Researching Of Architectural Association's Education

The Architectural Association School of Architecture is the most international school of architecture ever created, creating a uniquely global form of architectural discussion, debate, learning and knowledge.More than 3,000 members worldwide form the Architectural Association, which was formed in the mid-19th century as a learned society founded in the pursuit of architectural learning. As the UK's oldest and only private school of architecture, today the AA stands at the forefront of architectural education worldwide.Whatever its ideas or techniques etc in architectural education are unique in the global territory, and it is a experimentalizing place to have a powerful creation and lead the architecture advancing.Starting with the background of the UK's architecture education, the paper introduces UK's educational system in architecture includes AA, and probes how much AA meant to us.The second chapter analyzes AA's ideas of architecture education, to show its unique culture.The third chaper researches AA's educational techniques,emphasizing on its unit system.The fourth chaper shows and probes AA's educational effects to find more characteristic in its curriculum projects.In the last chaper of this paper, combining experiences accumulated from architecture design course with researches and studies by author, the paper tends to find the deficiency of architecture education in China and the causes of the difference between us, then to propose some solutions to these problems.