Congratulations to Alvaro Arancibia, former Projective Cities student, for winning the inaugural AA Graduate School Prize for Research for his PhD Thesis ‘The Social Re-Signification of Housing: A Design Guide for Santiago de Chile (2017). The PhD developed from his MPhil studies in Projective Cities.
Projects
Exit Parliament: The Hotel as a Political Institution
Leonhard Clemens: Hotels are essential to today’s politics as spaces of negotiation, socialisation and trade. They complement official political institutions by providing necessary forms of...
Private Brussels
Guillem Pons: Offices are a common subject of economic speculation. Planned by managers and developers, they have become total commodities of the real-estate market. As...
From Enclosure to Partition: School Design and Pedagogy
Seyithan Ozer: The dissertation examines the relationships between spatial agencies and pedagogy in schools. Current policies and research reduce the discussion of school design to...
Domestic Conflicts: Collective Living in London
Ilias Oikonomakis: The research deals with the housing problem in London and its social, political and economic origins and consequences. One of the consequences is...
Corporateville
Dario Marcobelli: This dissertation examines the relationship between corporate environments and leisure activities in the reorganisation of work in tech industries. Activities traditionally associated with...
Cellular Urbanism: Taller d’Arquitectura & the City in Space
Raul Avilla: The City in Space was a research by Taller d’Arquitectura and Ricardo Bofill from 1968 to 1975. Its objective was to produce affordable...
The City and the Spanish Colonial Project
Claudio Nieto Rojas: Parting from the similarities among historic centres of most Latin American cities, the following enquiry: Is there an organising logic behind the...
The Kunsthalle
Ricardo Palma Prieto: The Kunsthalle, as a temporary exhibition space, is an institutional building devoid of compromise largely associated with the collecting or selling of...
Law Courts
Raul Avilla: Power is represented by official architecture. A judicial city is a representation of the power of justice. What is at stake here is...
Prefectural Libraries in Postwar Japan
Lucia Alonso Aranda: Prefectural libraries in post-war Japan have greatly influenced how Japanese people understand libraries today. Their evolution can be traced clearly to a...
The Scholar’s Garden and Spatial Governance
Jiyoon Gu: International Science Business Belt made up of 5 towns including Sejong The Multifunctional Administrative City of Sejong in South Korea has a ‘political’...
Sovereignty of Use: Reframing Ownership
Valerio Massaro: Posters by the New York City Housing Authority from the 1930’s New Deal, USA: The modern apartment and a transition from slum dweller to productive...
From Coexistence
to Cooperation:
Living Together Beyond the Family
Ilias Oikonomakis: The Collective Old Oak, 2016, PLP Architects, Mikhail Nemtsov, painting of Ivan Nikolaev’s Communal House of the Textile Institute in Moscow Abstract The...
The Ford Foundation and Education
Seyithan Ozer: Classroom Corona Avenue School by Richard Neutra 1934-1935 Introduction: Philanthropy and Education Philanthropy, derived from the Greek word meaning the ‘love to mankind’....
Divine Character: The Evolution of Religious Architecture
Claudio Nieto: Since the beginnings of civilisation, the temple has been the architectural representation of society’s conception of divinity. Several of the greatest construction achievements...
Constructing Tertiary Lille
Simon Goddard: The knowledge economy has been sold to us as incredibly urban. Whether it is images of the Google Campus or of laptops loiterers...
Rethinking the Urban Block
: Educational Infrastructure in Shenzhen
Yating Song: Migrant workers buying movies, e-books, and musics from street stalls photographed by Zhiyou Zhang The thesis studies the urban condition formed by labour-intensive...
The Critical Mass of French Mass Housing and Mass Culture
Francesca Romana Forlini: 1. French family in front of the television, c. 1950s from the article “The French Hygiene Offensive of the 1950s: A Critical...
The Politics of the Hotel
Leonhard Clemens: In May 1954, following an invitation from the Prince of Netherlands, a delegation of political, military, financial, media and scientific leaders met in...
Hukou Reform as Urban Reform
Cyan Jingru Cheng: Chinese cities will be, in the two decades to come, confronted by a reform of the hukou (household registration) system and consequently...