Architectural Association
School of Architecture |
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| Motto |
Design with Beauty, Build in Truth |
| Established |
1847 |
| Director |
Brett Steele |
| Location |
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aaschool.ac.uk |
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The
Architectural Association School of Architecture, more usually known as the
AA, is an
architecturalArchitecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...
school in
LondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
,
United KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
. Its wide-ranging programme of exhibitions, lectures,
symposiaAn academic conference or symposium is a conference for researchers to present and discuss their work. Together with academic or scientific journals, conferences provide an important channel for exchange of information between researchers.-Overview:Conferences are usually composed of various...
and publications have given it a central position in global discussions and developments within contemporary architectural culture.
History
The AA is the oldest independent school and one of the most prestigious and competitive schools of
architectureArchitecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...
in the world. The Architectural Association, the pre-cursor to the school, was founded in 1847 by two dissatisfied young architects (
Robert KerrRobert Kerr was an architect and writer.He was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and trained as an architect there. In 1844, he moved to London and then spent a year in New York. Kerr returned to London and was one of the founders of the Architectural Association in 1847, becoming its first President...
, 24, and Charles Grey, 24), to provide a self-directed, independent education at a time when the profession of architecture had yet to appear in the form recognised today. The AA School was formally established in 1890. In 1901, it moved premises to the former Royal Architectural Museum. In 1917, it moved again, to its current premises in
Bedford Square Bedford Square is a square in the Bloomsbury district of the Borough of Camden in London, England.Built between 1775 and 1783 as an upper middle class residential area, the sqare has had many distinguished residents, including Lord Eldon, one of Britain's longest serving and most celebrated Lord...
, central
LondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
(it has since acquired additional London premises in John Street and a 350 acres (1.4 km²) site at Hooke Park in
DorsetDorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester which is situated in the south. The Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch joined the county with the reorganisation of local government in 1974...
). The school has also acquired property on Morwell Street behind Bedford Square, which it uses as studio space and there are plans for further expansion.
Curriculum
The students of the AA have been addressed by many eminent figures, from
John RuskinJohn Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture, myth to ornithology, literature to education, and botany to political...
,
George Gilbert ScottSir George Gilbert Scott was an English architect of the Victorian Age, chiefly associated with the design, building and renovation of churches, cathedrals and workhouses...
, to more recently
Daniel LibeskindDaniel Libeskind, is an American architect, artist, and set designer of Polish-Jewish descent. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect...
,
Richard RogersRichard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside CH Kt FRIBA FCSD is a British architect noted for his modernist and functionalist designs....
,
Zaha HadidZaha Hadid, CBE is an Iraqi-British architect.-Life and career:Hadid was born in 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq. She received a degree in mathematics from the American University of Beirut before moving to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London.After graduating she worked...
and
Rem KoolhaasRemment Lucas Koolhaas is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and "Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design" at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, USA. Koolhaas studied at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam, at the Architectural...
.
After 150 years, the AA is one of the world's most international schools of architecture , attracting students and staff from more than 60 countries worldwide, and a long list of visiting critics, lecturers and other participants from around the world each year.
Courses are divided into two main areas - undergraduate programmes, leading to the AA Diploma (Part 2), and postgraduate programmes, which include specialised courses in Landscape Urbanism (LU), Housing and Urbanism, Sustainable Environmental Design, Histories and Theories, Emergent Technologies, Design Research Lab (DRL), as well as day-release course in Building Conservation, garden conservation, and environmental access. Recently launched programmes Projective Cities, Design+Make and Interprofessional Studio. Since its foundation, the School has continued to draw its teaching staff from progressive international practices, and they are reappointed annually, allowing a continual renewal of the exploration of architectural graphics and polemical formalism.
The school also has its own bookshop, the AA Bookshop, containing a comprehensive range of architectural books. The bookshop is also used as a platform for newly launched titles from AA Publications. AA Publications has a long tradition of publishing architects, artists and theorists early in their careers, as well as occasionally publishing figures who have already gained notoriety in their field of expertise, such as Salman Rushdie. AA Publications also publishes the journal AA Files and the AA Book, also known as the Projects Review, which annually documents the work undertaken by members of the school from Foundation to Graduate programmes. The school also has its own independent radio station. The AA gallery also regularly exhibits work from emerging professionals, to exhibitions containing the work of more established architects and related professionals.
The school is notable as existing outside the state-funded university system, with tuition fees comparable to that of a private school, though some bursaries are available on merit and financial need. Since non-EU students are charged higher fees to attend state universities however, the AA is competitively priced by comparison; therefore the AA is notable for having a higher proportion of overseas students enrolled than many other UK architecture schools.
It also exists outside the
UCASThe Universities and Colleges Admissions Service is the British admission service for students applying to university and college. UCAS is primarily funded by students who pay a fee when they apply and a capitation fee from universities for each student they accept..-Location:UCAS is based near...
application system; even at undergraduate/first degree level direct application is the norm. It is therefore not included in many books which guide potential undergraduates to choose appropriate courses, indeed many are unaware of its existence until they are studying architecture elsewhere. This may also account for the lower count of home-students enrolled.
Notable former students
- Mazharul Islam
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(Honorary Fellowship, AIAThe American Institute of Architects is a professional organization for architects in the United States. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the AIA offers education, government advocacy, community redevelopment, and public outreach to support the architecture profession and improve its public image...
, 1999)
- Will Alsop
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(Stirling PrizeThe Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize is a British prize for excellence in architecture. It is named after the architect James Stirling, organised and awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects...
