AA DIPLOMA UNIT 9 2008/9

Congratulations to Tarek for achieving the AA Diploma with Honours on Friday!
Well Done!

CONGRATULATIONS to Marco who received a HIGH PASS and to Tarek who received a HIGH PASS with DISTINCTION for the 5th year Technical Studies submissions!

Magnus forwarded me this link to his profile on BLDGBLOG for his prize-winning work in Dip16 last year.  However, in my daily evening browse of blogs I found THIS post about Magnus on Kottke.org.

So Magnus, where will your Dip9 work be profiled, I ask?  Gotta up the ante now...

A few images from yesterday.  10 5th years = a long day of TS review.

MAGNUS AKA THE CLEANER
MATTHIAS AKA THE TAILOR
AMANDINE AKA THE MAGICIAN
FIONNUALA AKA JUICY FRUIT AKA THE JUICER
ROJIA AKA THE DRIVER
TAREK AKA THE ASTRONAUT
MONIA AKA THE HITMAN
NATASHA AKA THE DAREDEVIL
ELLIOTT AKA CINDERELLA AKA EL MATADOR
ERANDI AKA THE DRAMA QUEEN
INA AKA THE TROOPER
MARCO AKA THE FRESHMAKER
DAMITA AKA THE MATHEMATICIAN
(TBC) REBECCA AKA THE MAD HATTER

Hope you have happy and restful holidays!!  Here's a lovely (um, or ridiculous) pic of Rojia and I at the AA Christmas Party....
Hope you've all managed to dry off from the unit trip.

Here are some pictures from the term 1 jury.
Thanks to the students and the jurors for the great day.
Jurors: Oliver Domeisen, Asa Bruno, Jenny Jones, Matej Josek, Goswin Schwendinger, Larry Barth, Marina Lathouri, Thomas Weaver, Jasem Alsadah, Mike Weinstock, Jeff Turko.

 excuse the images!! these parts describe two scenarios - different results for merging different types of anchored fragments. No notation here.The plate is turning out to be a landscape of many scenarios at the same time- then another action occurs on the result of a scenario. There isn't just one scenario but multiple.So..just chock-a-block of fragments. Ahhh..

Tuesday Schedule is: morning with tutorial, at 2.00 we have the TS for 5^th year, after that more tutorial

 

Jury is on the 9th of December, we need:

 

1_ manifesto

2_ formal manifesto

3_ 4 plates. The plates are complex drawings, collages... they can be models as well. It takes time to do even only 1 drawing, let's have one plate on Tuesday and the plan for the other 3.

4_ models. All the models you did until now. Even the ugly one? yes

5_ the model. A model that is not only the exercise (for example: Rebecca’ surface, Tarek’s surface, Fionnuala’s fragment, Magnus’s corner...). It has to be a model that shows a scenario, a model that show not the technique you are using but the scenario it creates.

6_whitebook

7_brief: program and site. This 7th point is not the same for each of you. For some it is more a priority, for other it is not. Some allready decided on site like Amandine, or on the program like Matthias... Think about it for Tuesday.

8_you will bring the Re-brief plates. We will decided if you will talk a little about it, but you will need to bring them (so they need to be done, and for most of you they are).

The images show some work in progress from the students: Amandine's first container, two of Magnus's corners, Marco's recipient, Rebecca's discontinuos surface and Tarek's intricacy of circle. More to come.

... and the use of This is a really good idea (especially when the idea is not good) is taking over...

For the jury, the goal was to have 5 plates 45cm*45cm. We had some students with the right amount/size and some (more) out of format. It seems that the plates will soon magically fold into the 5 plates required (more to come).

We had today our jury on the Iconic Re-Brief, here are some photos of the event.

Here Damita presenting her re-brief on Venice showing her interpretation of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia by Carlo Scarpa.


Erandi and the renovation of the United Nation headquarters in New York.

Event if we don't have any photo of that event, we still want to keep note of the second seminar on Representation(al) Semiotics.
Students presented the 3 readings:
Alejandro Zaera-Polo The Hokusai Wave
Sylvia Lavin Conversations Over Cocktails
Jeffrey Kipnis What We Need is - Failure to Communicate

A hair raising experience .... anyone?

Today we had the first seminar on The Manifesto.
Students presented the 3 manifestoes Mies van der Rohe Working Theses, Walter Gropius Programme of the Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar and Rem Koolhaas Delirious New York.
Great performance from everyone, here some pictures of the day.

4th Year Amandine Kastler
5th Year Damita Yu
4th Year Elliott Krause
5th Year Erandi deSilva
5th Year Fionnuala Heidenreich 5th Year Ina Marie Kapitola 5th Year Magnus Larsson
5th Year Marco Ginex
5th Year Matthias Moroder
5th Year Rebecca Harral5th Year Rojia Forouhar
5th Year Tarek Shamma