louisville KENTUCKY

Voting for suckerPUNCH + LoT’s exhibition entrants ends March 4th. CAST YOUR VOTE BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!

Vote for your favorite American student project from the past school year. Ten winners will be exhibited at Land of Tomorrow Gallery in September 2012. Our jury will then select three projects from the ten to have portions prototyped at full scale to be displayed in the exhibition. The prototypes will be fabricated by PR&vD.

jury to include: Hernan Diaz Alonso, Aaron Betsky, Mark Gage, Greg Lynn, Michael Speaks, Tom Wiscombe.

Scroll through to see all shortlisted entries:

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vienna AUSTRIA

Between 1st and 3rd district in Vienna on the Ringstrasse a few buildings of different authors and times are collected on a block. Some of them serve the purposes of the Museum for Applied Arts and some of them serve the University of Applied Arts. The original urban intent for this group of buildings follows a very fine, subtle and precise idea. Although being part of a block, or standing on a block, they were always meant to keep their independency and autonomy by simultaneously allowing for a visibility of the space in between them.

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paris FRANCE

WORKSHOP AGENDA: Post-9/11, Post-Tsunamis, Post-Earthquakes, Post-Olympics, Post-Hadid; Post- McQueen.

Alexander McQueen (1969–2010) was one of the most influential and provocative designers of his generation. His clothing challenged the generic and conventional parameters of fashion to express culture, politics, identity. McQueen saw beyond clothing design physical constraints its ideological and conceptual possibilities, addressing questions related to race, gender, religion, sexuality and environment. During AA School Paris Spring 2012, McQueen’s evolutionary design will act as prompts for embryos’ naissance within the [Fashion+Architecture] body of work.

03/19–03/30
AA School Paris—Les Arts Décoratifs
111 rue de Rivoli, Paris, France

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lund SWEDEN

Lund School of Architecture
critic: Abelardo Gonzalez

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

sofia KANERUD: Inundating Infestation is a proposal for a housing, office and retail tower in the center of Malmö. The main idea of the project is to use one single body multiple times in various ways. The bodies are added on to as well as subtracted from a primitive building. Clusters of bodies naturally merge into larger systems. Each system is necessary to generate a specific spatial quality, such as skin organization, light filtration and programmatic distribution. The accumulation of bodies reconfigures the building mass and allows for new possibilities of architectural qualities.

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new york NEW YORK

Daniel Libeskind’s eL Masterpiece is roughly nine feet tall and two-and-a-half feet wide. It weighs 350 pounds. A luminous, sharp-edged, cascading shape, the chandelier has a highly-polished stainless steel exterior and a stainless-and-23-carat-gold-plated-leaf interior. Created in collaboration with Austrian lighting company Zumtobel, the limited-edition eL Masterpiece chandelier is distinguished by both its striking design and the sophisticated technology that underlies it.

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culver city CALIFORNIA

The LA Forum will host an event marking the publication of P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S’s new book, EMBEDDED, bringing together authors, contributors, mentors and confabulators to discuss some of the most relevant issues haunting contemporary architectural practice and discourse today, such as the perceived divide between progressive design culture, the politics of form and social responsibility. EMBEDDED is P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S’s long awaited book that reflects on the evolution, actualization and conclusion of certain lineages of design and material research, while signaling the initial stages of others.

EMBEDDED: Marcelo Spina, Georgina Huljich, Marcelyn Gow, Michael Osman, and Todd Gannon
Thursday, 02/23
6.00–9.00 pm / LA Forum
Vitra Showroom
8753 Washington Boulevard
Culver City, CA 90232

new york NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Oh_mami_mentum = helen n. LEVIN + jen WOOD: The Lonely Lover is constantly opposed, craving and craved for by the Permanent Bachelor. The physical space of the craving is the Love Room: a bubble at the end of a pheromone trail. This trail is forged through the interplay between those who sit and wait for love without direction and those who constantly seek love whilst lacking that same direction.

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amsterdam THE NETHERLANDS

Paris, France /// January 26, 2012

iris van HERPEN /// 2012 /// “Micro,” Paris Haute Couture

In addition to working with United Nude on a shoe titled Fang, Micro also saw van Herpen collaborating with designer Stephen Jones, artist Bart Hess, architect Isaie Bloch, and graphic designer Tara Doughans.

Fabrication of the Isaie Bloch assisted design was achieved on 3D printers at Materialise’s Belgian headquarters (using laser sintering), metal plating giving the appearance of antique bronze to the final product.

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princeton NEW JERSEY

Princeton SOA Lecture Series: Constructed Atmospheres
Curated by Philippe Rahm.

sean LALLY, ” The Air on Other Planets” & michelle ADDINGTON, “Contingent Phenomena”

Wednesday, 02/22
6.00 pm / Betts Auditorium
Princeton SOA
Princeton, New Jersey 08544

west richland WASHINGTON

west richland, WASHINGTON—Shelby SuperCars (SSC), the American supercar manufacturer and creator of the world record breaking Ultimate Aero, is proud to introduce its latest contribution to automobile enthusiasts worldwide.

Following several years of design and development of its revolutionary new supercar, SSC has named its new car TUATARA (pronounced twu‐tar‐ah).

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