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popularity
149,622
1,378
macro influencer
@aaschool is a macro influencer with 149,622 followers.
content
2,466
nan% vs. nan%
1,052 chars
9
Oct 12
couple times a week
@aaschool usually publishes a few times per week, with a poor use of captions but great use of hashtags
community engagement
974 / 0.65%
41%
12 / 0.00008%
3%
@aaschool's community is poorly engaged and not very consistent
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90 days
all
date
followers
following
uploads
eng. rate
avg. likes
avg. comments
Oct 13
22
149,622
1,378
2,466
0.65%
974
12
Oct 12
345
149,600
1,378
2,466
0.64%
963
12
Oct 04
224
149,255
1,369
2,461
0.8%
1,199
12
Sep 30
271
149,031
1,368
2,460
0.84%
1,246
13
Sep 26
126
148,760
1,368
2,460
0.72%
1,074
4
Sep 24
54
148,634
1,367
2,458
0.7%
1,044
3
Sep 23
169
148,580
1,367
2,457
0.71%
1,050
3
Sep 20
34
148,411
1,366
2,456
0.74%
1,098
3
Sep 19
28
148,377
1,366
2,456
0.74%
1,097
3
Sep 18
26
148,349
1,366
2,456
0.74%
1,091
3
Sep 17
57
148,323
1,366
2,456
0.71%
1,052
3
Sep 16
32
148,266
1,366
2,455
0.75%
1,106
3
Sep 15
117
148,234
1,366
2,454
0.76%
1,125
4
Sep 12
34
148,117
1,367
2,453
0.76%
1,129
4
Sep 11
41
148,083
1,367
2,453
0.76%
1,123
4
Sep 10
57
148,042
1,367
2,453
0.71%
1,045
4
date
followers
following
uploads
eng. rate
avg. likes
avg. comments
Sep 09
76
147,985
1,367
2,452
0.78%
1,159
5
Sep 08
40
147,909
1,367
2,452
0.75%
1,111
4
Sep 07
29
147,869
1,367
2,451
0.73%
1,075
4
Sep 06
51
147,840
1,367
2,451
0.72%
1,067
4
Sep 05
47
147,789
1,367
2,451
0.7%
1,037
4
Sep 04
31
147,742
1,366
2,449
0.82%
1,218
8
Sep 03
49
147,711
1,365
2,449
0.8%
1,182
8
Sep 02
52
147,662
1,364
2,448
0.83%
1,229
8
Sep 01
33
147,610
1,364
2,447
0.92%
1,357
9
Aug 31
20
147,577
1,364
2,447
0.92%
1,357
9
Aug 30
39
147,557
1,364
2,447
0.92%
1,354
9
Aug 29
52
147,518
1,364
2,447
0.91%
1,345
9
Aug 28
54
147,466
1,364
2,447
0.89%
1,312
9
Aug 27
55
147,412
1,364
2,446
0.88%
1,297
10
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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Launching today at 1pm as part of the Term 1 AA Public Programme, a new lecture series - Merging Minds: Exploring Collective Forms of Intelligence - addresses the design, application, impact and ethics of artificial intelligence and mixed reality. Swipe through to see the full line-up and visit the link in bio to find out more and register to attend.
