ithaca NEW YORK
Cornell AAP
critics: Jenny SABIN & Sofia KRIMIZI.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Isidoro MICHAN: This project integrates the overused clichés of the “duck” versus the “decorated shed” in interaction with the car, along with Graham Harman’s notion of the aesthetic tension between real and sensual objects and their multiple accidents, qualities, relations and moments, creating an object made out of fissions and fusions between the objects.
philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Brennan BUCK.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Yihan LI: The design of a global atmospheric research center employs the sphere for both its iconic and volumetric qualities. . . .
ann arbor MICHIGAN
University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
advisors: Glenn WILCOX & Wes McGEE.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Rebecca BRAUN & Tyler SMITH: It has always been the work of the designer to make sense of technological change, to be in control of the perceptual effects new industry has on a culture. . . .
new haven CONNECTICUT
Yale School of Architecture (YSOA)
Patternism Seminar, 2015
critic: Brennan BUCK.
One of the more striking shifts in our discipline in recent years has been a re-emerging focus on representation—drawing in particular.
students: Emau VEGA, Hui Zhen NG, Jessica ANGEL, Junpei OKAI, & Nicholas MURAGLIA.
los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
critic: M. Casey REHM.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Oscar ABRAHAMSSON & Jacob WAAS: The Innovation Center is a speculative proposal for the El Bulli Research Campus in Cala Montjoi, Catalonia that explores complex systems and Baroque geometry as tools in creating an artificial rival to nature.
philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Ferda KOLATAN.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Andrea YOAS & Karen MARTIN: The Museum of Useless Things investigates the thinking of design parts as estranged objects within the context of the building.
los angeles CALIFORNIA/athens GREECE/innsbruck AUSTRIA
X|Atelier is organizing four international intensive workshops of Advanced Architectural Design.
Advanced Architectural Design Workshop with X|Atelier
X|A LA WORKSHOP I: 06/08–06/17 @ DownTown Los Angeles, USA
X|A Athens WORKSHOPS II & III: 06/29–07/0; 07/13–07/23 @ Benaki Museum
X|A Innsbruck WORKSHOP IV: 07/27–08/06 @ University of Innsbruck, Austria
philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Brennan BUCK.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Nicholas Emmanuel MARIAKIS: Climate change exists as one of the fundamental challenges facing the future of planet Earth.
syracuse NEW YORK
Too small for a room but too thick for a wall, Thick Wall investigates form and domesticity through construction in the graphic project. Not just a flat drawing, the line thickens into a series of interlinked wood spindles set to a skeletal figure. . . .
los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
critic: M. Casey REHM.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Polina ALEXEEVA, Junjie GUO, & Charmaine LAM: European landscape is idyllic because it is highly groomed and domesticated, and our project site—Cala Montjoi, Spain, a vacation destination—is no exception.
