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AA Visiting School - UK, Europe, Africa, Americas, Asia, Middle East
http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/STUDY

Architectural Association School of Architecture runs an international programme of visiting schools across the globe, taking the unique teaching methods of the AA to a wider audience.

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Photos from AA Visiting School's post 29/01/2025

Unlock the Future of Design and learn how to build Virtual Worlds at the AA in London at this Visiting School from 24 March to 4 April 2025.

Step into the realm where architecture meets entertainment. This immersive short course at the AA School of Architecture in Bedford Square invites you to design and build compelling virtual worlds using Unreal Engine—the industry-standard tool behind some of the most stunning environments in gaming, film, and digital media.

Lead by Oscar nominated for Best Visual Effects and co-founder of Cream Projects , this hands-on Visiting School, will equip you to master the fundamentals of worldbuilding and narrative design, learning how to craft evocative environments where space, objects, and lighting work together to create immersive, cinematic experiences. By the end of the course, you’ll have the skills to produce short films and time-based media, bringing your digital worlds to life.

Whether you’re an architect, designer, or storyteller, this course offers a unique opportunity to explore the intersection of technology and creativity.

Limited places available. Join us through our 🔗 on bio.















13/08/2024

We are pleased to announce the Neuendorf House Visiting School taking place 1-11 November 2024.

Learning alongside renowned practicing architects, the 15-person course creates a unique opportunity by challenging participants to create designs that fit seamlessly in conversation with a structure of extreme character. The objective of the course will be to design a walled cactus garden immediately adjacent and in conversation with the house.

The main Grand Jurors / Speakers will be the architects of the house, John Pawson () and Claudio Silvestrin (), as well as the renowned landscape architect, Luciano Giubbilei ().

Follow the link in bio for more information and to apply. Registration is open until the 20th September.

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Photos from AA Visiting School's post 06/08/2024

Climate Cartographies took place in Bahrain and explored the longue durée of the interconnection between climate change and heritage sites through cartographic thinking, which is a means of creating new maps that capture unexplored relations in our environment using film. The program was structured around film workshops, seminars, studios, and public lectures.

The AA VS Climate Cartographies brought together contributors with long-term projects and involved in different aspects of the site to provide a deeper understanding of its challenges.

The students produced short speculative documentaries related to Qalat al-Bahrain site that prompt us to think critically about the ecology of island states. The documentaries were screened in Bahrain at Al Riwaq and the Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage in Bahrain and in Dubai at Alserkal Art Foundation.



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Maryam Alnoaimi
Mariam Mekiwi
Al Riwaq Art Space
MSCEB
Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage
Alserkal Art Foundation
Naser Alzayani
Hasan AlBasri
Iona Stewart
Sukainah Al Sadah .alsadah
Mohamed AlKhaja
Sidra Kishwer
Hassan Shatti
Melad Alfulaij @ melad_alfulaij
Binscal Paul
Muneera AlSager

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AAVS Water Futures: Architecture and Environment in the Patagonian Fjords
3 - 10January 2025
Aisén, Chile



In 2025, Water Futures will be back to the Catholic University’s research station in Bahía Exploradores, a 5,079-ha site in the Aysén Region, close to the General Carrera Lake and the Northern Patagonian Ice Field. This station is the result of a joint effort between the Faculties of Biological Sciences, Agronomy, Engineering and Architecture at PUC.

This time we aim at collectively proposing alternative designs for floating structures that could be added to the current infrastructures of the station. In more precise terms, we will explore the design of minimum dwelling units, a greenhouse for the production of food, and an educational facility to receive visitors, all of which that will be situated in the marshes and the tidal zones of the estuary, making the most of the environmental challenges the site offers to architecture, design and engineering. This will include investigations in the different technical objects suited for such environmental context, that is to say, the technologies that would help us to provide energy, heat and drinkable water to the objects we design.

Water Futures is an eight-day workshop jointly organized by the Architectural Association (London, UK) and the School of Architecture of the Catholic University in Chile (PUC).

