Applications for this programme will open soon.

All participants travelling from abroad are responsible for securing any visa required, and are advised to contact their home embassy early. After a formal application, the AA School can provide a letter confirming participation in the workshop.

Programme Heads

Aljoša Dekleva (b. 1972) is an architect and educator who holds a masterʼs degree in architecture with Distinction from Architectural Association in London. He co-directs the architectural practice Dekleva Gregoric Architects, pursuing the concept of research by design and design by research with the aim of challenging the obvious by building architectures of various scales and programmes worldwide. With Tina Gregorič, he defined the concept and initiated the research platform of nanotourism in 2014, since then he has been running the AA Nanotourism Visiting School. With Tina, he curated the Slovenian national pavilion Home at Arsenale at Venice Architecture Biennale 2016. He taught architecture as a guest professor at Université de Montréal in Canada, ENSA Paris Val de Seine in France, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany and as a Gehry Chair 2019 at Daniels in Toronto, Canada.

Vid Žnidaršič (b. 1991) is an architectural designer, researcher, historian, and educator. He has worked at several world-renowned practices, such as Bevk-Perovć, Casper Mueller Kneer, Farshid Moussavi Architecture, and BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group, where he currently works as a senior architectural designer and a project lead. Alongside his work in architectural studios, he is constantly developing his creative practice situated at the intersection of critical thinking, creative writing, and design work. In the past, he taught DIP5 at the Architectural Association and currently, he teaches as a Design Fellow in the MArch course at the University of Cambridge. He was a participant in the first AA Visiting School Nanoturism in Vitanje in 2014 and has rejoined the programme as a member of the teaching team since its 2024 edition.

Invited Mentor

Anna Font is an architect, her work combines academic, editorial and design projects. She is interested in the convergence of computation and critical thinking in architecture.

Anna holds a Master's in Architecture II from the Harvard University GSD (Cambridge, MA) and a PhD in Design from the Architectural Association (London, UK). Anna is Head of Learning at the Architectural Association, where she currently teaches in the Emergent Technologies and Design postgraduate programme (Emtech), having previously been Course Master at the Projective Cities MPhil postgraduate programme, and Environmental Technical Studies Tutor in the Diploma School. Anna has been Unit Tutor at AcrossRCA, a transdisciplinary graduate programme at the Royal College of Art (London), and at the University of Sheffield, where her student’s work has been awarded the RIBA Yorkshire Student Awards 2023. She has taught yearly design workshops at the Master in Integrated Architectural Design at ETSALS (Barcelona) from 2015 to today.

http://www.annafont.org/