Evening LectureFreek PersynDouble or Nothing Tuesday 4 October, 6.00 Lecture HallAs part of the exhibition, this lecture will focus on five topics which highlight aspects of the work of 51N4E. This will be done using elements on show at the AA, intertwined with in depth explana-tions of some recent projects and more general reflections on the ambition of 51N4E. Freek Persyn established the practice of 51N4E, together with Peter Swinnen and Johan Anrys, and combined his partnership with freelance work for Xaveer de Geyter Architects until 2003, one year before 51N4E was awarded the Rotterdam Maaskant Award for Young Architects. In parallel with his practice work, he has been assistant professor at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Ghent, visiting critic and studio master at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam and, currently, visiting professor at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, Switzerland. He lectures and serves as a jury member in various institutes both in Belgium and abroad.

ConferenceX-Change / Independents’ Group Thursday 6 October, 10.00 Lecture HallThis is the inaugural meeting of the Independents’ Group to launch a research platform for interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration between five leading independent architecture schools, advanced manufacturing partners, and technical, cultural and media organisations to undertake project-based research. Resulting collective work will be disseminated to a wide audience through exhibitions and publications. The one-day event will address current divisions between academia and practice; between design culture and industry; and within sectors of the building industry. Presentations from academic and industrial pioneers will examine how developments in commu-nications and manufacturing technolo-gies offer academic and professional opportunities for overcoming these divisions. Schedule10.00 Conference opening, Brett Steele and Alan DempseyAcademic Partners10.10 Alan Dempsey10.30 CCA, Ila Berman10.50 HKU, Jonathan Soloman and Tom Verebes11.10 CAFA, Yufang Zhou11.30 RMIT, Jane Bury11.50 break

Industry Consultants12.00 Buro Happold, Wolf Mangelsdorf 12.20 Arup, David Glover and Ed Clarke 12.40 1:One, Benjamin Koren 1.00 Design to Production, Fabian Scheuer 1.20 Lunch Industry Partners2.20 Frener + Riefer, Michael Riefer 2.40 Rieder Concrete, Wolfgang Rieder 3.00 Laing O’Rourke / Explore Precast, Anna Winstanley 3.20 Zahner Metals, Bill Zahner and Gary Davies3.40–5.00 Roundtable discussion

Nicholas Pozner PrizeThursday 6 October, 6.30 Front Members’ Room The Nicholas Pozner Prize for Single Best Drawing is awarded annually in memory of Nick Pozner. The prize is a tribute to the talent and promise he showed in the AA Diploma School, reflected in the precision and beauty of his drawings. At the end of each academic year, drawings are nominated from across the Undergraduate School and a final shortlist selection made by jury. The award seeks not only to identify some of the best graphic work produced at the AA each year but also to inspire future years at the School as we continue to explore new techniques and modes of representation in relation to design work. The recipient of the 2011 award will be announced at this event.

Exhibitions are open to Wednesday 26 October, Monday to Friday 10.00–7.00, Saturday 10.00–5.00

Double or Nothing 51N4E AA GalleryDouble or Nothing presents the architectural and spatial projects of Brussels-based 51N4E. Curated by French architectural critic Dominique Boudet, the show re-examines a selection of recent projects from the large-scale Skanderberg Square, the most important public space in Tirana, larger than Red Square in Moscow and twice the size of St Peter’s Square in Rome, to the intimacy of Arteconomy, an extension of high steel walls encompassing a Belgian farmhouse and featuring a 3 x 3-metre day bed composed of knitted woollen tubes. Double or Nothing aims to challenge the visitor to look beyond architecture’s surface conventions and their represen-tation. The accompanying publication Double or Nothing (AA Publications, £25), is available to purchase.

Visions of the Future AA School Honours StudentsFront Members’ RoomFour AA School students graduating this year join luminaries such as Peter Ahrends and Sir Nicholas Grimshaw in receiving full Honours for their studies at the AA School. This accolade is the highest award the School can bestow on a student, recognising prestigious excellence and talent. The exhibition enables visitors to explore the Honours work across issues as diverse as the legacy of gold mining within Aboriginal homelands, solutions to Haiti’s cholera epidemic, floating desert city tourist destinations and managing Europe’s population.

Tracer FireJoel NewmanBack Members’ RoomInspired by the phosphorescent trail of tracer bullets in the night sky Tracer Fire explores the juxtaposition between the beauty and violence of ballistic weapons – their mesmerising, burning trail belying their destructiveness upon impact, and the highly wrought nature of their machinery at odds with the havoc they wreak. An installation piece projected simultaneously on to the surfaces of a darkened room, the experience is one of being caught in crossfire or at a fireworks display. The immersive work also exploits the concept of persistence of vision, as our eyes fill up with afterimages, adding another dimension to the piece. Joel Newman’s previous work has been shown at the ICA and Whitechapel Art Gallery. He has taught video at the AA School since 1998.