On World Mental Health Day, and during these unprecedented times, we want to remind our wider AA community to:
* Acknowledge your feelings
* Focus on what you can control
* Know your limits and do one thing at a time
* Connect with others and nature
* Take care of your body and mind
* Reach out
Stop making architecture for humans, for a second⠀
Imagine our cities without non-humans⠀
Or one without humans⠀
And think of a less of human-city and ponder⠀
Has it ever really been about humans?⠀
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We are pleased to invite all members of the AA to take part in the Architecture for Non-humans Design Competition. This is a joint public programme in collaboration with Japan House London who are currently hosting the Architecture for Dogs exhibition at their gallery in Kensington.⠀
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Selected works will be built by the AA Digital Prototyping Lab and physically installed in Bedford Square together with replicas from the Architecture for Dogs exhibition by four architects and a designer: Atelier Bow Wow, Kengo Kuma, MVRDV and Kenya Hara. This means you can be anywhere in the world and still have your winning design fabricated and installed to be part of the show.⠀
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The installation of the works will form a Playground for Non-humans outdoors at the corner of Bedford Square during Open Week in Term 1 (2nd-8th November). We will host a round table discussion and a programme of events and workshops in collaboration with AA LAWuN around the same topic during that week.⠀
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The competition recognises unique ideas that make us aware of the importance of non-human inhabitation in its various and diverse forms across the city environment, with the aim to materialise playful concepts and inspiring visions to trigger a discussion around alternative models of urban living that embraces today’s challenges.⠀
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We hope to gather and document a wide range of ideas and ways in which we observe, recognise and reimagine the city and it's architecture today. All the submitted ideas, drawings and models will form part of our online exhibition Playground for Non-humans.⠀
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Follow the link in our story for the brief, or visit 'What's On' on the AA Website.⠀
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Image: Cedric Price Architects, Ducklands proposal, Hamburg, 1989–1991, montaged site map. Courtesy Cedric Price fonds, Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Congratulations to Ezgi Terzioglu (@terziogluezgi) from Diploma 21, who was been awarded a Kohn Pedersen Fox Travelling Scholarship to support her research.⠀
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'‘My proposal was to extend my research questions from my 4th year project onto a summer project where I continued exploring forms of individual and common occupation in settings of ‘sculpted architecture’ – in the words of Spiro Kostof, through 3D modelling based on written records and architectural sketches. The study focuses on the primeval practice of carving out environments from rocks, specifically in the Byzantine settlements of Cappadocia, Turkey.⠀
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Having lacked an urban tradition beforehand and suffered from the social injustice of the local Roman rule, Cappadocia quickly adopted Christianity and became an early centre of Eastern monasticism. This new way of living took shape in what Bernard Rudofsky calls ‘architecture by substraction’ – hundreds of monasteries and churches alongside secular dwellings carved out from soft rocks. The study looks at the spatial qualities of the individually and commonly occupied spaces – the hermitage and the monastery – bounded with one continuous building material, the landscape.’⠀
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Read an interview on the AA website with Jane Ching Yee Ling (@jcyl.png), AADipl(Hons)2020 about her project 'Hostile by Design' in Diploma 3 taught by @xristina_v and @merveanil , which proposes a new political approach to ensure the rights of migrants through community organising. Link in pinned story.⠀
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'In architecture schools, we’re always told that architecture is social by nature. Evidently that has to do with the process of procuring, designing and building in the traditional sense. But in another sense, following the framework of Forensic Architecture, we can use the skills that we have as architecture students to advocate for victimised groups, through spatial analysis and legal avenues or through designing housing that is different to the repressive system of asylum seeker housing that exists in the UK today. Generally I’m more interested in what architecture can do for activism than what activism can do for architecture. How can we use the skills we already have to organise and support political struggles?'⠀
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Read an interview on the AA website with AA Diploma Honours recipient Buster Rönngren from 'Into the interior' (Diploma 11 with Shin Egashira). The project, 'passage to a city when' proposes an excavation of the Victoria Embankment of the Thames in London that would reveal the true river underneath that has been disguised by centuries of urbanisation. Link in pinned story.
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'The river was not a river in a natural sense, but had become a kind of disciplined entity in London. What I see in the research is that when the City of London had to deal with sanitary issues two centuries ago the Thames Embankment became a solution parallel to the sewage system, so making this hard edge became synonymous with sanitariness, but also removed access to the river. What I wanted to access were the things that were hidden or replaced in building the Embankment. On communication, it makes perfect sense to me that its etymology is not simply a way of transmitting but to expose common ground. That common ground is the history of the Thames, the stories of mud larking, of finding mundane objects on the riverbank that constitute our common ground.'⠀
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We are heartbroken to inform the AA community and our family across the globe of the sad and sudden passing of our dearest friend Mark Cousins. A fixture and personality embedded in the fabric of the AA for more than 40 years, and at the core of everything the school is founded upon, Mark has influenced generations of students and staff with his intellectual depth, humorous wit and incredible generosity, all of which were limitless.
On Saturday, we sadly lost our most treasured friend, an indomitable spirit and the greatest champion of the AA.
