los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
advisor: Eric Owen MOSS.
Describe your project:
Encheng SHENG: Poché includes materials such as stone and clay. Contemporary architects present this literal poché as a solid area, filling the structure with function in section and focusing on the figure-ground result to distinguish between inside and the outside. . . .
architecture, Encheng SHENG, eric owen moss, poché, SCI-arc, thesis
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los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
advisor: Hernan DIAZ ALONSO.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Rachael McCALL: Aiming for boundless and edgeless mass, Frayed & Polished challenges the legibility of edges, figures & silhouettes by fraying edges and working with different gradients of polish. . . .
affect, architecture, hernan diaz ALONSO, painterly, Rachael McCALL, SCI-arc
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los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
critics: David RUY with Stefano PASSERI.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Jacob HARTZELL & Gregory INGALLS: A glitch within architecture can be achieved (and in our minds most successfully achieved) by copying. Doubling of an object estranges both the copy and its original. We used the process of copying as a strategy to create obscene results.
architecture, david RUY, glitch, Gregory INGALLS, Jacob HARTZELL, SCI-arc, stefano PASSERI
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los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
Gehry Prize, Best Graduate Thesis Award
advisor: Hernan DIAZ ALONSO.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Jeff HALSTEAD: Architecture can be posited as a relationship between interiority and form. Glass House embodies an agitated, non-negotiated relationship of both—done through a collapse of the sequencing between them. . . .
architecture, glass house, hernan diaz ALONSO, interior, Jeff HALSTEAD, SCI-arc
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los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
critic: M. Casey REHM.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Oscar ABRAHAMSSON & Jacob WAAS: The Innovation Center is a speculative proposal for the El Bulli Research Campus in Cala Montjoi, Catalonia that explores complex systems and Baroque geometry as tools in creating an artificial rival to nature.
casey REHM, El Bulli, Jacob WAAS, M. Casey REHM, Oscar ABRAHAMSSON, processing, SCI-arc
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los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
critic: M. Casey REHM.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Polina ALEXEEVA, Junjie GUO, & Charmaine LAM: European landscape is idyllic because it is highly groomed and domesticated, and our project site—Cala Montjoi, Spain, a vacation destination—is no exception.
architecture, casey REHM, Charmaine LAM, geometry, intricacy, Junjie GUO, landscape, M. Casey REHM, Polina ALEXEEVA, SCI-arc
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los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
critic: M. Casey REHM.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Kellan CARTLEDGE & Carol KAN: The El Bulli Research Center does not ask what agricultural or institutional architecture is, nor does it ask what Spanish architecture is. . . .
architecture, Carol KAN, casey REHM, El Bulli, Kellan CARTLEDGE, M. Casey REHM, processing, SCI-arc
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chicago ILLINOIS
Italian-born, Los Angeles-based architect Elena Manferdini has become adept at creating vibrant architectural installations that employ complex patterns, luscious colors, and rich textures to introduce new spatial and visual narratives that challenge the clean lines and abstract forms of architectural modernism.
exhibition: “Elena Manferdini: Building the Picture.”
Saturday, 03/07 – Sunday 09/20 // Gallery 286
Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60603
art institute of CHICAGO, atelier manferdini, elena MANFERDINI, event, exhibition, mies VAN DER ROHE, NOTHINGeverHAPPENS, SCI-arc
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los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
critic: Dwayne OYLER.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
PoYao SHIH: Through an intense reading of urban context, this project starts with a series of lines that trace urban systems, further considering ways of transforming these vectors through manipulations in wrapping, twisting, and entangling.
analytic drawing, architecture, drawing, dwayne OYLER, mixed-use, PoYao SHIH, SCI-arc
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los angeles CALIFORNIA
The SCI-Arc hosted Havana/LA/Havana public symposium explores contemporary architecture in Cuba, envisioning possibilities for the future of Havana’s built environment, and encouraging a renewed cultural and artistic exchange between Cuba and the United States.
symposium: “Havana/L.A./Havana.”
Friday, 03/13
7.00 p.m. / Library
SCI-Arc Campus
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013
