Thematic Fields:
A: Geometry and Perception
B: Geometry and Social Process

Friday, 17.6.2011

6.30h @ public works, 1-5 Vyner Street, London E2 9DG

On the relational in architecture

A round of presentations and discussion followed by a book launch, accompanied by drinks.

With Rochus Urban Hinkel, from Urban Interior, a research group at the School of Architecture,  
RMIT University, Melbourne, Dr Hélène Frichot from Architecture + Philosophy, Marianne Mueller, Concrete Geometries Research Cluster, Architectural Association School of Architecture. And the presentation of the "Urban Interior - informal explorations, interventions and occupations" book, 
edited by Rochus Urban Hinkel.

 

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Monday, 23 May 2011

12.00h, Front Member's Room

space versus geometry

Toni Kotnik (AA/ETH), Tim Ireland (UCL) and Marianne Mueller (AA)

Informal lunch time talk exploring concepts of ‘space’ and ‘geometry’ and relating them back to bodily experience and the question of spatial orientation. Toni Kotnik is a mathematician, architects and research at the ETH, Tim Ireland is a phd canidate at UCL and Marianne Mueller is director of the Concrete Geometries Research Cluster at the AA.

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Saturday, 21.5.2011

11.00 to 15.00h at the AA Gallery and the Front Member's Room

meet the curators

Talk / Brunch event to coincide with the exhibition 'The Relational in Architecture'

 

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Wednesday, 16.03.2011

18.00h at the AA Lecture Hall

The ordering of social relations through building

Arno Brandlhuber and Christian Posthofen 

Held in the form of a public conversation or seminar, this event explored architecture as an 'ordering of social relations through building', both through the presentation of provisional definitions and the interrogation of found case studies. 

watch the event here:

http://www.aaschool.ac.uk//VIDEO/lecture.php?ID=1463

Arno Brandlhuber is the founder of brandlhuber+ Berlin (since 2006). Since 2003 he has held the chair of architecture and urban research at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg and is directing the nomadic masters programme 042.org. His architectural practice extends from the ‘Neanderthal-Museum’ (Düsseldorf, Mettmann, 1996), to multi-usable structures such as the ‘Kölner Brett’ (Cologne, 2000) and currently the 'HybridHouses' (IBA Hamburg 2010-2012) and ‘Brunnenstrasse 9’.
www.brandlhuber.com

Christian Posthofen is a philosopher with a focus on epistemology. He has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg, is CEO at Walther König Books and editor of the Kunstwissenschaftliche Bibliothek.  

The event took place at the Lecture Hall of The Architectural Association School of Architecture, Ground floor, 36 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3ES