london UNITED KINGDOM

NYC CASINO/CONVENTION CENTER COMPETITION
Second Place — $800

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project:

kais AL-RAWI, julia KOERNER, & marie BOLTENSTERN: This project demonstrates research and development of a single architectural system that addresses through its variation architectural conditions within an urban context, containing diverse programmatic changes. The variations are created through the use of efficient closest packing geometries within a cellular system that varies in gradients of size, porosity, thickness and layers.

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new york NEW YORK

NYC CASINO/CONVENTION CENTER COMPETITION
Third Place — $300

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

KyuYoung HUH & jj YEO:

The Yards ///
Manhattan’s West Side has a character all its own. In examining the Western edge condition, affinities with building typologies of particular scale and program began to emerge, where the city’s anomalies and irregularities convene. This is where the streets protrude as piers into the water, where several strip clubs have opened, where sports are played in multi-purpose parking lots, where the hulking mass of the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum is permanently docked.

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louisville KENTUCKY

When was the last time you got punched by design? Fresh Punches is an exhibition featuring the collision of experimentation and contemporary discourse in the work of American architecture students. Collected from the spring and fall semesters of 2011, the cutting-edge work exhibited features provocative explorations in technology, space, and materials. In this collection, architecture is contaminated by the likes of transmogrifications, strange sensations, primal textures, unfamiliar geometries, self-propagating architectural species, augmented atmospherics, vicissitudinous juxtapositions, reinvented building typologies, sensual pleated skins, a crisis or two, physiologically responsive interfaces, threshold blurring gizmos, and plenty of robots.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

NYC CASINO/CONVENTION CENTER COMPETITION
Honorable Mention — $100

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

emanuel ADMASSU, DeMar JONES, & gary McGAHA: New York City’s transient nature makes it a territory of infinite complexities. But the definitive layout constraints of the grid, provide opportunities for horizontal and vertical expansion. The generic grid is reinterpreted as a platform to be appropriated according to the diverse needs of its inhabitants. In order to maximize the potential for change, the structure adapts itself to multiple possibilities.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Peter Zellner is principal of ZELLNERPLUS, an architectural design firm based in Venice, Calif. He is a faculty member at SCI-Arc, where he began teaching in 1999, and where he co-coordinates the Future Initiatives postgraduate urban design program with David Bergman. His firm has been recognized as an emerging architectural voice in national publications such as The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times.

His Venice-based office, ZELLNERPLUS is currently completing two residential projects in Los Angeles as well as a new house in Baja California, Mexico.

Peter Zellner, “Practices & Projects”
intro. by hsinming FUNG
Wednesday, 09/26
7.00 pm / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

cara LIBERATORE: This project considers rationality both as a problematic construct and as fundamental tool for architectural reinvention. Since we construct reality as a kind of fiction rather than discover it in the world, then the true Real only occurs in the moment in which rationality ceases to function. Counterintuitively, however, in order to produce any kind of freedom from rationality, architecture must critically engage with rationality itself and attempt to dismantle rationality from within. As a second-order procedure, the irrational real has the potential to exist both as a technique of codification and as a form of architectural experimentation.

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louisville KENTUCKY

Fresh Punches consists of the most experimental work from architecture students in the United States. Collected from the spring and fall semesters of 2011, the cutting-edge work to be exhibited features research in technology, space, and materials. The show is comprised of 19 projects, selected through online voting that took place at suckerpunchdaily.com in the Spring of 2012. A jury of architects, including Hernan Diaz Alonso, Aaron Betsky, Mark Gage, Greg Lynn, Michael Speaks, and Tom Wiscombe selected three of the projects to have prototypes fabricated.

FRESH PUNCHES
Opening: Friday 09/21
Friday 09/21-11/2
6.00 pm / Land of Tomorrow Gallery
233 W. Broadway
Louisville, Kentucky 40202

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london UNITED KINGDOM

University of Westminster
critics: arthur MAMOU-MANI & toby BURGESS, DS 10.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

jack MUNRO: Sanguis et Pulvis seeks to re-establish the dissipating autonomy of the Siwa Oasis in Egypt’s Western Desert. Throughout its history, this Berber settlement has remained isolated and self-sufficient; its traditional economy based on agriculture, its vernacular based on mud brick construction. However, two environmental phenomena have jeopardised this ancient way of life.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Paul Goldberger, who The Huffington Post has called “the leading figure in architecture criticism,” is now a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair. From 1997 through 2011 he served as the Architecture Critic for The New Yorker, where he wrote the magazine’s celebrated “Sky Line” column. Goldberger began his career at The New York Times, where in 1984 his architecture criticism was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism, the highest award in journalism. He is the author of several books, most recently Why Architecture Matters. He is now at work on a full-length biography of the architect Frank Gehry.

paul GOLDBERGER, “Criticism, Architecture and the Age of Twitter”
intro. by eric owen MOSS
Wednesday, 09/19
7.00 pm / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

ann arbor MICHIGAN

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Sift Studio/adam FURE: Hover is a study in perceptual thickness. Space, sound, light and matter are crafted not as separate layers of a multi-media project but as tangled strands of a multisensory knot. A base of cotton batting that is stretched, burnt, and painted carves a series of compressed passageways. This same physical source is sonically sampled, spliced and amplified. Sensors tracking movement alter details in the sound, using presence and touch to thicken the acoustic air that hovers throughout.

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