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Architecture stands at an inflection point. The confluence of advances in both computation and fabrication techologies offers architects the possibility of designing and constructing hitherto unimaginable forms.

lecture: Michael HANSMEYER, “Digital Grotesque.”
Thursday, 11/07
7.00 p.m. / University of Applied Arts Vienna, Lichthof 2
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
1010 Vienna, Austria

* photo: Michael HANSMEYER, “Digital Grotesque.”

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David Ruy is an architect and theorist. David received his MArch degree from Columbia University and his BA degree from St. John’s College where he studied philosophy and mathematics.

lecture: David RUY, “With Regard to the Real.”
Friday, 10/18
7.00 p.m. / Urban Strategies Studio
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 3
1030 Vienna, Austria

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EXCESSIVE focuses on strategies of architectural design. Many of the ambitions revolve around the topic of excess as a redefinition of beautiful lust and—misfit aesthetics of exuberance and sophisticated conditions of arousal. If design is typically derived from an expertise related to form and proportion, a theory of mutation is possibly an advanced critical stance toward formal traditions. A theory of excessive form is not a rejection of the formal traditions but an extension of them. Further, navigation through the topologies of excessive form can be understood as an intensification of more traditional formal strategies.

EXCESSIVE diplomas & semester finals w/ jurors Hernan Diaz ALONSO, Tom KOVAC, Kivi SOTAMAA, & Reiner ZETTL
Wednesday, 01/16
2.00 pm / 
Urban Strategies Studio
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 3
1030 Vienna

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University of Applied Arts Vienna,
Urban Strategies postgraduate program, Excessive III
critics: Hernan DIAZ ALONSO, Jose Carlos LOPEZ CERVANTES (asistant professor), Tyler BORNSTEIN (teaching assistant). With special thanks to the studio’s previous assistant professor, Steven MA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Tan AKINCI: The existing Vienna Westbahnhof train station lays in the end point of the Mariahilferstreet which is the shopping axis of Vienna. The “gürtel” which is a green band cuts the street and creates a undefined corridor.The neighbor on two sides; the Bahnhof City contains a lot of closed space with shopping, offices and a hotel.

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Urban Strategies, University of Applied Arts Vienna
critic: andrea BÖRNER

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

andrei OLARU, anna GULINSKA, elena ROMAGNOLI, & pablo ROMAN: Imagine the Cloud as a place on an Archive. Located along the coastline, 450 m structure of the Archive confronts as with an experience of encountering something that we already know. A new point of departure re-organizes and de-composes spatial memory of the Cloud. It brings us to the point where we can study it.

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