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AA School 201314

Graduate School

Architectural Association

School of Architecture


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Graduate School

The AA Graduate School includes 12 postgraduate

programmes offering advanced studies for students with

prior academic and professional experience. It is an impor-

tant part of the larger AA School, which is one of the worlds

most dynamic, experimental and international learning

environments.

Unless otherwise noted, all programmes are full-time courses of study, and all students join the school in

September at the outset of a new academic year. MA/MSc

programmes include three academic terms of taught courses

that conclude in late June, followed by a dissertation writing

up period leading up to the submission of final coursework

in September. MArchprogrammes include two phases of

study. Phase 1 consists of three academic terms of studiodesign and taught coursework concluding in late June.

Following a summer break, all students return in September

and undertake Phase 2 Thesis Design projects, which are

submitted and presented the following January. The MPhil

course in Projective Cities is similarly organised in two

phases, with a longer Phase 2 that concludes the course in

May of the second year of studies. The PhDProgramme

normally includes three years of full-time studies and a final

year of part-time enrolment during the preparation of the

final PhD submission.


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AA School 201314

Graduate School

www.aaschool.ac.uk/graduate

Design Research Laboratory (MArch Architecture & Urbanism)

is the AAs innovative team-based programme in

experimental architecture and urbanism.

www.aadrl.net

Emergent Technologies & Design (MArch/MSc)emphasises

forms of architectural design that proceed from innovative

technologies.

emtech.aaschool.ac.uk

Housing & Urbanism (MArch/MA)rethinks urbanism as

a spatial discipline through a combination of design projectsand contemporary theory.

www.aaschool.ac.uk/hu

Landscape Urbanism (MA)investigates the processes,

techniques and knowledge related to the practices of

contemporary urbanism.

landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk

Sustainable Environmental Design (MArch/MSc)introduces

new forms of architectural practice and design related to

the environment and sustainability.

www.aaschool.ac.uk/ee

History & Critical Thinking (MA)encourages a critical under-

standing of contemporary architecture and urban culture

grounded in a knowledge of histories and forms of practice.

www.aaschool.ac.uk/ht


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Design & Make (MArch)pursues the design and realisation

of alternative, experimental rural architectures, and is based

at the the AAs Hooke Park campus in Dorset.

www.aaschool.ac.uk/designandmake

Projective Cities (taught MPhil in Architecture)

is a 20-month course dedicated to the city as a site for

projective knowledge, research and design.

projectivecities.aaschool.ac.uk

The AA Graduate Diploma in Conservation of Historic

Buildingsprogramme is a part-time day-release course

that offers a multi-faceted approach to historic buildings

and their conservation.

www.aaschool.ac.uk/bc

The AA PhD Programmefosters advanced scholarship and

innovative research in the fields of architecture and urbanismthrough full-time doctoral studies. The PhD in Architectural

Designis a studio-based option for qualified architects with

experience in design research and an interest in relating

theory to design practice.

www.aaschool.ac.uk/phd

The AA Interprofessional Studio (Postgraduate DiplomaSpatial Performance & Design)offers a one-year full-time

or two-year part-time course open to professionals in many

creative fields who collectively realise projects between

architecture, art and performance.

www.interprofessionals.net

The AA is an Approved Institution and Affiliated Research Centre

of The Open University (OU), UK. All taught graduate degrees at

the AA are validated by the OU. The OU is the awarding body for

research degrees at the AA.


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Design Research Laboratory(MArch Architecture & Urbanism)

The DRL is one of the most recognised

MArch graduate design studies in the

world. Young architects come from around

the world to participate in its collaborative

design curriculum, which emphasises an

open-source approach to developing new

machinic and highly networked design

tools, processes, forms and architectural

proposals. The programme explores the

design discourse and tools needed tocapture, control and shape an endless flow

of information within the distributed elec-

tronic realm of todays rapidly evolving

digital design disciplines. Comprehensive

design proposals are pursued by collective

self-organised teams addressing common

topics through shared information-based

diagrams, data, models and scripts. The

DRL also offers a variety of specialised

workshops aimed at the developmentof expertise in a range of computational

design and production systems, as well

as seminar series on topics related to the

current agenda.

