AA Landscape Urbanism 2013-14 An Atlas of radical cartographies

The year has started with the development of 2 workshops: Social Formationas and Landscript. They will be the backbone for this year students development. Keep track of the student's work here and/or follow us in Twitter or Facebook :

This is a selection of the work produce last year and the beginning of this year's workshop.
AA LAndsacape Urbanism 2013-14

AALU IN THE FIELD WORKSHOP IN TOTTENHAM HALE 2013

These are some of the results from a 7 day workshop of AA Landscape Urbanism students in Tottenham Hale, London, working on visions for the entire regeneration area and its connections to the Lea Valley and the Walthamstow reservoirs. The workshop was collaboration with Arup and the Haringey Council. Special Thanks to all the AALU cohort and Ignacio Lopez Buson and Costanza Maricardo for the help with the work. Equally we would like to thank Elad Eisenstein and Malcolm Smith from Arup for their comments and collaboration on the overall organisation of the event.

ALFREDO RAMIREZ LECTURED AT GREENWICH UNIVERSITY 6TH MARCH 2013

This lecture presented the work of Groundlab, an emerging international practice of Landscape Urbanism. Groundlab was founded in 2008 and has been engaged in a number of large scale urban projects exploring Landscape Urbanism as a new mode of practice and as an alternative model to tackle the challenges posed by contemporary urban conditions.

AA LANDSCAPE URBANISM OPEN WEEK 2013

AALU students presenting in the Open Week the projects and sites of the year ahead:
Shruti Dabir, Winnie He, Tom Van de Bospoort and Gabriela Pulido

CLARA OLORIZ AND DOUGLAS SPENCER LECTURING AT THE AA 6th FEB 2013

Clara Oloriz and Douglas Spencer (AA Landscape Urbanism) lecturing yesterday at the AA lecture hall on "Urban Prototypes: Mentalities and Perspectives". Part of the ongoing Research Cluster on Urban Prototypes:

http://urbanprototypes.aaschool.ac.uk/

RAHUL MEHROTRA IN CONVERSATION WITH AALU 07 FEB @ 3:00 PM, NEW SOFT ROOM AA

This Thursday 7th February Rahul Mehrotra will be in conversation with AA Landscape Urbanism Programme in the New Soft Room at the Architectural Association. Rahul Menhrotra is a prominent architect and urban planner who practices and teaches in Mumbai and Boston (Harvard GSD). He will discuss the AALU brief from this year based in India, specifically along the  Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor and the rise of private townships developments  and other rapid urbanism dynamics happening in the region.

7th February @ 3:00 PM
New Soft Room
Architectural Association
All welcomed

AA LANDSCAPE URBANISM WORK-FIRST TERM

A selection of the AA Landscape Urbanism first term work. Students learn the use of several techniques, indexing, meshing and prototyping, as part of the methodology of the MA previous to the development of their final thesis on different sites in India along the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor.

AA LANDSCAPE URBANISM FIELD TRIP TO INDIA, JANUARY, 2013

 Landscape Urbanism  students at mill's owners building by Le Corbusier building Ahmedabad

Landscape Urbanism  students Surat creeks, India

 Landscape Urbanism  students, Hussain Doshi Guffa By BV Doshi CEPT Ahmedabad , India

 Landscape Urbanism students at Indian institute of Management by Louis Kahn

Landscape Urbanism students at Adalaz stepwell near Ahmedabad , India

As part of the AA Landscape Urbanism research project for 2012-13 . The AALU students visited several cities that will be part or affected by the DMIC (Delhi Mumbai Industriall Corridor). This massive project will propel a even faster urbanisation process in the Northwest of India. Sites Visited included: Mumbai, Surat, Ahmedabad, Dolka, Hazira, Dahej, Pune, Vasai and Dighi Port.
More info coming soon...