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Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
advisor: Doug JACKSON.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Ben PENNELL: The spatial overlap between Madison Square Garden and Penn Station is an opportunity for programmatic intersection that is currently underutilized. A new proposal for this historically loaded site suggests combining two— one of of entertainment and the other of transportation—in an effort to blur the focal point of spectacle.
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Cal Poly, Pomona
critic: Axel SCHMITZBERGER.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Juan SALAZAR: Polish-American scientist Alfred Korzybski’s dictum “The map is not the territory” is used to explain the fact that individual people do not have access to an absolute knowledge of reality . . .
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Join Storefront for “Definitions Series: Risk,” a discussion on the “institutionalization” of “experimentation” and cultural politics, and the power of TAKING RISKS.
“Definitions Series: Risk,” with Thom MAYNE, Eric Owen MOSS, Stephen PHILLIPS, & Eva FRANCH i GILABERT.
Tuesday, 04/08
7.00pm / Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare Street
New York, New York 10012
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Dwayne Oyler and Jenny Wu are the founding principles of Oyler Wu Collaborative, an award winning architecture practice based in Los Angeles, CA. The experimental work of Oyler Wu places a focus on the expression of structural complexity, aggregation, and material research through an intensive design and fabrication process.
lecture: Dwayne OYLER & Jenny WU (Oyler Wu Collaborative).
Friday, 10/18
5.00 p.m. / Business Rotunda (03-213)
Cal Poly — San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo, CA 93405
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Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Studio400
critic: Karen LANGE
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Brandon Scott SAMPSON: The initial idea and research for this project developed out of my experience in Los Angeles last year. This thesis addresses the contemporary urban condition of downtown Los Angeles and introduces a way to take advantage of its voided urban fabric.
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Visionary architect and MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang is the founder and principal of Studio Gang Architects, a Chicago-based collective of architects, designers, and thinkers whose projects confront pressing contemporary issues. Driven by curiosity, intelligence, and radical creativity, Jeanne has produced some of today’s most innovative and award-winning architecture. The transformative potential of her work is exemplified by such recent projects as the Aqua Tower.
Jeanne GANG
Friday, 04/19
4.00–5.00 pm /
Business Rotunda (03-213)
Cal Poly — San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo, CA 93405
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Professor Mark Burry is the founding Director of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University’s Design Research Institute (DRI). DRI positions design research’s role as an explorer and tester of design options focusing on the challenges of urbanization and growing cities of the future. With this urban focus, DRI’s supports three flagships: Future Fabric of Cities, Mediated City, and Urban Technology Nexus. Together these flagships foster and support a transdisciplinary approach to design research at the intersection of design education, research, industry, and practice.
Mark BURRY
Friday, 04/12
4.00–5.00 pm /
Business Rotunda (03-213)
Cal Poly — San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo, CA 93405
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Julie Bargmann is internationally recognized as an innovative designer in building regenerative landscapes. She founded D.I.R.T. studio in 1992 to research, design and build projects with passion and rigor. . . . Her background in sculpture influences the use of simple form that emerges from sites’ existing, unearthed and unlikely fodder for design.
Julie BARGMANN (D.I.R.T. Studio)
Friday, 04/05
4.00–5.00 pm /
Business Rotunda (03-213)
Cal Poly — San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo, CA 93405
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Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
critic: Karen LANGE
A quarter of a million zip ties altered a gallery into a bristled vortex of swirling, cavernous zip tie fabric magnified through reflective cellophane and augmented by subtle changing color. ZIP expresses the story of collaborative effort through research, acquisition, design, and construction of an environment designed as haptic reading room.
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Marcelo Spina is a Design Professor at SCI-Arc and the Coordinator of the newly launched Emerging Systems and Technologies post-graduate program. Along with Georgina Huljich, Spina is the Principal of PATTERNS, a design research architectural practice based in Los Angeles that has gained worldwide recognition for its inventive approach to design and architecture, fusing advanced computation with an extended understanding of form, tectonics and materials. Recent commissions include pavilions for SCI-ARC and MOCA.
Marcelo SPINA
Friday, 02/01
4.00–5.00 pm /
Business Rotunda (03-213)
Cal Poly — San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo, CA 93405
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