Entry requirements for the MArch

(16 months): five-year professional

architecture degree (BArch / Diploma

equivalent)

www.aaschool.ac.uk/drl

www.aadrl.net

Emergent Technologies & Design(MArch/MSc)

The Emergent Technologies & Design

programme is open to graduates in archi-

tecture or engineering who are interested

in design that proceeds from innovative

technologies and wish to develop skills

and pursue knowledge in design research

located in new production paradigms.

Phase 1 of the programme consists of

taught courses, studio workshops and

projects, alongside supervised researchwithin the studio. Phase 2 entails further

supervised research and a design disser-

tation for the MSc or a design thesis

for the MArch.

The programme is focused on the

concepts and convergent interdisciplinary

effects of emergence on design and pro-

duction technologies, and on developing

these as creative inputs to new architec-

tural design processes. The instrumentsof analysis and design in Emergent Tech-

nologies are computational processes.

Entry requirements for the MArch (16

months): five-year professional degree

or diploma in architecture, engineering

or other relevant disciplines; for the

MSc (12 months): professional degree

or diploma in architecture, engineering

or other relevant disciplines.

emtech.aaschool.ac.uk

http://on.fb.me/Xj6Twq


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Housing & Urbanism(MArch/MA)

The Housing and Urbanism programme

applies architecture to the challenges of

contemporary urban strategies. Todays met-

ropolitan regions show tremendous diversity

and complexity with significant global shifts

in the patterns of urban growth and decline.

Architecture has a central role to play in this

dynamic context, developing far-reaching

strategies and generating novel urban

clusters. This course focuses on importantchanges in the contemporary urban condi-

tion and investigates how architectural intel-

ligence helps us to understand and respond

to these trends. Offering a 12-month MA and

a 16-month MArch, the course is balanced

between cross-disciplinary research and

design application. Students work is divided

among three equally important areas: design

workshops; lectures and seminars; and a

written thesis for the MA or a design projectfor the MArch, which allow students to de-

velop an extended and focused study within

the broader themes of the programme.

Entry requirements for the MA (12 months):

Second Class or above Honours degree in

architecture or a related discipline from a

British university, or an overseas qualifica-

tion of equivalent standard (from a course

lasting not less than three years in a univer-sity or educational institution of university

rank); for the MArch 16 months): five-year

professional degree in architecture or a

related discipline.

www.aaschool.ac.uk/hu

Landscape Urbanism(MA)

Landscape Urbanism constitutes a col-

lective endeavour to construct a mode of

practice where the processes and tech-

niques that have historically modelled the

landscape are integrated into the domain

of urbanism. The programme sets out to

develop new systems that engage with the

social and environmental conditions that

continuously reconfigure the city today.

Our methodology is by definition multidis-ciplinary. Expanding from the legacy

of landscape design to consider the com-

plexity of contemporary urban dynamics,

it integrates knowledge and techniques

from such disciplines as environmental

engineering, urban strategy, landscape

ecology, the development industry and

architecture. The MA programme operates

by synthesising the dynamic and temporal

forces that shape contemporary urbanlandscape with the generative potentials

of materials developed through abstract

organisational systems.

Entry requirements for the MA (12

months): professional degree or diploma

in architecture/landscape architecture

or urbanism or other relevant discipline.

landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk


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Sustainable Environmental Design(MArch/MSc)

The conditions for a symbiotic relationship

between buildings and the urban environ-

ments they form and occupy are the main

concern of the SED masters programme.

