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AA School 201314
Foundation Course
Architectural Association
School of Architecture
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The AA Foundation Course allows students with minimal
experience in the creative elds to explore the possibility
o a uture career in architecture or the arts. A ull-time,
one-year studio-based course, it oers hands-on instruction
in creative design and thinking and gives students the
means to develop skills in a variety o media rom drawing
to digital video, photography to installation. Students learn
how to translate their thoughts into material orm and gain
the condence and experience they need to apply to the
AA undergraduate school or other schools in creative elds
in the UK and abroad.
Students engage in weekly tutorials, discussions and
presentations with our aculty, visiting practitioners and their
peers. The studio provides an intimate learning environment
in which to develop and experiment with new ideas, skills and
techniques. Creative teamwork is encouraged, with intensive
discussion, collaboration and peer assessment playing
an essential part in helping students to develop a sense o
constructive critique in relation to their own and each others
work. Students learn how to assemble a portolio that clearly
represents their individual interests, experiences and
intellectual ambitions, illustrating not only their nal work
but also the creative processes behind it, the investigations
undertaken throughout the year, successes as well as ailures.
The rst two terms o the year provide an introduction
to observation, analysis and representation, ollowed by
a series o three-week-long projects. Each project ocuses
on a specic area o art and design and is complemented
by embedded bespoke workshops that introduce students
Architectural Association
School o Architecture
Undergraduate School
The AA Undergraduate School consists o two parts: the
ve-year ARB/RIBA-accredited ull-time course o studies
in architecture leading to the AA Intermediate Examination
(ARB/RIBA Part 1) and AA Final Examination (ARB/RIBA
Part 2) and the awarding o the AA Diploma, and the
one-year ull-time Foundation Course, or young and new
students seeking to explore a uture career in architecture,
the arts, design or other creative elds. Traditionally,
a high percentage o AA Foundation Course students go
on to enter the AAs ve-year course, while others choose
to study or work in other creative elds worldwide.
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to various media and skills that will build their condence
and their ability to develop and articulate their work. In this
way the conceptual development o each students work
is supported by the timely acquisition o specic skills
that can immediately be applied and practised in context.
During the nal term, the aculty support each student
individually as they write their own brie and produce a
series o explorations and experiments using all o the skills
and knowledge they have accumulated throughout the year,
and this results in their nal pieces o work.
Knowledge and skills developed in the course encompass
a broad range o interests, including:
Observation
The Foundation course begins
with developing an understand-
ing o how careul observation,
analysis and representation is
essential or students to contex-
tualise and articulate their work.
Technical Drawing
Learn to appreciate the language
o orthogonal drawing: plans,
sections, elevations, perspectives
and axonometrics. Dierent
drawings operate at dierent
scales: ci ties (1:2500), neighbour-
hoods (1:500), buildings (1:100
and 1:50), rooms (1:20) and
amiliar hand-held objects (1:1).
All o these scales will be ex-
plored during weekly workshops
that build up an understanding
o drawn architectural language.
Painting
Learn about colour theory and
how to use dierent types o
paint to achieve a desired result.
Modelmaking
Explore three-dimensional
orm by casting and remoulding
objects in dierent materials
or by using fat sheets o card
and cutting, olding, scoring
and slotting.
Photography
Learn how to use aperture,
ocus, composition and lighting
to document work and create
narrative eects. Use these
techniques to record your
explorations and record nal
pieces or exhibition.
Critique
Develop a sense o quality
through critique and critical
thinking to understand how
to improve work. Students will
be encouraged to take risks
and enjoy the design process
rather than aiming towards sae
and predictable outcomes.
History and Theory
Understand historical context
with reerence to an intellectual
lineage o ideas and how theyinorm contemporary practice.
Portfolio Development
Learn how to build a portolio
that illustrates the analysis,
experimentation and develop-
ment o work throughout the
year. Structure the narrative
o your experiences and design
projects in order to develop
a visual and verbal condence
or uture discussions and
interviews.
Life Drawing
Examine and draw rom naked
gures by looking at proportion,
weight, skeletal structure, muscle,
joints and fesh. Explore the
movement and dynamics o the
human body.
Pattern Cutting
Deconstruct a garment to
see how it has been created.
Learn about the materiality,
structure and weight o abric
and how it can be used to
clothe the human orm.
Millinery
Learn about creating extraordi-
nary structures or the head:
stitch and pleat, use plastics and
wire and steam and stretch elt.
Filmmaking/Editing
Learn how to structure a narra-
tive through storyboarding, use
a camera, edit and apply sound
tracks to create short lms.
Design and Construction
Learn about the materialityo timber, its grain and season-
ing, and how to joint dierent
components to create tensile
and compressed structures.
