TUTOR CALL 2026

Job Title: Summer School Unit Leader

Salary: £4,800/ unit

Contract Type: Fixed Term

Department: Visiting School

Reports to: Summer School Head

Hours: Preparation time and Full-time (3 weeks teaching) 6-25July 2026

Role Overview:
The AA summer school welcomes applications for teaching fellows interested in leading
summer school units. Ideal applicants have basic teaching experience and are ready to
immerse themselves in an intense and creative environment for the month of July. This
year, we are seeking applications from groups of tutors that can operate as a
collective both in relationship to each other but also to run a group project with
their students, promoting collaboration and collective design approaches as well
as considering the implications of shared intellectual ownership.

Learning from London:
London; not a unified vision but a continuum of habits, infrastructures, signs,
regulations, exceptions and compromises. London resists singularity and denies
authorship.

Architects learn from anything; they especially learn from looking at the city, paying
attention to both its perks and its inconsistencies. This summer school debunks the
myth of the sublime city and rejects the cult of the isolated architectural object. Instead,

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we choose to study what actually shapes the city and its architecture. Scale is of no
importance: from the river and the parks to specific geometrical quirks of Victorian
architecture, from heroic buildings gestures to the relentless accumulation of the
ordinary, studying London is about challenging the limits of architecture as an
autonomous discipline.

This summer, we are going to produce multiple Londons as a critical practice of
interpretation. We will align to the lineage of architect travelers who produced projects of
observation and documentation in different forms and shapes: Learning from Las Vegas
(Venturi, Scott-Brown and Izenur), Made in Tokyo and Pet Architecture (Atelier Bow-
Wow), Delirious New York (Rem Koolhaas), One million acres and no zoning: Houston
(Lars Lerup), amongst others.

Learning from London is not an endorsement of the city as it is. It is a contemporary
experiment that considers architectural education as radical, inclusive, and deeply
connected to the world.

We welcome proposals from groups of tutors linked to the theme of Learning from
London in specific and surprising ways.

-The summer school is a project based programme. It promotes group work and is open
to a variety of media (models, XL-models, drawings, XL-drawings, film making,
performance, photography...). The documentation of the work that takes place during
these three weeks is part of the teaching project and a responsibility of the tutors.
-Tutors and students have full access to all the AA infrastructure (digital labs, model and
wood shop, library, archives) throughout the duration of the summer school.
-Each unit will welcome approximately 15 students (max of 20).
-Each unit will showcase their work at the final Summer School Exhibition on July 24.
-Each unit will organise and host a public event (lecture, party, drink- or combination of
all) on a selected day during the summer school.
-Each unit has a specific budget beyond the teaching fees.
-Each unit is responsible to participate in the promotion of the programme before, during
and after the summer school.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:
• Lead a summer school unit. The participants will have diverse backgrounds and
design skills so the unit brief should take that into consideration.
• Participate in mid and final reviews. A series of reviews will take place halfway during
the summer school creating conversations across the units. A final review schedule will
organise and culminate the summer school dialogues.

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• Curate the unit’s participation in the exhibition. A final exhibition will take place the last
couple of days of the school, units are expected to produce a display/ installation to
showcase their work.

Person Specification
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
• Basic teaching experience.
• Active professional and /or research activity.
• Interest in participating in the larger project the Summer School aspires to operate as.
• Applications from candidates who are not architects by training and/ or have no
teaching experience are acceptable if there is a strong case to support their relevance
to the summer school’s objectives.

How to Apply:
Please apply by email by the closing date of 1 February to recruitment@aaschool.ac.uk
with ‘Summer School Unit Leader’ in the subject.

Candidates are asked to send a group unit proposal that includes a response to this
year’s theme of Learning from London, a three-week sample schedule, the agenda of
your collective, list of proposed events, specific output of the unit (detailed description)
as well as individual resumes. Also include a portfolio of relevant work.

The submission should be a single PDF file, maximum 8MB and 10 A4 pages long.

Invitations to interview via zoom will be issued by email after the closing date.

Please note only successful candidates will be contacted and at the time we are not
able to provide feedback to unsuccessful applications.

Everyone who feels they fulfil the requirements is welcome to apply.
Thank you for your interest in the AA and this role.

The Architectural Association School of Architecture aims to create conditions that ensure staff and students are treated solely on the basis of their
merits, abilities and potential, regardless of their gender, race, religious/political beliefs, ethnic or national origin, disability, family background, age,
sexual orientation, or other irrelevant distinction.

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