A Celebration of the Life and Work of Mark Cousins

Please note: this event will be held online to ensure everyone can safely attend and also since some speakers will be joining us remotely from around the world.

Please join us for an autumn symposium to celebrate the life of Mark Cousins, his three decades of Friday Lectures and the intellectual generosity of his teaching practice at the Architectural Association. The Symposium will take place on what would have been Mark’s 74th birthday and the AA’s 174th birthday. The day will be organised thematically around a number of lectures and series that spanned Mark’s time at the AA. Panellists will respond to Mark’s audacity and originality and the distinctive way his lectures were performed. The discussion will take its own course, opening, no doubt, onto personal and shared recollections.

The day will conclude with a dedication of the Lecture Hall. There will be recollection toasts by former and current postgraduate students. We hope that the day will produce a living portrait of Mark and the space for us to remember him together.

SCHEDULE:
10.00 Order of the Day

10.10 Introductions: Jeffrey Kipnis + Alan Balfour

10:45 Homa Farjadi + Theo Spyropoulos + Mark Morris: on educational impacts

11:35 Tea/coffee break; Publication launch

12:05 Manolis Stavrakakis + Ariadni Vozani + Mark Campbell: Odysseus and Make-up & Odysseus and Homecoming

12.55 Lunch break, Annual Lecture Giving Campaign

14.05 Introduction to the afternoon session: Parveen Adams

14:30 Enrique Walker + Catherine Ince + Charles Rice: The New

15:20 Dena Ziari + Ryan Dillon + Valeria Guzman: The Gesture

16:10 Tea/coffee break

16:40 Braden Engel + Thordis Arrhenius + Tom McCarthy: The Lectern + Playing with Words + Architecture of Deconstruction

17.30 Lectern sculpture presentation and dedication

17.50 Recollection toasts provided by invited current and former students

A fund in support of an Annual Lecture, a future highlight in the AA’s Public Programme, to celebrate the wit and learning which inspired and provoked audiences at the AA for three decades. You can make a one-off donation through the link below, or find out more about pledging a monthly or annual amount by emailing development@aaschool.ac.uk. Every pound donated will go straight to a restricted fund in the AA Foundation dedicated to the Mark Cousins Annual Lecture.

Donation