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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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
critic: Hernan DIAZ ALONSO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Yong Ha KIM: Biological growth operates as a catalyst in order to create an animate geometry. This catalyst gives a repeated stimulus to the fundamental processes in architecture—that is, the process from particle to line; from line to surface; from surface to line; from line to particle; from particle to surface—which happen sequentially over time as the biological growth in nature.

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innsbruck AUSTRIA

University of Innsbruck, Institute of Urban Design
critics: Peter TRUMMER (chair), Hernan DIAZ ALONSO, & Jose Carlos LOPEZ CERVANTES.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Aleksandra BUJAK & Eduardo CASTAÑEDA: Home is the space that we inhabit and belong to. It is were we engage naturally within our individual spaces that fulfill our basic needs and desires.

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melbourne AUSTRALIA & london UNITED KINGDOM

Roland Snooks and Robert Stuart-Smith, Directors of Kokkugia are excited to announce the formation of two new architecture practices: Studio Roland Snooks and Robert Stuart-Smith Design (rs-sdesign). Kokkugia has always been a highly speculative research practice focused on imagining the future. Snooks and Stuart-Smith are now leveraging that research to establish practices that are focused on realising built projects and providing architectural services.

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vienna AUSTRIA

University of Applied Arts Vienna
Studio Greg Lynn
critic: Greg LYNN, Joseph GIOVANNINI, & Nicolai OUROUSOFF.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Benjamin ENNEMOSER & Csenge LÁNSZKI: This Hermés store aims to become a landmark for Tokyo’s famous shopping street, Ginza, connecting the store to the street with big chunks of animate display volumes.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
Research Cluster 8 (2012.9-2013.8)/Research Cluster 6 (2013.9-)
tutor: Daniel WIDRIG.
critics: Alisa ANDRASEK, Ross LOVEGROVE, Jose SANCHEZ, & Frédéric MIGAYROU.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

bchiq (Bernardo DIAS, Chiaki YATSUI, & Qiuying ZHONG): A series of autonomous sculptures and structures stand along the river bank in Coimbra, Portugal.
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berlin GERMANY

Sint-Lucas School of Architecture, Ghent
critics: Gilles RETSIN, Isaie BLOCH, Corneel CANNAERTS, & Jose SANCHEZ.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Marvin BRATKE, Jakub GROCHULSKI, Stefanie PESEL, Mikolaj SKIBISZ, & Christian TSCHERSICH: In a representation of a post-nuclear future Radio Nuclide, was implanted within a highly hostile space in an abandoned area near Baikonur, Kazakhstan.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
2013 M.Arch GAD (Distinction)
advisors: Marjan COLLETTI, Guan LEE, & Hannes MAYER.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Francois MANGION & Shuchi AGARWAL: The Synaesthetic Museum project forms part of a design research carried out during our Masters Degree and now forms part on an ongoing personal research project.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Exhibiting and sharing the work and research of a range of designers, each redefining the blurry landscape of their disciplines.

Away from convention, embracing chaos and clarity
We chose Blindspot as our moniker because it implies radicality on the one hand, suggesting work that escapes conventions, but on the other hand implies skepticism and caution. We recognize that our scope is always partial and incomplete, and yet there is daring, even in its unacknowledged embryonic stages.

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