st. louis MISSOURI
Washington University in St. Louis
critic: Pablo MOYANO
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Nash WATERS: The project was initiated by looking at the geometry and climatic response of natural systems to build formal and operative logics. The natural landscape was studied in terms of topography, climate, and material conditions, both analytically through their microclimates and expressively in a response to their horizons.
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.
waddinxveen THE NETHERLANDS
“Lotus Dome,” interactive artwork by artist and architect Daan Roosegaarde, is a living dome made out of hundreds of ultralight aluminum flowers that fold open in response to human behavior.
When approached, the big silver dome lights up and opens its flowers. Its behavior moves from soft breathing to dynamic mood when more people interact. The light slowly follows people, creating an interactive play of light and shadow. The graphic representations of the lotus flower on the walls, and the deep bass sound, transforms the Renaissance environment into a “Techno-Church.”
new haven CONNECTICUT
Yale School of Architecture
critics: Tom WISCOMBE with Nate HUME
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Jacqueline HO: Broad Museum Redux in L.A. Intricate figures pushing through elastic surfaces create razor-sharp edges and webbing. Tattoos track with, and sometimes diverge from morphology. Firmly sited but distinct from the ground, allowing movement into, under and around tattooed surfaces via a public plaza.
new york NEW YORK
Join Van Alen Books to celebrate the launch of Tectonic Acts of Desire and Doubt, a collection of 14 essays by architect & writer Mark Rakatansky. This publication, the ninth volume in the Architecture Words series, brings together a body of writing and thinking on the performative capabilities of architecture.
Mark RAKATANSKY, Michael BELL, Galia SOLOMONOFF, & Mabel WILSON
Book Launch & Discussion: Tectonic Acts of Desire and Doubt
Thursday, 01/31
7.00 pm / Van Alen Books
30 West 22nd St. New York, NY
new york NEW YORK
Columbia GSAPP
critics: François ROCHE & Ezio BLASETTI w/ Farzin LOTFI-JAM
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Luis Felipe PARIS & Andriana KOUTALIANOU: (And yes, it seems that it is so, that you have left saying I-don’t-know-what, that you were going to throw yourse. . . .) but . . . is he still outside. . . .? there there, a reflection of himself . . . it lures him. . . . the notion of the double . . . Ego and Body, the reflection of his soul . . . or maybe another life, or another . . . is it, you, that is behind this mirror. . . .?
vienna AUSTRIA
Studio Lynn is one of three studios teaching architectural design in the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. The studio is directed by Los Angeles-based architect Greg Lynn and his team of assistant professors as a 3 year Master course with students of all levels studying design topics together. Studio Lynn studio focuses on the composition of intricately connected, subtly varied, continuously differentiated elements in non-modular dimensional series. Students’ sensibilities are attuned to the rhythmic patterns and undulations of calculus as they apply to architecture. We critically and creatively embrace the digital tools that have recently burst into architecture and effloresced in a myriad of forms and shapes. For further information on the portfloio based entry exam please refer to: i-o-a.at.
los angeles CALIFORNIA
Pier Vittorio Aureli is an architect and educator. He is the co-founder of Dogma, an architectural studio that focuses on the project of the city. He teaches at the AA and Yale SOA and is the author of The Project of Autonomy and The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture. Aureli’s lecture will trace the development of the architectural project, focusing on the relationship between social and political conflicts and the urge of architecture to tame these conflicts and reform the city. His lecture attempts to situate architecture beyond regressive or progressive terms, as material evidence that the evolution of design has been always the outcome of struggle.
Pier Vittorio AURELI, “Theory and Ethos”
intro. by Todd GANNON
Wednesday, 01/23
7.00 pm / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013
london UNITED KINGDOM
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Adam VUKMANOV: Slavija square, Belgrade (Serbia)—competition entry.
According to the analysis done by local advert companies, there are around 1.2 million people circulating every day through Slavija Square and its roundabout. Public transport which includes buses, trolleybuses and trams is overlapped with dens traffic and the current situation, although positively dynamic, is creating a cataclysmic and rough space where pedestrians do not feel safe.
new york NEW YORK
Columbia GSAPP
critics: François ROCHE & Ezio BLASETTI w/ Farzin LOTFI-JAM
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Carson RUSSELL & Mengna MIAO: Against the extreme heat, we bring extreme cold, against the wall of molten rock, we engage with icy water. It is a battle we cannot win. A loud engagement, characterized by the cracking of petrifying rock over the hissing of evaporating water. The result is fragile, bound to fall victim to corruption by the continuous advancement of the lava.
