A limited number of places are available for this programme, we advice you to secure your place as soon as possible by completing the online application and making a full payment of the fees. Please note that a deposit payment holds your place onto the course but does not confirm it.

1. Standard Application:

• Click on "Apply" to log in or create an account on the Applicant’s portal.
• Submit your details and proceed to complete the payment of the deposit fee - The deposit reserves your place in the programme but does not confirm you are fully registered.
• Log in to the Applicant’s portal to pay the remaining fee, upload documents, monitor the status of your application and more.

2. AA Students and Melbourne University Students:

• Click on "Apply" to log in or create an account with your AA Student or Melbourne University email address on the Applicant’s portal.
• Submit your details and payment of the deposit fee - The deposit reserves your place in the programme but does not confirm you are fully registered.
• Log in to the Applicant’s portal to pay the remaining fee, upload documents, monitor the status of your application and more.

Note: Check the step-by step guide to navigate the AA Applicant's portal.

Applications deadline: Until capacity is reached.

ENTERING THE UK

If you are traveling to the UK from abroad, it is your responsibility to ensure that you hold the right documents to enter the UK.

All applicants are required to review the relevant sections on ‘Entering the UK’ via the UK Government website to check which documents are required to enter the UK and check if an application to a Standard Visitor visa or an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) is needed. Your type of immigration document and how to apply depends on your nationality, the AA can provide a letter confirming your enrolment to the course to support your application once the course fees are settled.

Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA)

Commencing 8 January 2025, the UK introduced ETAs for all visitors who do not currently need a visa for short stays of under six months, including Australian, Canadian, and US passport holders.

Starting in April 2025, all visitors to the UK who do not require a visa for short stays and do not already have a UK immigration status will need an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA). This includes nationals from many countries, including those in the European Union as well as Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, among others.

You can Check if you can apply for an ETA on the UK Government website. An ETA costs £10 and allows multiple entries into the UK for stays of up to six months at a time, valid for two years or until the holder’s passport expires—whichever is sooner.

Standard Visitor Visa

Please note that Standard Visitor Visas may take up to 3 months to be issued, all applicants who require a visa to enter the UK are encouraged to apply for a Standard Visitor visa at least 3 months in advance and no later than 1 month before the start of the programme or the date of the flight in which is intended to enter the UK, whichever is first. Student Visas are not required for study periods shorter than six months.

How to apply for a Standard Visitor Visa depends on your country of origin. You can check check if you need to apply for a visa in advance or if you can enter with and ETA and your passport upon arrival in the UK.

Applicants who need a visa to study in the UK are encouraged to carefully review the details and eligibility criteria for the Standard Visitor Visa, which are available on the UK Government website. The Visiting School Office will provide guidance throughout the process to ensure applicants are well-informed and prepared to submit their visa applications. Please also review the costs associated with obtaining a visa.

Once an applicant has been accepted into the programme and has paid the deposit or full fees (see ‘Fees’ section), the Visiting School Office will issue an invitation letter confirming enrolment. This letter can also be used as a supporting document when entering the UK.

Biographies

Unit 1 -

UNIT 2 - Like a Glove

Flore Fockedey is a Brussels-based designer interested in soft surfaces and the spaces they can create. Her projects explore architectural conventions—tectonics, permanence, and the distinction between inside and outside.

Emma Cogne is a Brussels-based designer who bridges disciplines, drawing from vernacular and low-tech practices. Her work balances craft—thinking through materials and making—and architecture, exploring spatiality conceptually with a focus on simplicity and clarity.

Nani - Mariana Ledebur, is a Brussels-based designer who materialises playful moments through crafting and experimental design practices, creating gentle reminders of friendship.

UNIT 3 - Thrifty Business.

Lindsey Krug is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Krug was a co-recipient of the 2023 Architectural League Prize in New York and a recipient of the 2024 ACSA New Faculty Teaching Award and the 2024 Rotch Travelling Scholarship.

Radu Remus Macovei is Lecturer and Doctoral Fellow at ETH–Zurich and Founder of stuffstudio.eu. He practiced with Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Herzog & de Meuron, among others. He completed undergraduate studies at the AA and graduated with a Master in Architecture with Distinction from Harvard Graduate School of Design where he was awarded the Appleton Fellowship.

Edward Wang leads digital media at Herzog & de Meuron. Before Basel, he worked for offices in Toronto, Tokyo, New York, and Boston. He completed a Master in Architecture with Distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design where he received the AIA Henry Adams Medal. He completed his undergraduate degree at Yale University.

Jake Parkin, MArch, AA Dipl, ARB. Jake is a London-based Architect and Lecturer. He worked at Bureau Spectacular creating built projects for the Chicago Architecture Biennial, Taiwan Academy, and MMCA in Seoul. He set up Jake Parkin Studio in 2024. Alongside practice, he leads Unit 3.1 at the University of Westminster with Jane Tankard and the AA Visiting School in Los Angeles with Jimenez Lai.

Tanil Raif is a Cypriot designer based in the US. He set up t__m space with Mario Serrano Puche. His work merges primitive futurism and computational design. He has previously worked as a designer for Yeezy and MAD and is currently part of Harvard GSD's Master of Architecture. In 2025, he is part of Malta’s London Design Biennale team with “URNA.”

Aoi Phillips Yamashita is a London-based architect, writer, and educator. She is a co-founder of Afterparti, a collective dedicated to amplifying underrepresented voices in architecture. She currently practices at Clementine Blakemore Architects, lectures at Westminster University, and assists the long-running AA Visiting School Koshirakura in rural Japan.

Mario Serrano Puche is a London-based architectural and product designer. He set up t__m space with Tanil Raif. He has worked as a designer for SANAA and SO-IL, has a MArch from The Bartlett UCL, and currently runs the experimental 3D printed wearables brand Body Amplification Devices, exploring automation in fashion and architecture.

UNIT 5 - Staging Exceptions.

Forms of Commons is an architectural practice. Its work is driven by an understanding of architecture as cultural framework — one that engages with space and form as collective means of knowledge. The project is not a means to affirm authorship or comply with established narratives but an evolving act — shaped by and shaping common legacies.

Chiara Malerba, Margherita Sorgentone, and Costanza Zeni established Forms of Commons in 2023 while actively teaching and practicing, to develop a dialogue between research, education, and architectural practice.

UNIT 6 - .

Rubble is a design and research collective founded in Dublin in 2023, beginning from a desire to make things together. Their collaborations are concerned with finding alternative means of producing space, which are experimental, collaborative, and largely non-extractive, provoking new connections between people and place, largely through a DIY approach.

Rubble are 2024 LINA and IAF Gap Lab Fellows. In 2024, they presented Benchmark as part of Open House Dublin, and led the design and curation of Constructive Interference, a collaborative exhibition between Ireland’s 6 schools of architecture. They will lead Summer Schools for the Irish Architecture Foundation and Architectural Association, are revisiting Luma Atelier for a residency in Summer 2025, and are developing exhibition research for the Irish Architecture Foundation. Their writing has been published by Type and forthcoming with Theatrum Mundi.

Rubble is María Daly Bermúdez, Dominic Daly, David Hurley, Nicolas Howden, and Emily Jones

UNIT 7 - Punkspace.

Jacob Höppner and Leo Herrmann are architects with extensive international teaching experience. Much of their work in practice and education follows Rem Koolhaas’ tenet that architecture is less about expertise than about agility and adaptation.

As an independent architect based in Zurich, Jacob has worked as project head for several renowned offices. He is currently teaching at ETH Zurich. Leo is Associate Researcher at the University of Stuttgart and focuses on research and publishing projects in the field of history and theory of architecture.