Architectural Association students use foraged wood to build "open-air laboratory"
Students from London's Architectural Association have used timber battens and foraged waste wood to build a demountable forest pavilion called Field Station. More
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Ingrid Schroder named director of the Architectural Association
London's Architectural Association has named the British-American architect and academic Ingrid Schroder as its new director, making her the second woman to ever hold the post. More
AA names five applicants vying to be school's new director
The Architectural Association has released a shortlist of five candidates in the running to become the school's new leader following the dismissal of Eva Franch i Gilabert. More
AA council has put the school "in serious jeopardy" by dismissing director and should resign, says Elia Zenghelis
The Architectural Association's governing council should resign for its "inept and obviously prejudiced" sacking of director Eva Franch i Gilabert according to Elia Zenghelis, a former teacher at the London school who helped write its rulebook. More
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"The AA has reinvented itself before and is capable of doing so again"
The Architectural Association must reinvent itself following the dismissal of its director Eva Franch i Gilabert or risk becoming irrelevant in the modern world, writes Owen Hopkins. More
Abrupt dismissal of AA director Eva Franch i Gilabert leaves "a cloud over the school"
The failure to investigate allegations of bullying and sexism at the Architectural Association have damaged both the school and the architecture profession, according to tutors and alumni. More
Eva Franch i Gilabert fired as AA director for "specific failures of performance"
Architectural Association director Eva Franch i Gilabert has been fired by the London school two weeks after losing a vote of no confidence in her leadership. More
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AA director Eva Franch i Gilabert suffers vote of no confidence
Architectural Association director Eva Franch i Gilabert has lost a vote of confidence after students and staff at the UK school voted down her five-year plan for the institution. More
Space Popular launches virtual reality art gallery
Design studio Space Popular has created a gallery in virtual reality for the Architectural Association, plus today's other design and architecture-related coronavirus news. More
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AA wins power to award degrees for the first time
The Architectural Association school in London has been granted the right to award bachelor's and master's degrees for the first time in its history, which "marks a new era" for the institution says its director Eva Franch i Gilabert. More
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
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
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
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
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
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