This research grant provides the opportunity for summer residency at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal. It is awarded annually to AA PhD students in their second or later years of study. The grant provides a stipend toward travel, accommodation and subsistence. Previous recipients of the AA-CCA Research Grant were Eva Eylers (2009), Emanuel de Sousa (2010), Alejandra Celedon and Ivonne Santoyo (2011), Niloofar Kakhi (2012), Costandis Kizis and Arturo Revilla (2013), Alexandra Vougia and Gabriela Garcia de Cortazar Galleguillos (2014). Applications are now open for 2015; there will be only one award this year for a residency starting in mid-June 2015. Submit application to simos@aaschool.ac.uk providing a brief CV, proposal for the work to be undertaken at CCA and a recommendation letter from your first supervisor.
Deadline for applications Friday 27 February 2015. For information on the CCA see: www.cca.qc.ca/en

PhD Symposium 12 December 2014, AA Lecture Hall
A one-day international event organised by PhD in Architectural Design students Elif Erdine and Ali Farzaneh to explore the implications of computation in PhD design research at various scales. In recent decades, computation has had a profound effect in empowering designers to breach into other fields including various scientific domains, infusing innovative ideas into design. As a result, algorithmic design has developed towards an interdisciplinary domain that integrates different mathematical and biological algorithms into architectural cultures. Computational design has established itself as a fundamental aspect of critical design thinking, including the simulation of physical and mathematical phenomena as basis for information-based design approaches.
Speakers included Greig Paterson, Sina Mostafavi, Xavier De Kestelier, Kostas Grigoriadis, Sarat Babu, Mark Burry, Ali Farzaneh, Elif Erdine, John Frazer.

On any given year AA PhD candidates contribute to conferences, teaching and publications in the AA school as well as elsewhere in the UK and abroad. Over the last and current academic years these have included presentations of current work at the University of Thessaly, Greece; the Architectural Humanities Research Association AHRA Symposium, University College Dublin, Ireland; the Urban Lab UCL; the Architectas Symposium on Architecture and Gender, Seville, Spain; the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and the University of Chile, Santiago; the Architects Meet in Istanbul ARKIMEET 2013; the Education & Research in Computer Aided Design in Europe eCAADe 2013 & 2014 Conferences in Delft, the Netherlands and Newcastle upon Tyne; the Congress of Architectural History, AthensEuropean Architectural History Network’s EAHN 2014, Torino, Italy; the University of San Jose, Costa Rica; the University of Diego Portales, Chile; the Hellenic Centre, London; the UPenn Summer School, Herakleion, Greece; the Passive and Low Energy Architecture PLEA 2013 and PLEA 2014 Conferences in Munich, Germany and Ahmedabad, India; the Olympic Legacies event in Rio de Janeiro; the Literary Criticism Conference 2013 at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, Turkey. Student papers in 2013-14 have appeared in AArchitecture, Materia Arquitectura, Routledge Encyclopaedia of Modernism, ArchiDOCT e journal of doctoral research in architecture and Scapegoat Journal among others.