london UNITED KINGDOM

Greg Lynn has been assisting the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) with the founding of a digital archive and a digital collection of architectural projects. Associated with this effort are three exhibitions encompassing 25 projects that were impacted by digital technology and conceived during a 20 year period beginning in the early 1980s. . . .

lecture: Greg LYNN, “Conversation about Digital Archaeology” with Theodore SPYROPOULOS.
Thursday, 10/10
6.00 pm / Lecture Hall
Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES

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istanbul TURKEY

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Mete YAFET, Tufan DEMIR, Gökhan OKUYUCU, & Erdem DILBAZ: Passing Through The Glass is a commercial fashion video-mapping installation specifically prepared for the launch event of the new Mavi Jeans series designed by Hussein Chalayan. nerdworking was commisioned by Mavi to represent their collection in a different way, unlike standard catwalk or runway fashion shows.

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new york NEW YORK

Winka Dubbeldam presents her work in a public lecture to be followed by a conversation with moderator William MacDonald.

lecture: Winka DUBBELDAM, “Current Work.” With William MacDONALD, moderator.
Thursday, 10/10
7.00–9.00 p.m. / The Great Hall, Foundation Building
The Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street
New York, NY 10003

*This lecture is co-sponsored by the Architectural League of New York and free to current Cooper Union students/faculty/staff, as well to Architectural League members. For ticketing info, see HERE.

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new york NEW YORK

Join the Anyone Corporation and AA Publications for a party to celebrate the releases of two books: O-14: Projection and Reception by Reiser + Umemoto, and A Question of Qualities: Essays in Architecture by Jeffrey Kipnis, the latest title in the Writing Architecture Series. The authors will be joined by the editors and contributors to discuss, at the suggestion of Kipnis’s title, what they consider to be those very qualities that distinguish architecture.

book launch & discussion: Jeffrey KIPNIS, Jesse REISER, Nanako UMEMOTO, Cynthia DAVIDSON, Brett STEELE, & Sanford KWINTER on A Question of Qualities: Essays in Architecture and O-14: Projection and Reception
Friday, 10/11
6.00 p.m. / The Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10003

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Architectural Association (AA)
director: Elif ERDINE
tutors: Elif ERDINE, Alexandros KALLEGIAS, Angel LARA, Foteini KONTOLEON, & Ciriaco CASTRO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Architectural Association (AA) DLAB Visiting School: Light Forest is the final working prototype of the Architectural Association (AA) DLAB Visiting School, which took place in AA London and AA Hooke Park during 22 July–04 August 2013.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Guy Nordenson is a structural engineer and professor of structural engineering and architecture at Princeton University. He was the structural engineer for the Museum of Modern Art expansion in New York, the Jubilee Church in Rome, the Simmons Residence Hall at MIT in Massachusetts, the Santa Fe Opera House, and over 100 other projects.

lecture: Guy NORDENSON, “Climate Adaptation”
Monday, 10/07
7.00 p.m. / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc Campus
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

Jeffrey Kipnis (born 1951, Georgia, USA) is an architectural critic, theorist, designer, film-maker, curator, and educator. As a critic he has written for numerous periodicals, including Assemblage, El Croquis, Architectural Design, and Log. His most recent book is A Question of Qualities: Essays in Architecture (2013), a collection of seminal texts published by MIT Press.

lecture: Jeffrey KIPNIS
Monday, 10/07
6.30 p.m. / B1, Meyerson Hall
PennDesign
210 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

atlanta GEORGIA

Driving cross-country from Los Angeles to Atlanta, Jennifer Bonner and Volkan Alkanoglu start a conversation about taxonomies, renderings, pavilions, and hip-hop somewhere between Flagstaff and Little Rock. . . .

[EXCERPTED FROM FRESH PUNCHES ]

*image: Bryant SUH, “Kinetic Tower.” Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). Volkan ALKANOGLU, instructor.

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nantes FRANCE

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

PEZ: The “Endless Faces Project” is a series of portraits realised with graphite pencils on 300 gr/m2 paper. All drawings are 19×25″ in size, each portrait requiring approximately 30–40 working hours to complete.

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new orleans LOUISIANA

The Louisiana State Museum and Sports Hall of Fame in historic Natchitoches, Louisiana merges two contrasting collections formerly housed in a university coliseum and a nineteenth century courthouse, elevating the visitor experience for both. Set in the oldest settlement in the Louisiana Purchase on the banks of the Cane River Lake, the design mediates the dialogue between sports and history, past and future, container and contained.

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