In 1962, as a Jamaican high school graduate with one year's working experience in a drawing office, I was excited at the opportunity to pursue architectural studies in England...
John Voelcker’s archive has been recently donated to the AA Archives. It includes his AA student work, together with important correspondence and documents relating to his early involvement with the MARS Group, with C.I.A.M. and his role at the heart of Team X.
Earlier this year Dargan Bullivant (1925-2021) presented the AA Archives with his entire collection of AA student work from the late 1940s. It is one of the most complete set of portfolios we have from this key period in the AA’s history...
We are highlighting here some further treasures unearthed during the digitisation of the AA Archives' architectural lantern slide collection - one of the largest and most important surviving such archives in the UK...
The 1st phase of digitisation of the AA's historic Lantern Slide Collection has been completed.
The collection is one of the most important surviving holdings of architectural lantern slides in the UK...
"...the Third Year was responsible for reinforced concrete and shuttering, asphalting, floor finishes, wall and floor tiling, rendering and plastering."
Here students studied and worked, cheek by jowl with the largest collection of gothic casts and architectural mouldings in the country. Four stories, crammed from floor to ceiling with rows of casts, woodwork, drawings, brass-rubbings, stained glass and models...
AA Collections Blog is pleased to publish an extract from Patrick Zamarian's authoritative new book on the postwar history of the AA (Lund Humphries, 2020). Making extensive use of the AA Archives, this is the first major study of the school in the 1950s and 60s - and is available for purchase, in time for Christmas, at the AA Bookshop!!
"Architecture is a conception of the mind. It must be conceived in your head with your eyes shut… Architecture is organisation. YOU ARE A ORGANISER, NOT A DRAWING BOARD STYLIST."
In Peter Cook's words: "it was as an ace airbrush artist that she became a star... Every project has been turned upside down. She invented machines, she parodied gadgets, she parodied the heroic architectural monument..."
As Summer arrives in Bedford Square, the AA Collections invite you to enjoy a selection of the AA Archive's photographs of strawberry tables designed by current and past AA staff and students for Projects Review and Graduation.
If you're searching for details of certain building types or specific buildings, the AA Library has a new database that can help. Building Types Online is a resource for the study and practice of architectural design, based on Birkhäuser's professional architecture books.
Inspired by Black Lives Matter, the Architectural Association Library would like to highlight a selection of resources in its collection, which support global anti-racism movements and confront systemic inequalities in architectural education and beyond.
While many of us continue to spend more time than we would like in our own homes, the AA Archive invites you to live vicariously through photographs of our 19th century predecessors out-and-about on their distinctly non-social-distanced annual excursions...
"Although the actual idea that a building actually moves like a machine or a creature is physically absurd, the idea that a building, representing an institution or community, has an animus, is not... "
Bridge of Styx, 1988: "The thing just grows … organically. Welding, sparks flying, grinding, shouts, profanity, spit, beer and dirt. Knees, back, fingers ache". Feels good. Watch it growing, sprouting legs, looks like a bird’s nest … eating Chicken Al Capone and knowing it’s going to be great."
To support students, staff and members at this time, the AA Library has extended its ebook collection. One of the recent collections we acquired through DeGruyter Ebooks is the Le Corbusier collection.
Alex Marshall's 'Gloria': "a society's glorious celebration of itself in its last dance of death..."
Since its opening in 1921 by the former Prime Minster, HH Asquith, the AA Library has hosted some remarkable performances - it has accommodated fire-eaters, male strippers, chickens, snakes… and final tables… But one legendary performance stands out – a poetry reading on the 15th July, 1965, featuring the leading figures of The Beat Generation, including Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso and Andrei Voznesensky.
In these days of social distancing and online meetings we look back to a 1968 project by AA students Dolan Conway and Brian Mitchenere which imagines a future communication network where the power of computer systems is harnessed for society and ‘distance becomes no-distance and the electronic wave is the permissive force of our future life...’
The AA Archives is launching a major new project to digitise one of the UK’s largest and most important surviving collections of early 20thC architectural glass lantern slides...