The dynamic energy exchanges characteris-

ing this relation foster distinct changes in

the climates of cities, the environmental per-

formance of buildings and the comfort and

energy use of their inhabitants. Knowledge

and understanding of the physical principlesunderlying these exchanges, along with the

conceptual and computational tools to trans-

late them into an ecological architecture and

urbanism, form the core of the taught pro-

gramme. This is structured in two consecu-

tive phases. Phase 1 is common to MSc and

MArch candidates and is organised around

joint studio projects that are undertaken in

teams combining both groups. Project work

is supported by weekly lectures, researchseminars and computer workshops. Phase

2 is devoted to research projects toward the

MSc and MArch dissertations. MSc projects

deal with the broader design applicability of

the chosen research topics. MArch projects

focus on a specific design application that

must be developed in some detail.

Entry requirements for the MArch

(16 months): five-year professionalarchitecture degree (BArch/Diploma

equivalent); for the MSc (12 months):

professional degree or diploma in archi-

tecture, engineering or related disciplines.

www.aaschool.ac.uk/ee

History & Critical Thinking(MA)

History & Critical Thinking provides a

platform for critical enquiry into theoreti-

cal debates and forms of architectural and

urban practice. The aim is three-fold: to

connect contemporary arguments and

projects with a wider historical, cultural

and political context; to produce knowl-

edge which will relate to design and public

cultures in architecture; to inquire into new

forms of theoretical research and architec-tural practice.

Central to the course is an emphasis

on writing, primarily as practice of thinking.

Different forms of writing such as essays,

reviews, short commentaries, publications,

interviews allow students to engage with

diverse forms of inquiry and articulate the

various aspects of their study. Conversa-

tions with writers, critics, journalists and

editors expose the students to a diversity ofperspectives and skills fostering the critical

and effective role of writing in architecture.

Students are encouraged to publish their

work and to present it at conferences and

seminars within and outside the school.

Entry requirements for the MA (12

months): Second Class or above Honours

degree in architecture or a related disci-

pline from a British university, or an over-seas qualification of equivalent standard

(from a course lasting not less than three

years in a university or educational institu-

tion of university rank).

www.aaschool.ac.uk/ht


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Projective Cities(Taught MPhil in Architecture)

Projective Cities is a taught MPhil pro-

gramme targeting graduates and practi-

tioners intending to pursue a substantial

and original piece of individual research.

Providing a unique framework, the prog-

ramme posits the city as a critical site

of new knowledge, speculation, and

research. It is therefore dedicated to a re-

search- and design-based analysis of and

speculation on the contemporary city withtwo main ambitions: to develop what kind

of project and research arises from archi-

tecture and architectural urbanism, and to

redefine the ambivalent notion of research

in design by proposing new methodolo-

gies to synthesise theoretical and practical

design research.

The 20-month full-time programme is

divided into a taught and a research phase

of 30 weeks each. During the taught PhaseI, interrelated theory seminars, design stu-

dios, and skill workshops provide the theo-

retical foundations and analytical research

methods required to formulate a proposal

for an integrated design and written dis-

sertation project that will be completed

under close supervision in Phase II.

Entry requirement for the MPhil (20

months): four- or five-year degree in archi-tecture (BArch/Diploma or equivalent).

projectivecities.aaschool.ac.uk

Design & Make(MArch)

This 16-month MArch graduate design

programme is based at the AAs Hooke

Park, a working woodland in Dorset in

the southwest of England, and is open to

graduate students of architecture who

wish to pursue studio- and workshop-

based design and realisation of alternative

rural architectures. On a yearly cycle, the

programme designs and constructs ex-

perimental buildings at Hooke Park, in theprocess creating a new rural AA campus

and showcase for ecologically sustainable

design and construction. The two-phase,

four-term course starts with a series of

seminars to build a theoretical founda-

tion, and a core studio in which students

engage in relevant contemporary design

practices. Workshop-based experimenta-

tion proceeds in parallel with studio-based

design explorations. Design studios, plan-ning submissions and on-site construction

form the heart of AA D&Ms project-

driven pedagogy.

