May 2010
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[ 14.05.10 AA/CC EVENT ]
At the AA Lecture Hall on Friday, May 14th, there will be an event hosted by AA/CC. There will be two parts to the event - starting at 2pm with Peter Carl presenting "What is the Purpose of a City?", then David Cunningham with "Nine Theses on the Metropolis", Sam Jacoby and Chris Lee with "For the City. From the City", Douglas Spencer with "Instrumental Urbanism and Immaterial Labour" and Ross Adams with "Longing for a Greener Present". At 4pm, there will be a coffee break and then Salottobuono with Pier Paolo Tamburelli presenting "The City as a Catalogue- Towards a User's Manual" and discussion.
[ POSITIONS ON THE CITY ]
Here you can downloaded our selected “positions on the city” in .pdf form. Click the title to download.
Ross Adams, “Longing for a Greener Present” Pedro Ignacio Alonso, “The Ghost Project- towards an Operative Ethics” Aristide Antonas, “The Infrastructure Community” Anne Save de Beaurecueil and Franklin Lee, “Grassroots Urbanism”...
[ 2010 PARTICIPANTS BIOS ]
The following participants have been selected for inclusion in the AA/CC publication to be launched in June 2010-
Ross Adams …received his BS in Biomaterial Science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2000. Deciding to pursue a career in Architecture, he apprenticed and worked in several offices in New York City and Rotterdam, later pursuing a Master of Architecture degree...
February 2010
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[ AA/CC NEWS + EVENTS ]
Spring 2009 - Call for 'Contemporary Positions on the City'
Winter 2009/2010 - Selection of Positions for Publication
Spring 2010 - May 14 - Debate/Roundtable Event @ the AA in Bedford Square - AA/CC director Marina Lathouri will be joined by Douglas Spencer, Peter Carl, David Cunningham and Sam Jacoby in a series of presentations, debates and discussions on the contemporary city. Other participants are tbc.
Summer 2010 - June 25 - Publication Launch @ AA Projects Review exhibition opening
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[ 2010 SELECTED TITLES ]
The following author's and titles have been selected for publication within the AA/CC, set to be launched in June 2010...
Ross Adams, "Longing for a Greener Present"
Pedro Ignacio Alonso, "The Ghost Project- towards an Operative Ethics"
Aristide Antonas, "The Infrastructure Community"
Anne Save de Beaurecueil and Franklin Lee, "Grassroots Urbanism"
Peter Carl, "What is the Purpose of a City?"
David Cunningham, "Nine Theses on the Metropolis"
Murray Fraser, "The Globalised City"
Jordan Geiger, "Retrofits"
Nikos Kalogirou and Anastasia Tzaka, "A critique of the Modernist’s urban vision and the contemporary environmental approach to urban design"
Mazin Abdul Karim, "7 Ideas on the ‘New’ City"
Constantin Kastrissianakis, "Re- The Crisis of Public Space"
Chris Lee and Sam Jacoby, "For the city. From the city"
Nuria Álvarez-Lombardero and Francisco González de Canales of Canales & Lombardero, "Tactics in borderlands activation"
Filippos Oreopoulos, "Rethink the City via the Neo-politics"
Nick Ray, "Politics and Urban Form"
Douglas Spencer, "Instrumental Urbanism and Immaterial Labour"
Theo Spyropoulos, "Adaptive Ecologies- Notes on the Parametric"
Teresa Stoppani, "The Island. Considerations for the city without boundaries"
Ecosistema Urbano, "Ten Things we have learned from the City".
Please see [ POSITIONS ON THE CITY ] for downloadable .pdfs.
[ 2009 CALL FOR POSITIONS ]
AA/CC put out a call for "contemporary positions on the city" in mid-2009, which aimed to assemble contemporary thoughts and types of architectural research. Through these "positions", AA/CC seeks to develop new conceptual frameworks to redefine what historically has been constructed and institutionalised as the ‘city’.
See call here : http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/downloads/AA_City_Cultures_Research_Cluster_Call_for_Positions.pdf
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[ WHO IS AA/CC ]
AA City Cultures [AA/CC] is a research cluster hosted by the Architectural Association [click for more info] located in London, UK. It is lead by Marina Lathouri, director of the Histories and Theories M.A. programme at the AA. The AA/CC team also includes AA tutors Mollie Claypool (DRL/HTS), Ryan Dillon (DRL/HTS) and Marlie Mul (HTS).
contact [cluster] : marina.lathouri@aaschool.ac.uk
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[ WHAT IS AA/CC ]
In recent years, architects are more than ever involved in the design and building of new cities. Although this continuing urban growth has prompted elaborate arguments on economic policies, new organisational models, environmental strategies and sustainable development patterns, there seems to be a lack of reflection on the fundamental question of the city as a composite environment and political...