newark NEW JERSEY

scott MARBLE, aia
lecture: designing design; designing assembly; designing industry
22 february /// 530 pm /// new jersey school of architecture
partner, marble fairbanks; new york city
director, fabrication research
columbia graduate school of architecture, planning, & preservation

barmstedt GERMANY

classic black and white portraits intersect with vivid colors and bold geometries in the photographs of jens HERRNDORFF. his subjects have oscillated from bands to fashion but the edge remains. through layers of neon and fuzz his images jump effortlessly from their constant backgrounds of white.

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bologna ITALY

evan GREENBERG + christina DOUMPIOTI - biodynamic structures
02.11.10 11am - 2pm
through simple relationships, biological organisms achieve complex ‘emergent’ structures and performances from simple components. analysis of natural systems and their biomimetic applications suggests the possibility of a radical bottom-up programme for architectural design. this research investigates how the boundary between the ‘natural’ and the man-made has been reconfigured by biomimetic engineering, and explores how this can lead to the evolution of new materials that may play a significant role in shaping the future of our built environment.

new york NEW YORK

layers of paper build up in charles CLARY’S compositions to appear as mutant rose windows hiding behind gallery walls. the color gradient created by the changing shades within the stacks amplifies their depth and gives the clusters a pop as they replicate and spread across the room.

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columbus OHIO

jesse REISER / reiser + umemoto
5:30 pm / knowlton 250
2009-2010 herbert baumer distinguished visiting professor lecture
february 10th
jesse REISER received his bachelor of architecture degree from the cooper union in new york and completed his master of architecture at the cranbrook academy of art. he was a fellow of the american academy in rome in 1985. jesse REISER is currently an associate professor of architecture at princeton university. jesse REISER and nanako umemoto have practiced in new york city as reiser + umemoto rur architecture p.c. since 1986. reiser + umemoto, rur architecture p.c. an internationally recognized architectural firm that has built projects at a wide range of scales: from furniture design, to residential and commercial structures, up to the scale of landscape design and infrastructure.

los angeles CA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

dave BANTZ: the strategy employed in this project reconsiders the process of massing, utilizing an indexical process which incorporates an economy of excess to achieve more dynamic and expressive materialities.the process begins through the selection and adjustment of an initial “exacted chunk” of an original conceptual poche study.

2gax studio project for sci-arc m. arch ii program, fall 2009 semester (professor: ramiro diaz-granados). proto-architectural design for a wedding chapel in downtown los angeles, on the corner of 6th and broadway.

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sindelfingen GERMANY

slavche TANEVSKI: the lamborghini ladura was done as part of the Lamborghini Raw Materials Project led by prof. dr. othmar wickenheiser, where all students at the school could take part in. the feruccio lamborghini’s appreciation to spanish culture and bull fighting/running led to naming all amborghini cars after some famous bulls or some places or families connected to bulls. respecting this fradition, the car is named after the island in indonesia, which is famous for bull races. the madura is a proposal for the first hybrid Lamborghini scheduled for 2016. doing a car more efficient and more nature-friendly, doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be exciting, good-looking and fast. but in my opinion this new propulsion system should be represented on the looks of the car.

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paris FRANCE

“an architecture of humors” is a research project / exhibition in which the r&sie[n] architectural practice has worked with a group comprised of a mathematician, programmers, architects, and a robotics designer to develop a computational approach based on biological and physiological data scanned from visitors who are put through situations inciting repulsion, stress and pleasure to conceive housing units and urban fragments based on relational protocols.

from january 22 through april 26 2010 at le labotatoire, 4 rue du bouli, 75003 paris

brooklyn NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

brian OSBORN: openhouse prototype 2 is an illuminated canopy that fills the upper portion of a private courtyard in the french quarter. the canopy reconfigures itself as it receives input from the seating in the space.

francis BITONTI: intensities in the ceiling vary and shift with occupancy. people become actuators as they begin to take advantage of the seating; gathering in small groups or sitting in isolation. the behavior of the canopy is driven by social structures and human activity.

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taipei city TAIWAN

announcement of final winners (stage two)
first prize: rur architecture pc / jesse REISER nationality: u.s.a
second prize: studio gang architects,ltd. / jeanne GANG nationality: u.s.a
third prize: daniel GALLAGHER nationality: u.s.a

via mmag.com.tw