stuttgart GERMANY

The Haus am Weinberg is located in a setting that is at one time rural, yet suburban. The location of the villa affords pastoral views of the stepped terraces of an ancient hillside vineyard on one side and cityscape vistas on the other.

The inner circulation, organisation of the views and the programme distribution of the house are determined by a single gesture, “the twist.” In the Haus am Weinberg the central twist element supports the main staircase as it guides and organises the main flows through the house. The direction of each curve is determined by a set of diagonal movements. Whilst the programme distribution follows the path of the sun, each evolution in the twist leads to moments in which views to the outside become an integral experience of the interior.

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new york NEW YORK

In partnership with New York City Parks & Recreation the Land Art Generator Initiative held its 2012 design competition for Freshkills Park in NYC (the former Fresh Kills Landfill). On July 1st, LAGI received 250 inspiring submissions from around the world. Please join LAGI at SOHO Gallery for Digital Art in NYC for this free and open celebration. The winning submissions will be announced! Guests will receive a free copy of “A Field Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies”.

LAGI 2012 NYC
Thursday, 10/25
7.00 pm / SOHO Gallery for Digital Art
138 Sullivan Street
New York, NEW YORK 10012

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shanghai CHINA

The design of this temporary installation reinterprets the traditional Chinese garden to activate the roof terrace of the MoCA Shanghai as an undulating and responsive multi-layered landscape. The upper (canopy) layer simultaneously produces gradient spatial conditions and framed viewing portals which curate views of the surrounding hi-rise towers, while the lower (landscape) layer articulates a series of back-lit sculptural ground forms which subdivide the terrace and provide atmospheric effect through responsive color-changing LED lighting effects. Inspired by the work of Frei Otto, the entire project extends his body of design research into physical and digital form-finding processes for minimal surface structures through dynamic mesh relaxation techniques.

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beijing CHINA & munich GERMANY

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

WAX Architects (nikolaus WABNITZ & xu FENG): In the galleries of the artist community of CaoChangDi Beijing, Tsunami Urban Furniture is forged by the force of a powerful wave—the formation of this public furniture object “Tsunami” flows between sharp corners to reshape the gallery space.

Tsunami is creating a spatial transformation from the hard elements of the context to the fluid formation of the object itself where nature’s forces create a constant feedback between environment and artificial entities.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Synthesis Design + Architecture (alvin HUANG): The proposal for the Daegu Gosan Public Library challenges the conventional understanding of the spatial and social experience of a public library as a series of discrete reading rooms with defined thresholds and cluttered stacks. We propose an intelligent, open, and integrated library experience which supersedes the media storage methods of the past and changes the library space into a hybrid environment through ubiquitous information resources, integrated furnishings and active communal social spaces.

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barcelona SPAIN & damascus SYRIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

MAGLAB (aref MAKSOUD): Haute Contour . . . Hot Contour . . . When Haute Couture meets parametric design . . . When couture meets contour . . . Where parametric design meets fashion.

Haute Contour is one of MAGLAB’s research works toward new cybernetic, biodigital design.

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ann arbor MICHIGAN

Michael Hays is Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Co-Director of Doctoral Programs (PhD & DDes). Hays has played a central role in the development of architectural theory in North America and his work is internationally known. His research and scholarship have to date focused on the areas of European modernism and critical theory as well as on theoretical issues in contemporary architectural practice. . . .

k. michael HAYS, “Architecture and Its Own: From Aesthetics to Ontology”
Monday, 10/22
6.00 pm / A+A Auditorium (Rm 2104)
Art + Architecture Building
A. Alfred Taubman College of A+UP
University of Michigan
2000 Bonisteel Boulevard
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

london UNITED KINGDOM

Out of the deep contradictions of global capitalism an interconnected series of social, political, economic and ecological crises are emerging. . . . This lecture will situate a critical research practice within these emerging transdisciplinary configurations, and will argue for an architecture that, as a dialectically autonomous producer of values and concepts, can stage a distinct political engagement with these socio-ecological questions.

Jon Goodbun, “Dialectical Ecologies: Architecture and Politics in the Age of Capitalist Crisis”
Monday, 10/22
6.00 pm / Lecture Hall
Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES

san francisco CALIFORNIA

Brooklyn + London based research collaborative, Darrick Borowski, Nikoletta Poulimeni and Jeroen Janssen will be presenting their ongoing research “Edible Infrastructures: Emergent Organizational Patterns For a Productive City” at ACADIA 2012: Synthetic Digital Ecologies, this Sunday, Oct 21 at CCA in San Francisco.

Other notable speakers at this year’s ACADIA conference include Greg Lynn, Neri Oxman, Saul Griffith, Achim Menges and Manuel DeLanda.

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cincinnati OHIO

Surface Conversations, a two-day workshop/symposium focusing on the re-surfacing of the Aronoff Center for Design and Art with conversations on the influence of signature architecture on campus planning. This symposium considers the surfaces of buildings and landscapes, with the University of Cincinnati campus serving as an intellectual and physical site for inspection. Speakers include Michael Graves, Peter Eisenman, Karen M’Closkey, Andrew Witt, Jane Weinzapfel & Andrea Leers, Buzz Yudell, and more.

Surface Conversationa
Thursday, 10/25 & Friday 10/26
College of DAAP
University of Cincinnati
Aronoff Center
650 Walnut Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202