cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

Joel Sanders and Diana Balmori will discuss their book Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture, which examines twenty-five projects, on an international scale, that consider landscape and architecture as true reciprocal entities. Joel Sanders is the Principal of the New York–based practice Joel Sanders Architect and a Professor of Architecture at Yale University. Diana Balmori, the founding principal of Balmori Associates, is recognized internationally for her creative interplay between landscape and architecture.

diana BALMORI and joel SANDERS
lecture: “Interface: Between Landscape and Architecture”
Tuesday, 01/31
6.30–8.00 pm / Location TBA
Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
48 Quincy
Gund Hall
Cambridge, MA 02138

new york NEW YORK

Lisa Snyder (Associate Director of the Experiential Technologies Center, UCLA) specializes in the use of interactive virtual reality environments to study and teach about historic urban environments. For the Israel Antiquities Authority, she created a 3-D interactive digital reconstruction of the Temple Mount complex, and, more recently, she’s developed a computer simulation of the 1893 World’s Colombian Exposition. Based on extensive archaeological and historical research, her highly detailed computer reconstructions allow users to explore built environments that no longer exist.

lisa SNYDER
lecture: “Virtual Reality, VSim, and the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893: Is There Hope for the Technically Challenged?”
Tuesday, 01/31
4.00–5.30 pm / Room 114, Avery Hall
Columbia GSAPP

1172 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, New York 10027

new york NEW YORK

“The machine aesthetic is everywhere,” observed the New York Times of HL23 when it rose above the High Line in 2011, noting that the 14-story Chelsea building’s eastern panels were partially manufactured on the same presses used to make parts for Mercedes trucks. This event brings Los Angeles architect Neil Denari (NMDA) and New York developer Alf Naman (Alf Naman Real Estate Advisors) together to discuss HL23’s realization, from its aerodynamic design and site relationship to its significance for New York’s high-end real estate market.

neil DENARI & alf NAMAN
lecture: “High Design at HL23”
Monday, 01/30
7.30–9.00 pm / Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Columbia GSAPP

1172 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, New York 10027

hong kong CHINA

Tutors: cho chung MAN, wang YANG, & ben DAI.
Students: Hu Zulong, Yu Xiaotong, Du Xiaohui, Xu Hao, Dai Sen, Zhao Bing, Mu Li, Liu Yu, Zhai Bingbo, Liang Yuan, Li Xinyao, Zhang Bowei, Liang Xianliang, Wang Xiang, Wang Yingzi, Zheng Chunyang, Luo Kejun, Zhu Hui, Xie Xincong, Yang Sen, Liang Meijun, Liu Shenglan, Hu Yande.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
cho chung MAN, wang YANG, & ben DAI: Paper as parameter. Paper is a “flexible material”—the ease to fold, cut, twist, and mass fabricate give paper an “immateriality” and “digital” property next to the flexibility in computational forms.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Adrian Forty is professor of architectural history at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. His book Words and Buildings, a Vocabulary of Modern Architecture (2000) will be republished by Thames and Hudson in early 2012 and his new book, Concrete and Culture, will also appear in 2012.

adrian FORTY
“Concrete and Culture,” Architecture and Education Series organized by Mark Cousins
Monday, 01/30
6.00 pm / lecture hall
Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES

KENTUCKY

We’re looking for the best student suckerPUNCHES of 2011 - the projects with the ambition and attitude to take architecture out back and rough it up. It doesn’t matter if your project was down and dirty, polished and refined, or elegantly wasted, just needs to be a barnburner…

Land of Tomorrow Gallery and suckerPUNCH are excited to announce a competition and exhibition featuring the most exciting work from architecture students in the United States. The projects will be narrowed down through online voting to determine which will be featured in the show. Our jury will then select three projects to have portions prototyped at full scale to be displayed in the exhibition. The prototypes will be fabricated by PR&vD. For more information on the exhibition and submitting your projects click HERE
jury to include: Hernan Diaz Alonso, Aaron Betsky, Mark Gage, Greg Lynn, Michael Speaks, Tom Wiscombe

london UNITED KINGDOM

This term Mark Cousins’s Friday evening lectures will deal with the fact that commonplaces nonetheless frequently exercise a powerful attraction—it will attempt to account for this by reference to the Imaginary. The series will take place on the following dates at 5.00 pm: February 3rd, March 2nd, March 9th.

mark COUSINS
“The Poetics of Cliché”
Friday, 01/27
7.00 pm / lecture hall
Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES

los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

rob LEY (of URBANA): Draper is permanent installation for the Visual Arts Department building at Florida State University.

Composed of hundreds of unique stainless steel strips, this project is an experiment in how mass and gravity, along with an experimental force-feedback fabrication technique can create a carefully tuned lattice structure. At 75′ in height, the project passes through 5 separate floors and sub-departments of a visual arts school, offering each level a unique view of the project.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Christy Lange has noted that Beasley’s ‘sculptures and photographs, as mute and minimal as they appear, unexpectedly open onto literary worlds’. Working between sculpture and photography - often printing at a 1:1 scale – allows Beasley to ask sculptural questions of the photographic and to interrogate the sculptural from the position of the photographic object. Conceptual and instinctual attitudes are bound intensely into the centre of her practice. . . .

becky BEASLEY
Feet & Hinges (and Other Literary Models): Artist Talks Series organized by Parveen Adams
Friday, 01/27
6.30 pm /
Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES

new orleans LOUISIANA

Instructor: Sheena A. Garcia
Seminar: ADGM6300 Theories in Digital Media, Tulane University School of Architecture

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
hannah AMBROSE, caroline MEYER, shea TRAHAN, & andrew GRAHAM: This VIP tent for the Spring 2012 Mercedes Benz Fashion Week embodies the idea that high fashion is a complex and seductive organism capable of consuming human interest through the ritual of spectacle.

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