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Media Studies: Code Engines final review
Code Engines is a course introducing programming in ActionScript and Proce55ing, part of the AA Media Studies

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Loren developes an app which deploys an array of elements on screen (Flash)

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MAciej Displacement Grid (Flash)

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Claude makes an engine which captures the user's hand gesture (Flash)

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Lucio's 'Video Abstractions' (Proce55ing) & MAciej Displacement Grid. (Flash)

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(brett at UNAM in Mexico City)


AA Director Brett Steele presented this evening a talk at UNAM univeristy titled 'network pedagogies: the AA today'. Brett's presentation was made to an audience that included students and staff from universities across Mexico City, including UNAM, UAM and Ibero-American. Brett's talk, which focused on the topic of architectural education, teaching and learning, included a presentation of a half-dozen or more key topics or agendas that can be seen across the work of the entire AA school in recent years; including: architectural urbanism, design tools, computational and parametric structures, body projects, urban action and intervention, responsive environments, continuous surfaces, and others.

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(dancing in front of smartslab)


Photos by First Year AA student Frederik Hellberg--friday nights AA 'After Effects' Party in the main lecture hall, following the conclusion of the two-day 'surface effects' symposium.

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(chuck hoberman answering audience questions following his lecture)

(a hoberman ball travelling through the audience)


Architectural inventor Chuck Hoberman (see Hoberman Associates here) presented tonight's keyonote address at the conclusion of the AA's two-day 'surface intelligence: ambient and augmented architectures' symposium.

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(exhibition guide, design by allon kay in the AA print studio)


from this evening's exhibition opening of plasma studio's installation in the AA exhibition gallery. next week eva castro and holger kehne present their recent work as part of this autumn';s evening lecture series at the AA.

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(views of tom barker's 'smartslab' installation at the aa)


The back of the AA Lecture Hall at the conclusion of the AA's 'ambient and augmented architectures' symposia.

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(photos from day one of the symposium)


architects, designers and students from across london attended day one of the AA's 'surface intelligence' symposium, which included video documentation by channel four televesion, who were in the building today.

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(theo introducing the afternoon session of 'ambient and augmented')


DRL tutor theo spyropolous introducing the afternoon's speakers at day one of 'surface intelligence: ambient and augmented architectures'.

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(demo launch of 'smartslab')


Tom Barker's presentaiton as part of today's 'ambient and augmented architectures' symposium at the AA included a working demonstartion of smartslab--a structural honeycomb panel system with embedded media technologies. The prototype installed on the back AA lecture hall wall included more than 100,000 LEDs.

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(Media Studies Intermediate Final Review 21 November)

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(Media Studies Intermediate Final Review 21 November)

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(Media Studies Intermediate Final Reviews)

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(Media Studies Intermediate Final Reviews)

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(Media Studies Intermediate Final Reviews)

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(Ken Frampton lecture at the AA in 1976)


I happened to pass through the AA photo library earlier today as valerie and co. were tranferring one of the AA's supergreat 70s lectures from tape to DVD--check out Kenneth Frampton's lecture--and audience response afterwards, including questions by young AA tutor rem koolhaas. All the dvd's are available for viewing down in the photo library.

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(AA posters 205/06)


The new posters for AA foundation/first year, visiting students, and graduate schools.

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Exhibition opening in the Photo Library

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(poster announcing brett's talk this week at the AA)


AA Director Brett Steele presents this year's 'state of the association' talk to the entire school community of the AA; this wednesday 23 november, 2005. a presentation of the year's upcoming projects and agendas, including the creation of the AA's new 'research clusters' which launch with school-wide meetings next week.

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(invitation card for this week's 'ambient & augmented architectures' symposia)


On thursday and friday 24/25th november fourteen architects, engineers, designers, inventors and theorists attend brett and tom's 'surface intelligence: ambient and augmented architectures' symposia being held at the aa, as one of a series of events related to their research network funded by the EPSRC. this week's symposium is supported by the EPSRC Culture Fund. card amd poster design by zak kyes (a recent winner of creative review's 'creative futures' competition).

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(aa entry hall)


On the way into tonite's three openings; Plasma Studio's Installation in the Exhibition Gallery; Diamond Vaults upstairs in the Front Members Room; and Jesse Sebatier's Photographs and Video of New Orleans, in the Photo Library downstairs. All three exhibitions are up through the end of Autumn Term.

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(aa exhibition gallery)


From tonite's opening of the Plasma Studio exhibition opening; a 1:1 installation that re-creates Plasma's lobby project for Hotel Puerta America in Madrid, which opened last summer. The installation features a parametric model laser cut in 12mm plywood clad in prismacolour metal panels by corus.

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(aa front members room)


Photos from tonite's opening of 'diamond vaults' upstairs in the front members room. 'diamond vaults' is an exhibition and new aa publication documenting a group of 15th century churches built in what is now the czech republic; the show has been curated by zoe opacic; photos by the aa's sue barr; book design allon kaye and editing by pamela johnston with assitance by clare barrett.

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(photos on the way out of tonight's openings)


Photos in the front entrance and outside the exhibition gallery, showing plasma studio's installation that opened this evening at the Architectural Association.

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(poster announcing brett's talk this week at the AA)


AA Director Brett Steele presents this year's 'state of the association' talk to the entire school community of the AA; this wednesday 23 november, 2005. a presentation of the year's upcoming projects and agendas, including the creation of the AA's new 'research clusters' which launch with school-wide meetings next week.

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AA Stair Landing on the first floor--on the way into tonite's exhibition openings.

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(aa computing lab during one of this week's morning computing courses)


Each weekday morning in the aa computing lab's main space and back teaching room are booked for two-hour software and computing courses. In the foreground that's Joel Newman from AA/AV and one of the teachers in this autumn's Media Studies Courses--working at one of the lab's G5's on a digital video project.

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(screenshot from Brett's lecture today as part of the 'Pre-digital' series).


Today's presentation by brett is the last of this term's 'Post-digital' open seminar series by Mark Cousins and Brett Steele. Today's topic focused upon the 20th century's genealogy of 'pre-digital' architectures; projects from Mies and Lecorbusier to Utzon, Team X and others that establish a legacy of distributed, parametric, iterative or serial projects whose sensibilities and working methods anticipate more recent topics in contemporary 'digital' architectural practise.

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Alice Hudson presenting the schedule for today's Open Day with prospective Foundation and First Year Students.

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There are a number of films that have recently been added to the Photo Library's expanding collection.

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(Nausica Gabrielides. work in progress)

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(The Assembly: Installation by Max Babbe. Alex Catterall and Abi Tuttle. Politics and Planning day on Tuesday, 8.11.05))

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(Daily Schedule Information Wall)

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Today's First Year and Foundation Autumn Open Day. Applicants and others interested in learning more about the AA were invited in today for an afternoon of presentations by current students, and tours throughout the main AA campus at bedford square and morwell street.

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(Romanesco pattern project, Flavie Collial, First Year)

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(photos taken from the AA's back terrace)


The annual Guy Fawkes celebration at the AA; an evening of fireworks and celebrations (photos by natasha).

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