Architectural Association School

The Architecture Association School is the world's most renowned international and influential school of architecture. Since 1847 it has pioneered a belief in architecture as profession, culture and form of human enquiry and is credited with fostering the creation of worldwide leaders of architecture.

AA School alumni include architectural leaders Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Lord Rogers, Will Alsop and many others. Through its unique, year-long, unit based system of teaching, direct intervention in cities and its intensively collaborative team based approach to learning, the school brings together disconnected worlds, fresh ideas and inspiring insights. The AA School is celebrated worldwide as an imaginative setting for architectural culture.

Energy as Form
Energy as Form is a new initiative commissioned by the AA School, demonstrating its commitment to leading rather than reacting to contemporary world challenges. Led by Stefano Rabolli Pansera its focus on the theme of global energy derives from the urgency with which the issue has been raised in political, economic and cultural debates but not in architectural ones. The project will be a 'creative laboratory', engaging a variety of disciplines including art, architecture and science, to address one of the world's most pressing issues.

Energy as Form will be launched at the Bauer Hotel in Venice at 10:30am on 5th June 2009 by AA School Director Brett Steele and Cluster Curator Stefano Rabolli Pansera, in the company of Venetian cultural institutions. The two-year programme will consist of a groundbreaking series of workshops, installations, exhibitions, discussions and debates.

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