philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

Since its emergence roughly 20 years ago, generative digital design has fundamentally altered the way in which we conceptualize, design, and fabricate architecture. Virtually every aspect of our profession has been radically transformed. . . .

symposium: “The New Normal: Experiments in Contemporary Generative Design.”
Thursday, 11/14 & Friday, 11/15
PennDesign / Meyerson Hall, Lower Gallery
210 S. 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

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bologna ITALY

suckerPUNH: Describe your project.

Luca PEDRIELLI: Oximoron is a research thesis in the field of computational aesthetics through the application of topology optimization strategies for a skyscraper design in Shenzhen (China); the figure of speech that combines contradictory terms better describes the thesis subject: the erosion, a sort of creative destruction, the construction of space through matter subtraction.

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ann arbor MICHIGAN

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Clark THENHAUS / Endemic: The recently completed “Surface Gardens: Drawing Relief” project considers pre-digital drawing processes characterized by expressive materiality, competing formations, and non-delineated drawings as translatable compositions for surface articulation.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Alex McDowell is one of the most innovative and influential production designers working in narrative media. With the impact of his ideas extending far beyond his background in cinema, he advocates an immersive design process that acknowledges the key role of world building in storytelling.

lecture: Alex McDOWELL, “World Building.”
Thursday, 11/14
4.00 p.m. / Gin D. Wong, FAIA Conference Center, Harris Hall
USC School of Architecture
Los Angeles, California
90089-0291

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brand GERMANY

Carbon as far as the eye can see: the ultra-light and ultra-strong material of carbon is already present in abundance in the standard version of the Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4. In the MANSORY CARBONADO model, of which only six specimens are being manufactured, MANSORY continues to use the material consistently as the main component of all its bodywork elements.

* image © 2013 Drew PHILLIPS / AOL.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Michael Maltzan, FAIA, is the founder and design principal of Michael Maltzan Architecture, Inc. in Los Angeles.

lecture: Michael MALTZAN, “Elastic.”
Wednesday, 11/13
7.00 p.m. / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc Campus
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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new york NEW YORK

The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, founded in 1967 with close ties to The Museum of Modern Art, made New York the global center for architectural debate and redefined architectural discourse in the United States. . . .

film screening: “The Making of an Avant Garde: The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies 1967-1984,” written, produced, & directed by Diana AGREST.
Wednesday, 11/13
7.00 (reception to follow) / The Great Hall, Foundation Building
The Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street
New York, NY 10003

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new york NEW YORK

“Adolf Loos: Our Contemporary” celebrates the centenary of the Looshaus in Vienna and the publication of Adolf Loos’s most provocative theoretical text: Ornament and Crime.

exhibition: “Adolf Loos: Our Contemporary,” with Beatriz COLOMINA, Hermann CZECH, Pedro GADANHO, & Yehuda SAFRAN.
Monday, 11/11
7.00 p.m. / Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, Buell Hall
Columbia University
1172 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027

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vienna AUSTRIA

University of Applies Arts Vienna
Energie Design Strategies Department

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Rhina PORTILLO & Matthias URSCHLER: Breathing Shelter is a pavilion designed to adjust to different climate conditions. It is conceived with a different approach, not knowing its site; its main feature is flexibility to its environment.

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san diego CALIFORNIA

e·merge
come out, appear, come into view, become visible, surface, materialize, manifest oneself

An insight into emergent technologies and merging disciplines—architecture, industrial design, and fashion design.

lecture: Julia KOERNER
Friday, 11/08
6.30 p.m. / Main Lecture Space
Woodbury School of Architecture
2212 Main Street
San Diego, CA 92113

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