APPLICATIONS FOR THIS PROGRAMME WILL OPEN SOON

By submitting an application to the programme, participants confirm that they have read, understood, and agreed to the AA Visiting School Terms and Conditions.

A small number of places are available for this programme, we advice you to secure your place as soon as possible by completing the online application and making a full payment of the fees. Please note that a deposit payment holds your place onto the course but does not confirm it.

1. Standard Application:

• Click on "Apply" to log in or create an account on the Applicant’s portal.
• Submit your details and payment of the deposit fee - The deposit reserves your place in the programme but does not confirm you are fully registered.
• Log in to the Applicant’s portal to pay the remaining fee, upload documents, monitor the status of your application and more.

2. AA Students and Melbourne University Students.

• Click on "Apply" to log in or create an account with your AA Student or Melbourn University email address on the Applicant’s portal.
• Submit your details and payment of the deposit fee - The deposit reserves your place in the programme but does not confirm you are fully registered.

3. Scholarship application for full-time students from Cinnovate HEI partners: Architectural Association, IE University, Nord University, and Lietuvos verslo kolegija.

• Click on "Apply" to log in or create an account with your University email address on the Applicant’s portal.
• Submit your details and payment of the deposit fee - The deposit reserves your place in the programme but does not confirm you are fully registered or guarantees the scholarship.
• Contact the programme head Paul Feeney by email to let them know you have applied for the scholarship, and a short statement about you.
• Once you hear from us with the outcome of your scholarship application, log in to the Applicant’s portal to pay the remaining fee, upload documents, monitor the status of your application and more.

Additional Information

Work Week: Participants will be required to arrive to Hooke Park on Sunday 13 July in the evening and leave in the morning hours of Saturday 19 July.

Participants will work and be supervised on fabrication activities from Monday to Friday, 9 AM - 5 PM. Each session starts with mandatory safe working inductions.

Meals on Site: Hooke Park's Refectory The meals are now exclusively vegetarian. Please advise us of any allergies or dietary requirements. Additionally, participants have access to a fully equipped kitchen for non-catered meals.

Accommodation: Participants live on site in Westminster Lodge, a dormitory with shared same-sex twin rooms, each with en-suite washroom and shower pods. Bedding is provided – participants are required to bring their own towel and toiletries.

ENTERING THE UK

If you are traveling to the UK from abroad, it is your responsibility to ensure that you hold the right documents to enter the UK.

All applicants are required to review the relevant sections on ‘Entering the UK’ via the UK Government website to check which documents are required to enter the UK and check if an application to a Standard Visitor visa or an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) is needed. Your type of immigration document and how to apply depends on your nationality, the AA can provide a letter confirming your enrolment to the course to support your application once the course fees are settled.

Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA)

Commencing 8 January 2025, the UK introduced ETAs for all visitors who do not currently need a visa for short stays of under six months, including Australian, Canadian, and US passport holders.

Starting in April 2025, all visitors to the UK who do not require a visa for short stays and do not already have a UK immigration status will need an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA). This includes nationals from many countries, including those in the European Union as well as Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, among others.

You can Check if you can apply for an ETA on the UK Government website. An ETA costs £10 and allows multiple entries into the UK for stays of up to six months at a time, valid for two years or until the holder’s passport expires—whichever is sooner.

Standard Visitor Visa

Please note that Standard Visitor Visas may take up to 3 months to be issued, all applicants who require a visa to enter the UK are encouraged to apply for a Standard Visitor visa at least 3 months in advance and no later than 1 month before the start of the programme or the date of the flight in which is intended to enter the UK, whichever is first. Student Visas are not required for study periods shorter than six months.

How to apply for a Standard Visitor Visa depends on your country of origin. You can check check if you need to apply for a visa in advance or if you can enter with and ETA and your passport upon arrival in the UK.

Applicants who need a visa to study in the UK are encouraged to carefully review the details and eligibility criteria for the Standard Visitor Visa, which are available on the UK Government website. The Visiting School Office will provide guidance throughout the process to ensure applicants are well-informed and prepared to submit their visa applications. Please also review the costs associated with obtaining a visa.

Once an applicant has been accepted into the programme and has paid the deposit or full fees (see ‘Fees’ section), the Visiting School Office will issue an invitation letter confirming enrolment. This letter can also be used as a supporting document when entering the UK.

BIOGRAPHIES

Paul Francis Feeney is the co-founder of FAR, a practice which interweaves building, research, social and sculptural projects. For Paul, architecture = sculpture = life. This triad informs his practice as well as his teaching as the unit master of Intermediate 11 at the Architectural Association. Paul has worked for the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in the Netherlands as well as Herzog & de Meuron in Switzerland. Since 2019 he has taught in Asia and the UK. Paul completed his Master’s in architecture at Duncan of Jordanstone School of Art in Scotland where he received the Geddes Guild award. Paul resides in Dorset on the 180-million-year-old Jurassic coast which is a perpetual stimulant for new ways of thinking. He is a trustee for the charity We Are Humans and co-created the Parallel Universe(ity) initiative.

Rowland Keable is an Honorary Professor UNESCO Chair on Earthen Architecture, CEO of Earth Building UK and Ireland, EBUKI, and Director Rammed Earth Consulting CIC. A founder of EBUKI, Rowland works towards earth in the mainstream of construction. This includes work in a European earth structures and trainers standards group. He chairs the NOS review for earth building and plasters and has written construction codes and standards in the UK, Europe and Africa. Through EBUKI Rowland works to bring together networks of builders, teachers, trainers, researchers, designers, publishers and taking an ‘all necessary means’ approach to earth as a building material.