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AA School 201314
Graduate School
Architectural Association
School of Architecture
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Architectural Association
School of Architecture
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
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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.
www.aaschool.ac.uk/phd
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-
sional degree in architecture and will beexpected to submit a design portfolio.
www.aaschool.ac.uk/phd
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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
The AA Prospectus contains
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
Architectural Association
School of Architecture
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES
T +44 (0)20 7887 4067 / 4007
F +44 (0)20 7414 0779
Further your knowledge, skills and talent in postgraduate
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at the worlds most international school of architecture
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Cover: Nozomi Nakabayashi (Design & Make
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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
Environmental Design
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
Environmental Design
Werner Gaiser
Catherine Harrington
Shelley McNamara
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Further your knowledge, skills and talent in postgraduate
programmes offering advanced learning and degrees
at the worlds most international school of architecture