The Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies (IoAAS), University of York, United Kingdom, was a post-graduate Institute primarily specialising in providing mid-career education and research, largely for architects and others in related professions. The history and activities of the IoAAS are recorded by the Borthwick Institute for Archives, University of York, who also hold much documentary material. The Institute's activities were also recorded in the Vice Chancellor's Annual Reports to the University Court, typically. The Institute took a broad view of the nature of architecture that extended to management, building science, design problems in specialized building types, building economics, architectural history, conservation, landscape and townscape. Its target audience was the archi