As 'creative' code-writing and computational tools become an increasing part of the architectural repertoire, the seminar will provide, over two terms, a sound conceptual footing into the world of computation and design. The seminar will use proce55ing as an easy-to-use software platform to make this foray.

Going beyond the scale of the standard model, this course focuses on developing a working understanding of fabrication through designing on the CNC for an actual scale. Throughout the term, students will be developing projects that address the design of installation pieces within the school, examining the relationship of material structures and physical resolution. The ‘Pending Structure’ should be beautiful and consider ideas of independence while respecting forms of integration – a measured ratio of directionality and belonging. The course will culminate with the fabrication of a final project at Hooke Park.

This year investigation will be how to juxtapose streams of figures on a formulated context.

We will define an organization method and with the use of the CNC machine we will scratch out material to allow distant figures and objects to be positioned.

With the use of specific toolpaths and method of manufacturing, you will investigate way of tagging contours between different figures, which will goes from a seamless and homogenous to a lush and distinct outcome.

The final output will be a relief investigating a systematic objectification of contours between incongruent figures and operations.

For the Spring term, students will be extending their knowledge in the scripting environment to include techniques in requesting from and returning to value driven databases using Rhino as the primary platform. Students will produce and document the process of their own design project through various representational media.

Experimenting with the genius loci phenomena using both 2D digital collage and 3D renderings. The aim will be to achieve seamless manipulation of the mainly photographic environment.

Whatever happened to painting? No, not painting as in writing computer scripts to manipulate pixels in an automatic, generative fashion, or connecting mathematical software applications to CAD packages, but real painting, as in the creation of well-balanced, well-proportioned lines and curves and fields that represent actual or dreamt-up scenarios, compositions that are printed out as plates that you can keep in a portfolio and take out whenever you feel like tracing one of those lines or curves with your finger?...

This course continues investigations into the realms of voxel based medical data geometries and traditional poly-modeling / mesh geometries. In the spring term the course will focus on manufacturing manipulated data sets fusing sheet material technologies (CNC,laser-cutting,..) and 3d-printing volumetric techniques.

The course will take up the relationship between geometry and architecture and examine the architectural potential of geometry within the design on an individual basis. Using geometric problems related to the unit work we will be investigating formal systems and their phenomenological behavior through Rhinoscript and Grasshopper.

What happens when the designer assumes the role of editor, publisher and distributor? This course will provide an introduction to the history, graphics and production of architectural publica­tions. Each student will edit/publish/distribute a small publication printed on Bedford Press, a private press recently established at the AA.

This course gives students the opportunity to plan, shoot, edit and author a video. Special attention will be payed to the use of sound this year.

Digital fabrication course focusing on cellular proliferations and the construction of subdivisional skin models using Rhino, in combination with laser cutting and rapid prototyping technologies.

A replica of All Fake / Part One.

The remake of a Fake. Students as counterfeiters of term one's final images. Working backwards, reinventing identities, spaces and biographies.

A substitution of forgery. A dilution or a concentration of the fake original. Falseness as a starting point. (Read "All Fake / Part One" for further course description hints)

The term's investigation, a culmination in an all encompassing remake of a given image in all its artificiality

The course, breaking down into themed sessions

The Fraud, Misunderstanding, The Understood, Artificial Leather, Who's Life Is Yours?, Imitation, More Real McCoy, Please