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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This project by @yoav_caspi from Diploma 21 with @davidkohnarch is titled 'Wayring: Birmingham's Plan for Walk' and was nominated for Diploma Honours this year.⠀
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'Wayring: Birmingham’s Plan for Walk is an infrastructure allowing the city of Birmingham to reflect. Wayring, an inversion of the infamous Ringway, connects the city allowing Birmingham to see itself anew. The project connects between and through fifty-two red brick derelict buildings, joining existing walking paths. Birmingham’s Plan for Walk is a recurring strategy that preserves derelict buildings through selective demolition process of brick removal and reconstruct markers throughout the city with those removed bricks. Wayring is an infrastructure that offers a space of thought and contemplation in everyday life as well as an opportunity to see the city, Birmingham, anew.'⠀
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Read an interview on the AA website with Diploma Honours recipient @chris_kokarev, about his project 'Vertical Asclepeions: Reinstalling an Architecture of Public Care', which proposes the radical reuse of concrete tower blocks to create new healthcare centres. ⠀
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'We need to start thinking in the long-term about health infrastructure. By providing infrastructure that supports pre-diagnosis solutions around lifestyle and mental health we massively reduce the pressure on post-diagnosis services, which currently do too much of the work in our healthcare system. I hate the word ‘better’, when we’re talking about these reforms, since I’m not interested in patronisingly forcing people to make ‘better’ lifestyle choices, but giving people the resources and the spaces they need to be empowered and in control of how they can make themselves feel well that specific day of the week. In Finland there’s a strong tradition of public bathing and sauna which provides support every day to so many people, which brings people from all backgrounds joy, especially in the cold and dark winter months.'⠀
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This exemplary project by Lee Jang-hee is titled 'Case Study House ver.2020: from Nuclear Family to Commune', from the unit 'Moon River' (EXP12 with @mansikkamaki and )⠀
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'In response to economic and environmental crisis, the Case Study House ver.2020 attempts to rewire the legacy of Case Study House program from nuclear family to commune, alternative family type which optimizes the shared lifestyle.⠀
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The house as an assembled system than as a ‘design’ in the traditional sense propose to install prefabricated unit on top of existing structure. A ground floor is mainly used as public space for sharing domestic labour and different types of productive work in rectangle-shaped spaces. A first floor is used as private space but still with shared toilets, multi-purpose rooms and stairs to maximize usable space in the logic of economy of scale. Also, newly attached ornaments and extended structures by occupants are regarded as possible resources for increasing use value and incorporated into the same system.⠀
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The house is passively ventilated and highly insulated with a high thermal mass provided by its CLT wood panels. The angle of saw-toothed shaped roof was calculated by solar angle in Los Angeles to maximize efficiency of solar-powered system with photovoltaic and solar heating panels.'⠀
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Join us tomorrow, Tuesday 22 September at 1pm BST for the launch of ! We will be launching this edition of the journal with a virtual roundtable discussion hosted by AA Files editor Maria Shéhérazade Giudici. Writers from AA Files 77 including: Charles Rice, Ethel Barona Pohl, Harriet Harriss, Peer Illner, and Socks Studio’s Fosco Lucarelli and Mariabruna Fabrizi will share their perspectives on the nature of ‘home’, reflecting on lockdown and the small scale changes that affect the everyday lives of all those who live and work from home, as well as casting a critical light on what it means to write, read, and publish in the present condition. The discussion will challenge all participants to reimagine ways in which designers, teachers, and students can exploit the condition of social distancing as a (paradoxical) platform for new kinds of political agency. AA Files 77 is structured as a series of thematic Files covering topics that range from ecological conservation to the architecture of logistics, resistance, the economy and perspective.
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@ethel_baraona, @dpr_barcelona, @Prattinstitute, @foscolucarelli, @socks_studio, @aa.publications, @aabookshop
Read an interview now on the AA website with the winner of the Nicholas Pozner Prize for drawing, @craigwrmitchell, a student from Diploma 13 ('Porosities: The Giardini della Biennale as a Metaproject' with @bostanvuja and @AlvaroVelascoPerez)⠀
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'Nowadays on larger projects you’d have a facade specialist, amongst many other specialists, to whom the architect's historic role is relinquished. You don’t need an Architect to build a building. The architect works on the peripheries of projects, more removed from the process. Specialists in their field work towards optimisation, even in a design capacity they might become obsessed with generating the perfect swoop, the perfect parametric hard line. I don’t really subscribe to this. Hand drawing and physical model-making give you access to imperfect surfaces, which are crucial to my project’s proposal. Through making or drawing something, you have a deeper understanding of scale and its implications. If they had been perfectly smooth, computer generated, calculated surfaces, they would have been much less tactile than this ‘vernacular’ aesthetic that I was interested in generating.'⠀
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Follow the link in our story to read.⠀
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We are heartbroken to inform the AA community and our family across the globe of the sad and sudden passing of our dearest friend Mark Cousins. A fixture and personality embedded in the fabric of the AA for more than 40 years, and at the core of everything the school is founded upon, Mark has influenced generations of students and staff with his intellectual depth, humorous wit and incredible generosity, all of which were limitless.
