation designs will be on Wednesday 4th November afternoon in our Inter Unit 8 space, Morwell Street building. Reviews will follow this order,
2pm G.1. Gary-Kayuan-Olivia
3pm G.3. Lyza-Max-Stavros
4pm G.2. Amir-Karl-Merve-Uliana
5pm G.4. Costa-Maud-Yong
2pm G.1. Gary-Kayuan-Olivia
3pm G.3. Lyza-Max-Stavros
4pm G.2. Amir-Karl-Merve-Uliana
5pm G.4. Costa-Maud-Yong
28.10.09
27.10.09
6th Seminar Installations
See you on Saturday @ 3.30pm in Inter Unit 8 Space for an informal meeting to talk about Installations with Jose Perez de Lama.
After we will go to the Cuban Restaurant CUBA LIBRE to enjoy Caribbean food and music while drinking some Mojitos. (http://www.cubalibrelondon.co.uk/)
After we will go to the Cuban Restaurant CUBA LIBRE to enjoy Caribbean food and music while drinking some Mojitos. (http://www.cubalibrelondon.co.uk/)
23.10.09
Travel to Cuba
The travel agent is asking me your names to book the flight and confirm the reservation for the visa. Please check that names are correct and answer us ASAP.
Merve Anil
Gary Gene Dupont
Max Ulrich Hacke
Karl Karam
Yong Taek Kwon
Stavros Papavassiliou
Costantino Maria Rivetti
Ielyzaveta Rudyk
Kayvan Sarvi
Amir Yousefi
Merve Anil
Gary Gene Dupont
Max Ulrich Hacke
Karl Karam
Yong Taek Kwon
Stavros Papavassiliou
Costantino Maria Rivetti
Ielyzaveta Rudyk
Kayvan Sarvi
Amir Yousefi
JURY 2nd workshop - Director's office walls
The final Jury of 2nd workshop will be on Friday 30th of November in 37 Bedford square building (FFO3). Please be at 10 am on the first floor. We will have Brett Steele (AA director), Douglas Spencer(LU), Evan L. Greenberg (EmTech), Stefano Rabolli Pansera and Goswin Schwendinger (Inter Unit 5) and Jose Perez de Lama as critics of your work.
22.10.09
5th Seminar-Lecture
Lecture "Hacking in public! From DIY Geopolitics to Urban Space" by Jose Perez de Lama, hackitectura.net
Thursday 29th of October 2009 at 6pm in the Lecture Hall
J. Perez de Lama -PhD in Architecture, Professor at the School of Architecture, University of Seville, Spain. With Pablo de Soto and Sergio Moreno forms hackitectura.net. Their work deals with the interaction of physical space, electronic flows and social networks, from the perspective of hacker culture and free software, and is focused in the production of digital infrastructures and temporary public spaces. Among their productions: /Fadaiat. Freedom of Movement, Freedom of Communication/ (Tarifa-Tangier, 2004 & 2005), /Situation Room/ (Laboral Centro de Arte, Gijón, 2008) and /WikiPlaza Bastille/ (Paris, France, 2009). Perez de Lama is the author of the book /Cyborg Becomings. Architecture, Urbanism and Communication Technologies/, 2006, Universidad de Sevilla (Spanish). Hackietctura.net's work was shown in 2009 at the Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla (Spain) and ZKM (Karlsruhe, Germany).URLs: http://mcs.hackitectura.net/ <http://mcs.hackitectura.net/> AbstractIn the last decades electronic networks and flows have transformed the environments we inhabit. This becoming is not only a tecnical one, but also an artistic, social and political one. Hackitectura.net explores these new territories from the perspective of hacker culture, free software, and the idea of ecosophic machines.
WikiPlaza Figueres, hackitectura.net, 09.2009
Thursday 29th of October 2009 at 6pm in the Lecture Hall
J. Perez de Lama -PhD in Architecture, Professor at the School of Architecture, University of Seville, Spain. With Pablo de Soto and Sergio Moreno forms hackitectura.net. Their work deals with the interaction of physical space, electronic flows and social networks, from the perspective of hacker culture and free software, and is focused in the production of digital infrastructures and temporary public spaces. Among their productions: /Fadaiat. Freedom of Movement, Freedom of Communication/ (Tarifa-Tangier, 2004 & 2005), /Situation Room/ (Laboral Centro de Arte, Gijón, 2008) and /WikiPlaza Bastille/ (Paris, France, 2009). Perez de Lama is the author of the book /Cyborg Becomings. Architecture, Urbanism and Communication Technologies/, 2006, Universidad de Sevilla (Spanish). Hackietctura.net's work was shown in 2009 at the Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla (Spain) and ZKM (Karlsruhe, Germany).URLs: http://mcs.hackitectura.net/ <http://mcs.hackitectura.net/> AbstractIn the last decades electronic networks and flows have transformed the environments we inhabit. This becoming is not only a tecnical one, but also an artistic, social and political one. Hackitectura.net explores these new territories from the perspective of hacker culture, free software, and the idea of ecosophic machines.
