About

The flexible, self-directed curricula on offer at the school, combined with the global nature of the institution, afford the Architectural Association (AA) a rare degree of awareness in acknowledging and confronting the social, technological and cultural challenges of today. Comprised of approximately 800 full-time students, over 7000 members, 250 tutors and 100 administrative staff from all over the world, the association and its membership share eight Georgian houses in the centre of London, as well as a 350-acre woodland site at Hooke Park, in Dorset.

In 1847 the AA was founded by Robert Kerr and Charles Gray, two young articulated pupils, as reaction against the prevailing conditions under which architectural training was obtained. They radically redefined architectural education establishing the foundations of today's Architectural Association.