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The digital hype is over. New media and digital tools are integrated into our work and lives. . . .
lecture: Lars MÜLLER, “2014: Avant-Garde is Analog.”
Friday, 01/31
7.00 p.m. / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc Campus
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013
avant-garde, book, event, Lars Müller Publishers, lecture, NOTHINGeverHAPPENS, SCI-arc, technologies of mediation
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FIGURE GROUND GAME
Like the Greek Demigod Antaeus, Architecture derives its most mysterious and ancient powers from its contact with the earth. . . .
exhibition: Jeffrey KIPNIS & Stephen TURK, “Figure Ground Game: An Architecturalists Show.”
Friday, 01/17-03/02
7.00 p.m. / SCI-Arc Gallery
SCI-Arc Campus
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013
eric owen moss, event, exhibition, figure, ground, jeffrey KIPNIS, NOTHINGeverHAPPENS, opening, SCI-arc, Stephen TURK
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SCI-Arc
critic: Hernan DIAZ ALONSO
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Yong Ha KIM: Biological growth operates as a catalyst in order to create an animate geometry. This catalyst gives a repeated stimulus to the fundamental processes in architecture—that is, the process from particle to line; from line to surface; from surface to line; from line to particle; from particle to surface—which happen sequentially over time as the biological growth in nature.
animation, biological growth, biology, geometry, hernan diaz ALONSO, SCI-arc, Yong Ha KIM
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SCI-Arc
advisor: Eric Owen MOSS.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Ryan Tyler MARTINEZ: This thesis recored 1,606 items | http://daytum.com/ryantylermartinez
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An Architect has an ego. An architect is not easily influenced. An Architect has no affiliation to anyone but themselves. (We all agree) Maybe we’re all wrong.
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Siegfried Kracauer, a cultural theorist and film critic active during the Weimar Republic and then in the United States, was trained as an architect. His theory of the mass ornament is the point of departure in Joan Ockman’s reflection on the architectural spectacle.
lecture: Joan OCKMAN, “Between Ornament and Monument: Siegfried Kracauer and the Substance of the Surface.”
Wednesday, 11/20
7.00 p.m. / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc Campus
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013
Joan OCKMAN, NOTHINGeverHAPPENS, ornament, SCI-arc
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SCI-Arc Future Initiatives (SCIFI)
critics: Peter TRUMMER, Hernan DIAZ ALONSO, Ferda KOLATAN, & David RUY.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Sarah MÅNSSON & Federico PESSANI: The project took its starting point from the deformation and aggregation of the Cerdá block.
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SCI-Arc
critic: Elena MANFERDINI
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Viola AGO: This is a focused obsession of color and facial expression in architecturalizing the theatrical behavior of blushing. The ambition is to have the blush belong to the materiality of the architecture as it brings faciality into the behavior of the skin.
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Michael Maltzan, FAIA, is the founder and design principal of Michael Maltzan Architecture, Inc. in Los Angeles.
lecture: Michael MALTZAN, “Elastic.”
Wednesday, 11/13
7.00 p.m. / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc Campus
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013
lecture, michael MALTZAN, Michael Maltzan Architecture, NOTHINGeverHAPPENS, SCI-arc
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Born in La Jolla, Calif., Tom Wiscombe is an architect living in Los Angeles. He is founder and principal of Tom Wiscombe Design.
lecture: Tom WISCOMBE, “The Status of Subdivisions.”
Wednesday, 10/30
7.00 p.m. / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc Campus
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013
event, lecture, NOTHINGeverHAPPENS, SCI-arc, subdivisions, tom WISCOMBE
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“It may seem anachronistic to bring up the word craft today, especially within the context of contemporary technology and its related modes of production, but there are striking parallels between this medieval concept and digitally driven architectural practice. . . .”
[EXCERPTED FROM FRESH PUNCHES ]
*image: Ramiro DIAZ-GRANADOS / Amorphis, “Go Figure.”
academia, authorship, autographic vs. allographic, digital craft, handcraft, pedagogy, ramiro DIAZ-GRANADOS, SCI-arc
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