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Columbia GSAPP
critics: François ROCHE & Ezio BLASETTI w/ Farzin LOTFI-JAM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Luis Felipe PARIS & Andriana KOUTALIANOU: (And yes, it seems that it is so, that you have left saying I-don’t-know-what, that you were going to throw yourse. . . .) but . . . is he still outside. . . .? there there, a reflection of himself . . . it lures him. . . . the notion of the double . . . Ego and Body, the reflection of his soul . . . or maybe another life, or another . . . is it, you, that is behind this mirror. . . .?

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Columbia GSAPP
critics: François ROCHE & Ezio BLASETTI w/ Farzin LOTFI-JAM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Carson RUSSELL & Mengna MIAO: Against the extreme heat, we bring extreme cold, against the wall of molten rock, we engage with icy water. It is a battle we cannot win. A loud engagement, characterized by the cracking of petrifying rock over the hissing of evaporating water. The result is fragile, bound to fall victim to corruption by the continuous advancement of the lava.

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Conversation and book launch for Bernard Tschumi: Architecture Concepts: Red is Not a Color by Bernard Tschumi, Columbia University GSAPP and Bernard Tschumi Architects, and The Sniper’s Log: An Architectural Perspective of Generation-X by Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Princeton University School of Architecture.

bernard TSCHUMI and alejandro ZAERA-POLO in conversation
Thursday, 11/29
6.30 pm / Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Columbia University
1172 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027

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In the 1920s, the urban theory of Ludwig Hilberseimer (1885–1967) redefined architecture’s relationship to the city. His proposal for a high-rise city, where leisure, labor and circulation would be vertically integrated, both frightened his contemporaries and offered a trenchant critique of the dynamics of the capitalist metropolis. Hilberseimer’s Groszstadtarchitektur is presented here for the first time in English translation. . . .

Translate: GSAPP Books presents Ludwig Hilberseimer’s
Metropolisarchitecture and Selected Essays
Richard Anderson, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Craig Buckley, & Claire Zimmerman
Monday, 11/19
6.30 pm / Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Columbia University
1172 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027

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Join Peter Eisenman and Mark Wigley (with Enrique Walker) for “The Cat Has Nine Lives,” the ninth in their series of conversations, at September 12, 6.30pm, at Columbia University’s Wood Auditorium. “The Cat Has Nine Lives” is organized by The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture.

“The Cat Has Nine Lives”
peter EISENMAN and mark WIGLEY (with enrique WALKER)
Wednesday, 09/12
6.30 pm / Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Columbia University
1172 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027

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Drawing and Representation II, Spring 2012
Columbia University GSAPP

Coordinators: Babak Bryan & Michael Young
Instructors: Kutan Ayata, Frank Gesualdi, Jennifer Leung, John Morrison, Bryan Young
TAs: Kyle Hovenkotter, Emily E. Jones, Dan Lee, Bo Liu, Eliza Montgomery, Owen Nichols, Luis Felipe Paris

Students: whitney BOYKIN, xiaoci CHEN, sarah HABIB, melodie YAHSAR, & katie ZAEH.

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Drawing and Representation II, Spring 2012
Columbia University GSAPP

Coordinators: Babak Bryan & Michael Young
Instructors: Kutan Ayata, Frank Gesualdi, Jennifer Leung, John Morrison, Bryan Young
TAs: Kyle Hovenkotter, Emily E. Jones, Dan Lee, Bo Liu, Eliza Montgomery, Owen Nichols, Luis Felipe Paris

Students: geof BELL, kevin CERVANTES, madeeha MERCHANT, juan pablo AZARES, jim STODDART.

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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

lluis alexandre CASANOVAS & hualin SHI: password _ _ _ _ [The resistance of the minotaur/ The thread of Ariadne]

the resistance of the Minotaur [g o i n g i n]: As in all cities, some inhabitants are in strong ideological conflict with their political authorities. Their opposition leads to prosecution. Thought of as a perfect panoptical system, the city has few opportunities where resistors can hide. The scenario pretends to solve this situation by creating new spaces where rioters and resistors can organize their illicit activities.

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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

evita FANOU & nathan HOOFNAGLE: At the edge of the city, exactly where the city meets the air, is it possible to build the impossible perfect city of Aristophanes? This city, like a thick folding cloud distorts reality, like Alice in Wonderland, using it to support the ethereal fiction. Like a vessel this cloud of particles is a cloud, a formless system, based on movement and friction. It is a fog, a blurry border that entices the viewer and provokes their desire to touch it. At the edge of the city is the loop that traps you inside, a space one never wants to leave. It looks elegant and desirable; people breath the air of this ephemeral atomosphere. Upon this each breadth, they become part of its fiction.

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sP: Describe your project.

jennifer CHANG & belén GÁNDARA: As an escape from the vertical city, we construct an extension of the synesthetic minds, a literal imitation of a hallucinogen reality. We remap consciousness to break the notion between awareness and
delirium. The result is a parallel city of chambers where ayahuasca is both produced and consumed. The barrier between the mental and physical realities is blurred in these chambers by creating a continuity of the mind. In a continuous feedback loop of humans, machines, and their realities, it is no longer clear if the environment is producing an image of the mind, or if the mind is producing an image of the environment.

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