calgary CANADA

University of Calgary
Advisor: josh TARON

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

adam ONULOV: urban (de)resolution is rooted in the following question: why do we do things we hate? Consumer culture is everywhere and everything we have become. Our urban landscapes have become generic non-places; our public realm is nothing more than the residue of commercial culture—the junkspace that is remaining after the culture industry was allowed to run amok. The social contract is usurped by a perfectly instrumentalized mechanism of brand obedience.

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new york NEW YORK

Joseph Grima lectures on Domus, Tuesday, July 24th, at Columbia GSAPP’s Wood Auditorium.

Joseph GRIMA, “On Domus”
Tuesday, 07/24
4.00 pm / Wood Auditorium
Columbia University GSAPP
1172 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, New York 10027

philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

JIANNAN liu & TINGWEI xu: In this Tokyo night club design and research studio we were focusing on designing affective and dynamic formations for this nightclub in Tokyo: works of architecture that maximize their affects, and enhance responsiveness , to users and contexts. The creations of atmosphere is most pursed by starting with interiors and get the exactly feelings we want to create for the users. We aimed to build up a continued space with different transformation and transition of surface what lead people to feel the variations of atmosphere with continuity of space.

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indianapolis INDIANA

Registration for “1X20: 20 design studies for an urban infill lot” ends tomorrow, July 24, 2012. To register, send an email to jason@demerlyarchitects.com with your name.

“The goal of this project is to explore the intrinsic differences between designers and how they approach creative challenges. We’re seeking 20 designers to collaborate with us to create designs for an urban lot in downtown Indianapolis. . . . It’s up to you what to propose—a house, a business, a tower, a park, an installation piece.”

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denver COLORADO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

clark THENHAUS / Endemic: Fluid Matrices is a series that begins with analogue, alchemic drawings using various types of ink, dye, wax, salt, and water each with organizational and material tendencies fostering a drawing technique dependant on the interaction of fluid material effects. The analogue drawings as shown are image-adjusted stills of an otherwise durational process of mixing, repelling, contracting, or material resistances which initiate the drawing as a field underpinned by sensing over deciphering, meaning they are better described through density then area, for example. The drawings are multi-scalar, textural, atmospheric, sensate, and tangible material compositions through which field, zones of indeterminacy, material tendencies, boundaries, and effects are curated through color, texture, transparency, shifting hierarchies, and idiosyncracies.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

29 June 2012 — Victoria and Albert Museum, Friday Late Contemporary Programme

Trace Room is an installation commissioned by the Victoria and Albert Museum for their Friday Late on 29 June: Unbuilt De/ constructing architecture. Exploring the dematerialization of architectural elements which traditionally define the boundaries of a room, the installation begins to erase and explode its thresholds; suggesting its limits through a density of stretched cord lines. The ephemeral room stretches vertically within the double height volume of Gallery 25, partially enclosed by the sweeping staircase wrapping around the gallery and leading to the National Art Library.

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new york NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

paul CHAN: Imagine a future where buildings systematically disintegrate and regenerate into efficient landmasses, where inhabitants would have the ability to build and reuse structural elements as required without harming the environment. Rather than the traditionally linear process of construction, inhabitation, and demolition, re.generation architecture proposes a cyclical synthetic ecology, in which nature and built structure function in harmony.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Is “complexity” anything more than a term to denote the extent of human stupidity, or rather, the limits of our perception?

When the rules governing a scenario cannot be read with ease, the scenario is described as being “complex” - it is difficult to understand; it appears to require some sort of deeper understanding. BUT, as we have seen, the rules are not necessarily any more complicated than the most trivial of scenarios.

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hefei CHINA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

di WU: This design project involves an experiment to find the best approach to establish an architectural concept and then to develop it by systematic analysis.

The project seeks to address a basic problem that can arise in architectural contexts that contain too much open space, which makes the overall context less appealing to visitors. Due to the lack of landscaping, appropriate facilities, or other attractions, these over-scale plazas are relatively uninhabited.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

Critic: Ferda Kolatan, Pratt Institute GAUD
Seminar: “Design Finesse”

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

hannibal NEWSOM: Shallow Depths is the conceptual development and exploration of possible environments. They exist beyond scale, they express depth without perspective, milieu without subject, and articulation without definition. These intricate displays are mere moments in time drawn from raging vortices of nascent worlds emerging from their primordial sludge. Life seems to lurk just beneath the aether.

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