, 2000)
- Ron Arad
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- Herbert Baker
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- Geoffrey Bawa
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- Raj Rewal
-Early life:Raj Rewal was born in 1934 in Hoshiarpur, Punjab, India. He created a revolution in geometric design systems. Creation of geometric systems and responding visual imageries are apparent in Raj Rewal’s architectural works....
- Ben van Berkel
Ben van Berkel is a Dutch architect. He studied architecture at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, and at the Architectural Association in London, receiving the AA Diploma with Honours in 1987....
- Peter Blundell Jones
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- David Chipperfield
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(Stirling PrizeThe Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize is a British prize for excellence in architecture. It is named after the architect James Stirling, organised and awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects...
, 2007)
- Nigel Coates
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- Sir Peter Cook
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- Sir Philip Dowson
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- Jane Drew
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- Robin Evans
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- Mark Fisher
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- Colin Fournier
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- Kenneth Frampton
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- John Frazer
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- Tony Fretton
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- Stephen Gardiner
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- Hansjörg Göritz
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(Promotional Award Baukunst, Akademie der KünsteThe Akademie der Künste, Berlin is an arts institution in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in 1696 by Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg as the Prussian Academy of Arts, an academic institution where members could meet and discuss and share ideas...
Berlin, 1996)
- Piers Gough
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- Johnny Grey
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- Sir Nicholas Grimshaw
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- Zaha Hadid
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(Pritzker PrizeThe Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honour "a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built...
, 2004) (Stirling PrizeThe Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize is a British prize for excellence in architecture. It is named after the architect James Stirling, organised and awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects...
2010)
- Thomas Hardy
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- Michael Ulrich Hensel
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- A. R. Hye
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- Steven Holl
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- James Rai
- Meggie Kelley
- Sir Michael Hopkins
- Louisa Hutton
- Robert Furneaux Jordan
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- Shiu-Kay Kan
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- Ram Karmi
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(Israel PrizeThe Israel Prize is an award handed out by the State of Israel and is largely regarded as the state's highest honor. It is presented annually, on Israeli Independence Day, in a state ceremony in Jerusalem, in the presence of the President, the Prime Minister, the Knesset chairperson, and the...
, 2002)
- Ada Karmi-Melamede
- Biography :Karmi-Melamede was born on December 24, 1936 in Tel Aviv, in Mandate Palestine .She studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London from 1956 to 1959 and at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology from 1961 to 1962, being awarded her degree in 1963.-...
(Israel PrizeThe Israel Prize is an award handed out by the State of Israel and is largely regarded as the state's highest honor. It is presented annually, on Israeli Independence Day, in a state ceremony in Jerusalem, in the presence of the President, the Prime Minister, the Knesset chairperson, and the...
, 2007)
- Rem Koolhaas
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(Pritzker PrizeThe Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honour "a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built...
, 2000)
- Sir Denys Lasdun
- Edward Prentice Mawson
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- James MacLaren
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- Mohsen Mostafavi
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- Herbert Muschamp
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- Nicolai Ouroussoff
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- John Pawson
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- Sir Philip Powell
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- Cedric Price
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- Keith Raywood
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- Lord Richard Rogers
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(Pritzker PrizeThe Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honour "a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built...
, 2007) (Stirling PrizeThe Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize is a British prize for excellence in architecture. It is named after the architect James Stirling, organised and awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects...
2006, 2009)
- Peter Salter
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- Matthias Sauerbruch
- Ole Scheeren
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- Dennis Sharp
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- Yasmin Al-Ani Spence
- Janet Street-Porter
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- Michael Ventris
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- Frank Duffy
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- Clive Wilkinson
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- John Worthington
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Former directors
- Howard Robertson
Sir Howard Morley Robertson MC RA was an American-born British architect, President of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1952 to 1954 and a Royal Academician....
(1929–1935)
- Alvin Boyarsky (1971–1991)
- Alan Balfour
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(1992–1994)
- Mohsen Mostafavi
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(1995–2004)
Current and former teachers
- Abalos & Herreros
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- David Adjaye
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- Will Alsop
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(Stirling PrizeThe Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize is a British prize for excellence in architecture. It is named after the architect James Stirling, organised and awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects...
, 2000)
- Wiel Arets
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- Ben van Berkel
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- Alison Brooks* (Stirling Prize
The Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize is a British prize for excellence in architecture. It is named after the architect James Stirling, organised and awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects...
, 2008)
- Reg Butler
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- Nigel Coates
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- Mark Cousins
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*
- Peter Davidson
- Robin Evans
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- Terry Farrell
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- Mark Fisher
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- Earl Flansburgh
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- John Frazer
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- Ranulph Glanville
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- Zaha Hadid
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(Pritzker PrizeThe Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honour "a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built...
, 2004)
- Michael Ulrich Hensel
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- Louisa Hutton of Sauerbruch Hutton
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- Robert Furneaux Jordan
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- Jeff Kipnis
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- Leon Krier
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- Rem Koolhaas
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(Pritzker PrizeThe Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honour "a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built...
, 2000)
- Arthur Korn
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- Daniel Libeskind
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- Christopher Matthews
- Mohsen Mostafavi
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- Farshid Moussavi
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- Gordon Pask
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- Alberto Pérez-Gómez
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- Cedric Price
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- Philippe Rahm
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- Makoto Saito
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- Peter Salter
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- Matthias Sauerbruch of Sauerbruch Hutton
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- Dennis Sharp
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- Bahram Shirdel
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- Peter Smithson
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- Dalibor Vesely
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- Michael Weinstock
- Ken Yeang
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- Alejandro Zaera-Polo
- Elia Zenghelis
Elia Zenghelis is a Greek architect and teacher. He studied architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, completing his studies in 1961. From 1961 to 1971 he worked for architects Douglas Stephen and Partners, London, while also teaching at the Architectural...
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