london UNITED KINGDOM

The Generic Sublime takes the project of the skyscraper to a new level of architectural megalomania: to organize the territory through its assimilation in the synthetic field of competition and synergy of a single complex building.

lecture: Ciro NAJLE, “The Generic Sublime.”
Monday, 02/03
6.00 pm / Lecture Hall
Architectural Association
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES

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atlanta GEORGIA

Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Architecture

“Imagining a better future through Design & Research,” a film by Ryan Tyler Martinez, features a compilation of Final Studio reviews by Lars Spuybroek, Jennifer Bonner, Ellen Dunham-Jones, Marc Simmons, and many other faculty members at Georgia Tech.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

The digital hype is over. New media and digital tools are integrated into our work and lives. . . .

lecture: Lars MÜLLER, “2014: Avant-Garde is Analog.”
Friday, 01/31
7.00 p.m. / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc Campus
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Woodbury University, School of Architecture
critic: Mark ERICSON

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Mark ERICSON: This introduction to architectural drawing in Woodbury University’s Graduate program focused largely on the comprehension and inventive deployment of Euclidean principles through a study of descriptive geometry and skiagraphy. . . .

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chicago ILLINOIS

In The Air from Other Planets: A Brief History of Architecture to Come, Sean Lally introduces the reader to an architecture produced by designing the energy within our environment (electromagnetic, thermodynamic, acoustic, and chemical).

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london UNITED KINGDOM

The Bartlett Plexus is an initiative to bring together the creative talent of different disciplines to share techniques, solve problems and build networks of collaboration.

event: “Plexus 10: Decoding.”
Thursday, 01/30
6.30 p.m. / Royal Ear Hospital
The Bartlett School of Design
Capper Street and Huntley Street
London, W1CE 6JA

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new york NEW YORK

In this lecture, AZPML Principal and Princeton SOA Dean Alejandro Zaera-Polo deepens his ongoing exploration of the meanings of the envelope, touching on rainscreens, insulation, airtightness, green and media walls, and other technologies.

lecture: Alejandro ZAERA-POLO, “Twelve Ecologies of the Envelope.”
Wednesday, 01/29
6.30 p.m. / Wood Auditorium
Columbia University
1172 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027

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amsterdam THE NETHERLANDS

“Dream A Little Crazy” music video, commissioned by Aussie pop band Architecture In Helsinki. is a surreal candy–coloured–scientific–circus that collaborators Lucy McRae and Rachel Wingfield call “The Biological Bakery.”

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new haven CONNECTICUT

A film written, produced and directed by Diana Agrest. . . .

film screening: “The Making of an Avant Garde: The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies 1967-1984,” written, produced, & directed by Diana AGREST.
Thursday, 01/30
6.30 p.m. / Hastings Hall
Paul Rudolph Hall
Yale School of Architecture
180 York Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06511

chicago ILLINOIS

University of Illinois-Chicago
critic: Sean LALLY.

suckerPUNCH Describe your project.

Nazifa Barkat VIRANI: The objective of the project is to address the problem of sensory overload in our everyday lives. . . .

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