Annual General Meeting 2021

Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Registered Members of the Architectural Association (Inc.) will be held online on Monday, 25 January 2021 at 6.30pm.

As a way to connect our global membership during this time of physical separation, this meeting will become more of an occasion to present a review of the past year alongside keynote presentations on funded research at the AA by the Ground Lab and Wood Lab.

Schedule

6.30 – Introduction to the AGM and its new format including the Annual Review and Keynote Conversation

6.35 – Apologies and Declarations of Interest – (President)

6.37 - Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on the 20th January 2020 -­ (President)

6.40 - Trustees Report & Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31st July 2020 for AA Inc. - Presentation & Adoption - (Chair of Finance & Resources Committee)

6.45 - Appointment of the Auditors for 2020/2021 - (Chair of Finance & Resources Committee)

6.50 – Membership Register Update – For Approval – (Head of Membership)

6.55 – Any Other Business – (All)

7.00 – Presentation of the Annual Review

7.15 – Keynote presentations by the Wood Lab and Ground Lab

7.25 – Conversation around research at the AA

7.45 – Finish

Ground Lab will be presented by Jose Alfredo Ramirez and Daniel Kiss:

Jose Alfredo Ramirez is an architect, co-director of AA Groundlab and co-director of the Landscape Urbanism MArch/MSc Postgraduate Programme at the AA. At Groundlab, he leads research design projects on how the built environment impacts climate change, landscape design and urbanisation in the global south and has led the development of projects at the junction of architecture, landscape and urbanism in a variety of contexts such as Argentina, Chile, China, Mexico, Spain, Russia, Chile, UK among others. He has experience working in large-scale urban projects such as the redevelopment of a 12km distance of Santiago de Chile’s main avenue, Alameda/Providencia into an integral transport and urban corridor and the envisioning of how a Green New Deal will impact Glasgow UK. Alfredo has published and lectured worldwide on landscape urbanism as well as the work of Groundlab.

Daniel Kiss is an Architect, Designer and Research Fellow at Ground Lab. He is interested in architectural, landscape and geospatial visual communication of human-influenced environmental domains and their social/political relations depicted on various methods of visuals, diagrams and cartographies. He graduated with Master of Architecture from AA Landscape Urbanism where he developed a project that envisions dynamic forms of designing and managing the Antarctic marine and its resource extraction with an attempt to unfold the commercial krill fishing activities through the models of protection and regulatory systems of global common resources. Previously he worked as an architect in Budapest, Hungary, and currently, he is a technical tutor at the AA Landscape Urbanism programme.

Wood Lab will be presented by Zachary Mollica and Jean-Nicolas Dackiw:

Zachary Mollica is Warden of the AA’s Hooke Park campus and a lead tutor to its Design + Make programme. He also heads the AA Wood Lab, a research group dedicated to demonstrating the potential of trees. Zac’s own work focuses on integrating digital methods (particularly 3D scanning) alongside craft knowledge and natural materials. Living in the woods he likes to work on a bit of everything.

Jean-Nicolas Dackiw is Hooke Park’s architectural robotics developer and a course tutor for Design + Make. His keen interest in material properties and appropriate fabrication/construction methods stems from a diverse background in carpentry and furniture making. Outside of Hooke Jean consults for practices on the detailing and automated production of complex architectural elements.