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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project:

yW: Firstly, for me what is the dream of architecture? And, how could this dream happen?

IN SHORT, my dream is ‘against’. Architecture against capital rules. Architecture IS against constraints. Architecture IS against the people who have the real power but are doing things which they know are not good, but still do it because it can bring them more profit. This attitude of ‘against’ is my dream and the idea of a city with no dead end is just one tangible instance of this attitude in a very specific social context. and then How can you be ‘against’ the knife if you are just the fish on a chopping board ? You must be ‘against’ it wisely, and that means sometimes you should be a little slippery. and well prepared.

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06.04.10 - 07.18.10 | SCI-Arc Gallery
davidclovers: Immuring

Exhibition discussion:
Architects David Erdman & Clover Lee, and SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss discuss Immuring

Friday, June 4, 7pm
Opening reception follows

The exhibition remains on view in the SCI-Arc Gallery through July 18.
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suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

nick KINNEY: A botanical garden on the verge of collapse, “The Garden” is the result of two different functional agendas. The contest between architecture and plant life plays out as a drama in this project, wherein the architecture is designed to sift the atmosphere for seed, pollen and the like while the plant matter cares only for resource and propagation. As the two functions become intertwined, collapse is imminent and part of the architectural life cycle.

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the american institute of architects los angeles chapter proudly announces the winners of the first annual arch is_ program.
congratulations to:
dwayne OYLER and jenny WU – oyler wu collaborative, los angeles, ca
tom WISCOMBE – emergent, los angeles, ca

the award ceremony and lectures are scheduled for monday, april 5 2010, 7 pm at sci-arc (960 east 3rd street, los angeles, ca 90013)

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02.24.10 | w. m. keck lecture hall - 7pm
monica PONCE DE LEON: approximations

wednesday, february 24, 7pm
w.m. keck lecture hall

monica PONCE DE LEON
principal, office dA, boston/new york/ann arbor
dean, taubman college, university of michigan
office dA is best known in los angeles for its leading green design of the arco sustainable gas station at the south east corner of olympic and robertson boulevards.

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suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

dave BANTZ: the strategy employed in this project reconsiders the process of massing, utilizing an indexical process which incorporates an economy of excess to achieve more dynamic and expressive materialities.the process begins through the selection and adjustment of an initial “exacted chunk” of an original conceptual poche study.

2gax studio project for sci-arc m. arch ii program, fall 2009 semester (professor: ramiro diaz-granados). proto-architectural design for a wedding chapel in downtown los angeles, on the corner of 6th and broadway.

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suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

matthew ROSENBERG: the decisions made to construct amusement parks were appropriations from previous architectural fragments stretching all the way back to borromini’s forced perspective at galleria spada or georges-eugène haussmanns paris boulevards of the early 19th century. these extractions have since turned into trends that imagineers have accented with their own insight. these objective models have evolved through the subjective formal and aesthetic decisions that park designers continue to recycle; much in the same way trends became definitive eras in architectural history. theme parks would extract, rearrange, and reapply, so as to create a set of ingredients that if one were missing, the amusement park would no longer “amuse”.

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suckerpunch: describe your project.

geoffrey ELANDER: where such architectural movements as modernism and dutch architecture were interested in the compositional effects of materiality, this thesis pursues a deeper interrelation of surface and shifting moments of materiality in response to local moments of geometric change, programmatic relationships, social contexts and environmental demands which are presently lacking within the field of architecture.

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suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

yaohua WANG, scott CHUNG + brian FRAUMENI: the program is a subway terminal and park. this studio, a belated exercise in fleshlogy- “becoming-animal” is not about the mimetic career of biology into and onto architecture, but of the transference of multiple physiologic scales into the systemic intelligence of the involute surface-dwelling, and back again. the ocular nerve of the owl, the locomotion of the giant jellyfish, the pack logistics of the rat(s), the program of the frog, are not just forms, organic symmetries and baroque geometries. they are machines, they are solutions, partial grammars to take shape of us and we of them.

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suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

alex CORNELIUS: the project explores how we understand the habitation of seemingly uninhabitable territory. the project explores conflicting notions of figure-ground and figure-figure as mechanisms of creating simultaneous ambiguity and specificity of the relationship between the building and groundscape - between interior and exterior. in this sense, the groundplane is strategically and hierarchically thickened with proximity to the building to the point of creating inhabitable space. this decomposition of the boundary, or building edge becomes a means of separation from the hostile environment around. while bunkering, reinforcing, or walling-in/out serve as contemporary responses to protecting oneself from or harnessing hostility (politically, religiously, socially, or otherwise).

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