new york NEW YORK

Elizabeth Diller, Edward Dimendberg, Giuliana Bruno, Alexandra Lange, Reinhold Martin, and Michael Sorkin discuss Dimendberg’s comprehensive survey of Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s work, Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Architecture after Images. Organized by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture

book launch: “Write: Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Architecture after Images”
Elizabeth DILLER with Edward DIMENDBERG, Giuliana BRUNO, Alexandra LANGE, Reinhold MARTIN, & Michael SORKIN
Friday, 04/19
6.30 pm / East Gallery, Buell Hall
515 West 116th Street
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027

san luis obispo CALIFORNIA

Visionary architect and MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang is the founder and principal of Studio Gang Architects, a Chicago-based collective of architects, designers, and thinkers whose projects confront pressing contemporary issues. Driven by curiosity, intelligence, and radical creativity, Jeanne has produced some of today’s most innovative and award-winning architecture. The transformative potential of her work is exemplified by such recent projects as the Aqua Tower.

Jeanne GANG
Friday, 04/19
4.00–5.00 pm / 
Business Rotunda (03-213)
Cal Poly — San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo, CA 93405

los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc Future Initiatives (SCIFI), Fall 2012
critic: Peter ZELLNER

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Joel KERNER: Our cities have traded good congestion, that being pedestrian movement and necessitated interaction, for a congestion of automobiles and transit. Our architecture—and ultimately our urban space—is increasingly getting out of scale as we trade traditional planning and hierarchy for Bigness and isolation. Our once great urban space has slowly been replaced by lifeless infrastructure that separates pedestrians from their destinations.

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new york NEW YORK

On May 18-21st, The Architect’s Newspaper and Mode Collective will host DesignX, four days of hands-on workshops and inspired dialog right on the showroom floor at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair. Industry experts will present courses on Digital Tools, Fabrication On-Demand, and Cloud-Based Apps-the technologies that are revolutionizing our designed world. More information can be found at http://designx.is.

“DesignX” w/ Gil AKOS, Andrew BACCON, Francis BITONTI, Ronnie PARSONS, Andrew PAYNE, Jesse ROSENBERG, Jessica ROSENKRANTZ, Duann SCOTT, Skylar TIBBITS, & Erik TIETZ
Saturday, 05/18–05/21 // ICFF 2013
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
655 W 34th St.
New York, NY 10001

new york NEW YORK

”Crouch[ing] in a three-point stance” at the intersection 218th and Broadway, the Campbell Sports Center at Baker Athletic Complex by Steven Holl Architects evokes “a defensive lineman steadying himself on fingerlike stilts,” according to New York magazine. The newly opened structure features strength, conditioning, and study spaces for Columbia athletes, offices for their coaches, meeting rooms, and panoramic views of Inwood Hill Park, playing fields, and the elevated No. 1 line as it passes between Manhattan and the Bronx. Steven Holl delivers an on-site lecture on the building’s design and creation—from watercolor sketch to concrete and steel.

Steven HOLL, “Drawing as Thought”
Wednesday, 04/17
7.00 pm / Campbell Sports Center
Columbia University
Broadway and 218th Street
New York, NY 10027

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc Future Initiatives (SCIFI), Fall 2012
critic: Peter ZELLNER

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Jinming FENG: The project challenge the conventional urban design approaches, and specifically focuses on the traversal rationality between urban figure, field, ground, and network. The design scrutinizes several new and topical urban design approaches that blur figure-field relations via mathematically and digitally driven techniques.

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princeton NEW JERSERY

Princeton SOA Lecture Series: “What I Did Next: Princeton’s Alternative Architectural Practices”

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“Thinking Technology,” with 
Ariane LOURIE HARRISON, 
John OCHSENDORF, Lydia KALLIPOLITI, 
& Nicholas de MONCHAUX
Wednesday, 04/17
6.00pm / Betts Auditorium
Princeton SOA
Princeton, New Jersey 08544

los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc Future Initiatives (SCIFI), Fall 2012
critic: Peter ZELLNER

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Steve MOODY: An attempt at increasing density and improving access for pedestrian, bicycle and mass transit in Los Angeles via architectural intervention, “LAND” uses logics of aggregation to create piles of units that adapt to different uses, circulation, and scales. The primary form of the aggregation is in leaning piles that create an over/under condition—terraced units create private outdoor space for residences and pedestrian circulation on top, while roads, mass transit, parking and other service spaces are placed underneath.

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troy NEW YORK

Jorge Silvetti was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he received his diploma in architecture from the University of Buenos Aires. He continued studies at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving his Master of Architecture degree and pursuing post graduate work in the area of architectural theory and criticism. Mr. Silvetti’s architectural practice, Machado and Silvetti Associates, was formed with Rodolfo Machado in 1974.

Jorge SILVETTI
, “Recent Work”
Moday, 04/15
6.00 pm / EMPAC, theater
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, New York 12180

london UNITED KINGDOM

Gilles Retsin will present an Object-Oriented project for computational design and architecture, inpsired by the work of Graham Harman, Levi Bryant and Ian Bogost. Previous traces of OO within architecture and theory will be uncovered, from Christopher Alexander to materialist and marxist thinking of for example, Walter Benjamin. The lecture will develop an argument of OO as an emerging paradigm, based in the hacker-mentality of a new, heterogenious and extremely diverse generation of upcoming architects and designers which use digital methodologies at the core of their work—but in often unorthodox ways.

lecture: Gilles RETSIN
Friday, 04/12
6.00pm / Docklands Campus, AVA building
University of East-London

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