new york NEW YORK

Syracuse University School of Architecture and PennDesign host “Speculations on the Real: Graham Harman & the OOO Challenge to Contemporary Architecture”—Friday and Saturday 09/26–09/27 at Syracuse University, Fisher Center in NYC.

symposium: “Speculations on the Real: Graham Harman & the OOO Challenge to Contemporary Architecture” with Graham HARMAN and Winka DUBBELDAM, Ferda KOLATAN, First Office (Andrew ATWOOD & Anna NEIMARK), Mark GAGE, David RUY, & Tom WISCOMBE.
Friday, 09/26 (opening & reception) / 7.00 p.m.
Saturday, 09/27 (symposium) / 10.00 a.m.–4.00 p.m.
Fisher Center / Syracuse University
136 Madison Avenue
New York, NY10016

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Tom WISCOMBE.
assistant instructor: Ryan MACYAUSKI.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Michael KIPFER & Eric WONG: Our project is executed with two chunky and strong figures: a large jack and a slightly manipulated cube.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

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

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
critic: Tom WISCOMBE

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Francisco MARTINEZ: The project take the idea of box/objects in a box and turns it inside out by taking the objects out of the box and push them against the envelope from the outside to create interior spaces.

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University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critics: Tom WISCOMBE & Nate HUME

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Cedric AL KAZZI & JiaRui SU: Following the idea of “Figures in a sack,” Architecture as a model highlights the importance of the component as an object. It shifts from the discourse of fields and surfaces to the notion of objects assembled. The super-component model as part to whole, reacts based on the shape, composition, and scale of the objects.

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University of Pensylvania, PennDesign
critics: Tom WISCOMBE & Nate HUME

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Andreas KOSTOPOULOS & Avra TOMARA: How can we reinvent the “sectional object”? The “box-within-a-box” architecture serves as an alternative to the homogeneous Modern free plan and section. The inner “box” or figure, incongruent with its envelope, creates complex interstitial spaces which deny homogeneity. “Blankness,” the resistance of the mass to external referents such as ornamentation or formal recognition is of high importance. External surface and internal programs are loose and non-linearly correlated, the skin is definitely a loose-fit envelope.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

CONCEPT ///
This project is a sixteen foot high inhabitable pavilion which will be exhibited in The New Sculpturalism show at the MoCA Geffen Contemporary in Los Angeles, opening June 1, 2013. It was chosen in an invited competition held by the Museum last summer, and now the heat is on to realize it.

The project is a study of surface-to-volume transformations, where mass is achieved by pushing into a surface like a fist through a rubber sheet. In this case, chunky objects are pushed into exterior skins, creating volumetric effects on the interior. The perimeter edges of the three components of the piece are razor-thin, creating visual tension between the realms of 2-D/flat and 3-D/massive.

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new haven CONNECTICUT

Yale School of Architecture
critics: Tom WISCOMBE & Nate HUME

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Brandon HALL: This project engages with the discourse of contemporary composites through vacuum formed simulations, creating a composite surface by squishing and embedding objects, imitating thin film layers which could eventually have performative qualities such as EL lighting or thin film solar panels. This meta-assembly explores the relationship between the highly articulated figure and a faceted surface. The assembly embeds 3-D printed figures that have been clicked into the surface, pocketed to accommodate the figures.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Tom WISCOMBE speaks on tattoos, “the problem of subdivisions,” the role of contamination and precedent, and much more.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

Tom Wiscombe is a licensed architect living in the United States. He is founder and principal of Tom Wiscombe Design, an internationally recognized contemporary design office. His work stands out in terms of its synthesis of form, pattern, color, and technology into singular, irreducible constructions. Wiscombe has developed an international reputation through winning competition entries, exhibitions of work at major cultural institutions, and publications worldwide.

Tom WISCOMBE
Monday, 02/25
6.00–7.30 pm / 
B1, Meyerson Hall
PennDesign
210 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104