ithaca NEW YORK

Cornell AAP
critics: Jenny SABIN & Sofia KRIMIZI.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Isidoro MICHAN: This project integrates the overused clichés of the “duck” versus the “decorated shed” in interaction with the car, along with Graham Harman’s notion of the aesthetic tension between real and sensual objects and their multiple accidents, qualities, relations and moments, creating an object made out of fissions and fusions between the objects.

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new york NEW YORK

Syracuse University School of Architecture and PennDesign host “Speculations on the Real: Graham Harman & the OOO Challenge to Contemporary Architecture”—Friday and Saturday 09/26–09/27 at Syracuse University, Fisher Center in NYC.

symposium: “Speculations on the Real: Graham Harman & the OOO Challenge to Contemporary Architecture” with Graham HARMAN and Winka DUBBELDAM, Ferda KOLATAN, First Office (Andrew ATWOOD & Anna NEIMARK), Mark GAGE, David RUY, & Tom WISCOMBE.
Friday, 09/26 (opening & reception) / 7.00 p.m.
Saturday, 09/27 (symposium) / 10.00 a.m.–4.00 p.m.
Fisher Center / Syracuse University
136 Madison Avenue
New York, NY10016

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ann arbor MICHIGAN

University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
critic: Adam FURE.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Nathan WALKER: This thesis explores the proposition put forth by philosopher Graham Harman that aesthetics is the tension between objects and their sensible qualities.

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college station TEXAS

Texas A&M University
critics: Gabriel ESQUIVEL, Weiling HE, & Ergun AKLEMAN

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Shane BEARROW: “The Birth and Reverberation of an Object” is, in part, an analysis of Graham Harman’s object-oriented ontology, in which a natural object is stripped of its ontology through a series of craft iterations. The basic idea of this project was to conduct a series of drawing exercises going from analog to digital, in order to produce a unique shape. This process was inspired by Robin Evans’ essay “Translations from Drawing to Building.” All steps in the process were unique, though clearly traceable and geared toward the autonomy of an architectural object.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Graham Harman’s lecture develops the central themes of object-oriented philosophy, with special attention to their implications for architecture.

Objects come in two varieties: the real and the sensual, both of them in permanent tension with their own qualities and with each other. . . .

lecture: Graham HARMAN, “Strange Objects Contra Parametricism.”
Wednesday, 09/18
7.00 p.m. / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc Campus
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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2012

As Hölderlin was to Martin Heidegger and Mallarmé to Jacques Derrida, so is H.P. Lovecraft to the Speculative Realist philosophers. Lovecraft was one of the brightest stars of the horror and science fiction magazines, but died in poverty and relative obscurity in the 1930s. . . . The impact of Lovecraft on philosophy has been building for more than a decade.

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new york NEW YORK

Just one week left to lend your support to Tarp‘s upcoming issue, “Not Nature.”

“Not Nature” is interested in exploring historical and contemporary architectural positions in regard to natural systems—aesthetic, synthetic, philosophical, autonomous, not autonomous, investigative, social and political. The question is to explore whether architecture can build form without a clear process-based model to replicate. . . . The issue includes major contributors from philosophy and the history of science such as Graham Harman, Timothy Morton, and Peter Galison, writing alongside architectural theorists and practitioners such as Antoine Picon, Catherine Ingraham, Ed Eigen, David Gissen, David Ruy, and many others. Tarp is an annual publication of the Pratt Institute Graduate Arch. & Urban Design program.

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