The AA Archives will shortly be making available online films of its entire collection of architectural models, each rotating through 360 degrees...
AA Archives & Birkbeck, University of London invite applications for a three-year or six-year part-time Collaborative Doctoral Award...
The AA Archives have launched an initiative to digitise a collection of around 1,450 photographs taken by the modernist architect, Erno Goldfinger (1902-87)...
The AA Archives is embarking upon a new project to systematically digitise and make accessible the extensive photographic archive of Eric De Maré - a collection gifted to the AA Foundation by Sir Michael Hopkins in 1989...
With news that Notre Dame du Raincy is fundraising to restore its bell tower, we highlight T.P. Bennett’s ‘Architectural design in concrete’, published by Ernest Benn in 1927, which features the newly built church...
Until the 25th May, the AA Back Members’ Room will house an AA Collections exhibition curated by inaugural AArchitect in Residence, Stefan Popa (AA PhD candidate). Entitled ‘[Re-] Use: ‘Ethic or Aesthetic?’...
The AA Library has been presented with a copy of Monografie Jean-Pierre Dürig, Architekt Projekte 1985-2003, a limited edition (the book is number 49 of 200), and a tour de force of graphic design and architectural book publishing...
Douglas Patterson has very kindly donated material related to his infamous 1973/4 AA project (undertaken with fellow student Jerry Hewitt) to produce a prototype vehicle for man-powered flight...
Famously Reynolds' AA 4th Year project for a Warehouse in Bristol (1956), was acknowledged by his tutor, James Gowan, as providing the inspiration for the roof of the Leicester Engineering Building...
On Wednesday 1 July 1936, a group of nearly 200 members of the AA and the DIA visited the new liner, the SS Orion, moored at Tilbury...
The 'AArchitect in Residence' programme is an initiative which invites current AA students to submit ideas for a lecture and exhibition drawing on materials from the AA's Archives, Library and Photo Library.
The AA Archives is proud to announce that it is a partner in a new international collaborative network, funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council. Working with the V&A, the Soane Museum, the RIBA, the Sorbonne...
The US photographer Judith Turner recently presented a copy of her limited edition book ‘Judith Turner on Peter Marino’, 2017, to the AA Library.
The AA Archives are lucky enough to have acquired a vinyl LP recording documenting a legendary event within AA history – a poetry happening, featuring the greatest figures of the Beat generation - held in the AA Library on 15th July, 1965...
The AA Library has recently produced a guide to locating printed maps and atlases, digital maps and data, historical maps and other map collections in London.
Tony Fretton has extremely generously donated to the Archives his AA graduation project from 1972, proposing a new building for the AA.
Mike Gold has very kindly donated to the AA Archives some of his own student work produced between 1958-63.
Chernikhov’s teaching method used abstraction to explore the endless compositional possibilities in modern architecture. During this period, his abstract architectural fantasies were not utopias or romantic social daydreams, but a method of freeing the architect from “outmoded conservative methods and [allowing] them to give their imagination free rein”...
Eric Rawlsham Jarrett was a well-known teacher on the AA staff from the 1920s to 50s, and also a prolific photographer in the years before World War II...
The family of AA alum, Amarjit Kalsi (1957-2014), have donated a set of his virtuosic student drawings. Amo worked for Richard Rogers and Partners, where he played a leading role on some of their most prestigious projects including the Lloyds building, the Millennium Dome, the European court of human rights building in Strasbourg, and Barajas airport in Madrid...
Jeremy Barnes has donated a magnificent portfolio of his projects - drawings undertaken at the AA from 1977-80, under a super-star array of tutors including Robin Evans, Fred Scott, Bernard Tschumi and Nigel Coates.
The recent exhibition at the Design Museum, ‘California: Designing Freedom’, looked at Californian designed objects that embody personal freedom, from the surf board to the iPhone. The exhibits included a full-size geodesic dome...
Coinciding with Gustafson Porter + Bowman's competition win, with Ron Arad and David Adjaye, for the UK's Holocaust Memorial, AA alum Neil Porter has donated to the AA Archives his 4th and 5th year student work...
