The Architectural Association has sought to alleviate concerns that staff cuts will mean the loss of it's exhibitions and publications departments, as members including David Adjaye and Richard Rogers demand a meeting to reverse the plans.
Adjaye and Rogers, along with Kate MacIntosh, Ted Cullinan and Edward Jones, were among 21 signatories of a letter to the school's council on 6 December 2017, which requested a general meeting of registered members.
In an email seen by Dezeen, the members laid out that the meeting would be to insist the council "reverse the announcements recently made about redundancies in the publications, exhibitions and other departments" and to "retract the consultation/redundancy procedures already in train". The entire staff of both departments are among the 16 roles that have been put at risk of redundancy.
The undersigned instructed the Architectural Association's (AA) council to "consider other means of meeting the objectives sought" and to put together a new plan within 28 days of the proposed meeting.
Interim director at the AA Samantha Hardingham released a statement today re-asserting that the world-leading architecture school does not plan to close its exhibitions and publications departments.
"All the activities of the AA will remain; the AA will continue to publish exceptional books and publications including the AA Files; the AA will continue to exhibit great and ground-breaking work; the AA will continu...