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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
critic: Fleet HOWER.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Ellen WONG & Peter ZAMBELLETTI: Situated along the Hudson River in Troy, New York, FLUX Amalgamation is a synthesis of a materials-research center and 100 units of mixed housing.

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Rensselaer School of Architecture
Geofutures: Post-professional Program in Architecture and Urbanism
critics: Chris PERRY, Andrew SAUNDERS, & Fleet HOWER.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Tanzil Idmam SHAFIQUE: Lagoonous Assmblage can be described as a vision for Los Angeles that goes against the trend of overlooking topographical and climatic realities of the city and postulates a radical restructuring of the city’s morphological and topological armature.

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
critic: Adam DAYEM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Kevin Freitas CONLIN: The VUG Museum & Residency for the Storm King Arts Center in NY State takes its name from the veins of gemstones that form in rough openings in stone, the rougher cousin of geodes.

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
critic: M. Casey REHM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Ellen WONG: This project explores the formation of space through the varying densities of volumes. . . .

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troy NEW YORK

Rensselaer School of Architecture
Geofutures Post-Professional Program in Architecture and Urbanism
design critics: Chris PERRY & Andrew SAUNDERS with Fleet HOWER

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Huanyu GUO, Bhawya JOSHI, & Sisi QIAN: Sea Garden City mixes urban fabric with a variety of landscape elements, including agricultural belts and salt-water filtration ponds, in the production of a self-contained, self-supporting city on the sea.

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Geofutures
Post-Professional Program in Architecture and Urbanism
Rensselaer School of Architecture
program director: Chris PERRY

Geofutures endeavors to convert crisis into opportunity by harnessing both the pressures of a planet at risk and the promise of emerging environmental technologies to generate a broad spectrum of possible, if not probable, urban and architectural futures for the twenty-first century.

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“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. . . .”

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*image courtesy the author.

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Elena Manferdini graduated from the University of Civil Engineering (Bologna, Italy) and later received her master’s degree in architecture and urban design from the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2004, she founded Atelier Manferdini, a design office in Los Angeles, California. The office is based on a multi-scale work methodology and embraces the philosophy that design can participate in a wide range of multidisciplinary developments that define our culture.

lecture: Elena MANFERDINI, “Unplugged.”
Wednesday, 10/16
6.00 pm / EMPAC Theater
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, New York 12180

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“As digital technology and cultural change speed up the timeline and compress the pedagogical content of a typical academic semester, a rigorous analytical process often remains the foundation of design logic for the experimental synthesis of projects, scenarios, and actual proposals. Just as the casting and recasting of contemporary culture occur at an increasingly rapid pace, so the dismantling and reconstruction of the design process continue to be primary subject matter in undergraduate core design studios.”

* Z. FINE, “Surface Active Matrix,” Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Jeremy CARVALHO, instructor.

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“As do all reductive processes, the diagram entails an act of violence on at least a portion of the population it governs. Through generalization, translation, abstraction, and striation the diagram orders its constituents at times in conflict to their local necessity, whether they are tectonic or otherwise. While this conflict has been productive as a tool for innovation within the discipline of architecture, its tendency to reduce the relationship between the internal and external concerns of architecture to adversarial, or at best hierarchical, is limiting. This limitation becomes even more apparent given the contemporary global context . . .”

*image courtesy the author.

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