berkeley CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Mahsa VANAKI: This installation was an experimental project to experience the traits of complex, parametrically developed forms, in a physical and tactile model. To feel the physical equivalence of control points and Iso-curves, as they become joints and structural elements in a real model. This project was also an attempt to explore the relationship between the material quality and the digital curvilinear form in the computer model and the dialog between them, which leads to the possibility of the translation.

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kiev UKRAINE

Kyiv National University of Architecture and Construction
critics: Iurii KAYGORODTSEV, Andrew MOGYLNYI, Tanya ZABAVSKA, & Kirill TSUMAN

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Roman SAKH, Konstantin KUCHABSKYI, Liubov TITARENKO, Anastasia FEDAN, & Anastasia TKACHENKO: From October 22nd to 16th 2012, Kyiv National University of Architecture and Construction held a workshop within the framework of the conference “Contemporary Education.” Organized by the team of KG’MG Architects, the main topic of workshop was using Autodesk Maya software for the design of architectural objects.

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barcelona SPAIN & damascus SYRIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

MAGLAB (aref MAKSOUD): Haute Contour . . . Hot Contour . . . When Haute Couture meets parametric design . . . When couture meets contour . . . Where parametric design meets fashion.

Haute Contour is one of MAGLAB’s research works toward new cybernetic, biodigital design.

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brooklyn NEW YORK & beijing CHINA

PERFORMANCE RE-IMAGINED
Exhibited at Beijing Design Week 2012

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

daniel GILLEN (DGD): PERFORMANCE RE-IMAGINED is a series of investigations questioning what constitutes performance of the modern age. Who is the performer, and what is performed? Who is voyeur what is their role in performance? Can a singular volume adapt to alternate performances? These inquiries challenge the architectural paradigm of performance space.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Patrik Schumacher is partner at Zaha Hadid Architects and founding director at the AA Design Research Lab. In 1996, he founded the DRL with Brett Steele at the Architectural Association in London, and continues to serve as one of its co-directors. Schumacher’s contribution to the discourse of contemporary architecture is evident in his published works and interviews which can be viewed at his Web site.

patrik SCHUMACHER, “Parametric Semiology”
intro. by eric owen MOSS
Wednesday, 10/10
7.00 pm / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

brooklyn NEW YORK

NON-LINEAR LAB is a two-day workshop on Growth Systems, Parametric Detailing, and Digital Fabrication. This Lab is the next installment in our coLAB series and is the result of collaborative research undertaken by Skylar Tibbits and Ronnie Parsons + Gil Akos. In a fast-paced and hands-on learning environment, we will cover Fundamental Concepts of Programming and Parametric Design as well as an introduction to Laser Cutting Constraints and Best Practices. Emphasis will be placed on iterative prototyping, allowing for a thorough investigation of a series of Growth, Unit, and Detailing Scripts while working directly with our CNC equipment.

NON-LINEAR LAB: Growth Systems and Digital Fabrication
09/08–09/09
10.00 am–06.00 pm / MODE
1205 Manhattan Avenue #142
Brooklyn, NY 11222

los angeles CALIFORNIA

usc school of architecture is pleased to announce the launch of PARAsite. this blog has been set up as a forum for debate about recent developments within the usc school of architecture in the area of parametric and algorithmic design. parasite also serves as a repository of records of past events, such as the intensive fields conference held on 12 december 2009. full video documentation of this conference is now available.

image credit: casey REAS, process 14 (image 3) 2008