rome ITALY

Studying an extraordinary range of architecture, sculpture, and painting from the most ancient to the most recent time in Rome, Florence, Mantua, Vicenza, and Venice, students will learn contemporary, generative design methods which draw upon these canonical examples. The course will survey different periods each week and combines excursions with production in the Trastevere Pratt GAUD Studios.

“Rome” study abroad with Pratt GAUD
05/21–06/16
critics: Mark RAKATANSKY (coordinator) and Lorenzo VIGOTTI.
Pratt GAUD Studios, Trastevere
Rome, Italy

los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
critics: Darin JOHNSTONE with Dylan KRUEGER.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Andrea BAENA & Sophia NOWINA-KONOPKA: The project is concerned with four primary dichotomies: the current paradox of “the object”, obscure masses and fleeting frames, mute assemblies and fuzzy monoliths, context and image.

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ann arbor MICHIGAN

Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan
critic: James Michael TATE.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Min ZHANG: This is a representation project that only can be achieved through digital illustration tools. The project studied how the representation techniques help flicker between different objects—fake and real, 2-D and 3-D.

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new york NEW YORK

Philip Beesley will be providing a lecture at The City College of New York, Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, on Thursday, March 27, 2017 at 6.30 p.m. The lecture will be held in the school’s Sciame Auditorium and is free and open to the public.

lecture: Philip BEESLEY, “Dissipative Models: Towards Living Systems in Architecture.”
Thursday, 04/27
6.30 p.m. / Sciame Auditorium
The City College of New York
141 Convent Avenue
New York, NY 10031

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
critic: Elena MANFERDINI.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Smita LUKOSE: The contextualism of a building in an urban environment gives it identity. Set in Downtown Los Angeles, this thesis takes cues from its surroundings, and turns it into another form. Fitting In aims to reveal moments of visual synthesis and continuity across a building’s facades in relation to its context.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

Thom Mayne, Pritzker Prize-winning architect and founding principal at the interdisciplinary architectural firm Morphosis, was appointed the first “Critic at Large” in Pratt Institute’s Graduate Architecture and Urban Design (GAUD) program within the School of Architecture this spring. The Critic at Large position was created in spring 2017 to expand discourse across the GAUD curriculum and build connections between the pedagogical and professional aspects of the program. In association with his appointment, Mayne will give a public lecture that will reflect upon his work and career as an educator and architect.

Thursday, 04/13
6.00 p.m. / Higgins Hall, auditorium
Pratt Institute
61 St. James Place
Brooklyn, New York 10038

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los angeles CALIFORNIA & barcelona SPAIN & vienna AUSTRIA

AllBlackForm is organizing international workshops of Advanced Architectural Design, using the latest digital technologies.

Advanced Architectural Design Workshops with AllBlackForm
L.A. WORKSHOP: 05/22–06/02.
Barcelona WORKSHOP: 07/03–07/14.
Vienna WORKSHOP: 07/17–07/28.

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