AA Visiting School Sydney

Overview
The Architectural Association Visiting School Sydney is currently seeking applicants for its 2025 program, held in Sydney, Australia. The two-week intensive studio will critically engage with the cultural, political, and spatial impacts of catastrophic climate change in Australia using the knowledge and tools of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. Students will be trained with large-scale and time-based digital representation methods, which they will be expected to use in support of a concise and research-based position.

The AA Visiting School Sydney will be taught in partnership with the Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning (SSADP) at the University of Sydney. Working from SSADP's Darlington campus, on the traditional and unceded lands of the Gadi people, students will engage with Aboriginal Australian knowledge holders and professionals, visit exemplary architectural sites, and engage with the work of architecture in professional practice, government, and the field.

Students can expect to spend time in the temperate rainforests of the Illawarra region, go backstage at a major arts museum, visit a multispecies sanctuary, and present their research in a working rural fire station. 

About the AA Visiting School Sydney
The Architectural Association is the oldest independent school of architecture in the UK. The AA Visiting School is an international program of studios taught by AA staff around the world. Taught by Adolfo Del Valle Neira and Oskar Johanson, the AA Visiting School Sydney has run every year since 2022.

The program is HECS-free and accredited for students of the University of Sydney (six “BYO” credit points). University of Melbourne students are entitled to a 15 percent discount and current AA students are entitled to a 20 percent discount. Limited online positions may be available upon request. To contact the program, email sydney@aaschool.ac.uk. For detailed fees and sign-up information, see the program website.