Design and abricate projects
that accommodate the human
orm with respect to mass,
weight and unction.
Exhibition
Learn how to curate, design and
construct an exhibition. Survey
a space, rame and mount two-
dimensional work, build carcass-
es to house three-dimensional
work and screens or lmic
projections.
Printmaking
Learn about the rich graphic
history o printmaking, mono-
prints, linocuts and lithographs
and develop skills to articulate
and reproduce images and text.
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Foundation Course Director
Saskia Lewis has taught at the
AA since 2001. She has practised
in New York, Paris and London
and has taught at many London
schools o art and architecture.
She is co-author and photographer
oArchitectural Voices: Listening
to Old Buildings(Wiley, 2007).
Foundation Studio Master
Takako Hasegawawas born inTokyo, educated at the AA and works
on the periphery o architecture, art
and perormance. She also teaches
at Chelsea College o Art and Design.
Foundation Studio Tutors
Umberto Bellardi Ricci has a
degree in Social Anthropology and
a Masters in International Politics
rom the School o Oriental and
Arican Studies. He received his
Diploma rom the AA in 2011, and
has worked at London architectural
practices such as Ron Arad Associ-
ates, Boyarsky Murphy and Stanton
Williams Architects.
Taneli Mansikkamki worked
in the elds o music, media art
and new media beore relocating
rom Helsinki to London. He
graduated rom the AA and ater
working or Future Systems,
Amanda Levete Architects and
Cecil Balmond, amongst others,
he is currently directing the studio
Mansikkamki+JOY.
Sta Foundation Course Work
Zsuzsa Peter walking through my hometown
with a seven-metre-long hemp wig or shelter
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Clockwise rom top: Beatrice Melli, Looking
Forwards and Backwards speeding through
time; Berkin Islam, A Conversation between
Nature and Culture reorming the domestic
stair with reerence to clambering over unstable
rocks in the orest, making treads into pivoting
plates; Liam Denhamer, Finding Time map-
ping movement through Whitechapel
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Clockwise rom top let: Alexandra Shatalova,
Mirror Box distorting and refecting light;
Hye-Rim Lee two gures moving through the
orest in a garment that connects them: creating
a tactile, possibly obstructive relationship;
Ema Kacar a sel-portrait depicting the ear o
the unknown, the ragility o an individual and
the strength o overcoming ones ears; Andrew
Yuen pages rom my sketchbook: looking or
treasure in the markets o west London
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Clockwise rom top let: Alessandro Magliani
discovering unexpected aspects o your
personality combining moving image and
animation; Alessandro Magliani tracing body
movement, a garment made with LED lights and
lmed in the dark; Vasilisa Lucic paper model
spontaneously made with dierent techniques
o shaping and connecting paper without using
any glue; Alexandra Shatalova wrapped up
in negative space discovered while making
a survey o my body
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Application Procedures
Anyone interested in applying
to the AA must complete an
online undergraduate application
orm. The AA is not part o UCAS.
The initial deadline or applica-
tions and portolio submissions
is 18 January 2013 and late
applications and portolio sub-
mission will be accepted up to
15 March 2013. Applications made
ater this date may be accepted
at the discretion o the school.
Interviews take place between
February and June. Prospectivestudents are encouraged to
visit the AA, and visits can be
arranged during weekdays in term
time by contacting the Under-
graduate Admissions Coordinator
Saira Haq on +44 (0)20 7887 4094
or undergraduateadmissions@
aaschool.ac.uk
Entry Requirements
The AA Foundation Course is
recognised by the RIBA as the
equivalent o an Art A level. The
minimum entry requirements or
students entering the Foundation
Course is one A level pass
(grade C or above) in a non art/design subject, accompanied
with 5 GCSEs (grade C or above)
including maths, science and
English. Students must have
two A level passes i they wish
to continue onto First Year.
Foundations in art and design
must be accompanied by one
A level (or equivalent) in a non
art/design subject. Overseas
applicants are required to have
the recognised equivalent to the
above examinations, such as the
International Baccalaureate,
Abitur, etc, plus the required
English Language qualication
(such as IELTS, or example).
Please see the AA website
or urther details. Applicants
without conventional entry
qualications are also consid-
ered, provided they are able
to oer acceptable alternatives.
Portfolios for Initial Submission
All applicants are expected to
submit a bound sample portolio
o art/design work (no largerthan A3, and between 10 and
30 pages). Applications and
portolios will be assessed by an
admissions panel and applicants
will be inormed i they are
invited to an interview at the AA
at which a ull portolio can be
presented. In your application
please include a selection o
highlights that will show the
admissions panel an overview
o your work and the processes
behind it, including sketches or
development drawings/models
in addition to nal images.
