World-renowned architects have signed a letter warning the Architectural Association that axing its publications and exhibitions departments through staff cuts will damage the school's reputation as a place of "cutting-edge debate".
The letter, addressed to the Architectural Association's president David Porter, was penned by architects Tony Fretton, Edward Jones of Dixon Jones Architects and Kate Macintosh, formerly of London Borough of Southwark.
Written on behalf of "the architecture community", it urges the school to reconsider proposed redundancies within its publishing and exhibitions teams.
It is signed by a number of now-famous alumni of the school, including architects Rem Koolhaas, Richard Rogers, Adam Caruso, Kazuyo Sejima, Phyllis Lambert and Toyo Ito. Kate Goodwin, the head of architecture at London's Royal Academy of Arts, and Architecture Foundation director Ellis Woodman are also among the signatories. Redundancies could spell end of in-house journal AA Files
Six members of the school's publications department and two employees in its exhibitions team are among the 16 members of staff whose jobs are at stake, it was revealed by the Architects Journal earlier this month.
If the redundancies go ahead it could spell the end for the AA's magazine and exhibitions programme ? including in-house journal the AA Files.

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