Every architecture major student studying abroad has the same dream school in their heart. It is a paradise for ideal expansion and the most extreme utopia in the architecture world! It's AA School! AA Architectural Alliance College was founded by two architects who were dissatisfied with the university system at that time. To be precise, it is "not like a school" but provides a learning space for architectural design and related knowledge. It is the most cutting-edge alliance that regards architecture as science. There have been countless Pritzker prize winners here, such as Rem Koolhaas, the designer of CCTV underpants, Zaha Hadid, the god of architecture admired by thousands of people, has ten thousand percent of the graduates from this temple level college do not have to worry about the future career development, because the AA degree is highly respected in the industry, which is very valuable! What about the undergraduate/master courses offered by AA Architecture Alliance College in the UK?

Today! We received two master's offers from AA Architecture Alliance College, which came from urban design and landscape design respectively. Is it exciting to see the offers from AA? Today, natural light will introduce you to the courses and majors of AA Architecture Alliance College.

AA Architecture Alliance College undergraduate/master professional courses:

　　 AA Architecture Alliance College undergraduate courses:

First! As an unusual AA Architecture Alliance College, its educational system is also different from other schools Parsons School of Design Taking architecture as an example, most colleges and universities are divided into the following four stages:

However, AA is totally different. It has only three stages, not "year" and "time", but "project". However, AA takes project as time unit, and is divided into three stages:

　　First Year Studio＋AA Unit System

AA Unit System is also divided into Intermediate Units and Diploma Units

　　 -First Year Studio-

First Year Studio is similar to Foundation Year in other universities. It is a relatively basic content to prepare for the follow-up study. However, AA, which does not follow the usual path, has a very special way to lay the foundation, because students soak in Design Studio to lay the foundation with projects as soon as they enter.

There will also be some History&Theory content. This part is not boring to see the professor preach according to the book, but through a project like Fieldwork: Experiencing Buildings, in this project, students will study and analyze some building cases in the past 20 years, do field research, analyze the building logic of the year, and make optimization plans on this basis.

　 　-Unit System-

What is a Unit System? In AA, the vague concept is not only "grade", but also challenges the concept of "curriculum" in traditional institutions. Here, students can choose the research projects they are interested in. In about a year, more than 10 units can be selected as "grade". This is the meaning of "Units".

　　 Intermediate Units

This stage of learning is the learning of basic skills, including material, craft, and fabric, from building materials, to building technology, to the final construction and manufacturing, as well as models and drawings. In general, students' architectural design ability is trained by short cycle small projects+large projects.

In terms of humanities, what AA wants to cultivate is never "technicians". They believe that architects should not become tools to solve existing problems, but also should worry about some problems about philosophy and soul. So social issues and humanistic heights are what AA attaches great importance to, and also the value that Intermediate Units hopes students' works can show.

　　 Diploma Units

At this stage, the project that students need to do is becoming more difficult, which is already the difficulty of master's degree in some universities. The "scale" of some projects has also become wider. Units in the previous stage are basically separate, small buildings and small ecology. However, in Diploma Units, there are some more extensive design projects, such as the overall design of the square.

　　 AA Architecture Alliance College Master Program

The classification of graduate courses is much clearer, which is mainly divided into nine majors, namely:

　　Architecture&Urbanism MArch

Master of Architecture and Urban Planning

　　Emergent Technologies&Design

New technology and design

　　Design+Make MSc/MArch

Design and production

　　History&Critical Thinking MA

History and Critical Thinking

　　Housing&Urbanism MA/MArch

Housing and urban planning

　　Spatial Performance&Design MA/MFA

Space performance design

　　Landscape Urbanism MSc/MArch

Urban landscape planning

　　Architecture and Urban Design Taught MPhil

Architecture and urban planning

　　Sustainable Environmental Design MSc/MArch

Sustainable environmental design

MA/MS/MSc degree courses include three academic courses and thesis writing courses; The courses of MArch include two stages of learning. The first stage is the design project of the studio and three professional courses, and the second stage is the completion of the design project paper. The courses are not the big ones in traditional colleges and universities. They are all workshops, studio and the like.

The degree of saturation of master's courses is very high, basically once every two days in tutorial, once every two weeks in presentation, 1-2 workshops in half a year, and one studio a year. Four semesters a year, less than a month off. Natural Light interviewed some AA graduates. It is said that many students were forced to leave school every year because they could not withstand the intensity.

AA courses are completed in the form of teamwork from beginning to end. Whether it is workshop or studio, students can learn from each other in the practice of team cooperation, tap their potential in team cooperation, and exercise their cooperation ability in running in. In addition, AA cooperation does not only exist between students and students, but also between teachers and students in AA. Communication is almost equal. It is not the mode of "teach me and learn me" in traditional colleges and universities. Everyone does research together like partners.

Therefore, many people who can get the AA master's offer have many years of work experience before they can go to the AA master's, which also shows that the two students who get the AA offer today are excellent. We don't know how much effort they have made, but we hope that they can get what they want and want to learn in the future in the palace level architecture school AA, No matter from teachers or students, I hope that more students will get golden offers in the future! More about studying abroad Overseas Portfolio Training Related introduction, come and find natural light.

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