bologna ITALY

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Loop_3:
Without mathematics we cannot penetrate deeply into philosophy. Without philosophy we cannot penetrate deeply into mathematics. Without both we cannot penetrate deeply into anything. — Leibniz

Loop_3 is a project conceived and realized by Loop_3 design team, a group of students form Architectural Design 3 course at the Faculty of Engineering, Università di Bologna, for an installation on invitation by the 1st Architectural Biennale of Thessaloniki, “Architecture and the City in South-Eastern Europe” (18.01-26.02 2012).

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pittsburgh PENNSYLVANIA

Immersive Kinematics is a unique research group focusing on integrating robotics, interaction, and embedded intelligence in our buildings, cities, and cultures. Directed by Simon Kim and Mark Yim, IK is a collaboration between the University of Pennsylvania schools of Engineering and Design, teaming architecture and engineering students in mechatronic projects. Recent collaborations include Technology in Shakespeare, Unethical Machines, a PS1 pavilion, and a Cyborg Ballet.

simon KIM & mark YIM, “Engineering Architects”
Monday, 11/05
6.00 pm / Carnegie Museum of Art Theater
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

vienna AUSTRIA

The “blossom-gate” by the Vienna-based designhouse prechteck defines a landmark to the entrance of the largest chinese myrtle garden in the City of Xiangyiang. Prechteck tries to reinvent the gate as an architectural typology underlining the connecting characteristics of a former dividing element. Formalistic Inspirations lay in the chinese tradition of Caligraphy, the context and its topographie and flower-blossoms as a theme for the garden.

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london UNITED KINGDOM / paris FRANCE

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Matteo Cainer Architects: The construction of the Afghan museum celebrates the richness of Afghanistan’s cultural heritage and the spirit of its peoples. In a nation devastated by war, the wealth of its cultural background and the spirit of its peoples are embodied here. In spite of the years of conflict and turmoil, the underlying strengths of the country remain intact, embedded in the earth and rising from it.

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cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

Nathalie de Vries co-founded the architectural and urban design practice MVRDV in 1993 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The MVRDV design process makes use of collaboration across many disciplines to create new and engaging uses of urban space. Nathalie de Vries and MVRDV’s work has been published worldwide and obtained international awards, and de Vries has been Guest Professor at TU Berlin and Visiting Professor at IIT Chicago, as well as Supervisory Architect for the Nederlandse Spoorwegen / ProRail. Nathalie also serves on the Supervisory Boards of the Institute for Dutch Creative Industry, the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi), and theMuseum of the Image (MOTI).

Nathalie de Vries
Friday, 11/04
4.00 pm / Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall
Harvard GSD
48 Quincy St.
Cambridge, MA

new haven CONNECTICUT

A generation ago, the post-modern quest for variation was a forceful plea against the dominant cultural technologies of the mechanical age. Today, digital technologies can deliver variations of all sorts and almost at no cost. Yet unlimited design variability inevitably challenges deeply ingrained assumptions of authorship. Contemporary digital culture and technologies favor and nurture a new notion of design indeterminacy, where objects are increasingly seen as systems able to self-organize and find the best solutions by themselves, when digitally empowered to do so.

Digital Design Theory Symposium: Digital Post-Modernities
Friday, 11/02
11.00 am - 4.30 pm / Smith Conference Room
Paul Rudolph Hall
180 York Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06511

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los angeles CALIFORNIA / lisbon PORTUGAL

ISEA 2012, Albuquerque

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

filipa VALENTE: Liminoid Bloom*s is an artificial interactive ecology that mediates the space between the gallery/exhibition and the environment of the city of Albuquerque. A responsive and performative ecology that alters the face of the gallery space and the way we interact and play with it.

A sensor located at the street facade of the gallery collects environmental data from the urban scape (sound, light variations, CO2 concentration). The environment sensor sends this information to the bloom*s located inside the gallery thus activating their breathing and movement behaviors.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc, MArch 2 Thesis

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

ta (david) YU: The forming of the urban context is based on the existing territory, something that changes slowly, and human activities, which are changing all the time. Due to the non-stop pace of human activities, the urban context remains in a cycle of perpetual negotiation. Like organic tissue, the city is always in a state of growth, decay, and rebirth.

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new haven CONNECTICUT

Panel discussion with: Mary Ann Caws, Jean-Louis Cohen, Beatriz Colomina, Peter Eisenman, Mark Jarzombek, and Kevin Repp (Moderator). The panel celebrates the exhibition on view at the Beinecke Library, “Architecture in Dialogue: The Peter Eisenman Collection at Yale,” October 12 – December 14, 2012. Encompassing avant-garde publications from across Europe, with a focus on the classics of high modernism, the exhibition explores the creative use of print media to disseminate modernist ideas and sustain experimentation in contexts ranging from fascist Italy to the Soviet Union in the 1920s and ’30s.

“The Eisenman Collection: An Analysis”
Thursday, 11/01
6.30 pm / Hastings Hall
Paul Rudolph Hall
Yale School of Architecture
180 York Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06511

savannah GEORGIA

“French Kiss,” Jean Paul Gaultier boutique and showroom

Savannah College of Art and Design
critic: jean JAMINET

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

jean JAMINET: The challenge for this 2nd year studio was to design a boutique and showroom for the French fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier as an addition to the Saks Fifth Avenue department store in Atlanta, Georgia.

One of the ambitions of this studio was to use the “kiss” as a modulation between the intimacy of the interior and the publicity of an urban event.

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