Frans Vogelaar @ Architectural Association

Architectural Association School of Architecture Intermediate Unit 9 end of the year exhibition 1991.

Frans Vogelaar @ Architectural Association, Architectural Association School of Architecture, 34-36 Bedford Square, London, 24 July 1991

Intermediate
Unit
9

The student intake into the second and third years comes almost equally from the AA’s First Year and from transfers from other schools in all parts of the world, including students who attend the AA for a one-year period (see Extension Studies programme). The Intermediate School consists of seven units which provide a wide diversity of approaches through which the students may acquire the skills and experience necessary to qualify for exemption from the RIBA Intermediate examination and entry to the Diploma School.

Organizational and budgetary autonomy allow each unit to attack particular problems and fields of interest in far greater depth than would be possible with a standardized year course involving large numbers of people. These two years are seen as an opportunity for each student to structure a comprehensive, self-paced education, and considerable reliance is placed on the students to arrange their submissions with the various advisers from the General Studies, Technical Studies, and Communications service units.

Units vary in size, depending on the time allocated to staff and demand for places. The unit master is responsible for the programming, performance, and preliminary assessment of the unit’s work. In addition, each unit is funded for part-time tutorial assistance and discretionary expenditure on items such as study tours, specialized lectures, and Technical and General Studies tuition. The requirements and assessment procedures are described elsewhere in the Prospectus, but the performance of students in General Studies, Technical Studies, and Communications cannot be divorced from the main programme of the unit’s work, and is subject to close liaison between unit masters and the service units concerned.

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NatureTecture

The international travelling exhibition NatureTecture presents the fields of landscape architecture in all their breadth and relevance.
The exhibition is based on landscape architectural expertise from North Rhine-Westphalia and refers to examples of landscape architecture from NRW.
NatureTecture focuses on those fields of work that will become increasingly important internationally for the design of our living environments and formulates relevant questions for the future.
The NatureTecture exhibition is dedicated to the tasks and instruments of qualifying landscape in the post-industrial age.
The international travelling exhibition on the fields of work of landscape architecture is organized by the Chamber of Architects of North Rhine-Westphalia with the support of the Ministry of Building and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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