los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

yaohua WANG: During the modernization of Beijing, except for some historical houses, independent housing typology was almost eliminated. Afterwards, the new model became huge, stacking commercial residential buildings.

Thus, with the support of the client, project Beijing House II is trying to seek new methods of bringing the independent housing typology back to Beijing’s contemporary city life. This design scheme adds a new house onto the exterior of an obsolete factory building. Inside the house there are bedrooms, a studio and a green room. By doing this, the design uses the empty city space in the air and rediscovers the typology of independent housing in Beijing city.

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new york NEW YORK

Join Mark C. Taylor, K. Michael Hays, Renata Hejduk, Steven Holl, Karla Britton, and Jim Williamson for a discussion about space, the sacred, and imagination. The discussion stems from the recent publication of The Religious Imagination in Modern and Contemporary Architecture: A Reader (eds. Renata Hejduk and Jim Williamson) and Constructing the Ineffable: Contemporary Sacred Architecture (ed. Karla Britton).

mark c. TAYLOR, k. michael HAYS, renata HEJDUK, steven HOLL, karla BRITTON, & jim WILLIAMSON
Tuesday, 02/21
6.00 pm / AAP NYC, 50 W. 17th Street, New York City
Cornell University College of Architecture
Cosponsored by Yale University

brooklyn NEW YORK

peter EISENMAN in conversation with Pratt Professor, catherine INGRAHAM

Pratt’s graduate architecture professor, Catherine Ingraham puts Peter Eisenman, the man of life changing architectural concepts, in the “hot seat.”

peter EISENMAN & catherine INGRAHAM
Monday, 02/20
06.00 pm / higgins hall
PRATT Institute
200 Willoughby Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11205

london UNITED KINGDOM

Anthony Vidler is Dean and Professor of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union, New York. His most recent books are James Frazer Stirling: Notes from the Archive (Yale University Press, 2010) and The Scenes of the Street and other Essays (Monacelli Press, 2011). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and received the architecture award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2011.

tony VIDLER
lecture: “Troubles in Theory: The state of the art from townscape to datascape.”
Monday, 02/20
01.00 pm /
Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES

london UNITED KINGDOM

“Flesh is circulating. Organs are extracted and exchanged. Limbs detached from a dead body can be reanimated on a living body. The face of a donor body becomes a third face on the recipient. Cadavers can be preserved forever with plastination while comatose bodies can be sustained indefinitely on life-support systems. Cryogenically suspended bodies await reanimation at some imagined future. The dead, the near-dead and the yet to be born now exist simultaneously. The body is a chimera, a construct of meat, metal and code.”

Stelarc
lecture: “Circulating Flesh: The Cadaver, the comatose and the chimera”
Monday, 02/20
06.00 pm / lecture hall
Architectural Association
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES

Photo: Nina Sellars.

san antonio TEXAS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

yuichiro ITAYAMA: As Fuller, Ito, and Aranda/Lasch did, I started by creating honeycomb geometry. Developing the geometry through the software Rhino and Grasshopper. I began with not to just make regular honeycomb, but to create a random hexagon field that would grow in specific directions. Then, I began to develop the honeycomb pattern as a 3D model using a Grasshopper plug-in called GeometryGym. I started with two simple lines and by dividing those lines I could connect separate curves to the original lines. I then used GeometryGym to fill in the space with polyhedrons.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

“Many categorical problems of complexity and limited indeterminacy have already been codified through software as explicit informational territories [program]. Of crucial importance to these programs is their ability to mediate and reify informational bodies – inputting, conditioning and outputting data such that program-specific value and meaning are added to all three phases and posited as ontologically equivalent objects. Within this mode of design, the urgency for discretely structural strategies is paramount. . . .”

josh TARON
lecture: “Speculative Structures: Structurally Intelligent Swarms Research”
Monday, 02/17
1.00 pm / lecture hall
Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES

lexington KENTUCKY

Brennan Buck is a principal at FreelandBuck in New York and a Critic at the Yale School of Architecture. From 2004-2008 he was assistant professor at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna teaching in Studio Greg Lynn. He has practiced both landscape architecture and architecture, having worked for Neil M. Denari Architects and Johnston Marklee & Associates in Los Angeles. He is a graduate of Cornell University and the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design.

brennan BUCK
Friday, 02/17
05:00 pm / 209 Pence Hall
University of Kentucky
College of Design
117 Pence Hall
Lexington, KY 40506

rome ITALY

I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE will be the fourth cool event that the creative Roman group of CityVision will presents at the MACRO museum of via Nizza in Rome on February 17th, 2012 – 6.30 pm.

A new independent architecture event will host, for the first time in Rome, the famous London office SQUINT/OPERA, with a lecture of Jules Coke (Squint/Opera founding director). A new international architecture competition to explore the future of the Big Apple, the New York CityVision Competition, will be announced. During the event the new, fifth issue of CityVision Magazine will be presented and freely distributed, and the winners and shortlisted of the PFFF—Inflatable Architecture Competition will be revealed.

I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE
Friday, 02/17
6.30pm
MACRO Museum via Nizza
Rome, ITALY

philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

david EATON, geoffrey KLEIN & michael WETMORE: The objective in designing Living Bridge was to describe a new type of nonlinear architecture through the design of an inhabitable bridge in Tokyo. The chosen site integrates with the residential neighborhoods of Ginza and Tsukishima. Through the harnessing and intensification of the discrete flows of the two neighborhoods, and through algorithmic generation of turbulent spatial and programmatic structures, a reinvention of the inhabitable bridge type is achieved.

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