brooklyn NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Francis BITONTI: Francis Bitonti Studio produced the Schistose Mirror for the Intersections Symposium at the New York City College of Technology in June 2012. The different geometric organizations carved into the relief to produce a landscape of perceptual effects. The Mirror is CNC cut from high-density urethane foam and finished with a black automotive finish and can be produced in about two weeks time. The automotive finish produces a variety of effects across the surface. The reflective surface allows the onlookers to project themselves into the ephemeral landscape. The viewer becomes the project, integrating perception and form.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

We are at the cusp of a revolution: we can now create machines that adapt their behaviour based on their environment and the results of their actions. The enablers for this revolution are sensing, communication, and computation technologies, and the feedback control algorithms that rule the machines. These creations will have unprecedented effects on our lives—some welcome, others not. In this talk, D’Andrea outlines how we got here, where we are going, and the consequences.

Raffaello D’ANDREA, “Feedback Control and the Coming Machine Revolution”
Wednesday, 11/28
6.30–8.00 pm / Christopher Ingold Auditorium
The Bartlett School of Design
UCL Chemistry Building
20 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AJ

princeton NEW JERSERY

Princeton SOA Lecture Series: “What I Did Next: Princeton’s Alternative Architectural Practices”

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“Digital Geometries,” with Ingeborg ROCKER, Michael YOUNG & Kutan AYATA, Pablo Lorenzo EIROA, Branden HOOKWAY, & Yusuke OBUCHI
Wednesday, 11/28
6.00pm / Betts Auditorium
Princeton SOA
Princeton, New Jersey 08544

los angeles CALIFORNIA

Neil Denari is an architect and principal of Neil M. Denari Architects, a globally recognized architecture practice based in Los Angeles. He is currently a Professor at UCLA. At present, his office is engaged with projects of various scales in the U.S. and Asia. Denari is the author of two bestselling books, Interrupted Projections and Gyroscopic Horizons, and is currently at work on Facticity, forthcoming in 2013.

neil DENARI, “Facticity”
intro. by eric owen MOSS
Wednesday, 11/28
7.00 pm / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

brooklyn NEW YORK

Often described as a neo-Miesian, but one who constantly strives for originality, Eduardo Souto de Moura has achieved much praise for his exquisite use of materials—granite, wood, marble, brick, steel, concrete—as well as his unexpected use of color. Souto de Moura was the 2011 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate.

eduardo SOUTO DE MOURA
Tuesday, 11/27
6.00 pm / Higgins Hall
Pratt Institute
61 Saint James Place
Brooklyn, NY 11238

cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

Pierre Hermé, widely considered as today’s foremost pastry chef, will expose three of his creations, retracing them from their original intuition to the elaboration of their flavors, textures, and formal manifestations, ultimately giving each its own character and ability to provide us with a new way of discovering the world.
 . . . His work demonstrates a rigor and sensibility that have created a new grammar whose richness is in line with the growing interest in cross-disciplinary thinking in design fields—laying foundations of what can be called the Architecture of Taste.

Pierre Hermé, “The Architecture of Taste”
w/ Sanford Kwinter and Savinien Caracostea
Tuesday, 11/27
6.30 pm / Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall
Harvard GSD
48 Quincy St.
Cambridge, MA

orléans FRANCE

The work of Enric Ruiz-Geli aims to create new forms of spatiality from digital technologies. Advocating of green architecture and biotechnology, research and development department Cloud 9 uses information as a construction material, considering each building a prototype to be managed via the computer from design to final production. As an architect, Ruiz-Geli has built the Media-TIC in Barcelona and is the designer of the El Bulli Foundation in Madrid.

Enric RUIZ-GELI, Architecture + Experimentation lecture
Tuesday, 11/27
6.00 pm / Médiathèque d’Orléans
Auditorium Reggui (Entrée côté rue Chanzy)
1, Place Gambetta, 45000 Orléans FRANCE

new york NEW YORK

Born out of the drawingbuilding.org online archive, Architectural Inventions is a compendium of unbuilt structures that only exist on paper. Including the work of architects, designers, and artists from around the world, the book reveals an array of alternatives, expansions, or critiques of our inhabited environments told through drawing. Highlighting visions that exist outside of established channels of production and conventions of design, Architectural Inventions showcases multiplicity in concept and vision, fantasy and innovation.

book launch: Architectural Inventions, Matt Bua and Maximilian Goldfarb
Tuesday, 11/27
7.00 pm / Studio-X NYC
180 Varick St #1610
New York, NY 10014

moscow RUSSIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Eduard HAIMAN: This is the unfinished series of graphic work about new way of discovery letters. Basic question of project is how to make that symbols were not, but they emergence, and we can see them. Several algorithms were created which can use only ties between some points on the space for generate of alphabetical symbols. General restrictions are the not using contours, patches, spots, fields, pixels and so on. Ties make fields where condense clots which not the symbols but they designate presence them.

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new york NEW YORK

Often described as a neo-Miesian, but one who constantly strives for originality, Eduardo Souto de Moura has achieved much praise for his exquisite use of materials—granite, wood, marble, brick, steel, concrete—as well as his unexpected use of color. Souto de Moura was the 2011 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate.

eduardo SOUTO DE MOURA
Monday, 11/26
6.30 pm / Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Columbia University
1172 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027