brooklyn NEW YORK
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Chad GORDON: Brooklyn-based artist, Chad Gordon works with found images to generate idiosyncratic, often absurd combinations. In Gordon’s highly specific compositions of clipped, clustered, and layered fragments, generic price tag stickers, normally associated with the American dollar store, puncture ceremonial tribal masks, interrupt advertisements, and confront iconic contemporary artworks.
new york NEW YORK
The Possible Mediums project is a series of events showcasing design investigations based in speculative architectural mediums.
brooklyn NEW YORK
Pratt Institute
critics: Michael CHEN & Jason LEE.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Michele MAZZARO & Deniz OZGUVEN: HigherGround is the result of a fascination for height and the search for the sublime through an architecture of the future and the rise of a new enterprise: space traveling.
princeton NEW JERSEY
Firmitas, Utilitas, Venustas. Firmness, Commodity, Delight. Infamous words written by Vitruvius regarding the essential elements of architecture. There is a clear hierarchy to these three elements, priority is given to firmness, then commodity, with delight mentioned last. What would happen if we were to flip the order? What happens when delight is given priority?
symposium: “F̶i̶r̶m̶n̶e̶s̶s̶,̶ ̶C̶o̶m̶m̶o̶d̶i̶t̶y̶,̶ & Delight,” with BROUGHTON, GAGE, KOVACS, LAI, & LOVERICH.
Saturday, 11/15
12.00 p.m. / Betts Auditorium
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
new york NEW YORK
Ever since the theoretical turn of the 1960s, right through to the present, the status of the architectural object in the sphere of history, theory and criticism keeps taking on more and more forms.
symposium: “The Building.”
Saturday, 11/15
9.30 a.m.–5.30 p.m. / Avery Hall, Wood Auditorium
Columbia University
1172 Amsterdam Ave.
New York, NY 10027
bologna ITALY
Nunzio PACI: My whole work deals with the relationship between man and Nature, in particular with animals and plants. The focus of my observation is body with its mutations. My intention is to explore the infinite possibilities of life, in search of a balance between reality and imagination.
london UNITED KINGDOM
Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
GAD, Research Cluster 6
critics: Daniel WIDRIG, Stefan BASSING, & Soomeen HAHM.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Youngseok DOO, Kazushi MIYAMOTO, & Theodora Maria MOUDATSOU: This project explores the design by unique crafting technique by wrapping sticks in stretchy fabric and utilizing them to cast concrete.
atlanta GEORGIA
Joseph Choma—founder of the Design Topology Lab, an interdisciplinary design research practice—delivers the lecture “Designing as Understanding,” Friday, 11/07 at Georgia Tech College of Architecture.
lecture: Joseph CHOMA (Design Topology Lab), “Designing an Understanding.”
Friday, 11/07
12.00–1.00 p.m. / West Architecture, Room 258
Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Architecture
247 4th St. NW
Atlanta, GA 30332
brooklyn NEW YORK
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Daniel GILLEN: PLYGROUND is the latest design from DGD (DGILLENdesign) for TEX-FAB’s annual digital design and fabrication competition. The competition investigated “Plasticity” through an architectural proposal that utilizes parametric design and digital fabrication.
cambridge MASSACHUSETTS
Matter Design and Quarra Stone has announced the release of Round Room, an installation on exhibit at the MIT Keller Gallery.
What would the Incas create today with their advanced knowledge of precision stone carving and our contemporary technology? Round Room is a translation of the Inca wedge method into a digital process that manifests in the Baroque tradition of the interior model. . . .
