Research

After Concrete: Redefining Materials and Energy in the Anthropocene

For over a hundred years, reinforced concrete has served as a paradigm of wonderous materiality: natural yet human-made, liquid yet permanent, technically specialized yet...

Lab Cult: An unorthodox history of interchanges between science and architecture

Today, after many decades of questioning science’s capacity to provide answers to architecture’s social mandate, architects and designers are once again enchanted with the...

Toolkit for Today 2018: Activisms

This year’s Toolkit, Activisms, focuses on the different forms that engaged practice can take for scholars of architecture. But what counts as activism? We...

Toolkit for Today 2017: Oral History

Toolkit invites scholars to reveal their tools and reflect on them in a convivial atmosphere. The 2017 Toolkit for Today seminar on “Oral History”...

Toolkit for Today 2016: Keywords on the Environment

The CCA presents Toolkit 2016, a two-week summer seminar for PhD candidates from around the world, devoted to “Keywords for the Environment.” We invited...

Doctoral Program Conference: #decoding

Power inscribes order on space through codes. Bureaucratic codes measure and normalize dynamic ecologies and constitute the substrate of any infrastructural system, organization, and...

DDes Conference: Data Across Scales: Reshaping Design

The Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Doctor of Design Studies Program hosted the international interdisciplinary conference Data Across Scales: Reshaping Design. Bringing together design...

The Expanding Periphery and the Migrating Center

The 2015 ACSA conference aims to simultaneously look outward toward the expanding periphery of architecture and inward toward its migrating center. The dual focus of this...

Toolkit for Today 2013: Archaeology of the Digital

The CCA presents its second Toolkit: a two-week summer seminar for PhD candidates and Master students from around the world. This year, the event...

Apply: Conflict of Interests

This event will be the first in a series of symposia investigating the role of applied research in architecture. Nestled in an intersection between...

Convergence: Research as Practice

The field of Design Research has emerged in contemporary discourse as a prominent topic of interest and is increasingly integral to pedagogical constructs in...

X-CHANGE / Independents’ Group Conference

X-CHANGE is the inaugural meeting of the Independents’ Group, an international research platform for interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration among five of the world’s leading...

The City: Language, Planning and Politics

The Architectural Association is pleased to host the 8th AHRA Research Student Symposium. The one–day event will provide a platform for PhD candidates to...

Material beyond Materials: Composite Tectonics

A Composite Tectonics Conference on Advanced Materials and Digital Manufacturing Fostering direct exchange between architects and companies invested in the field of advanced materials and...

FAB Research Cluster Symposium

The Award theme was ‘Designing Fabrication’ and the jury was interested in recently built projects that exemplify the innovative integration of design and fabrication...

The Critique of the New: Questioning the Legitimisation of Newness through Technology

The Critique of the New aims to formulate an interactive channel engaging doctoral research conducted at the AA and the diverse experimental practices within the wider school community,...