Architectural Association Visiting School

AA Architecture Incubator is live. Register to attend the Open Programme Briefing + Q&A with Head of Programme @marko.myl . Link in bio. A five-part Professional Masterclass Series at the Architectural Association (36 Bedford Square) @aaschool for architects and spatial practitioners who are forming a practice, looking for momentum, or ready to shift level. Small cohort, in-person, four days at a time, built around conversation with leading voices across architecture, design, research, development and commissioning. Early registration is open and secures a 50% scholarship on fees, plus priority access to applications and early programme updates as speakers are announced. Places are deliberately limited to keep the room small and genuinely conversational. Full details and the priority registration form are via the AA website (link in bio). @aavisiting_school

Inter [ ] Body 29 June - 10 July 2026 This year, we will engage with some of the most emerging questions, focusing on the relationship between the body and technology, where architecture here is no longer conceived as an independent infrastructure but as a medium entangled with bodily experience. We will explore how bodily experience is identified, translated and reorganised within a context where algorithms are deeply embedded in everyday life. Come to join us in Chengdu, China! Application opens now at the AA Visiting School page!

The Sea Ranch as Prototype approaches the site as a spatial system to be observed, decoded and reinterpreted. Students work through a methodology that moves between observation, notation, drawing, coding and speculative image production. The programme positions the prompt not simply as a tool for image generation, but as a form of spatial instruction operating within an architectural lineage extending from Lawrence Halprin’s notational scores through to the design guideline and architectural drawing. AA Visiting School The Sea Ranch as Prototype 19–28 July 2026 The Sea Ranch, California Applications remain open while places are available. Accommodation within the community may not be guaranteed for applications received after 15 June 2026. Link in bio to apply. Photography by @danielscottjenkins @aaschool @aavisiting_school @tyenmastenstudio

Excess & Experiments: A Manifesto 1. Excess We believe in excess: Not as waste, but as resistance. As a celebration of the life people actually live, the way they actually build, the culture they actually inhabit in Mexico City, with a fearlessness in building that contemporary architecture has forgotten. We are not afraid of ornament: We embrace texture, colour, and mixing them all up together. Ornament is not only decoration. It is identity and craft. It is a language that starts from our bodies and translates into the fabric of what we build. The performance of a structure is not the whole of architecture and ornament can go further than just building physics, by carrying memories, desire, and belonging. Photo taken in the Museum of the Meso-American Genome, Mexico City #ExcessAsResistance #OrnamentIsIdentity #MexicoCityArchitecture #AntiMinimalism #MaximalistDesign #AAVisitingSchool #ArchitectureSchool

For ten days, students and faculty live and work within The Sea Ranch itself. The programme operates through immersion, moving continuously between houses, commons, coastline, trails and collective spaces distributed across the settlement. The masterplan is encountered not as a distant historical object, but as a living organisational framework shaping everyday experience across multiple scales simultaneously. The programme includes archive sessions, invited guests, a workshop with Terremoto, a final review and a public exhibition open to the Sea Ranch community. AA Visiting School The Sea Ranch as Prototype 19–28 July 2026 The Sea Ranch, California Applications open. Link in bio to apply. Photography by @danielscottjenkins @aaschool @aavisiting_school @tyenmastenstudio

AA DLAB 2026: Robotic 3D Printing and Reusable Formwork Systems ​The Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture invites applications for AA DLAB 2026, an intensive research forum in London dedicated to the advancement of contemporary architectural practice through the lens of computational design and robotic fabrication. @aaschool @aadigitalprototypinglab @aavisiting_school ​Reimagining Tooling: ​Traditional construction relies on sacrificial formwork and carbon-intensive binders, mortars and chemical adhesives that render material recovery nearly impossible. AA DLAB 2026 challenges this waste-heavy paradigm by investigating robotic 3D printing as a primary method for creating complex, reusable formwork systems. ​By utilizing robotic precision to print bespoke, modular molds, the programme explores a shift toward binderless construction. In this framework, 3D-printed mediators facilitate the assembly of dry-jointed, interlocking geometries that achieve structural stability through form and friction alone. By replacing permanent bonding agents with roboticized, reusable tooling, we enable the pure recovery of materials at the end of a building's lifecycle. This approach leads to transformation of the built environment into a temporary reservoir of resources rather than a source of future waste. Participants will explore how 3D-printed formwork can reconcile found or heterogeneous resources into coherent, reversible structures. ​Through the integration of algorithmic design and advanced fabrication, DLAB 2026 directly challenges conventional assumptions regarding permanence and the environmental cost of traditional material realization. ​📅 Date: 20 July – 7 August 2026 ​📍 Location: Bedford Square, London ​👥 Target: Open to students (2nd year+), PhD candidates, and professionals. ​⚠️ Note: Limited spots are available. ​🔗 Register: Link in bio ​#RoboticFabrication #3DPrintedFormwork #ComputationalDesign #BinderlessConstruction #MaterialResearch