On Saturday, we sadly lost our most treasured friend, an indomitable spirit and the greatest champion of the AA.
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analysis
This post got
168% more likes
compared to @aaschool's average. It uses
100% less hashtags
and its
caption is 48% shorter
1,539
3
Sep 23 2020 GMT19:03
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This exemplary project by Lee Jang-hee is titled 'Case Study House ver.2020: from Nuclear Family to Commune', from the unit 'Moon River' (EXP12 with @mansikkamaki and )⠀
⠀
'In response to economic and environmental crisis, the Case Study House ver.2020 attempts to rewire the legacy of Case Study House program from nuclear family to commune, alternative family type which optimizes the shared lifestyle.⠀
⠀
The house as an assembled system than as a ‘design’ in the traditional sense propose to install prefabricated unit on top of existing structure. A ground floor is mainly used as public space for sharing domestic labour and different types of productive work in rectangle-shaped spaces. A first floor is used as private space but still with shared toilets, multi-purpose rooms and stairs to maximize usable space in the logic of economy of scale. Also, newly attached ornaments and extended structures by occupants are regarded as possible resources for increasing use value and incorporated into the same system.⠀
⠀
The house is passively ventilated and highly insulated with a high thermal mass provided by its CLT wood panels. The angle of saw-toothed shaped roof was calculated by solar angle in Los Angeles to maximize efficiency of solar-powered system with photovoltaic and solar heating panels.'⠀
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hashtags
#17B
#maxturnheim
#17B
#ArchitecturalAssociation
#AASchool
#EXP13
#MoonRiver
#housing
#casestudyhouse
#passivehaus
#CLT
#solarpower
#sustainability
#familyhousing
analysis
This post got
58% more likes
compared to @aaschool's average. It uses
56% more hashtags
and its
caption is 29% longer
1,466
9
Oct 08 2020 GMT09:34
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Stop making architecture for humans, for a second⠀
Imagine our cities without non-humans⠀
Or one without humans⠀
And think of a less of human-city and ponder⠀
Has it ever really been about humans?⠀
⠀
We are pleased to invite all members of the AA to take part in the Architecture for Non-humans Design Competition. This is a joint public programme in collaboration with Japan House London who are currently hosting the Architecture for Dogs exhibition at their gallery in Kensington.⠀
⠀
Selected works will be built by the AA Digital Prototyping Lab and physically installed in Bedford Square together with replicas from the Architecture for Dogs exhibition by four architects and a designer: Atelier Bow Wow, Kengo Kuma, MVRDV and Kenya Hara. This means you can be anywhere in the world and still have your winning design fabricated and installed to be part of the show.⠀
⠀
The installation of the works will form a Playground for Non-humans outdoors at the corner of Bedford Square during Open Week in Term 1 (2nd-8th November). We will host a round table discussion and a programme of events and workshops in collaboration with AA LAWuN around the same topic during that week.⠀
⠀
The competition recognises unique ideas that make us aware of the importance of non-human inhabitation in its various and diverse forms across the city environment, with the aim to materialise playful concepts and inspiring visions to trigger a discussion around alternative models of urban living that embraces today’s challenges.⠀
⠀
We hope to gather and document a wide range of ideas and ways in which we observe, recognise and reimagine the city and it's architecture today. All the submitted ideas, drawings and models will form part of our online exhibition Playground for Non-humans.⠀
⠀
Follow the link in our story for the brief, or visit 'What's On' on the AA Website.⠀
⠀
--⠀
⠀
⠀
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Image: Cedric Price Architects, Ducklands proposal, Hamburg, 1989–1991, montaged site map. Courtesy Cedric Price fonds, Canadian Centre for Architecture.
