brooklyn NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH announces the publication of Fresh Punches, catalogue for LOT & suckerPUNCH’s “Fresh Punches” exhibition. In addition to collecting the work featured in the exhibition, Fresh Punches includes essays, interviews, and ruminations from more than 50 educators on the state of architecture education in the US today.

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louisville KENTUCKY

Fresh Punches consists of the most experimental work from architecture students in the United States. Collected from the spring and fall semesters of 2011, the cutting-edge work to be exhibited features research in technology, space, and materials. The show is comprised of 19 projects, selected through online voting that took place at suckerpunchdaily.com in the Spring of 2012. A jury of architects, including Hernan Diaz Alonso, Aaron Betsky, Mark Gage, Greg Lynn, Michael Speaks, and Tom Wiscombe selected three of the projects to have prototypes fabricated.

FRESH PUNCHES
Opening: Friday 09/21
Friday 09/21-11/2
6.00 pm / Land of Tomorrow Gallery
233 W. Broadway
Louisville, Kentucky 40202

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

UCLA
critic: greg LYNN

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

james DIEWALD & matt GOLDSBERRY: Window Shopping Across the Void features three hundred thousand square feet of showrooms for fashion furniture and fine art in downtown Los Angeles. Contemporary media culture’s capacity to distract, captivate and capture large audiences is largely unrivalled by architecture. This is particularly the case in Los Angeles. Our project speculates on the spatial innovation made possible when the potentials of media experience motivate physical organization.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

Thanks to everyone for their support in helping us reach our Kickstarter goal!! We’re excited to dive into developing the prototypes and catalogue. We’ll be posting updates of the prototypes as they are fabricated.

Thanks to:

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

[EXHIBITION FINALIST]
SCI-Arc
critic: hernan diaz ALONSO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project

ivan BERNAL: Familiar Primitives. This thesis uses familiar primitives and operations among them to generate complex spatial systems that retain a high level of formal legibility and clarity. Throughout history primitives have been used as an expression of monumentality, religiousness or even utopian dreams. They carry an intrinsic value and formal expectancy that can be used to capture its users.
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los angeles CALIFORNIA

[JURY SELECTION]
SCI-Arc
critic: andrew ZAGO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

paul MECOMBER: The Whitney Museum, by architect Marcel Breuer, is an iconic cultural artifact of New York City, and serves as the identity of the institution of the museum itself. This identity has been thrown into a state of turmoil as a result of plans to relocate from Madison Avenue to the southern terminal end of the Highline Park. Seeing this as an opportunity, this project seeks to re-imagine the problems associated with iconic identity in museum design by twining Breuer’s Whitney on the new Highline site.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

[JURY SELECTION]
UCLA
critic: georgina HULJICH

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

jessica DOVLETIAN & wenny HSU: Manifold Masses: Kaohsiung Port Terminal, Taiwan. This project investigates formal internal orders of architecture, specifically saddle polyhedral and their potential for generating intensive massing and figural interstices. We were interested in a rigorous and playful examination of these systems and their capacity to generate new forms and spatial expressions that are themselves embedded within a deep underlying order.

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lexington KENTUCKY

Lend your support to suckerPUNCH’s upcoming exhibition at Land of Tomorrow Gallery! A unique way for the public to engage with contemporary student work, the exhibition’s content investigates: transmogrifications, strange sensations, primal textures, unfamiliar geometries, self-propagating architectural species, augmented atmospherics, vicissitudinous juxtapositions, reinvented building typologies, sensual pleated skins, and much more. All support will help expand the scope of the three prototypes to be fabricated, increase the exhibition’s scale, and allow fabrication time with PR&vD for exhibition finalists.

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louisville KENTUCKY

We’re happy to announce the finalists of the Exhibition Competition! The three finalists which each have a portion of their project prototypes by PR&vD. There are also 6 projects that received votes from the jury so they will be in the exhibition as the “jury selection.” We’d like to thank PR&vD and LoT for partnering up in this exciting project and to thank our fantastic jury — Greg Lynn, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Michael Speaks, Aaron Betsky, Tom Wiscombe, and Mark Gage. The projects are posted here with some of the jury comments.

finalists ///
ivan BERNAL; ji-young YOON; and donovan BALLANTYNE
jury selection ///
paul MECOMBER; christopher SAVANELLI & ivan OSTAPENKO; carla LORES + michael YARINSKY; jon BAILEY; jessica DOVLETIAN & wenny HSU; and mengyi FAN & joseph JUSTUS

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louisville KENTUCKY

We’re happy to announce the finalists of the Exhibition Competition! The three finalists which each have a portion of their project prototypes by PR&vD. There are also 6 projects that received votes from the jury so they will be in the exhibition as the “jury selection.” We’d like to thank PR&vD and LoT for partnering up in this exciting project and to thank our fantastic jury — Greg Lynn, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Michael Speaks, Aaron Betsky, Tom Wiscombe, and Mark Gage. The projects are posted here with some of the jury comments.

finalists ///
ivan BERNAL; ji-young YOON; and donovan BALLANTYNE
jury selection ///
paul MECOMBER; christopher SAVANELLI & ivan OSTAPENKO; carla LORES + michael YARINSKY; jon BAILEY; jessica DOVLETIAN & wenny HSU; and mengyi FAN & joseph JUSTUS

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