new york NEW YORK

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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new york NEW YORK

Reclaim Resilience-Resistance
8 DEC. 2012
Event / evening / for the release of Log 25
“Beauty Bar,” 6:30-8PM / 231 E 14th St
New York / ID Card for over 21 (bar and manicure)/
François Roche, Guest Editor,
and Lydia Kallipoliti, Roland Snooks, Ezio Blasetti, Camille Lacadée, Leopold Lambert, Michael Young, Ed Keller, Pedro Gadanho, Karl Chu, Winka Dubbeldam, and some unexpected guests . . .

[Log 25]

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venice ITALY

Join Log editor Cynthia Davidson at the 2012 Venice Biennale for a conversation on writing and architecture with contributors Pier Vittorio Aureli, Luis Fernández-Galiano, Sanford Kwinter, and François Roche.

Writing Architecture: The Common Ground of the Printed Page
Tuesday, 08/28
2.30–3.30 pm / Spazio Esedra
Giardini della Biennale
(Adjacent to Book Pavilion)
Sestiere Castello, 30122
Venezia, Italy

melbourne AUSTRALIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

cameron NEWNHAM & mark-henry DECRAUSAZ: locus; ethereal empirica. the fleeting nature of the elucidative platform

In an environment incongruent to facilitated human habitation, questions can be raised about the functionality of living in the remoteness of the Australian outback. How would man navigate this hostile terrain? How would research be conducted in a landscape filled with potential hazards?

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melbourne AUSTRALIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

vonne YANG & kiet NGUYEN: In the bush, one descends from a state of happiness, to state of survival, to the state of death, during the initial stage, we experience, we wonder, we live with no fear as one descends below the threshold of survival to death, one’s instinct of survival overpowers positivity, and we experience paranoia because of the fear from death. In the Australian bush, all animals, including humans enter a primitive mode of self-preservation on order to survive the harsh environment. We question whether there is a stage after death, in which machine can assist in the undertaking of the dead.

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melbourne AUSTRALIA

PennDesign
advisors: cecil BALMOND & ezio BLASETTI

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project:

mark KOWALYOV & ZHU teng fei: Whilst walking the expansive arid flatlands of the Outback one could be consumed by the banality, the repetitive flat nature which starts to read as one solid block of rock, the only reprieve is the occasional flora, the gradual hills at points, but overall a consuming monotonous landscape. But when you kneel down, and look at the earth beneath you, you see the cracks and creases of the rock, you begin to pick at it, and you realise how soft the earth really is, and the possibilities of exposing the strataforma which lays beneath.

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melbourne AUSTRALIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

kathryn McKENZIE & sarah PAPADOPOULLOS: The scenario describes a situation of remote, dangerous and extreme Austarlian bush living: survival and sustainability in a remote location requires new innovations in biological and robotic mechanical systems. These systems are developed in direct response to the found substances and characteristics of the site itself.

The parasitic mechanism is proposed to continuously seek and harvest substances from the surrounding native trees - Banksia Serrata- in order to survive and continue a physical growth.

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new york NEW YORK

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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los angeles CALIFORNIA

ROBOT WORKSHOP COMPETITION
Honorable Mention — $100

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project:

anirudh DHAWAN & jili HUANG:The building is a dynamic form embedded and responding to its context by slowly revolving as it moves social gathering spaces to workshop, classroom, and administrative spaces. The heavy duty work involving the utilization of 6-7 axis Kuka robots is maintained in an internal vortex which acts as the controlling spine of the envelope form. The 3d printing and robotics workshops for territorial and responsive robots which involve less bulk tooling are given space above the ground floor.

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new haven CONNECTICUT

françois ROCHE
lecture: “The Risk(s) of Hiring Me”
Monday, 04/02
6.15 pm / Paul Rudolph Hall
Yale School of Architecture

180 York Street

New Haven, Connecticut 06511