lexington KENTUCKY

Brennan Buck is a principal at FreelandBuck in New York and a Critic at the Yale School of Architecture. From 2004-2008 he was assistant professor at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna teaching in Studio Greg Lynn. He has practiced both landscape architecture and architecture, having worked for Neil M. Denari Architects and Johnston Marklee & Associates in Los Angeles. He is a graduate of Cornell University and the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design.

brennan BUCK
Friday, 02/17
05:00 pm / 209 Pence Hall
University of Kentucky
College of Design
117 Pence Hall
Lexington, KY 40506

lexington KENTUCKY

Aaron Betsky, Director of the Cincinnati Art Museum, will give a series of six public lectures titled, “Where We Are Now,” that will explore current issues in contemporary architecture.

January 11—”Introduction”; February 1—”Postmodernism: A Closer look; from Complexity & Contradiction to Classicism”; February 29—”The Netherlands: Project Based Working”; March 28—”Rise of the Machine: Computer and Communication Technologies”; April 11—”The Global Networks: Building in Sprawl”; April 25—”Hunting And Gathering: Reuse and Collage”

aaron BETSKY
Wednesday, 01/11; 02/01; 02/29; 03/28; 04/11; 04/25
07:00 pm / Pence Hall
University of Kentucky
College of Design
117 Pence Hall
Lexington, KY 40506

lexington KENTUCKY

University of Kentucky CoD
Prof: Nick Puckett

Site Specific Response was a graduate seminar in which students developed methods for creating material animations. Teams examined the relationship of various electronic actuation typologies – servos, motors, solenoids, etc, in relation to physical material properties through a series of small-scale experiments. For the final prototype one of the material tests were scaled up to 1:1. The goal for the final prototype was to create a system where the electronic actuation would act as a physical amplifier of the material properties through its animation.

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louisville KENTUCKY

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

keith STONE / ben MCCLURE / carolyn PARRISH: we have here a riverfront granary in henderson, ky., that has been reused as a recreation-fitness center, with the silos as structure for a canopy and their interiors for program. it includes: indoor and outdoor rock climbing walls and skateboarding facilities; a marina, restaurant and bar, and aviary (a nod to ornithologist john audubon’s storied research and enduring legacy in henderson). the overarching goal was to meld the landmark granary with a new profile that creates interstitial experiences above and below the canopy and along the waterfront. the canopy’s shape is informed by the site, the activities underneath, on top and inside (speed, strength, fitness), and the tempering effects of minimal and saddle surfaces.

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louisville KENTUCKY

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

robert NACK/bret WILCOX/brendan CORCORAN: The goal of this algae research and education facility is to reintroduce Henderson into the global discussion about energy. The site serves as an incubator for the city’s economy. The performative qualities of the chosen geometries attempt to address a historically difficult issue in architecture, the transition between the horizontal and vertical - the plinth and the object.

critics: Marcelo Spina and Drura Parrish

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louisville KENTUCKY

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

jordan HINES, ian MCHONE, kyle TIERNEY: The new HMPL 1 Hotel and Convention Center will provide a mutually beneficial public-private development for the city of Henderson,Ky through an economically viable, culturally and environmentally sensitive reuse of a former industrial complex. This proposal not only provides a new regional attractor in Henderson, but also presents Henderson as a forwardly thinking, optimistic civic example for the region-particularly in terms of the adjustment of old industry to new uses, as this will be an increasingly pertinent issue globally in the years to come.

critics: Marcelo Spina and Drura Parrish
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louisville KENTUCKY

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

warren WEAVER/graham GORDON/ashley RYAN: This project is a 250′ cinema complex built for the city of Henderson, KY. The amalgam of heavy field research, local and regional contextual consideration, and the desire to generate surreal social and visual atmospheres both within the cinema and within the city helped drive our design process. The overall form is defined by strategic program massing wrapped in an indexical skin system. The top of the tower holds one imax theater and two typical theaters and an observation platform, while the ground level is comprised of retail, park and performance space.

critics: Marcelo Spina and Drura Parrish

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

3-10 / 6 pm
marcelo SPINA
sutherland visiting professor of landscape design
senior architect founder and co-principal of
p-a-t-t-e-r-n-s, los angeles
pence 209 university of kentucky college of design

lexington KENTUCKY

X|A + UK @ LOT
03.05.10 - 03.21.10

splash is a collection of multiple, physical and virtual, prototypes materialized from an intensive formal series and structure of techniques. all displayed pieces in the gallery will reside in an existing completed location, a house; the thinking tank for all the pieces to emerge from according to its specific use and function.

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columbus OHIO

michael SPEAKS / university of kentucky
5:30 pm / knowlton 250
february 24th
michael speaks is professor of architecture and dean of the college of design at the university of kentucky. speaks is former director of the graduate program and founding director of the metropolitan research and design postgraduate program at the southern california institute of architecture in los angeles. he was also the founding editor of the cultural journal polygraph and a former editor at architecture new york and a+u (tokyo), and currently serves as a contributing editor for architectural record.