The Architectural Association School of Architecture
The Architectural Association is the oldest independent school of architecture in the UK. It was founded by a group of dissatisfied young architects in 1847 to provide a self-directed, independent education at a time when there ws no formal training available. After 150 years, the AA attracts students from more than fifty countries worldwide.

Courses are divided into two main areas - undergraduate programmes, leading to the AA Diploma, and postgraduate programmes, which include specialised courses in housing and urbanism, energy and the environment, history and theory, design, as well as day-release course in building conservation, garden conservation, and environmental access. Since its foundation, the School has continued to draw its teaching staff from progressive international practices, and they are reappointed annually, allowing a continual renewal of the exploration of architecture.

Through a programme of exhibitions and events, including lectures, workshops, and publications, the AA takes a critical stance, observing, analysing and commenting on past and present architectural ideologies. Major lectures are open to the public, free of charge. The next exhibition in the Exhibition Gallery is An Evolutionary Architecture, featuring the work of Diploma Unit 11.

The AA has one of the UK's most comprehensive architectural libraries with more than 25,000 volumes and a unique slide collection.

Membership is open to anyone interested in architecture.



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undergraduate programmes
Apart from providing a broad grounding in history, theory and technology, the undergraduate school has no set curriculum. Each year, students choose a different design unit, from which they shape an individual programme of study. The main teaching programmes are supported and supplemented by the General Studies, Technical Studies and Media Studies courses.
For more information contact
Architectural Association School of Architecture
34-36 Bedford Square
London WC1 B 3ES
Fax +44 (0)171 414 0782
Tel +44 (0)171 636 0974

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Membership of the AA
For more information, contact the Membership Secretary
Architectural Association School of Architecture
34-36 Bedford Square
London WC1 B 3ES
Fax +44 (0)171 414 0782
Tel +44 (0)171 636 0974

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The Architecture of Genetic Space, Unit 11
The unit has just completed a five-year programme to develop an alternative method of generating architecture by evolving a computer model in a simulated environment. Within the virtual world of the computer, this evolutionary process is compressed in time and space - a large number of iterative cycles can be performed very quickly. A theoretical framework has now been developed to the point where a prototype can be demonstrated interactively. An Evolutionary Architecture: the Interactivator is an online review of this work

So far, the inner logic of the form-generating process has been modelled - the next phase concentrates on the realisation of this conceptual model into constructed form, translating the code script of the model into external form using a material-generating process.

Unit masters: Julia Frazer and John Frazer
Technical tutor: Guy Westbrook


For more information contact
Architectural Association School of Architecture
34-36 Bedford Square
London WC1 B 3ES
Fax +44 (0)171 414 0782
Tel +44 (0)171 636 0974

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