alexandria EGYPT

The AA Alexandria Visiting School aspires to explore how sound can affect an architectural space. The objective of HyperSpace dB is to feed off of the rich aural environment of Alexandria to find new potential acoustic design; whether it be musical, soundscape, or tapping in to the sound energy generated by the populous city. The resulting archetype will integrate space design as a musical instrument, and the space’s “music” composition, as one intertwined paradigm. The challenge to be tackled is the nature of sound and the dynamic characteristics of a visually indiscernible design tool.

AA Alexandria Visiting School
10–20 September 2012
HyperSpace dB, Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Applications due: 03 September

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shanghai CHINA

AASH11 : City on the Sea

70.8% : SHANGHAI MENISCUS

70.8% of the earth’s surface is water and Shanghai is approaching a point of overflow. Future development will require the inhabitation of this surface area. In addition to a fascinating physical property caused by the surface tension of water, the meniscus is a strikingly relevant metaphor for the urban predicament of contemporary. As an urban metaphor, the meniscus is associated with periphery, threshold, development, and tension.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Architectural Association
London, UK
23 July – 05 August 2012

AA DLab experiments thoroughly on the possibilities of digital design tools and rapid prototyping techniques as highly integrated systems of design development. It is an intensive computation and fabrication oriented workshop that is structured around a general theme in each consecutive edition.

Starting from 2012, DLab will be launched as a series where one of the most potent vehicles for emphasis in architecture, color, will take a twist and exist beyond the field of visual compositions and sensations, becoming the common denominator for the generation of diverse computational proposals.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Translate the Intangible addresses the challenges of communicating dynamic aspects of contemporary design methodologies through static mediums such as text and images. As current design-oriented fields have amplified the implementation of computational and generative tools, the process of documentation and representation of the design process has become more difficult to express. Translate the Intangible will bring together a multi-disciplinary group of leading practitioners to discuss the challenges involved in expressing the process involved in their work and propose new perspectives addressing this issue.

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Translate the Intangible: Kolarevic, Sarkisian, Lynn, Kilian, Dellatore, & Lipson.
Friday, 05/11
10.00 am / Lecture Hall, AA
36 Bedford Square
London, UK WC1B 3ES

london UNITED KINGDOM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Code [9] (nassim ES-HAGHI, george KONTALONIS, jared RAMSDELL, & rana ZUREIKAT): Code [9] is a collaboration between Nassim Es-Haghi, George Kontalonis, Jared Ramsdell, and Rana Zureikat. Formed under the proto-design agenda of the Design Research Laboratory at the Architectural Association and situated within Patrik Schumacher’s agenda for a Semiological Campus. The studio viewed architecture as a frame to order and adapt society, while pursuing architectural distinctions and differentiation to have embedded cognitive intelligibility.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

“The Sniper’s Log – Architectural Chronicles of Generation X”

“This compilation of texts written since 1986 reveals a parallel activity to Alejandro Zaera-Polo’s professional life. The book is like a sniper’s log, a register of events and accumulated experience, for the purpose of identifying tendencies and assessing performance, rather than to establish truths. Written for different media and formats, texts are threaded together as a biographical experience determined by temporal and geographical factors. More than 500 images capture the time of these writings, providing a background to trigger associations.”

alejandro ZAERA-POLO
Hosted by Mark Cousins
Friday, 03/16
06.00 pm / lecture hall
Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES

london UNITED KINGDOM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Category5 (lisa CUMMING, jorge MÉNDEZ-CÁCERES, drew MERKLE, & nada TARYAM): Category 5 is comprised of Lisa Cumming [NZL], Jorge Méndez-Cáceres [PUR], Drew Merkle [USA] and Nada Taryam [UAE], and formed within the ProtoDesign Agenda of Theodore Spyropoulos Studio at the Design Research Lab at the Architectural Association, School of Architecture. The premise of the studio was one that sought to challenge the means and processes of scientific research in adopting a self-organising architectural system that employs a bottom up approach to design. Through this method of design, we employed both analogue and digital models and simulation techniques in order to rigorously explore the potential of the prototype in architectural design.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

The lecture will address two modes of architectural production, from configurative to figurative practices, using installations, built and unbuilt projects as part of the presentation.

Nader Tehrani is a Principal and Founder of NADAAA, a practice dedicated to the advancement of design innovation, inter-disciplinary collaboration and an intensive dialogue with the construction industry. He also is a Professor and the Head of the Department of Architecture at MIT School of Architecture and Planning.

nader TEHRANI
“From Office Da to NADAAA,” Designing Fabrication series curated by Alan Dempsey
Thursday, 03/08
06.00 pm / lecture hall
Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES

london UNITED KINGDOM

Chris Salter will discuss with Theo Spyropoulos his book Entangled, which explores how artistic performance practices in the 20th and 21st centuries have become enmeshed with technologies, from the mechanical to the computational—from a “ballet of objects and lights” staged by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in 1917 to contemporary technologically enabled “responsive environments.”

chris SALTER
“Entangled,” organized by Theo Spyropoulos
Monday, 02/27
06.00 pm / lecture hall
Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES

paris FRANCE

WORKSHOP AGENDA: Post-9/11, Post-Tsunamis, Post-Earthquakes, Post-Olympics, Post-Hadid; Post- McQueen.

Alexander McQueen (1969–2010) was one of the most influential and provocative designers of his generation. His clothing challenged the generic and conventional parameters of fashion to express culture, politics, identity. McQueen saw beyond clothing design physical constraints its ideological and conceptual possibilities, addressing questions related to race, gender, religion, sexuality and environment. During AA School Paris Spring 2012, McQueen’s evolutionary design will act as prompts for embryos’ naissance within the [Fashion+Architecture] body of work.

03/19–03/30
AA School Paris—Les Arts Décoratifs
111 rue de Rivoli, Paris, France

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