Autumn Open Jury 2020

Join us for the Autumn Jury on Friday 6 November to see a selection of the best work from across the school (First Year to Fifth Year, Taught Postgraduate and PhD) from the last academic year that will be reviewed by a panel of invited critics and new tutors.

Schedule (all times in GMT):
1:50 PM – Introduction
2:00 PM – Ryan Darius, Experimental 14: Expanding Norwegian Typehouses
2:30 PM – Anna Font, PhD: The Ordinary Noble: Towards a Genealogical Architecture
3:00 PM – Shaeron Santosa, Diploma 10: The Mat, The Flag and a Passport
3:30 PM – Eunsoo Jang, First Year: Num-Yum Tower

4:00 PM – break

4:15 PM – Russell Royer, Diploma 12: The Choreum
4:45 PM – Judi Diab, Experimental 10: A Cross-Cultural Limbo
5:15 PM – Wyatt Armstrong, Design + Make: Prototype Cabin
5:45 PM – Yoav Caspi, Diploma 19: Wayring: Birmingham's Plan for Walk
6:15 PM – Concluding remarks

Critics:

Shumon Basar is a writer, editor and curator, who is affiliated with the Global Art Forum, Dubai; Fondazione Prada, Milan; Forum of the Future, Porto; Art Jameel; Tank and Bidoun magazines, and whose last book was The Age of Earthquakes, co-authored with Douglas Coupland and Hans Ulrich Obrist. He has taught, published and curated at the AA since 2000.

Mark E Breeze is a Unit Master of Experimental Unit 17 and an architect, Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker and educator. He has previously taught at the University of Cambridge. He has worked as an architect with Selldorf Architects, Foster + Partners, Colin St John Wilson and MJ Long; his professional film experience includes working with Discovery and Dreamworks. Mark studied at the University of Cambridge and Harvard University (GSD).

Katie (Kyriaki) Kasabalis is a Unit Master of Experimental Unit 17 and an architect, urbanist and educator. She is the Design Director of Kasawoo, an interdisciplinary practice based in London, and a Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE Cities. She has previously taught as an assistant professor at the University of Virginia and worked at Foster + Partners, Richard Meier & Partners Architects and Weiss/Manfredi. Katie studied at Cornell University and Harvard University (GSD).

David McAlmont is a singer, recording artist, lyric consultant, singing teacher and workshop facilitator, who is also a Unit Master of Diploma Unit 8. He is a public speaker and art historian. He is the creator of ‘Girl Boy Child’, a collaboration with the University of Leicester and the National Trust, and the author of Portrait of a Black Queer Briton, the inaugural Berto Pasuka Lecture at London’s National Portrait Gallery. McAlmont is presently developing a new work with gender illusionists, Leicester University and the National Trust.

Mark Morris, the Head of Teaching and Learning, works with staff and students on diverse curricular objectives across the School as well as teaches within History and Theory Studies. His research focuses on questions of visual representation in the context of the history of architectural education. He represents the AA at the Higher Education Academy and London Higher International. He is a member of the V&A Museum’s Architectural Models Network and RIBA Academic Publications Panel.

Akil Scafe-Smith and Seth Scafe-Smith are Unit Masters of Experimental Unit 4 and part of RESOLVE: an interdisciplinary design collective that combines architecture, engineering, technology and art to address social challenges. They have delivered numerous projects, workshops, publications and talks in the UK and across Europe, and aim to realise just and equitable visions of change in our built environment by designing with and for young people and under-represented groups in society

Hila Shemer is a Tel-Aviv- and London-based architect, journalist, critic and researcher, who is also a Unit Master of Diploma Unit 8. Shemer received her MA from the AA and holds a BArch from Bezalel Academy. She has led research- and practice-based studios dealing with the theme ‘utopias of tomorrow’. Her research focuses on the relation between language, space, the visual and conceptual narrative of architecture.

Victoria Thornton is the President of the AA Council, and Founder and former Director of Open House and Open City. A number of pioneering initiatives instigated by Victoria include Accelerate into University; My City Too!; and the Architecture in Schools programme. Victoria is co-author of London’s Guide to Contemporary Architecture and was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the RIBA, an Honorary MA from London Metropolitan University and an OBE for services to architecture and education.

Manijeh Verghese is Head of Public Programmes at the AA, where she is also a Unit Master of Diploma 12 and a seminar leader for the AA Professional Practice for Fifth Year course. She is a founding Director at Unscene Architecture and co-curator of the British Pavilion at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale.

Melissa Woolford is the Founder and Director of the Museum of Architecture, a charity started in 2006 dedicated to finding new ways for the public to engage with architecture, and to encouraging entrepreneurship within architecture. Melissa has an MArch from Pratt Institute and worked for Zaha Hadid Architects from 2006-2009.

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