san diego CALIFORNIA

e·merge
come out, appear, come into view, become visible, surface, materialize, manifest oneself

An insight into emergent technologies and merging disciplines—architecture, industrial design, and fashion design.

lecture: Julia KOERNER
Friday, 11/08
6.30 p.m. / Main Lecture Space
Woodbury School of Architecture
2212 Main Street
San Diego, CA 92113

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new york NEW YORK

Historically, architectural competitions have been perceived as one of the primary platforms for emerging architects to test new typologies, broaden public discourse, and gain exposure through for their work. . . .

event: “(P)RE: Think | Competitive Ideas + NPNY 2014 Launch” with Lonn COMBS, Abigail COOVER, William MENKING & Jamie TORRES SPRINGER.
Thursday, 11/07
6.00–8.00 p.m. / Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Pl.
New York, NY 10012

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tokyo JAPAN

Ever since it started research and development on electro-mobility in 1966, today’s Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) always believed that electric vehicles (EV) would eventually become long-term core products—a view vindicated by recent concerns over global warming.

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new york NEW YORK

“Every architect can find common ground in Charles Jencks’s ‘Evolutionary Tree to the Year 2000.’ Originally published in Jencks’s 1971 book Architecture 2000, the soft, blobby diagram has become a comfortable space of mediation where fundamentally conflicting architectural traditions may happily coexist encased in pulsating attractor basins. . . .”

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*image: Charles Jencks’s revision of the “Evolutionary Tree for the Year 2000,” as published in Architectural Review (July 2000).

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vienna AUSTRIA

Architecture stands at an inflection point. The confluence of advances in both computation and fabrication techologies offers architects the possibility of designing and constructing hitherto unimaginable forms.

lecture: Michael HANSMEYER, “Digital Grotesque.”
Thursday, 11/07
7.00 p.m. / University of Applied Arts Vienna, Lichthof 2
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
1010 Vienna, Austria

* photo: Michael HANSMEYER, “Digital Grotesque.”

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valencia SPAIN

Before great media expectancy at the Geneva Motor Show, Spania GTA launched the latest evolution of GTA Spano, whose power has increased up to 900 hp to once again become one of the main lures of this prestigious fair.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Sarah Whiting possesses an indefatigable curiosity about how individuals constitute a public and, more specifically, through what forms (architecture and urbanism) that public manifests itself and is, in turn, formed. . . .

lecture: Sarah WHITING, “Engaging Autonomy.”
Wednesday, 11/06
7.00 p.m. / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc Campus
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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new york NEW YORK

Willem Jan Neutelings presents his work in a public lecture to be followed by a conversation with moderator Lyn Rice.

lecture: Willem Jan NEUTELINGS, “Current Work.” With Lyn RICE, moderator.
Monday, 11/04
7.00–9.00 p.m. / The Frederick P. Rose Auditorium
The Cooper Union
41 Cooper Square
New York, NY 10003

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san francisco CALIFORNIA

Thom FAULDERS speaks on his recent option studios at the California College of the Arts (CCA), the technological proficiency of today’s students, searching for the places where architecture and technology or biotechnology meet, a new “flattening” or evenness of precedent, and much more.

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*image by and courtesy the author. Overall projects view, “Non-Stop Architecture,” Advanced Studio, Spring 2012, California College of the Arts (CCA). Associate Professor Thom Faulders, instructor.

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turin ITALY

It is named Sergio, after the man who led Pininfarina for 40 years and conceived some of the greatest car legends. It is the new, amazing concept car created to celebrate the Life Senator Sergio Pininfarina. At its world debut at the Geneva Motor Show, the Sergio joins the brand that has so marked the history of Pininfarina: Ferrari.

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