los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc, ESTm
critic: Tom WISCOMBE
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Jonathan H. SCHNURE: A revisit to the Box in a Box / Sectional object problem: Exhibition and Schaulager Gallery/Broad Museum Redux LA.
Using artist works of Bart Hess as the operational jumping off point, material stretching, liners, aggregated objects, and ultimately figures in a sack were developed as an operative technique.
calgary CANDADA
Tom Wiscombe (Los Angeles, CA) is founder and principal of Tom Wiscombe Design, an internationally recognized design office operating at the forefront of contemporary design. His work stands out in terms of its synthesis of form, pattern, color, and technology into singular, irreducible constructions. ICON Magazine has named Wiscombe one of the “top 20 architects in the world who are making the future and transforming the way we work.”
Tom WISCOMBE
Design Matters
Wednesday, 02/06
6.00 pm / U of C Downtown Campus
906 8 Ave S.W.
Calgary, Alberta CANADA
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new haven CONNECTICUT
Yale School of Architecture
critics: Tom WISCOMBE with Nate HUME
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Jacqueline HO: Broad Museum Redux in L.A. Intricate figures pushing through elastic surfaces create razor-sharp edges and webbing. Tattoos track with, and sometimes diverge from morphology. Firmly sited but distinct from the ground, allowing movement into, under and around tattooed surfaces via a public plaza.
london UNITED KINGDOM
Born in La Jolla, California in 1970, Tom Wiscombe is a licensed architect living in Los Angeles. He is the founder of Tom Wiscombe Design, an international architecture practice. His work is known for its synthesis of form, pattern, colour and technology into singular, irreducible constructions. Wiscombe is a senior faculty member at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. He currently holds the Louis I Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship at Yale University.
Tom WISCOMBE, “Composite Thinking.”
Friday, 01/18
7.00 pm / Lecture Hall
Architecture Association
36 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3ES

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new haven CONNECTICUT
tom WISCOMBE, Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor
lecture: “Composite Thinking”
Thursday, 09/13
6.30 pm / Hastings Hall
Paul Rudolph Hall
Yale School of Architecture
180 York Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06511
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los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
Advisor: tom WISCOMBE
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
joseph RAMIRO & koho LIN: This project explores the productive ambiguities created when graphic painting is applied to distinct formal gestures. The graphic begins to produce illusions of depth and flatness which enhance and camouflage the formal qualities of the building from different vantage points.
los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc (MArch2, Spring 2012)
critic: Tom Wiscombe
evan EMERY & varouzhan TOROSADAMY: The studio’s journey started from investigating some certain aesthetically and architectural qualitative values within a series of 2-D drawings derived from a digital scripting software. After some manual modification in the script, certain qualities were achieved, that were based on the initial drawing, next step was to transit those drawings into a 2½-D surface and from there forth, into a project scale proposal on a corner site located in West Hollywood, California.
los angeles CALIFORNIA
instructor: Tom Wiscombe, SCI-Arc - MArch2 Program
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
johannes BECK & stefano PASSERI: The project’s goal was to combine techniques developed in an initial exploration on digital drawing, with a building-scale proposal sited in West Hollywood (Sunset Blvd, Holloway Drive intersection). The approach to the architecture starts from the main programmatic elements: office space, three auditoria, and a large public garden. We decided to give each of these ‘blocks’ an independent generic volume. The resulting intersecting boxes are connected via a language of ‘joints’ - a direct consequence of our intention to avoid booleaning the middle. A spacious, central, mostly interior void becomes the indirect by-product of this move.
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los angeles CALIFORNIA
SCI-Arc
critic: tom WISCOMBE
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
cheng GONG & kiem HO: In researching scripted panelizing systems, we sought a script that would maximize our control of the parameters & visual/spatial effects without sacrificing variation and complexity. We rejected typical gradient controls of varying opening patches of different panel types could vary & adapt as abrupt as necessary. We favored scripts that allowed us to build in a higher level of variation while also creating vague, unpredictable relationships between a large multitude of panels.
anaheim CALIFORNIA
Emergent: This proposal is based on creating a complex visual oscillation between two and three dimensional realms. Somewhere between the disciplines of sculpture and painting, the piece registers as a mass but also as a graphic. Loopy, spotted patterns flow over manifold surfaces, simultaneously dissolving the mass and re-establishing it. Transparent zones allow people to view deep inside the object, their gaze pulled into involutions in interior surfaces. They can see the inside of the mass-painting.
