los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
critic: Eric Owen MOSS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Ehab GHALI: What and Where?///
The 2011 Egyptian Revolution proved to be the beginning of an end in Egypt. On January 25, 2011 up-rises began in an effort to overthrow Hosni Mubaraks’ Regime. Millions of protestors from all socio-economic and religious backgrounds demanded the fall of Mubarak’s dictatorship. After continued weeks of protest and pressure, Mubarak resigned from office on February 11, 2011. Ironically though, what ended on February 11, 2011 marked the beginning of new and uncertain Egypt.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

Tom Wiscombe is a licensed architect living in the United States. He is founder and principal of Tom Wiscombe Design, an internationally recognized contemporary design office. His work stands out in terms of its synthesis of form, pattern, color, and technology into singular, irreducible constructions. Wiscombe has developed an international reputation through winning competition entries, exhibitions of work at major cultural institutions, and publications worldwide.

Tom WISCOMBE
Monday, 02/25
6.00–7.30 pm / 
B1, Meyerson Hall
PennDesign
210 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104



philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

University of Pennsylvania School of Design
critic: Matias DEL CAMPO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Michael ISKANDAR: This project continues to investigate the architectural conditions of symmetries and repetitions, in what became my own personal fixation on how the future can accept a more contemporary means of gothic architecture. Taking the affect and geometric principles of traditional gothic vault patterns, the project manifests itself in how external facade systems can convey an internal organizational logic that is both culturally functional and beautifully new.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

“The profession of architecture has expanded and now finds itself in a position to engage with a broader series of cultural references. The architect can now refer to film, fashion, literature, philosophy, music, art etc. and as such greatly enrich the cultural side of the profession. However with such an exclusive focus, the functionality of architecture—the rational and scientific side of the profession—is sometimes forgotten. As there is still much to discover in these more pragmatic areas of the practice, I believe that in the future the profession will become increasingly oriented towards knowledge and expertise . . .”

Ben van BERKEL, “Architecture and its Future”
intro. by Eric Owen MOSS
Wednesday, 02/20
7.00 pm / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

innsbruck AUSTRIA

University of Innsbruck, studio3 / institute for experimental architecture
critic: Michael WIHART

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Elias WALCH: “Goosebumps [in]dependent, synesthetical experiences in organ recital vault, New York.” My ambition in this project was to force the extension of haptic perception in a world which is dominated by visual impressions. This tactile perceptions are supported by music respectively by the musician, protORGANist, who operates directly on the human body and its skin to stimulate emotional levels. The spectators are embedded in a soft structure, called pneumoSPONGE.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

Pratt Institute
critic: Ezio BLASETTI

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Sofia XANTHAKOU, Greg LeMAIRE, & Dimitris MOUSTROUFIS: The project is an overall premise concerning an intervention into the conventional city fabric and the repeal of commonly acknowledged truths about urbanism. Arguably ideas about flow, ownership and occupation are the most closely guarded and regulated within a community and therefore are the most in need of confrontation. By imposing adverse conditions and forms on rigid expectations we hope to create a dialogue about an alternative to accepted norms.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc, ESTm
critic: Tom WISCOMBE

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Jonathan H. SCHNURE: A revisit to the Box in a Box / Sectional object problem: Exhibition and Schaulager Gallery/Broad Museum Redux LA.

Using artist works of Bart Hess as the operational jumping off point, material stretching, liners, aggregated objects, and ultimately figures in a sack were developed as an operative technique.

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chicago ILLINOIS

University of Illinois at Chicago
Critic: Thomas KELLEY

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Kevin PAZIK: The Wrong Transfer is a shopping mall that acts and feels more like a single entity (department store) than a collection (shopping mall).

The shopping mall is an idealized impersonation of the city. The wrong transfer is not. The wrong transfer is a new shopping experience, it does not root itself in tradition by mimicking familiar urban phenomena to entice customers, like the Gruen or Jerde transfers, but rather it stems from a different familiarity: the department store. The wrong transfer is both the anchor store and the shopping mall.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
critic: Herwig BAUMGARTNER

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Morgan GARRARD & Jordan SQUIRES: This project explores a new typology for a preforming arts center as a tower, on The High line in New York. The program contains a front stage, center stage and outdoor theaters. The upper mass of the building is raised creating large open topography connected to The High line that steps down into the street and the outdoor theater.

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thessaloniki GREECE

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
critics: Anastasios TELLIOS & Vasilis CHLOROKOSTAS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Stratis GEORGIOU: “Reef\” introduces the creation of an “artificial” ecosystem implemented to a “natural” one, speculating on the natural/artificial dipole rapture. Possibly situated in highly polluted sea areas, this “artificial” reef - a rather simple structure, consists of a horizontal grid and nets hanging from it, further claded with bio-synthetic corrodible material - aims to the ecosystem’s regeneration and retriggering, providing vital sources and proper conditions for the sea flora and fauna and at the same time functions as a filter, absorbing toxicants and pollutants.

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