los angeles, CALIFORNIA
Southern California Institute of Architecture
Critic: Andrew ZAGO
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Mingzhe XU: Singapore is a city with developed urbanism. Due to its small land area and low population, the city faces the challenge of limited resource and labor force… [MORE]
london ENGLAND
Bartlett School of Architecture RC7
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Andrew METZLER and Mariana MADRIZ-BONILLA: This project focuses on the novel utilization of the bioreceptive material “CoRncrete,” and its potential applications in architecture. [MORE]
syracuse NEW YORK
Syracuse University
Critic: Jonathan LOUIE
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Thomas KUEI: The hatch is a series of marks on a page laid out systematically. It is a representational technique that has evolved, taken up different values, and utilized in different ways over time as technologies and practices have changed. [MORE]
detroit MIGHIGAN
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Shin SHIN: “Up Close” is a proposal for the revitalization of a vacant commercial storefront and adjacent lot in East Warren, Detroit. [MORE]
los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
Critic: Peter TESTA
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
William MAYA: This thesis investigates the role of the façade and its relevance in the architectural project, instead of understanding the façade as a flat element both in its representation and architectural translation. [MORE]
los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
Critic: Kristy BALLIET
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Yi Ning LUI: “Now you See Me” celebrates optical trickery and tests the contemporary observer’s visual expertise, in the spirit of our complex and ever-changing relationship with the world around us.
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vienna AUSTRIA
Die Angewandte – The Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
Critic: Greg LYNN
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Aleksandra BELITSKAJA: This thesis challenges architecture to be a social, collaborative instrument of change, manifesting itself in the form of an interactive multiplayer game where we can all be included.
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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
University of Pennsylvania, Stuart Weitzman School of Design
Critic: Nate HUME
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Catherine SHIH and Marta LLOR: The Hive is an exploration of the boundaries between nature, urbanity and food production.
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Kent OHIO
Kent State University
Critic: Jean JAMINET
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Kyle TROYER: We live in the time of the postdigital where we are being overwhelmed by algorithms and the distinction between the digital and physical is blurred.
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