Tuesday 25th April, 18:30: AA Lecture Hall.
All are welcome to attend Dr Amara Thornton's lecture: 'Supplying a third dimension; Architects (Re) Constructing Archaeology, 1900s-1960s.'
Edward Reynolds' work is of startling originality, including faceted and curvilinear geometries, zoomorphic forms and complex circulation systems. This talk will set Reynolds within the context of architectural discourse in the 1950s...
In the shape of a 35mm colour slide show this talk will reproduce some of Reyner Banham’s and Robin Evan’s slide collection archived at the AA Photo-library, projecting their still unknown photographic transparencies...
The AA Library holds a precious copy of one of the earliest and most comprehensive guides to a British country house guide - a 1777 edition of Benton Seeley's guide to Stowe...
The Prototype House, designed by the late Richard Burton (1933–2017), was the first building to be constructed on the Hooke Park campus...
Kamiar Ahari has donated two 2.5m long drawings made in Diploma Unit 9, 1978-79, under tutors Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis...
This new addition to the archive is a 20126/17 AA Media Studies project, by Allister Low...
Alongside contemporary political shifts, a parallel tendency is observable - the urge to escape. Talia Davidi has gathered here few inspirations from the Archives, in case you feel the same...
Percy Smith's work included the lettering for County Hall, for Broadcasting House and for the Royal Institute of British Architects in London...
Brendan Woods has generously donated to the AA Archives a set of drawings from his AA 5th Year joint thesis, made with fellow students Stephen Gage and James Potts in 1967. Entitled the ‘Dot and Line’ University...
Jeremy Barnes has kindly donated a superb set of his student projects carried out under Robin Evans and Fred Scott (1978/79) and then under Bernard Tschumi and Nigel Coates (1979/80)...
Diana taught architecture in Nairobi from 1969-71, at Berkeley in 1972 and then in Toronto 1973-75, before moving into the field of Environmental Studies...
This exhibition presents photographs taken by Peter Jeffree of the Goetheanum, the world centre for the anthroposophical movement located in Dornach, Switzerland...
Sun Ra visits Planet AA... Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg's stunning hangings for their Sun Ra themed AA Xmas party have found a permanent home in the AA Archives...
The AA Archives has a rather wonderful collection of architect designed Christmas cards from such figures as Maholy Nagy, Erno Goldfinger and Wells Coates...
A huge range of amazing Christmas cards by the AA Photo Library are available for purchase in the AA Bookshop!!
Two beautiful architectural models of the 1940s were donated to the AA Archives this week...
One of the strongest parts of the AA Library’s Special Collections is a group of publications on the Modern Movement...
Yerbury’s collection of over 3,000 negatives of architectural photography was given to the AA Photo Library in 1948 where they remain...
Donald Trump is a controversial figure. He thrives on controversies, he enjoys them, they are inseparable to his public persona. His taste is as controversial as his speeches - his devotion to gold is the central component of his aesthetic credo...
Gillian Hopwood, of the influential Nigerian firm of architects Godwin and Hopwood, has this week donated her entire set of AA drawings from 1945-1950...
Entitled 'Blue - Brown' the work traced a passage from the earth of Ching's Yard, up the internal walls of the AA (literally), culminating in the release of strategically arranged balloons into the sky...
The Japan-British exhibition took place in White City, west London, from May-October 1910, attended by over 8 million visitors...
Featured in the AA Bar over the next few November weeks will be a selection of drawings chosen by AA staff and students relating to David Greene's recent LAWuN 27 event...
The AA Photo Library has a collection of some 6,000 slides taken by Reyner Banham, and given by Mary Banham in 1996...
The Martin Creed pre-album launch performance in the AA Canteen in June this year prompted much heated discussion in the Bar over which famous bands had or had not played at the AA in the past...
After devastation caused by aerial bombardment during the Second World War, a competition was held for the rebuilding of the central area of Berlin...
Ove Arup 'began and ended his adult life as a philosopher ... a relentlessly questioning, sceptical thinker who ranged across all the moral, social and political issues of his time'...