Entry requirements for the MArch (Design

& Make) (16 months): five-year profes-

sional architecture degree (BArch/Diploma

equivalent).

www.aaschool.ac.uk/designandmake


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PhD Programme

The AA Schools PhD programme com-bines advanced research with a broader

educational agenda, preparing gradu-

ates for practice in global academic and

professional environments. The pro-

gramme operates as an autonomous,

cross-disciplinary unit supported by all

of the AA Schools postgraduate depart-

ments. Current doctoral research encom-

passes topics of architectural theory and

history, architectural urbanism, emergenttechnologies and design, and sustainable

environmental design. PhD studies are

full-time for the entire duration which is

normally of some four calendar years.

This starts with a preparatory period

during which candidates attend taught

courses and develop specialist research

skills while preparing their PhD proposals

under the guidance of two supervisors.

Entry requirements: Applicants must

hold a post-professional masters degree

in their proposed area of PhD research.

Applicants for PhD in Architectural Design

must also hold a five-year professional

degree in architecture and will be expect-

ed to submit a design portfolio.


AA Graduate Diploma inConservation of Historic

Buildings

This two-year day-release programme

leading to an AA Graduate Diploma is

designed to provide a multi-faceted

approach to historic buildings and their

conservation. It is recognised as one of

the leading courses of its kind, and many

practitioners in the field are former

students. The course was set up in 1975

by the RIBA and COTAC. The overall aimis to study the practical conservation of

buildings within a wider historical context,

in order to encourage a broad-based and

sensitive handling of issues relating to

conservation and reuse. Based in the UK,

the course nevertheless has an interna-

tional dimension.

The course studies basic attitudes

to conservation, with the recognition,

diagnosis and repair of building faults;traditional building materials and crafts,

building archaeology, historic buildings

legislation and building types from the

early medieval period up to the seven-

teenth century.

Entry requirements: Part 2 (RIBA/ARB)

or equivalent recognised qualification in

a related field.

www.aaschool.ac.uk/bc


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PhD in Architectural Design

The PhD in Architectural Design is a studio

based option for architects with prior

academic qualifications and professional

experience, with an interest in pursuing

advanced design-based research and

scholarship. This is a full-time, post-

professional research degree course that

offers students an opportunity to make

creative use of design within the scholarly

tradition of doctoral research. Beginning

in 201314 two distinct strands, each with

their own teaching and learning models,

will make up the programme: an existing

Design Research strand that emphasises

independent, student-led design research

that builds upon a candidates prior

practice and existing interests; and

beginning in 201314 a new City-Architec-

ture strand organised around monthly

seminars structured so that participants

in the programme undertake a collective,

programme-wide design agenda focusing

on architecture and the city.

Design Research StrandCurrently-enrolled students in the prog-

ramme are already pursuing advanced,

scholarly design research in relation to

agendas established prior to their arrival

in the programme, many of which relate to

the current design research agendas of the

AA Graduate School Programme. Current

agendas include: the sonic characteristics

of urban spaces and their manipulation,

modelling and control; the fabrication ofthresholds between internal and external

environments; generative design process-

es related to the making of tall buildings;

and the mathematical and computational

modelling of built form. Students applying

to this strand within the PhD in Design

programme will normally be expected to

work with a Programme Director or other

senior academic staff member from the

Graduate School, who serves as the leadSupervisor for the PhD.

City Architecture Strand

City Architecture aims to pursue a

collective design agenda aimed at

reassessing the relationship between

architecture and the city. The programme

asks for an innovative and radical under-

standing of the discipline of architecture

in light of the problems and questions that

characterise the contemporary city, based

on the assumption that today there is an

urgent need to reunite architecture and

urbanism through a reassessment of

architecture as a disciplinary body of

knowledge that is intimately connected

with the development of the city.

City Architecture sees the making

of not only texts but also drawings as a

design tool par excellence, and treats

drawing as a critical tool for research.