Learn more and apply on our website - Link in Bio.

26/07/2024

AA Visiting School Rio de Janeiro 2024
Subjective Tectonics: Ground (Chão)
Exhibition Opening, 27 July 2024, from 4pm to 6pm

at Centro Cultural Inclusartiz
Rua Sacadural Cabral, 333 – Gamboa, Rio de Janeiro

On Saturday 27 July, AA Visiting School Rio de Janeiro will present Subjective Tectonics: Ground (Chão), an exhibition open to the public from 27 July to 10 August 2024.

The exhibition showcases the outcome of the AAVS Rio 2024, an annual workshop interrogating tectonics in the post-colonial urban context of Rio de Janeiro, directed by Roberto Boettger and Olivia Marra at the Architectural Association (AA) in London since 2021.

25/07/2024

(Too Much) Information Work
Wednesday, August 21, 7 pm
Limmatstrasse 270, 8005

Round table with Peggy Deamer, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Jiajia Zhang, Klaus Platzgummer, and Lennart Wolff.



“(Too Much) Information Work” is a roundtable event within the “Building Information” program series. It fills a discursive gap on labor practices and struggles in digital work environments by bringing together perspectives from architecture, art, and curating. This roundtable at Kunsthalle Zurich features architects and educators Peggy Deamer and Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, artist Jiajia Zhang, architecture theorist Klaus Platzgummer, and curator and architect Lennart Wolff. Drawing on the Visiting School’s theme, “Exhibiting Architecture,” the roundtable discusses exhibiting as a particular form of “information work.” Exhibition practices collide media forms, carve out discursive arenas, transcend disciplinary boundaries, and have become integral to contemporary architectural discourse. Can the understanding of exhibitions as a form of “information work,” with its ambiguous division between immaterial and material labor, between the merely categorical separation of life and its institutional production mechanisms, enable alternative practices and agencies? Within today’s information environments, can exhibitions become forums where these labor practices are not only represented but tested? Amidst omnipresent data exhaustion, can this particular form of “information work” act as discursive and spatial interventions into the ever-accelerating processes of resource, labor, and data extraction?

22/07/2024

AAVS The Full Moon Theatre
Hooke Park, UK
13 March - 17 March 2025


Program head: Francesco Anselmo .anselmo

Supported by

VS Moon Theatre comes back to celebrate the Spring’s full moon light on 2025.
Every year, this programme recreates the Full Moon Theatre ‘Wonderful Laboratory’ initiated by Humbert Camerlo and Peter Rice in the early 1990s in a remote valley at the foothills of the Cévennes, in the south of France. This time, a new version of the Full Moon Theatre will be fabricated in the Hooke Park learning environment, laying down the foundations for the laboratory to continue and more Full Mull Theatres be created.

The activities of the visiting school will include the design and construction of a site-specific open air Full Moon Theatre, equipped with locally digitally fabricated moonlight reflectors and the staging of a test performance fully illuminated by the light of the moon, without using electricity.

The learning materials and tools created during the visiting school workshop will be included to the online “Full Moon Theatre Library” with the aim that anyone could use them to stage a Full Moon Theatre performance anywhere in the world in the future.

To apply visit our Link in Bio.



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Archipelago of the Blessed
Canary Islands, Africa, Spain
06 September - 16 September 2024

Applications open, link in bio!

The programme will visit seven islands over the course of seven years, starting with La Palma in 2024



Today, non-stop flights arrive full of Europeans fleeing endless work, inflation, and unaffordability back home. South Americans of mixed indigenous blood flee climate and political-economic crises by the hundreds of thousands, returning to the land that their European ancestors left long ago. Boats packed with famished and dehydrated African refugees arrive daily if they avoid disaster on the way. But the archipelago they land on is itself defined by droughted fields and greenhouses in ruins; by cave shacks and ‘informally built’ concrete block towers precariously perched at the edge of plunging ravines overlooking megalithic strips of black asphalt jet runways, and luxury shops, or big box IKEAs and Leroy Merlin home DIY stores. Parched earth and diminishing species struggle meters from adventure water parks with replicas of the imperial religious architecture of Angkor Wat. Rows of beach chairs and palm tree-lined turquoise pools in front of hulking ziggurats of hotel rooms are serviced by Big Tech data and travel sites and financed by multinational banks.


