london UNITED KINGDOM
The Generic Sublime takes the project of the skyscraper to a new level of architectural megalomania: to organize the territory through its assimilation in the synthetic field of competition and synergy of a single complex building.
lecture: Ciro NAJLE, “The Generic Sublime.”
Monday, 02/03
6.00 pm / Lecture Hall
Architectural Association
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES
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.
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.
london UNITED KINGDOM
Let us hope that from time to time the individual will give a little humanity to the masses, who one day will repay him with compound interest. — Walter BENJAMIN, “Experience and Poverty,” 1933.
Abstraction addresses the process of removal in order to reach the essential datum of things. In a design world increasingly dominated by organic and redundant forms, abstraction is likely to be one of the most unpopular concepts in the field of architectural theory.
lecture: Pier Vittorio AURELI, “A Brief History of Abstraction in Architecture: Design and the Administration of Life.”
Wednesday, 10/16
1.00 pm / Lecture Hall
Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES
london UNITED KINGDOM
Architecture finds itself having to cope with new social and cultural complexities that demand systems that are open, adaptive and participatory. As a response to models of accelerated urbanism that privilege top-down masterplanning the lecture will explore experimentation that examines a generative and time-based approach towards computational urbanism. . . .
lecture: Theodore SPYROPOULOS, “Adaptive Ecologies.”
Friday, 10/11
6.00 pm / Lecture Hall
Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES
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
paris FRANCE
In history shoes have become the accessory defining creative freedom, identity, cultural affiliations, social identities and in some cases architectural knowledge. This semester, AAtelier Paris has set the ambitious goal to encourage its participants to think about the current and future role of shoes by engaging with new forms of unexpected culture.
workshop: “Re-inventing Shoes” with Jorge AYALA & Rem D. KOOLHAAS (United Nude)
11/04–11/15 / AAtelier Paris
hosted by Les Arts Décoratifs
107 rue de Rivoli
75001, Paris, France
london UNITED KINGDOM
Architectural Association, Design Research Laboratory (DRL)
critics: Patrik SCHUMACHER, Robert STUART-SMITH, Theodore SPYROPOULOS, & Philippe MOREL
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Armando BUSSEY-SOLLEIRO, Edward LUCKMANN, Vichayuth MEENAPHANT, Ana Margarita WANG-ZUNIGA: The Life Aquatech investigates the relationship between the building systems that mediate between interior and exterior and architectural design by shifting from air-based systems to a water-based system. Human comfort is one of the main drivers of the investigation, seeking an ideal relationship between the user’s comfort in relation to temperature and how the building can self-regulate in order to provide it.
athens GREECE & istanbul TURKEY
Architectural Association (AA), National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Istanbul Technical University (ITU) Faculty of Architecture
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
AA Athens Visiting School, Recharged (25 March – 02 April 2013), in collaboration with National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), has concentrated on the design of prototype structures that are related to motion and real‐time reaction to external stimuli with the aim of transforming static built models to animated kinetic prototypes while considering hierarchical design rules.
