los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
advisor: Elena MANFERDINI.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Ke LI: This is a concert hall on New York City’s East River. A wired-shaped and brightly colored building floating above the river, a container of art and an artwork itself. . . .

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melbourne AUSTRALIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Kokkugia / Roland SNOOKS: The Composite Swarm installation is an architectural prototype exploring the relationship of robotic fabrication, composite materials, and algorithmic design. The complexity of the form and the excess of ornament make the prototype structurally efficient and minimize the amount of material used. . . .

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london UNITED KINGDOM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Isaie BLOCH / Eragatory: This project investigates the formation of classical column orders through asymmetry and subverted ornamental logics, looking at how local unrelated deformations within a homogeneous massing can interact and develop spatial heterogeneity.

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athens GREECE

Kitsh Prothesis: Redefinition of the notion of “kitsch” as a formal strategy and not as an esthetic approach or result.
Ornamentism: Definition of Ornament as integrated part of a formal system and not as an external decorative factor.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc is pleased to present “Florencia Pita/FPmod: UMMA Table & Objects,” opening March 14 in the SCI-Arc Library.

exhibition: Florencia PITA (FPmod), “UMMA Table & Objects,” including a discussion with Joseph ROSA & Eric Owen MOSS.
Friday, 03/14–04/20
7.00 p.m. (opening) / SCI-Arc Library
SCI-Arc Campus
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Siegfried Kracauer, a cultural theorist and film critic active during the Weimar Republic and then in the United States, was trained as an architect. His theory of the mass ornament is the point of departure in Joan Ockman’s reflection on the architectural spectacle.

lecture: Joan OCKMAN, “Between Ornament and Monument: Siegfried Kracauer and the Substance of the Surface.”
Wednesday, 11/20
7.00 p.m. / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc Campus
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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2013

Though inextricably linked with digital tools and culture, Antoine Picon argues that some significant traits in ornament persist from earlier Western architectural traditions. These he defines as the “subjective”—the human interaction that ornament requires in both its production and its reception—and the political. . . . By bringing previous traditions in ornament under scrutiny, Picon makes us question the political issues at stake in today’s ornamental revival. . . .