The Autumn Open Jury is an opportunity for students across the school to present completed projects from the past academic year and is a good moment to reflect on the ideas, themes and methodologies that shaped the work.
Over the course of the day a cross-section of students from across the Architectural Association, ranging from Intermediate, Diploma, Taught Postgraduate and PhD programmes as well as from Core Studies, Electives and Research Labs, will present completed exemplary projects from the 2021–22 academic year.
Projects will be linked to the themes presented in the AA Approaches series earlier this term to reflect how we approach architecture: from space, as part of a system, as part of history, as a story, coming from the streets, from the land, through the material, and on the page.
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– Introduction by Ingrid Schroder, AA Director
– Anastasia Fedotova, Diploma 6: Automated Play of the Machine
– Can Aksan, AAIS: The Music of our Dreams
– Juntao Liu, Experimental 1: The Belt of Playtime
– Yolande Wang, Diplolma 10: The Crossroads Between Dreams and Catastrophe
– Julia Spirig, Housing and Urbanism: From Employment Land to Makers’ Society
– Concluding Remarks
Critics: Nick Simcik Arese, Fran Williams, Matteo Mastandrea, Sam Jacob, Albane Duvillier, Davide Sacconi, Yushi Li
NICHOLAS SIMCIK ARESE is Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies, University of Cambridge, and Research Affiliate in the Department of Anthropology, University of Oxford. He directs Cambridge’s MPhil in Architecture and Urban Studies (MAUS).
FRAN WILLIAMS is the Architects’ Journal’s Technical Editor and Deputy Architecture Editor. Before joining the AJ at the end of 2018, Fran was working as an architectural assistant for various architecture practices in London including Gort Scott, Jestico + Whiles and Sarah Wigglesworth Architects.
MATTEO MASTRANDREA is an architect and Director at Es Devlin Studio in London. Recent work includes the Super Bowl Halftime Show with Dr Dre, Eminem and Kendrick Lamar, Come Home Again (Tate Modern) as well as theatre productions The Lehman Trilogy (National Theatre), A Number (The Old Vic), The Hunt (Almeida) and The Unknown Soldier (Royal Opera House). He has taught Architecture (ADS4) at the Royal College of Art since 2016, and is a PhD candidate at Cambridge University (Centre for Film and Screen).
SAM JACOB is principal of Sam Jacob Studio for architecture and design, a practice whose work ranges from urban design through architecture, design, art to curatorial projects. Past projects have included nightclubs, social housing, community centres, parks, TV studios and exhibitions. His work has been shown at institutions including the Art Institute Chicago, the MAK Vienna, the V&A, and the Venice Biennale, where he was co-curator of the British Pavilion in 2016. Previously, Sam was a director of FAT Architecture. Alongside the studio’s main work, Sam has designed t-shirts and scarves that act as manifestos, designed an opera in a cow shed and interviewed Lou Reed, all in the name of expanding the possibilities of architectural production.
ALBANE DUVILLIER is an architect with expertise in conservation and sustainability. She explores an inclusive, socially and politically engaged mode of design, considering London’s architectural culture and its inhabitants as a creative battleground. She teaches Intermediate 12 at the AA with Elliot Rogosin who she is also currently designing an off-grid, sustainable, self-built community building in Anglesey with.
DAVIDE SACCONI explores buildings, cities, production and research through designs, exhibitions, books and pedagogical projects. He holds a PhD from the AA, is an associate lecturer at the Royal College of Art and teaches at the Syracuse Architecture London Programme. He edited the books Interior Tales, The Supreme Achievement and Savage Architecture. He teaches Diploma 20 at the AA with Luca Galofaro and CAMPO.
YUSHI LI is a Chinese artist, teacher and researcher. Her work engages with the question of the gaze, using photography as her method to explore and question the gendered power dynamic inherent in different relations in the internet age. She was selected as one of the Foam talents in 2022, and the RPS Hundred Heroines in 2019.