Saturday Members’ Morning: Gallery TalksGod & Co: François Dallegret Beyond the Bubble AA Gallery, 5 November 11.00Tom Weaver introduces François Dallegret

Building Visit: One New Change, London EC4Tuesday 18 November, 1.45Free event; please RSVP by emailing events@aaschool.ac.ukFor full details see www.aaschool.ac.uk/ membership/benefits/events.php

hsklar@aaschool.ac.ukWe can also give individual tutorials at any time.Early Closing:Tuesday 11 OctoberThe library will close at 4.00 for preparations for a dinner in the library.Friday 21 OctoberThe library will close at 4.00 for preparations for an event in the library.

10.00 TS Diploma Course Studies in Advanced Structural DesignBrief History of Structural DesignEmanuele Marfisi37 First Floor Front

10.30 Sustainable Environmental Design (SED)London 2020 Team Presentations36 Rear Second Presentation

11.30 Housing & UrbanismShaping the Modern CityHugo Hinsley and Nick BullockH&U Studio

11.30 HTS Diploma CourseThe Independent Group – tracing parallels in visual and urban cultureThe Artist as Anthropologist: surrealism, sociology and the streetVictoria Walsh37 First Floor Front

2.00 Housing & UrbanismCities in a Transnational WorldJorge FioriH&U Studio

2.00 HTS Diploma CourseDesign Infrastructures Return of Infrastructures and SystemsMaria Fedorchenko37 First Floor Front

4.00 SEDIntroduction to Autumn Term EventsProgramme staff36 Rear Second Presentation

6.30 AA Council Meeting32 Bedford Square, FFF

10.00 HTS First YearCanonical Comparisons Parthenon/Neue Nationalgalerie BerlinChris Pierce, Brett Steele with Mollie Claypool, Emma Jones, Alison Moffett and Zaynab Dena Ziari 36 Rear Second Presentation Space(Please note: seminars also take place in North and South Jury Rooms)

AA Council MeetingMonday 3 October, 6.30 32 Bedford Square First Floor BackPlease note this is the rescheduled date for the meeting originally planned for Monday 26 September.This ordinary general meeting will include the Director’s Report, addressing academic plans, preliminary enrolment numbers, demographic spread and the academic and cultural programme for the year; plus updates on Membership and, from the Building Committee, a masterplan update.AA Council Meeting Schedule for 2011/12 Monday 7 November Monday 12 December Monday 23 January Monday 5 March Monday 14 May

Digital Prototyping Lab Laser Cutter Induction LectureTuesday 4, Friday 7, Tuesday 11, Friday 14, Tuesday 18, Friday 21 October, Rear Second Presentation Space, 1.00The Digital Prototyping Lab will be giving Laser Cutting Induction Lectures in weeks 2, 3 and 4. All students (new and returning) who have not had the Laser Training session and who wish to use Digital Prototyping Lab’s laser cutting facility this year MUST attend one of the induction sessions.

Complementary Studies All Autumn Term Complementary Studies Courses this week (please refer to the timetable at the front of the Complementary Studies Course Booklet), available from the Co-ordina-tor’s Office, Second Floor, 36 Bedford Square.

Library NoticesNew Library Guides on Library WebsiteAs well as the Library Guide and Shelf Locations Plan three new library guides are up on the library website:Using the library catalogueFinding journal articles + journalsAdvance searching techniquesWe hope these guides will make it easier to use the library catalogue, and to find journal articles and journals using these searching techniques.Library Tutorials, Autumn TermThe library is offering library tutorialson Wednesdays at 10.30 starting this week on Wednesday 5 October. If you would like to come to one, please sign up in advance at the issue desk or email library@aaschool.ac.ukIf you would like your unit or course to have a special library tutorial related to the work of your unit or course, please contact Hinda Sklar at

10.00 TS Diploma CourseForm Energy and Environment Comfort: Fact or Fiction?Mohsen Zikri37 First Floor Front

10.30 History & Critical ThinkingArchitecture, Aesthetics, HistoryMark Cousins38 First Floor Back

11.30 HTS Diploma CourseThe History of HomecomingThe Home/house and its Role in ArchitectureMark Cousins37 First Floor Front

1.00 HTS Diploma CourseArchitecture and the Construction of Subjectivity Labour and the Question of Subjectivity Pier Vittorio AureliStudio 2 (Please note: all other sessions take place on Wednesdays at 10.00)

