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The growing AA Visiting School short courses programme is collaborative and global, exporting the highly international AA pedagogical approach across the globe. The AAVS El Alto will challenge the capital of Bolivia, La Paz; with its extravagant, bustling and chaotic life, creates a fertile ground for cultural assembling. The Visiting School translates ideas of identity, folklore and rituals into an architecture in which a multitude of fragments collide. Every year dates will change - so follow our website to keep yourself updated.
The programme begins with the Alasitas Festival, where we will gather as many ready-made fragments as possible, de-contextualise them in terms of meaning, proportions and materiality and create a radically new artifact. Ending with the Carnaval of Oruro, each individual piece will be assembled and choreographed as part of a collective folkloristic dance.
Using the Andean architecture examples of El Alto as a base, students will have the opportunity to place their elements within an architectural hierarchy. From Freddy Mamani Silvestre, to the study of textiles, to the creation of Mesa de la Challa, a new piece of architecture will be built.
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The students will be experimenting with drawings, videos, performances and model making techniques. Starting assembling physical fragments which they will gather in the first week, they will cast and make new artifacts throughout the second week. For the final outcome they will translate their tridimensional models in architectural components.
Portfolio Courses provided : sketching, image manipulation and post production, photography, digital and physical model making, collective performances and installations.
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Sabrina Morreale is an Architect and Illustrator based between Bangkok and London. She is collaborating with various magazines as Rivista Studio, Cartha Magazine and Elle as illustrator and with the RIBA as curator assistant. Her projects have always been related to the idea of fragmentation, using different media, enhancing the process of how things are made and assembled together. She constantly work with model making experimenting through casting, weaving and different fabrication techniques.
Lorenzo Perri graduated with Honours from the Architectural Association in 2016. He has taught as a consultant for Intermediate 7 and Diploma 8 at the Architectural Association, while participating to several competition with international firms (Amid. Cero9, Elemental). He is the co- founder of the research-based Plakat Platform and architectural practice Eco`l. Obsessed with geometry and aesthetics, precision and expression, before architecture he studied engineering and classical piano.
Lemonot is a design and research platform co-founded by Sabrina Morreale and Lorenzo Perri, who graduated together from the Architectural Association in London. Their work investigates architectural production and its implications on other disciplines. They use Architecture as a methodology to reach different outcomes: from toys to pastry tools, from tattoos to story-telling.
They taught at the AA Summer School since 2016, investigating gifs and kitbashing techniques. They are now Adjunct Professors at INDA International Program in Design and Architecture in Bangkok, Thailand.
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