london UNITED KINGDOM

Karls Platz I & II are two unsubmitted proposals which were worked out for the competition for a new museum at the historic Karlsplatz in Vienna. Both proposals make are based on the same decision to arrange the museum program over three large floor slabs. Both proposals are partially based on the repetition of a single, discrete element which is then assembled into a highly differentiated building.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

PennDesign
critic: Ferda KOLATAN.
assistant instructor: Michael ZIMMERMAN.

This project investigates the hidden potentialities of informal settlements in Cairo through five distinct speculations. Each of these speculations departs from a real condition and develops a fictitious narrative outlining possible tactical maneuvers to either improve the situation at hand or to see it in a different, more empowering light.

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princeton NEW JERSEY

Princeton SoA
advisors: Sylvia LAVIN & Michael MEREDITH.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Joanna E. GRANT: This thesis project seeks to define a territory in which cuteness can operate in the discipline of architecture. In the soft sciences, research has proven that cuteness is a biological adaptation of babies and young mammals to ensure survival, which is known as the caretaker affect.

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istanbul TURKEY

AA Visiting School Istanbul 2015: Cellular Interventions
AA School of Architecture with Istanbul Bilgi University

As the discipline of Architecture is connected to that of Technology, there is an everlasting need for architects to keep in touch with novel design, production, and fabrication processes, while simultaneously reflecting on the emerging role of the architect in response to the changes in the discipline. In 2015, AA Istanbul Visiting School has acted as a training centre as well as a research agency for young architects and professionals who seek to advance their skills and experience in the field of architecture.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
critic: Elena MANFERDINI.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Oscar ABRAHAMSSON: Urban Cosmetics is a proposal for a new home for MASP (Museo de Arte Contemporaneo) in São Paulo.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Ferda KOLATAN.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Joey GIAMPIETRO & Aidan KIM: Reminiscence is defined as a story told about a past event remembered by the narrator, implying a flawed narration and compression of time. The object began with an engraving by the artist Juste-Aurele Meissonier from the Rococo period typified as a Rocaille, which is a decorative cultural piece from the 18th century that acted as a base piece for artists, architects, and craftsmen. . . .

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stockholm SWEDEN

Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), School of Architecture
critics: Ulrika KARLSSON & Einar RODHE.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Love LILJEQVIST: During the last Ice Age when the ice covered most of northern Europe, Sweden was completely under a kilometer of thick ice and snow which melted away and then water covered the land.

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houston TEXAS

Rice University School of Architecture
critic: Neyran TURAN.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

MacAulay BROWN: Soviet Filmmaker, Sergei Eisenstein, established the role of montage in film as a technique used to generate a concept or idea that exists outside of the presented images. . . .

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ann arbor MICHIGAN

University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
critic: Adam FURE.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Jaime RIVERA: This thesis investigates the relationship between color and form through the reconfiguration of voids and the shifting of volumes, where the misregistration of one creates an alternate reading of the other. . . .

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oakland CALIFORNIA

The San Francisco bay area has a corner problem. Many buildings, especially houses, in the bay area have tightly bloated protrusions bulging from their corners. . . .

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