philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

Preston Scott Cohen is the Gerald M. McCue Professor of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD). His work is recognized for its distinctive geometry and for its new approach to integrating buildings with their environments.

lecture: Preston Scott COHEN.
Monday, 11/17
6.30 p.m. / Lower Gallery, Meyerson Hall
PennDesign
210 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

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rome ITALY

Maxi Spina’s lecture, “Lines of Thinking,” will speculate on how issues of differential geometry, computation and new means of fabrication influence the emergence of novel formal and tectonic logics for architecture.

lecture: Maxi SPINA, “Lines of Thinking.”
Saturday, 11/15
07.00 p.m. / Outdoor Urban Art Festival 2014
Ex Dogana
via dello Scalo San Lorenzo 10
Rome, ITALY

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athens GREECE

X|Atelier is organizing an international intensive workshop of Advanced Architectural Design. The X|Pixel[ism] Winter Workshop 2014 is led by X|A principals Erick Carcamo (SCI-Arc) and Nefeli Chatzimina (USC) both Graduates of Columbia University in New York City, GSAPP AAD.

“Pixel[ism]” Advanced Architectural Design Workshop with X|Atelier
X|A Athens: 12/15–12/23 @ Benaki Museum

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innsbruck AUSTRIA

University of Innsbruck
“FUNCTION|LESS,” X|Atelier workshop.
critics: Erick CARCAMO & Nefeli CHATZIMINA.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Alexander Nikolas WALZER: Where as a “glitch” is usually a product of image-based manipulation done in post-processing, the objective of this project was to embed the “error” within the geometry. . . .

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brooklyn NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Chad GORDON: Brooklyn-based artist, Chad Gordon works with found images to generate idiosyncratic, often absurd combinations. In Gordon’s highly specific compositions of clipped, clustered, and layered fragments, generic price tag stickers, normally associated with the American dollar store, puncture ceremonial tribal masks, interrupt advertisements, and confront iconic contemporary artworks.

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new york NEW YORK

The Possible Mediums project is a series of events showcasing design investigations based in speculative architectural mediums.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

Pratt Institute
critics: Michael CHEN & Jason LEE.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Michele MAZZARO & Deniz OZGUVEN: HigherGround is the result of a fascination for height and the search for the sublime through an architecture of the future and the rise of a new enterprise: space traveling.

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princeton NEW JERSEY

Firmitas, Utilitas, Venustas. Firmness, Commodity, Delight. Infamous words written by Vitruvius regarding the essential elements of architecture. There is a clear hierarchy to these three elements, priority is given to firmness, then commodity, with delight mentioned last. What would happen if we were to flip the order? What happens when delight is given priority?

symposium: “F̶i̶r̶m̶n̶e̶s̶s̶,̶ ̶C̶o̶m̶m̶o̶d̶i̶t̶y̶,̶ & Delight,” with BROUGHTON, GAGE, KOVACS, LAI, & LOVERICH.
Saturday, 11/15
12.00 p.m. / Betts Auditorium
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544

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new york NEW YORK

Ever since the theoretical turn of the 1960s, right through to the present, the status of the architectural object in the sphere of history, theory and criticism keeps taking on more and more forms.

symposium: “The Building.”
Saturday, 11/15
9.30 a.m.–5.30 p.m. / Avery Hall, Wood Auditorium
Columbia University
1172 Amsterdam Ave.
New York, NY 10027

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bologna ITALY

Nunzio PACI: My whole work deals with the relationship between man and Nature, in particular with animals and plants. The focus of my observation is body with its mutations. My intention is to explore the infinite possibilities of life, in search of a balance between reality and imagination.

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