brooklyn NEW YORK

Pratt Institute
critics: Evan TRIBUS & Dragana ZORIC.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Justin HATTENDORF & Gillian SHAFFER: This thesis looks to intensify local ecologies and biodiversity of post-industrial American cities. . . .

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chicago ILLINOIS

University of Illinois at Chicago
critic: Paul PREISSNER.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Borislav ANGELOV: The studio in which this project was design was called “Big Dumb Objects” which explored different ways of combining things in an absurd way and looking for an architectural expression which seems inappropriate for architecture.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
critic: Hernan DIAZ ALONSO with Ivan BERNAL.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Austin SAMSON: This project aims to explore the possibilities of a mid-rise tower with a disrupted center rather than the normal, differentiated top or bottom.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

Pratt Institute
critic: Adam ELSTEIN.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Paul SCRUGHAM: Silo Breaking reimagines the abandoned grain elevators of Buffalo, New York as a site for urban festival and cultural programs.

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montreal CANADA; st. louis MISSOURI; tel aviv ISRAEL

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Open Source Architecture (Chandler AHRENS, Eran NEUMAN, & Aaron SPRECHER): Whiteout explores the idea of difference and singularity through the process of embedding disparate geometries and objects under a homogenous white skin.

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ann arbor MICHIGAN

University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
critic: Adam FURE.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Nathan WALKER: This thesis explores the proposition put forth by philosopher Graham Harman that aesthetics is the tension between objects and their sensible qualities.

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troy NEW YORK

Rensselaer School of Architecture
Geofutures: Post-professional Program in Architecture and Urbanism
critics: Chris PERRY, Andrew SAUNDERS, & Fleet HOWER.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Tanzil Idmam SHAFIQUE: Lagoonous Assmblage can be described as a vision for Los Angeles that goes against the trend of overlooking topographical and climatic realities of the city and postulates a radical restructuring of the city’s morphological and topological armature.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Celebrate the publication of Log’s Spring/Summer 2014 issue, Log 31: New Ancients, guest-edited by SCI-Arc faculty Dora Epstein Jones and Bryony Roberts.

issue launch & discussion: Log 31: New Ancients, with Todd GANNON, Dora EPSTEIN JONES, Bryony ROBERTS, Anna NEIMARK, Jonah ROWEN, Andrew ATWOOD, Jason PAYNE, & Marc ERICSON.
Thursday, 07/17
7.00 p.m. / SCI-Arc Gallery
SCI-Arc Campus
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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bad rothenfelde GERMANY

The work Advection consists of several visual études projected on the continuously changing volume of a water fountain. Interconnected with both the circadian rhythm of their natural surroundings as well as the meteorological nuances of seasonal change from autumn to winter—the fixed études alter their density, texture and luminescence over the exhibition time. . . .

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new orleans LOUISIANA

Tulane University School of Architecture
Digital Output Lab & Tulane Millhaus

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Emily HAYDEN & Robert MOSBY: Snuggle was inspired by organic forms in action, including the growth of coral and barnacle colonies, the snuggling of soft bodies, and so on.

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