The scenery is constantly changing and is invariably beautiful. Boats stop occasionally at towns such as Kazan, Samara and Saratov...
Guest blog from Dr Amara Thornton: Pantos of the Past: A day in the AA Archives...
The AA Archives are pleased to announce a major donation of work by Martyn L. Haxworth, including a full set of drawings for his renowned AA Diploma Honours project for Hook New Town, Hampshire - a joint project with C.H. Woodward and J.C.Hodges from 1962.
A portfolio of fascinating Beaux Arts drawings from the 1920s were recently donated to the AA Archives by the grandniece of AA Alumnus, Leonard Jackson (1899-1969)...
Amongst the structures proposed are a 'Triumphal Arch of Professionalism', a 'Mausoleum of Universal Middleclassness' and a 'Museum of Conveniently Classified Culture'...
Visitors to the former British Viceregal Lodge near Shimla, high up in the Himalayan foothills, are customarily directed towards a large, teak-panelled room situated on the ground floor. Centre of attention is a circular mahogany table...
Olivetti was founded as a typewriter manufacturing company in Ivrea, Italy, in 1908. Today the firm is best known for the Lettera 22 (1950) and Valentine (1969) typewriters. The company’s innovative design ethos...
An important set of drawings have just been donated to the AA Archives by the artist, designer and academic Andrew Holmes. The gift consists of drawing for his 1967/8 'Flexikit' student project, a steel pre-fabricated housing system...
In the lead up to the 2017 celebration of 100 years of women students at the AA, the AAXX100 project team have been carrying out, in conjunction with the AA Archives, a series of oral histories with alumna of the school...
On the 10th May, the AA Collections and the National Trust hosted an evening of conversation between film-maker Tom Cordell, and Joseph Watson, London Creative Director of the National Trust...
Currently on display at Zurich's ETH (Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture) are a whole series of 76 sketches and drawings from John Hejduk's 1986 'Victims' masque. The material is on loan from the AA Archives ...
A model of Peter Eisenman's entry to the Liverpool Cathedral Competition of 1960 is currently being prepared for shipping from the AA Archives to the Venice Biennale, where it will feature at the Palazzo Bembo...
Some of the key designers of mid-20th century American modernism trained at the AA including Florence Knoll Bassett and Alexander Girard...
The AA Archives have been very fortunate to receive a stunning portfolio of student drawings by William Firebrace, produced during his AA Fifth Year, Diploma Unit 1 (tutor: Peter Wilson), 1981-82.
Photographs of the new Arts University Drawing Studio in Bournemouth by CRAB Studio (Peter Cook) have been donated by Hazel Cook...
Currently on display at Zurich's ETH (Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture) are the AA Archives' 76 sketches and drawings from John Hejduk's 1986 'Victims' masque.
On a visit to the Alhambra in Granada, Spain, in 1834, Owen Jones and Jules Goury decided to study and record the building and decoration of the palace...
The AA Archives are pleased to announce the donation last week of a set of drawings by Brian Waldock...
Superstudio, the radical architectural and design practice founded in Florence in 1966, participated in several exhibitions and events...
New photographs taken by Peter Jeffree are now on the Photo Library website...
...we were excited to recently identify a plaster maquette for this sculpture held by the AA.
A photographic exhibition following the Maeda Summer School: Furnishing the Landscape at Hooke Park in Dorset...
One of the legendary juries of 1970 was conducted in a small flat near the TUC building, where Peter Cave demonstrated a working prototype of what he termed 'Aquapad 1'...
Journals have played a key role in disseminating architectural ideas throughout the centuries...
Cedric Price: "The elevation of the island is still one of my favourite AA drawings..."
Nigel Grimwade was an outstanding student, winning the year prize in his 3rd and 4th years, two travel bursaries, the Fifth Year colour prize and Diploma Honours...
Ching’s Yard is infamous as the site many ‘happenings’... yet who on earth was Ching??
We are pleased to announce that 24 working drawings (office prints) for Mies van der Rohe's iconic Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin have came to light in the AA...
