vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

joseph HOFMARCHER, rangel KARAIVANOV, jurgen STROHMAYER, siim TUKSAM: Sitting at a high point of the Bosphorus valley, Levent Vertical Mass responds to the urban context of the Istanbul metropolis at large by integrating the high velocity axes of the Golden Horn highways and contextualizing views to the old city. The building’s urban scale ceiling facade is oriented towards the boulevard of Levent, characterized by commercial high-rise buildings, as well as the adjacent valley neighborhood.

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new york NEW YORK

London and Berlin-based architect David Adjaye kicks off the spring 2012 GSAPP lecture series by questioning the meaning of time. When is now, and how does it manifest in his recent work? Projects range from the ephemeral to the institutional (“Genesis,” Design Miami; Moscow School of Management, Skolkovo), and from the contemporary to the historic (Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington DC).

david ADJAYE
lecture: “When is now? ”
Wednesday, 01/25
6.30–8.00 pm / Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Columbia GSAPP

1172 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, New York 10027

los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

kid KITCHAIYA: Primal Parts focused on exploring the possible affects and spatial conditions in architecture by analyzing the heterogeneous composition of biological parts. A set of biological parts were configured then dismembered through the use of butchering techniques. The conditions that yielded from these cuts were harvested based on the necessity of parts. Some cuts yielded spatial conditions and were then applied to the program. The characteristics of these biological parts create an immersive environment—an intensive exchange between architecture and product.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

michel ROJKIND
Wednesday, 01/25
7.00 pm / W. M. Keck Lecture Hall
Southern California Institute of Architecture
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

saint louis MISSOURI

Fall 2011 digital fabrication studio. Students in order by last name: Zephyr Anthony, Andrew Davis, Kyle Fant, Xiaoshuang Hu, Allyson Justmann, Andrew McCready, Kelly Peoples, Xiaofei Ren, Bo Sheng, Jody Smith, Ben Stephenson, Tommy Watkins, Duo Yu.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

SALTWORKS: The installation requirements were the piece had to be designed on a bio-mimetic principal using parametric modelling, and the end result should be kinetic.

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cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

The discussion between Preston Scott Cohen and Nicolai Ouroussoff, former architecture critic for the New York Times, will revolve around the Herta and Paul Amir Building, at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, by Preston Scott Cohen, Inc.

preston scott COHEN
Tuesday, 01/24
06:30 - 08:00 pm / Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall
Harvard Graduate School of Design
48 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

hong kong CHINA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Y Design Office: Under rapid housing developments in the past years, Hong Kong has benefited much in terms of economy. However, important values such as value in sense of community and individual identity were lost. This thesis hereby critically reviews current and past housing projects in Hong Kong and stating the notion of verticality as the only solution.

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vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

lisa SOMMERHUBER: Academia Somaesthetica envisions a new perception of interior and exterior through the human body. It elevates outdoor fitness to a new, urban dimension: The Copacabana beach promenade, known as the largest outdoor sports field in the world and situated in the heart of Rio de Janeiro, gets extended into the building.

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chicago ILLINOIS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

stephen COORLAS & dominic PETERNEL: For this installation we were challenged by the gallery curator to exhibit “architecture” in an experimental fashion. Our response was to design an intensive experience that would locate the viewer in the convoluted realm of graphic, product, and architectural design.

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beijing CHINA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

xin WANG + christoph KLEMMT (ORPROJECT):

1. ANISOTROPIA: Anisotropia is based on Klavierstück I, a composition for piano by Orproject director Christoph Klemmt. The piano piece uses a twelve tone row which is repeated and altered by the different voices, in order to create complex rhythmic patterns.
Anisotropia becomes the physical manifestation of Klavierstück I, a frozen piece of music.

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