savannah GEORGIA

Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)
critic: Jean JAMINET

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Tarika THIENAPIRAK & Fanny VARGA: The project for this studio was a new research facility for Vitra, the European manufacturer and retailer of innovative furniture design, for their industrial campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Woodbury University, School of Architecture
critic: Mark ERICSON

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Mark ERICSON: In a recent seminar at Woodbury University in Los Angeles, we explored historical repetition and analysis as a means of manufacturing and adapting drawing methods to specific ends.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Vlad TENU: Synthetic Nature is a collection of prototypes born through holistic architectural design research into the genesis of form and space. The self-organization of matter, conservation of energy, equilibrium and notions of minimal complexity are concepts that drive the creative process—a symbiotic mix of design, art, and science.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Jeffrey LEE, Rui LIU, & Tina QIU: Manhattan is filled with some of the world’s tallest skyscrapers. Central Park, situated in the heart of the city, serves as the only source of natural green environment in New York.

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athens GREECE

X|Atelier is organizing an international intensive workshop of Advanced Architectural Design. The X|A Winter Workshop 2013 is led by X|A principals Erick Carcamo (SCI-Arc) and Nefeli Chatzimina (USC) both Graduates of Columbia University in New York City, GSAPP AAD.

“X|Ornamentism” Advanced Architectural Design Workshop with X|Atelier
Athens: 12/15–12/23 @ Benaki Museum

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

Peter Eisenman is an internationally recognized architect and educator. The principal of Eisenman Architects, he has designed large-scale housing and urban design projects, innovative facilities for educational institutions, and a series of inventive private houses.

lecture: Peter EISENMAN
Monday, 11/25
6.30 p.m. / Lower Gallery
PennDesign
210 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

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melbourne AUSTRALIA

RMIT University
critic: Gwyllim JAHN

Stephen ANNETT & Grant TREWELLA: Our project is not about using algorithms to optimize architectural production in any fashion. Rather, it is in pursuit of fragile qualities: ridges, spires, aperiodic pattern and the suggestion of stress that in unison form a building with a unique, singular language and character.

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providence RHODE ISLAND

Rhode Island School of Design, summer program
critics: Niccolo CASAS, Ludovico LOMBARDI, & Catherine ANDREOZZI.
teaching assistant: Maria CANADA.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Niccolo CASAS, Ludovico LOMBARDI, & Catherine ANDREOZZI: Focused on the new emerging discipline generated by the intersection of design, fashion design, and architecture, the class brought together students from a myriad of design disciplines (Fashion, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Textiles) with interests in exploring the body as a virtual landscape for generative design.

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troy NEW YORK

Geofutures
Post-Professional Program in Architecture and Urbanism
Rensselaer School of Architecture
program director: Chris PERRY

Geofutures endeavors to convert crisis into opportunity by harnessing both the pressures of a planet at risk and the promise of emerging environmental technologies to generate a broad spectrum of possible, if not probable, urban and architectural futures for the twenty-first century.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
B-Pro M.Arch Urban Design
critics: Marco POLETTO & Claudia PASQUERO (ecoLogicStudio)

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Artemis KARAISKOU, Antonios LALOS, & Anna SIDERI: Energy Accreted Ecologies is a design research project that investigate the notion of urbanism under the mode of renewable energy need.

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