los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
critic: Elena MANFERDINI.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Smita LUKOSE: The contextualism of a building in an urban environment gives it identity. Set in Downtown Los Angeles, this thesis takes cues from its surroundings, and turns it into another form. Fitting In aims to reveal moments of visual synthesis and continuity across a building’s facades in relation to its context.
architecture, elena MANFERDINI, SCI-arc, Smita LUKOSE
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los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
advisor: Elena MANFERDINI.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Ke LI: This is a concert hall on New York City’s East River. A wired-shaped and brightly colored building floating above the river, a container of art and an artwork itself. . . .
architecture, elena MANFERDINI, Ke LI, ornament, SCI-arc, signs, thesis
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los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
critic: Elena MANFERDINI.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Oscar ABRAHAMSSON: Urban Cosmetics is a proposal for a new home for MASP (Museo de Arte Contemporaneo) in São Paulo.
architecture, elena MANFERDINI, Oscar ABRAHAMSSON, SCI-arc
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los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
advisor: Elena MANFERDINI.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Ömer PEKIN: Nonce Object is an experiment towards the creation of a multitude of readings of an architectural work. A nonce word is a word coined for a singular occasion to solve a communication problem where a nonexistent word is needed. A nonce object is this thesis’ coined term for a new type of formal organization that is indeterminate to the category it fits.
elena MANFERDINI, objects, Omer PEKIN, SCI-arc, thesis
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los angeles CALIFORNIA
“Building Portraits” is a suite of elevation studies developed by Atelier Manferdini during the past 2 years for the Art Institute of Chicago and for Industry Gallery in Los Angeles.
exhibition: Atelier Manferdini, “Building Portraits.”
Saturday, 01/30 (opening)
6.00 p.m. / Industry Gallery Downtown LA
801 E 7th St. #301
Los Angeles, CA 90021
atelier manferdini, elena MANFERDINI, event, exhibition, NOTHINGeverHAPPENS
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chicago ILLINOIS
Italian-born, Los Angeles-based architect Elena Manferdini has become adept at creating vibrant architectural installations that employ complex patterns, luscious colors, and rich textures to introduce new spatial and visual narratives that challenge the clean lines and abstract forms of architectural modernism.
exhibition: “Elena Manferdini: Building the Picture.”
Saturday, 03/07 – Sunday 09/20 // Gallery 286
Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60603
art institute of CHICAGO, atelier manferdini, elena MANFERDINI, event, exhibition, mies VAN DER ROHE, NOTHINGeverHAPPENS, SCI-arc
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los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
critic: Elena MANFERDINI.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Asli TUSAVUL: This project is working within a contemporary rereading of the politics of the envelope, producing new models of “faciality.”
architecture, Asli TUSAVUL, building envelope, elena MANFERDINI, facade, politics, quadraturisti, SCI-arc
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los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
critic: Elena MANFERDINI.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Alex BLUGERMAN & Smita LUKOSE: Our exploration in contextualism of this mixed-used project is through the plaza. It acts as the most important contributor of the building’s relation to the immediate urban environment.
Alex BLUGERMAN, elena MANFERDINI, mixed-use, SCI-arc, Smita LUKOSE
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berkeley CALIFORNIA
UC Berkeley/SCI-Arc
critics: Elena MANFERDINI & Ryan Tyler MARTINEZ.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Alberto BENEJAM, Yeseul Allie CHUNG, & Charles Shelton GREEN: This project contends the status of the icon in Architecture as they can pop up anywhere.
Alberto BENEJAM, architecture, Charles Shelton GREEN, elena MANFERDINI, icon, Ryan Tyler MARTINEZ, SCI-arc, UC Berkeley, Yeseul Allie CHUNG
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los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
critic: Elena MANFERDINI
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Viola AGO: This is a focused obsession of color and facial expression in architecturalizing the theatrical behavior of blushing. The ambition is to have the blush belong to the materiality of the architecture as it brings faciality into the behavior of the skin.
