lexington KENTUCKY

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craig CHAMBERLAIN, victor SMITH, madelynn RINGO: Translations (a workshop series hosted by Kyle Miller, Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Kentucky, College of Design).

“Translations” is a series of lectures and workshops organized around the concept of employing multiple modes of making, a diverse set of design techniques and mixed media within the architectural design process. Multiplication and hybridity of making ensures a cyclical design process in which concepts are translated from state to state, opening the possibility for interpretation, intuition, and innovation within the process of architectural design.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

Karen M’Closkey, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at UPENN and principal of PEG, has won the Garden Club of America Rome Prize. She has proposed A Field Guide to Rome: Baedeker and Beyond as her topic.

PEG office of landscape + architecture is an award-winning design and research office based in Philadelphia, PA. We engage a wide range of projects in terms of content, scale, and medium. Whether through competitions, writing or client-sponsored work, we explore the overlapping terrain between the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture. Utilizing the techniques or conventions inherent in one discipline enables us to scrutinize the conventions of the other in order to imagine new formal and material arrangements. This does not, however, lead to the uniform application of technique. If we believed in manifestos, ours would be that scale matters.

los angeles CALIFORNIA

Bianca: Reflected Landscapes

Interior and Exterior design for a 60 m long cruise boat in Japan. Upon entering the new Bianca, travelers are immersed in landscapes of light, color and infinite views on the surrounding nature. Floors and ceilings, along with the outside panoramas, act as internal “Second Natures” able to create elongated perspective where extraordinary lands of colorful waters and skies meet. Similar to gardens the wrapping surfaces of Bianca create an idealized landscape that fluctuates between the abstract and pictorial. At each floor of the boat, travelers experience a unique view on the surrounding horizon. Named after the different time of the day (sunset, sunrise, midday…etc), the various spaces offer a continuous pictorial experience of nature.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

The top 16 entries to suckerPUNCH’s Robot Workshop competition are now online. Click through for more.

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burbank CALIFORNIA

Woodbury University Graduate Students: roosevelt GOLINO, sunny LAM, ahmed SHOKIR, colin McCARVILLE, & henry CHEUNG
Instructors: Mark Ericson and John Brockway, Woodbury University School of Architecture

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
mark ERICSON & john BROCKWAY: This visualization assignment asked students to examine California’s Owens Valley, through a minutely focused lens. Specifically each student was asked to develop their own form of monomania, drawing the territory by only drawing water. In a landscape were water is scarce this presented a particular challenge to their imaginative abilities. They were asked to draw water in both its presence and its abundant absence

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new york NEW YORK

Storefront for Art and Architecture will present “Toward a Theory of Misbehavior,” a Manifesto Series event showcasing different generational approaches towards architecture theory on the occasion of the release of The Sniper’s Log: Architectural Chronicles of Generation X by Alejandro Zaera Polo. Presenters include: Kenneth Frampton, Peter Eisenman, Bernard Tschumi, Cynthia Davidson, Jeff Kipnis, Stan Allen , Sylvia Lavin, Sanford Kwinter, Alejandro Zaera Polo, Michael Meredith, Anna Pla Català , Bjarke Ingels, Eva Franch i Gilabert.

“Toward A Theory of Misbehavior”
Friday, 05/27
7.00-9.00 pm / Storefront for Art & Arch.
97 Kenmare Street
New York, NEW YORK 10012

new york NEW YORK

Anthony Vidler lectures on “An Intellectual Biography,” the second presentation in Cooper Union’s Faculty Talks Series.

anthony VIDLER
“An Intellectual Biography”
Friday, 04/27
6.00 pm / Room 315, The Foundation Building
Cooper Union
Cooper Square
New York, NY 10003

rotterdam THE NETHERLANDS

Elena Manferdini graduated from the University of Civil Engineering (Bologna, Italy) and later from University of California Los Angeles (Master of Architecture and Urban Design). She is the principal of Atelier Manferdini, a design office that specializes in the cutting edge of computer-aided design of exotic forms.

elena MANFERDINI
“Design in One”
Thursday, 05/26
7.00-9.00 pm / Berlage Institute
Botersloot 23 3011 HE
rotterdam, THE NETHERLANDS 010 4030399

ithaca NEW YORK

Mario Carpo is a professor of architectural history and theory at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and Vincent Scully Visiting Professor of Architectural History at Yale University SOA. Carpo’s research and publications focus on the relationship between architectural theory, cultural history, and the history of media and information technology. His Architecture in the Age of Printing (2001) has been translated into several languages. His most recent books are The Alphabet and the Algorithm (2011), Perspective, Projections and Design (2007), and an English translation and commentary of Leon Battista Alberti’s Descriptio Urbis Romae (2007).

mario CARPO
“Digital Styles”
Thursday, 05/26
5.15 pm / Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium, Milstein Hall
Cornell University AAP
129 Sibley Dome, Cornell University
Ithaca, NEW YORK 14853

zurich SWITZERLAND

Zurich, 2011 — Out of a collaboration between the Emergent Technologies and Design program (EmTech) of the Architectural Association, London, and the Chair of Structural Design at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, a temporary light timber construction has been design that functions as sun shading for parts of the grand stairs in front of the architecture department of the ETH. It is based on bending behaviour under selfweight of oversized sheets of plywood of up to 11 x 2.5 m. The design activates the material properties as the defining element in the transfer of forces.

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