W4 - Tutorials

Next Monday 17th of October we will have tutorials in our unit space as follows,

11.00 Erez
11.30 Elliot
12.00 Anand
12.30 Camille
13.00 Fragkiskos

14.00 Andreas
14.30 Enrique
15.00 Frederique
15.30 Hao Wen
16.00 Andrew
16.30 Eleni
17.00 Carlotta

18.00 Movie Amores Perros

Please be on time with your drawings and work about your issues. 4A2 minimum.

Suggested readings
Michael De Certeau: The practice of Everyday Life, University of California Press, Berkeley, California, 1984. Part three- Spatial Practices. Chapter 7. Walk in the city
Henri Lefebvre: Critique of Everyday Life, London: Verso, 1991.

W3 - Tutorials

Next Friday we will have tutorials in our unit space as follows,

10.00 Frederique
10.30 Eleni
11.00 Hao Wen
11.30 Camille
12.00 Fragkiskos
12.30 Carlotta

14.00 Anand
14.30 Andreas
15.00 Erez
15.30 Andrew
16.00 Elliot
16.30 Enrique

17.00 Lecture by Adam Kaasa (information in previous post)

Please be on time for the tutorials with your drawings and the topic selected.

W3-Lecture: ‘The Architecture of Citizenship: Mexico City in the 20th Century’ by Adam Kaasa

Adam Kaasa (LSE) will give a lecture about Mexico DF for us next Friday 14th of October at 5pm in 36 Bedford Studio 2 (2nd floor). Adam has work extensively on different urban questions related to this city taht will be part of his Phd Transatlantic Dialogues: The Architecture of Citizenship in Mexico, 1928-1959. http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/VIDEO/lecture.php?ID=1641

Mexico City

W3 Presentations & Lecture

Next week Tuesday 11th of October it will be held in our unit space  the lecture "Public space & politics" by Nuria Alvarez Lombardero. Afterwards you will start your group research presentations.

Tres Culturas Square

2nd of October of 1968, Mexico DF

W3-4 ISSUE: FINDING OUT ABOUT URBAN CULTURES: WAYS OF LIVING

In this initial approach to our site, you will start exploring the vast Mexico DF urban culture. This first research will be divided in two sections. First, a detailed investigation about the different cultural customs and the spatial characteristics where they take place. Second, a reflection on how citizens’ everyday life activities construct politics in this multicultural city.

The work starts with a series of explorations about everyday life issues in groups of two from a list that we will suggest you. Continuining with individual researches that will be presented on Friday 21st of October.   

Readings

Bruno Latour, Reassembling the social, An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005

Hannah Arendt, “The Public and the Private Realm”, in The Human Condition, Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1998, pp.22-78

Hannah Arendt, “Introduction into politics”, in The Promise of Politics, Schoken Books: New York 2005, pp. 93-200

COFFEE CULTURE
YIMING HUANG (3RD YEAR)

W2-8 REASSESSING DISCIPLINARY TOOLS

The next four weeks you will be engage in reconsidering architectural means of representation in relation to politics. They will serve as to construct the first schematic designs in Mexico DF. (8 Weeks- Analysis & Research)

W2 Jury - Workshop on Immediate Governance

The final presentation of this First Workshop on Immediate Governance will be next Friday 6th of October in North Jury Room. We will start at 9.30am and finishing @2pm.The visiting critics are Daniel Ayat & Catalina Pollack. Please be on time.

  Enrique & Andreas

Hao Wen & Camille

Eleni & Fragkiskos

W2 Tutorials_2

Next Wednesday from 5.00pm there will be more tutorials in our unit space. Concepts and design decision should be done to start a conversation about the adequate means of representation needed to express better your ideas. Each group will have 30 min per tutorial

W2 Tutorials

Tutorials for the first workshop in Morwell street will be next Monday 3rd of October in Intermediate Unit 8 space from 10.30 am to 6pm. Please be working in groups in the unit space.

W2 IMMEDIATE GOVERNANCE: WINDOWS, DOORS, AND TRANSITS

This first conceptual workshop questions the role of Morwell Street in your everyday life at the Architectural Association. Along the development of the academic year, this street gathers together not only students and staff from the AA, but also a wide range of different individuals from the city, including drug dealers, junkies, office workers, tourists, etc. Even though Morwell Street location is strategic in the relationship between the architectural environment of the school and the London context, its spatial configuration has not been reconsidered since the AA expansion, normally assumed as a banal situation. This first workshop proposes to reconsider doors, walls, windows, pavement and the public space of the street itself in order to articulate the relations between AA students and the different individuals who inhabit this particular in-between place.

Seminar “Reassessing the immediate: Doors & Windows” by Francisco Gonzalez de Canales.

Suggested Readings Robin Evans, “Figures, Doors and Passages” in Translations from drawings to building and other essays, London: AA Publications, 1997, pp. 55-91. Bruno Reichlin, “The Pros and Cons of the Horizontal Window: The Perret-Le Corbusier Controversy”, in Daidalos 13, 1984, pp. 65-78.