los angeles CALIFORNIA

University of Southern California
critic: Roland WAHLROOS-RITTER

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Katie AMRINE, Meaghan CAMP, Morgan FENG, Shelley FU, Saeed GHODS, Peter JEUNG, Jonathan LEE, Andrea MENDOZA, David NICHOLSON, Krithika PRABHAKARAN, Zenah SAKAAMINI, Eugene SU, Vicky WONG, & Graham WOOD: The Glass Pavilion is an investigation of the aesthetic and structural qualities of glass. The use of polycarbonate, a transparent material with many of the same structural properties as glass, allowed us to create a self-supporting structure on a smaller budget.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Professor Mark Burry is the founding Director of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University’s Design Research Institute (DRI). Established in 2008, DRI positions design research’s role as an explorer and tester of design options focusing on the challenges of urbanization and growing cities of the future. With this urban focus, DRI’s supports three flagships: Future Fabric of Cities, Mediated City, and Urban Technology Nexus.

Mark BURRY
Wednesday, 04/10
6.00 pm / 
Gin D. Wong, FAIA Conference Center, Harris Hall
University Southern California

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calgary CANADA

The 5th annual Dale Taylor Visiting Seminar at the University of Calgary Faculty of Environmental Design was led by Visiting Lecturer Alvin Huang (USC/Synthesis Design + Architecture) and Assistant Professor Jason S. Johnson (U. Calgary/Minus Architecture). This intensive 4 day design/fabricate/build workshop explored digital form-finding techniques to produce a series of scaled architectural prototypes for freestanding pavilion structures.

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san francisco CALIFORNIA

California College of the Arts (CCA)
critic: Jason K. JOHNSON

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Alex WOODHOUSE & Leah ZALDUMBIDE: Desert Driftbot investigates the prospect of an alternative, event-driven, nomadic society, fleeing the overbearing,cosmopolitan lifestyle of urbanity in favor of a simplified yet profound way of living. Seeking respite from a culture of extreme density, poor air quality, automotive dependence, materialism and ownership, this nomadic civilization has emerged in the barren desertscape of the Salton Sea.

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burbank CALIFORNIA

Michael Young is an architect and an educator practicing in New York City where he is a founding partner of Young & Ayata. Young & Ayata formed as a partnership between Michael Young & Kutan Ayata in New York in 2008 to explore novel formal and organizational possibilities in architecture and urbanism. The practice is dedicated to the exchange between built commissions and design research. Their work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. Michael has taught design studios and seminars at The Cooper Union, Yale University, Columbia University, and Princeton University.

lecture: Michael YOUNG
Tuesday, 04/09
6.30pm / Ahmanson Main Space
Woodbury University
7500 Glenoaks Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91510-7846

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new york NEW YORK

The Center for Transformative Media (CTM) at Parsons: The New School for Design presents “Cyber-Nietzsche: Tunnels, Tightropes, Net-&-Meshworks” a day-long symposium (10am to 6pm) on the relation of Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy to Media Studies, Cybernetics, and the so-called “Digital Humanities” (Human, All too Human?).

“Cyber-Nietzsche: Tunnels, Tightropes, Net-&-Meshworks,” with Joseph NECHVATAL, Eugene THACKER, Babette BABICH, Gary SHAPIRO, Shannon BELL, Dominic PETTMANN, & more.
Saturday, 04/13
10.00am-6.00pm / Room 404
Parsons: The New School for Design
66 West 12th Street, New York, NEW YORK

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Ali RAHIM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Yoonsun HWANG & Lois SOO KYUNG SUH: Hydropolis provokes the existing typology of a skyscraper set in the densest metropolis: Hong Kong. Accumulating diverse attributes of the city at multiple economic and social scales and translations, the tower yields transforming facade, structure and circulation system, from intricate to ludicrous. The project challenges the aggressive attitude of land reclamation by embracing the harbor front as a crucial part of the project, operating closely with water.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Adam DAYEM: The year is 2100 and what was once called the nation of Kiribati is gone, its chains of low-lying islands have been completely submerged by the Pacific Ocean. Many I-Kiribati and their descendants have dispersed to Australia where they work in the health care industry or to New Zealand where they work as maritime shipping specialists. In these host nations, the I-Kiribati have become diffused. As a result, their culture and language has nearly died.

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san luis obispo CALIFORNIA

Julie Bargmann is internationally recognized as an innovative designer in building regenerative landscapes. She founded D.I.R.T. studio in 1992 to research, design and build projects with passion and rigor. . . . Her background in sculpture influences the use of simple form that emerges from sites’ existing, unearthed and unlikely fodder for design.

Julie BARGMANN (D.I.R.T. Studio)
Friday, 04/05
4.00–5.00 pm / 
Business Rotunda (03-213)
Cal Poly — San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo, CA 93405

milwaukee WISCONSIN

On April 5th, 2013, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning will host the biennial Urban Edge Award Symposium, titled “Evolutionary Infrastructure / Evolving Practices” and curated by Michael Manfredi and Marion Weiss of WEISS/MANFREDI. Expanding the definition of “infrastructure” to address an escalating set of design challenges that are at once cultural, architectural, and environmental, the symposium will host a series of cross-disciplinary talks and discussions between innovative architects, artists, ecologists, engineers, and theoreticians.

“Evolutionary Infrastructure / Evolving Practices,” w/ MANFREDI, WEISS, EASTERLING, REYNOLDS, BUNGE, & more.
Friday, 04/05
10.00am–9.00pm / UWM
Milwaukee, WI 53201

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