The Architectural Association, Hooke Park

Join us for a day at Hooke Park campus and buildings

Hooke Park is the woodland campus of the Architectural Association School of Architecture, and home to the AA's postgraduate Design and Make programme, where full-scale building experiments and hands-on architectural education meet. 

The day is a chance to explore our campus buildings and woodland to learn more about our history, as well as our ongoing teaching and research. 

Hooke Park is a forest laboratory for architectural experimentation at 1:1 using timber grown on-site. It is the satellite campus of the Architectural Association (AA) - a celebrated independent School of Architecture based in Central London.

The 350-acre working woodland at Hooke Park is owned and managed by the AA and provides the primary source of timber for our construction projects, which are fabricated on-site in our workshops and assembly spaces. We have a commitment to the future ecological health of the Hooke Park Woodland and have put in place a 100-year strategy for its management as part of our innovative forest research programme.

The campus is home to the Design + Make Architecture programme and hosts visiting groups of students from our London campus as well as university groups internationally. Design, construction and landscape-focused projects undertaken at Hooke Park are supported by a diverse team of expert practitioners, including architects, engineers, digital technicians, carpenters, artists, foresters and researchers.

We operate at the intersection of craft knowledge, technological innovation and natural material. Underlying these activities is the opportunity to develop new architectures and an ethos of material self-sufficiency that emerges from creative ingenuity and experimentation.

Find out more about Hooke Park by visiting: https://hookepark.aaschool.ac.uk

Refreshments (cake and beverages) will be on sale during the event

Please wear appropriate footwear and waterproof clothing. There is ample free parking but please mind the speed bumps on the way in.

Collaborations in West Dorset

This event has been designed to compliment two other events in West Dorset on the 6th June.

John Makepeace Furniture
Woodland Walk at North Eggardon Farm

You are welcome to attend all three for a wonderful day's inspiration and knowledge sharing. Please note that will require separate bookings for each, you can book using the links above.

Hooke Park Event notes:

Parking available
Refreshments available
Dogs allowed
Inside and outside areas
Rough terrain
If wheelchair access is needed or people have mobility issues we can assist with this - please let us know when booking. 

Anyone under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult.

If you have any questions about the event, please contact the event organiser using the 'Manage Tickets' button at the top of the page.