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Architectural Design Studio (ADS) 8 — 2022-2025
Led by Margarida Waco, Mirna Pedalo & Abiba Coulibaly

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These architecture projects challenge how we see the world. Meet the architects and designers of the future as their newest work comes together at the MA Architecture Work in Progress Show 2026 in the Studio Building at RCA Battersea from 22 to 24 January...

...and take a peek behind the doors of the world's no 1 university for art and design!

The research and experiments from our students will reveal a profound engagement with the urgent ecological and material realities of our time.

You’ll find projects exploring the deep ocean (ADS13), the nature of the 'wild' (ADS9), and how we deal with pollution in our water and soil (ADS11). Students are looking at how we coexist with animals in industrial ruins (ADS3), how we survive in damaged worlds (ADS2) – and even how we face the end of things (ADS4).

This work also reimagines how we live and build. You’ll see ideas for new types of housing (ADS1) and better ways to use materials (ADS6). Some students mix architecture with performance (ADS0) or sport (ADS8), while others explore the unexpected through 'follies' (ADS5) or the concept of the journey (ADS7). From the economics of sharing (ADS10) to the sensory atmosphere of our homes (ADS12).

#Architecture #Architect

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“The problem with plastics is not limited to its vast carbon footprint, nor to the elongated temporality of its decomposition. The solution is not simply the elimination of single-use plastics, nor is it limited to the expansion of domestic, commercial, and industrial recycling. These earnest, honest, yet ultimately shortsighted visions of problems and solutions perpetuate the erasure of marginalised Black and Brown communities–turned–extractive zones in Louisiana and around the world. The real problem is the fallacious belief that toxic production is inevitable; the real solution is to imagine our way out of the plastics trap.

“How do we do it?”

Read “Spray Foam Fumes Collapse the Distance Between Two Points” on Revisions Media at the link in bio.

✍️ by Imani Jacqueline Brown
🎨 by Hannah Chalew (@studio.hnnh.chlw), Pipelandia, 2022, photographed by @jonathantraviesa
🎞: Material Constellations of Hydrocarbon Geographies (2023) by @rca_ads8 at @rca.architecture.

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“El problema con los plásticos no se limita a la gran cantidad de huella de carbono ni a la prolongada temporalidad de su descomposición. La solución no es simplemente eliminar los plásticos de un solo uso, ni se reduce a la expansión del reciclaje doméstico, comercial e industrial. Estas visiones honestas pero de poca perspectiva perpetúan la marginación de comunidades negras y mulatas, convertidas en zonas extractivas en Luisiana y alrededor del mundo. El verdadero problema es la falsa creencia de que la producción tóxica es inevitable; la verdadera solución es imaginar una salida de la trampa de los plásticos.

¿Cómo lo hacemos?”

Lee el ensayo completo en Revisions Media en inglés en el enlace en la bio.

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‘Being Safe is Scary’ from our 2023 MA Architecture graduate, @lolatartakover is now on show @royalacademyarts as part of the current Architecture Window (@architecture_ra) exhibition!

The project explores the possibility of undoing top down authority on local communities by presenting three community self-build interventions: ‘The Ends Office’ (Image 1 and 6), ‘The Ends Library and Workshop’ (Image 10) and ‘The Debating Chamber’ (Image 8).

Lola’s architectural interventions allow space for activities that are often prohibited in London’s open spaces, but aims to make these spaces and local political process more democratically engaged and accessible. The project was undertaken under consistent dialogue with North Kensington residents.

‘Being Safe is Scary’ was Lola’s MA Architecture thesis as part of @rca_ads8.

🔗 Find out more about Lola’s work at the link in the RCA bio.

#Architecture #Architect #ArchitecturalDesign

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getting as close as possible to Europes largest open pit copper mine turned out to be very difficult

100km north of the arctic circle though, quite chilly

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⚡⚡Following a terrific Venice Biennale @labiennale Opening, we are proud to highlight the School of Architecture staff, student, and alumni community and the work they are exhibiting this year!

@rca.architecture ADS8 @rca_ads8 tutor, Meriem Chabani @meriem.chabani is an Algerian-French architect, urban planner and founding partner at New South @newsouth___. By questioning power dynamics and stakeholder relations, her projects offer evolutive intersections between the global South and the global North.

