philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Matias del CAMPO.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Michael ROYER: The idea behind this project was to develop a contemporary reading of curve as it was used in Rococo Architecture. Techniques such as aggregation and emergence were used to try to revisit these architectural problems.

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vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Mario GASSER & Bence PAP: Our proposal for the competition for the Austrian expo pavilion for Milano 2015 is driven by a conceptual approach of highlighting the local cultural and craft diversity within Austrian regions, and how these expertise in conjunction with Austria’s diverse topography have produced a broad variety within the cultivation of agricultural crops and goods.

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helsinki FINLAND

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Norell/Rodhe (Daniel NORELL & Einar RODHE): Erratic is a recent installation at ADD that playfully draws on the tension between precise design intent and materials that behave erratically.

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chicago ILLINOIS

University of Illinois at Chicago
critic: Molly HUNKER.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Danny TRAVIS & Preston WELKER: Creteur is the animation of static form through the manipulation of fabric-formed concrete.

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vienna AUSTRIA

University of Applied Arts Vienna
Urban Strategies Postgraduate Program, EXCESSIVE IV
critics: Hernan DIAZ ALONSO & José Carlos LOPEZ CERVANTES.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Gonzalo VAÍLLO MARTÍNEZ: Located in the outskirts of Los Angeles, the starting point of the design is based on the standards of a single-family house.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc is pleased to present “Florencia Pita/FPmod: UMMA Table & Objects,” opening March 14 in the SCI-Arc Library.

exhibition: Florencia PITA (FPmod), “UMMA Table & Objects,” including a discussion with Joseph ROSA & Eric Owen MOSS.
Friday, 03/14–04/20
7.00 p.m. (opening) / SCI-Arc Library
SCI-Arc Campus
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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london UNITED KINGDOM

From natural to alien, from glossy to messy and from continuous to discrete: this lecture will speculate about computational design strategies for radical heterogeneity

lecture: Gilles RETSIN (SoftKill Design), “Alien, Messy, and Discrete: Computational Heterogeneity.”
Thursday, 03/13
6.00 p.m. / Room EB.2.43
University of East-London
University Way
London, United Kingdom E16 2RD

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

UCLA’s Kivi Sotamaa and his Spring 2013 Technology Seminar students set out to focuses on design as a method for exploring 
new applications and business potentials of Additive Manufacturing Technologies, and nanoscopically structured fibrous cellulose.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

A general discussion on computation from different points of view with special guests Hernan Diaz Alonso, Marcelo Spina, Warren Neidich, Guvenc Ozel, Madeline Gannon and more.

book release & symposium: “EPFX symposium: REQUIRED misREADINGS” with Liss C. WERNER, Eric GOLDEMBERG, Amit WOLF, Juan AZULAY, & more. Moderated by Todd GANNON.
Monday, 03/10
5.00 p.m. / SCI-Arc Library
SCI-Arc Campus
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
critic: Dwayne OYLER.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Prajakt KARMARKAR: This thesis is about the presence of absence through the lens of drawing.

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