hashtags
#AASchool
#ArchitecturalAssociation
#Architecturefornonhumans
#animalarchitecture
analysis
This post got
51% more likes
compared to @aaschool's average. It uses
56% less hashtags
and its
caption is 98% longer
comments
2,611
106
Sep 27 2020 GMT13:37
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We are heartbroken to inform the AA community and our family across the globe of the sad and sudden passing of our dearest friend Mark Cousins. A fixture and personality embedded in the fabric of the AA for more than 40 years, and at the core of everything the school is founded upon, Mark has influenced generations of students and staff with his intellectual depth, humorous wit and incredible generosity, all of which were limitless.
On Saturday, we sadly lost our most treasured friend, an indomitable spirit and the greatest champion of the AA.
hashtags
analysis
This post got
783% more likes
compared to @aaschool's average. It uses
100% less hashtags
and its
caption is 48% shorter
1,466
9
Oct 08 2020 GMT09:34
captions
Stop making architecture for humans, for a second⠀
Imagine our cities without non-humans⠀
Or one without humans⠀
And think of a less of human-city and ponder⠀
Has it ever really been about humans?⠀
⠀
We are pleased to invite all members of the AA to take part in the Architecture for Non-humans Design Competition. This is a joint public programme in collaboration with Japan House London who are currently hosting the Architecture for Dogs exhibition at their gallery in Kensington.⠀
⠀
Selected works will be built by the AA Digital Prototyping Lab and physically installed in Bedford Square together with replicas from the Architecture for Dogs exhibition by four architects and a designer: Atelier Bow Wow, Kengo Kuma, MVRDV and Kenya Hara. This means you can be anywhere in the world and still have your winning design fabricated and installed to be part of the show.⠀
⠀
The installation of the works will form a Playground for Non-humans outdoors at the corner of Bedford Square during Open Week in Term 1 (2nd-8th November). We will host a round table discussion and a programme of events and workshops in collaboration with AA LAWuN around the same topic during that week.⠀
⠀
The competition recognises unique ideas that make us aware of the importance of non-human inhabitation in its various and diverse forms across the city environment, with the aim to materialise playful concepts and inspiring visions to trigger a discussion around alternative models of urban living that embraces today’s challenges.⠀
⠀
We hope to gather and document a wide range of ideas and ways in which we observe, recognise and reimagine the city and it's architecture today. All the submitted ideas, drawings and models will form part of our online exhibition Playground for Non-humans.⠀
⠀
Follow the link in our story for the brief, or visit 'What's On' on the AA Website.⠀
⠀
--⠀
⠀
⠀
⠀
Image: Cedric Price Architects, Ducklands proposal, Hamburg, 1989–1991, montaged site map. Courtesy Cedric Price fonds, Canadian Centre for Architecture.
hashtags
#AASchool
#ArchitecturalAssociation
#Architecturefornonhumans
#animalarchitecture
analysis
This post got
25% less likes
compared to @aaschool's average. It uses
56% less hashtags
and its
caption is 98% longer
1,300
7
Sep 16 2020 GMT17:00
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Read an interview now on the AA website with the winner of the Nicholas Pozner Prize for drawing, @craigwrmitchell, a student from Diploma 13 ('Porosities: The Giardini della Biennale as a Metaproject' with @bostanvuja and @AlvaroVelascoPerez)⠀
⠀
'Nowadays on larger projects you’d have a facade specialist, amongst many other specialists, to whom the architect's historic role is relinquished. You don’t need an Architect to build a building. The architect works on the peripheries of projects, more removed from the process. Specialists in their field work towards optimisation, even in a design capacity they might become obsessed with generating the perfect swoop, the perfect parametric hard line. I don’t really subscribe to this. Hand drawing and physical model-making give you access to imperfect surfaces, which are crucial to my project’s proposal. Through making or drawing something, you have a deeper understanding of scale and its implications. If they had been perfectly smooth, computer generated, calculated surfaces, they would have been much less tactile than this ‘vernacular’ aesthetic that I was interested in generating.'⠀
⠀
Follow the link in our story to read.⠀
⠀
--⠀
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