
AA President Eric Parry at this morning’s session in the AA Gallery; part of this Spring Term’s Open Presentations; here Diploma Unit 9′s work at Hook’s Park.

AA President Eric Parry at this morning’s session in the AA Gallery; part of this Spring Term’s Open Presentations; here Diploma Unit 9′s work at Hook’s Park.

From this morning’s Mid-Year Open Presentations, in the AA Lecture Hall.

Presentations of work from 2005/06.

From 2005/06.

Diploma students presenting work on the day that the RIBA are visiting the AA.

Diploma students presenting work.

Ed Burton from the brilliant interactive studio Soda, showing the award winning Sodaconstructor site at Wednesday afternoon’s ‘New Media’ Research Cluster event.


Vasili discussing Information Visualization diagrams with DRL students at the John Street studio.

M.Arch Students in the DRL’s ‘Computational Space’ series this afternoon at n. 37 Bedford Square; a guest lecture by Bill Hillier.


Celina lifting up her supercool–and superlight– Brompton folding bicycle. It just arrived as the prize for Diploma Unit 14′s competition last autumn at the start of their year-long work at the Thames Gateway; competition sponsored by Brompton Bicyles.

This afternoon’s ‘Architecture as Initiative’ Research Cluster event in the AA Lecture Hall, organised by the Andreas and the APRI cluster. Tomorrow afternoon’s cluster event as part of this Spring’s Open Week is Ed Burton from Sodaconstructor.

A few more highlights on the gallery walls today, getting ready for Thursday’s Open Presentations.



A few quick photos walking around the gallery and lecture hall today; working going up in preparation for this year’s Spring Mid-Year Open Exhibition and Presentations; AA Student projects from across the entire school. Presentations this Thursday, 10.00am – 4.45pm.



Carlos Villanueva-Brandt (AA Dipl Unit 10) introducing the next speaker at this afternoon’s Open Week Research Cluster event, ‘Architecture as Initiative’.

Lee and team from AA Exhibitions getting together 2005/06 portfolios and projects for a selection that will be presented as part of this week’s RIBA Re-validation visit; this selection is in the AA’s Morwell Street Building. Highlights from 05/06 Technical Studies are in the AA Bar and First Floor Back Members Room; Hooke Park and large-scale installations in the Front Members Room, and current 06/07 selections in the Lecture Hall and Exhibition Gallery.

Setting up the Mid-year Student exhibition; presentations begin at 10:00am Thursday, and include units and programmes from across the entire AA School. Visiting critics include Marta Male-Alemany (Barcelona); Philippe Morel (Paris); Nigel Coates and Ab Rogers (London); Bart Lootsma (Innsbrook); Roemer van Toorn (Rotterdam); Eric Parry, CJ Lim, & Jane Wernick (London); and others.

AADP (digital_platforms) moving downstairs into it’s new home; Vasili and Aris figuring out what plugs into what.

Samantha, Nick and David putting up the First Year work in the AA Gallery Monday afternoon, as part of this week’s Mid-Year exhbition and presentations.

Work going up for the Spring Term Open Week’s Mid-year student exhibition and presentations this Thursday in the AA Exhibition Gallery and Lecture Hall.


A notice for Wednesday’s ‘New Media’ Research Cluster event with Soda UK’s Ed Burton, creator of the award-winning site ‘Soda Constructor’. Wednesday afternoon at 2.30 pm in the AA Lecture Hall.