ann arbor MICHIGAN

London and Berlin-based architect David Adjaye of Adjaye Associates speaks on “Works”—that is, projects ranging from the ephemeral to the institutional (“Genesis,” Design Miami; Moscow School of Management, Skolkovo), and from the contemporary to the historic (Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington DC).

David Adjaye, “Works”
Friday, 10/19
6.00 pm / A+A Auditorium (Rm 2104)
Art + Architecture Building
A. Alfred Taubman College of A+UP
University of Michigan
2000 Bonisteel Boulevard
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

brooklyn NEW YORK & beijing CHINA

PERFORMANCE RE-IMAGINED
Exhibited at Beijing Design Week 2012

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

daniel GILLEN (DGD): PERFORMANCE RE-IMAGINED is a series of investigations questioning what constitutes performance of the modern age. Who is the performer, and what is performed? Who is voyeur what is their role in performance? Can a singular volume adapt to alternate performances? These inquiries challenge the architectural paradigm of performance space.

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são paulo BRAZIL

Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) São Paulo

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

dia09.1: This was a one-week creative workshop for 35 students of different academic years, and who were enrolled in the Interior Design Course at Istituto Europeo di Design (IED). The main purpose of this workshop was to provide a heterogeneous group of students with the basic rules and tools for them to better understand, share and control the use of manual and digital technologies in the creation and experimentation processes.

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chicago ILLINOIS

Illinois Institute of Technology
critics: steven BRUBAKER, harry MALLGRAVE, tom JACOBS, martin FELSEN, & dan WHEELER

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

nikita TROUFANOV: “Dance Center, Printers Row: Cybernetic Assemblages.” The proposed project explores the idea of superimposition and cybernetic assemblages. By combining and overlaying organic, natural, smooth systems with machine-like, synthetic, rigid ones, a deeper experience of architectural space is achieved.

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moscow RUSSIA & stockholm SWEDEN

KTH, School of Architecture (Stockholm, Sweden), Performative Design Studio.
critics: ulrika KARLSSON, jonah FRITZELL, daniel NORELL, & einar RODHE

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

olga KRUKOVSKAYA & teodor ÅSTRÖM: The most dominant features in the project are water, vegetation and landscape. All of these features are used to create a strong dreamy ambiance in the project, negotiating between the two opposite notions of the constructed urban landscape and the untouched nature.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

This project, Wonder Wall, is located at the intersection between architectural and graphic form. It explores the large-scale visual effects that can be produced when two-dimensional graphic patterns are translated into three-dimensional constructions. Specifically, Wonder Wall translates a swatch of tartan fabric into a gyrating wall made out of interlocked strips of perforated colored aluminum. The intersecting vertical and horizontal strips of aluminum gently twist to form a 9’x9’x1’-8” grid with multiple overlapping conditions. As the aluminum overlaps, new colors begin to emerge and a gradient field of porous openings rotates in relationship to the viewer. Wonder Wall slips between two and three dimensions into a space of 2.5D where visual effects emerge from the specificities of material construction.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

AA DRL
critics: alisa ANDRASEK & jose SANCHEZ

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Plugin (alexandre KURODA, dağhan ÇAM, karoly MARKOS, & ulak HA): Endemic Interstices proposes a new architecture as a system with the capacity to self structure, adapt and co-evolve within the environment considering natural resources as part of a tectonic system. The development of this research evolves as a bottom up system through iterative prototypes as adaptable type of inhabitation in rich arid unbalanced territory where the shape of the landscape is a consequence of water scarcity and constant weathering.

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dessau GERMANY

Dessau Institute of Architecture
critics: sandra MANNINGER & matias del CAMPO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

ana STEFANOVIC, andrew MOGYLNYI, claudia STOICA, mahmoud EL HAKIM, sebastian BIAŁKOWSKI, & xintian LI: The Convoluted Corrosion project is the future city concept for Maribor, Slovenia. The main idea of the project is to simulate the future city growth and expansion in the span of 100years. Based on the “Urban Millennium” fact that majority of people worldwide will be living in towns or cities, which is caused by increasing factor of rural-urban migration.

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new haven CONNECTICUT

keller EASTERLING
lecture: “The Action is Form”
Thursday, 10/11
6.30 pm / Paul Rudolph Hall
Yale School of Architecture
180 York Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06511

los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc, ESTm Final Studio
critic: marcelo SPINA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

mehrzad RAFEEI & somayyeh RAMEZANI: Contemporary digital design has always had a certain disconnection with its possible physical incarnation. Abstracted away from material properties, digital geometry floats in Euclidean space unaware of the physical constraint of what it represents. Our project attempts to bridge that divergence.
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