AA Design & Make

13 December 2012: D&M Phase 1 Jury

admin — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:22:21 +0000

D&M Phase 1 students will be presenting their term 1 work, and the proposed briefs and ambitions for the new Hooke Park building projects, on Thursday 13 December, 2-5pm, Bedford Sq 33 First Floor Front.

7 December 2012: Caretaker’s House-warming

admin — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 17:37:39 +0000

Charlie and Georgie Corry Wright, and family, have moved into the new Caretaker’s House and hosted its house-warming party (mince pies, mulled wine and soup).

4 December 2012: Agendas of Ruralism

admin — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 19:28:44 +0000

Tuesday 4th December, Hooke Park 11-6pm
Design & Make: Agendas of Ruralism Seminar Series Open Seminar: Cultural Ecologies
The final day of open seminar sessions examining the cultural status of the ‘rural’. Talks will explore the idea of Local Distinctiveness, the work of rural architect and CIAM
polemicist, John Voelcker and define a new discipline of Landscape Ruralism. Hosted by Kate Darby, speakers include Dr Jos Smith, Lecturer in English Literature at Exeter University, Joshua Mardell, Architectural Historian and Building Archaeologist and Eelco Hooftman, Co-director of GROSS.MAX.

28 November 2012: D&M at CoCoon syposium

admin — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:18:54 +0000

Piers Taylor, D&M Studio Master, is speaking at the “DesignBuild-Studio: New Ways in Architectural Education” symposium hosted by CoCoon at TU Berlin. Piers is presenting a lecture titled “Contingent Space – Between Designing and Making”.

31 October 2012: Sources of Ruralism

admin — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:52:29 +0000

Wednesday 31 October, 11-4pm: D&M Open Seminar: Sources of Ruralism

The first of two open seminar sessions examining the cultural status of the ‘rural’, that will explore shifts from an urban centric viewpoint via the Pastoral, Picturesque and Sublime to a rural centric one in the work of the ‘new’ nature writers and art practitioners. Hosted by Kate Darby, speakers include Dr Jos Smith, Lecturer in English Literature at Exeter University and artists Ivan and Heather Morison whose installation ‘Skirt of the of the Black Mouth’ has recently been opened on the south side of Tate Modern.

2 December 2011

admin — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:58:26 +0000

Big Shed progress – installation of the first of the wall cladding panels. They are clad in Western Red Cedar planks sawn from Hooke Park trees.

4 August 2011

admin — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:18:28 +0000

Debarking larch poles for the Big Shed

SummerMake 2011

exportNews — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:17:06 +0000

The 19 students of the SummerMake visiting school, led by Luke Olsen with Jesse Randzio, Geralding Dening, have completed their constructions in the clearing at the west of the workshop.

26-29 April 2011 D&M Prototyping

admin — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:15:38 +0000

Four days spent testing construction options for the Big Shed. Full scale segments of the projects primary trusses, and cantilever door openings, were assembled using various connection techniques.

4-8 April 2011 MakeLab visiting school.

admin — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:14:25 +0000

AA MakeLab is an intensive, five-day programme engaging in innovative architectural fabrication processes in collaboration with the AA’s London-based Digital Prototyping Lab. The aim is to explore the integration of digitally-driven fabrication technologies in the context of Hooke Park’s forestry and workshop resources. More pictures and info: http://makelab.aaschool.ac.uk/