Architectural Association creates terracotta floor show for Samuel Ross' Nike collection
The new Nike capsule collection by fashion designer Samuel Ross has been unveiled in London against a landscape of 4,000 tiny terracotta pyramids. More
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"We need to become better at explaining the power of architecture" says new AA director
Eva Franch i Gilabert takes up her role as the first female director of the crisis-hit Architectural Association in London next month. In this interview, she explains her vision for the influential school and her views on the problems facing architecture. More
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Architectural Association names Eva Franch i Gilabert as new director
Catalan architect, curator and educator Eva Franch i Gilabert has been elected director of the Architectural Association school in London, making her the first woman to hold the post. More
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Architectural Association announces shortlist for new director
London's Architectural Association has announced three candidates in the running to become its new leader: Robert Mull, Eva Franch i Gilabert and Pippo Ciorra. More
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Architectural Association redundancies go ahead despite high-profile protests
Redundancies in the Architectural Association's publications and exhibitions departments have gone ahead, despite protests from luminaries such as David Adjaye and Richard Rogers. More
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Architectural Association promises to maintain cultural offering as members protest redundancies
The Architectural Association has sought to alleviate concerns that staff cuts will mean the loss of its exhibitions and publications departments, as members including David Adjaye and Richard Rogers demand a meeting to reverse the plans. More
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Richard Rogers, Rem Koolhaas and Toyo Ito call for AA to drop redundancy plans
World-renowned architects have signed a letter warning the Architectural Association that axing its publications and exhibitions departments through staff cuts will damage the school's reputation as a place of "cutting-edge debate". More
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Architectural Association accused of "destroying its own cultural mission" over redundancy plans
Staff cuts could put the publishing and exhibitions operations at the Architectural Association school at risk, prompting outrage from leading architects and writers. More
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AA Design + Make students test the limits of timber in tensile woodland canopy
A sculptural, tensile timber canopy has been constructed in Dorset woodland by five students from the Architectural Association as part of the school's Design + Make programme. More
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AA director Brett Steele to become dean of UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture
Brett Steele, director of the Architectural Association in London, has been appointed as the new head of the arts school at the University of California, Los Angeles. More
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London's AA School taps into robotic construction trend by launching specialist course
London's Architectural Association has released a film showing its first major foray into robotic construction, and has revealed it will this year launch a new course focussed on digital fabrication (+ movie). More
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"Zaha stood out from the start" says son of former AA head
Zaha Hadid 1950-2016: Zaha Hadid was "part of a mini-rebellion" as a student at London's Architectural Association, setting the tone for the career that followed, says Nicholas Boyarsky, son of former AA director Alvin Boyarsky. In this exclusive interview, he shares some of the drawings from his father's collection, and remembers growing up under Hadid's influence. More
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AA Design & Make students use a robotic arm to build a woodland barn
Students from London's Architectural Association have completed a robotically fabricated barn in a wood in Dorset, England, using timber harvested from the surrounding trees. More
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Didier Faustino's AA exhibition includes a spiky yellow stage for public speaking
French artist Didier Faustino has installed a spiky stage in front of the Architectural Association in London's Bedford Square to encourage spontaneous public speaking. More
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Nozomi Nakabayashi creates writer's hut on stilts in the Dorset woods
Sheltered beneath an oversized roof, this tiny timber cabin by AA graduate Nozomi Nakabayashi stands on stilts among the oak trees of a wood in Dorset, England (+ slideshow). More
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Jan Kaplický's futuristic drawings go on show at London's Architectural Association
Collages and sketches of designs by the late architect and Future Systems founder Jan Kaplický have been collected together for an exhibition at the Architectural Association in London (+ slideshow). More
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Floating pyramid and wooden tunnel built in the woods by Architectural Association students
Two new structures have been erected by students amongst the trees of Hooke Park, England – a translucent pyramid suspended from the branches and a wooden burrow that nestles amongst the trunks (+ slideshow). More
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Zhan Wang's animation imagines China as a trade leader in extra-terrestrial minerals
Architectural Association graduate Zhan Wang has produced an animation depicting a fictional technotopian future in which China has built a giant port to distribute minerals mined from the moon (+ movie). More
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Le Corbusier's Maison Dom-ino realised at Venice Architecture Biennale
Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: German architect Valentin Bontjes van Beek and students from the Architectural Association in London have built a full-size model of Le Corbusier's seminal Maison Dom-ino in the Giardini of the Venice Biennale (photos by Luke Hayes). More
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Gun Architects unveils Rainforest pavilion at London's Architectural Association
Tree-like structures designed to recreate the humidity of a rainforest have been installed by German-Chilean office Gun Architects outside the Architectural Association (AA) in London's Bedford Square (+ slideshow). More
