History as Narrative of the Present (PhD seminar with Marina Lathouri and guest speaker Joan Ockman) Following on the seminar ‘What is Historical?’ in Term 1, discussions with guest speakers will take place this term. Continuing and expanding on the previous sessions, the theme is ‘What is Contemporary?’. For the first session on Thursday at 4:30pm […]

Organised and hosted by Marina Lathouri Series: HCT / PhD Debates Date: 17/3/2017 Time: 14:00 Venue: 37 FFF HCT/PHD Debates The HCT Debates provide a venue for exchange of ideas and arguments. External speakers are invited every week to present and engage with tutors and students. The aim is to position the multiple voices making possible […]

In Dec 2018, AA PhD Alumni Dr. Jingru (Cyan) Cheng received a commendation from the RIBA President’s Awards for Research 2018 with her work titled ‘Care and Rebellion: The Dissolved Household in Contemporary Rural China’. This work is part of her PhD by Design thesis ’Territory, Settlement, Household: A Project of Rural China’ supervised by Pier Vittorio Aureli and Sam […]

The 2019 AHRA PhD Student Symposium will take place this year 24-25 April at the University of Manchester, UK. According to the event’s website, the ‘AHRA Research Student Symposium 2019 takes as its starting point a broad and prolonged transition occurring in architectural research during the past decade. New and interdisciplinary approaches emerge as a […]

Organised and hosted by Marina Lathouri Series: HCT / PhD Debates Date: 17/2/2017 Time: 11:00:00 Venue: 33 FFB HCT Debates The HCT Debates provide a venue for exchange of ideas and arguments. External speakers are invited every week to present and engage with tutors and students. The aim is to position the multiple voices making possible […]

Open seminar Date: Wednesday, 8 March 2017, 6:30pm followed by drinks at 8:30pm Place: 33 First floor front and back, Architectural Association, London Open seminar on architectural theory in conjunction with the launch of special issues of the book and the journal both titled This Thing Called Theory, an outcome of the 12th international conference of the Architectural Humanities […]

The Architectural Association PhD Committee has the pleasure to invite you to join the first session of presentations by the continuing PhD candidates at the Architectural Association. Each research report from the candidates will highlight key research questions, meaningful findings so far, and likely original contribution to the corresponding field of knowledge. The event will […]

Following the successful first session of presentations by continuing PhD students held on the 6th of March, the Architectural Association PhD Committee has the pleasure to invite you to join the second session of debates. Each presentation is to be preceded by a brief introduction from the student’s director of studies, positioning the research project. […]

EVENT 3 FRIDAY 1st of JUNE     10.00-10.15 Introduction to the event by Alvaro 10.15 – 11.50  Dissolving Boundaries Tatjana Crossley, Elena Palacios, Sofia Krimizi   The overarching theme of this panel is ‘boundaries’, looking at this through the lens of the psychological, the physical and the representational. Tatjana Crossley will be discussing the […]

EVENT 1 WEDNESDAY 30th OF MAY  Double Crossing  “This Thing Called Theory” Open Seminar Series   14:00 – 18:00 At the The Barrel Vault in The AA Organised by  AA PhD Programme & Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) This Thing Called Theory Stemming from the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) 2015 conference, the open seminar […]