san antonio TEXAS

F² is a spruce wood and plastic grid installation on display in San Antonio’s Travis Park for three months. Design and fabrication by graduate students from UTSA’s College of Architecture. Tonight’s opening includes food and cocktails by The St. Anthony, music by DJ Fuzion.

event: University of Texas at San Antonio College of Architecture with Andrew KUDLESS & Kevin McCLELLAN, “F²” (opening).
Thursday, 06/05
Travis Park
301 E Travis St.
San Antonio, TX 78205

los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Behnaz FARAHI: How might we imagine a space that can develop an understanding of its users through their sounds and movements and respond accordingly? “The Living, Breathing Wall” seeks to address this question; one of the main contributions of this work is to explore how a physical environment can change its shape in response to the speech recognition of users.

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new orleans LOUISIANA

Tulane University School of Architecture
critics: Hart MARLOW (SU11) & Michael McCUNE (CASE Inc.).

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Tulane University: We focused on the design and fabrication of a canopy informed by dynamic site constraints. We tracked the shortcuts that students take on their way to classes and conceived of a structure to frame these pathways.

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beijing; london; new delhi

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Orproject: Orproject developed a series of algorithms that digitally generate open and closed venation patterns, which can be used to simulate the growth of topiaries.

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austin TEXAS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Kory BIEG (OTA+): Caret 6 in an installation and exhibition designed and curated by Kory Bieg (OTA+) and his students from the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture Design V Studio he taught in the fall of 2013. The installation supports prototypes and the winning project from TEX-FAB’s 2013 SKIN Competition.

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savannah GEORGIA

Savannah College of Art and Design
critic: Jean JAMINET.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

(L)ABnormal (Digital Fabrication Club) with Jean JAMINET: Mahr-kee(z) creates a center in an asymmetrical space by utilizing the existing rectangular columns. A new faceted surface encases the columns and propagates into flowering canopies.

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syracuse NEW YORK

Syracuse SOA
mentors: Sarosh ANKLESARIA, Larry BOWNE, Larry DAVIS, Anda FRENCH, Roger HUBELI, Mark LINDER, Kyle MILLER, James Michael TATE, & Danielle RAGO.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Jonathan LOUIE: Alluding to the potential of bricolage to produce hybrid forms based on the overlay of formal thoughts. . . .

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc is pleased to present “Apertures,” a site-specific installation designed by Herwig Baumgartner and Scott Uriu, opening April 11 in the SCI-Arc Gallery.

exhibition: BAUMGARTNER + URIU (B+U), “Apertures” including a discussion with the architects and SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen MOSS.
Friday, 04/11–05/18
7.00 p.m. (opening) / SCI-Arc Gallery
SCI-Arc Campus
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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chicago ILLINOIS

The UIC School of Architecture presents an exhibition by Molly Hunker, recipient of the 2013–2014 Douglas A. Garofalo Fellowship.

exhibition: Molly HUNKER, “Myth.”
Tuesday, 04/01–05/10
5.30 p.m. (exhibition opening) / UIC SoA
845 West Harrison Street
Chicago, Illinois 60607

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helsinki FINLAND

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Norell/Rodhe (Daniel NORELL & Einar RODHE): Erratic is a recent installation at ADD that playfully draws on the tension between precise design intent and materials that behave erratically.

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