1.00 Laser-cutting InductionDigital Prototyping Lab

2.00 History & Critical ThinkingNarratives of ModernityMarina Lathouri38 First Floor Back

2.00 SEDMyths & Theories of Sustainable Architecture: Sustainable What?Simos Yannas32 First Floor Back

2.00 TS Diploma CourseForm and MatterMaterials in DesignChristina Doumpioti37 First Floor Front

3.30 HTS Diploma CourseOrnament – Barbaric Splendour or Architectural Sophistication? Oliver Domeisen37 First Floor Front

4.00 SEDRefurbishing the City: Cities in EvolutionJorge Rodriguez32 First Floor Back

6.00 Exhibition-related LectureDouble or NothingFreek PersynLecture Hall

10.00 Projective Cities38 First Floor Back

10.30 SEDIntroduction to Autumn Term Project and London Walks36 Second Floor Rear Presentation

10.30 Library TutorialLibrary

11.30 HTS Diploma Course Domestic Ruination: Do you feel lucky?Mark Campbell37 First Floor Front

2.00 HTS Diploma CourseThe Theory 750Paul Davies37 First Floor Front

2.00 Landscape Urbanism Critical TerritoriesDouglas Spencer32 Second Floor Front

3.30 Housing & Urbanism The Reason of Urbanism Larry BarthH&U Studio

3.30 TS Diploma CourseTechnology Transfers or Technomimetics Technologies in Context: an historical overview John Noel37 First Floor Front

5.00 TS Diploma CourseEnvironmental Modelling and Simulation Tasks and ToolsSimos Yannas36 Rear Second Presentation Space

5.00 Professional Practice Third Year The Road MapJavier Castañon38 First Floor Front

5.00 Future Practice Fifth YearHugo Hinsley 32 Second Floor Back

10.00 Conference X-Change / Independents’ Group Lecture Hall

10.00 Design & MakeMartin Self33 Ground Floor Back

10.00 HTS Second YearArchitectures – their pasts and their culturesMark Cousins with Ryan Dillon, Ross Adams, Daniel Ayat and Roberta Marcaccio32 Second Floor Back (Please note: seminars also take place in 32 First Floor Front and Back and 33 First Floor Back)

10.00 HTS Third YearArchitectural Coupling (+)Ecole des Beaux Arts vs BauhausMollie Claypool and Ryan Dillon with Shumi Bose, Orit Goldstein-Mayer and Emmanouil StavrakakisRear Second Presentation Space(Please note: seminars also take place in 38 First Floor Back/Second Floor Back)

10.00 TS Diploma CourseProcess in the MakingPlayers in the matchWolfgang Frese38 First Floor Front

2.00 History & Critical ThinkingArchitecture Knowledge and Writing Marina Lathouri, Mario Carpo and Thomas Weaver38 First Floor Back

2.00 Sustainable Environmental DesignPhase I & II TutorialsProgramme staffSED Studios

2.00 HTS Diploma CourseOutside Space and Inner SpaceThe Art of Memory (and Retrieval) Francesca Hughes37 First Floor Front

2.00 TS First YearExamplars / Case Study Getting to Know You!Ben Godber and David Illingworth33 First Floor Front

2.00 TS Second YearStructuresLoading Friction and Stability in Building StructuresPhil Cooper and Anderson Inge Rear Second Presentation

3.30 Housing & Urbanism Larry BarthCritical UrbanismH&U Studio

3.30 TS Third YearStructuresHave I got the right model?Phil Cooper and Anderson Inge Rear Second Presentation

3.30 TS Diploma CourseEnvironmental Engineering of Tall Buildings: The Importance of Environmental PerformanceIan Duncombe37 First Floor Front

5.00 HTS Diploma CoursePolity and SpaceObserving TransformationsJohn Palmesino37 First Floor Front (Session 1 only – all other sessions on Fridays at 3.30)

6.30 Nicholas Pozner Prize 2011Front Members’ Room

10.00 Building Conservation/Year 1Geology and Building StoneEric Robinson2.00 The Archaeology of Standing Structures and BuildingsBrian Dix 33 First Floor Back

10.00 Building Conservation/Year 2Repair ContractsDan Golberg 11.50 Specification WritingDan Golberg2.00 Specification Exercise VisitDan Golberg33 First Floor Front

10.00 HTS Diploma CourseArchitectural Doppelgangers, Fakes and Déjà vue(s)In Praise of Copying – Theories of FakeInes Weizman37 First Floor Front

1.00 Laser-cutting InductionDigital Prototyping Lab

2.00 TS Diploma Course Small in LargeComponent-based architecture Martin Hagemann37 First Floor Front

2.00 AAIS36 Second Floor Rear Presentation Room

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