philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Matias del CAMPO.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Kayleen KULESZA: The project asked the student to design an apartment building in combination with a Kaffeehaus and nightclub. . . .

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beijing; london; new delhi

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Orproject: Orproject developed a series of algorithms that digitally generate open and closed venation patterns, which can be used to simulate the growth of topiaries.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Hina JAMELLE.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Brett Dong Ha LEE: A hybrid condition building as a continuously grafting and shifting system, this project delves into how such systemic thinking is transferred into generative rules for lighting, furnishing, façade treatment, circulatory and programmatic organizations, and changing topology of units.

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vienna AUSTRIA

In connection with this year’s Sliver lecture series, the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts has invited recent alumni who have continued to experiment with digital modes of design and production . . .

exhibition: “Digital Craft: Fabricating the Virtual in the 21st Century.”
Wednesday, 04/30 (opening)
7.00 p.m. / University of Applied Arts Vienna, Lichthof 1
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
1010 Vienna, Austria

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Architectural Association

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Zeynep AKSOZ: The project merges the idea of the graveyard as a spiritual space with the digital communication technology and generates a communication platform where one can visit their loved ones and communicate with their digital identities after death.

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copenhagen DENMARK

A symposium that reflects and concludes the exhibition and project “What Does It Mean To Make An Experiment?”—a research project between the School of Design and the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture / CITA. . .

symposium: “What does it mean to make an experiment?”
Friday, 04/25
10.30 a.m. – 05.00 p.m. / Auditorium 2, Holmen
Danneskiold-Samsøes Allé 51
Copenhagen, Denmark

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new york NEW YORK

Join Cooper Union for two days of free, public tributes, reminiscences, panels, and films celebrating the late artist, architect, and educator Lebbeus Woods.

symposium: “Lebbeus Woods: A Celebration.”
Friday, 04/25 - Saturday, 04/26 // Great Hall, Foundation Building
The Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street
New York, NY 10003

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austin TEXAS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Kory BIEG (OTA+): Caret 6 in an installation and exhibition designed and curated by Kory Bieg (OTA+) and his students from the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture Design V Studio he taught in the fall of 2013. The installation supports prototypes and the winning project from TEX-FAB’s 2013 SKIN Competition.

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cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

Behavioral Formation explores the relationship between emergence and architectural intention, and is a speculation on the architecture of swarm intelligence, viewed through the work of Kokkugia.

lecture: Roland SNOOKS (Kokkugia), “Behavioral Formation.”
Thursday, 04/24
5.30 p.m. / Room 7-429 (Long Lounge)
MIT Architecture
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02142

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cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

Harvard GSD
critics: Danielle ETZLER & Eric HOWELER.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Elle GERDEMAN: The urban condition of Boston Government Center, a fabric of a distinct parts dictated by the nothing and divorced by the elevator, stands as a relic of a diluted modernist testimony. . . .

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