college station TEXAS

This lecture is of critical importance given the fact that this is the first time Levi Bryant, one of today’s most important philosophers, will address the topic of Architecture.

lecture: Levi BRYANT, “Machine-Oriented Architecture: Oikos and Ecology.”
Monday, 03/09
5.45 p.m. / Geren Auditorium
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas 77843

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Neil DENARI.
assistant instructor: Jonathan SCELSA.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Olga KARABINECH & Emily TYRER: This high-density development in Culver City has three programmatic neighborhood zones: cultural (museum, art school and student housing), live/work (office space, housing, retail) and entertainment (hotel, department store, luxury housing, and a market near the Expo Metro station).

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new york NEW YORK

We designed this. There is likely a ton of bullshit that we could tell you about regarding it’s process, or how its sustainable, or how it fits into its context symbolically, but none of it would really be true. We designed it because we liked it and thought it was great. We hope you like it too. — Mark Foster Gage Architects

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atlanta GEORGIA

Cylinders, spheres and cubes are a small handful of shapes that can be defined by a single word. However, most shapes cannot be found in a dictionary. They belong to an alternative plastic world defined by trigonometry: a mathematical world where all shapes can be described under one systematic language and where any shape can transform into another.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc, ESTm
critic: Peter TESTA.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Laura BAO, Ioanna GEORGITSOPOULOU, Jeff WAGNER, & Eddie WINN: Spitting Images investigates the role of the “image” in representation, design, and fabrication.

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muncie INDIANA

Three Part Projects is an exhibition of recent work by Clark Thenhaus / Endemic. Included in this exhibition are three architectural proposals developed through a triptych of form, drawing translations, and context.

exhibition: Clark THENHAUS / Endemic, “Three Part Projects.”
Monday, 02/16 – 02/27
Ball State University College of Architecture and Planning
2000 West University Avenue
Muncie, IN 47306

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
critic: Elena MANFERDINI.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Asli TUSAVUL: This project is working within a contemporary rereading of the politics of the envelope, producing new models of “faciality.”

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atlanta GEORGIA

Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Architecture
critic: Volkan ALKANOGLU.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Son VU: This untitled project is for a gallery in Atlanta, Georgia. It started with a process of creating abstract 2-D line drawings; these drawings were then interpreted into 3-D space.

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buffalo NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Virginia MELNYK: Ice Crystal arrives from a series of aggregations and adjustments inspired by the way snowflakes and ice crystals are formed.

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new york NEW YORK

Historian and theorist Lucia Allais presents an exploration of the design of the Unesco Complex in Paris between 1952 and 1959, inaugural Detlef Mertins Lecture on the Histories of Modernity.

lecture: Lucia ALLAIS with Amale ANDRAOS (introduction) and Barry BERGDOLL & Felicity SCOTT (response).
Wednesday, 02/11
6.30 p.m. / Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Columbia University
1172 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027

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