Her piece, ‘Mediterranean Queendoms’ is on view at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition ‘The Laboratory of the Future’, curated by Lesley Lokko, in the ‘Curator’s Special Projects: Guests from the Future’. The work is a tale of diasporic domestic space across the Mediterranean, paying tribute to female dominion and transgressing political borders. It's an exercise in architectural representation, borrowing from heraldic traditions and North African carpet making.

The capet is handmade by Meriem Chabani, John Edom, Mélissa Dyminat, Marine Gilouppe and Abdé Batchati.

For more information about our School of Architecture and Meriem’s work, ➡️ link in bio!

MA Architecture @rca.architecture
MA City Design @rca_citydesign
MA Environmental Architecture @ea_rca
MA Interior Design @rca_interiordesign

📸courtesy of @meriem.chabani and @newsouth___

#VeniceArchitectureBiennale #ArchitectureBiennale #Architecture #meriemchabani #newsouth #mediterraneanqueendoms #guestsfromthefuture #carpetmaking #venicebiennale #architecturalrepresentation #carpet #handmade #mediterranean

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🌟 Following a terrific Venice Biennale @labiennale Opening, we are proud to highlight the School of Architecture staff, student, and alumni community and the work they are exhibiting this year! ✨

For the Biennale Architettura 2023, architect, writer, and @rca_ads8 Tutor, Margarida Waco @margarida_waco presents 5.5706° S, 12.1976° E Sedimentary Myths, a 3-channel audiovisual installation nested within Food, Agriculture and Climate Change Special Projects. The exhibition chronicles a love letter to her native locale, Cabinda; a territory sited at the mouth of the Congo Basin, home to the peoples and ancestry of Bakongo and to wonders of the Maiombe rainforest, yet simultaneously holds the largest oil deposits and fossil fuel production in present-day Angola. While hydrocarbons are dug and stripped from ancient repositories to funnel flows of extractive wealth, the territory embodies multiple paradoxes that crystallize into spatial transformations, land disputes and dispossession, and the commodification of ecological bodies; the energy and flesh of extractive grammars.

Realised as a triptych assembling cartography, archival and new footage, weaponised by way of a poem fusing a plurality of voices, the exhibition traces the contours of the destructive cycles associated with oil mining. By weaving entangled hemispheres, cosmologies, and planetary networks—thriving, mutating, and sickening upon the soils and waters of territory, disrupting sacred webs of life—the exhibition gestures toward possible paths for becomings as Africans, as Cabindans.

For more information about our School of Architecture and Margarida’s work, ➡️ link in bio!

MA Architecture @rca.architecture
MA City Design @rca_citydesign
MA Environmental Architecture @ea_rca
MA Interior Design @rca_interiordesign

📸 5.5706° S, 12.1976° E Sedimentary Myths – Installation images by STE Murray, and description courtesy of the artist

#VeniceArchitectureBiennale #ArchitectureBiennale #Architecture #margaridawaco #sedimentarymyths #royalcollegeofart #rca

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✨The RCA announces 21 members of its community will participate in the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2023, where more than half of the RCA participants in the Biennale Architettura 2023 are from Africa or the African diaspora.

In the lead up to the Opening of the Biennale Architecttura 2023, we would like to highlight members of the @royalcollegeofart exhibiting!

Pictured clockwise from the left:

Associate Lecturer Marina Otero Verzier will exhibit in ‘FOODSCAPES’ at Spain’s National Pavilion exploring Spanish agricultural architecture. She is Director of Research at Het Nieuwe Instituut (HNI), leading initiatives such as “Automated Landscapes”, focusing on the emerging architectures of automated labour. She tutors ADS8.

Associate Lecturer Sumayya Vally @sumi_v will exhibit in ‘Force Majeure’, representing African and diasporic architectural production. Sumayya is the Principal of Counterspace @_counterspace. Her practice searches for the expression of hybrid identities and territories – especially in African and Islamic conditions. At the RCA, she teaches ADS11 @ads.11hijra.

