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FEES OUT LOUD!

Tuition Fees Meeting - what happened? An AA Radio report on the fees meeting between AA students and AA director Brett Steele, President of AA Council Alex Lifschutz, and AA Accounts Manager Steve Livett on 17.02.2010. The students represented various parts of the school including Foundation, Intermediate school, and PhD. The topic of the discussion was the rise in next year's tuition fees, in the context of fees rising consistently each year. This radio talk show summary has been written and produced by AA students and Student Forum members, Camille Steyaert (3rd year) and Frederik Bo Bojesen (3rd year),  in discussion with other students who attended the meeting as well. Please note the following corrections:  "one-off costs" rather than "on cost"; "decrease of £20" rather than "increase of £20"; "the meeting was purely informational" rather than "the meeting was purely informal". Any feedback? Talk to the AA Student Forum members,or email them - studentforum@aaschool.ac.uk. #

Play 6:56 min, AA Student Forum 5/3/2010

Letters for Monica Pidgeon

Su Rogers, Barbara Goldstein, Dargan Bullivant, Kenneth Frampton, and Peter Murray join the AA Radio to share stories of their professional and personal relationships with the late Monica Pidgeon, editor of Architectural Design magazine from 1946-1975, who passed away in September 2009 at the age of 95. Asked by the Radio to each bring 5 letters of the alphabet, each standing for a word and story about Monica, the anecdotes and memories journey from Bloomsbury to Buckminster Fuller to Berlin, Lunches at L'Escargot, St. Anne's Close, Walter Segal, Jacobsen stools, Saturday afternoon Talks in the garden, Team X and CIAM, Pidgeon Audio Visual, and Monica's Independence, Dedication, Passion, and Loyalty.

This conversation was recorded on Saturday, November 21, 2009 at the AA, 36 Bedford Square, London. Visit the Pidgeon Digital archive at www.pidgeondigital.com

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Play 63:28 min, Ema Bonifacic 21/11/2009

Thinking About A New World

A conversation with Paffard Keatinge-Clay (AA dipl. 1949), recorded prior to his AA lecture in November 2008 on the occasion of the 'Le Corbusier at the AA' Symposium & Exhibition. Keatinge-Clay takes us through his spirited AA student days and early practice, with entertaining and inspiring accounts of how it was that he came to work for and to know Erno Goldfinger, Sigfried Gideon, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright. Inclusive of a story of the pilgrimmage, with 2 AA student friends, to Le Corbusier's studio and house where they did not meet Le Corbusier himself but instead his gracious wife who invited them to have cooked eggs and explore the house to their hearts' delight. Broadcast with thanksto Paffard Keatinge-Clay and to Edward Bottoms (AA Archives). This recording is the first in a series of oral history interviews planned by the AA Archives documenting the AA in the 1940's and 1950's. #

Play 70:49 min, AAIR 21/2/2009

Interview with Junya Ishigami

Junya Ishigami, architect whose projects include the recently completed KAIT Studio for the Kanagawa Institute of Technology, was the 2008 exhibitor in the Japanese pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture. Interviewed here by Ben Reynolds and Valle Medina (www.palacepalace.com ). Recorded at the Japan Institute of Architects, Tokyo, 22 October 2008. #

Play 7:46 min, Palace 17/1/2009

Interview with Pier Vittorio Aurelli following the Manifesto Marathon at the Serpentine Gallery

Jan Nauta and Umberto Bellardi Ricci interview Pier Vittorio Aurelli following his lecture during the Manifesto Marathon curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist at the Serpentine Gallery. Aurelli teaches at the Berlage Institute and the Architectural Association and is the author of various books and articles. #

Play 41:51 min, Umberto Bellardi Ricci 15/12/2008