Day 7

Diego Grass Interviews Lisa Haber-Thomson

Diego Grass and Lisa Haber-Thomson
Lisa Haber-Thomson received her PhD in Architectural History and Theory from Harvard University. Her research explores the intersecting relationships between territory, law and architecture. She is currently completing her dissertation: 'Territories of incarceration: architecture and judicial procedure across the English Channel, 1642–1945.' Past research has examined the legal significance of a variety of architectural structures, and has ranged from an analysis of the use of watermills in medieval property disputes, to a study of the contemporary usages of Maginot Line casemates in eastern France. Lisa has been the recipient of the Julia A. Appleton Traveling Fellowship in Architecture and the Frederick Sheldon Fund Traveling Fellowship. Additional support for her research has been awarded by the Soane Foundation and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.

The Unexpected Little Twist
Anna and Eugeni Bach
Anna and Eugeni Bach of A&EB share their thoughts on pressing matters.
Anna and Eugeni Bach are a Finnish-Spanish team, based in Barcelona, that work within a broad concept of architecture. Their interests spread across four activities: professional work, through public and private projects; teaching, as associate professors at ETSAB UPC, ETSALS URL and EINA UAB, and through lectures and workshops in different European universities; research, as PhD candidates at ETSAB university and through projects and installations that deal with the perception of space; and cultural production, in their active participation on the boards of different associations that promote the values of architecture for society, as well as in the curation of exhibitions and lecture series.

John Ng Discusses the AA World: Graduation Tableau 2020
John Ng
As you face the front entrance of the Architectural Association and imagine that you keep walking and walking in a straight line, you will cross paths with the AA's Hooke Park campus, the Amazon delta, Chile, New Zealand, the Australian outback, the Philippines, China, Mongolia, Russia and wind up back at Bedford Square again. The landscapes along this line from around the planet are projected onto a single World, with the flowers from Hooke Park sweeping across its land. Around the World is where all our students are right now.
John Ng has been teaching at the Architectural Association and leading the practice Elsewhere since 2011. Elsewhere was founded with a focus on competitions as a way to imagine a repertoire of architectural projects. Elsewhere makes architectural projects and everything in between.

360 Lockdown Films
Hantao Li, Alberte Agerskov, Eleonora Ghezzi, Zhifei Liang, Guangyu Lyu, Jiaxu Wu, Yulin Huang
Collection of short films around the world showcasing the lockdown reality of many international students and architects.

Ghost Busting with the Dark Prince of Chaos MagicTroy Conrad Therrien and Gordon White Troy Conrad Therrien in conversation with magician, author, podcaster and permaculture designer, Gordon White. The founder of Rune Soup, an online community formed around a blog, podcast and school that blends chaos magic praxis with animist epistemology, White offers an entirely different way of historicising architecture than is typically entertained in our discourse. We will discuss how caves, megaliths, pyramids and temples were likely used by the magicians, healers and psychonauts they were built by and for, and how we can apply this knowledge and praxis to design ancestor altars for those who passed tumultuously during the pandemic.

SUMMER RE-SCREEN: Can we Control the Planet?
John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog

SUMMER RE-SCREEN: Borders
Symposium