suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Gary POLK: This thesis tackles the sphere of nonhuman culture within the realm of architecture. It investigates design from the ontology of architectural characters by harnessing the behaviors, mechanisms, and new spatial realms that can occur from human, environmental and character interface, specifically that of the 6 designed characters: the Transfer Station, Kiln, Buoyant, Umbrella, Thermal Mass and Ark.
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Ryan McChord BARNETTE: This thesis is the outcome of a visual taxonomy constructed from a series of representational explorations which attempt to investigate the more recent emergence of post digital aesthetics and representation through materiality and figuration. “mis{FIGURED}” translates as the obfuscation of quasi-conventional modes of architectural representation which question current advents of representational techniques as they are resolved into a two and a half dimensional installation.
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Varun CHILLARA: The project speculates into the future when the U.S hosts the 2024 Olympics. In preparation for the 2024 Olympics , the U.S has commissioned the Los Angeles memorial coliseum to be retrofitted for the Olympic games . The term , after the flame in this case reuses the existing Olympic coliseum for the next Olympic games . The proposal for the project looks to assert power through the use of aesthetics and excessive amounts of detail.
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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
The Alley FELLOWSHIP: The Alley Fellowship produces a two-month rotating exhibition and lecture series and is open to emerging, young, progressive artists in Los Angeles. The fellowship will be awarded to six artists, selected by a seven-member jury consisting of artists, designers, and architects from the A+D Museum and Rios Clementi Hale Studios. The jury will select based on which projects best embody the spirit of transdisciplinary creative exploration, a key focus area for RCHS and A+D.

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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Vanessa BARRAGAO: These pieces represent an upcycling effort to try to fight against the textile industry [MORE]

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Egil DE LANGE KOBBERSTAD and Phillip LEE: This project investigates a detailed relationship involving interconnecting parts, such as a balljoint. The idea is to mine the potential of the relationship between the parts conceptually and formally across scales. [MORE]

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Yi Ning LUI and Akhil MATHEW: The project is informed by how it is read at three different scales, the distant scale of the city, the intermediate scale of a building, and lastly, at the intimate or human scale. The volumetric surfaces we designed have a large impact on the spatial experience of our building, as their surface geometry oscillates between the man made and the natural, as well as the familiar and unfamiliar. [MORE]

Deep VISTA: New ideas in architectural practice and theory arising from rapidly changing technology will be explored by experts in design, education, philosophy and other disciplines at “Deep Vista,” a free-ranging panel discussion series set for April 27 and 28, 2018 at Texas A&M University.

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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Rishab JAIN: The project curates a game between two AI’s in order to speculate on the future of residential typology and a hybrid between future machine systems and human residential in order to cater to both the systems.

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