london UNITED KINGDOM

Peter Cook lecture series, “Zones of Investigation.” Lecture two, “Serious Zones: The Procedural, the ‘Correct’, the Sequential, the Referential.” The second of four lectures by Sir Peter Cook exploring a series of forays into the question of architectural inspiration. Tickets are free and can be reserved in advance online via Eventbrite. Please bring your printed ticket to gain entry to the lecture. Returns may be available on the door.

Peter COOK, “Serious Zones”
Wednesday, 01/16
12.30–2.30 pm / Royal Ear Hospital
The Bartlett School of Design
Capper Street and Huntley Street
London, W1CE 6JA

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Dwayne Oyler and Jenny Wu established the architecture and design firm of Oyler Wu Collaborative in Los Angeles in 2004. The office has been published globally and is recognized for its experimentation in design, material research and fabrication. Their recent projects include “reALIze,” an art installation based on the face of Muhammad Ali (designed in collaboration with Michael Kalish); “Screenplay,” the featured architectural installation at Dwell on Design 2012 made with 45,000 feet of rope; “Netscape,” a temporary pavilion for SCI-Arc graduation constructed of 9 miles of knitted rope; and a 16-story residential tower in Taipei, Taiwan.

Dwayne OYLER & Jenny WU, “Lineworks”
Intro. by Hsinming FUNG
Wednesday, 01/16
7.00 pm / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

vienna AUSTRIA

EXCESSIVE focuses on strategies of architectural design. Many of the ambitions revolve around the topic of excess as a redefinition of beautiful lust and—misfit aesthetics of exuberance and sophisticated conditions of arousal. If design is typically derived from an expertise related to form and proportion, a theory of mutation is possibly an advanced critical stance toward formal traditions. A theory of excessive form is not a rejection of the formal traditions but an extension of them. Further, navigation through the topologies of excessive form can be understood as an intensification of more traditional formal strategies.

EXCESSIVE diplomas & semester finals w/ jurors Hernan Diaz ALONSO, Tom KOVAC, Kivi SOTAMAA, & Reiner ZETTL
Wednesday, 01/16
2.00 pm / 
Urban Strategies Studio
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 3
1030 Vienna

new haven CONNECTICUT

Yale School of Architecture
critic: Mark GAGE

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Katie STRANIX: The project is a new headquarters for CASIS, the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, on the west side of First Avenue, between East 39th Street and East 40th Street in Manhattan. My project is about increasing public awareness of CASIS through the manipulation of materiality and movement and the juxtaposition of normative and spectacular forms.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Woodbury University
critic: Mark ERICSON
students: Diana BARASH, Mary Rose PARKER, Julius TANIGUCHI, & Rebecca FOX

This introduction to architectural drawing in the first term of Woodbury University’s graduate program, immersed students in line-weight, Descriptive Geometry, and shadow projection. The course began with a series of two-dimensional geometric relationships and moved into Descriptive Geometry, as a means of unfolding and stretching the two-dimensional relationships into three. These were then inflated through the student’s individualized methods of three-dimensional shadow projection. The intent of the work was to develop a rigorous, novel, and somewhat malleable method for moving between two-dimensional drawings and three-dimensional propositions.

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berlin GERMANY

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Holger LIPPMANN: The fractalScape and NoiseScape series are based on Processing code and work with Perlin noise and iteration functions. The iteration algorithm divides a shape down within a 7-9 level loop. Each repetition of the process is also called an “iteration.” The results of one iteration are used as starting point for the next iteration.

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troy NEW YORK & turin ITALY

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
critic: Andrew SAUNDERS.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Davide SCIALÒ: The design of a new façade for the building in which is located the Issey Miyake Pleats Please store was a way to speculate on the architectural consequences of a research on the sartorial tectonics we made during Andrew Sanders’s class.
We focused our research on the increasing relevance of surface as a primary vehicle for architecture to engage contemporary society, coupled with the rapid evolution of customizable computation and fabrication parallels in fashion and architecture.

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new york NEW YORK

When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface in July of 1969, they wore 21-layer, fabric-and-latex spacesuits crafted by seamstresses from the assembly line of Playtex, maker of bras and girdles. Nicholas de Monchaux will tell the story of the 21-layer spacesuit, and how it relates to, among other things, eighteenth-century androids, Christian Dior’s New Look, Atlas missiles, cybernetics and cyborgs, latex, JFK’s carefully cultivated image, the CBS lunar broadcast soundstage, NASA’s Mission Control, and the applications of Apollo-style engineering to city planning.

Nicholas de MONCHAUX, “Fashioning Apollo”
Wednesday, 01/09
6.30 pm / School of Visual Arts, Design Criticism
136 West 21st Street, Floor 2
New York, NY 10011

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vienna AUSTRIA

The Institute of Architecture presents Unbuildable Tatlin?!, edited by Klaus Bollinger and Florian Medicus.

Vladimir Tatlin’s Monument for the Third International (1919) is certainly one of the most significant projects of Soviet Constructivism. It is, however, not at all certain whether “Tatlin’s Tower” could even be built at all at the time it was originally planned. And whether it would be constructed today with the presently available means and possibilities of planning, calculating and processing materials is equally uncertain. . . .

“Unbuildable Tatlin?!“ w/ Gerald BAST, Klaus BOLLINGER, David MAROLD, & Florian MEDICUS
Wednesday, 01/09
7.00 pm / Kunsthalle Project Space
University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Treitlstraße 2, 1010 Vienna AUSTRIA

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granada SPAIN

In(herit)age Advanced Architectural Design Workshop is the first of a series of international traveling workshops based on the academic education given in the Postgraduate Program Urban Strategies. The aim is to train students outside of the educational facilities in using new tools for the conceptualization, design and development of architecture through researching latent topics embedded in the contemporary discussions within the discipline. No previous experience with 3-D modeling and visualization software that will be taught and used during the workshop is needed.

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