tokyo JAPAN
The suburban EV
Ever since it started R&D on electro-mobility back in 1966, today’s Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) always considered that electric vehicles (EV) should eventually become long-term core products—a view vindicated by recent concerns over global warming.
* image © 2013 Drew PHILLIPS / AOL.
automotive design, Mitsubishi, Mitsubishi Concept CA-MiEV, sustainability
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chambord FRANCE
This interdisciplinary conference will bring together historians of art and architecture and scientists (biologists, geneticists, specialists in simulation systems of the living world).
symposium: Archilab 2013, “The nature(s) of the artefact,” under the scientific supervision of Frédéric MIGAYROU.
Friday, 10/25
10.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m. / Domaine National de Chambord
41250 Chambord FRANCE
Annick LESNE, frAC, FRAC Centre, Frank VARENNE, Frédéric MIGAYROU, Guiseppe LONGO, mario CARPO, NOTHINGeverHAPPENS, Patricia FALGUIÈRES, Sara FRANCESCHELLI, Spyros PAPAPETROS, symposium
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orléans FRANCE
The problematics of ArchiLab 2013, involving digital architecture and the sciences, will be broached at an international symposium which will bring together ten exhibited architects.
symposium: Archilab 2013, “Architecture and sciences: A new naturalness.”
Thursday, 10/24
9.30 a.m. - 6.30 p.m. / Scène nationale d’Orléans
Théâtre d’Orléans
Boulevard Pierre Ségelle
45000 Orléans FRANCE
achim MENGES, Alisa Andrasek, frAC, FRAC Centre, marcos CRUZ, marjan COLLETTI, michael HANSMEYER, NOTHINGeverHAPPENS, philippe MOREL, symposium, theodore SPYROPOULOS
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cincinnati OHIO
“Are we at the dawn of a new organic age? We are if you are to believe what you see on suckerPUNCH. Buildings bloom rather than rise, luxuriate and grow like rhizomes. . . .”
[EXCERPTED FROM FRESH PUNCHES ]
Aaron BETSKY, Cincinnati Art Museum, criticism, Fresh Punches, NAi, Netherlands Architecture Institute, suckerPUNCH, University of Michigan, writing
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college station TEXAS
Texas A&M University
critics: Eric GOLDEMBERG, Niccolò CASAS, & Gabriel ESQUIVEL.
project manager: Ryan WILSON.
team: Zach HOFFMANN, Erica DURAN, Eli WOOD, & Matt KOHMAN.
Post-Indexical Sensibility: Abject Pulsation
Post–Indexical Sensibility is a study on Rhythmic Decadence, which results from programming Material Senescence as Prosthetic Affect.
affect, Eli WOOD, eric GOLDEMBERG, Erica DURAN, gabriel ESQUIVEL, Matt KOHMAN, niccolò CASAS, pulsation, rhythmic space, Ryan WILSON, texas a&m university, Zach HOFFMAN
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new york NEW YORK
Preston Scott Cohen, Professor and Chair of Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, speaks about his celebrated Lightfall design for the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and other upcoming projects in Asia. Cohen will be joined in conversation by architect, educator, and National Academician Stan Allen.
in conversation: Preston Scott COHEN & Stan ALLEN.
Wednesday, 10/23
6.30–8.00 p.m. / National Academy Museum
1083 Fifth Avenue at 89th Street
New York, NY 10128
event, lecture, NOTHINGeverHAPPENS, preston scott COHEN, stan ALLEN
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london UNITED KINGDOM
The Superyacht for Blohm+Voss design concept, launched at the latest exhibition of Zaha Hadid’s work at the David Gill Gallery in London, is based around the sculptural form of a master prototype conceived for a 128m yacht.
boat, patrik SCHUMACHER, surface, zaha hadid, Zaha Hadid Architects
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brussels BELGIUM
The TOYOTA i-ROAD Personal Mobility Vehicle (PMV)—a new form of transportation offering greater flexibility in the urban environment—makes its World Premiere at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show.
* image © 2013 Jonathon RAMSEY / AOL.
automotive design, Toyota, TOYOTA i-ROAD
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stockholm SWEDEN
Jimenez Lai is an Assistant Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago and Leader of Bureau Spectacular.
lecture: Jimenez LAI, “Cartoonish Worlds” with respondent Daniel NORELL.
Draw Point Talk lecture series.
Thursday, 10/24
6.00 p.m. / The KTH School of Architecture
Östermalmsgatan 26
114 26 Stockholm, Sweden
* photo © Jimenez LAI.
Bureau Spectacular, daniel NORELL, Frida ROSENBERG, jimenez LAI, KTH School of Architecture, lecture, NOTHINGeverHAPPENS, The Stockholm Association of Architects, uic school of architecture
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boston MASSACHUSETTS
Harvard GSD
critic: Preston Scott COHEN
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Junfeng WANG: This is a studio project designing an addition to the Winnipeg Art Gallery, which aims to explore new formal possibilities in two categories: Unified Multiplicity and Redeployment.
Harvard, harvard GSD, Junfeng WANG, preston scott COHEN
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