Architecture student shows 2012: The Architectural Association

Readers' comments (12)

• zecks_marquise | 2 July 2012 7:30 am

  IMHO this year's show was quite poor and it's not like the students are short of talent. The blame should be left solely at the door of the tutors for their banal briefs

• Scepticalaboutthewholething | 2 July 2012 8:42 am

  Last year's was awful. Should I bother going to see this year's?

• irene1000 | 2 July 2012 10:47 pm

  The AA has been hijacked by the DRL. This is part of the problem.

• zecks_marquise | 2 July 2012 11:57 pm

  DRL is the best course, the trouble is that rest of their postgrad needs stronger leadership.

• Beavis | 7 July 2012 3:11 am

  Quite like this Oxford Street prison cell

• dhampire | 9 July 2012 10:32 pm

  I really don't know why the BDonline publish some of the worst projects of AA this year. These images doesn't do justice to the hard-working, talented students at all. It is actually an Insult. There are so many more interesting projects than these you have published. Where did you get the image sources from? Have you even been to the degree show and try to select what is good or bad or worth publishing?
  An architectural publisher's job is to promote and positively encourage design talents right? I don't see why you always focus on the bad things about AA, which is really really rude for all the naive student there. I feel really sad about the media.
  
  Here are some more better examples to publish than you have selected:
  
  Inter 6 is focusing on technically solutions to construction, such as,
  http://pr2012.aaschool.ac.uk/students/lara-yegenoglu
  
  Inter 3 have a student doing a botanical/scientific experiment,
  http://pr2012.aaschool.ac.uk/students/ling-leng
  
  Inter 9 is focuising on laser cutting experimentation,
  http://pr2012.aaschool.ac.uk/students/lucy-moroney
  
  Dip 6 overall has a very interesting brief:
  http://pr2012.aaschool.ac.uk/units/DIP-06
  
  There are far more talented and interesting projects you can publish than these, unless you want to deliberately negatively dramatise AA every and each year, which you did.
  
  On behalf of all hard-working and innocent students. It's not a easy journey for everyone to come here. I feel really sad.

• Editor's comments

  We invited the AA to send us images that represented this year's show - these are the images that were sent to us, not images we purposely selected. The same applies for all of the student show galleries we are running on Bdonline this year.
  
  Anna Winston,
  Online editor

• dhampire | 9 July 2012 10:38 pm

  In terms of the first photograph you published here:
  
  There are, for example, far better pictures of the same project, i.e., the big shed out there:
  
  http://www.dezeen.com/2012/04/25/hooke-park-big-shed-by-piers-taylor-and-aa-unit-19/
  
  Who selected such as poor, poor draft photograph here? That's funny, do you even have any photographic experience at all?
  
  I am very angry about BDonline's bias towards AA's hard-working and innocent students.
  
  You are so rude.

• dhampire | 9 July 2012 10:48 pm

  And oh, the DRL is not at ALL the best part of the AA, there are far more interesting ones throughout. It is unfair to every student, if you boldly state that. SInce you didn't even bother looking into us at the degree show(where you could find many hidden jewels that has not have published anywhere else - aka very young and fresh talents), you shouldn't talk about or judge about our ability at all, by all means.
  
  Despite the Financial Debacle last year found out that AA is the victim of some financial fraud (which is prevalent in the uk, and in general an insult to the hospitality of all students), many of the students at AA are actually very motivated about their dreams of their project this year(2011/12). They are so passionate and hard-working and deserve better publication as such.
  
  What is the difference between dream and reality? It is that when one has a dream since childhood, but the society constantly put them down. With 'evils' all around you, all you is to survive.
  
  AA is not a posh school, but a fiercely independent humble place (made humble by all their difficult times and all the media negation). Not every student is talented, and not every tutor is great, but should we put some respect to their works by publishing some of the worthy contents each year?
  
  Thank you...

• dhampire | 9 July 2012 11:19 pm

  OK, if you want to split hairs:
  
  last year at BDonline, they published very few examples of AA's students' work:
  http://www.bdonline.co.uk/student/student-shows/architecture-student-shows-2011-the-aa-school/5020635.article
  
  Guess what, one of AA student actually won the 2011 RIBA bronze medal, which does't appear at all on BDOnline's degree show report. This is a student called BAsmah:
  http://www.presidentsmedals.com/Project_Details.aspx?id=2854
  
  And this year, there is a very interesting award winner by Yi Yvonne Weng, that won the Foster award:
  http://www.bustler.net/index.php/article/architectural_association_foster_partners_prize_2012_goes_to_yi_yvonne_weng/
  
  Therefore BDonline has been deliberately neglect the best side of the AA, (in terms of what? jealousy? come on.)
  
  So I wouldn't trust BDonline anymore. lol...

• Editor's comments

  We published the images provided by the school last year and have done the same this year. This is stated clearly at the bottom of the article. We are more than happy to add further images if they are sent to us by the course tutors or representatives.
  
  Anna Winston,
  Online editor

• dhampire | 9 July 2012 11:23 pm

  So it is Proved that information published here doesn't represent the True quality of all AA student's good work, so if you want to comment, you need to do some further research.