los angeles CALIFORNIA

The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) is now accepting applications for the 2015-16 Design of Theory Fellowship program. Long established as an institution dedicated to the innovative and original exploration of Architecture, SCI-Arc created its Design of Theory program to advance and advocate the necessity for theory and discourse within the contemporary architectural design spectrum. . . .

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melbourne AUSTRALIA & london UNITED KINGDOM

Roland Snooks and Robert Stuart-Smith, Directors of Kokkugia are excited to announce the formation of two new architecture practices: Studio Roland Snooks and Robert Stuart-Smith Design (rs-sdesign). Kokkugia has always been a highly speculative research practice focused on imagining the future. Snooks and Stuart-Smith are now leveraging that research to establish practices that are focused on realising built projects and providing architectural services.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Related Companies, New York’s premier residential developer, today announced that it has commissioned world renowned Zaha Hadid Architects to design a boutique condominium adjacent to the High Line at 520 West 28th Street in Chelsea just south of Hudson Yards. The 11-story residential development will mark Hadid’s first commission in New York City, leaving an indelible mark on the High Line’s architecture map and continuing Related’s storied history of partnering with world-class architects and designers.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Announcing the 2013 Faculty Winner of 2×8 Student Exhibition Design Competition

AIA Los Angeles is announces that UCLA lecturer, Julia Koerner’s project, “Cellular Complexity”, in Collaboration with Marie Boltenstern and Kais Al-Rawi, is the winning entry for the 11 year anniversary of the 2×8 Exhibition Design. The Installation will be completed by February 2014.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, announces that Gia Wolff, an architect based in Brooklyn, New York, is the winner of the inaugural Wheelwright Prize, a $100,000 traveling fellowship dedicated to fostering new forms of architectural research informed by cross-cultural engagement.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Eugene KOSGORON & Evelina SAUSINA: Fractal Projections is a play on the idea of the cube broken in space to create an interlocking grid system that follows a linear deformation, allowing them to break from the norm grid behavior into a family of fractal surfaces. Audience is meant to circulate the space to discover the projections that is composed from a series of smaller cubes that houses these fractal surfaces. Fractal Projections pays homage to architecture and how SCI-Arc Alumni have transformed the school over the 40 years.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

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This project is a sixteen foot high inhabitable pavilion which will be exhibited in The New Sculpturalism show at the MoCA Geffen Contemporary in Los Angeles, opening June 1, 2013. It was chosen in an invited competition held by the Museum last summer, and now the heat is on to realize it.

The project is a study of surface-to-volume transformations, where mass is achieved by pushing into a surface like a fist through a rubber sheet. In this case, chunky objects are pushed into exterior skins, creating volumetric effects on the interior. The perimeter edges of the three components of the piece are razor-thin, creating visual tension between the realms of 2-D/flat and 3-D/massive.

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rome ITALY

Rio de Janeiro CityVision Competition is the fifth international ideas competition launched by CityVision and it’s part of the annual programme “Sick & Wonder.”

Because of its deep reflection about the future of our cities, Sick & Wonder will try to unveil the disgust behind our cities and to subvert it through the wonder. A wonder that CityVision has shared, since the beginning, with its friends of Farm Cultural Park.

“Rio de Janiero Competition”
Early registration: 04/09
Late registration: 06/10

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san diego CALIFORNIA

CRO Studio, founded by Woodbury School of Architecture professor Marcel Sanchez and his partner Adriana Cuellar, is a recipient of a 60th annual Progressive Architecture Award. The P/A Award represents one of the highest honors in the profession and was given to Sanchez and Cuellar for their project Modulo Prep Library in Tijuana, Mexico. Other 2013 recipients include several of the most distinguished firms in contemporary practice: Asymptote Architecture, BIG, Perkins+Will, and Barkow Leibinger.

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buffalo NEW YORK

Peter Reyner Banham spent his time in Buffalo engaged in a scholarly project on the imaginary of American industrial architecture that took the form of historical research, hands-on engagement and seminar instruction, resulting in his landmark work, A Concrete Atlantis. In celebration of Banham’s legacy of experimental criticism, the fellowship is intended to support the research and creative activity of emerging practitioners. . . .

Applications due: 04/01

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