los angeles CALIFORNIA & brooklyn NEW YORK
On an island full of rectangular buildings, the Flatiron Building’s knife-edge geometry, distorted by the acute angle of Broadway, has made it iconic. This distortion is rare in the city but common in images of the city; panoramas and wide-angle photos often make right angles look acute. The building is so impossibly thin that it resembles an image made real.
brennan BUCK, david FREELAND, freelandbuck, installation
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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Brennan BUCK.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Yihan LI: The design of a global atmospheric research center employs the sphere for both its iconic and volumetric qualities. . . .
architecture, brennan BUCK, Yale, yale school of architecture, Yihan LI, ysoa
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new haven CONNECTICUT
Yale School of Architecture (YSOA)
Patternism Seminar, 2015
critic: Brennan BUCK.
One of the more striking shifts in our discipline in recent years has been a re-emerging focus on representation—drawing in particular.
students: Emau VEGA, Hui Zhen NG, Jessica ANGEL, Junpei OKAI, & Nicholas MURAGLIA.
& Emau VEGA, brennan BUCK, collage, drawing, figure, Hui Zhen NG, Jessica ANGEL, Nicholas MURAGLIA, representation, Yale, yale school of architecture, ysoa
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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Brennan BUCK.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Nicholas Emmanuel MARIAKIS: Climate change exists as one of the fundamental challenges facing the future of planet Earth.
architecture, brennan BUCK, Nicholas Emmanuel MARIAKIS, penn design, PennDesign, UPenn
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new haven CONNECTICUT
Yale School of Architecture
critics: Greg LYNN & Brennan BUCK.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Constance VALE: Dams built in the 20th century utilized grand neoclassical facades to monumentalize the ingenuity of man. This proposal for a dam shifts the emphasis from the wall to the dam’s moving parts and the spaces they envelope. Two key moving elements, the lock and gantry, are reinterpreted in their means of motion and form, as a set of rotating conic volumes. . . .
architecture, brennan BUCK, Constance VALE, dam, greg LYNN, Yale, yale school of architecture, ysoa
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columbus OHIO
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
FreelandBuck (David FREELAND & Brennan BUCK): Fabricated for the Possible Mediums Conference/Exhibition at Ohio State University, this 48” cubic space frame is inspired by Alexander Graham Bell’s 19th century box kite flying contraptions.
brennan BUCK, david FREELAND, freelandbuck, possible MEDIUMS, Possible Mediums Conference, The Ohio State University
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syracuse NEW YORK
FreelandBuck is an architecture practice based in New York and Los Angeles formed in 2009.
lecture and workshop: Brennan BUCK & David FREELAND (FreelandBuck), “Trying to See What We Can Never Know.”
Friday, 02/28
5.00 pm / Slocum Auditorium
Syracuse SOA
Syracuse, NY 13244
brennan BUCK, david FREELAND, freelandbuck, lecture, NOTHINGeverHAPPENS, workshop
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new haven CONNECTICUT
In the course of the last twenty years digital technologies have changed the way architecture is conceived and made. . . .
symposium: “Digital Post-Modernities: From Calculus to Computation.”
Thursday-Saturday, 02/20–02/22
Hastings Hall / Paul Rudolph Hall
Yale School of Architecture
180 York Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06511
Alejandro ZAERA-POLO, Alisa Andrasek, benjamin ARANDA, bernard TSCHUMI, brennan BUCK, Brian MASSUMI, Charles JENCKS, dagmar RICHTER, emmanuel PETIT, Frédéric MIGAYROU, greg LYNN, jennifer LEUNG, jenny SABIN, Lise Anne COUTURE, mario CARPO, mark GAGE, Mathias KOHLER, michael HANSMEYER, michael YOUNG, Paola ANTONELLI, Peggy DEAMER, peter EISENMAN, philippe MOREL, Phillip BERNSTEIN, sanford KWINTER, Yale, yale school of architecture, ysoa
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new york NEW YORK
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Joel Sanders Architect with FreelandBuck: Our first-place winning design for Kunshan Phoenix Cultural Mall melds two generic building types—the mall and the cultural building—to create a unique hybrid, the “cultural mall.”
architecture, brennan BUCK, cultural mall, david FREELAND, freelandbuck, joel SANDERS, Joel Sanders Architect
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new haven CONNECTICUT
“A significant portion of the intellect and capital invested in architectural education over the last 10 years has gone into digital fabrication, as schools have acquired new computer numerical control (CNC) machines and faculty and students have experimented with them. The relevant arguments made by Bernard Cache, Greg Lynn, and Mario Carpo that inspired much of this work have become implicit for many instructors and some students. Always practice driven, these ideas have seeped into the profession, enabling an expanding array of pavilion projects and fabrication competitions. . . . ‘”
*Image courtesy the author. Yale School of Architecture, Assembly One Pavilion. Diagram.
