ann arbor MICHIGAN

Odile Decq is Director of École Spéciale d’Architecture and Principal of Odile Decq Benoît Cornette, Architectes-Urbanistes, in Paris, France. Her first commission, Banque Populaire de l’Ouest in Rennes, France—completed in 1990—received international acclaim and numerous prizes. Publications documenting the building underlined the emergence of a new style born from punk rebellion, while also questioning the project, the use, the matter, the body, the technique, the taste, and the architecture of Odile Decq Benoît Cornette.

Odile Decq
Monday, 11/26
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

pittsburgh PENNSYLVANIA

AvroKO is equally adept at the varied disciplines of architecture, interiors, furniture, graphics, fashion, and art installations. AvroKO’s four partners - William Harris, Greg Bradshaw, Kristina O’Neal, and Adam Farmerie - each contribute a unique vision to the firm’s multifaceted design mission. The four principals first met in college at Carnegie Mellon University, Adam and Greg in the School of Architecture, and Kristina and William in School of Art; they joined forces to establish New York headquartered AvroKO in 2000.

Adam Farmerie and William Harris (AVRO|KO), “In order to draw a circle, you have to draw circles'”
Monday, 11/26
6.00 pm / Carnegie Museum of Art Theater
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

san diego CALIFORNIA

critic: raul DIAZ

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

brandon MARTELLA: Food as a resource is limited. Supply will soon not meet demand. With population growth, food production in the United States is reaching maximum capacity. Current trends in development create a struggle between farming and living. These two practices are modeled for their own benefit and are soon to clash in a disastrous agglomeration. According to the FDA, the average American alone consumes 707.7lbs of fruits and vegetables each year.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

This lecture challenges the negative attitude towards technology and computation in general and digital fabrication in particular—an attitude that is still prevalent in certain architectural circles, and argues instead for a more receptive approach based on the ideas of Gilles Deleuze. The lecture goes on to look at some of the latest developments in digital fabrication, including two NASA sponsored research projects to develop a robot to fabricate structures on the Moon and Mars.

neil LEACH, “Desiring Machines”
Thursday, 11/22
7.30 pm / Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
C/Pujades 102, Poblenou, Barcelona

vienna AUSTRIA

In his well known essay, ”Translations from Drawings to Buildings,” critic Robin Evans articulates that architects are challenged by the fact that, unlike other artistic pursuits, we don’t directly manipulate our medium—we don’t build buildings—and that, therefore, we develop complex traffic between drawings and buildings. Oyler Wu Collaborative has challenged that notion. First, they extend the design of their work well into the fabrication phase by constructing many of the projects themselves. Second, they have expanded the notion of lines to operate beyond a 2-D drawing by literally constructing lines in three dimensions to become architecture.

dwayne OYLER & jenny WU, “Lineworks”
Thursday, 11/22
7.00 pm / Lichthof 2, IoA
Oskar Kokoschka-Platz 2
1010 Vienna, Austria

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paris FRANCE

With the Onyx Concept, Peugeot continues its experimentation with materials: this is the case with the Newspaper Wood, produced from compressed used newspapers, from which the dashboard and centre console are made.

Next to the Onyx, the Onyx Concept Bike, an ultra-light superbike with a carbon fibre shell designed by the Peugeot Design Lab, and the Onyx Concept Scooter, a three-wheeled 400cm3 hybrid supertrike, serve as a reminder of Peugeot’s historic expertise in the various modes of personal transport.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
critic: florencia PITA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

fernando HERRERA & jing meng FENG: The building comes together as a hybrid composition of aesthetic characteristics, a coalescence of contrarieties. The combination of distinctly different vocabularies alludes to the programatic versatility in the scope. The design strategy features a hard-edged shell that rests on a geometrically soft under-belly, and both components bear different texture qualities. These articulations of the envelope originated from a process of algorithmic outputs.

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copenhagen DENMARK

The starting point of the Symposium Confluence - Establishing data flow from Design to Site is the promise that Building Information Modelling came with: the creation of a fluent building process starting in design and reaching out all along to architectural production and use. Looking at research driven developments in both academia and practice the seminar investigates the contemporary state, challenges and future potential that might emerge from an unlimited flow of information.

Confluence
Friday, 11/23
11.00 am - 5.00pm / KADK- Auditorium 6
Danneskiold-Samsøes Allé 53
1434 Copenhagen

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new york NEW YORK

In the 1920s, the urban theory of Ludwig Hilberseimer (1885–1967) redefined architecture’s relationship to the city. His proposal for a high-rise city, where leisure, labor and circulation would be vertically integrated, both frightened his contemporaries and offered a trenchant critique of the dynamics of the capitalist metropolis. Hilberseimer’s Groszstadtarchitektur is presented here for the first time in English translation. . . .

Translate: GSAPP Books presents Ludwig Hilberseimer’s
Metropolisarchitecture and Selected Essays
Richard Anderson, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Craig Buckley, & Claire Zimmerman
Monday, 11/19
6.30 pm / Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Columbia University
1172 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027

calgary CANADA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

josh TARON, adam ONULOV, & michael McGIE: In her essay, “The Natural in Architecture and Culture,” Elizabeth Grosz cites Plato’s chora as a “receptacle or nurse that brings matter into being, without being material; it nurtures the idea into material form, without being ideal.” The positioning of architecture as an indeterminate attendant[1] is a mode that had been addressed only a few years prior to the Blur Building in the Chora L Works.[2] This is not a point to be dismissed as the Blur Building should be understood as an achievement of architecture that for one reason or another could not be resolved previously between Eisenman and Derrida. Furthermore, it concurrently enables Architecture to operate without ideal meaning while opening up infinite possibilities for complex material affects.

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