melbourne AUSTRALIA

RMIT University
critic: Gwyllim JAHN

Stephen ANNETT & Grant TREWELLA: Our project is not about using algorithms to optimize architectural production in any fashion. Rather, it is in pursuit of fragile qualities: ridges, spires, aperiodic pattern and the suggestion of stress that in unison form a building with a unique, singular language and character.

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providence RHODE ISLAND

Rhode Island School of Design, summer program
critics: Niccolo CASAS, Ludovico LOMBARDI, & Catherine ANDREOZZI.
teaching assistant: Maria CANADA.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Niccolo CASAS, Ludovico LOMBARDI, & Catherine ANDREOZZI: Focused on the new emerging discipline generated by the intersection of design, fashion design, and architecture, the class brought together students from a myriad of design disciplines (Fashion, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Textiles) with interests in exploring the body as a virtual landscape for generative design.

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troy NEW YORK

Geofutures
Post-Professional Program in Architecture and Urbanism
Rensselaer School of Architecture
program director: Chris PERRY

Geofutures endeavors to convert crisis into opportunity by harnessing both the pressures of a planet at risk and the promise of emerging environmental technologies to generate a broad spectrum of possible, if not probable, urban and architectural futures for the twenty-first century.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
B-Pro M.Arch Urban Design
critics: Marco POLETTO & Claudia PASQUERO (ecoLogicStudio)

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Artemis KARAISKOU, Antonios LALOS, & Anna SIDERI: Energy Accreted Ecologies is a design research project that investigate the notion of urbanism under the mode of renewable energy need.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Thom Mayne, FAIA founded Morphosis as an interdisciplinary and collective practice involved in experimental design and research in 1972.

conversation: Thom MAYNE, Joe DAY, Hitoshi ABE, & Qingyun MA.
Wednesday, 11/20
6.00 p.m. / Gin D. Wong, FAIA Conference Center, Harris Hall
USC School of Architecture
Los Angeles, California
90089-0291

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new york NEW YORK

David Adjaye presents his work in a public lecture to be followed by a conversation with moderator Gregg Pasquarelli.

lecture: David ADJAYE, “Current Work.” With Gregg PASQUARELLI, moderator.
Thursday, 11/21
7.00–9.00 p.m. / The Great Hall, Foundation Building
The Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street
New York, NY 10003

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firenze ITALY

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Lash up (Claudio GRANATO & Enrico PIERACCIOLI): A project on nature codification through parametric drawings and 3-D printing, developed in collaboration with TexTeam and Jagarage.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

Patrik Schumacher is partner at Zaha Hadid Architects and founding director at the AA Design Research Lab. He joined Zaha Hadid in 1988. . . .

lecture: Patrik SCHUMACHER
Wednesday, 11/20
6.30 p.m. / Lower Gallery
PennDesign
210 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Siegfried Kracauer, a cultural theorist and film critic active during the Weimar Republic and then in the United States, was trained as an architect. His theory of the mass ornament is the point of departure in Joan Ockman’s reflection on the architectural spectacle.

lecture: Joan OCKMAN, “Between Ornament and Monument: Siegfried Kracauer and the Substance of the Surface.”
Wednesday, 11/20
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

SCI-Arc Future Initiatives (SCIFI)
critics: Peter TRUMMER, Hernan DIAZ ALONSO, Ferda KOLATAN, & David RUY.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Sarah MÅNSSON & Federico PESSANI: The project took its starting point from the deformation and aggregation of the Cerdá block.

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