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End-of-term Jury
Join us tomorrow from 10 on at 37 Bedford Square, First Floor Front, for a day-long discussion with guests Charles Rice, Adrian Lahoud, Douglas Spencer, and Thomas Weaver. This year’s theme – the Grand Domestic Revolution –...
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Architecture d’accompagnement: housing versus public space in the age of government.
Seminar in Diploma 14′s Unit Space, Tuesday, November 26, at 4 pm. Architecture d’accompagnement, or formulaic architecture, developed in Paris between the 1600s and the 1800s – a period marked by the emergence of modern government...
Domestic Architecture and the Emergence Architecture as a profession in the 16th century.
Seminar on Tuesday, October 26, at 5 pm, Ground Floor Back Room, 33 Bedford Sq. Domestic architecture – the architecture of houses – has never been the obvious locus of action for architects, neither today, nor when architecture as a profession...
The Facade: From Wall to Project
Seminar on Tuesday, October 22, Studio 2, 4 pm. If in ancient European and Mediterranean cultures the domestic environment had been hidden and protected by blank walls with little or no architectural features addressing the space of circulation,...
Dip14 book on Sacred Space out in Spring 2014
Diploma 14′s book Rituals and Walls, based on the work of the academic year 2013-2014 on sacred space, will be published by AA Publications in Spring 2014. Fourteen projects – from an interfaith school in Strasbourg to a mosque...
The Grand Domestic Revolution
Find online now at diploma14.com the extended brief of The Grand Domestic Revolution, Diploma 14′s research for the Academic Year 2013-2014. While the noun ‘house’ emphasizes the symbolic dimension of the domestic realm, the term...
Less is Enough
Out now for Strelka Press Less is Enough by Pier Vittorio Aureli, a reflection that redefines asceticism not as reductionist call to sacrifice but rather as an art form, act of political resistance, conceptual strategy – from cistercian...
Rome Field Trip
If you are in Rome, you’re welcome to join us! For the detailed schedule, please contact info@diploma14.com.
End of term Jury
Diploma 14 discussed their 14 in-progress theses with guests Carlos Villanueva Brandt (AADip10), Natasha Sandmeier (AADip9), Monia De Marchi (AA First Year Director), John Palmesino (AADip4), Javier Castanon (AA TS), Adrian Lahoud...
Great mosque of Timbuctu
The Great Mosque of Timbuctu, redrawn by René Caillié around 1830. The mosque was built with sundried mud blocks.
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