WikiPlaza Figueres, hackitectura.net, 09.2009
21.10.09
Review 3rd workshop
The first review of the third workshop will be on Tuesday 27th October 2009 in Inter Unit 8 Space. Please work in groups the whole day there.
20.10.09
3rd Workshop
W5-7 Top-Down and Bottom-Up
Readings
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire, New York: Penguin Press, 2004.
Mary McLeod, “Everyday and “other” spaces” in Architecture and Feminism, Princeton Architectural Press, 1996, pp.1-37.
References
Maya Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, 1982.
Peter Eisenman, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin, 1998-2005.
Top-Down and Bottom-Up are design strategies that express two fundamentally different political attitudes toward governance and representation. Bottom-Up strategies suggest that a politically loaded envelope is constructed by summing up different reactions from a multitude of individuals. Top-Down strategies suggest that a system of rules has to be set a priori; in this kind of approach, individuals can be already imbedded into the structure of the system or can activate this system politically by appropriating its rules. The aim of this workshop is to explore and compare these two strategies by designing two installations—one Top-Down and the other Bottom-Up. Each group of students will submit proposals, and the best entry will be built and showcased for public review.
Readings
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire, New York: Penguin Press, 2004.
Mary McLeod, “Everyday and “other” spaces” in Architecture and Feminism, Princeton Architectural Press, 1996, pp.1-37.
References
Maya Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, 1982.
Peter Eisenman, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin, 1998-2005.
Groups
G.1. Gary-Kayuan-Olivia
G.2. Amir-Karl-Merve-Uliana
G.3. Lyza-Max-Stavros
G.4. Costa-Maud-Yong
17.10.09
2nd workshop Pin up
Next Friday 23rd of October we will meet in Open Room 3 , Bedford square building at 10am. We will have a pin-up with all your work for the 2nd workshop, Director´s walls.
3rd Seminar Means of representation
Next Tuesday 20th of October we will review different means of representation in a small seminar by Nuria Alvarez Lombardero. These references will help you in your future work in the Unit.
Please be at 3pm in Open Room 4 bedford Square building. Seminar will be followed by tutorials.
3.00 Travel
3.30 Seminar
5.00 Karl
5.30 Olivia
6.00 Costa
6.30 Merve
7.00 Lyza
7.30 Stavros
On Wednesday tutorial will continue as follows,
4.00 Kayvan
4.30 Uliana
5.00 Yong
5.30 Gary
6.00 Maud
6.30 Max
7.00 Amir
3.00 Travel
3.30 Seminar
5.00 Karl
5.30 Olivia
6.00 Costa
6.30 Merve
7.00 Lyza
7.30 Stavros
On Wednesday tutorial will continue as follows,
4.00 Kayvan
4.30 Uliana
5.00 Yong
5.30 Gary
6.00 Maud
6.30 Max
7.00 Amir
15.10.09
Inter 8 Spanish Dinner
Prepare your stomachs for a delicious dinner in Navarro´s. This Spanish restaurant in Charlotte Street has the best beverages ever. See you there at 8.30pm.
2nd Workshop Pin-down
We will have a silent Pin down review on Friday 16th October at 4pm in Inter Unit 8 Space.
12.10.09
2nd Seminar. Immediate Governance: Windows
Lecture by Francisco Gonzalez de Canales on Thursday 15th of October at 5.30 in Open Room 3 Bedford Square Building.
Tutorials 2nd Brief
Tutorials of 2nd Brief will start on Tuesday 13rd October at 3pm in Inter Unit 8 Space (Morwell). The following students should be working there the whole afternoon as tutorials are carrying out.
Costa
Karl
Lyza
Max
Maud
Merve
Uliana
These tutorials will continue on at 10am Wednesday 14th October with the following students,
Amir
Gary
Kayvan
Olivia
Stavros
Yong
Please bring your concept if you have not sent it by email to us yet.
If there is any problem contact us ASAP.
Costa
Karl
Lyza
Max
Maud
Merve
Uliana
These tutorials will continue on at 10am Wednesday 14th October with the following students,
Amir
Gary
Kayvan
Olivia
Stavros
Yong
Please bring your concept if you have not sent it by email to us yet.
If there is any problem contact us ASAP.
10.10.09
Review 1st Brief Works
On Monday 12th October the following students will review their work in Inter Unit 8 Space (Morwell).Please be on time for your review.
