vienna AUSTRIA

Essence Angewandte Institute of Architecture year end exhibition at the Künstlerhaus, Vienna.

The exhibition design by Hani Rashid was conceived as a field matrix that displays and proliferates, information, models and materials from the Institutes architecture departments. The resulting terrain is a landscape of varying visions for the future of architecture. Over 60 works of students from the three design studios Zaha Hadid, Greg Lynn, and Hani Rashid were “spawned” across the field of 600 podiums.

The Essence Show 2012
Wednesday, 06/27 — 07/15
Künstlerhaus
Karlsplatz 5, 1010 Vienna

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new york NEW YORK

Seung Teak Lee and Mi Jung Lim (STPMJ), Michael Szivos (SOFTlab), and Koji Tsutsui (Koji Tsutsui & Associates), winners of the 31st The Architectural League Prize, lecture tonight at Parsons The New School for Design.

Tickets to tonight’s lectures are sold out. The reception and exhibition opening following the lectures are free and open to all. We invite you to attend. The reception should begin around 8:45 p.m.

Tuesday, 06/26
7.00 pm / Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
Parsons The New School for Design
66 Fifth Avenue
new york, NEW YORK

calgary CANADA

Adviser: josh TARON, University of Calgary

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

anna BATEBE: This project analyses the parallels between the disciplines of architecture and fashion as material products of our culture, and their capacity to generate multiple identities. While the definition of identity suggests a defined construct, its very nature is complex, multidimensional, and far removed from being a single entity.

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lima PERU

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

PUCP FabLab: The intersection between hi-tech and low-tech is what thrives the studio, The city of Lima being in a similar condition makes the students question the very basics of technology. The recycled bottles arrayed along a titled cone define the geometry of the installation. The CNC Xs are bound together by the cap of the plastic bottles, where the bottle provides the hardest area. Each bottle behaves as a bolt and the caps as the nuts, since the bottles and caps are standardized, it doesn’t matter what brand it is used, they all have the same cap. Recycling and technology works together to generate a more sustainable way of building.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
Advisor: michael ROTONDI

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

travis VLIET: This thesis creates a zone along the US/Mexico border, which redefines the way a border is used and perceived. By replacing a built wall with a series of architectures that begin to define this new border as a set of complex ‘shared spaces’. This space which is the essential element for the connection situates itself within the existing context to give birth to a new set of conditions, ultimately creating an identity that is neither American or Mexican.

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vienna AUSTRIA

CELETON, Excessive Music Hall
Postgraduate Master Thesis, Die Angewandte/University of Applied Arts Vienna

Studio Excessive, Hernan Diaz Alonso

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

alex SMAGA: Music goes under your skin . . . How to translate the sensation of music into architecture? How to explain the pleasure we experience while listening to Mozart, Beethoven or Jimi Hendrix? How architectural mutation processes correspond to music making? How architecture can stimulate the development of new styles in music?

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Bartlett UCL London, MArch Graduate Architectural Design (GAD), research cluster 2 (RC2)
Advisor: Univ.-Prof.(IBK) Marjan Colletti PhD, Guan Lee, Tea Lim, Pavlos Fereos.

In Greek mythology the Chimera was a monstrous fire-breathing creature. She had the body of a lioness, a tail ending in a snake’s head, and a goat’s head arising on her back at the centre of her spine. There are of course many other examples in different cultures that could also be referred to as Chimeras. In genetics, biology and botany a Chimera represents an animal or plant with genetically distinct cells from two different zygotes or genetically different types of tissue; the resulting organism is a mixture of tissues, and of different sets of chromosomes. In paleontology, it is a fossil reconstructed with parts from different animals.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

adam RUDE: Recent research has shown a primary issue facing educators of the middle school grades is student engagement. This project attempts to address the issue through a radial configuration of transparent program elements, revealing all that is happening within the school at a given moment, as well as through a physically engaging topographic environment which will make the experience of attending the school exciting and memorable.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

ZIFAN liu: The majority of contemporary architecture is interested in concretizing a certain idea of form. While almost every attempt of making architecture seems Largely rely on either a typology of shapes or a rhetoric of complex geometry. It has become a mechanism of control in contemporary architecture design. No matter how sophisticated the techniques are, the form still exists as an underlying framework, static and rational.

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stuttgart GERMANY

“Virtual Engineering in the New Inventive Economy”

Ben van Berkel / UNStudio’s Centre for Virtual Engineering (ZVE) realized and receives Gold certification from the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB)

The Centre for Virtual Engineering (ZVE) for the ‘Fraunhofer-Institut für Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation IAO’ in Stuttgart has been realized. The official opening takes place today with an opening ceremony during which the German Sustainable Building Council (DNGB) will award the building with a Gold certification.

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