The goal is not to understand architec-

tural knowledge as symptom of some-

thing else, but to use such knowledge

as a research tool. The main difference

between City Architecture and traditional

PhD programmes is that this programme

understands architecture first and

foremost as technique as a material

practice and a social praxis. The pro-

grammes methodology will be largely

based on attentive close reading of

architecture through texts and analyticaland interpretative drawings, for it is

through the close reading of architectural

elements in the form of either buildings

or drawings that the social and political

logic of the city reveals itself in all its

concreteness. The programme is organ-

ised as a set of parallel activities: individu-

al thesis, seminars and presentations and

design seminars undertaken throughout

the first three years of study. This struc-ture is meant to encourage as much as

possible collective discussion among

the participants.

Entry requirements: Applicants must hold

a post-professional masters degree in

their proposed area of PhD research.

Applicants for the PhD in Architectural

Design must also hold a five-year profes-

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AA Interprofessional Studio(Postgraduate Diploma

Spatial Performance & Design)

Spatial Performance and Design is a pro-

gramme that operates in the in-between

areas of art, architecture and performance,

and is designed to appeal to professionals

and students who would usually not have

the opportunity to study at the AA.

The course is a forum for discussion

beyond the immediate scope of the studio

and as an interdisciplinary project officerealising creative, collaborative work. The

intense, super-fast and almost impossible

but in the end richly successful collabo-

rations result in entirely unexpected and

exciting realisations.

Spatial Performance and Design

offers a one-year full-time course of

study or a two-year, part-time, two-day-

a-week option both leading to a post

graduate diploma.

Entry requirements: Second Class or

above Honours degree in architecture

or a related discipline from a British

university, or an overseas qualification of

equivalent standard (from a course lasting

not less than three years in a university or

educational institution of university rank).

www.interprofessionals.net


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10Design Research Laboratory

Top: Space Oddity_rub-a-dub

Tutor: Theodore Spyropoulos; Team: Sebastian

Andia (Argentina), Rodrigo Roberto Chain

Rodriguez (Colombia), Apostolos Despotidis(Greece), Thomas Jensen (Denmark)

Using outer space as a medium the project

rethinks architectural organisation and material-

ity through a constantly reconfigurable forma-

tion, thus making the traditional three-dimen-

sional and static space of architecture obsolete.

Bottom: Endemic Interstices_PLUGIN

Tutor: Alisa Andrasek

Team: Dahan am (Turkey), Ulak Ha (Korea),

Alexandre Kuroda (Brazil), Karoly Markos(Romania)

The project targets the production of proto-

architectural entities as a bottom-up system

with the capacity to self-structure, adapt and

co-evolve within the environment considering

natural resources as part of a tectonic system.


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11Design Research Laboratory

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Tutors: Patrik Schumacher; Team: Nassim

Eshaghi (Iran), George Kontalonis (Greece),

Jared Ramsdell (USA), Rana Zureikat (Jordan)

The project is a semiological campus that

views architecture as a frame to order and

adapt society, while pursuing architectural

distinctions and differentiation that have

embedded cognitive intelligibility.


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12Emergent Technologies & Design

Cellular Complexity, Kais Al-Rawi, Marie

Boltenstern and Julia Koerner. This research

investigates the architectural potential of

cellular systems digitally fabricated through

both cast and printed additive manufacturing to

achieve differentiated complex spatial and

structural performance.


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13Emergent Technologies & Design

Arboreal Formations, Bartek Arendt, Chris Hill

and Eleni Meladaki. This project investigates

how specific properties of wood may be a driver

for curving pieces of timber. The process tests

the calibration of physical experiments and

digital simulations to define a component

which may aggregate to form a system that is

structurally coherent, fabrication efficient and

expresses spatially dynamic morphologies.


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14Housing & Urbanism

Housing & Urbanism Design Studio

Term 2 2011/12, Lower Lea Valley, London

This large inner periphery area is fragmented,

with heterogeneous uses and much redundant

space, offering a great opportunity for Londonto imagine new urban development models for

a post-industrial urbanism. Three groups

developed proposals for spatial intervention

at multiple scales. Themes of research included

Industrial Urbanity, the spatiality of the

Knowledge Economy, and Mix and Intensity.

