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SCI-Arc
critic: Hernan DIAZ ALONSO
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Stefano PASSERI: “Inside and Outside are inseparable, but they’re different worlds. Outside, everything is clear: comfortable distance, 45-degree daylight from top left, you know where you stand, you calculate and measure. . . .”
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SCI-Arc
advisor: Elena MANFERDINI
Describe your project:
Marie-Sophie STARLINGER: The exploration of the relationship of inside to outside has been a constant in the discipline. Two main approaches have flourished in the architectural discourse in the past decades: the visual perception of exterior and interior, and the physical relationship of envelope to interior mass.
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“Lebbeus Woods is an Archetype” includes an exhibition in the SCI-Arc Gallery and a public art installation in the Arts District’s Bloom Square, both aiming to demonstrate the fearless nature with which the late visionary architect and draftsman created. It is assembled by an exhibition team including SCI-Arc graduate programs chair Hernan Diaz Alonso, Christoph A. Kumpusch, and design faculty Dwayne Oyler and Alexis Rochas.
exhibition: “Lebbeus Woods is an Archetype,” with Hernan DIAZ ALONSO, Christoph A. KUMPUSCH, Dwayne OYLER, & Alexis ROCHAS.
Friday, 10/11–12/01
7.00 p.m. (opening reception & symposium) / SCI-Arc Gallery
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013
Alexis ROCHAS, Christoph A. KUMPUSCH, drawing, dwayne OYLER, exhibition, hernan diaz ALONSO, Lebbeus WOODS, NOTHINGeverHAPPENS, SCI-arc, symposium
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Guy Nordenson is a structural engineer and professor of structural engineering and architecture at Princeton University. He was the structural engineer for the Museum of Modern Art expansion in New York, the Jubilee Church in Rome, the Simmons Residence Hall at MIT in Massachusetts, the Santa Fe Opera House, and over 100 other projects.
lecture: Guy NORDENSON, “Climate Adaptation”
Monday, 10/07
7.00 p.m. / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc Campus
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013
climate, Guy NORDENSON, lecture, NOTHINGeverHAPPENS, SCI-arc
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Driving cross-country from Los Angeles to Atlanta, Jennifer Bonner and Volkan Alkanoglu start a conversation about taxonomies, renderings, pavilions, and hip-hop somewhere between Flagstaff and Little Rock. . . .
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*image: Bryant SUH, “Kinetic Tower.” Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). Volkan ALKANOGLU, instructor.
Fresh Punches, georgia tech, Georgia Tech College of Architecture, jennifer BONNER, pavilion, rendering, SCI-arc, taxonomy, VOLKAN ALKANOGLU, woodbury university, writing
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SCI-Arc
critic: Heather FLOOD
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Todd SWANSON & Louie BOFILL: The project centers around Chicago’s Union Station, a complex shared between a historic terminal and a mid-high-rise office building overlooking the Chicago River. The abstract addresses the continuing problem of a public space in decline due to its subterranean concourse and dark enclosed spaces, and creates a hub for a future high speed rail intersecting the city.
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SCI-Arc
advisor: Florencia PITA
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Emily CHEN CHOI: Deep Facade is a thesis that privileges the façade as an architectural element and pushes the façade to become the entire architectural experience. Traditionally, a façade operates as a two dimensional element that indexes the building and establishes boundary. It is the threshold that separates the interior from exterior, indicating a change in experience as one approaches and enters a building. By thickening the facade to an extreme, Deep Facade challenges this traditional notion of a thin surface facade, thereby prolonging the cadence of entering a building and blurring the distinction between interior and exterior.
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Antón García-Abril, Ph.D. is an architect and professor at the MIT School of Architecture & Planning. He has been associate professor at ETSAM-UPM, and invited professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design and Cornell University, among other academic institutions. In 2000, García-Abril established ENSAMBLE STUDIO, developing projects that reflect the experimental and structural research of the practice.
lecture: Antón GARCÍA-ABRIL (ENSAMBLE STUDIO), “Current Work.”
Wednesday, 10/02
7.00 p.m. / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc Campus
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013
Antón GARCÍA-ABRIL, ENSAMBLE STUDIO, lecture, NOTHINGeverHAPPENS, SCI-arc
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The research of John Southern and his office, Urban Operations, interrogates the sinister contradictions and utopian possibilities present in a world beset by environmental and social decline. Since 9/11, architecture has been distilled into a Supermodernist menu of recombinant formal and material outcomes, while global commerce has simultaneously produced savage anthropomorphic and sociological mutations, resulting in an ephemeral, yet domineering spatial praxis.
faculty talk: John SOUTHERN with intro by John ENRIGHT, moderated by Todd GANNON
Friday, 09/27
1.00 p.m. / The Steps
SCI-Arc Campus
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013
John ENRIGHT, John SOUTHERN, NOTHINGeverHAPPENS, SCI-arc, todd GANNON, Urban Operations
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Dwayne OYLER on his recent studios at SCI-Arc, the benefits of a hands-on approach, the expanded role of academia today, the role of (professional) practice in architecture education, and much more.
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*image: Jie YANG, concept model. Fourth-year Undergraduate studio, Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). Dwayne OYLER, instructor.
academia, dwayne OYLER, Fresh Punches, interview, jenny WU, oyler wu collaborative, pedagogy, SCI-arc
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