new york NEW YORK

An exhibition examining how museums and cultural institutions, fueled through private funding, have adopted a system and tradition of celebrating donors to the extent that every single public space (physical or digital; temporary or permanent) can eventually be named.

“No Shame: Storefront for Sale,” with Fake Industries Architectural Agonism, Jesse Hlebo, Christine Hill, Interboro Partners, item idem, Playlab+Family, Luis Urculo, & SOFTlab.
Tuesday 04/30–Thursday 06/06
opening reception: Tuesday, 04/30
7.00pm / Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare Street
New York, New York 10012

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new york NEW YORK

“Strange Craft: Summer Masterclass in Contemporary Digital Architecture” with 
Michael YOUNG & Kutan AYATA, 
Rhett RUSSO & Kartin MUELLER RUSSO, David RUY & Karel KLEIN, and Ezio BLASETTI & Danielle WILLEMS
07/08-08/02
Cooper Union
New York, New York 10003

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crete GREECE

The barrier of Schengen was since a long time considered as a fortress. We did not remember exactly when this fence became for European citizen their own jail . . . inverting the preliminary reason of its constitution, to protect them against the world . . . Now it appears to be the revenge of an historical illusion. . . .

“Terra Insola” with François ROCHE, Ezio BLASETTI, Stephan HENRICH, Camille LACADÉE, Danielle WILLEMS, Lydia KALLIPOLITI, & Andreas THEODORIDIS
COMPUT/DIY
06/07–07/07 2013
Crete, GREECE

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Peter ZELLNER discusses SCI-Arc Future Initiatives (SCIFI), Differential Urbanism, computational design, and much more.

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boston MASSACHUSETTS

Harvard GSD

critic: Ben van BERKEL

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Yaohua WANG: VFX is short for visual effects. VFX industry is in a stage of its middle-age. It is younger than the mature and defined financial industries but older than the pimply and adolescent .com startups. At the moment, the middle-age VFX industry, is facing transitions.

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milwaukee WISCONSIN

On April 5th, 2013, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning will host the biennial Urban Edge Award Symposium, titled “Evolutionary Infrastructure / Evolving Practices” and curated by Michael Manfredi and Marion Weiss of WEISS/MANFREDI. Expanding the definition of “infrastructure” to address an escalating set of design challenges that are at once cultural, architectural, and environmental, the symposium will host a series of cross-disciplinary talks and discussions between innovative architects, artists, ecologists, engineers, and theoreticians.

“Evolutionary Infrastructure / Evolving Practices,” w/ MANFREDI, WEISS, EASTERLING, REYNOLDS, BUNGE, & more.
Friday, 04/05
10.00am–9.00pm / UWM
Milwaukee, WI 53201

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troy NEW YORK

Peter Eisenman is an American architect, writer and educator whose work has long been informed by reading architecture through a wide range of cultural, intellectual and philosophical references. Famous during the late 1960s for his pioneering houses from his days among the New York Five, he has since then remained at the forefront of architectural discourse through the buildings he has produced, the numerous books he has written, and the lectures and courses he has taught.

Peter EISENMAN
, “A Defense of Architecture”
Wednesday, 04/03
6.00 pm / EMPAC Theater
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, New York 12180

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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lexington KENTUCKY

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

PLUS-SUM (Martin SUMMERS): Museums represent our greatest cultural and social aspirations in their mission to collect and disseminate ideas while also striving for symbolic status within global cultural and national/local, shared aspirations. A Museum of Contemporary Art has a particularly elevated status within this shared cultural milieu, because it embodies our aspirations to shape and evolve culture. It collects and defines the edges of our cultural production and at it’s best, reflects the current and future states of our collective evolution.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

George SMYRLIS: Casa Duende is the headquarters of a secret organisation that its manifestation is based on a combination of anarchism socialism along with bullfighting values. Organisation aim is to educate its member and prepare them for a political system governed by individuals. The building concept is aiming toward a design of provocation and attempts to capture the critical moment when the bull gore the matador’s skin and a state of human body’s aposynthesis has already started. Casa Duende’s final phase is a heroic explosion aiming towards a symbolic destroy of Alhambra castle, the last remnants of hierarchical system that promotes the higher classes of its structure.

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