beijing CHINA

The exhibition, Design Intelligence: Advanced Computational Research, opened in 751-D, Beijing, China, on Friday 26 September 2013. The exhibition included the work of 32 of the leading schools of architecture in the world, including the AA, Harvard, USC, UPenn, MIT, Yale, Princeton, SCI-Arc, UCLA, UMichigan, Bartlett, IaaC, DIA, Angewandte, Tsinghua and Tongji, and was curated by Neil Leach and Xu Weiguo. The catalogue was published by China Architecture and Building Press.

exhibition & catalogue: “Design Intelligence: Advanced Computational Research,” curated and edited by Neil LEACH & XU Weiguo
Friday, 09/26 (opening) / 751-D
Beijing 100015, China

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2013

America holds more than two million inmates in its prisons and jails, and hosts more than two million daily visits to museums, figures which represent a ten-fold increase in the last twenty-five years. Corrections and Collections explores and connects these two massive expansions in our built environment.

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new york NEW YORK

How does architecture make its appearance in civil society? How did architectural modernism function as a political and social instrument? Constitutional Modernism pursues these questions by exploring architecture, planning, and law as cultural forces in mid-century Cuba. Author Timothy Hyde’s analysis of the complex entanglements between these disciplines reconstructs how architects joined with other professionals and intellectuals in efforts to establish a stable civil society, from the promulgation of a new Cuban Constitution . . . until the Cuban Revolution. Join Hyde in conversation with architect and theorist Jorge Otero-Pailos.

in conversation: Timothy HYDE & Jorge OTERO-PAILOS
Thursday, 09/05
7.00 p.m. / Van Alen Books
30 W 22nd St.
New York, NY 10010

2013

Composed in a series of scenes, Aisthesis—Rancière’s definitive statement on the aesthetic—takes its reader from Dresden in 1764 to New York in 1941. Along the way, we view the Belvedere Torso with Winckelmann, accompany Hegel to the museum and Mallarmé to the Folies-Bergère, attend a lecture by Emerson, visit exhibitions in Paris and New York, factories in Berlin, and film sets in Moscow and Hollywood.

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2012

As Hölderlin was to Martin Heidegger and Mallarmé to Jacques Derrida, so is H.P. Lovecraft to the Speculative Realist philosophers. Lovecraft was one of the brightest stars of the horror and science fiction magazines, but died in poverty and relative obscurity in the 1930s. . . . The impact of Lovecraft on philosophy has been building for more than a decade.

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2012

Humanity has sat at the center of philosophical thinking for too long. The recent advent of environmental philosophy and posthuman studies has widened our scope of inquiry to include ecosystems, animals, & artificial intelligence. Yet the vast majority of the stuff in our universe . . . remains beyond serious philosophical concern. In Alien Phenomenology, Ian Bogost develops an object-oriented ontology that puts things at the center of being. . . .

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25 bc - ongoing

suckerPUNCH updates its list of essential books, manifestos, journals, catalogs, and monographs that inform and investigate the work found in the suckerPUNCH collection. Still listed in descending chronological order, with new additions from: Pier Vittorio AURELI; Harold BLOOM; Mario CARPO; Peter COOK; Greg LYNN & Mark GAGE; Antoine PICON; Bernard TSCHUMI; Mark WIGLEY; Alejandro ZAERA-POLO; and many more.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

USC
critic: Alvin HUANG

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Yoon HER: The book once stored all the knowledge, or authorship. However, in the 21st century, we no longer need tangible material—that is, the paperback book—to hold authorship. People are sharing ideas without noticing that he/she is violating one’s asset on their screen. Libraries were once the storage of authorship since books were incarnations of author’s original work. However, books no longer secure one’s authorship, and we need to think about how to preserve the idea of one’s originality.

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2012

This compilation of texts written since 1986 reveals a parallel activity to Alejandro Zaera-Polo’s professional life. The book is like a sniper’s log, a register of events for the purpose of accumulating experience for future missions, be it academic or professional, trying to identify tendencies and to assess performances, rather than to establish truth. Written for different media and formats (professional magazines, speaking engagements, and academic presentations), the texts are thread together as part of a biographical experience that reveals that theory is here primarily instrumental and seeks efficiency rather than truth. . . .

2011

With an introduction and critical headnotes explaining the importance of each text, Mark Foster Gage offers a framework for a provocative history of ideas about beauty as they relate to contemporary thinking on architecture and design. In a world increasingly defined by sumptuous visuality, the concepts of beauty and visual sensation are not mere intellectual exercises but standards that define the very nature of design practice across disciplines and that are essential to the emerging worlds of design and architecture in the twenty-first century.