columbus OHIO

The “Possible Mediums” Conference, which took place at The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture from February 07-10, 2013, brought together 18 designers, 120 students (from the four co-host schools: The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture, University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning and University of Kentucky College of Design), and special guests John McMorrough and Jeffrey Kipnis, to participate in design workshops and formal discussions surrounding the question of mediums in contemporary architecture.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

David Freeland is a partner at FreelandBuck in Los Angeles and design faculty at Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-ARC). His interests in teaching and practice focus on the spatial, atmospheric and structural potential of computational pattern. Deployed at a variety of scales and mediums, pattern is used to create organizational coherence while exploring spatial and perceptual variability.

david FREELAND, “Resilient Pattern”
w/ response by marcelyn GOW
Thursday, 11/15
7.30 pm / Space 15Twenty
1520 N. Cahuenga Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90028

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new haven CONNECTICUT

A generation ago, the post-modern quest for variation was a forceful plea against the dominant cultural technologies of the mechanical age. Today, digital technologies can deliver variations of all sorts and almost at no cost. Yet unlimited design variability inevitably challenges deeply ingrained assumptions of authorship. Contemporary digital culture and technologies favor and nurture a new notion of design indeterminacy, where objects are increasingly seen as systems able to self-organize and find the best solutions by themselves, when digitally empowered to do so.

Digital Design Theory Symposium: Digital Post-Modernities
Friday, 11/02
11.00 am - 4.30 pm / Smith Conference Room
Paul Rudolph Hall
180 York Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06511

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new york NEW YORK

Site specific installation, Bridge Gallery (NYC)
July 2012

Inspired by Lebbeus Woods’s Slipstreaming drawings, the installation is made from over one thousand CNC cut plywood pieces that notch together to create an undulating, dynamically patterned and brightly colored wall. Developed as the extrusion of a 2-dimensional drawing through the gallery space, the structure is then cut away to produce a set of interconnected 3-dimensional spaces. The project develops novel forms of digital drawing, “egg-crate” type assemblies typical in stick built construction, and our ability to describe and produce the dynamics of flow and turbulence, phenomena that have fascinated artists at least since Leonardo Da Vinci.

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new york NEW YORK

“At least since Leonardo Da Vinci’s first attempts to describe turbulence, architects have been fascinated by the dynamics of flow—perhaps seeking an escape from the solid, stable nature of buildings. Beginning in the 1990’s, architects have used digital software to imbue structures and spaces with some of the same qualities as Da Vinci’s meticulous drawings: fluidity, undulation, instability and temporality. But while software has allowed architects to create novel, dynamic forms digitally, they have struggled to translate these qualities to the physicality of the material world. Slipstream is a physical structure that confronts that leap directly, translating a 2-D digital line drawing into 3-D space.”

Opening 07/12, 07.00-9.00pm
07/12-08/24 / Bridge Gallery
98 Orchard Street
new york, NEW YORK

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new haven CONNECTICUT

Assembly One Pavilion
Designed and built by: Yale School of Architecture students

The Yale ‘Assembly One’ pavilion is the younger, smaller, more carefree sister to Yale’s building project - the 40-year old tradition in which first-year students design and build a house.

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lexington KENTUCKY

Brennan Buck is a principal at FreelandBuck in New York and a Critic at the Yale School of Architecture. From 2004-2008 he was assistant professor at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna teaching in Studio Greg Lynn. He has practiced both landscape architecture and architecture, having worked for Neil M. Denari Architects and Johnston Marklee & Associates in Los Angeles. He is a graduate of Cornell University and the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design.

brennan BUCK
Friday, 02/17
05:00 pm / 209 Pence Hall
University of Kentucky
College of Design
117 Pence Hall
Lexington, KY 40506

los angeles CALIFORNIA

Disaster Prevention Center
Istanbul, TK, 2011

Prompted by the expectation of a major earthquake in Turkey, the Istanbul Disaster Prevention and Information Center holds a series of disaster simulation galleries, from earthquakes to rainstorms to fires. The building is designed as a single structure that expresses the multiplicitous atmospheres and climates it contains.

Unlike a science museum, where large open halls are sufficient to contain furniture-scale exhibits, the disaster center is a continuous network of distinct spaces. Each exhibit relies on a unique atmosphere and climate supported by its own structural, mechanical and electrical infrastructure.

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new haven CONNECTICUT

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Yale University SOA
critic: greg LYNN & brennan BUCK

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

ji-young YOON: This is an advanced studio project from Yale School of Architecture. The goal of this project was to explore the hypostyle hall as a new typology for high speed rail stations capable of connecting the space of the station to the existing city fabric. The site for this project was Los Angeles, California.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Maximiliano is an Italian restaurant and pizzeria for chef Andre Guerrero that opened in October 2011 in Los Angeles. The 2,200 sf tenant improvement is atmospherically distinct; a unique triangular dining area infused with color and evocative of the rich and refined menu.

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