First Year, Architectural Association

First Year, Architectural Association First Year at the AA is the initial stage in a five-year course of study that leads to the AA Diploma.

At its core is the translation of visual references, thoughts, intuitions and written briefs into a series of projects via the mastering of theoretical and practical exercises and the making of relations between theory, design and discourse. First Year is not a distilled version of what architecture could be, but an immersion into architecture as a form of knowledge, taught as a combination of designing, writing and arguing. Head of First Year: Monia De Marchi
Studio Master: Fabrizio Ballabio, Shany Barath, Pol Esteve, Maria S Giudici, Ryan Neiheiser, John Ng

First Year competition on rebriefing the Fun Palace for Tottenham Court Road. Selection of students’ proposals. Congratu...
28/05/2026

First Year competition on rebriefing the Fun Palace for Tottenham Court Road. Selection of students’ proposals. Congratulation to all our students & thanks to our jurors.

First Year competition on rebriefing the Fun Palace for London - Lea Valley. Selection of some of the entries. Well done...
28/05/2026

First Year competition on rebriefing the Fun Palace for London - Lea Valley. Selection of some of the entries. Well done to all our students & thanks to our jurors!

And the students also voted. 1: winner of students vote for proposal for Lea Valley and 2: winner of students vote for T...
28/05/2026

And the students also voted. 1: winner of students vote for proposal for Lea Valley and 2: winner of students vote for Tottenham Court Road.
Well done to all our students!

First Year Competition on rebriefing the Fun Palace. 1st prizes. 1-5: prize for proposal for Lea Valley . 5-8: ex-aequo ...
28/05/2026

First Year Competition on rebriefing the Fun Palace. 1st prizes. 1-5: prize for proposal for Lea Valley . 5-8: ex-aequo prize proposal for Tottenham Court Road, 9-12: ex-aequo prize for TCR.
Thanks to all our jurors!

First Year Competition on rebriefing the Fun Palace 2nd prizes. 1-5 proposal for Tottenham Court Road and 6-8 proposal f...
28/05/2026

First Year Competition on rebriefing the Fun Palace 2nd prizes. 1-5 proposal for Tottenham Court Road and 6-8 proposal for Lea Valley.
Thanks to our jurors: Barbara Campbell-Lange, Nick Simcik-Arese, Anna Font, Nacho Marti, Sho Ito, Mike Weinstock, David & Ed from LAWN, Pereen D’Avoine.

First Year competition on rebriefing the Fun Palace for Tottenham Court Road. And here is the 3rd prize. Thanks to all o...
28/05/2026

First Year competition on rebriefing the Fun Palace for Tottenham Court Road. And here is the 3rd prize.
Thanks to all our jurors: Barbara Campbell-Lange, Nacho Marti, David & Ed LAWN, Anna Font, Nick Simcik-Arese, Sho Ito, Mike Weinstock, Pereen Davoine.

FIRST YEAR COMPETITION. AUDIENCE PRIZE! Students submitted their entries for rebriefing the fun palace for London (Lea V...
28/05/2026

FIRST YEAR COMPETITION. AUDIENCE PRIZE!
Students submitted their entries for rebriefing the fun palace for London (Lea Valley or Tottenham Court Road) in the near future.
This is the competition that got the audience prize (the vote from anyone across the school that came in, saw all entries and voted without any need of verbal explanation). Thanks to everyone that came in!

First Year show on a 2weeks exercise on rebriefing unbuilt projects by reimagining for the near future. Lots of moving w...
07/05/2026

First Year show on a 2weeks exercise on rebriefing unbuilt projects by reimagining for the near future. Lots of moving with Liam and Vid’s group where drawings are open up and perform. And more moving with Michela and Vid’s group where elements reconfigure with movement the different spaces.

First Year’ s show on a 2-weeks brief. Rebriefing paper architectures by reimagining them for the near future. With li...
06/05/2026

First Year’ s show on a 2-weeks brief. Rebriefing paper architectures by reimagining them for the near future.
With light and heavy models (Jack and Laurence groups) and with scenarios drawings (Erika and Shaan groups).

FY Review on a 4-weeks brief on composition, form and spatial qualities. Michela’s group redesigned given case studies o...
12/03/2026

FY Review on a 4-weeks brief on composition, form and spatial qualities. Michela’s group redesigned given case studies of one-room spaces from Lina Bo Bardi’s museum to the San Siro stadium and others, by exploring compression and openness of their envelopes. Digital modelling and simulations where used to test spatial qualities.
Thanks to our jurors Marco Mazzotta and Francesco Cavaliere .

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