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Ryan Dillon, Anna Lisa Reynolds (eds.) AA PublicationsThe AA Book is published annually and features hundreds of projects by students from every academic programme within the school.

Ryan Dillon & Anna Lisa Reynolds The AA Book is published annually and features hundreds of projects by students from every academic programme within the school. This year, it is an assemblage of the ideas, approaches, images and voices that have defined the past year, and extracts from our archive. There are infinite potential pairings contained in this box. Rearrange at will, add, subtract, curate and orchestrate – it is yours to perform.

AA Publications Maria Shéhérazade GiudiciAA Files is the Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture’s journal of record, currently edited by Maria Shéhérazade Giudici.

Maria Shéhérazade Giudici AA Files is the Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture’s journal of record, currently edited by Maria Shéhérazade Giudici. This issue features eleven contributions that put forward different approaches to architectural research, examining issues from land speculation and class construction to future forms of domesticities and reflections on uprootedness. Throughout, AA Files 80 seeks to unearth past moments of architectural agency to demonstrate that even in times of social and environmental crisis, new spatial imaginaries are possible.

Concerning…Land

AA Publications Emily PriestThis publication asks contributors a direct and open question: what are you concerned with right now? Its aim is to place current topics and debate at the centre of architectural education.

Ingrid Schroder, Emily Priest This publication asks contributors a direct and open question: what are you concerned with right now? Its aim is to place current topics and debate at the centre of architectural education. By publishing contrasting views revolving around a singular question, architects, practitioners, educators, students and theorists can share their ideas on how urgent issues can be examined and rethought within education, practice and writing. With Contributions Of Charlotte Birell, Georgia Hablützel, Tadeáš Ríha, Silvana Taher

North Gallery: Volume 6

Yale School of ArchitectureYale Graduate Architecture Students from classes of 2022-2025

Yale Graduate Architecture Students from classes of 2022-2025 Beginning in the Spring 2018 semester, the Yale School of Architecture Gallery launched a program to give students the opportunity to curate and stage exhibitions. The content is driven by student proposals and strives to be responsive to current interests and concerns in the school, while remaining open to the unique perspectives that stem from the breadth of our students backgrounds and outlooks. With the 2022-23 academic year, the North Gallery was able to return to a schedule of presenting three exhibitions per semester. This publication collects the six entries that graced our walls over that period. They vary widely in subject matter and format but share an intensity and passion for sharing their observations, meditations, and fruits. They vary widely in subject matter and format but all use designed space and displayed objects to mediate issues of the natural and artificial, time and

Pandemic Objects

AA Publications Brendan CormierThis is an archive of ordinary things in an extraordinary time.

Brendan Cormier A publication based on Pandemic Objects, an editorial project that compiles and reflects on objects that have taken on new meaning and purpose during the Covid-19 pandemic. During times of pandemic, a host of everyday often-overlooked ‘objects’ are suddenly charged with new urgency. Toilet paper becomes a symbol of public panic, a forehead thermometer a tool for social control, convention centres become hospitals, while parks become contested public commodities. By compiling these objects and reflecting on their changing purpose and meaning, the project aims to paint a unique picture of the pandemic and the pivotal role objects play within it.

AA Publications Ludovico CentisReyner Banham: A Set of Actual Tracks brings a contemporary critical lens to the work of Reyner Banham, one of the most prescient architectural and design critics of the 20th century.

A Set of Actual Tracks Ludovico Centis Sixteen of the acerbic historian’s essays and book chapters have been selected by the book’s contributors, ranging from classics such as ‘The Great Gizmo’ to lesser-known texts, such as ‘The Wall’, an intimate confession he penned at the hospital shortly before his death. Each is accompanied by a contemporary response that contextualises Banham’s text, drawing out reflections on what the critic’s work means today. With Contributions Of Olivier Arditi, Mario Carpo, Maristella Casciato, Ludovico Centis, Adrian Forty, Curt Gambetta, Kersten Geers, Albert Narath, Barbara Penner, Penny Sparke, Tim Street-Porter, Alice Twemlow, Paola Viganò, Richard J. Williams, Mimi Zeiger

What About Learning?

Yale School of ArchitectureWhat about Learning? focuses on how architectural education and learning at large faced ongoing disruptions and pressures under the COVID-19 pandemic and how we can reimagine learning environments.

Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor Deborah Saunt with Jane Wong and Timothy Newton This books focuses on “What about Learning?” a studio led by Deborah Saunt of DSDHA, in London in terms of how architectural education and learning at large faced ongoing disruptions and pressures under the COVID-19 pandemic. Disembodied learning and a renewed sense of civic participation, along with increasing awareness of how one’s relationship with the environment is so critical to life at home, led the students to consider a twofold architectural question: What is the best site for learning today? What are the alternative forms of learning and exchange it could nurture? A collective analysis of YSoA’s changing conditions, from its physical site to its virtual presence and networks, and parallel research into alternative learning models, such as University of the Underground and the London School of Architecture, served as a basis for critique and the making, and unmaking of curriculum

Yale School of ArchitectureRetrospecta catalogs activity at the Yale School of Architecture. Each volume is a snapshot of evolving architectural and graphic design trends.

Krista Lebovitz, Tony Salem Musleh, Ugen Yonten, Zicheng (Roy) Zhang Each year, Retrospecta celebrates exceptional student work and aims to capture what distinguishes an education at the School of Architecture. Much of what makes Yale unique stems from the varied and hearty experiences within its academic structure: the 6on7s, the Thursday receptions, the events that unfold between lunchtime and studio. While the schedule of classes brings order and reason, it is also the scaffolding upon which moments of inquiry and whimsy take place. Yale's education is punctuated by the attention we give and the issues we tend to–it is this generosity within an academic structure that gives Rudolph Hall its texture and life. To reflect this layered and untidy experience–as studios, seminars, and day-to-day life occur simultaneously–Retrospecta 47 is structured in an alternating sequence, a weaving of sorts. Between the ordered strings of studios and seminars are the loose threads: a broader

Conscious Community

Yale School of ArchitectureLouis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship 11

Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship 11 Chris T Cornelius, Abeer Seikaly, Rodney Leon This book of three Kahn Visiting Assistant Professors at Yale School of Architecture includes the projects of Chris T. Cornelius focusing on “Decolonizing Indigenous Housing”; Abeer Seikaly “Conscious Skins” on materiality, making, and place; and Rodney Leon for a concept for a National Slavery Memorial in Washington, D.C. as a basis for redefining the memorial in general. The projects examined the larger cultural, political, and ideological issues on their sites with local communities and consciousness, materiality and craft, as ways to amplify inhabiting the land and the related social and spatial issues.

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