Photos from AA Visiting School's post 27/06/2024

AA Book 2024
eds. Ryan Dillon & Anna Lisa Reynolds

The AA Book is published annually and features hundreds of projects by students from every academic programme within the This year, it is an assemblage of the ideas, approaches, images and voices that have defined the past year, and extracts from our archive. There are infinite potential pairings contained in this box. Rearrange at will, add, subtract, curate and orchestrate – it is yours to perform.

The AA Book is published to coincide with Projects Review, the Architectural Association’s annual end-of-year show, which is open to the public Saturday 22 June—12 July 2024.

Available at the and aabookshop.net

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26/06/2024

DO YOU THINK THIS IS A GAME?
Daniel Felstead, Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Y7, Gűnseli Yalcinkaya, and Shumon Basar

As part of the Public Program, Shumon Basar brings together a range of cultural figures for a set of transdisciplinary presentations around games, gaming and gamification today.

In these presentations and conversations, visual artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen discusses his background as a games designer and how it informs his worldmaking installation work; post-disciplinary duo Y7 describe how life, on and off-line, favours those who know how to game it; academic Daniel Felstead analyses the gamer's hyper-stylised interiors, and what this tells us about their electrified psyches; writer/researcher Gűnseli Yalcinkaya looks at how gamification is shaping political activism on social media; and Shumon Basar presents a brief history of the pixel, now cast as a retro-aesthetic in our ultra deepfake unreality.

Friday 5 July 2024
17:00 - 19:45
33 Bedford Square, First Floor Front

20/06/2024

Projects Review 2024 is open to all starting 22nd June! Come and find some of the Visiting School's programmes from the last year✨

This year’s Projects Review presents the work from the 2023-24 academic year within a series of themed spaces, each imagined as a space and scale of performance: from the body and the city, to the street, the home, land and the atmosphere. The stages will be activated by a series of live performances at the opening to bring architectural conversations and experiments in world-building to life, alongside exhibits of student work in a range of media.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a website through which visitors can explore portfolios of work by every student at the AA, and can experience elements of the exhibition online.

Projects Review 2024 will be on view at the AA in Bedford Square from Saturday 22 June – Friday 12 July and is open from Monday to Saturday, 11am–7pm BST.

EXHIBITION TOURS

Tours of Projects Review will be held every Tuesday at 6pm and Friday at 1pm for the duration of the exhibition. They are a chance for you to be guided through the different stages and how they should be experienced by the students who made them.

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Photos from AA Visiting School's post 17/06/2024

AAVS TERRAIN LAB
Research cycle: GEOBODIES
Trajectory #01: Liminal lands

22/07/24 - 30/07/24
Venice, Italy

Terrain Lab 2024 will continue to explore the lagoon of Venice, a delicate intertidal ecosystem since its inception. In its the first trajectory of the new research cycle “GEOBODIES”, the VS critically reflects on liminality and processes of formation, preservation, or loss of wetlands and their externalities - exploring soaking silts, moving margins, and salty states.

With the aim to foster an improved understanding of collective agency operating at the intersection of anthroposphere, biosphere, and geosphere, the course will inquire into the nature of the Venice lagoon, to dissect its historic anthropogenic alterations and contemporary manufacturing.
Seeking a pedagogy that understands design as a mean to research, disclose, represent and question the various processes involving transitional territories, the VS develops means of mapping, surveying and recording transitional territories, envisioning strategies of care for water ecologies.

Terrain LAB employs of a working methodology that bridges architectural studies with landscape urbanism approach, integrating urban political ecology, environmental and cultural studies. This approach is developed through the contribution of lectures, experts, artists, writers, historians, curators, and researchers specializing in topics of environmental humanities, ecology, heritage, and climate change.

