Administrative Coordinator

Leah Seyfert

leah.seyfert@aaschool.ac.uk

PhD Supervisors

Pier Vittorio Aureli MArch PhD

Professor of Theory and Practice of Domestic Project, EPFL, co-founder of Brussels-based practice Dogma.

Eleni Axioti PhD

Lecturer, UAL, London College of Communication; Associate Lecturer, Central St Martin College.

Doreen Bernath PhD

Executive editor of the Journal of Architecture, Unit Master AA Diploma School.

Paula Cadima DiplArch PhD

Co-director MArch / MSc Sustainable Environmental Design PhD Supervisor. Worked for the European Commission in Brussels and chaired the Environment & Sustainable Architecture working group of the Architects’ Council of Europe. Founding Director of MPhil Programme Bioclimatic Architecture at the Technical University of Lisbon.

Nerma Cridge PhD

Programme Coordinator, AADRL Architecture and Urbanism, History and Theory Lecturer at the AA.

Francesca dell’Aglio PhD

AA History and Theory Tutor, postdoc researcher at University of Basel, Unit Master UCL.

Anna Font Vacas PhD

Head of Learning, AA.

Maria Shéhérazade Giudici PhD

Founder of publishing platform Black Square, Unit Lead of History and Theory of Architecture at the RCA.

Platon Issaias PhD

Unit Master AA Diploma School, Director of the Projective Cities MPhil Programme.

Hamed Khosravi MSc PhD

Unit Master AA Diploma School, co-director Projective Cities MPhil Programme.

Marina Lathouri MArch (Hons) MPhil PhD

Director MA History & Critical Thinking. Has lectured at Cambridge University, the University of Pennsylvania, Universidad de Navarra, Spain and the Universidad Catolica in Santiago, Chile. Co-authored Intimate Metropolis: Urban Subjects in the Modern City and City Cultures: Contemporary Positions on the City.

Mark Morris BSc MArch (Hons) PhD

Senior Curator of Architecture and Design, V&A Museum. Previous AA Head of Teaching and Learning, and Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Architecture at Cornell University, author of Models: Architecture and Miniature and Automatic Architecture.

Clara Oloriz PhD

Co-head of AA GroundLab, AA Landscape Urbanism Programme Tutor.

Will Orr PhD

Diploma Course Tutor, History and Theory; History and Critical Thinking Programme Tutor.

María Páez González PhD

Teaches History and Theory and is a PhD supervisor at the AA. Programme Director of Professional Studies in Architecture and Unit 16 Leader, Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL). Co-director, with Brendon Carlin, of the Canary Islands Visiting School and the Institute for Experimental Critical Infrastructure. Her research interests focus on the ‘Infrastructural Turn’ in architecture.

Chris Pierce PhD

AA Senior Management Team, Head of the AA Visiting School Programme.

Milad Showkatbakhsh PhD

Co-Director, Emergent Technologies & Design Programme, AA.

Nicholas Simcik-Arese PhD

AA Chair of History and Theory. Formerly Assistant Professor of Global Urban Studies at the University of Cambridge and Research Affiliate at the Department of Anthropology, University of Oxford.

Theodore Spyropoulos PhD

Head of the AADRL Programme. Founder of the experimental architecture and design practice Minimaforms.

Teresa Stoppani MArch PhD

History and Theory tutor, Landscape Urbanism tutor.

Michael Weinstock AADipl PhD RIBA FRSA

AA Head of Research, Director MSc / MArch Emergent Technologies & Design. Recipient of Acadia Award for Excellence 2008. Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts. Author of The Architecture of Emergence: the Evolution of Form in Nature and Civilisation and Emergent Technologies and Design — Towards a Biological Paradigm for Architecture.

Ivana Wingham PhD

Unit Master AA Diploma School.

Simos Yannas DiplArchEng AADiplGrad (Hons) PhD

Co-Director MSc / MArch Sustainable Environmental Design PhD Director of Studies. Founding member of PLEA international network on sustainable architecture and urban design. Author of Roof Cooling Techniques and Lessons from Vernacular Architecture.