Sample portolios will
only be returned i requestedand a 50 postage ee is paid
in advance, or i the portolio is
picked up in person rom the AA
on a date prearranged with the
Undergraduate Admissions
Coordinator.
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Portfolios for AA Interviews
The AA is looking or students
with a creative imagination and
plenty o motivation. Sketches,
models, photographs, paintings,
sketchbooks and essays all
help to build up a picture o your
particular interests and skills.
It is important to read the
AA Prospectus, which will give
you an idea o the wide range
o work carried out in the school.
There is no single way o prepar-
ing a portolio. Many applicants
will have artwork rom school,but the AA is interested in any
kind o project that is sel-moti-
vated and it is best not to bring
a portolio based solely on school
artwork. Portolios should include
some recent work; models or
sculptures can be photographed
and live perormances recorded
in a variety o ways.
It is important that any drawings
should be rom lie, or drawn
on site. The interview panel likes
to see original images wherever
possible, but understands i
reproductions have to be shown
due to size or weight constraints.
It is better to bring morework rather than less so that
you have a range o examples
to demonstrate your skills.
However, please take into ac-
count how much you can carry,
and the nite amount o time
available or the interview, which
means you will not be able to
show every piece o work.
Every portolio we see will
be dierent. The purpose o the
interview is to try and assess
each students potential and
ability to benet rom the course.
We will let you know within
a very short time whether we
are able to oer you a place.
Portolios brought to an inter-
view can be taken away directly
ater the interview.
Interview Procedure
The interview is a two-way
process. The panel is interested
to see what skills and interests
the applicant has, so it is impor-
tant to spend time preparing a
portolio. The applicant, in turn,has the opportunity to ask ques-
tions about the school and have
a look at its working spaces
and acilities.
Fees
Fees or 2012/13 academic year
Foundation: 16,077*
*Fees are subject to review annually
Fees are payable in advance
or on an annual or termly basis.
A three per cent discount is
deducted i a ull years ees are
paid by 21 July 2013. Upon return
o a completed signed admission
orm and specied deposit toreserve a place at the AA an
ocial conrmation o accept-
ance can be issued. This conr-
mation, together with other
documentation, can be used by
overseas students to apply or
a visa to study in the UK. Please
reer to the UK Border Agency
website or urther inormation:
www.ukba.homeoce.gov.uk
AA School Facilities
Facilities available to AA regis-
tered students include: digital
prototyping lab, computer studio,
workshops, audiovisual depart-
ment, photo library, library,
drawing materials shop, bar and
restaurant. Hooke Park, a 350-
acre woodland site in Dorset, is
used by AA students to explore
techniques ranging rom model-
making to object abrication and
prototyping. Further inormation
on all these acilities can be
ound on the AA website.
Accommodation
Most AA students live in shared
fats or houses. It is particularly
helpul or overseas students
coming to London or the rst
time to live with other English-
speaking students who are
amiliar with the city. The AA
does not have halls o residence,
but it does oer an accommoda-
tion service or three weeks
beore the beginning o the
academic year to provide inor-
mation to help students nd
housing. It can take up to
our weeks to nd somethingsatisactory.
Introduction Week
The academic year starts on
16 September and nishes in
June. It is divided into three
terms, with a break at Christmas
and Easter between terms. New
students are invited to an Intro-
duction Week ahead o week one,
when events are arranged to
welcome and introduce them
to the school and London.
Prospectus
The AA Prospectus contains
more inormation about the
school and its programmes.
A copy o the current Prospectus,
together with an application
orm, is available online or on
request rom:
Saira Haq
Undergraduate Admissions
Coordinator
Admissions Oce
Architectural Association
School o Architecture36 Bedord Square
London WC1B 3ES
UK
T +44 (0)20 7887 4094 / 4051
undergraduateadmissions
@aaschool.ac.uk
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Useul Links
Architectural Association
www.aaschool.ac.uk
AA Log
www.aalog.net
Prospectus
www.aaschool.ac.uk/prospectus
Projects Review
http://pr2012.aaschool.ac.uk
Weekly Events List
www.aaschool.ac.uk/events
Visiting School
www.aaschool.ac.uk/visitingschool
Microsites
www.aaschool.ac.uk/microsites
AA Bookshop
www.aabookshop.net
Lecture videos
www.aaschool.ac.uk/videoarchive
www.twitter.com/AA_EventsList
Explore and prepare or a uture career in architecture,
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year-long studio-based course taught by architects
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Explore and prepare or a uture career in architecture,
design, art or other creative elds in an intensive,
year-long studio-based course taught by architects
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