london UNITED KINGDOM

Royal College of Art (RCA)

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Shang-Jen Victor TUNG: As all shopping can potentially be completed online, the physical space of the shopping center is free to absorb new urban activities that will strengthen its relation to the city. In response to the current crisis of High Street, this research draws inspiration from East Asian cities and hybridized retail or transport facilities. Various kinds, and lengths, of interval (waiting time) for transport define ranges that a passenger can reach from the transport node, and define the route network to surrounding resources. To be adapted to shopping in the above condition, shopping spaces should be dynamically changed in both function and attribute.

[MORE]

shanghai CHINA

The AAC 2013 “Interactive Shanghai” Forum and Exhibition will open at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai on August 9th, 2013. The Interactive Shanghai Forum will begin at 3pm. The keynote speaker is Philip Beesley, and other speakers include Matias del Campo, Ali Rahim, Qingyun Ma, Gail Borden, Neil Leach, Gang Song, and Philip Yuan.

forum & exhibition: “Interactive Shanghai” with Philip BEESLEY, Matias del CAMPO, Ali RAHIM, Neil LEACH, & more.
Forum, 3.00 p.m. / Lecture Hall
Exhibition, 6.00 p.m. / Exhibition Space
College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University
Shanghai, China

[MORE]

paris FRANCE

Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture of Paris
critics : David TAJCHMAN & Philipp EVERSMANN

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Sofia BENNANI & Alexandra SINGER-BIEDER: As part of the researches we made on an innovative material, baptized Straw-k, during our diploma, which consists of the assembly of plastic tubes by autogenous welding, this project was built to demonstrate the material qualities via a scale one installation. We tested the mechanical, lighting and acoustical capacities of the Straw-k and we imagined the full digital fabrication process, from the positioning stage to the melting stage and compared the results between digital and artisanal work.

[MORE]

new york NEW YORK

The tenth in a series of conversations between Peter Eisenman and Mark Wigley, with an introduction by Enrique Walker.

lecture: Peter EISENMAN & Mark WIGLEY, “Eisenman/Wigley X: The Problematic of Homogeneous Space.”
Thursday, 08/08
12.00 p.m. / Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Columbia University
1172 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027

*Organized by The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture

ithaca NEW YORK

“What is design research in architecture? This pressing question dominates discussions amongst leading academics and heads of administration in our architecture schools today. From building performance to novel material systems, to complex structures, to contemporary manufacturing, the practice of design research in architecture schools is extremely relevant to the future of our built environment and to the shaping of our academic institutions. . . .”

[EXCERPTED FROM FRESH PUNCHES ]

[MORE]

innsbruck AUSTRIA

University of Innsbruck, Institute of Urban Design
critics: Hernan DIAZ ALONSO, Peter TRUMMER (Chair), Jose Carlos LOPEZ CERVANTES

Patrizia PFANZELT, Thomas PUKLJAK, & Viktoria OBWALLER: “Sheepshelter as a place for thoughts dealing with transformational beauty”

The pursuit of natural beauty, considered as a need of mankind, forms the basis for the developement of the geometry and project. That also means prototypical designs, such as the affinity of life forms, are translated into a working symbiosis of particular systems; outsourced systems which are getting in touch by recombining them.

[MORE]

london UNITED KINGDOM

Architectural Association, Design Research Lab
director: Theodore SPYROPOULOS
critics: Philippe MOREL & Jose SANCHEZ.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Balls 2 the Wall (Alberto HERRERA SALAS, Nishanth PEETHALA, Chien-Shuo PAI, & Zhu KELE): MorphoLOGIC design team explored how highly articulated geometrical thinking, at a component/element level, can be exploited through computational processes that are available in architecture.

[MORE]

philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

“What does it mean to occupy an object? Through embodying, imagining, or trying on an agency that is outside of one’s own subjectivity, one may begin to see something that does not stand in clear relief at the outset. This method of search belies an anthropocentric position and looks for fissures, openings, and dissonances. An embrace of the indeterminate, however, is not simply a form of romanticized vagueness. Rather, it is a tacit acknowledgment that, as Antonio Negri suggests, ‘Nothing is ever completely occupied, full, without holes, without cracks.'”

*Photo: Design Futures Lab exhibition, “Projects: 12/13,” Leonard Pearlstein Galley, URBN Annex. July 2013. Katie McHUGH, “[SIT] Sculpted Interactive Terrain” (foreground).

[EXCERPTED FROM FRESH PUNCHES ]

[MORE]

college station TEXAS

Texas A&M University
critic: Gabriel ESQUIVEL

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Catlan FEARON: With the post-Enlightenment destruction of the certainty of the metaphysical presence of God, the subject of religious architecture changes drastically. Just as the subject changed from God to the collective worship with the renaissance, the subject now becomes the single man and his subjective relation to the eternal, and, consequentially, to the architecture of religious typology itself.

[MORE]

brooklyn NEW YORK

Pratt Institute
critic: Kutan AYATA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Isaac MICHAN: The objective of architecture is works of art that are lived in. The city is the largest, and at present the worst of such works of art. . . . The kinds of repetition and control that are now offered to the building industry can be edged towards a kind of dreamy neutrality. — Alison and Peter Smithson

A lot has been said since the demolition of the Pruitt Igoe housing project about the death of modern architecture and its negative contributions to society.

[MORE]