new haven CONNECTICUT

A generation ago, the post-modern quest for variation was a forceful plea against the dominant cultural technologies of the mechanical age. Today, digital technologies can deliver variations of all sorts and almost at no cost. Yet unlimited design variability inevitably challenges deeply ingrained assumptions of authorship. Contemporary digital culture and technologies favor and nurture a new notion of design indeterminacy, where objects are increasingly seen as systems able to self-organize and find the best solutions by themselves, when digitally empowered to do so.

Digital Design Theory Symposium: Digital Post-Modernities
Friday, 11/02
11.00 am - 4.30 pm / Smith Conference Room
Paul Rudolph Hall
180 York Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06511

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college station TEXAS

Roland Snooks, design director and founding partner of Kokkugia, a progressive architecture and urban design practice with offices in New York and London, will present “Volatile Formation,” the final lecture in Texas A&M Department of Architecture’s Spring 2012 Lecture Series.

roland SNOOKS
Monday, 04/23
5.30 pm / Preston Geren Auitorium
Building B, Langford Architecture Center
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas 77843

philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

david EATON, geoffrey KLEIN & michael WETMORE: The objective in designing Living Bridge was to describe a new type of nonlinear architecture through the design of an inhabitable bridge in Tokyo. The chosen site integrates with the residential neighborhoods of Ginza and Tsukishima. Through the harnessing and intensification of the discrete flows of the two neighborhoods, and through algorithmic generation of turbulent spatial and programmatic structures, a reinvention of the inhabitable bridge type is achieved.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

roland SNOOKS
April 21 7.00pm / Perloff Hall
UCLA
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095

kiev UKRAINE

KOKKUGIA This project reconsiders the monument as object, instead positing the formation of an immersive space of remembrance, a space that emerges from the landscape and is carved from within a somber stone monolith – an inverted monument. The project explores the emergence of a space, rich with intricate detail, reflecting the culmination of individual differences within a multitude

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yeosu KOREA

COLLABORATION AND CONTEXT
This project is the result of a collaboration between EMERGENT and KOKKUGIA, intended to capitalize on both shared sensibilities as well as individual expertise. It is an exploration of messy computation in the sense that the project is the result of moving in and out of the realms of designing and scripting. It represents a loose, open-ended way of working that biases effects over self-justifying processes.

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athens GREECE

Ahylo lab in collaboration with supermanoeuvre and kokkugia are pleased to announce the launch of the apomechanes 2010 studio (seminar and workshop) to be held in Athens this summer, from the 19th of July till the 6th of August.

Apomechanes is an intensive 3-week computational design studio held each summer in Athens, Greece. The studio is devoted to furthering techniques and concepts of algorithmic processes as means for design and fabrication.
Apomechanes brings together individuals from diverse backgrounds and fields of study to discuss, exchange and collaborate on projects that investigate modes of algorithmic and machinic processes in architectural design.

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athens GREECE

Apomechanes 2009 was held in the ex machina theater (από μηχανής θέατρο), located in the center of Athens. This 3 week computational architecture studio explored algorithmic design and fabrication techniques, culminating in the construction of a series of installations at Bios, a contemporary art space in Athens. These projects explored non-linear design methodologies through the development of recursive and self-organising algorithms.

Apomechanes is held annually over summer in Greece and is directed by Ezio Blasetti, Dave Pigram and Roland Snooks.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Complex Morphologies/University of Southern California - Professor roland SNOOKS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

megan MAGRAW/Dave SAUNDERS/nh RATHER : An examination of algorithmic morphology based on the transformation of agent based growth. as the agents evolve, cohesion factors cause bundling, forming structural characteristics as agents bind together. the result is a series of fibrous strands developing a dialogue between structural and inhabitable space.

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new york NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH will be posting interviews in a new section - in the ring

the first five interviews will also be featured in the upcoming publication of TARP, coding parameters. TARP is the architecture manual published by PRATT.

image: swarm matter by kokkugia

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