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advisor: Elena MANFERDINI

Describe your project:

Marie-Sophie STARLINGER: The exploration of the relationship of inside to outside has been a constant in the discipline. Two main approaches have flourished in the architectural discourse in the past decades: the visual perception of exterior and interior, and the physical relationship of envelope to interior mass.

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Elena Manferdini graduated from the University of Civil Engineering (Bologna, Italy) and later received her master’s degree in architecture and urban design from the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2004, she founded Atelier Manferdini, a design office in Los Angeles, California. The office is based on a multi-scale work methodology and embraces the philosophy that design can participate in a wide range of multidisciplinary developments that define our culture.

lecture: Elena MANFERDINI, “Unplugged.”
Wednesday, 10/16
6.00 pm / EMPAC Theater
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, New York 12180

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Tempera is an indoor temporary pavilion for exhibition “A New Sculpturalism: Contemporary Architecture from Southern California” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (June 16–September 16, 2013). The pavilion theme is a fantastic garden where visitors see their own images reflected into a three-dimensional immersive painted canvas. The subject of the graphic depictions of the pavilion reinterprets the topic of “Still Nature”; in particular, the original subject represented here is 3-D scanned acquisitions of natural elements such as flowers and insects.

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Join guest curator and editor Christopher Mount and Los Angeles architects Kevin Daly, Neil Denari, Elena Manferdini, and Michael Rotondi as they discuss the evolution of L.A. architecture over the past three decades. Moderated by LA Forum board member Gail Peter Borden, the event will shed light on the upcoming exhibition, “A New Sculpturalism,” opening at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA this June as part of the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A., and celebrate the launch of an impressive accompanying catalogue, co-published by MOCA and Rizzoli.

panel discussion: A New Sculpturalism
with Kevin DALY, Neil DENARI, Elena MANFERDINI, & Michael ROTONDI
Thursday, 04/25
7.00pm / Vitra Los Angeles
8753 Washington Boulevard
Culver City, California 90232

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“Eye Candy” is a site specific installation for the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles. The work explores the cultural and phenomenological potential of synthetic surface finishes at architectural scale, and is a deliberate flirtation with the contemporary attraction to the glossy, the playful, the fictional and the pop. The unique iconography of this installation puts forth a clear statement that architectural material finishes have the communicative potential to enter into the imaginary realm of our “eye-candy” culture, exploiting our most superficial of obsessions including desire, age, gender, media, consumption, and delight.

“Eye Candy” runs through the 8th of March, 2013.

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Elena Manferdini’s first monograph, published by Equalbooks, collects the work done by Atelier Manferdini during its first 9 years of activity and is organized around the idea of the role of drawings in Elena’s practice. The book contains an Introductory text by Andrew Zago, and 3 essays (by Sylvia Lavin, Mario Carpo and Alicia Imperiale).

Elena MANFERDINI, book signing & reception
Friday, 03/01
7.00 pm / Library
SCI-Arc
960 E. 3rd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013

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The AAG symposium presents theoretical works and practices linked to new geometrical development applicable to architecture. The event aims to gather the diverse components of the contemporary architectural tendencies which push the building envelope towards free form and respond to the multiple current design challenges with a renewed mathematical rigor.

Centre Pompidou Exhibition Symposium: Advances in Architectural Geometry at Centre Pompidou, Paris
Featuring: Herwig Baumgartner, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Elena Manferdini, Florencia Pita, Peter Testa, and Andrew Atwood.
Friday, 11/30
7.00 pm / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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SCI-Arc’s all-school exhibition of thesis work, reviewed by members of the SCI-Arc faculty and distinguished local and visiting architects, is open for public viewing. Guest critics include: Frank Gehry, Thom Mayne, Hitoshi Abe, Neil Denari, Heather Roberge, Mark Lee, Greg Lynn, Sylvia Lavin, Kathryn Dean, Jimenez Lai, Nicolai Ourosouff, Brett Steele, Roland Snooks, Jason Payne, Theo Spyropoulos, Lisa Iwamoto, Abel Misla, Preston Scott Cohen, Ross Wimer, Nanako Umemoto, Bernard Tschumi, Frances Anderton, Dana Cupkova.

SCI-Arc Graduate Thesis Weekend
Graduate Thesis Coordinator: Elena Manferdini
Friday, 09/07 / 2.00–6.00pm
Saturday, 09/08 / 9.00am–6.00pm
Sunday, 09/09 / 9.00am–4.00pm
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

HAO jiang: The Studio is operating on the unfinished face of San Lorenzo Cathedral in an impressionistic way. The project is operating at an increased degree of ability of the cosmetic effect to transform the identity of architecture. Much like the relationship of facelift and makeup to the human face, the architectural operation would embellish the existing features via different brushstrokes, material, texture and lighting.

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This site specific installation investigates the relationship between rendered canvas and architectural envelopes: in particular “Painted Canvas” aims to blur the distinctions between what is living or non-living, organic or technological, promising or threatening, true or synthetic. Ideas about nature and its simulation are central to this small installation, inviting the viewers to question what is ‘real’ and what is not. Constructed out of flat sheets of printed canvas, this wall borrows some of the techniques developed and mastered by Impressionism, and apply them to manufacture specific effect for an architectural project.

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