vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

melanie KOTZ: MY FRACTOWN—My proposal for the city is based on the desire of having a city that is able to grow over time and thus, incorporate cultural circumstances and traditional influences of its inhabitants, within its evolution. The site i have chosen for this city is situated at the very north of the bay of bengal, bordering bangladesh. here, the terrain immerses in the water, allowing the city to move away from the geological realities of the main land, and instead evolve on a more flexible medium, that is water. A floating city shall overcome fundamental problems in the country’s quality of life, which flood and ebb brings about.

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2002

phaidon: asymptote presents a seamless trajectory of projects organized in a non-linear fashion and illustrated with installation photographs, collaged photographs, and computer-generated diagrams and environments. the projects are punctuated with descriptive text and the speculative writing for which asymptote is known. both partners combine architectural practice with teaching and this is strikingly evident in the accessible and thought-provoking result of asymptote.

2003

nai publishers: together with a select group of international students from columbia university and the university of california, los angeles, highly respected architects and architectural theoreticians hani rashid and greg lynn transformed the united states pavilion during the venice biennale 2000 into a four-week workshop and forum for architectural discourse: a laboratory. investigating, producing, and reviewing a variety of architectural schemes, the participants demonstrated the practice and direction of a new generation of architects. “architectural laboratories” presents the results of this workshop through 10 projects that focus on the themes “the embryologic house” and “augmented architecture.” guest critiques of the students’ designs are offered by philosopher and cultural critic mark c. taylor, zkm chairman peter weibel, and max hollein, the united states commissioner for the biennale.