new york NEW YORK

“Massimo Scolari: The Representation of Architecture, 1967-2012” is a comprehensive retrospective of the work of visionary architect and artist Massimo Scolari, who taught as a Visiting Professor at the School of Architecture in 1977 and 1978. Originating at the Yale School of Architecture, with a nucleus of drawings first exhibited at The Cooper Union in 1977, the exhibition includes over 160 original drawings, paintings and watercolors, as well as other works completed between 1967 and 2012. Curated and designed by Scolari himself, this is the first retrospective of his work to be presented in the United States since 1986.

Massimo Scolari: The Representation of Architecture, 1967-2012
Opening Reception: Tuesday, 10/02
6.30 pm / The Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery
The Cooper Union
7 E. 7th St., 2nd floor
New York, NY 10003

innsbruck AUSTRIA

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[uto] ursula FRICK & thomas GRABNER: Our modern times are unimaginable without planning. The growth of settlements and cities is so tempestuous that a slow process of adaptation is no longer possible. This, therefore, poses the question, whether by means of more adaptable planning theories, processes can be promoted or simulated which, seen as a whole, are “more natural”—Frei Otto (1)
This work examines the thesis of Otto regarding the future direction of urban planning theory through the lens of parametric urbanism. The urban theory proposed translates the type of generating principles of the natural systems and unplanned settlements invoked by Otto, into a means of developing new forms of emergent urbanism.

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miami FLORIDA & new york NEW YORK

NYC CASINO/CONVENTION CENTER COMPETITION
First place — $1200

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alex LOZANO & reynolds DIAZ jr.: In recent years Manhattan’s lower West Side has undergone radical urban transformations. Perhaps the most influential addition to this part of the urban fabric has been the Highline Elevated Park; a melting pot of diverse activities. Thus extending this dynamic chamber of locals, artist, tourist and night-life enthusiast was an essential component to the proposal. Moreover, catalyzing these synergizes throughout the site emerge fields of landscape diversities. In this landscape, people can recreate, farm, lounge, gather or stroll for a casual walk.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

NYC CASINO/CONVENTION CENTER COMPETITION
Second Place — $800

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kais AL-RAWI, julia KOERNER, & marie BOLTENSTERN: This project demonstrates research and development of a single architectural system that addresses through its variation architectural conditions within an urban context, containing diverse programmatic changes. The variations are created through the use of efficient closest packing geometries within a cellular system that varies in gradients of size, porosity, thickness and layers.

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new york NEW YORK

NYC CASINO/CONVENTION CENTER COMPETITION
Third Place — $300

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KyuYoung HUH & jj YEO:

The Yards ///
Manhattan’s West Side has a character all its own. In examining the Western edge condition, affinities with building typologies of particular scale and program began to emerge, where the city’s anomalies and irregularities convene. This is where the streets protrude as piers into the water, where several strip clubs have opened, where sports are played in multi-purpose parking lots, where the hulking mass of the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum is permanently docked.

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lexington KENTUCKY

On Friday, September 28, Jimenez Lai of Bureau Spectacular, will give a lecture titled “BS” in which he will discuss the relationship between fiction, theory, representation, installation, and buildings. Jimenez Lai is an Assistant Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago and Leader of Bureau Spectacular. BUREAU SPECTACULAR imagines other worlds and engages the design of architecture through telling stories. Beautiful stories about character development, relationships, curiosities and attitudes; absurd stories about fake realities that invite enticing possibilities. . . .

jimenez LAI, “BS”
Friday, 09/28
5.00 pm / 209 Pence Hall
University of Kentucky
College of Design
Lexington, KY 40506

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barcelona SPAIN & damascus SYRIA

EleMental Workshop
Design and fabrication Workshop
Damascus, Syria. July 1-7, 2012

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aref MAKSOUD (MAGLAB): “Art Through The Lens Of War”

Two years, almost, and we as Syrians live in war. In this climate of anger and fear the question becomes: what is your role as artist and/or Architect? And can we see it in your work?

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new york NEW YORK

Fair Folks cafe, the latest in a series of spaces dedicated simultaneously to conversation, networking, collaboration, and design opens on Thursday, September 26 at 7.00pm. Aiming to be a space where “everything you encounter is for sale,” Fair Folks offers not only accessible design, but also, for $25 a month, unlimited coffee and espresso, and discounts on the art and design objects filling the Greenwich Village space designed with hume coover studio. To attend the grand opening please RSVP: HERE.

Fair Folks, opening reception
Thursday, 09/27 / 7.00–9.00pm
Fair Folks
96 W. Houston St. (Thompson Street)
New York, NY 10012

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paris FRANCE

McLaren Automotive will use its first ever international motor show appearance to preview its next generation ultimate supercar – the P1 – which takes much of its technological and spiritual inspiration from the company’s Racing division. P1 has one simple goal: to be the best driver’s car in the world on road and track.

At the Paris Motor Show, Mondial de l’Automobile 2012, P1 is previewed as a design study. Next year a production version, which the company aims to put on sale within 12 months, will be revealed.

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louisville KENTUCKY

When was the last time you got punched by design? Fresh Punches is an exhibition featuring the collision of experimentation and contemporary discourse in the work of American architecture students. Collected from the spring and fall semesters of 2011, the cutting-edge work exhibited features provocative explorations in technology, space, and materials. In this collection, architecture is contaminated by the likes of transmogrifications, strange sensations, primal textures, unfamiliar geometries, self-propagating architectural species, augmented atmospherics, vicissitudinous juxtapositions, reinvented building typologies, sensual pleated skins, a crisis or two, physiologically responsive interfaces, threshold blurring gizmos, and plenty of robots.

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