Architectural Association School of Architecture

بررسی اجمالی

The Architectural Association School of Architecture is the oldest school of architecture in the UK and one of the most prestigious and competitive schools of architecture in the world. The Architectural Association was founded in 1847 and the AA School was formally established in 1890 and it is located in Bloomsbury in central London. As well as standard undergraduate architecture courses, postgraduate study offers courses in Landscape Urbanism, Housing & Urbanism and Sustainable Environmental Design. The School also has its own bookshop, the AA Bookshop, containing a range of architectural books, including many published by the school itself.

Fees for the five-year undergraduate course are the same for all students regardless of nationality, while the school also exists outside the British state university system and UCAS, with more flexibility over courses, applications and fees as a result.

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The AA has a greater proportion of international students than other architecture schools, with students and staff from more than 60 countries worldwide. There are many visiting critics, lecturers and other participants from around the world each year.

رتبه بندی

The School is internationally recognised as one of the oldest, most competitive and most prestigious architectural institutions in the world. Although no formal rankings for architecture schools in Europe exist, the AA was placed amongst the top 50 schools in Europe by the Italian architecture magazine Domus and in the top 10 worldwide by design magazine Jebiga.

محل اقامت

The AA does not have its own accommodation, but does help students with an accommodation service from the beginning of September. An AA student is available during this time to advise about prices and location, whilst a wide variety of accommodation is normally advertised in the Accommodation Office.

The Hooke Park site, located in a forest in Dorset, is used for sustainability and woodwork study and since 2010 a small group of students have been able to live and study there.

موقعیت جغرافیایی

The AA’s premises are in Bedford Square, a very smart area of central London famous for its barristers’ chambers. It has since acquired additional London premises in nearby John Street and a 350-acre site at Hooke Park in Dorset in south west England. The school has also studio place close by to the main campus on Bedford Square.

فارغ التحصیلان

• Lord Richard Rogers (Pompidou Centre, Millennium Dome, Lloyds Building, European Court of Human Rights)
• Sir Michael Hopkins (HM Revenue and Customs, Mount Stand at Lord’s Cricket Ground)
• Sir Phillip Powell (Wolfson College Oxford, Museum of London courtyard)