The Architectural Association (AA)

Foundation Programme

The Foundation Programme is a one-year full-time course that focuses on observation, conversation and the development of key skills. This course is aimed at students who are at the very start of their architectural studies, and facilitates individual and group project work.

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Intermediate Programme

BA(Hons)

Three years, full-time (years one to three of the five-years course in architecture)

Intermediate

Diploma

Yr 1

The Intermediate Programme (BA(Hons)) is a three-year full-time programme. The First Year is characterised by its shared, open studio, where students work individually and together across a series of projects. Years two and three introduce students to the unit system, in which small design studios (12–14 students) operate a vertical structure of Second and Third Year students.

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Diploma Programme

Master of Architecture (MArch) and AA Diploma

Two years, full time (years four and five of the five-years course in architecture)

Diploma

Intermediate

Yr 4

The Diploma Programme (MArch) is a two-year full-time programme that accepts students who have completed the Intermediate Programme at the AA, as well as eligible new students who have studied elsewhere. The programme leads to the AA Final Examination (ARB/RIBA Part 2) and is structured around a unit system, in which small design studios (12–14 students) operate a vertical structure of Fourth and Fifth Year students.

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Taught Postgraduate Programmes

MA/MSc, MArch, MFA and MPhil

Full-time and part-time depending on programme

1 Year

Yr 1

The AA offers ten Taught Postgraduate Programmes for students with prior academic and professional experience. Most of the programmes are full-time courses of advanced study, except for Conservation and Reuse, which provides a part-time study option.

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Professional Practice Part 3

RIBA, ARB

2 weeks full-time or 10 weeks part-time

Wk 1

Professional Practice is a RIBA Part 3 course and examination that allows successful candidates to register as architects with the Architects Registration Board (ARB). The course is open to AA RIBA Part 2 graduates and eligible non-graduates.

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Visiting School

One – three weeks

Wk 1

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The Visiting School encompasses diverse learning programmes, workshops and site-based agendas shaped by participants working intensively in small groups over varying periods of time from one to two weeks. Central to each programme is the idea that experimental, new and provocative forms of architecture are best learned by doing. These programmes take place all over the world, including Bedford Square in London and Hooke Park in Dorset. The Visiting School welcomes applicants in any moment of their studies and careers, from within and outside of the architectural realm. The AA Summer School Programme, also part of the Visiting School, is equally open and takes place for three weeks during the summer period.

Applications for this program will open soon.

Please contact Visiting School Office if you have any queries regarding this Visiting School.

The programme is open to architecture, design and natural science students, PhD candidates, young professionals and anyone with an interest in the subject. There are no software knowledge requirements, however, participants will need a laptop to carry out online research and edit drawings. For this, it is recommended that participants will have Adobe/CAD software installed but this is not essential.

All participants travelling from abroad are responsible for securing any visa required and are advised to contact their home embassy early. An official letter can be issued by AA Visiting School confirming enrolment onto the programme once an applicant has settled their deposit payment, this letter can be used when applying for a visa.

All participants are responsible for securing their own travel and health insurance. Please ensure that your travel insurance also covers your personal belongings i.e. laptop, equipment, tools, passport etc. The AA takes no responsibility for lost/ stolen property.

Programme Heads:

Tadeas Riha is an architect practising between London and Prague. His experience includes curation and design of the XVI Venice Biennale Pavilion of Estonia – the Weak Monument, the Park Books publication Steel Cities exploring the landscapes of logistics or, as part of his previous long term engagement at 6a architects, coordinating the community-lead Holborn House project. Tadeas likes looking at nature through architectural tools.

Pavel Bouse is an architect based between Amsterdam and Prague. He took part in numerous research projects including the Art on Display 1949-1969 exploring seminal curatorial works, or the Architecture by Auto as part of Norman Foster’s Motion. Autos, Art, Architecture, investigating the relationship between automobile and its associated infrastructure. He has been involved as a researcher and guest teacher at The Berlage Center and the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture.

Tutors:

Miroslav Pazdera is an architect, teacher and curator. He studied at the Faculty of Architecture at the Czech Technical University, RWTH Aachen and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. He collaborated on the research project Landscapes of Logistics and the publication Steel Cities, which deals with the issue of architecture of global distribution and their local impacts. As an architect, he has worked in Zurich, Berlin and Prague. He currently works as a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University, prepares the lecture series November Talks, and collaborates with the ViPer gallery and Ehl & Koumar Architects.

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Professional Practice Part 3

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