Programme Lead Dr. Ines Weizman @inesweizman will exhibit in ‘Gender & Geography’ investigating gender, architecture and performance. Ines is directing the MPhil/ PhD Programme at the School of Architecture at the RCA @rca_soa_pgr. She is the founding director of the Centre for Documentary Architecture (CDA), an interdisciplinary research collective of architectural historians, filmmakers, and digital technologists.

Associate Lecturer Margarida Waco @margarida_waco will exhibit in ‘Food, Agriculture and Climate Change’, looking at the relationship between climate change, land practices and food production. Margarida’s practice straddles architectural design, research, teaching, curating, and publishing. She teaches ADS8 @rca_ads8.

To learn more about the honourees and our School of Architecture programmes, ➡️ link in bio!

MA Architecture @rca.architecture
MA City Design @rca_citydesign
MA Environmental Architecture @ea_rca
MA Interior Design @rca_interiordesign

#royalcollegeofart #schoolofarchitecture #venicebiennale #venicebiennale

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⭐ We are proud to announce that 19 members of the RCA @royalcollegeofart community will take part in the International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2023 @labiennale, curated by Lesley Lokko.

The themes of this year's Biennale will spotlight Africa and the African Diaspora for the first time, exploring the theme 'The Laboratory of the Future’. This is a testament to the School of Architecture’s @rca_soa and its Programmes’ ongoing commitment to decolonisation, decarbonisation, and ecology, encouraging a plurality of understandings of architecture and engaging with practices across the global south.

✨We would like to celebrate the artists and the practitioners' success! ✨

Lesley Lokko @lesleylokko
Sir David Adjaye OBE @adjaye_visual_sketchbook
Dele Adeyemo @dele_adeyemo @rca.ads2
Yussef Agbo Ola @olaniyi.studio
Anusha Alamgir @anushaalamgir
Thomas Aquilina @thomasaquilina
Ian Davide Bugarin
Ibiye Camp @ibiye_camp @rca.ads2
Meriem Chabani @meriem.chabani @rca_ads8
Lauren-Löis Duah @laurenlois.wip
Thandi Loewenson @thandiloewenson
Sabrina Morreale @more_of_sabs @_lemonot @rca_ads7
Moad Musbahi @@rubicon_m
Folasade Okunribido (Flash) @flashok
Marina Otero
Lorenzo Perri @_lemonot @rca_ads7
Sumayya Vally @sumi_v @ads.11hijra
Margarida Waco @margarida_waco @rca_ads8
Ines Weizman @inesweizman @rca_soa_pgr

MA Architecture @rca.architecture
MA City Design @rca_citydesign
MA Environmental Architecture @ea_rca
MA Interior Design @rca_interiordesign

To learn more about the honourees and our School of Architecture programmes, ➡️ link in bio!

#royalcollegeofart #schoolofarchitecture #venicebiennale #venicebiennaleofarchitecture #architecture #africa #africadisapora #laboratoryofthefuture #decolonalisation #decarbonisation #ecology #practioners #maarchitecture #macitydesign #maenvironmentalarchitecture #mainteriordesign #BiennaleArchitettura2023

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Margarida Waco fala-nos sobre a exposição “Também Estão No Mapa” e como a cartografia é um lugar de resistência, bem como uma declaração e ferramenta política. De acordo com a professora e arquiteta, os painéis concebidos por António Brito Guterres, exibidos no Museu de Lisboa, são uma forma de desconstruir histórias e simbolismos extremamente violentos, ligadas até aos dias de hoje, a certos bairros e populações em Lisboa.

#afrolis #museudelisboa #exposicao #cartografia #periferia #afrodescendentes

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A exposição "Também Estão No Mapa?", concebida e coordenada por António Brito Guterres, procurou estimular a reconstrução de narrativas sobre Lisboa pelas próprias comunidades, a fim de poderem interferir na política pública da cidade. Inaugurada em 4 de dezembro de 2022 — 12 mar 2023 no jardim do Museu de Lisboa - Palácio Pimenta, a exposição convidava as pessoas a participarem ativamente na construção de narrativas e a refletirem sobre o papel das comunidades na construção da cidade e no desenvolvimento sustentável.

# Afrolis #Lisboa #ReconstruindoNarrativas #ComunidadeAtiva #PolíticaPública #ParticipaçãoCidadã #InclusãoSocial

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