AA SUMMER SCHOOL – MANUFACTURING SIMPLEXITIES – TEHRAN, IRAN

July 16, 2011

Giles was a unit tutor on this year’s Architectural Association Visiting School to the University of Tehran, Iran. For 2 weeks eight AA tutors and 102 Iranian students sweated blood to fill an exhibition hall with 1:1 prototypes exploring the General theme of ‘Manufacturing Simplexities’. Together with Wolfgang Fresse, Giles’ unit explored the theme of ‘Responsive Simplexities’ asking the students to develop systems of response to the natural environmental and climate of Tehran. The students came up with some fantastic projects and these two weeks was an experience of a lifetime.

Kheyli mamnoon!

ARCHITECTS’ JOURNAL - New Practices

June 16, 2011

This weeks AJ has profiled A-Zero in its New Practices Section. One of their questions was…

Q : How optimistic are you as a start-up practice?

A : There were many raised eye-brows one year ago, but we are still here and still working away. One of our strengths is that we are involved in various activities that all feed into one another – teaching in the AA, architectural design and environmental consultancy. Diversity is a good trait these days, so as long as we keep our wits about us, we should be grand.

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BATTLESHIP BUILDING PHOTOSHOOT

June 16, 2011

Photographer Step Halisdon (www.chronological.co.uk) took a series of photographs of the recently completed Battleship Building offices for BDSP Partnership, marking the conclusion of phase 01 of the development of the premises.