los angeles CALIFORNIA
USC Architecture
Critic: Yaohua WANG
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Frank Talon CONRAD: Paintings become three-dimensional to see how Rorschach-inspired composition performs at an architectural scale. Semi-symmetry and the repetition of the irregular to produce a new regular were strong interests.
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london ENGLAND
University of Westminster
Critic: Andrew Yau and Andrei Martin
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Mahmoud CHEHAB: Oscillating between form and formation, part and whole, memory palace and random access memory, the SuperCube is a library conceived as an aggregate of loosely interlocking objects each alluding to a different classical articulatory cannon and stitched together by a continuous public ribbon.
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cambridge MASSACHUSETTS
Harvard GSD
Critic: Andrew HOLDER
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Morgan STARKEY: In late 19th Century New York City, Boss Tweed, the head of the city’s foremost political machine, commissioned the construction of a grand Neoclassical courthouse to ornament City Hall park in effort to establish his parties political dominance.
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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
Penn Design
Critic: Geogina HULJICH
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Kurt NELSON and Ariel COOKE-ZAMORA: Reacting to the prevalence of standardization and the hollowing out of functional reasons for Mykonian ornament, this resort complex proposes an alternate path forward for architecture in Mykonos.
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brooklyn NEW YORK
Pratt GAUD
Critic: Kutan AYATA
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Sophia KOUNTAKIS: This project brings the familiar roof profile into the realm of the strange by deploying games of scale, yet retains its familiarity through its materiality.
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los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
Critic: Anna NEIMARK
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Sarangan SINNARAJAH: The project operates at a micro/macro scale of a city based off the relationship between how infrastructure, domesticity, and circulation can be contained as a whole.
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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
Penn Design
Critic: Andrew SAUNDERS
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Paul Germaine MCCOY: Access by definition is a means of approaching or entering a place. To today’s visitor, it is a means of being in a presence of artifacts that sit in a decontextualized archive within the Penn Museum.
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princeton NEW JERSEY
Princeton SOA
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
VAULTS BEDS GARDENS: Public Hedonics and Alternative Publicness presents amid.cero9’s investigations on the role of architecture in the formation of the contemporary public realm. Through large format drawings and precious models recreating the working environment of their studio in Madrid, the exhibition presents architectural projects ranging from the beginning of their practice in 1998 to their most recent work.
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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
University of Pennsylvania
Critic: Cory HENRY
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Megan YORK: Two forces on the brink of collision are moments away from touching. One is not overpowering the other, but yet gravitating towards its presence. But what is to come when the two forces meet? Or better yet, do they ever meet?
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kent OHIO
Kent State University CAED
Critic: Jon YODER
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Yu ZHANG: Haven Unit No. 3 is designed for the pleasures of viewing, and as such, relies on the production of architecture as innate sensation and image.
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