college station TEXAS

Roland Snooks, design director and founding partner of Kokkugia, a progressive architecture and urban design practice with offices in New York and London, will present “Volatile Formation,” the final lecture in Texas A&M Department of Architecture’s Spring 2012 Lecture Series.

roland SNOOKS
Monday, 04/23
5.30 pm / Preston Geren Auitorium
Building B, Langford Architecture Center
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas 77843

new york NEW YORK

Discussions between NEWLY DRAWN emerging Finnish firms and New York based winning firms of the AIANY’s New Practices and the Architectural League’s Emerging Voices. The roundtable sessions will focus on sharing and comparing experiences of setting up architectural practices in Helsinki and NY. Short presentations on the history and origins of each practice and their work will provide 15 different perspectives on establishing and running an office. The participants will also discuss their architectural motives, influences, techniques and agendas . . .

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Newly Drawn: Emerging Finnish Architects
Saturday, 04/21
1.00–7.00 pm / Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place
new york, NEW YORK 10012

los angeles CALIFORNIA

ROBOT WORKSHOP COMPETITION
Honorable Mention — $100

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project:

anirudh DHAWAN & jili HUANG:The building is a dynamic form embedded and responding to its context by slowly revolving as it moves social gathering spaces to workshop, classroom, and administrative spaces. The heavy duty work involving the utilization of 6-7 axis Kuka robots is maintained in an internal vortex which acts as the controlling spine of the envelope form. The 3d printing and robotics workshops for territorial and responsive robots which involve less bulk tooling are given space above the ground floor.

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new york NEW YORK

Pratt Institute’s Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design exhibition of student work has been curated, designed, and fabricated by a group of students in a course taught by Michael Szivos for the past 5 years. This year Michael along with Carrie McKnelly worked with a group of students to produce a large scale installation in the Hazel and Robert H. Siegel Gallery. The installation focuses the views of visitors along various axes through the gallery.

Hazel and Robert H. Siegel Gallery
School of Architecture, Higgins Hall
61 St. James Place
Brooklyn, NEW YORK 11238

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dallas TEXAS

ROBOT WORKSHOP COMPETITION
Honorable Mention — $100

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project:

zach GRZYBOWSKI & quoc TRAN: The overall goal of the project was to implement the urban context of Brooklyn with the influence of robotics. The unique context allowed for an interesting juxtaposition of materiality and form through the injection of urban fabric and circuits. The materiality itself is developed from the pre-existing stone work that is prominent in the surrounding area. This observation lead us to develop a skin that assimilates the brick pattern into a physical representation of the urban fabric. The circuits are projected onto the main programmatic spaces [studios, meet up rooms, classrooms] which strategized the manipulation of the cladding.

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newark NEW JERSEY

Preston Scott Cohen, principal of Preston Scott Cohen, Inc. and the Gerald M. McCue Professor of Architecture at Harvard’s GSD, lectures on “Attenuation” at the New Jersey Institute of Technology College of Architecture and Design.

preston scott COHEN
Thursday, 04/19
5.30 pm / Weston Lecture Hall 1
New Jersey Institute of Technology CoAD
Newark, New Jersey 07102

new york NEW YORK

Peter Eisenman speaks on “Project and Practice,” part of Cooper Union’s student lecture series, on Thursday, April 19.

Peter Eisenman is the Charles Gwathmey Professor in Practice at Yale University and principal of Eisenman Architects. He has designed large-scale housing and urban design projects, innovative facilities for educational institutions, and a series of inventive private houses. His current projects include the six-building City of Culture of Galacia in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and a large condominium housing block in Milan, Italy.

Peter Eisenman
Thursday, 04/19
6.00-8.00 pm / The Foundation Building
The Cooper Union
Cooper Square
new york, NEW YORK 10003

philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

TINGWEI xu & XIE zhang: Confronting the rising sea level of New York, we designed an idea for protecting certain areas against water by wearing a “membrane.” Deriving the design from intelligent components, we created a surface system that can reveal a continually changing expression. The transforming surface can combine the multiple functions such as waterproof, lighting and agricultural planting. Rather than a traditional hierarchy design thinking, each component on the surface has equal essentiality. It is a irreducible integrity.

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geneva SWITZERLAND

FT-Bh — A concept bringing efficiency to a new level

- Concept designed to demonstrate minimised emissions within an economically viable framework
- Design inspired by the natural flow of the air
- 3,985 mm long combined with light weight body design resulting in a 786 kg mass
- High level of aerodynamic performance resulting in a Coefficient of Drag (Cd) of just 0.235
- High efficiency 1.0-litre petrol, 2-cylinder, full hybrid powertrain
- Aiming at 2.1 l/100 km and 49 g/km – a new milestone for a full hybrid powered vehicle

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new orleans LOUISIANA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Npsag (nathan PETTY & sheena a. GARCIA): The project is a speculation on the industrialization of the water’s edge and its reinvention through this emerging electronic music scene. We located the project as a wayfinding beacon at the event’s main entrance. The plan of the project reinforces this idea through the creation of a directional arrow that facilitates flow from the entry and into the VIP areas and main event spaces. The triangulated surface of the piece is a field of peaks that is varied from all angles of view. We intended to create an artificial landscape which allows visitors to view through it and to stand within it.
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