philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
PennDesign’s Year-End Show is an annual tradition that incorporates a range of work, showcasing the immense energy and innovation occurring behind the walls of Meyerson, Morgan, and Addams.
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University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critics: Marion WEISS & Michael MANFREDI (guest critic)suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Erin SAVEN & Ryan Rebecca WALL: In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, it has become imperative that architects respond to climate change by rethinking the role of infrastructure and responses to the water’s edge. Working Tidal seeks to provide a systematic yet flexible framework to accommodate high density housing, emerging aquatic field research, and natural habitats through the creation of a habitable constructed wetland.
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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIALondon Research Studio at the AA
University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critic: Homa FARJADIsuckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Erin SAVEN & Ryan Rebecca WALL: Located in the Battersea area of London, this technology campus acts as an instrument of spatial ‘friction’, by treating ground, path and structure as a continuous volume that shifts, expands and contracts according to the concentration of people, light and activity.
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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIAUniversity of Pensylvania, PennDesign
critic: Ali RAHIMsuckerPUNCH: Describe your Project.
Andreas KOSTOPOULOS & Hayley WONG: A nightclub is situated in Hong Kong, in Victoria Harbour, in order to provide a range of experiences for different audiences based on their distance and degree of enclosure. Those viewing the nightclub from the tallest skyscrapers retain a generalized perception that is also altered by the building’s reflected image in the water, which remains unseen to those within the night club.
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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIAUniversity of Pensylvania, PennDesign
critics: Tom WISCOMBE & Nate HUMEsuckerPUNCH: 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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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIATom 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
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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIAEnrique Norten was born in Mexico City, where he graduated from the Universidad Iberoamericana with a degree in architecture in 1978. In 1986, he founded TEN Arquitectos (Taller de Enrique Norten Arquitectos) in Mexico City, initiating a lifelong commitment to Architecture and Design.
Enrique NORTEN
Wednesday, 01/30
6.00–7.30 pm / B3, Meyerson Hall
PennDesign
210 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIAWinka Dubbeldam is the principal of Archi-Tectonics NY, founded in 1994, and Archi-Tectonics NL. Archi-Tectonics’ work ranges from residential to commercial, from real to virtual, and is realized in urban designs, architectures, and installations. Recent projects include Ports1961 flagship retail store in Paris, the concept for Munish Narula’s restaurant Tashan in Philadelphia, a renovation of the musician John Legend’s Manhattan loft, and an orphanage and school in Liberia.
Winka DUBBELDAM
Wednesday, 01/23
6.00–7.30 pm / Lower Gallery, Meyerson Hall
PennDesign
210 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIAA conversation between Mariana Ibañez and Simon Kim of IKstudio, and John Hong and Jinhee Park of SsD Architects. Moderated by Alicia Imperiale. “A Record or a Process? Why are designers not creating their own movies? Part presentation and part discussion, we will look at the experimental, speculative, and strange work of designers who manipulate the moving image as a design process, and not simply as documentation. We are not historians or theorists of cinema, and we are more than raconteurs with a camera: we can design, isolate, project, invert, and find new relationships among objects over time.”[REGISTER]
“Move Matter”
mariana IBAÑEZ & simon KIM in conversation with john HONG & jinhee PARK, moderated by alicia IMPERIALE
Thursday, 10/11
6.30-8.00 pm /Meyerson Hall, UPenn
220 South 34th Street
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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIADirt—edited by Megan Born, MArch/MLA’08, Lily Jencks, MArch/MLA’09, and Assistant Professor of Architecture Helene Furján with Phillip M. Crosby, PhD Fellow—presents a selection of works that share dirty attitudes: essays, interviews, excavations, and projects that view dirt not as filth but as a medium, a metaphor, a material, a process, a design tool, a narrative, a system. Rooted in the landscape architect’s perspective, Dirt views dirt not as repulsive but endlessly giving, fertile, adaptive, and able to accommodate difference while maintaining cohesion. This dirty perspective sheds light on social connections, working processes, imaginative ideas, physical substrates, and urban networks.
