London's Architectural Association has announced three candidates in the running to become its new leader: Robert Mull, Eva Franch i Gilabert and Pippo Ciorra.
The three candidates are all vying to replace interim director Samantha Hardingham as head of the Architectural Association (AA).
The role has not been permanently filled since former director Brett Steele left in late 2016 to head up the arts school at the University of California.
Hardingham has held the post in an interim capacity since August 2017, overseeing a period of dramatic change for the institution, including redundancies and resignations, as the school prepares to apply for taught degree awarding powers ahead of Brexit.
Eva Franch is an American architect, curator, educator and lecturer currently based in New York. Photograph is by Stefan Ruiz Eva Franch is a Catalan architect, curator, educator and lecturer currently based in New York. She has been chief curator and executive director of Storefront for Art and Architecture, an independent art and architecture organisation in Manhattan, since 2010.
She is also an associate professor at The Cooper Union School of Architecture, and has taught at Columbia University GSAPP, the IUAV University of Venice, SUNY Buffalo, and Rice University School of Architecture.
Her project OfficeUS was selected for the United States Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014. In 2004, she founded solo practice OOAA (Office of Architectural Affairs).
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