gramolazzo ITALY

Yale School of Architecture, Disheveled Geometries Seminar
critic: Mark Foster GAGE

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

R. J. TRIPODI & Nicholas KEHAGIAS: This project takes the inherent qualities of marble as the inspiration for the development of a panel composed of two interlocking pieces.

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taiwan CHINA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

TheeAe LTD. (architect Woohyun CHO): We believe change or newness is not a creation solely from nothing, but rather an evolution from the past. Designing a cultural center was a task to reveal what could be the image of contemporary Taiwanese architecture. A cultural center is as good a place as any to express the identity of Taiwan.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

The Taichung City Cultural Center stands as the gateway into Taichung Gateway Park in the Taichung Gateway District. The facility will include a world-class Museum of Fine Arts and a Public Library. Located on the northern end of the Park, The project will provide citizens with a multipurpose cultural, artistic and recreational facility.

The Taichung Cultural Center is first and foremost a symbol of progress. The building will command an International presence attracting venues and promoting new forms of the Arts. The building will have an iconic presence. The technologically advanced, environmentally mindful scheme projects a sophisticated, lively, progressive, forward thinking vision, catapulting Taichung into the 21st century.

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melbourne AUSTRALIA & philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

The emergence of complexity theory has shifted the conceptualization of form from the macro scale to a concern for the operation of the complex systems that underlie formation. It is from the microscale local interactions of complex systems that behavioral strategies for the generation of composite materials have emerged—strategies where architectural form, structure, and ornament emerge from the design of composite material behavior. . . .

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Sonos has collaborated with New York design studio SOFTlab to bring their Light House installation to the Sonos Studio Los Angeles. Powered by SONOS PLAY:3, PLAY:5 and SUB, Light House sits in the middle of the Sonos Studio, and is comprised of four rooms. Each room is filled with not only Sonos speakers, but fluorescent light tubes that react to music and its different frequencies, from the SUB to the PLAY:3 tweeters . In other words, the installation literally shows how Sonos fills your home with music.

opening: SOFTlab, “Light House”
Thursday, 07/25
7.00 p.m. / SONOS studios
145 N La Brea Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90036 ‎

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new york NEW YORK

Miguel Abreu Gallery features an evening of Promethean conversation on freedom and enlightenment, welcoming three thinkers committed to exploring new trajectories within philosophical realism. Ray Brassier, Suhail Malik, and Reza Negarestani will discuss the stakes of a return to reason in the realms of philosophy, politics and art.

in conversation: Ray BRASSIER, Suhail MALIK, & Reza NEGARESTANI, “Blow Your Mind: On Freedom and Enlightenment.”
Saturday, 07/20
7.00 p.m. / Miguel Abreu Gallery
88 Eldridge Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10002

los angeles CALIFORNIA

Synthesis Design + Architecture (SDA), the forward-thinking Los Angeles-based architecture firm led by architect and USC professor, Alvin Huang, has recently won an international competition to design a rapidly deployable pavilion to showcase Volvo’s new plug-in electric hybrid, the V60.

Volvo’s “Switch to Pure Volvo” competition, organized by international architecture magazine THE PLAN, called for an innovative and original design for a temporary pavilion that expressed a “strong and creative identity” to showcase the car at fairs and open air presentations in Italian squares.

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daegu SOUTH KOREA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

TheeAe LTD. (architect Woohyun CHO): The site is located in an urban area close to the downtown of Daegu, one of the biggest cities in South Korea. In contrast to its locality, this town is isolated from the major city development. The community gets older, and young couples have been moving out to other towns to provide better education for their children.

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berlin GERMANY

Robert Seidel’s permanent video Installation, Grapheme, at Museum Wiesbaden, Germany opened on May 7th, 2013.

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princeton NEW JERSEY

Algorithmic design techniques have proliferated in recent years, invading architecture studios at institutions around the world like a swarm of bees taking up residence inside the walls of an old house. Specifically, a number of practitioners and their students have begun exploring the potential of agent-based models to derive a plethora of complex forms, patterns, and organizations that were previously inaccessible with the use of conventional modeling tools. In addition to their capacity for producing architectural effects, the ability to work with, understand, and control these systems has opened up a vast new territory of knowledge . . .

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