los angeles CALIFORNIA

dubai UAE

AA Visiting School Dubai 2015
director: Riyad JOUCKA.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Riyad JOUCKA: Set up as an independent exploratory architectural lab in the Middle East, The second edition of AA Visiting School Dubai (AAVSDXB 2.0) advanced the research of the previous workshop by exploring avant-garde methods of materializing architecture. The outcomes consisted of a speculative body of work, representing a UAE pavilion for the upcoming Expo 2020 that will take place in Dubai.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

AA EmTech
critics: Evan GREENBERG, George JERONIMIDIS, Michael WEINSTOCK, & Manja van de WORP.

The TWIST is a design and construction project developed by the Emergent Technologies and Design Programme (EmTech) at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. The project capitalizes on the material effects of milled plywood observed in 1:1 tests, thus making the experimentation process central to the design endeavor.

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boston MASSACHUSETTS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Matter Design (Brandon CLIFFORD & Wes McGEE): Architecture exists at the confluence of form, material, environment, and structure. While this odd set of bedfellows informs architecture, this overlay produces an experience for the occupant. . . .

*This project was part of the “Bigger than a Breadbox, Smaller than a Building” exhibition at the BSA Space in Boston.

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barcelona SPAIN

Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
critic: Marcos CRUZ.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Natalie ALIMA: Architecture today is seen something static and unresponsive. However it is time to take a hint from biology and allow our buildings to grow, adapt and self repair.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Daniel GILLEN: The ‘T’able is a unique representation of the mountainous topographies on which specialty teas are produced. . . .

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ann arbor MICHIGAN

University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
advisors: Glenn WILCOX & Wes McGEE.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Rebecca BRAUN & Tyler SMITH: It has always been the work of the designer to make sense of technological change, to be in control of the perceptual effects new industry has on a culture. . . .

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long island city NEW YORK

IK Studio (Mariana IBAÑEZ & Simon KIM) is pleased to present Torqueing Spheres at the Socrates Sculpture Park. Commissioned by the park and the Architectural League of New York, Torqueing Spheres is a geometric and material folly of domes.

exhibition: IK Studio, “Torqueing Spheres.”
Sunday, 05/17 (opening) // Socrates Sculpture Park
32-01 Vernon Blvd.
Long Island City, NY 11106

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brooklyn NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Simplus Design: Simplus Design founders, Sebastian Misiurek and Arianna Lebed have designed SuperMod, a 3-D printed modular wall system which creates a versatile aggregation of storage that is equal parts function and beauty.

Photos: © Alan TANSEY.

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cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

Harvard GSD
critic: Achim MENGES.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Erin CUEVAS, Mike JOHNSON, & Jana MASSET: The use of carbon and glass fiber as construction materials presents opportunities for innovative architectural building practices, given the combination of their ultra-lightweight and high-strength characteristics.

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