Autumn Open Jury 2022

The Autumn Open Jury is an opportunity for students across the school to present completed projects from the past academic year and is a good moment to reflect on the ideas, themes and methodologies that shaped the work.

Over the course of the day a cross-section of students from across the Architectural Association, ranging from Intermediate, Diploma, Taught Postgraduate and PhD programmes as well as from Core Studies, Electives and Research Labs, will present completed exemplary projects from the 2021–22 academic year.

Projects will be linked to the themes presented in the AA Approaches series earlier this term to reflect how we approach architecture: from space, as part of a system, as part of history, as a story, coming from the streets, from the land, through the material, and on the page.

The Open Jury will take place in person in the AA Lecture Hall with two half-day sessions from 10:00 - 13.00 GMT and 14:00-17.00 GMT, followed by drinks.

Schedule:

AM

10.00 AM – Introduction by Ingrid Schroder, AA Director

10.30 AM – Gal Schachor, ETS: Compounding Seaweed

11.00 AM – Oula Al-Eryani, Dafni Dragiou, Yuji Huang, Yunyu Huang, DRL: Cloudforma

11.30 AM – Byounggul Lim, First Year Portfolio

12.00 PM – Theresa Begon, Experimental 12: Stadtflucht *city escape*

12.30 PM – Romain Lepoutre, Design and Make: Field Station

1.00 PM – LUNCH

Critics: Nick Simcik Arese, Mary Duggan, Takeshi Hayatsu, Roz Barr, Pierre D'Avoine, Elliot Rogosin, Mike Aling, Mark Morris

PM

2.00 PM – Introduction by Ingrid Schroder, AA Director

2.30 PM – Anastasia Fedotova, Diploma 6: Automated Play of the Machine

3.00 PM – Can Aksan, AAIS: The Music of our Dreams

3.30 PM – Juntao Liu, Experimental 1: The Belt of Playtime

4.00 PM – BREAK

4.15 PM – Yolande Wang, Diplolma 10: The Crossroads Between Dreams and Catastrophe

4.45 PM – Julia Spirig, Housing and Urbanism: From Employment Land to Makers' Society

5.15 PM – Concluding Remarks

6.00 PM – DRINKS

Critics: Nick Simcik Arese, Fran Williams, Matteo Mastandrea, Sam Jacob, Albane Duvillier, Davide Sacconi, Yushi Li

Critics:

Nicholas Simcik Arese is Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies, University of Cambridge, and Research Affiliate in the Department of Anthropology, University of Oxford. He directs Cambridge's MPhil in Architecture and Urban Studies (MAUS).

Mary Duggan is founder of London architecture and design studio Mary Duggan Architects. Prior to starting her own studio in 2017 she was co-founder of Duggan Morris Architects, which won ten RIBA National and Regional Awards, three Civic Trust Awards, and three nominations for the Mies van der Rohe Award. Mary has served on many design review panels for governing authorities including the London Borough of Lewisham Design Review Panel and the RIBA Education Committee.

Takeshi Hayatsu is a Japanese architect based in London. Takeshi studied architecture at Musashino Art University in Tokyo and Architectural Association in London. He worked for David Chipperfield Architects, Haworth Tompkins and 6a architects before establishing Hayatsu Architects in 2017. Alongside his practice he teaches MArch unit in Kingston School of Art. He also conducts annual building school in Japan and Lake District with Grizedale Arts.

Roz Barr’s interest in developing an idiosyncratic process of making led her to pursue her own architectural studio in 2010 – Roz Barr Architects. Her portfolio has grown quickly, and the size of the studio has followed. As founder and director her practice is now an emerging practice that is gaining more interest internationally. She is currently designing the new Fashion Galleries for the V&A Museum, London, and in 2020 she was selected to design two buildings within the new development called the Design District in London joining 8 other eminent international architectural practices.

Pierre d’Avoine is an architect, artist and teacher whose office, studio d’Avoine, is based in London. His recent publications include Dwelling on the Future: Architecture for the Seaside, Middle England and the Metropolis and San Salvatore: House Pool Landscape. He has built, exhibited and taught internationally. He teaches Diploma 14 at the AA together with Pereen D'Avoine.

Elliot Rogosin is an architectural designer and maker who creates installations, interiors and architecture to capture the essential stories between place, manufacture and making, and the process of design. He teaches Intermediate 12 at the AA with Albane Duvillier who he has previously taught AA Summer School units with in 2021 and 2022.

Fran Williams is the Architects’ Journal’s Technical Editor and Deputy Architecture Editor. Before joining the AJ at the end of 2018, Fran was working as an architectural assistant for various architecture practices in London including Gort Scott, Jestico + Whiles and Sarah Wigglesworth Architects.

Matteo Mastrandrea is an architect and Director at Es Devlin Studio in London. Recent work includes the Super Bowl Halftime Show with Dr Dre, Eminem and Kendrick Lamar, Come Home Again (Tate Modern) as well as theatre productions The Lehman Trilogy (National Theatre), A Number (The Old Vic), The Hunt (Almeida) and The Unknown Soldier (Royal Opera House). He has taught Architecture (ADS4) at the Royal College of Art since 2016, and is a PhD candidate at Cambridge University (Centre for Film and Screen).

Yushi Li is a Chinese artist, teacher and researcher. Her work engages with the question of the gaze, using photography as her method to explore and question the gendered power dynamic inherent in different relations in the internet age. She was selected as one of the Foam talents in 2022, and the RPS Hundred Heroines in 2019.

Sam Jacob is principal of Sam Jacob Studio for architecture and design, a practice whose work ranges from urban design through architecture, design, art to curatorial projects. Past projects have included nightclubs, social housing, community centres, parks, TV studios and exhibitions. His work has been shown at institutions including the Art Institute Chicago, the MAK Vienna, the V&A, and the Venice Biennale, where he was co-curator of the British Pavilion in 2016. Previously, Sam was a director of FAT Architecture. Alongside the studio's main work, Sam has designed t-shirts and scarves that act as manifestos, designed an opera in a cow shed and interviewed Lou Reed, all in the name of expanding the possibilities of architectural production.

Albane Duvillier is an architect with expertise in conservation and sustainability. She explores an inclusive, socially and politically engaged mode of design, considering London’s architectural culture and its inhabitants as a creative battleground. She teaches Intermediate 12 at the AA with Elliot Rogosin who she is also currently designing an off-grid, sustainable, self-built community building in Anglesey with.

Davide Sacconi explores buildings, cities, production and research through designs, exhibitions, books and pedagogical projects. He holds a PhD from the AA, is an associate lecturer at the Royal College of Art and teaches at the Syracuse Architecture London Programme. He edited the books Interior Tales, The Supreme Achievement and Savage Architecture. He teaches Diploma 20 at the AA with Luca Galofaro and CAMPO.