los angeles CALIFORNIA

Since the mid-’90s, architecture has accelerated its move away from the discourse of the architectural object towards the discourse of the architectural field. The vicissitudes of the architectural object has lost its uncanny appeal, and recent work is more often than not circumscribed by the mental image of an underlying network of relations that is deep, dynamic, and more real than the architectural object itself. Like Janus, the transition from object to field has had many faces but has shared a single body moving towards the virtual. This lecture offers reasons for pause in this move toward relationism. . . .

David RUY, “Returning to (Strange) Objects”
intro. by Hernan Diaz ALONSO
Wednesday, 01/30
7.00 pm / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

munich GERMANY

BMW i8 Concept—emotional, dynamic, and efficient.

The concept car BMW Vision EfficientDynamics created excitement and very positive feedback at the IAA 2009. The BMW Vision EfficientDynamics made ​​it clear that an emotional sports car with the fuel economy of a small car is no contradiction and could soon be reality. After successful initial testing of the vehicle concept, the decision for a series-production vehicle was quickly made. The BMW i8 Concept is the next step in the evolution of the BMW Vision EfficientDynamics Concept.

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new york NEW YORK

Columbia GSAPP
critics: François ROCHE & Ezio BLASETTI w/ Farzin LOTFI-JAM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Luis Felipe PARIS & Andriana KOUTALIANOU: (And yes, it seems that it is so, that you have left saying I-don’t-know-what, that you were going to throw yourse. . . .) but . . . is he still outside. . . .? there there, a reflection of himself . . . it lures him. . . . the notion of the double . . . Ego and Body, the reflection of his soul . . . or maybe another life, or another . . . is it, you, that is behind this mirror. . . .?

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Beatriz Colomina is Professor of Architecture and Founding Director of the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University. She is the author of Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media (MIT Press, 1994), which was awarded the 1995 International Book Award by the American Institute of Architects and has been published in eight languages, Sexuality and Space (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992), which was awarded the 1993 International Book Award by the American Institute of Architects, and Domesticity at War (ACTAR and MIT Press, 2007).

beatriz COLOMINA
Monday, 01/28
6.30 pm / Perloff Hall, Decafé
UCLA Department of Architecture & Urban Design
Los Angeles, California 90095

new york NEW YORK

Lessons From Modernism examines selected works of architecture completed between 1925-70 through the lens of sustainability. This analysis of the use of environmental strategies—long before they were commonly used in 21st century buildings—opens at The Cooper Union’s Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery on January 29th.

“Lessons From Modernism: Environmental Design Considerations in 20th Century Architecture, 1925–1970,” presented by The Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design & The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture
exhibit opening: Tuesday, 01/29
6.30–8.30 pm / Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery
7 East 7 E. 7th St.
New York, NY 10003

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detroit MICHIGAN

TORRANCE, CA, 01/14/2013 – Toyota revealed the Corolla Furia Concept at the 2013 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. This exciting compact sedan concept hints at the styling cues consumers can expect to see on the next-generation Corolla. The concept represents an exterior styling study by Toyota designers, and it builds on the brand’s product development priority to develop more dramatic, expressively designed vehicles.

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vienna AUSTRIA

Studio Lynn is one of three studios teaching architectural design in the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. The studio is directed by Los Angeles-based architect Greg Lynn and his team of assistant professors as a 3 year Master course with students of all levels studying design topics together. Studio Lynn studio focuses on the composition of intricately connected, subtly varied, continuously differentiated elements in non-modular dimensional series. Students’ sensibilities are attuned to the rhythmic patterns and undulations of calculus as they apply to architecture. We critically and creatively embrace the digital tools that have recently burst into architecture and effloresced in a myriad of forms and shapes. For further information on the portfloio based entry exam please refer to: i-o-a.at.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Mark Cousins’s Friday lectures recommence by addressing the architectural and artistic use of the category “everyday life”—a realm which seems immune to interpretation. The course seeks to show how the ‘everyday’ relates to the Cliché (the topic of last year’s lectures) and demonstrates that the phrase is imbued with philosophical presuppositions: it can mean the given, appearance or sometimes the concrete. “Everyday” frequently involves the use of what the course represents as the “imaginary.” This lecture series will continue its investigation of architecture and design from both the point of view of the cliché and the imaginary.

Mark COUSINS, “Where is Everyday Life?”
Friday, 01/25; 02/01; 02/15; 02/22; 03/08; & 03/22
5.00 pm / Lecture Hall
Architecture Association
36 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3ES

amsterdam THE NETHERLANDS

Iris van HERPEN presents “Voltage,” her Haute Couture collection for S/S 2013, with contributions from Neri OXMAN and Julia KOERNER.

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bologna ITALY

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Niccolò CASAS: The project is a proposal for the “Hands on door handles” competition organized by Designboom and Colombo Design. Symbiosis is a form of interaction between different biological species and Parasitism is a specific type of symbiotic relationship between organism of different species where one organism, the parasite, benefits at the expense of the other, the host. The handle is the result of an interaction between an host - the handle itself and a parasite organism. The parasite interact with the host through a redefinition of his system and an adaptation to the host structure.

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