The AA Photo Library recently received a donation of slides by Alan Blanc...
Following a 2015 oral history recording, AA alumna, Joyce Taylor donated a selection of her student work, including projects undertaken at Mount House, Barnet, the AA's war-time home...
Walter Segal (1907-85) is best known for his promotion of self-build housing, which allowed ordinary people to design and build their own houses quickly and cheaply...
ICON magazine has recently run a feature on a series of drawings by Paul Shepheard held in the AA Archives. Written by Charles Holland, the article examines some of Paul's amazing work - 'some of the most extraordinary projects to come out of the Architectural Association'...
One of the most intriguing names on the AA enrolment lists for the 1870s is that of Josiah Conder...
The AA Library holds a rare copy of Kisho Kurokawa's 'Capsule, metabolism, spaceframe, metamorphose', complete with large folded poster and 7 inch vinyl record entitled ‘Music for living space’...
Peter Wylde, a good friend of the AA Archives has recently donated a very important set of pamphlets, leaflets and flyers published by the AA in the 1970s...
On July 1st, 1949, four AA students embarked on a journey across Europe to Rome and thence on to the ruins of Leptis Magna, in Tripoli, Libya...
A fresh set of Eduardo Paolozzi prints have recently entered the AA Archives' collections...
Two weeks ago Juha Kääpä donated a full set of original designs from his 1982/83 project for an embassy building for Sony Corporation on Hampstead Heath...
"...the prints are mounted on board and rather faded but... show some of the competition designs for the Law Courts including designs by J.P. Seddon, Alfred Waterhouse and George Gilbert Scott..."
AA Photo Library Cards: Seasonal Sale!
Ten for £10 (50% off)!
Until 20th December...
Today the great grand daughter of AA President Charles Richard Pink (1853-1889) donated a stunning selection of his sketches...
AA Photo Library: Limited Edition Prints.
The Photo Library will be releasing a series of photographs as limited edition prints from the FR Yerbury and Eric de Mare collections of negatives...
"Most of the out-dated and standardized furniture which still frames our lives is no longer satisfactory to our esthetic sense or even valid for practical needs”...
A collection of slides taken by Desmond Henly in California in the 1950s has been donated to the Photo Library, including images of the Eames House and the now demolished Imperial Hotel by Frank Lloyd Wright...
Lisette was a student in AA Diploma 10, under Bernard Tschumi and Nigel Coates and her works includes legendary briefs...
This flickering passage through the journal is disrupted by an insert. It pops out, between the thumb and the book. Here the page measures a good four times the width of the main book and around one and half its height....
Amongst sober depictions of other AA Presidents, such as Robert Kerr, Jane Drew and Sir Howard Robertson is an image of a stern faced man wrapped in a rather beautiful fawn Jaeger dressing gown...
I am very used to visiting a great variety of lofts and attic spaces, in varying degrees of disorder, in the hunt for interesting archives - but occasionally some experiences just stand out...
A rare Russian periodical has come to light in the AA Library book storage area. ‘Architecture and Art Weekly’, published by the Imperial Academy of Arts, Petrograd, dates from a year before the start of the Russian Revolution...
The recent donation of a bergee flag from the AA Sailing Club of the late 1940s by Oscar Gammans (AA 1949-1951) has prompted a brief trawl through the archives in search of the origins of the AA's boating exploits...
'Probably no British architect working in the domestic field was better known in Europe before the First World War than Scott.’ Scott’s book, Houses and gardens, published in 1906...
Long-time friend of the AA Archives, Stephen Macfarlane, has presented some more material, including this wonderful poster...
Bobby Jewell takes a look at two of the AA's early student journals, the 'Tufton Street Tatler' (1905-09) and 'Harlequinade' (1923-26)...
Professor Annette LeCuyer has kindly donated to the AA Archives the drawings for two projects undertaken in 1980-81, whilst studying in Diploma 6 under Peter Cook, Christine Hawley and Ron Herron...
The AA Library holds several editions of Vitruvius's 'De architectura libri decem'. One bi-lingual edition of 1758,...
