ann arbor MICHGAN

University of Michigan Museum of Art
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Organized by the University of Michigan Museum of Art, “Florencia Pita/FPmod” explores the provocations and intersections of digital technology, material experimentation, and ornament in the work of Argentina-born, Los Angeles-based architect and designer Florencia Pita. The exhibition and its related publication, part of the UMMA Books series, trace the evolution of Pita’s design ideology through installation pieces, urban design, tableware, furniture, and architecture, as well as small adornments.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

A New Sculpturalism: Contemporary Architecture from Southern California examines contemporary Southern California architecture from 1987 to the present, exploring its experimental nature, sculptural tendency, and exciting evolution. Contributions by leading architectural historians coupled with a stunning collection of images present recent works in terms of sculpturalism and urbanism, and consider the impact of the history and environment of Los Angeles, as well as the creative and working processes.

london UNITED KINGDOM

critics: SIr Peter COOK & Ricardo de OSTOS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Alice LABOUREL: The Ballet School project is an attempt to render subjective experience as objective reality. It recreates so-called actual / physical reality out of perceived reality—that is, to build the real from one’s experience. Architecture allows users to interact with, react to, and be stimulated by the spaces they inhabit. In addition, this architecture allows inhabitants to construct their own realities by filling in the gaps, like a child using his/her imagination.

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paris FRANCE

Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture
critic : Ricardo de Ostos

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project:

Jonas BRAOUDÉ: Today most of us are aware of human impacts on our planet. Despite the efforts of environmentalists one question still remains: Are we the last witnesses of the last wilderness?

The project takes place in a global deforestation issues. It focused on the emergence of a significant threat to the mangrove coastal forests in Madagascar: the shrimp farming industry.

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lawrence KANSAS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Melissa ANDERSON: This project attempts to make people become more empathetic by relating environmental issues to the human body by pairing portraits with unadulterated photographs of a local stream. By doing this, I encourage the viewer to question our relationship with nature.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH announces the publication of Fresh Punches, catalogue for LOT & suckerPUNCH’s “Fresh Punches” exhibition. In addition to collecting the work featured in the exhibition, Fresh Punches includes essays, interviews, and ruminations from more than 50 educators on the state of architecture education in the US today.

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athens GREECE & istanbul TURKEY

Architectural Association (AA), National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Istanbul Technical University (ITU) Faculty of Architecture

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

AA Athens Visiting School, Recharged (25 March – 02 April 2013), in collaboration with National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), has concentrated on the design of prototype structures that are related to motion and real‐time reaction to external stimuli with the aim of transforming static built models to animated kinetic prototypes while considering hierarchical design rules.

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chicago ILLINOIS

As children, we make things for ourselves: houses from cardboard boxes, tents from blankets, even paper wings to fly from the dining room table. As adults, we make less things. And while we grown-ups labor through subtext and buried complexity, children are quick to invent it; always toying with absurdity in the hopes of finding novelty. . . .

Norman Kelley, “A Formal Education.”
RAW Living | AIA Chicago Young Architect’s Forum (YAF)
Tuesday, 06/25
6.30 p.m. / Blokes and Birds Public House
3343 N Clark St.
Chicago, IL 60657

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vienna AUSTRIA

University of Applied Arts Vienna

Jensen LIU & Sally HSU: Siivet aurora, the Aurora Borealis Arctic Observatory is an architectural project situated in argument between the historic mystic of the northern lights and the urban landmark of Rovaniemi.

This proposal explores the awakening moment of the Eos (the goddess of dawn), enhancing a natural phenomenon that continues to amaze audiences.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

The Bartlett School of Architecture UCL will present innovative designs in its annual student showcase The Bartlett Summer Show from 21 – 29 June.

The annual celebration of student work is one of the world’s biggest architecture degree shows. Over 500 students will present an incredible range of inventive, creative and visual work, from models and drawings, to films, multimedia installations and computer fabrications.

“The Bartlett Summer Show 2013”
06/21–06/29 / Slade Galleries
University College London
Gower St.
London WC1E 6BT

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