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Zaha Hadid, founder of Zaha Hadid Architects, is internationally known for both her theoretical and academic work. Each of her dynamic and innovative projects builds on over 30 years of revolutionary exploration and research in the interrelated fields of urbanism, architecture, and design. Working with senior office partner Patrik Schumacher, Hadid’s interest lies in the rigorous interface between architecture, landscape, and geology as her practice integrates natural topography and human-made systems, leading to experimentation with cutting-edge technologies.

Zaha HADID

, “Zaha Hadid: Recent and Ongoing Work”
Thursday, 04/04
YSoA Open House
6.30 pm / Hastings Hall
Paul Rudolph Hall
Yale School of Architecture
180 York Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06511

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

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New Brave Worlds (Africa/Latin America),” with Alysa NAHMIAS, 
Dirk HEBEL, 
Kunle ADEYEMI, 
& Leonardo DÍAZ-BORIOLI
Wednesday, 04/03
6.00pm / Betts Auditorium
Princeton SOA
Princeton, New Jersey 08544

troy NEW YORK

Peter Eisenman is an American architect, writer and educator whose work has long been informed by reading architecture through a wide range of cultural, intellectual and philosophical references. Famous during the late 1960s for his pioneering houses from his days among the New York Five, he has since then remained at the forefront of architectural discourse through the buildings he has produced, the numerous books he has written, and the lectures and courses he has taught.

Peter EISENMAN
, “A Defense of Architecture”
Wednesday, 04/03
6.00 pm / EMPAC Theater
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, New York 12180

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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Eugene KOSGORON & Evelina SAUSINA: Fractal Projections is a play on the idea of the cube broken in space to create an interlocking grid system that follows a linear deformation, allowing them to break from the norm grid behavior into a family of fractal surfaces. Audience is meant to circulate the space to discover the projections that is composed from a series of smaller cubes that houses these fractal surfaces. Fractal Projections pays homage to architecture and how SCI-Arc Alumni have transformed the school over the 40 years.

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Ingeborg M. Rocker was appointed Associate Professor of Architecture at Harvard in 2011, after serving as assistant professor there since 2005. Rocker’s theoretical work is devoted to questions regarding the impact of media on the perception, production, and thinking of architecture. As a designer and teacher of design, she deploys computer modeling as a tool for giving form to theoretical hypotheses in a didactic way. Rocker’s ongoing research has been widely publicized through numerous international magazines and books.

Ingeborg ROCKER, “Recursion: Aesthetics + Logics of Computation”
intro. by Marcelo SPINA
Wednesday, 04/03
7.00 pm / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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Wang Shu, 2012 Pritzker Prize laureate, founded Amateur Architecture Studio in 1997 with his wife, Lu Wenyu, in Hangzhou, China. Wang & Amateur Architecture Studio are known for built works including: Library of Wenzheng College, Suzhou University, China (2000); Ningbo Contemporary Art Museum, Ningbo, China, (2005); Five Scattered Houses, Ningbo, China (2005); Vertical Courtyard Apartments, Hangzhou, China (2007); and more.

WANG Shu, “Construction in Amateur Architecture”
Paul Rudolph Lecture
Wednesday, 04/03
6.30 pm / Hastings Hall
Paul Rudolph Hall
Yale School of Architecture
180 York Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06511

los angeles CALIFORNIA

CONCEPT ///
This project is a sixteen foot high inhabitable pavilion which will be exhibited in The New Sculpturalism show at the MoCA Geffen Contemporary in Los Angeles, opening June 1, 2013. It was chosen in an invited competition held by the Museum last summer, and now the heat is on to realize it.

The project is a study of surface-to-volume transformations, where mass is achieved by pushing into a surface like a fist through a rubber sheet. In this case, chunky objects are pushed into exterior skins, creating volumetric effects on the interior. The perimeter edges of the three components of the piece are razor-thin, creating visual tension between the realms of 2-D/flat and 3-D/massive.

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