Top: Tech-Knowledge network

Bottom: Deep plan workspace cluster


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15Housing & Urbanism

Top: Morphology study, Sugar House Lane

Bottom left: Valley, edge, and intensity conditions Bottom right: Intensifiaction study of strip


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16Landscape Urbanism

AA Landscape Urbanism field workshop,

Bilbao, April 2011

AALU proposal to the metropolitan area of

Bilbao attempts to link the Ria to its green

network in the outskirts through the design

of large scale infrastructural projects capable

to reconfigure locally the existing urban fabric.

Tutors: Eva Castro, Clara Oloriz and

Alfredo Ramirez


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17Landscape Urbanism

Top: Digitally Fabricated Cities workshop,

physical model by Ignacio Lopez Buson (Spain).

The model explores ways of representing

water catchment areas in the region of Shunyi,Benijing. Through its physical specialization

the model serves as the basis for the future

development of an urban proposal based of

local water sources and requirements.

Tutors: Eva Castro, Clara Oloriz, Alfredo Ramirez

and Eduardo Rico

Middle and bottom: Social Waterscapes is the

Design Thesis by Jaime Traspaderne (Spain),

Ana Abram (Slovenia), and Costanza Madri-

cardo (Italy). The Social Waterscapes Project

investigates the role of water infrastructures

within the city as a medium to improve sociallife. In the context of Chinese rapid urbanisa-

tion, the proposal explores the potential of

water as an instrument of modernisation in

Fanshang, Beijing, China.

Tutors: Eva Castro, Clara Oloriz, Alfredo Ramirez

and Eduardo Rico


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18Sustainable Environmental Design

Top: MArch / MSc Sustainable Environmental

Design display end of year Projects Review 2012

Bottom: Alexandre Hepner, Amazon Research

Station, Dissertation Project MSc Sustainable

Environmental Design


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19Sustainable Environmental Design

Top: Cool screens for warm climates:A research project by SED students Chandini

Agarwal, Alexandra Andone, Benito Gutier-

rez, Payal Chaudhari, Valli Chitambaram, Bilge

Kobas, Aimilios Kourafas, Shaker Majali, Pulane

Mpotokwane, Saachi Padubidri, Omar Rabie,

Izzati Salim

Bottom: MArch / MSc Sustainable Environmental

Design group in Barcelona visiting the Media-Tic

building with its architect Enric Ruiz Geli


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20History & Critical Thinking

Top: Sandra Meireis, Robin Hood Gardens

HCT Architecture and Photography workshop,

December 2011

Bottom: Fabrizio Ballabio, Interval 19

HCT Architecture and Photography workshop,

December 2011


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21Conservation of Historic Buildings

Top: Berat, Albania, a World Heritage Site

that AA students expect to visit as part of a

projected trip in 2013.

Bottom: One of a series of special presentations

by distinguished foreign conservation architects


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22Design & Make

Top: Truss fabrication of the D&M student-de-

signed Big Shed. Each truss was build horizon-

tally using an innovative system of engineered

screw fixings then lifted into its vertical position.

Photo Henrietta Williams

Bottom: D&M students working in the Big

Shed assembly workshop, which was designed

by the first Design & Make cohort in 2011. It is

built from larch roundwood trusses and clad

in cedar from the Hooke Park woodland.

Photo Nozomi Nakabayashi


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23Design & Make

Top: Design & Make students building at Hooke

Park. Each design-build project forms part of the

growing campus at Hooke Park and provides a

vehicle for research by the D&M students.

Bottom: Nozomi Nakabayashi stands in her

Big Shed project on the day she submitted

her thesis.


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24Projective Cities

Sakiko Goto, Tokyo Podium. The project rethinks

the podium as an interface between the city

and its dominant towers, which shaped by the

richness of Japanese interspaces creates a new

possibility for densification and programming.

