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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london UNITED KINGDOM

Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
GAD, Research Cluster 6
critics: Daniel WIDRIG, Stefan BASSING, & Soomeen HAHM.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Youngseok DOO, Kazushi MIYAMOTO, & Theodora Maria MOUDATSOU: This project explores the design by unique crafting technique by wrapping sticks in stretchy fabric and utilizing them to cast concrete.

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atlanta GEORGIA

Joseph Choma—founder of the Design Topology Lab, an interdisciplinary design research practice—delivers the lecture “Designing as Understanding,” Friday, 11/07 at Georgia Tech College of Architecture.

lecture: Joseph CHOMA (Design Topology Lab), “Designing an Understanding.”
Friday, 11/07
12.00–1.00 p.m. / West Architecture, Room 258
Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Architecture
247 4th St. NW
Atlanta, GA 30332

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brooklyn NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Daniel GILLEN: PLYGROUND is the latest design from DGD (DGILLENdesign) for TEX-FAB’s annual digital design and fabrication competition. The competition investigated “Plasticity” through an architectural proposal that utilizes parametric design and digital fabrication.

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cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

Matter Design and Quarra Stone has announced the release of Round Room, an installation on exhibit at the MIT Keller Gallery.

What would the Incas create today with their advanced knowledge of precision stone carving and our contemporary technology? Round Room is a translation of the Inca wedge method into a digital process that manifests in the Baroque tradition of the interior model. . . .

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new york NEW YORK

Diana Balmori visits the Strand to chat about Drawing and Reinventing Landscape with the MoMA’s architecture curator, Barry Bergdoll. Diana’s book examines digital, analog, and hybrid methods of of representing landscape and places contemporary landscape architecture within its fascinating historical context. . . .

in conversation: Diana BALORI, “Drawing and Reinventing Landscape: A conversation with MoMa’s architecture curator Barry Bergdoll.”
Wednesday, 11/05
7.00–8.00 p.m. / Strand Bookstore, third-floor Rare Book Room
828 Broadway at 12th Street
New York, NY 10003

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mumbai INDIA

Columbia GSAPP, Studio-X Mumbai, & NMIMS University

The project is located in Mumbai, on the boardwalk promenade of Carter Road. The ribs were constructed in a double layer of router-cut overlapping ½”MDF. The repetitive rib system, expressing the fluid transformation of a visual frame responding to different perception depending on the position of the viewer, defines both the structure and its deformation. . . .

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shanghai CHINA

“BREATHING” is a dynamic installation designed by the Laboratory for Explorative Architecture & Design Ltd. (LEAD) for Sushibar Ichininmae as part of the RIBA Shanghai Windows Project in Shanghai, Xintiandi. For the second time the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), China Xintiandi and the British Council selected ten architects to develop temporary installations in shops distributed around the Shanghai Xintiandi site.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

ACADIA (Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture) is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the ACADIA 2014 Design Agency Conference to be held at the USC School of Architecture in Los Angeles the week of October 23-25, 2014. Co-chaired by Dr. David Jason Gerber, Alvin Huang, AIA and Jose Sanchez, this highly anticipated event will bring an international audience of innovative design educators, researchers, and practitioners together for a week of design focused workshops, lectures, panels, presentations, and exhibitions that will push the boundaries of contemporary design technology and define new paradigms for design thinking.

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