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Robin Evans

Edited by Brendan Cormier

Hamed Khosravi

Edited by Kate Davies and Anna Lisa Reynolds

Radim Peško

Edited by So Mayer and Sarah Shin
AA Files is the Architectural Association’s journal of record and the successor to a long line of in-house publications including AA Notes, AA Journal, Arena and Architectural Association Quarterly, which began when the school was founded in 1847. The current editors of AA Files are Maria Shéhérazade Giudici and Rory James Sherlock, who follow Thomas Weaver (2007–2018), David Terrien (2004–2006), Mark Rappolt (2000–2003) and Mary Wall (1981–1999). AA Files is published twice a year and is distributed to AA members and individual subscribers. Current and previous issues are available in bookshops worldwide, as well as in the AA Bookshop both online and in store.
To Really Make Council Housing, You May Even Need to Commit a Murder
Calvin Po

Robin Evans

Edited by Brendan Cormier

Hamed Khosravi

Edited by Kate Davies and Anna Lisa Reynolds

Radim Peško

Edited by So Mayer and Sarah Shin

Edited by Ryan Dillon, Anna Lisa Reynolds and Assistant Editor Leela Keshav

Edited by Albert Brenchat-Aguilar

Edited by Ingrid Schroder and Emily Priest

Sébastien Marot

Edited by Ludovico Centis

As Hardly Found: Art and Tropical Architecture centres artists and artworks that have so far been overlooked by histories of ‘tropical architecture’. In this collection of essays, historians, artists and archivists address works of art connected to epicentres of teaching and practice within the movement – focusing on the Department of Tropical Architecture at the Architectural Association and its collaborators – which emerged in the mid-20th century alongside anticolonial struggles that dismantled the British Empire.
Here, authors use creative, critical and speculative methods to inhabit the gaps in archives of tropical architecture, highlighting artworks in Nigeria, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Singapore, Costa Rica, Cuba and the UK. Their contributions trace connections within a network of relations between art and architecture; one which recentres the rich and diverse forms of environmental knowledge, social values and material cultures contributed by artists working in these contexts.
9781738416004, 2025
30 × 27cm, illustrated, 168pp, paperback

Edited by Kate Davies and Anna Lisa Reynolds

Edited by So Mayer and Sarah Shin

Edited by Ryan Dillon, Anna Lisa Reynolds and Assistant Editor Leela Keshav

Edited by Ingrid Schroder and Emily Priest

Sébastien Marot