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Heather ROBERGE speaks on her recent studios and seminars, topology’s role in challenging Platonic solids, the status of precedent and history in architectural education, extradisciplinary case studies as a route to new architectural knowledge, and much more.

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*Image courtesy the author. Physical model, “Reimagining L.A.’s Union Station.” Research Studio, UCLA A.UD. Assistant Professor Heather Roberge, instructor. Students: Kim, Lee, & Nabi.

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critic: Jason PAYNE

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Ryan L. HONG: This house, exteriority and interiority, conceived autonomously from one another, their relationship remains unclear. Their shared proximity to one another should not be mistaken with any assumptions of continuity, indexes and tectonic “responses.”

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Announcing the 2013 Faculty Winner of 2×8 Student Exhibition Design Competition

AIA Los Angeles is announces that UCLA lecturer, Julia Koerner’s project, “Cellular Complexity”, in Collaboration with Marie Boltenstern and Kais Al-Rawi, is the winning entry for the 11 year anniversary of the 2×8 Exhibition Design. The Installation will be completed by February 2014.

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UCLA Architecture and Urban Design’s end of the year all-school exposition engages students, faculty and the international design community in a discourse on the forefront of contemporary design and innovation. With 10,000 square feet of studio and program installations, 200 projects on view and 90 leading critics and practitioners, RUMBLE redefines the provocative opportunities confronting the next generation of architects.

RUMBLE 2013
06/10–06/15 / Perloff Hall, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095

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Boundaries in architecture are defined and redefined everyday given the fluctuating contexts of our global environment. These limits or borders mark the differences between the serious and the farcical, the useful and the worthless, the sustainable and the ephemeral, the new for the good and the new for its own sake; between mass appeal and sub-cultural interests; between the self serving and the altruistic.

symposium: “Failure is an Option: Positions on Research and Experimentation” with Thom MAYNE, Greg LYNN, Jason PAYNE, Kimberli MEYER, Michael SPEAKS, and Ciro NAJILE. Moderated by Neil DENARI.
Monday, 06/10
4.00–6.00 p.m. / Perloff Hall, Room 1102
UCLA A.UD
Los Angeles, CA 90095

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Beatriz Colomina is Professor of Architecture and Founding Director of the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University. She is the author of Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media (MIT Press, 1994), which was awarded the 1995 International Book Award by the American Institute of Architects and has been published in eight languages, Sexuality and Space (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992), which was awarded the 1993 International Book Award by the American Institute of Architects, and Domesticity at War (ACTAR and MIT Press, 2007).

beatriz COLOMINA
Monday, 01/28
6.30 pm / Perloff Hall, Decafé
UCLA Department of Architecture & Urban Design
Los Angeles, California 90095

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UCLA Architecture and Urban Design (A.UD) announce the launch of IDEAS, a new platform for cross-disciplinary research collaborations among students, faculty, industry and other partners that will radically question, challenge and expand the current parameters of architecture practice. As part of this initiative, the department has added a new Los Angeles satellite location and significantly expanded its master’s of architecture program, which will now feature studio courses taught by several of the biggest luminaries in the field — Thom Mayne, Greg Lynn, and Frank Gehry, with Gehry Partners and Gehry Technologies.

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Since founding MMA in 1995, Michael Maltzan has created a practice which engages the increasingly complex reality of urbanization and information driven culture, charting a new trajectory for architecture and the public realm. Building on his background in the arts, his work synthesizes the ambiguity of our contemporary world through an architecture that is a catalyst for new experience and an agent for change.

michael MALTZAN
Monday, 11/19
6.30 pm / Perloff Hall, Decafé
UCLA Department of Architecture & Urban Design
Los Angeles, California 90095

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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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critic: georgina HULJICH

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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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