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A Architectural Association (likewise referred to as AA School of Architecture) is the oldest independent school of architecture in the UK. It was founded by 2 disgruntled immature architects (Robert Kerr, 19, and Charles Grey, Twenty-four) inside 1847 to provide a self-autonomous, independent education at once once there was there are no formal expert training videos available. Its students were addressed by numerous eminent numbers, including John Ruskin and George Gilbert Scott.
A School was formally established inside 1890. Within 1901, it moved premises to the previous Royal Architectural Museum. Around 1920, it moved agawithin, to its todays assumption in Bedford Square, central London (it has since acquired additional London assumption around John Street & the places at Hooke Park within Dorset). When 150 years, a AA attracts students from either further than fifty countries worldwide.
Courses come divided into 2 independent arewhen - undergraduate programmes, leading to the AA Diploma, & grad student programmes, which include specialised courses withinside housing & urbanism, energy & the epa, histories & theories, project, likewise as day-release course in building conservation, garden conservation, & environmental access. Since its foundation, the School has continued to draw its teaching staff from either progressive international practices, & it is reappointed annually, leaving a family practice renewal of the exploration of architecture.
Former students
Will Alsop
Peter Cook
Piers Gough
Sir Nicholas Grimshaw
Zaha Hadid
Thomas Hardy
Rem Koolhaas
Cedric Price
Richard Rogers
Michael Ventris
Former teachers
Reg Butler
Daniel Libeskind
Cedric Price
Peter Smithson
FOA
Ben Van Berkel
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