My annual seminar in the AA’s Diploma School turns its attention this year to the ways in which modern architects document and present their work. ‘The Architectural Portfolio’ surveys 20th century experiments by architects in how the compile and communicate the ideas within their projects. The first half of the term focuses on the evolution […]
—AA 1st Year Studio
‘Hotels & Other Questions’
‘What is a Hotel, and Four other (More Interesting) Questions. Presented in the AA’s First Year studio, a short (and pretty random) survey of the euphoric role that travel, tourism and hotels have played in the projects and personalities of modern architecture. (As Le Corbusier once wrote, the only place he could ever really think, […]
—3rd Year AA HTS
‘Arch as Manifesto’
My fourth and final lecture as part of this Spring Term’s ‘Architecture from Discipline to Cutlure’ course. An hour on the topic of architectural publications, magazines and other documents, and the way in which these have shaped twentieth-century architectural culture.
—3rd Year AA HTS
‘Arch as Plan’
Session One of my four courses in this Spring Term’s 3rd Year Histories & Theories Course, ‘Architecture From Discipline to Culture’. My four weekly sessions are titled ‘Architecture as Knowledge’. I’ll survey a different kind of architectural knowledge each week. Today: ‘Architecture as Plan’, on the modern history of plan-making operations.
—AA Seminar
‘Projects’
My AA 3rd Year History & Theory Seminar kicks off during Week 2 in Spring Term 2008. The course, titled ‘Architectural Knowledge as Projects’, surveys the way in which projects structure the serial forms of architectural expertise, experience, and knowledge.
—AA Seminar
bOMA Sessions 5-7
Weeks 5-7 in my autumn AA HTS Seminar, on the books of OMA, presented three successive decades of ‘paper space’ by the office: the 70s (Delirious New York), 90s (SMLXL), and the 00’s (Content and the recent AlManak). Research during the term will be incorporated in next year’s planned AA exhibition, titled bOMA. Week 8 […]
—AA Seminar
bOMA Session 3: Magazines
This week surveys the 150-year history of magazines, as the context within which to survey the emergence, evolution and eventual appropriation of architectural magazines and journals. Lots of favorites: Arts + Arch, Bauhaus, Ulm, Arch Principe, Oppostions, etc.
—AA Seminar
bOMA Session 2: Monographs
Architectural monographs are a defining architectural technology of the twentieth century. This week’s session surveys a century of monuments; from Frank Lloyd Wrights Wasmuth Portfolio, to Mies’ 1946 MOMA catalogue, and OMA’s category-killer, SMLXL.
—AA Seminar
bOMA ‘Paper Architectures’ Autumn 2007
I joined the other AA HTS tutors and introduced my Autumn HTS Seminar this afternoon. The seminar will survey the 30-year history of the ‘paper architectures’ of OMA, within the context of modern architecture’s long history of architectural/editorial cross-overs.