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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

This book is a sub-urbanist manifesto. Its author, Sébastien Marot, challenges the dominant role of the programme in regulating the design project, and argues that instead attention should be redirected towards the site – the site read in depth, with an active regard for memory. Exploring this analysis, he considers in turn Frances Yates’ book The Art of Memory, Sigmund Freud’s analogy between the past of a city and the workings of memory, Robert Smithson’s account of a tour of his suburban birthplace and Georges Descombes’ design for a small park in the Geneva suburb where he spent his childhood. Marot’s conclusion brings these different strands together and highlights, in memory, a precept that is essential to the renewal of current architecture. This publication is a re-edition of Sébastien Marot’s 2003 book, originally edited by Pamela Johnston and based on a 1999 text by Marot, translated from the French by Brian Holmes.
9781999627782, 2024
21 × 14cm, illustrated, 120pp, 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 Albert Brenchat-Aguilar

Edited by Ingrid Schroder and Emily Priest