Archinect - News 2024-11-05T03:26:08-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150205195/the-architectural-association-in-london-faces-leadership-crisis The Architectural Association in London faces leadership crisis Antonio Pacheco 2020-07-02T15:21:00-04:00 >2020-07-06T04:34:54-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ec/ecd69c5ee4406d92414e02882f2eb3ef.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The Architectural Association (<a href="https://archinect.com/architectural-association" target="_blank">AA</a>) in London finds itself in crisis this week as students, staff, and leadership express a lack of support for a proposed strategic plan crafted for the institution&rsquo;s future by AA Director <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150052981/eva-franch-i-gilabert-has-been-announced-as-the-new-director-of-the-architectural-association" target="_blank">Eva Franch i Gilabert</a>.&nbsp;</p> <p>Further, as <em>The Architect&rsquo;s Journal</em> <a href="https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/aa-in-crisis-after-no-confidence-votes/10047464.article?blocktitle=homepage-big-pic&amp;contentID=19632" target="_blank">reports</a>, 52% of the nearly 900 people surveyed at the AA indicated that they did not have confidence in Gilabert&rsquo;s leadership moving forward. The same poll found over 80% disagreement within the &ldquo;school community&rdquo; over the 2020-25 strategic plan Gilabert has crafted for the institution. The nature of the disagreements over the plan are unclear, though <em>The Architect&rsquo;s Journal</em> shared an anonymous letter it received last year detailing concerns that the school &ldquo;will favor &lsquo;theory&rsquo; over &lsquo;design,&rsquo; to the detriment of both, as well as some types of architectural thinking over others&rdquo; under Gilabert&rsquo;s leadership.&nbsp;</p> <p>In a <a href="https://www.aaschool.ac.uk/about/welcome" target="_blank">welcome address</a> published in late 2019, Gilabert espoused a vision of openness coupled with resp...</p> https://archinect.com/news/article/90049524/solving-problems-for-real-world-using-design Solving Problems for Real World, Using Design anthony dong 2013-12-30T13:57:00-05:00 >2014-01-06T19:30:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/0f/0f3uqlg629506mm8.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>While the projects had wildly different end products, they both had a similar starting point: focusing on how to ease people&rsquo;s lives. And that is a central lesson at the school, which is pushing students to rethink the boundaries for many industries. At the heart of the school&rsquo;s courses is developing what David Kelley, one of the school&rsquo;s founders, calls an empathy muscle.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>