10.00 Olivia
10.30 Amir
11.00 Kayvan
11.30 Yong
12.00 Gary
If there is any problem contact us ASAP.
10.00 Olivia
10.30 Amir
11.00 Kayvan
11.30 Yong
12.00 Gary
If there is any problem contact us ASAP.
9.10.09
2nd Workshop
W3 & 4 Mediated Governance: Representation, transgression, and re-appropriation
12-16 19-23 Oct
This second workshop focuses on the Director’s office. Perhaps one of the most opaque rooms at the AA, the Director’s office neither represents nor reflects any specific relation with the individuals, students, and staff that it represents. The office’s external envelope should be critically rethought to establish a link between AA governance and members.
Site
AA Director’s Office Walls
Readings
Pamela M Lee, “On the holes of History” in Objects to be destroy: the work of Gordon Matta Clark, The MIT Press, 1995, pp.68-75.
Bernard Tschumi, "Architecture and Transgression" in Oppositions, No. 7, Winter 1976.
Henry Lefebvre, The Production of Space, Blackwell, 1991, pp.36-65.
Denis Hollier, “Bloody Sundays” in Against Architecture: the writings of Georges Bataille, The MIT Press, 1992.
12-16 19-23 Oct
This second workshop focuses on the Director’s office. Perhaps one of the most opaque rooms at the AA, the Director’s office neither represents nor reflects any specific relation with the individuals, students, and staff that it represents. The office’s external envelope should be critically rethought to establish a link between AA governance and members.
Site
AA Director’s Office Walls
Readings
Pamela M Lee, “On the holes of History” in Objects to be destroy: the work of Gordon Matta Clark, The MIT Press, 1995, pp.68-75.
Bernard Tschumi, "Architecture and Transgression" in Oppositions, No. 7, Winter 1976.
Henry Lefebvre, The Production of Space, Blackwell, 1991, pp.36-65.
Denis Hollier, “Bloody Sundays” in Against Architecture: the writings of Georges Bataille, The MIT Press, 1992.
7.10.09
1st Workshop Pin-up
Next Friday 9th of October we will have our 1st Pin-up. Please bring your drawings, models, collages,etc to our unit space. This review will start at 10am with a break between 1pm and 2.30pm.
5.10.09
1st Seminar. Immediate Governance: Doors and Transits
Lecture by Francisco Gonzalez de Canales in Morwell Street Intermediate Building on the Second Floor (Inter Unit 8 space).
1st Workshop
W2
Immediate Governance: Windows, doors, and transits
05-09 Oct
This first workshop questions the Students’ Association room. At the AA, the general population is represented by select students in a quite straightforward, unionist way. However, when mediating with the rest of the school, the relationship between the association and students is scarcely represented, using only a blackboard on the door. This exercise redefines the Students’ Association room, focusing on how elements of transition such as doors and windows are strategic within the political expression of a space. Each student will propose a detailed system of openings, pondering the political implications of their designs.
Suggested Readings
Robin Evans, “Figures, Doors and Passages” in Translations from drawings to building and other essays, London: AA Publications, 1997, pp. 55-91.
Bruno Reichlin, “The Pros and Cons of the Horizontal Window: The Perret-Le Corbusier Controversy”, Daidalos 13, 1984, pp. 65-78.
Bernard Tschumi, “Manifesto 8: Rooms”, in Architectural Manifestoes, London: AA Publications, 1978.
References
Marcel Duchamp, 11 Rue Larrey, 1927.
Enric Miralles, Ines-table, 1998.
Santiago Sierra, 8 Combinations for a Double Door, 2000.
Immediate Governance: Windows, doors, and transits
05-09 Oct
This first workshop questions the Students’ Association room. At the AA, the general population is represented by select students in a quite straightforward, unionist way. However, when mediating with the rest of the school, the relationship between the association and students is scarcely represented, using only a blackboard on the door. This exercise redefines the Students’ Association room, focusing on how elements of transition such as doors and windows are strategic within the political expression of a space. Each student will propose a detailed system of openings, pondering the political implications of their designs.
Suggested Readings
Robin Evans, “Figures, Doors and Passages” in Translations from drawings to building and other essays, London: AA Publications, 1997, pp. 55-91.
Bruno Reichlin, “The Pros and Cons of the Horizontal Window: The Perret-Le Corbusier Controversy”, Daidalos 13, 1984, pp. 65-78.
Bernard Tschumi, “Manifesto 8: Rooms”, in Architectural Manifestoes, London: AA Publications, 1978.
References
Marcel Duchamp, 11 Rue Larrey, 1927.
Enric Miralles, Ines-table, 1998.
Santiago Sierra, 8 Combinations for a Double Door, 2000.
4.10.09
01 Brief
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)
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)
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