houston TEXAS

Jeffrey Schnapp, Director, metaLAB, Harvard University, “Teaching (Design) Thinking” On the occasion of the joint Centennial of Rice University and the Rice School of Architecture as well as RDA’s 40th anniversary, the Fall 2012 RDA lecture series will address the future of architectural education and its potential impact on design practice and the built environment. Lectures will be held on consecutive Wednesdays in September and October.

Jeffrey Schnapp, 
”Teaching (Design) Thinking”
Wednesday, 09/26
6.00 pm / Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1001 Bissonnet St.
Houston, Texas 77005

new york NEW YORK

“This is the country that invented surf and turf,” noted Bjarke Ingels in New York Magazine when describing his West57 pyramid, currently facing some challenges from Community Board 4. Ingels returns to Columbia GSAPP’s Wood Auditorium on Tuesday, September 25, to discuss his recent work.

bjarke ENGELS, “Gyre: Recent Work by BIG”
Tuesday, 09/25
6.30 pm / Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Columbia University
1172 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027

new york NEW YORK

NYC CASINO/CONVENTION CENTER COMPETITION
Honorable Mention — $100

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

conner CALLAHAN: Manhattan is a contradiction, and its SUPERCELL megastructure, conflicted—an exterior that is highly public in its embracement of the community, but an interior geometry and program that is introverted and rejects its surrounding context. The design physically reveals a dichotomy and offers a playful critique of balancing outward versus inward agendas, while offering a destination to both engage and retreat from Manhattan.

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ann arbor MICHIGAN

Mark Foster Gage is at the forefront of a new generation of architects working to combine design practice with the use of today’s most advanced technologies. His work ranges from architectural projects and products to interdisciplinary collaborations, most recently with fashion designer Nicola Formichetti on costume pieces for Lady Gaga and a series of concept stores that recently opened in New York City, Hong Kong, and Beijing.

mark foster GAGE, “Transmedia Architecture”
Monday, 09/24
6.00 pm / A+A Auditorium (Rm 2104)
Art + Architecture Building
A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
University of Michigan
2000 Bonisteel Boulevard
Ann Arbor, MI

cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

cara LIBERATORE: This project considers rationality both as a problematic construct and as fundamental tool for architectural reinvention. Since we construct reality as a kind of fiction rather than discover it in the world, then the true Real only occurs in the moment in which rationality ceases to function. Counterintuitively, however, in order to produce any kind of freedom from rationality, architecture must critically engage with rationality itself and attempt to dismantle rationality from within. As a second-order procedure, the irrational real has the potential to exist both as a technique of codification and as a form of architectural experimentation.

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louisville KENTUCKY

Fresh Punches consists of the most experimental work from architecture students in the United States. Collected from the spring and fall semesters of 2011, the cutting-edge work to be exhibited features research in technology, space, and materials. The show is comprised of 19 projects, selected through online voting that took place at suckerpunchdaily.com in the Spring of 2012. A jury of architects, including Hernan Diaz Alonso, Aaron Betsky, Mark Gage, Greg Lynn, Michael Speaks, and Tom Wiscombe selected three of the projects to have prototypes fabricated.

FRESH PUNCHES
Opening: Friday 09/21
Friday 09/21-11/2
6.00 pm / Land of Tomorrow Gallery
233 W. Broadway
Louisville, Kentucky 40202

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london UNITED KINGDOM

University of Westminster
critics: arthur MAMOU-MANI & toby BURGESS, DS 10.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

jack MUNRO: Sanguis et Pulvis seeks to re-establish the dissipating autonomy of the Siwa Oasis in Egypt’s Western Desert. Throughout its history, this Berber settlement has remained isolated and self-sufficient; its traditional economy based on agriculture, its vernacular based on mud brick construction. However, two environmental phenomena have jeopardised this ancient way of life.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Site specific installation, Woodbury University

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

john BROCKWAY: This installation is the winning entry to the NOVEL competition at Woodbury University, formed to promote faculty research through fabrication. It offers funding to pursue a research proposal within the framework of juried competition. Selected proposals were given free access to the digital fabrication facilities, funds for materials, and three months in which to complete a project for a juried exhibition.

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new haven CONNECTICUT

diana BALMORI & joel SANDERS
lecture: “Between Landscape and Architecture”
Thursday, 09/20
6.30 pm / Hastings Hall
Paul Rudolph Hall
Yale School of Architecture

180 York Street

New Haven, Connecticut 06511

houston TEXAS

Frank Barkow of the Berlin firm Barkow Leibinger Architects lectures Thursday, September 20, at Rive University SOA.

Frank Barkow, “Bricoleur/Bricolage”
Thursday, 09/20
4.00 pm / Farish Gallery
Anderson Hall
Rice University SOA
6100 Main Street
Houston, TX