rome ITALY

Rio de Janeiro CityVision Competition is the fifth international ideas competition launched by CityVision and it’s part of the annual programme “Sick & Wonder.”

Because of its deep reflection about the future of our cities, Sick & Wonder will try to unveil the disgust behind our cities and to subvert it through the wonder. A wonder that CityVision has shared, since the beginning, with its friends of Farm Cultural Park.

“Rio de Janiero Competition”
Early registration: 04/09
Late registration: 06/10

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UK, NORWAY, NZ, & AUSTRALIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Squidsoup (Anthony ROWE, Gaz BUSHELL, Chris BENNEWITH, Liam BIRTLES, & Ollie BOWN): Submergence transforms physical space into a Mixed Reality environment where virtual and real worlds coincide. The result is an immersive walkthrough experience that uses light to alter our perceptions of space and presence.

The experience is akin to walking through an abstract virtual environment, where pixels on a screen are replaced by thousands of points of light floating in space. These points of light create evocations and atmospheres, presence and movement, in physical space.

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columbus OHIO

The “Possible Mediums” Conference, which took place at The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture from February 07-10, 2013, brought together 18 designers, 120 students (from the four co-host schools: The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture, University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning and University of Kentucky College of Design), and special guests John McMorrough and Jeffrey Kipnis, to participate in design workshops and formal discussions surrounding the question of mediums in contemporary architecture.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Called “America’s Most Wired Composer” by the L.A. Times, Tod Machover is the Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Music and Media at the MIT Media Lab, where he also directs the Opera of the Future Group. He is known for his boundary-breaking compositions and for designing transformative technologies for music. His hyperinstruments—smart performance systems to enhance artistic expression—have been created for virtuosi from Yo-Yo Ma to Prince, been used to introduce musical creativity to amateurs of all ages. . . .

Tod MACHOVER, “Mediated Music: Robotic Operas, Guitar Hero, Collaborative Symphonies and Beyond”
intro. by Hernan Diaz ALONSO
Wednesday, 03/20
7.00 pm / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

los angeles CALIFORNIA

University of Southern California

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Behnaz FARAHI BOUZANJANI: How might we imagine a space that—over time—can build up an understanding of its users through their bodily gestures, visual expressions and rituals of behavior, and respond accordingly? In other words, how might we envision a genuinely interactive space whose form and physical configuration can respond to and learn from its users, and vice versa?

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vienna AUSTRIA

Preston Scott Cohen is the Chair and Gerald M. McCue Professor of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) and the principal designer at Preston Scott Cohen, Inc. of Cambridge, MA. His work exemplifies a new, highly disciplined synthesis of architectural typologies, geometry and urban contexts. Recent projects completed or under construction include the Taiyuan Museum of Art, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art Amir Building, and Datong City Library.

Preston Scott COHEN, “The Plan of Succession.”
Tuesday, 03/19
7.00 pm / Lichthof 2
University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Oskar Kokoschka-Platz 2
1010 Vienna, AUSTRIA

pittsburgh PENNSYLVANIA

Liss C. Werner is a registered architect in Berlin and visiting professor at CMU School of Architecture. Her research focuses on architecture as science of cybernetics and culture through the evolution of technology in order to develop computational design thinking for the paradigm shift of architecture in C21. Her exploration of rule-based architectural systems informed by cybernetics, self-organization, and a critical reflection offers one possibility to depart from a purely aesthetic understanding of a priori form towards a vocabulary and theory for an architecture of architecture.

Liss WERNER, “Re-entry: The Architecture of Architecture and their Eigenform”
Monday, 03/18
6.00 pm / Carnegie Museum of Art Theater
4400 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA

lexington KENTUCKY

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

PLUS-SUM (Martin SUMMERS): Museums represent our greatest cultural and social aspirations in their mission to collect and disseminate ideas while also striving for symbolic status within global cultural and national/local, shared aspirations. A Museum of Contemporary Art has a particularly elevated status within this shared cultural milieu, because it embodies our aspirations to shape and evolve culture. It collects and defines the edges of our cultural production and at it’s best, reflects the current and future states of our collective evolution.

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zurich SWITZERLAND

ETH Zurich, Department of Architecture
Chair for Computer Aided Architectural Design, Prof. Ludger HOVESTADT
critics: Benjamin DILLENBURGER, Michael HANSMEYER, & Hua HAO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Hua HAO: In this course the students developed a computer-based approach to designing strongly articulated spaces. Those spaces should be defined containing an unseen density of information. We sought high-resolution architectures with imaginative and previously unseen space impressions.

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ann arbor MICHIGAN

University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning
critic: Tsz Yan NG

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Harold-Sprague SOLIE & Geoffrey SALVATORE: This research explores the aggregation of varied and repeated units with an emphasis on innovative connection techniques. The material culminated in Stalactites, a full-scale horizontal surface installation. These techniques were limited to the material itself, with an ambition to not introduce any foreign connectors or materials into the process.

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