Berlin — A Green Archipelago? Fifty years ago, the legendary summer school “The City in the City” took place in Berlin, initiated by Oswald Mathias Ungers. Rem Koolhaas expanded its urban planning concept through the utopia of the Green Archipelago — arguing that Berlin could be transformed back into a green, polyvalent sea into which, in accordance with its polycentric DNA, an archipelago of intensified urban islands would be embedded. He explicitly described his planning model as the first for a zero-growth Europe. Today, the question of the continued relevance of this model of thought arises with renewed urgency. Does the concept of the green archipelago contain latent approaches to climate resilience? How does a polycentric model of urban development relate to the pressing housing question? And might the principle of archipelagization help counter democratic decline? This international symposium reconvenes these questions as an editorial format — intellectually anchored by Florian Hertweck — in conversation with Rem Koolhaas, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Arno Brandlhuber, Paola Vigano, Jean-Philippe Vassal and many more. It serves as the conceptual and theoretical foundation for the Visiting School taking place in Berlin this summer. In cooperation with the @akademiederkuenste (Architecture Section), the @master.arch.lu , the @aaschool , and the @aavisiting_school . Sensing Performance: @jasmineprsly Listening: @brutalist_aesthetics Annotations: @clara_kraemer Curatorial Support: Florian Hertweck Convened by: @malte.wilms AAVS: @_ian_e · @moritzriesenbeck · @benewahlbrink · @malte.wilms Design: @george_popovv Filmmaker: @valentinaxparati Font: @abcdinamo Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz, Berlin 13 June 2026 · 10 am – 7 pm Private event — by invitation only. #BerlinGreenArchipelago #shrinkingarchipelago#architectureassociaton #akademiederkünste #internationalsymposium

The Sea Ranch as Prototype is an Architectural Association Visiting School examining The Sea Ranch as a living prototype: a coordinated cultural and spatial project shaped through architecture, landscape, graphic identity and systems of land governance. The programme is open to architecture and design students, recent graduates, researchers and emerging practitioners interested in questions of collective form, environmental systems, cultural continuity and speculative spatial practice. Places are limited to fifteen participants. Selection is by portfolio review. Applications remain open while places are available. Accommodation within the community may not be guaranteed for applications received after 15 June 2026. Link in bio to apply. Photography by @danielscottjenkins @aaschool @aavisiting_school @tyenmastenstudio

Week 2 of Excess & Experiments: the chapels go up! After a week of site visits and workshops across Mexico City, it is time to build. Working with materials at 1:1 scale. Improvisation and collaboration. Every chapel is different... what will yours look like? Mexico City · July 2026 · Link in bio #ExcessAndExperiments #TinyChapels #LearningByMaking #MexicoCity #CDMX #Building #HandsOnArchitecture #AAVisitingSchool #architectureschool

Speculative studies exploring The Sea Ranch as an open system. Developed within Tyen Masten Studio. AA Visiting School The Sea Ranch as Prototype Summer 2026 @tyenmastenstudio @aaschool @aavisiting_school

Join the summer course, 23 Jul - 01 Aug 2026, in person at Rio de Janeiro. Open to students from all universities worldwide and young designers. Apply now: https://shorturl.at/f3yMK Talk to us: [email protected] YouTube: https://youtu.be/V05fFFyLe_A #architecturalassociation #aavsrio #aavs #aaschool #riodejaneiro

Swipe to see what our tiny chapels are made of → Found materials, industrial surfaces, reused objects from Zyanya's collection: the ‘toy store’. @zy Each chapel we make in Excess & Experiments is different because each designer has spent a week absorbing a different Mexico City. Ever material reused is a choice, according to taste, experimentation and position. What would you use? #MaterialCulture #TinyChapels #ArchitecturalDetail #ExcessAndExperiments #ArchitectureMakes Ornamentation Zyanya MexicoCity AAVisitingSchool