Day 1

AA 360° Summer Sessions Launch Event
Sofia Krimizi, Christopher Pierce, Sessions and Summer School participants
The launch of the 360º Summer Sessions and AA Summer School 2020 will bring together a group or practitioners, theorists, academics and designers who are located in multiple time zones around the world in a series of informal yet critical conversations trying to understand these surreal, challenging and unprecedented circumstances in which we all find ourselves living in.
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360° Summer School Unit 1 Introduction
Tutor Lydia Kallipoliti presents her unit brief for the AA Summer School
Lydia Kallipoliti is an architect, engineer and scholar whose research focuses on the intersections of architecture, technology and environmental politics, and is the principal of ANAcycle thinktank. She is an Assistant Professor at the Cooper Union in New York, and has also taught at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Syracuse University, Columbia University [GSAPP] and Pratt Institute. She is the author of The Architecture of Closed Worlds, Or, What is the Power of Shit (Lars Muller Publishers, 2018) and the History of Ecological Design for Oxford English Encyclopaedia of Environmental Science.

360° Summer School Unit 2 Introduction
Tutors Arantza Ozaeta Cortázar and Álvaro Martín Fidalgo present their unit brief for the AA Summer School
Arantza Ozaeta Cortázar and Álvaro Martín Fidalgo are architects, educators and founding partners of the Madrid-based office SOF-T, that develops architectural spaces in environments that connect local identity with contemporary culture. In addition to their work as visiting lecturers internationally, they have taught at the AA Intermediate and Visiting School programmes, and teach at the Madrid Polytechnic ETSAM and IE School of Architecture and Design. They are recognised as one of the most promising young architectural practices in Europe, and their work is international in scope, being published on multiple occasions.

360° Summer School Unit 3 Introduction
Tutors Troy Conrad Therrien and Violette Van Parys present their unit brief for the AA Summer School
Troy Conrad Therrien is the curator of architecture and digital initiatives at the Guggenheim Museum and teaches at Columbia University [GSAPP] and the AA. He is the co-organiser of Countryside, The Future, an exhibition currently installed at the Guggenheim with Rem Koolhaas and Samir Bantal of AMO.
Violette Van Parys is a French designer specialising in porcelain for architectural environments and small-scale wearables such as jewellery.

360° Summer School Unit 4 Introduction
Tutors Oliviu Lugojan-Ghenciu and Raluca Grada-Emandis present their unit brief for the AA Summer School
Oliviu Lugojan-Ghenciu is an architect building real-time digital worlds. As a multidisciplinary creative, designer and technologist he has delivered immersive interactive experiences and end-to-end digital solutions for major organisations and brands across the globe. He is currently leading research and innovation in the mobility sector as a Creative Director for Neutral Digital, a leading UK agency. Prior to this, he co-founded and directed Universal Assembly Unit and CtrlArchDel, focusing on inhabitable digital technologies, and has taught workshops in the US, Canada and Europe since 2009.
Raluca Grada-Emandi is working as an independent designer and creative consultant in the field of performance art. She graduated from Spatial Performance and Design (AAIS) at the AA Interprofessional Studio and the Royal College of Art, London, with a previous degree in social psychology. Her work focuses on bridging materiality with its absence, manipulating distortions across both physical and imaginary realities. Her work has been exhibited at the V&A, Sir John Soane’s Museum, the National Theatre of Iceland and featured in Vogue, designboom, Arts Thread and i-D magazine.

360° Summer School Unit 5 Introduction
Tutor Neeraj Bhatia presents his unit brief for the AA Summer School
Neeraj Bhatia is a licensed architect and urban designer whose work resides at the intersection of politics, infrastructure and urbanism. He is an Associate Professor at the California College of the Arts where he also directs the Urban Works Agency. He has held teaching positions at UC Berkeley, UT Arlington, Cornell University, Rice University and the University of Toronto and is the founder of The Open Workshop. He has been awarded with numerous prizes and distinctions and is co-editor of books Bracket [Takes Action] and Bracket [Goes Soft]

Summer RE–Screen: Documenting Algeria: Architecture as a colonial agency
Zeynep Celik

Summer RE–Screen: How to be a young Architect
Peter Cook