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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 Buildings programme 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 Programme fosters advanced scholarship and innovative research in the elds of architecture and urbanism through full-time doctoral studies. The PhD in Architectural Design is a studio-based option for qualied 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 Diploma Spatial Performance & Design) offers a one-year full-time or two-year part-time course open to professionals in many creative elds who collectively realise projects between architecture, art and performance. www.interprofessionals.net
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PhD Programme
The AA Schools PhD programme combines advanced research with a broader educational agenda, preparing graduates for practice in global academic and professional environments. The programme operates as an autonomous, cross-disciplinary unit supported by all of the AA Schools postgraduate departments. Current doctoral research encompasses topics of architectural theory and history, architectural urbanism, emergent technologies 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 ve-year professional degree in architecture and will be expected to submit a design portfolio.
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architecture and the city. The programme asks for an innovative and radical understanding 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 architectural knowledge as symptom of something 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 rst and foremost as technique as a material practice and a social praxis. The programmes methodology will be largely based on attentive close reading of architecture through texts and analytical and 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 organised as a set of parallel activities: individual thesis, seminars and presentations and design seminars undertaken throughout the rst three years of study. This structure 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 ve-year professional degree in architecture and will be expected to submit a design portfolio.
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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 materiality through a constantly recongurable formation, thus making the traditional three-dimensional 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 protoarchitectural 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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VerticalGround_Code [9] 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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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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Arboreal Formations, Bartek Arendt, Chris Hill and Eleni Meladaki. This project investigates how specic properties of wood may be a driver for curving pieces of timber. The process tests the calibration of physical experiments and
digital simulations to dene a component which may aggregate to form a system that is structurally coherent, fabrication efcient and expresses spatially dynamic morphologies.
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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 London to 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.
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Top: Morphology study, Sugar House Lane Bottom left: Valley, edge, and intensity conditions
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AA Landscape Urbanism eld 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 recongure locally the existing urban fabric. Tutors: Eva Castro, Clara Oloriz and Alfredo Ramirez
Landscape Urbanism
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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 Madricardo (Italy). The Social Waterscapes Project investigates the role of water infrastructures within the city as a medium to improve social life. In the context of Chinese rapid urbanisation, 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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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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Top: Cool screens for warm climates: A research project by SED students Chandini Agarwal, Alexandra Andone,Benito Gutierrez,Payal Chaudhari, Valli Chitambaram, Bilge Kobas,Aimilios Kourafas,ShakerMajali, 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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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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Top: Berat, Albania, a World Heritage Site that AA students expect to visit as part of a projected trip in 2013.
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Top: Truss fabrication of the D&M student-designed Big Shed. Each truss was build horizontally using an innovative system of engineered screw xings 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 rst 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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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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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 densication and programming.
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PhD Programme
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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 an online application form, accompanied by the original evidence of qualications or true certied copies (copies will not be accepted). Academic and/or work references must also be provided. With the exception of History & Critical Thinking and Conservation of Historic Buildings, applicants 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 applicable). All applicants are encouraged to attend a personal interview. All documentation must be provided in English. To meet both the AA and the UKBA English language requirements you will need to have one of the accepted language qualications listed below, unless you are from one of the following groups: You are from a majority Englishspeaking 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 qualications satisfy both the requirements of the UKBA and the entry requirements of the AA. IELTS (Academic) 6.5 overall with at least 6.0 in each category) two- year validity period: must be within the two years at time of CAS visa application. Cambridge Certificate of Advanced English at grade C1 or C2) Cambridge Certicate of Prociency in English at grade C2)Pearson Test 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 Ofce T +44 (0)20 7887 4067/4007 F +44 (0)20 7414 0779 graduateadmissions @aaschool.ac.uk
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