Ground Floor Plan First Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan Fourth Floor Plan

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Tokyo Podium


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25Spatial Performance and Design

Exquisite Corpse London, inflatable structure

Photo Valerie Bennett


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26PhD Programme

Top: Francisca Aroso, PhD by Design student

(2011/12). Physical experiments and patterns for

the design of proposed facade system

Bottom: Translate the Intangible symposium

10 May 2012. Photo Alexander Furunes


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Application Procedure

Full details on the application

procedures for all graduate

school programmes are available

from www.aaschool.ac.uk

Applicants must complete anonline application form, accom-

panied by the original evidence

of qualifications or true certified

copies (copies will not be accept-

ed). Academic and/or work

references must also be provid-

ed. With the exception of History

& Critical Thinking and Conserva-

tion of Historic Buildings, appli-cants are also required to submit

a portfolio of design work (no

larger than A4 format) showing

a combination of both academic

and professional work (if applica-

ble). All applicants are encour-

aged to attend a personal inter-

view. All documentation mustbe provided in English.

To meet both the AA and the

UKBA English language require-

ments you will need to have one of

the accepted language qualifica-

tions listed below, unless you are

from one of the following groups:

You are from a majority English-speaking country as per the list

on the UKBA website. OR you

hold a degree from a majority

English speaking country at the

level equivalent to a UK Bachelors

degree for a minimum of three

years. OR you have studied on

a Tier 4 child visa in the UK and

the course was longer than six

months and completed within the

last two years.

The following qualifications satisfy

both the requirements of the

UKBA and the entry requirements

of the AA.

IELTS (Academic) 6.5 overall withat least 6.0 in each category)

two- year validity period: must be

within the two years at time of

CAS visa application.

Cambridge Certicate of Ad-

vanced English at grade C1 or C2)

Cambridge Certificate of Proficien-

cy in English at grade C2)PearsonTest of English (PTE) (Academic)

overall minimum of 63 with a score

of at least 59 in each category.

Internet-based TOEFL overall

score of 90 with at least 22 for

listening, 22 for reading, 23 for

speaking and 23 for writing.

Application Deadlines

Winter applications are due by

18 January 2013 (fee 40).

Successful applications made

by this date are eligible to apply

for an AA Bursary. Spring

applications must be submitted

by 15 March 2013 (fee 60).Applications made after this date

will be accepted at the discretion

of the school.

Enquiries should be addressed to:

Jess Bugden & Imogen Evans

Graduate School Admissions

Registrars Office

T +44 (0)20 7887 4067/4007

F +44 (0)20 7414 0779

graduateadmissions

@aaschool.ac.uk


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Prospectus

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more information about the school

and its programmes. A copy of

the Prospectus, together with an

application form, is available on

request from:

Jess Bugden & Imogen EvansGraduate Admissions Coordinators

Admissions Office



36 Bedford Square

London WC1B 3ES

T +44 (0)20 7887 4067 / 4007

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2012/13Examination Board

Examiners

DRL

David Ruy

Design & Make

Professor Bob Sheil

EmTech

John Chilton

Paul Shepherd

History & Critical Thinking

Dr Wendy Pulla

Housing & Urbanism

Tony Lloyd Jones

Landscape Urbanism

Susannah Hagan

AA Interprofessional Studio

Professor Richard Wentworth

Projective Cities

Professor Charles Rice

Sustainable


Bill Gething

Alan Short

2011/12Visiting Critics

DRL

Hernan Diaz Alonso

Hanif Kara

Philippe Morel

Tom Wiscombe

EmTech

Francis Aish

Wolf Mangelsdorf

Achim Menges

Theo Spyropoulos

Jordi Truco

History & Critical Thinking

Gordana Fontana-Giusti

Felipe Hernandez

Ingrid Schroeder

Housing & Urbanism

Katharina Borsi

Kathryn Firth

Pierre-Yves GraffeEric Parry

Landscape Urbanism

Larry Barth

Zaha Hadid

Andreas Ruby

Irne Scalbert

Brett Steele

Sustainable


Werner Gaiser

Catherine Harrington

Shelley McNamara


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