ann arbor MICHIGAN

“To discuss one’s teaching seems a straightforward affair, yet comes with the challenge of predicting one’s audience. It is one thing to speak to those on opposite sides of the issues and another to like minds. In the former, differences surface fast, while in the latter, broad overlaps often obscure meaningful discrepancies. Imagining that the Fresh Punches editors have gathered contributors who can speak to the exhibition’s technical virtuosity, I expect this volume will contain essays from experts in everything digital (assuring a case of the latter). If so, critical content will not come in the form of bold proclamations; we all believe too much in the profound productivity of technology to make it polemical. . . .”

[EXCERPTED FROM FRESH PUNCHES ]

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columbus OHIO

The “Possible Mediums” Conference, which took place at The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture from February 07-10, 2013, brought together 18 designers, 120 students (from the four co-host schools: The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture, University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning and University of Kentucky College of Design), and special guests John McMorrough and Jeffrey Kipnis, to participate in design workshops and formal discussions surrounding the question of mediums in contemporary architecture.

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columbus OHIO

The Possible Mediums Conference, which took place at The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture from February 07-10, 2013, brought together 18 designers, 120 students (from the four co-host schools: The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture, University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning and University of Kentucky College of Design), and special guests John McMorrough and Jeffrey Kipnis, to participate in design workshops and formal discussions surrounding the question of mediums in contemporary architecture.

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ann arbor MICHIGAN

University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning
critics: Matias del CAMPO & Adam FURE

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

David de CÉSPEDES, ZIULIANG Guo, Justin TINGUE, & Andrew WOLKING: Construction sites within the vertical territory of recursion are unrecognizable; they are uninhabited to the naive eye, at least. The near silent efficiency of thermo-depositers moving in choreographed precision construct new spaces in perpetuity; each level indifferent to the last. The sudden appearance of the vertical territories suggests life beyond their geologic timelessness.

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columbus OHIO

The University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture, The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture, University of Kentucky College of Design, and University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning will be co-hosting the upcoming Possible Mediums conference taking place in Columbus, Ohio from February 7th-10th. We are pleased to have suckerPUNCH as a co-sponsor.

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ann arbor MICHIGAN

Taubman College, University of Michigan
critics: Matias del CAMPO (Eliel Saarinen Visiting Professor) & Adam FURE

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Harold SPRAGUE SOLIE, Ning ZHOU, Mark WRIGHT, & Bennett SCORCIA: deferentialCONSTRUCTIONS takes its cue from the phenomenon known as Apophenia, which is the perceiving of meaningful patterns in seemingly random or meaningless data. If used advantageously, apophenia can allow for multiple readings within a single spatial environment. The project attempts to leverage a basic architectural proto-condition to test out the implications and possibilities inherent within this phenomenon.

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stuttgart GERMANY

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

SIFT / adam FURE: Veer is a multimedia installation that transforms space, sound, and light into variable dimensions of an experiential field. A base of polyester batting wraps a branching steel structure creating a soft, interior sleeve comprised of tunnel-like folds. Participants bend and push through saturated matter, pulling sound and light from sensors embedded in the material walls. In Veer, space provokes movement, movement provokes sound, and engaged participants instigate an emergent perceptual form.

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venice ITALY

Venice, Italy - Grounds for Detroit is a collaborative installation by five young American practices working collectively: *Alibi Studio; Ellie Abrons with Adam Fure; MILLIGRAM-office; SCHAUM/SHIEH; and Thom Moran. The project is part of the 13th International Architecture Exhibition at the 2012 Biennale di Venezia, curated by David Chipperfield under the theme of Common Ground. In part, the installation revisits a collaborative project from 2010, where the five practices collectively bought the abandoned single-family house at 13178 Moran St. in Detroit, Michigan for $500 cash at public auction and constructed five distinct architectural interventions. The project is on view from August 29-November 25, 2012.

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ann arbor MICHIGAN

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Sift Studio/adam FURE: Hover is a study in perceptual thickness. Space, sound, light and matter are crafted not as separate layers of a multi-media project but as tangled strands of a multisensory knot. A base of cotton batting that is stretched, burnt, and painted carves a series of compressed passageways. This same physical source is sonically sampled, spliced and amplified. Sensors tracking movement alter details in the sound, using presence and touch to thicken the acoustic air that hovers throughout.

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lexington KENTUCKY

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Sift Studio/adam FURE: This custom designed chandelier topped the staged at the University of Kentucky, College of Design’s 2012 Beaux-Arts Ball. An array of steel pyramids, spun with polyester fibers, dangle from an elevated steel disk. The fibers are bunched, burnt, and painted producing a thick sullied surface. Copper hoses carry electricity to a distributed web of amber LEDs, illuminating the insides of each shell.

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