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.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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 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.
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”...
One of the strongest parts of the AA Library’s Special Collections is a group of publications on the Modern Movement...
Journals have played a key role in disseminating architectural ideas throughout the centuries...