Manifesta Exhibition Proposals
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16.06_Honours Nomination
For the Diploma Honours presentation, Federica Zambeletti presented her project Content White where she reflects upon the condition of whiteness within the contemporary museum. ‘The research takes the cultural institution of the museum to reflect upon how ‘white’ has now become a default. Where white exists as divisor of the prosaic whilst denying experimentation […]
25.05_Final Jury
The Final Jury was the culmination of the academic year at the AA where the AA Museum Lab presented the achievements of the students on both the research and the pavilion. The variety of projects as well as approached to the research revealed the extreme range and diversity of interests of the various students and […]
04.05_TS High Pass Jury
On the 4th of May the TS High Pass Jury took place. Five students were nominate: Tyler Bolier, Linus Cheng, Ludovica Cirillo, Olympia Simopoulou and Federica Zambeletti whilst three were then awarded the High Pass. Ludovica excelled with a TS 5 Nomination for her Piezo cork tile, an architectural and material experimentation which integrates piezoelectricity […]
04.04_Opening_Piazza San Marco_Milan
On Tuesday the 4th of April the Pavilion opened to the public and would remain open for the remaining week from 10 am to 10 pm! On the evening of Tuesday The Hard Life by Jasper Morrison was presented whilst on the Wednesday Konstantin Grcic presented and Abbildungen/Figures whilst SO-IL Architects presented Solid Objectives. Dates / Opening […]
Press Release / Comunicato Stampa
ENGLISH (FOR ITALIAN SCROLL DOWN) For immediate release —– AA MUSEUM LAB designs a Nomadic Bookstore for Lars Müller Publishers at the Fuori Salone 2017 in Milan © AA Museum Lab Designed by the students of the AA Museum Lab, a Diploma unit of the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, the Nomadic Bookstore […]
31.03_LED Testing_Piazza San Marco_Milan
Day 5 ! Today, we ran different test on our main feature, the LEDs. You can see how smoothly different graphics can be incorporated. Just by looking at all the big titles from Lars’ books, one must wonder the role of the digital today. Day Night Slowly but surely, the Nomadic Bookstore pavilion is really […]
30.03_Unrolling of Cork Floor_Piazza San Marco_Milan
It’s day 4 of the construction ! It is indeed exciting to see how cork, as a material, could be used for flooring. In the video, you can see the builders unrolling and cutting the cork to cover the plywood. The job requires precision. With all the cables lying around the columns, one must wonder […]
29.03_LED Mounting_Piazza San Marco_Milan
Another exciting day in Milan ! It is day 3 of the construction. Today, we finally get to incorporate one of the most outstanding features of the pavilion, LED light panels!! LED light panels hang on to the existing frames. As more panels are mounted onto the frame, the pavilion has an increasing presence in the […]
28.03_Roof & Floor Fittings_Piazza San Marco_Milan
It is day 2 !! Today, the contractors brought in different plywood fittings for floor and roof. The bare skeleton of the structure is now mounted with more contents. Our structure juxtaposes itself with the modernist building complex by Vico Magistretti. Check more @aamuseumlab
27.03_Mounting of Structure_Piazza San Marco_Milan
It is an exciting day for Diploma 15 ! Today, marks the beginning of the construction for Lars Müller’s Nomadic Bookstore. Different parts arrived which were then assembled by our Contractor Tecnolegno. The mounted frames already implies the shape of the pavilion. Check more at @aamuseumlab
15.02_TS Interim_AA_London
On the 15th we had ours Technical Studies Interim where each one of us presented their TS portfolio and work on the pavilion. A month from deciding the winning proposal we have come a long way in terms of structure, lighting and interior finishes! A special thank you to the TS team of Javier Castanon, […]
11.02_Unit Trip_Tomba Brion_Venice
Trip to Scarpa Cemetery Having visited the Fondazione Querini Stampalia a group of us made a visit to the Tomba Brion. It was interesting to see the difference between the two. While at FQS Scarpa’s intervention acted as a dialogue between a traditional vernacular and an abstract modernity, Tomba Brion could be read as an […]
10.02_Unit Trip_Venice_Visit Officina Zanon_Carlo Scarpa Metal Worker
The 3 (Adrien, Lloyd and Ekaterina) of us set out to find Franscesco in the Venetian ghèto. As with all workshops the working surfaces had been coated with a layer of grit and grime. Testament to the good number of man hours that had been poured into the facility in times past. A 40×40 extruded […]
10.02_Unit Trip_Guggenheim Museum_Venice_Visit with Sara Pedrini _assistant to the Director, Philip Rylands
Diploma 15 was welcomed at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum by Sara Pedrini, assistant to the Director, Philip Rylands. She gave us an overview of the museum history, of Peggy’s collections and of the museum management. Peggy’s brief biography: Peggy came to Venice at the end of the 40s for the Venice Biennale, when she […]
10.02_Unit Trip_Fondazione Querini Stampalia_Venice_Visit with Director Marigrazia Lazzeri
On the 10th of February Dip15 was taken around the Fondazione Querini Stampalia by Marigrazia Lazzeri. The Fondazione Querini Stampalia was founded in 1869 by Conte Giovanni, a member of the Querini Stampala family. It is located in the Palazzo Querini Stampalia, which was built in the 16th century. It is a cultural institution that […]
10.02_Unit Trip_Gallerie dell’Accademia_Venice_Visit with Director Giulio Manieri Elia
The Gallerie dell’Accademia is a museum gallery containing some of the best of Venetian art from the XIV to the XVIII century, including some masterpieces of the Venetian Renaissance by Giovanni Bellini, Carpaccio, Giorgione Veronese, Tintoretto and Titian. It was one of the first institutions to study art restoration. In 1808 under the legislation of […]
09.02_Unit Trip_Book Review_Venice
After a full day of Venice museum visits with museum curators and directors, we regrouped for our routine group book discussions. This discussion was on the book Performance Art by Roselee Goldberg, which looks at different types of performance art. Examples of physical representations of performance art were raised in our discussion, including Yves […]
09.02_Unit Trip_Palazzo Fortuny_Venice_Visit with Director Daniela Ferretti
The Palazzo Fortuny was the residence of Mariano Fortuny, who transformed a Gothic Building, in Campo San Beneto in Venice, into his own photography, stage-design and textile design and painting atelier. For a time, the palace was known as the Palazzo Orfei after an 18th-century tenant, a musical society known as the Accademia d’Orfeo. Eventually, it was donated […]
09.02_Unit Trip_Ca’ Pesaro_Venice_Visit with Director Elisabetta Varison
We visited Ca Pesaro, a baroque marble palace overlooking the canal which now houses 19th and 20th century collections of painting and sculptures. The palace was built in the second half of the 17th century for the Pesaro family and it was later bequeathed to the city in 1898 as a museum of Modern art. […]
09.02_Unit Trip_Fontego Dei Turchi_Venice_Visit with Nicola Novarini
The first gathering of the unit in Venice took place at Fontego dei Turchi, the natural history museum of Venice. Former palazzo to the Persaro Family, the building was built in XIII century and had to go through several restoration works to accommodate the museum. Upon entering the impressive courtyard, one can witness a cetaceans […]