Collaborators:
How Like A Reef
Metagoon
Barena Bianca

Team:
Elena Longhin
Amina Chouaira
Aniella Sophie Goldinger
Anna Ghiraldini
Margherita Pasquali
Chiara Velicogna .veglio

Application deadline: 15/07/24

Image © NASA, ASTER.

Photos from AA Visiting School's post 17/06/2024

AA Visiting School focuses on the urban context in relation to socioeconomic issues at a metropolitan scale, considering the contrasts between the urban, desolate, and wild landscapes of San Diego and Tijuana.

Students were encouraged to explore their own interests by unveiling, exposing, and revealing connections within various scenarios through graphical representation and cartographies.

Photos from AA Visiting School's post 13/06/2024

Archipelago of the Blessed
Canary Islands, Spain
06 September - 16 September 2024

Programme heads:


The term hermoso – one used by Canarian grandmothers to describe both their islands and the chubby babies delivered to their volcanic soils - can be traced to its Latin root in formosus: literally, full of beautiful forms. Torn between the tectonic plates of three continents, the archipelago has long been a microcosm where interrelated European and global crises converge and erupt. During the 15th and 16th centuries, the Canaries were a prototype, and a strategic supply, staging and stop-over ground for the colonisation of the Americas, Africa, India and beyond, teeming with Spanish and British colonial architecture: palaces, proto-factories, ports, ships, barracks, missionary, and entrepreneurial ventures.  

This AA Visiting School Canary Islands is a seven-year research project. Each year we will explore archetypes on each of the islands in the archipelago through drawing, writing, design, and making. Aside from our historical investigation, site observation, and fieldwork, the project is based on a research by design approach, where the design project and a standpoint rooted in practice rooted in practice play a fundamental role in how we learn about the architecture of the Canarian archipelago.

To apply - visit our Link in Bio

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Student works of the

The AAVS Côte d’Azur explores the notion of maintenance in modern architecture and urbanism in the coastal region of southern France. The participants were asked to use photography as a tool to observe and document man-made environments for traces of transformation and adaptation as a result or lack of maintenance.

Each participant created a series of photographs, which, under constant re-evaluation, review and editing, provided a personal and critical perspective on the topic. A final selection of two images formed the framework for the narrative of what was observed. The photographs, presented as diptychs, can be read as juxtapositions or continuations that highlight a critical stance towards the theme of the workshop.

Photos from AA Visiting School's post 10/06/2024

Final exhibition of the at the Hangar Cap Moderne. Congratulations to all the students for their amazing work! A big thank you to for hosting our final exhibition, to for her great contribution and support along the way, and to who were our guest critics at the final exhibition!

The AAVS Côte d’Azur explores the notion of maintenance in modern architecture and urbanism in the coastal region of southern France. The participants were asked to use photography as a tool to observe and document man-made environments for traces of transformation and adaptation as a result or lack of maintenance.

Each participant created a series of photographs, which, under constant re-evaluation, review and editing, provided a personal and critical perspective on the topic. A final selection of two images formed the framework for the narrative of what was observed. The photographs, presented as diptychs, can be read as juxtapositions or continuations that highlight a critical stance towards the theme of the workshop.

Photos from AA Visiting School's post 07/06/2024

From AA Visiting School Migration Culture by

"A woven camino drapes from the windows onto the ground, serving as a backdrop to the Pachamama ceremony. The motifs and colours narrate a relationship between the Sky and the Earth, transitioning from light blue hues to dark earthy tones. On the top right portion, an outlined map introduces and locates us within the context of Latin America.

As the textile extends onto the table, it creates an altar crafted from Chaguar, a natural hand-woven fabric from Argentina, to present our offerings for Mother Earth. The opening of the ceremony is carried beneath the altar, where the camino is in contact with the ground and the natural woven vegetation. The overall composition of the diverse elements ties together the layered and multicultural fabric of Latin America."

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