The independent London school founded in 1847 by articled pupils dissatisfied with pupillage, the oldest independent school of architecture in the United Kingdom. In the later twentieth century it became the most consequential incubator of experimental architecture anywhere; Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid are among the figures it formed.
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Zaha Hadid trained at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, graduating in 1977.
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The Architectural Association was founded in 1847 as an alternative to the practice of training young men via apprenticeship to established architects.
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