vienna AUSTRIA

Technical University of Vienna
critic: Manfred BERTHOLD

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Andreas KOERNER: Caterpillar is an experimental concept for dystopian urban architecture. The aim of the design studio was to think about urban and industrial parasites. Architecture that works itself through urban areas and settles wherever it “wants”.
I placed my concept on an old FLAK-Tower in the center of Vienna. Due to the fact that those huge Nazi anti-aircraft towers are nearly undestroyable and that they will penetrate the Viennese skyline for centuries, I thought the place suitable for an “urban parasite” which, same as the towers, just does not belong there!

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bologna ITALY

University of Bologna
critics: Alessio ERIOLI (Studio Master); Tommaso CASUCCI, Filippo NASSETTI, & Alessandro ZOMPARELLI (tutors)

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

SVEN (Andrea BARBIERI, Filippo CONTI, Giulia MARIOTTI, & Beatrice SCARDOVI): Find(&)MERGE is a project that starts with the research of a coherent strategy that can be implemented regardless of changing conditions. By exploiting systems emergent behavior we obtain a model that both fits and changes the area configuration where the system acts.

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munich GERMANY

Akademie der Bildenden Künste München

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Stefan SAALFELD: The abstract series are a mix and assemblage of very different “materials” and can be read as abstract spheres and spaces. Some of these elements are very new and fast (like the plain color stripes), others have a long history of being worked over and over again. Most work is done with digital tools, but I also use hand-painted forms as stencils. I’m interested in a complexity and a variety of elements and different textures that are mostly well known in abstract art, but I give them a kind of weird and even rotten twist. . . . It’s a kind of recycling process, taking some leftovers and bringing them back to life.

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pittsburgh PENNSYLVANIA

The architect is no longer an organizer of matter and space, but a designer of systems with multi-layered components and increasingly complex relationships. [En]Coding Architecture 2013 invites rising superstars, experienced researchers and designers to present experimental work derived through computational thinking and digital making. [En]Coding Architecture 2013 positions the field as an alloy of programming, digital tooling, art and science.

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[En]Coding Architecture 2013
02/07–02/09 / Carnegie Mellon University
4400 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA

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vienna AUSTRIA

University of Applied Arts Vienna,
Urban Strategies postgraduate program, Excessive III
critics: Hernan DIAZ ALONSO, Jose Carlos LOPEZ CERVANTES (asistant professor), Tyler BORNSTEIN (teaching assistant). With special thanks to the studio’s previous assistant professor, Steven MA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Tan AKINCI: The existing Vienna Westbahnhof train station lays in the end point of the Mariahilferstreet which is the shopping axis of Vienna. The “gürtel” which is a green band cuts the street and creates a undefined corridor.The neighbor on two sides; the Bahnhof City contains a lot of closed space with shopping, offices and a hotel.

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paris FRANCE

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Bonsoir Paris: DURAMEN is a series of handmade wooden sculptures. Born of a simple impulse, the one to break with conventional ways of exhibiting, Bonsoir Paris and its team have imagined a series of frames so strongly mistreated that they have become unrecognizable. Their wish is to break the properties of the compound, a form of compromise as minimal and it is efficient. They found a subtle twist while remaining faithful to a primitive form of revolt, without getting lost in vain styles effects. The choice of noble materials (Oak, Fir, Wenge, Pear, Linden) and the quest for finesse, enables them—with the DURAMEN series—to position themselves on the razor’s edge between two opposites, that of the deformed and that of the elegant, instinctive and thoughtful. [DURAMEN]

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los angeles CALIFORNIA & chicago ILLINOIS

SCI-Arc

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Nikita TROUFANOV & Gonzalo PADILLA: Representation can be thought of as the place of articulation between architectural practice and theory. It is precisely in such moments of change where critical thought and new theories are produced and practice is radically restructured. What makes representation a crucial field in the understanding of architecture is the mediated character of representation itself. — Stan Allen
DrawDEL Strands is an experiment in the oscillation of materiality—layering information sets and shifting focus, materialized as part drawing part model.

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florence ITALY

On Friday, December 14, CityVision Florence (Lash Up), will host the project PASTSHOCK at mlab architetti in Via della Chiesa 38R, Florence. PASTSHOCK is a curatorial project born to investigate how the Retrofuture influenced our perception of the progress. It stems on a specific research made by Francesco Lipari in issue 5 of CityVision magazine and presented at MACRO museum in Rome during the event “I Have Seen The Future” in February 2012. PASTSHOCK will be focusing on the architectural imaginative world that has never been expressed in our cities.

PASTSHOCK
Friday, 12/14
7.00 pm / mlab architetti
Via della Chiesa 38R
Florence, ITALY

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design (A.UD) announce the launch of IDEAS, a new platform for cross-disciplinary research collaborations among students, faculty, industry and other partners that will radically question, challenge and expand the current parameters of architecture practice. As part of this initiative, the department has added a new Los Angeles satellite location and significantly expanded its master’s of architecture program, which will now feature studio courses taught by several of the biggest luminaries in the field — Thom Mayne, Greg Lynn, and Frank Gehry, with Gehry Partners and Gehry Technologies.

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thessaloniki GREECE

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th)
critic: Anastasios TELLIOS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Georgios TSAKIRIDIS & Efthymia Dimitra KOTSANI: The project “Lapis Callidus” engages with the re-negotiation of spatial, architectural, functional and eventually, social structures that emerge from the blurring boundaries between contemporary definitions of the physical world in natural and artificial milieus. The project suggests the introduction of a highly sophisticated robotic system with swarm-like behaviour properties, in an inherently dystopic territory, such as the abandoned sulphur mines, located in a volcanic subterranean area called ‘Paliorema’ on the Greek island of Milos.

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