new york NEW YORK

Columbia GSAPP, Fall 2012
(n)certainties
critics: François ROCHE & Ezio BLASETTI w/ Farzin LOTFI-JAM

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Pablo COSTA FRAIZ & Matt MILLER: SCENARIO

harvest is not the end///
The fields of agriculture are used for interior and exterior consumption . . . the land mass is filled with a strong biological system that supports a rich multitude of species . . . it is one more biological particular system. As harvest cycle passes multiple formal conditions are multiplied, folded . . . other new are happening. . . . the biotype cycle is being corrupted by the association of inhabitants of the biotype . . . slavers of the uncertainty of this cycle.

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berlin GERMANY

For many years UNStudio has been investigating the potential of the temporary installation as an experimental testing ground for manifold architectural concerns and it is these investigations that form the basis of the exhibition “Motion Matters.” The exhibition presents ten of UNStudio’s milestone projects, in addition to conveying their perspective on 25 years of architectural production, their current approach to architectural practice and the wider discourse that determines design challenges today.

opening: UNStudio, “Motion Matters” at Aedes Gallery
Friday, 05/17–07/04
6.30 pm / Aedes am Pfefferberg
Christinenstr. 18-19
10119 Berlin, Germany

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paris FRANCE

In April 2013 Architecture Whispers was launched at the Silencio Club in Paris. The theme for the evening was: Digital submission or Architectural Domination. The Speakers were Odile Decq, Didier Faustino, Luca Galofaro, Veronika Valk and Theodore Spyropoulos.

Architecture Whispers is a series of intimate multidisciplinary and cross-cultural conversations between emerging, established and visionary international architects and their colleagues in other disciplines.

“Architecture Whispers” curated by Matteo CAINER
Friday, 05/17 & Friday, 06/21
2.00–6.00 pm / SILENCIO
142 Rue Montmartre
75002 Paris, France

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Synthesis Design + Architecture (SDA): Tensioned Relaxations is series of temporary and rapidly deployable outdoor structures that aspire to reinvent the typical street fair tent through their combination of dynamic form, variable configurations, and optical effects. Each structure is highlighted by a uniquely sensual and continuous form composed of a tensioned HDPE Mesh skin with bespoke artwork by the talented roster of urban artists at SA Studios / SA-UP Collective and a perimeter ring made of fibreglass rod.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

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Oyler Wu Collaborative: Designed and built by the office of Oyler Wu Collaborative along with students of the Southern California Institute of Architecture, Stormcloud is the third project in a series of installations designed for SCI-ARC. The previous two installations, Netscape and Centerstage were designed for the school’s graduation ceremonies in 2011 and 2012 respectively. With SCI-Arc celebrating its 40th anniversary, the school commissioned the new pavilion for the after-party of its April 2013 gala. Tasked with the challenge of revamping the existing Netscape pavilion, Oyler Wu Collaborative saw the project as an opportunity to take a completely different approach to the problem.

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dessau GERMANY

Irene Gallou will be giving a lecture on “Performance Driven Design” at the Main Lecture Hall, Building 08, Room 006, Dessau Institute of Architecture, Bauhaustrasse 5, Dessau, Germany at 6.30pm on Wednesday 15 May 2013. Irene Gallou is a graduate of the EmTech masters program at the AA. She joined Foster + Partners in 2006 and is joint head of the Specialist Modeling Group.

lecture: Irene GALLOU, “Performance Driven Design”
Wednesday, 05/15
6.00 pm / Main Lecture Hall, Bldg. 8, Rm. 006
Dessau Institute of Architecture
Bauhausstrasse 5
06846 Dessau, Germany

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istanbul TURKEY & athens GREECE

X|Atelier is organizing three international intensive workshops of Advanced Architectural Design. The X|A Summer Workshops 2013 are led by X|A principals Erick Cárcamo (SCI-ARC) and Nefeli Chatzimina (USC) in collaboration with Sevgi Türkkan (ITU) all graduates of Columbia University in New York City. As part of an ongoing academic research, X|A workshops introduce participants into contemporary discussions of formal exploration in Architecture and Art.

“Advanced Architectural Design Workshops” with X|Atelier
Istanbul: 06/17–06/28 @ Istanbul Technical University
Athens 01: 07/01–07/12 @ Benaki Museum
Athens 02: 07/15–07/26

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florence ITALY

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Thomas BAGNOLI: The status, including the size and form of a portion of the living matter is the result of various forces that represent or symbolize the manifestations of various forms of energy.

When we encounter a simple geometrical construction, for example in the honeycomb of bees, shells, or nautilus, or radiolarian, we see them as an operation of physical forces and mathematical laws and not as a concept of “final cause” causality.

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lichtervelde BELGIUM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Nick ERVINCK: NOITEM is one of my most recent works. These works will be respresented as huge lightboxes. As a Rorsach-stain, these works have no single-point perspective and can be interpreted in different ways. For this series I don’t use my trademark color yellow but push the boundaries with very poetic and mysterious results. Desperately we try to search for forms we recognize but these creations don’t seem to fit in any category. Floating in an infinite space, the serie is like a shadow of the past. You can compare it in a way to “nachbilder” or “afterimages”: optical illusions we see for the short moment after we looked directly into the sun.

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nicosia CYPRUS

Having been abandoned for 38 years now, the development of the areas lying within the UN-controlled Buffer Zone in Cyprus has been brought to a practical standstill. The aim of the Visiting School will be to hypothetically re-instantiate this development, fast-forwarding into the near future and speculating on the sprawling tendencies of the confiscated territories. The main agenda will be to use digital tools in order to explore non-linear scenarios of its targeted rehabilitation.

AA Visiting School – Cyprus UN Buffer Zone
“Rebuilding No Man’s Land”
08/23–09/03 // University of Nicosia
31 Michail Yiorgalla
2409 Nicosia CYPRUS

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