27 November/In Two Days Tomorrow will be Yesterday Lecture Wolf Prix/AA School of Architecture/London

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"In Two Days Tomorrow will be Yesterday":  Wolf Prix Lecture tomorrow at AA School of architecture in London. 

This lecture is not a ticketed event, but entry to the Lecture Hall will be on a first-come-first-served basis only. Once the Lecture Hall is full, any remaining audience members will be redirected to the New Soft Room, where the lecture will be available to view on video relay. The event will also be streamed live at http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/live/ and available to view later online.
 

Wolf Prix cofounded Coop Himmelb(l)au in 1968. He studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology, the Architectural Association of London, and the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. After teaching abroad he responded to a call as professor of the University of Applied Arts Vienna in 1993 where he served as Vice-Rector, Head of Studio Prix and Dean of the Institute for Architecture. Among other decorations Wolf D. Prix received several academic awards including the “Annie Spink Award for Excellence in Architectural Education” for his commitment to teaching and training, the “RIBA Jencks Award: Visions Built” for major contributions to the theory and practice of architecture as well as the Austrian Decoration of Honour for Science and Art for his outstanding creative achievements.
The architectural designs of Wolf D. Prix, Design Principal and CEO of Coop Himmelb(l)au, have been highly acclaimed and featured in many publications, museums and collections worldwide. Among the recent projects are the Musée des Confluences in Lyon, France; the House of Music in Aalborg, Denmark; the European Central Bank’s new headquarters in Frankfurt am Main, Germany; the Busan Cinema Centre in Busan, South Korea and the Dalian International Conference Centre in Dalian, China.

Time: 18:00:00
Venue: Lecture Hall

Image © Clemens Fabry

More info:
http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/VIDEO/lecture.php?ID=2022

7 February / Project Japan: Metabolism Talks / AA School / London

Rem Koolhaas, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Brett Steele, Shumon Basar

Project Japan: Metabolism Talks

Date: 7/2/2012 

Time: 18:00:00 
Venue: Lecture Hall

Project Japan is a new book by Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist, edited by Kayoko Ota with James Westcott and designed by Irma Boom. It tells the story of the first non-western avant-garde movement in architecture, and the last movement anywhere to play a crucial role in the economic, intellectual, and architectural (re)building of a nation: Metabolism.

Between 2005 and 2011, architect Rem Koolhaas and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist interviewed the surviving members of Metabolism, together with dozens of their collaborators, mentors, rivals, critics, protégés and families. The result is a vivid documentary both of an architectural movement and an activist state that mobilised the most creative forces of its population for a task that, in 1945, seemed impossible.

This is a ticketed event. AA students (current registered) can collect a ticket on Monday 6 February from 9.00 from Reception. Tickets are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, subject to availability. Tickets must be collected in person on production of an AA Membership card. Tickets cannot be collected on behalf of other students.

AA staff (current) should contact Philip Hartstein at the AA Front of House Office on Monday 6 February at 11.00, either in person or by phone on 020 7887 4114. AA Members should contact Joanne McCluskey in the Membership Office on Monday 6 February from 10.00 on 020 7887 4034. No advance reservations possible.

The event will also be relayed into the Rear Second Presentation Space. Tickets are not required for this area but once full it will then be closed.

4 Mar / Opening mostra "Wish we were here, Cedric Price: Mental Notes" / AA school / Londra

Front Members' Room

05.03.2011 - 26.03.2011

Private view, Friday 4 March, 6.30–8.30

, with first public tasting of the CPSavoury, as devised by chef Fergus Henderson

Wish We Were Here is a touring exhibition curated by Samantha Hardingham and Hans Ulrich Obrist. It is in part a restaging of VENIC VENIC made for the 12th International Architecture Exhibition, ‘People Meet in Architecture’, Venice Biennale 2010 directed by Kazuyo Sejima and with thanks to Paolo Baratta, President of the Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia. VENIC VENIC was made possible by the additional support of the Institute of the 21st Century: Bettina Korek, Karen Marta and Justin Conner and that institute’s fiscal sponsor, Pasadena Arts Council.
Wish We Were Here is made in collaboration with AA Photo Library and AA Archives; The Cedric Price Estate; The Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; Jan Nauta and Scrap Marshall (POA); sculptors Gary Woodley and Gavin Weber; and the students of the Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe (HfG); Kilian Fabich and Stella-Sophie Seroglou, supervised by Wilfried Kühn, Armin Linke and Markus Miessen.

'Philosopher, sir?’
‘An observer of human nature, sir’, said Mr Pickwick
The Pickwick Papers or The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick
Club by Charles Dickens*

* a CP favourite – he held 16 copies in his library at home, with one copy especially reserved for travelling.

Exhibitions are open Monday to Friday 10.00 to 7.00, Saturday 10.00 to 5.00

Info:

http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/