The PhD Programme exhibit (created by Emanuel de Sousa and yours truly) for this year's AA Projects Review plays on the tension between officially sanctioned architectural research (certified and library-catalogued AA PhD dissertations from the grand old days of yesteryear) and more recent, uncertified research-in-progress; research that, while perhaps considering itself as somewhat subversive, will more than likely end up becoming just another background tile on the wall of knowledge.

Or will it…


[Image: AA reception wall, tiled with library catalogue entries of completed AA PhD dissertations; photo by Kirk Wooller].


[Image: Wallpaper tiles... clean; photo by Kirk Wooller].


[Image: 'Designated Graffiti Area' and someone's quite fitting post-graffiti graffiti; photo by Kirk Wooller].


[Image: AA reception tagged with (predominantly, for now...) research-in-progess; photo by Kirk Wooller].


[Image: AA reception tagged; photo by Kirk Wooller].

AA Projects Review is on from the 3rd to 25th July. Marker pens not included.