los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

joey SARAFIAN: This design for a research institute in Downtown Los Angeles (where Grand Ave meets the 101 Freeway) looks at an operable skin with pyramidal apertures that open and close due to proximity to freeway noise and solar gain. The result featured a skin that becomes aware of its surroundings, and can perpetually adapt to them. The project site is adjacent to varying freeway noise depending on the amount of traffic, which will also influence the skin.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

michael YOUNG: Botanical Garden adjacent to SCIArc. The facility acts as a artificial reef for plants. The program contains a temporary laboratory for genetic plant engineering set to eventually collapse under the weight of plants along side the movement, which overtakes and weakens the structure. It investigates the idea of architecture as a temporary structure as opposed to the long held tradition of architecture as an eternal element within the world.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

clark THENHAUS: The “Terra Nullis; Delinquent Vernacular” drawing series chronicles 5 fictional characters throughout agrarian history, pairing drawings and narrative with various topics of research. The Jepeto Rambunctious drawings are 3′ to 6′ long ink-alchemy mixtures. Made of ink, water, salt, and wax Rambunctiouos’ drawings were developed as alternative organizational strategies intended to challenge the inelastic Jeffersonian grid of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s.

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london UK

FABRICATE is an International Peer Reviewed Conference with supporting publication and exhibition to be held at The Building Centre in London from 15-16 April 2011. Discussing the progressive integration of digital design with manufacturing processes, and its impact on design and making in the 21st century, FABRICATE will bring together pioneers in design and making within architecture, construction, engineering, manufacturing, materials technology and computation.

Keynote Speakers: Mark Burry, Philip Beesley, Neri Oxman and Matthias Kohler

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melbourne AUSTRAILIA

public lecture by feature article writer clark THENHAUS 19 august 2010
6:00-7:00pm RMIT Casey Plaza
launch / exhibition
7:30 - late 1000 Bend Gallery

kerb18 PlastiCity FantastiCity is the search for the future city. It interrogates the design of current cities and hyper-escalates ideas to a fictional realm, taking concepts to the brink of sanity. It aims to produce a collaboration of designers from different fields to produce less selfish ownership of designs.

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new york NEW YORK

The Business of Aura is an exhibition hosted in two locations, Elga Wimmer Gallery and Broadway Gallery, curated by Kelsey Harrington. It includes painting, drawing, photography, sculptural prototypes, and installation. The show examines the potential of studio processes to produce aura.

Artists & architecturally trained designers at Elga Wimmer Gallery include - Helen Brough, Elizabeth Cooper, Cmmnwlth (Zoe Coombes & David Boira)-in collaboration with Timothy Saccenti, Kelsey Harrington, Jon Meyer, Steve Orlando, Devin Powers, Snarkitecture, SOFTlab, Studio Mode, and yo_cy (Christine Yogiaman & Ken Tracy).

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athens GREECE

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

pantazis EVANGELOS: Vagio: a venture to integrate two elements that have coexisted for many years, but were rarely considered as one entity, jewelery and garment. Argent welding and cloth sewing were equally combined into design compositions that range from skirts to mantles and scarves to shirts, from casual to formal and from usual to extraordinary. Clothing characteristics which were fixed in form and function were reconsidered and replaced by jewelery elements and vice versa. Most designs have a modular-flexible character that offers more than one way of being worn.The outcomes of this attempt were presented in an exhibition which took place in a photographic studio in the centre of Athens in February 2009. Next exhibition is scheduled on September 2010.

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new haven CONNECTICUT

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

miroslava BROOKS / amy DEDONATO / james GIRODAY: thermoCLOUDS was an experiment investigating the thermal dynamics of plastic. Through natural processes of heat and gravity, we were able to exploit the plastic’s inherent material logic and measure discrepancies through its limitations. Plastic panels were fabricated and painted for a specific aperture in the Yale Art and Architecture building. The points were performative, framing certain views and modulating light to produce an ambient effect on the interior of the hallway.

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new york NEW YORK

In Dialogue: Eisenman + Wigley VII
08.11.10
12:00PM - 2:00PM

Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall

An On-Going Conversation between Peter Eisenman and Mark WigleySponsored by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture

brooklyn NEW YORK

DISSOLVING DIMENSION - SETH SCANTLEN - SOLO EXHIBITION

August 6th-21st 12pm-6pm Wednesday-Sunday

CHASHAMA 217 GALLERY
217 E. 42nd St. New York, NY 10017
(in between 2nd & 3rd Ave.)

press release: chashama is pleased to announce Dissolving Dimension, an exhibit at chashama 217 by Seth Scantlen. Scantlen uses paint as his medium to express the fluidity of identity. Representation and abstraction flow together, seamlessly intermingling, in a state of constant flux. He explores both the terror and joy that comes with identity’s meltdown.

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