los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Vincent POCSIK: The idea for this lamp series was inspired by the concepts of Miles Davis, who is known for leaving the mistakes in the albums he released instead of taking them out.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Isaie BLOCH / Eragatory & Gilles RETSIN: This is a 2nd-prize winning architectural competition entry for the homemade dessert & Liepaja city council competition which asks for a public building in Karosta, a former military town in the south-west of Latvia.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Architectural Association, Design Research Lab (AADRL)
critics: Theodore SPYROPOULOS (Studio Tutor); Shajay BHOOSHAN, Mustafa EL SAYED, & Manuel JIMÉNEZ GARCIA (Tech Support); Alisa ANDRASEK, Robert STUART-SMITH, Patrik SCHUMACHER, & Theodore SPYROPOULOS (Master Tutors).

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

rub-a-dub (Apostolos DESPOTIDIS, Rodrigo CHAIN, Sebastian ANDIA, & Thomas T. JENSEN): Space Oddity is a research project that was undertaken from september 2010 to January 2012 at the Architectural Association Design Research Laboratory (AADRL).

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london UNITED KINGDOM

AA Visting School Jordan 2013
director: Riyad JOUCKA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

AAVS Jordan 2013 (Riyad JOUCKA, director): AA Visiting School Jordan 2013 was an intensive research program dedicated to the mimicry of natural formations evident in desert ecologies.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

Pratt Institute
critic: Ferda KOLATAN

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Sina OZBUDUN: The surface is not a seamless plane, it is a vague boundary where the mass dilutes; it defines a high contrast environment where one can see the struggle for continuity and unity.

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ann arbor MICHIGAN

University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
critics: Adam FURE

POLEMIC
In architecture today, the discourse surrounding materiality is problematically unimaginative. . . .

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

UCLA A.UD
critic: Niall McLAUGHLIN.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Kaveh ARBAB: The aim of this project was to explore and push understandings of my design process—specifically, the relationship between drawing and physical modeling.

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warsaw POLAND

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

#TKSV (Maciej TRZCINSKI, Paweł KRYNSKI, & Filip SUROWIECKI) in collaboration with Aleksandra KONSTANCIAK & Rafał OTŁOG: Located in Białystok, Poland, the Między Zębami bistro is one of the few digitaly designed polish interior productions. .

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Architectural Association, Design Research Lab (AADRL)
critic: Theodore SPYROPOULOS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

26° (Christian ERL, Foteini KONTOLEON, Vineet VORA, & Liqun ZHAO): Rheo is a material deposition research project that is aimed at creating a dynamic prototypical space framing system.

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ann arbor MICHIGAN

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

EADO (Ellie ABRONS) & SIFT (Adam FURE): The visual encounter is a defining experience for both fashion and architecture. Whether it is the longing gaze upon an object of desire or the perfect view, seeing is an essential act for both fields and their audiences. When the two come together, however, conventional divisions too often prevail as architecture assumes its position as the background for fashion (consider storefront windows or runway shows).

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