The new AA Bookshop opened on Monday 12 January, business hours are 10.00 to 6.30 Monday to Friday and 11.00 to 5.00 on Saturdays.
Alongside a comprehensive range of international book titles in architecture and related subjects the shop will also have some rare and out-of-print titles and a section of carefully selected books on special offer. The AA Bookshop will also undertake to source and order titles not in stock.

Book launches will be held regularly as part of the AA Public Programme. Publishers interested in arranging an event within the shop should contact Charlotte Newman at [email protected]

Contact details: AA Bookshop, Architectural Association, 36 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3ES

T: 0044 (0)20 7887 4041

F: 0044 (0)20 7887 4048

All AA titles are available to purchase online at aaschool.ac.uk/publications

An open workshop for AA students interested in experimenting with digital fabrication processes. Projects will develop results from previous AA Digital Prototyping Lab workshops, and shift to the making of component-based systems and complex geometries, tested in the making of a series of small-scale prototypes. Students interested in taking part should be available full time for the entire duration of the workshop. 

Applications can be sent by email until 10 February to [email protected] 

Invited DRL Jury members include:
Donald Bates is a founding Director of LAB Architecture Studio, with offices in Melbourne, London, Dubai and Shanghai; Former AA Unit Master

Tom Barker founded b consultants, invented SmartSlab-the world's first scalable interactive display for architectural applications, teaches at UTS and Royal College of Art;

Matias Del Campo is a principal of SPAN; studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna; Editorial journalist; numerous exhibitions and publications with SPAN; PhD candidate;

David Erdman established davidclovers with Clover Lee; former principal of Servo's Los Angeles office; teaches at UCLA; recipient of the 2008-09 Rome Prize;

Jeffrey Kipnis is at the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State University along with other visiting design studios, founded the AA Graduate Design program (AAGDG) in 1992; has extensive and influential writings, exhibitions, lectures;

Clover Lee established davidclovers with David Erdman; former principal of plusClover; teaches at the University of Michigan Rome visiting studio;

Neil Leach is a professor of architectural theory at the University of Brighton; visiting professor  at  University of Southern California; has extensive writings, editorials and curatorial;

Sandra Manninger is principal of SPAN; studied architecture at the Technical University Vienna; numerous exhibitions and publications with SPAN; PhD candidate;

Ali Rahim is a principal of CAP and a professor at UPenn..

Foundation £13,578
Undergraduate
First to fifth years of study £15,273
Graduate
MA/MSc (12 months) £17,571
MArch (16 months) £23,453
(September 2009 to January 2011)
MPhil/PhD £15,747
Building Conservation £5,139
Visiting Student Programme £7,500
(15 weeks January to May 2010)
Summer School 2010 £1,450
D-Lab 2010 £1,750

Appointments can be booked with Belinda at [email protected]
Third Year Design Projects
Third Year students can organise weekly tutorials with TS staff on Thursday afternoons.

Fifth Year Design Theses
Fifth Year students can organise weekly tutorials with TS staff:
Mondays from 2.00 with Toni Kotnik;
Tuesdays from 3.30 with John Noel;
Wednesdays from 3.30 with Martin Hageman;
Thursdays from 3.30 with Wolf Mangelsdorf.
Fifth Year students who wish to see Mike Weinstock can email Mike directly at [email protected]

The AA Library is delighted to announce that it has been granted Associate Membership in JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee). JISC's aim is to provide leadership in using IT in educational and research environments. As Associate Members, we will be able to purchase relevant online electronic resources at affordable prices.

Our first goal is to acquire access to JSTOR and DigiMap. JSTOR provides digital back files of 770 leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences and sciences. Material is full-text searchable and includes images. DigiMap provides digital maps from the Ordnance Survey. Depending on permissions from the resource holders and costs, we would like to look at adding additional indexing and electronic resources in the future.

The Library will keep staff and students informed on the status of these acquisitions.

Nine Emergent Technologies MArch candidates will present their dissertation projects: Santiago Fernandez Achury, Sean Ahlquist, Hiva Bakhtiari, Pooja Bali, Karola Dierichs, Moritz Fleischmann, Mehran Gharleghi, Yukio Minobe and Elina Pavlea. This presentation constitutes the final feedback for the candidates before they finalise their dissertation work.

The expert panel for the dissertation presentations includes Dr Chris Williams and Prof Dr Birger Sevaldson. See Lectures

The AA Electronic Media Lab workshops programme in the Spring Term comprises introductions to the advanced use of selected software packages for interactive presentations, digital 3D modelling, scripting and the preparation of files for digital fabrication. There will be eight full-day Saturday workshops, starting in Week 3 (beginning Monday 26 January). The workshops will take place in Morewell Street 1.01.

Please note that online registration is required; this will take place from 10.00 on Wednesday 21 to 6.00 on Thursday 22 January.
See detailed information in the AA Course Booklet.

Concrete Thinking for a Sustainable World
Preservation as Provocation: Re-thinking Kahn's Salk Institute
Green Community
Complete programmes reference materials and further information about application can be found at acsa-arch.org/competitions
Digital submissions are welcomed for each of these competitions, open to students and staff.

The RIBA is working with DWA Architects to launch this competition with the theme of designing care homes for older people in 60 to 70 years.
Launch date 5 January 2024

Go to architecture.com/competitions for full details