troy NEW YORK
“We are a generation of architects interested not in geometry, but in pattern. We create languages but have none we can call our own. Our explorations in computation have flattened history. . . .”
[EXCERPTED FROM FRESH PUNCHES ]
*image courtesy the author.
brooklyn NEW YORK
Pratt Institute
critic: Erich SHOENENBERGER
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project:
Circuit Architecture (Fajer AlQATTAN, John TORPY, & Victor NUNEZ): This project expands the function of standard car showroom and creates a facility that not only provides space for the display and sales of automobiles, but also serves as an educational tool to create awareness of Hydrogen Fuel Cell (HFC) cars.
brooklyn NEW YORK
Pratt Institute
critic: Kutan AYATA
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Isaac MICHAN: The objective of architecture is works of art that are lived in. The city is the largest, and at present the worst of such works of art. . . . The kinds of repetition and control that are now offered to the building industry can be edged towards a kind of dreamy neutrality. — Alison and Peter Smithson
A lot has been said since the demolition of the Pruitt Igoe housing project about the death of modern architecture and its negative contributions to society.
brooklyn NEW YORK
Pratt Institute
critic: David RUY
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Erdem TUZUN: The Giant Machine is a speculative research examines the relationship between technology and nature. More specifically, it is about aesthetics and concepts underlying what can be appropriate relationships between technology and nature.
Inevitably, when the machine has to be placed in the garden, problems arise.
new york NEW YORK
The Crisis as Calling Talk Series, in connection with the Crisis as Calling Design Competition, welcomes Michael Chen. Michael will present his student’s work from the Crisis Fronts Thesis Studio at Pratt School of Architecture and discuss how the design community can react to crisis.
Michael CHEN, “Seven Crisis Fables.”
Design Circuit/Crisis as Calling Discussion Series
Thursday, 06/13
7.00 p.m. / Van Alen Books
30 W 22nd St.
New York, NY 10010
brooklyn NEW YORK
Pratt Institute
critic: Karl CHU with Michelle FOWLER
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Thomas LEE & Gillian SHAFFER: Kantian mysticism? Duality in mind dependence of the human subjectivity inside the absurdity of existence, or the monist, metaphysical fabric supported by the scientific method in search of Truth? Determinism or the stochastic system of choice?
new york NEW YORK
In this three-week intensive interdisciplinary research project students will work with experts in the fashion, art, architecture and computing to design and fabricate second skins for the human body. Students will develop computational systems alongside material systems that can be deployed as wearable objects.
“New Skins: An Interdisciplinary Research Project” with Francis BITONTI
07/22–08/08 / Digital Arts and Humanities Research Center (DAHRC)
Pratt Institute
61 St. James Place
Brooklyn, New York 10038
bronx NEW YORK
Pratt Institute
critics: Michael CHEN & Jason LEE
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Brad ISNARD & Saoli CHU: ASSISTED DENSITY envisions a future form of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) whose priority is not the construction of hard housing systems. NYCHA becomes a latent structure which connects the various circulatory systems of the Bronx and creates new territories that permit the proliferation of social programs to alleviate the historically high population, low flexibility, mono-programmed tower blocks of NYCHA.
brooklyn NEW YORK
Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture will present “COLD war COOL digital,” an exhibition of 20 scaled prototypes of modernist, pre-fabricated, and globally-distributed Cold War era housing systems that were created using contemporary 3D printing technologies.
symposium: “COLD war COOL digital: Variable, Pre-constructed, Consequential,” with Catherine INGRAHAM, Pedro IGNACIO ALONSO, Adrian FORTY, James GARRISON, Hugo PALMAROLA SAGREDO, & Tom WISCOMBE
Thursday, 02/28
6.00 pm / Higgins Hall, auditorium
Pratt Institute
61 St. James Place
Brooklyn, New York 10038
brooklyn NEW YORK
Pratt Institute
critic: Ezio BLASETTI
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Sofia XANTHAKOU, Greg LeMAIRE, & Dimitris MOUSTROUFIS: The project is an overall premise concerning an intervention into the conventional city fabric and the repeal of commonly acknowledged truths about urbanism. Arguably ideas about flow, ownership and occupation are the most closely guarded and regulated within a community and therefore are the most in need of confrontation. By imposing adverse conditions and forms on rigid expectations we hope to create a dialogue about an alternative to accepted norms.
