lichtervelde BELGIUM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Nick ERVINCK: As an artist I was always fascinated by the future and the idea of recombination, mutation, and manipulation. With this series I wanted to question the status of flora in the 21th century and fantasize about how our flowers, plants, and fruits will look like in the future.

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new york NEW YORK

Jeffrey KIPNIS speaks on his Writing Architecture Series book A Question of Qualities: Essays in Architecture as part of Columbia University GSAPP’s “Arguments” lecture series.

lecture: Jeffrey KIPNIS, “A Question of Qualities: Essays in Architecture.”
Tuesday, 07/08
6.00 p.m. / Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Columbia University
1172 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027

new york NEW YORK

Please join Log to celebrate the publication of the Spring/Summer 2014 issue, Log 31: New Ancients, guest-edited by Dora Epstein Jones and Bryony Roberts.

issue launch & discussion: Log 31: New Ancients, with Cynthia DAVIDSON, Dora EPSTEIN JONES, Bryony ROBERTS, Enrique WALKER, & more.
Thursday, 07/10
6.00 p.m. / Wood Auditorium
Columbia University
1172 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Tom WISCOMBE.
assistant instructor: Ryan MACYAUSKI.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Michael KIPFER & Eric WONG: Our project is executed with two chunky and strong figures: a large jack and a slightly manipulated cube.

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new york NEW YORK

Almost every industry in the world has benefited from the invention of plastics, but it is only in the recent past that they have begun to be appreciated as architectural materials in their own right. . . .

book launch & discussion: “Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering,” with Michael BELL, William CARROLL, George MIDDLETON, Billie FAIRCLOTH, & Sylvia LAVIN.
Tuesday, 07/01
6.00–8.00 p.m. / Center for Architecture
536 La Guardia Place
New York, NY 10012

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ghent NEW YORK

The Field Sculpture Park & Architecture OMI presented their 2014 Season Opening—Saturday, June 14, 1.00–5.00 p.m. Harrison Atelier inaugurated their installation “Species Niches” with a performance by Silas Riener, Merce Cunningham Dance Company alumni, and composer Loren Dempster.

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san antonio TEXAS

F² is a spruce wood and plastic grid installation, designed and fabricated by UTSA College of Architecture’s graduate students under the direction of Andrew Kudless and Kevin McClellan. F² was fabricated and installed in San Antonio’s Travis Park. . . .

photos: Doug FLETCHER.

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lisbon PORTUGAL

Brave New Now is a collection of specially commissioned short stories set in a fictional future city developed by speculative architect Liam Young for the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennale. Authors have been invited to inhabit the city, to breathe life into its characters and cultures and give form to its streets and spaces through narrative. . . .

image: Hovig ALAHAIDOYAN.

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chicago ILLINOIS

As concepts are developed and represented across a range of scales, an architect’s work requires a variety of approaches, media, and outputs. Architecture to Scale demonstrates the complex architectural processes from research to production through the work of two groundbreaking architects. . . .

exhibition: “Architecture to Scale: Stanley Tigerman and Zago Architecture.”
Thursday, 06/26 - Sunday, 09/14 / Galleries 283–285
Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60603

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Architectural Association

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Tianyi CHEN, Vineeth Thappalli KANNOTH, Haocheng YANG, & Lei YANG: This thesis rethinks high-density urban housing typology through the removal of lifts, cores, and corridor circulation and by the employment of an exterior, decentralized lift system.

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