Hot off the press! This Monday Eldred Evans donated to the AA Archives several further portfolios of her student work, including her legendary drawings for a concert hall in the Inner Circle of Regents Park...
The AA only reluctantly gives up its secrets... Although the Archives have now been established for just over 4 years, new material periodically still emerges from the cupboards, filing cabinets, attic spaces and hidden caches of 'storage' within the AA's buildings...
The Library has recently augmented its collection of books on Le Corbusier with an out-of-print exhibition catalogue published to accompany the exhibition ‘Le Corbusier et St. Dié’ held at the Musée municipal de Saint-Dié-des Vosges, from 14 October-10 November 1987...
Over the course of the last year the AA has been uploading onto Youtube hundreds of videos from the AA’s collection of countless recorded lectures by architects, designers, urbanists, academics and talented individuals who have spoken at the school. Along with recent Public Programme lectures that are uploaded onto the AA’s website...
Norman Chang has this last week very kindly donated to the AA Archives a set of his 5th Year drawings from AA Diploma 4, 1980-81, completed under tutors Rodrigo Perez de Arce and Rene Davids...
The AA Library is delighted to lend 19 issues of Bau dating from 1965-69 to an exhibition at the ICA entitled ‘Everything is Architecture: Bau Magazine from the 60s and 70s’, on show from 29 July – 27 September 2015...
From 1974, the Photo Library took on the mammoth task of systematically photographing student project work at the end of each academic year...
Amongst the Library’s rare books is John Britton’s Graphical and literary illustrations of Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire...
Showing at the AA Archives display in AA Projects Review 2015 are a selection of work by Alison Smithson, Kenneth Frampton, Dolan Conway, Brian Mitchenere and many others.....
Berthold Lubetkin famously recruited 5 AA graduates in 1932 to form Tecton...
On Graduation Day, Past President Simon Enthoven presented the AA with a medal awarded to his father Roderick Eustace Enthoven (1900-1985, also AA Past President) by the Société des Architects Diplomés in 1924 ...
The critic, journalist and broadcaster, Robert Furneaux Jordan (1905-78), is one of the most intriguing figures of the post-war AA. Remembered primarily as the architectural correspondent for The Observer and author of such classics as Victorian Architecture (1966) and A Concise History of European Architecture (1969), it was nevertheless during Jordan’s short, dynamic stint as AA Principal between 1949 and 1951, that the AA’s International profile as a progressive, modernist school was cemented.
The AA Library holds several editions of 'Vitruvius Britannicus; The British architect: containing the plans, elevations, and sections of the regular buildings, both publick and private, in Great Britain ... by Colen Campbell', published in London between 1715-1731.
AA Camera Club 2015
The AA Photo Library is currently exhibiting 16 photographs taken by AA Students. These were selected from 250 entries by photographer Goswin Schwendinger (former AA Media Studies tutor).
The two winning images are the Undergraduate Building at Adolfo Ibáñez University, Santiago by Antonin Hautefort, and the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Barcelona by Cliff Tan.
Both students won prizes of limited edition prints by FR Yerbury and Eric de Mare from the Photo Library Collection. The images in the exhibition and several of the other entries will be added to the Photo Library website.
The exhibition will run until the end of July in the 37 Ground Floor Corridor Gallery.
The AA Archives have just received a donation consisting of a 45rpm record created by AA 5th Year students, Dolan Conway & Brian Mitchenere for a 1968 Interim Jury presentation of their Diploma project, 'Computer Community'.
The AA Archives have recently acquired from Stephen Macfarlane an important set of drawings from the 1949-50 AA Fifth Year thesis of Bill Howell, John Killick, Stephen Macfarlane, Hugh Morris and Jill Sarson. The thesis was for the planning and development of the Neighbourhood Unit of Pin Green, Stevenage New Town, Hertfordshire and proposed to house a population of 10,000 in a mixture of single-storey residences, alongside 14 storey medium-rise towers and 27 storey high-rise towers.
