london UNITED KINGDOM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Vlad TENU: Synthetic Nature is a collection of prototypes born through holistic architectural design research into the genesis of form and space. The self-organization of matter, conservation of energy, equilibrium and notions of minimal complexity are concepts that drive the creative process—a symbiotic mix of design, art, and science.

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troy NEW YORK

“As do all reductive processes, the diagram entails an act of violence on at least a portion of the population it governs. Through generalization, translation, abstraction, and striation the diagram orders its constituents at times in conflict to their local necessity, whether they are tectonic or otherwise. While this conflict has been productive as a tool for innovation within the discipline of architecture, its tendency to reduce the relationship between the internal and external concerns of architecture to adversarial, or at best hierarchical, is limiting. This limitation becomes even more apparent given the contemporary global context . . .”

*image courtesy the author.

[EXCERPTED FROM FRESH PUNCHES ]

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Announcing the 2013 Faculty Winner of 2×8 Student Exhibition Design Competition

AIA Los Angeles is announces that UCLA lecturer, Julia Koerner’s project, “Cellular Complexity”, in Collaboration with Marie Boltenstern and Kais Al-Rawi, is the winning entry for the 11 year anniversary of the 2×8 Exhibition Design. The Installation will be completed by February 2014.

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zurich SWITZERLAND

ETH Zurich, Department of Architecture
Chair for Computer Aided Architectural Design, Prof. Ludger HOVESTADT
critics: Benjamin DILLENBURGER, Michael HANSMEYER, & Hua HAO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Hua HAO: In this course the students developed a computer-based approach to designing strongly articulated spaces. Those spaces should be defined containing an unseen density of information. We sought high-resolution architectures with imaginative and previously unseen space impressions.

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