philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Kutan AYATA.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Rajika MAHESHWARI & Roza PATTAH: The Natatorium condenses the European coastal culture of cove hopping from town to town; the arched trajectories of this pilgrimage are inverted and brought indoor to a Natatorium, promoting exploration and meandering from pool to pool within the building.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Simon KIM.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Yihan LI: Since the emergence of time as a concept, the circle has been a graphic representation that registers and measures the passing of seconds, minutes, hours, and even decades. . . .

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Brennan BUCK.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Nicholas Emmanuel MARIAKIS: Climate change exists as one of the fundamental challenges facing the future of planet Earth.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Neil DENARI.
assistant instructor: Jonathan SCELSA.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Olga KARABINECH & Emily TYRER: This high-density development in Culver City has three programmatic neighborhood zones: cultural (museum, art school and student housing), live/work (office space, housing, retail) and entertainment (hotel, department store, luxury housing, and a market near the Expo Metro station).

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University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Neil DENARI.
assistant instructor: Jonathan SCELSA.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Nicholas AUGER & Jonathan GORDER: X-Point City quite literally slices through Los Angeles, a city defined both by movement and imagery.

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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: Matias del CAMPO.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Michael ROYER: The idea behind this project was to develop a contemporary reading of curve as it was used in Rococo Architecture. Techniques such as aggregation and emergence were used to try to revisit these architectural problems.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critics: François ROCHE, Stephan HENRICH, & Devin JERNIGAN.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Matthew STONE & Runing WANG: Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens the inevitable end. — Henry Miller

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

Technically, chemistry is the study of matter, but I prefer to see it as the study of change. — Walter White (Bryan Cranston) in Breaking Bad

While ever more sophisticated digital techniques have become the norm in many advanced design-research studios, the application of the digital in urban design is still somewhat untested ground. “Parametric” concepts, of course, have been postulated in large correlative networks, where all things matter to all other things and where behavioral input is both traceable from and dependent on this abstract and invisible scaffold.

*image: Daniela MERCADO. Material studies investigating synthetic landscaping and geo-forming. Pratt Institute GAUD. Ferda KOLATAN, instructor.

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“The desire to have a technologically empowered environment—one where change is both appreciable and responsive as to elicit human reaction—has produced architectural design production that is wide-ranging. And it is not a new desire. Sometimes the impulse results in schemes impossible to fashion with present technologies. However, the state of architectural design education is a less exuberant one, for reasons necessarily defensible and frequently eclipsed. This is the basis on which education has witnessed a break in its many trajectories—of autonomy, geometry, typology, and technology—to the succession of technology above all else. . . .”

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