Michael Foster has recently donated to the AA Archives a portfolio of work dating from his 4th and 5th Years at the AA, 1963/64 and 1965/66. The projects include his designs for an office block on Tottenham Court Road (1963/34) and the redevelopment of the area around St Pauls (1963/64). Following a year out working for SOM in Chicago, Michael returned to the AA for his 5th Year completing schemes for the redevelopment of Regents Canal and for a Cross Channel Terminal at Dover.
Led by Lt. Col. J Elder Mills, a bankrupt film mogul, Station XV formed the secret headquarters and principle workshops of the SOE’s Camouflage Section, housing a staff of up to 300 skilled technicians and experts, largely drafted in from the artistic and technical departments of the film industry. Working to produce camouflaged items for special agents operating behind enemy lines...
Henry Roberts was a founder member and the honorary architect of the Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes in 1844. The Society played an important role in changing opinion to housing for the poor, largely by erecting and publishing a variety of exemplary buildings, all to designs by the honorary architect. Roberts's most successful model dwellings for the Society were the block of self-contained flats in Streatham Street, Bloomsbury (1849–50)...
The AA Archives have just received a substantial donation of student work from James Cheyne, including his award winning scheme (with Thomas Donnelly) for plastic petrol stations for National Benzol (1966)...
A new set of photographs by Byron Blakeley, taken on a trip to Western Ukraine, has been donated to the Photo Library. These document the early Eastern orthodox wooden churches (Tserkvas) of the Lviv region...
Eldred Evans has recently donated the AA Archives an outstanding set of drawings from her early AA student portfolio, including her 'House for a Harpsichordist in Blackheath'...
Christopher Blencowe has recently donated to the Archives his AA Diploma Honours thesis from 1966, a project for the redevelopment of the western half of Soho...
Freshly unearthed from within the AA Archives are an almost complete set of drawings for the John Hejduk publication and exhibition ‘Victims’, held at the AA from 24 September to 25 October 1986...
Patrick Zamarian examines the ethos of the AA in the 1940s and 1950s in his talk, entitled ‘Moth-Eaten Old Students and Noisy Little Schoolboys – The AA in the Post-war Era’...
Lectures from the 1970s including several by Rayner Banham, Rem Koolhaas and Raimond Abraham have recently been added...
CIAM was founded in 1928 when a group of architects met at the Chateau de la Sarraz...
The AA Archives have recently acquired the earliest known example of an AA medallion, dating from 1881...
AA Film Club Series 2014-15, curated by Byron Blakeley. Dystopic Visions travelled through the bizarre science fiction worlds created by various directors including Ridley Scott’s 'Blade Runner' and Terry Gilliam’s 'Brazil'...
During the late 1940s a series of ‘AA Scrap Books’ were put together, collating ephemera and documents dating right back to the AA’s foundation in 1847. The AA Archives are now engaged in the long process of digitising, cataloguing and re-housing...
The AA Archives have received a set of AA student drawings, diagrams, music scores and writings by Dr Ranulph Glanville, a world renowned Cybernetician, researcher and educator...
Dongdeimun Design Plaza, Seoul. Photograph: Virgile Simon Bertrand
Zaha Hadid’s office has donated a wonderful collection of images to the Photo Library for reference use on the website...
This is the cover of a catalogue of an exhibition held at the AA from 24 February to 31 March 1984 on the public sculpture of Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005). It includes his mosaic designs for Tottenham Court Road tube...
The manuscript for an unpublished novel by Alison Smithson, entitled '1916 ASO:The Earth of the Modern Movement' has been donated to the AA Archives...
News of the film coming out soon on the life of Eileen Gray, ‘The Price of Desire’, reminded me of her wonderfully situated “Maison en bord de mer”, E.1027, which Gray designed with Jean Badovici at Cap Martin Roquebrune, 1926-29...
The AA Archives is pleased to announce the acquisition of the Otto Koenigsberger Archive. This hugely important archive contains a wealth of material relating to one of the most influential figures in modern urban development planning, and includes 5 portfolios of drawings, alongside 61 boxes of research notes, unpublished mss, teaching materials and other documentation...