los angeles CALIFORNIA

Graft principals Lars Krückeberg, Wolfram Putz, Thomas Willemeit, and Christoph Korner lecture on their “Pursuit of Happiness” that has taken the office around the world over the last 15 years, exploring and discovering a wide variety of themes and realms.

lecture: GRAFT (Christoph KORNER, Wolfram PUTZ, Thomas WILLEMEIT, & Lars KRÜCKEBERG), “In Pursuit of Happiness.”
Wednesday, 09/25
7.00 p.m. / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc Campus
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Advanced research in robotics, simulation, urban design, interactivity, computational physics and more to be presented by the UK’s leading architecture school at B-Pro Show 2013

The Bartlett School of Architecture UCL will present a diverse range of architectural research from over 150 students in its annual post-professional Masters exhibition, B-Pro Show, from 24-28 September.

opening: B-Pro Show 2013
Tuesday, 09/24–09/28
7.00 p.m. / Royal Ear Hospital
The Bartlett School of Architecture UCL
21 Capper Street
London WC1E 2QG

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
advisor: Marcelo Spina

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Ziba ESMAEILIAN: This thesis investigates the notion of duality in architecture by working across multiple genres rather than within a single one. It focuses on the notion of “productive dichotomy” as a form of development that aims not to dissolve opposites, erasing their contrast, but aims instead to bring them together into an even more complex state of dualism.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
advisor: Florencia PITA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Alex PHI: Typically, a monolithic structure is solid, unbroken, rigid, invulnerable, and whole. A true monolithic piece of architecture is large and unified with no recognizable parts. The investigation deals with displacing and dislodging both formal and organizational aspects of a building while retaining a sense of wholeness.

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new york NEW YORK

To mark its 10th anniversary and 29th issue, Log presents In Pursuit of Architecture, a conference featuring recent built work selected from an open, international call for submissions. Join architects & critics for a daylong discussion of architectural ideas, what it takes to build them, & how we measure the cultural value of architecture.

conference: “In Pursuit of Architecture” w/ PERSYN, BARKOW, CAPPAI & SEGANTINI, NAPOLITANO, MOS, DENARI, GEERS, COHEN, REISER + UMEMOTO, van BERKEL, JACOB, LAVIN, PETIT, & WHITING.
Saturday, 09/21
10.00 a.m.–5.00 p.m. / The Museum of Modern Art, Film Entrance
11 West 53rd Street
New York, NY 10019

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new york NEW YORK

“For the purposes of this short discussion, let us use the term ‘technologies of mediation’ in place of ‘representation.’ The problem with the latter term is that the re- of representation always lowers the discussion to a secondary status subservient to the content conveyed. The drawings, models, notations, texts, and calculations that the architect produces are not secondary to the building, but constitute the primary acts of architectural design as mediations translating between conceptual ideas, interpretive parties, and aesthetic articulation. . . .”

*image courtesy the author.

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syracuse NEW YORK

Since the mid-90s, architecture has accelerated its move away from the discourse of the architectural object towards the discourse of the architectural field. The vicissitudes of the architectural object has lost its uncanny appeal, and recent work is more often than not circumscribed by the mental image of an underlying network of relations that is deep, dynamic, and more real than the architectural object itself. Like Janus, the transition from object to field has had many faces but has shared a single body moving towards the virtual. . . .

David RUY, “Returning to (Strange) Objects”
Thursday, 09/19
5.00 pm / Slocum Auditorium, Syracuse SOA
201 Slocum Hall
Syracuse, NY 13244

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new york NEW YORK

Oyster House sets a new standard for entry-level housing in Wellfleet, Cape Cod. Developable land in Cape Cod is at a premium since much of the open space is now protected natural landscape. By building smaller, Oyster House achieves more density with less impact on Cape Cod’s precious landscape. Oyster House uses less; less energy, less building material, less building area. Simultaneously, the house does more. Its pentagonal plan makes for easy siting in multiple orientations, maximizing privacy, permitting views, and responding to the sun’s path through the southern sky. The house is conceived of as a repeatable unit that can be deployed across multiple sites in the town of Wellfleet—as a single unit and as a community of houses.

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columbus OHIO

Peter Trummer will present a lecture in Knowlton Hall’s Gui Auditorium at 5:30PM on Wednesday, September 18.

lecture: Peter TRUMMER
Wednesday, 09/18
5.30 p.m. / Gui Auditorium, Knowlton Hall
The Ohio State University
Knowlton School of Architecture
275 West Woodruff Ave.
Columbus OH, 43210

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Graham Harman’s lecture develops the central themes of object-oriented philosophy, with special attention to their implications for architecture.

Objects come in two varieties: the real and the sensual, both of them in permanent tension with their own qualities and with each other. . . .

lecture: Graham HARMAN, “Strange Objects Contra Parametricism.”
Wednesday, 09/18
7.00 p.m. / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc Campus
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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