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USC School of Architecture
critic: Doris SUNG.
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Zack MATTHEWS: This undergraduate thesis focuses on the contemporary condition of “digital addiction” and how the broad embrace of digital space has come at the expense of culturally significant, physical social exchanges.
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ACADIA (Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture) is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the ACADIA 2014 Design Agency Conference to be held at the USC School of Architecture in Los Angeles the week of October 23-25, 2014. Co-chaired by Dr. David Jason Gerber, Alvin Huang, AIA and Jose Sanchez, this highly anticipated event will bring an international audience of innovative design educators, researchers, and practitioners together for a week of design focused workshops, lectures, panels, presentations, and exhibitions that will push the boundaries of contemporary design technology and define new paradigms for design thinking.
acadia, alvin HUANG, casey REAS, David GERBER, event, Greg OTTO, Jose Sanchez, marc FORNES, NOTHINGeverHAPPENS, symposium, USC, usc school of architecture, Will WRIGHT, workshop, zaha hadid
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USC School of Architecture
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Rob LEY: This project began with an interest in challenging the typical notion of the parking structure as an uninteresting infrastructural typology by transforming the new Eskenazi Hospital parking structure into an interactive, synthetic terrain. . . .
facade, interactive environment, Rob LEY, USC, usc school of architecture
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AAC: Tongji University/USC
critic: Roland SNOOKS.
This workshop, taught at Tongji University in Shanghai as part of USC’s American Academy in China (AAC) program, explored techniques for reifying algorithmic Fibrous Assemblages into physical material.
AAC, algorithmic design, American Academy in China, digital fabrication, fibrous assemblages, kokkugia, prototype, roland SNOOKS, USC, usc school of architecture
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Alvin Huang is the Founder and Design Principal of Synthesis Design + Architecture.
lecture: Alvin HUANG, “Coincidence | Incidence | Interference: Exploratory Practice and Moiré.”
Wednesday, 01/22
6.00 p.m. / Gin D. Wong Conference Center
USC School of Architecture
alvin HUANG, lecture, NOTHINGeverHAPPENS, Synthesis Design + Architecture, USC, usc school of architecture
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University of Southern California
critic: Alvin HUANG
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Jae Jun LEE: Cities are more and more populated these days. . . .
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Thom Mayne, FAIA founded Morphosis as an interdisciplinary and collective practice involved in experimental design and research in 1972.
conversation: Thom MAYNE, Joe DAY, Hitoshi ABE, & Qingyun MA.
Wednesday, 11/20
6.00 p.m. / Gin D. Wong, FAIA Conference Center, Harris Hall
USC School of Architecture
Los Angeles, California
90089-0291
Hitoshi ABE, joe DAY, Qingyun MA, thom MAYNE, USC, usc school of architecture
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Alex McDowell is one of the most innovative and influential production designers working in narrative media. With the impact of his ideas extending far beyond his background in cinema, he advocates an immersive design process that acknowledges the key role of world building in storytelling.
lecture: Alex McDOWELL, “World Building.”
Thursday, 11/14
4.00 p.m. / Gin D. Wong, FAIA Conference Center, Harris Hall
USC School of Architecture
Los Angeles, California
90089-0291
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University of Southern California
critic: Roland WAHLROOS-RITTER
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Katie AMRINE, Meaghan CAMP, Morgan FENG, Shelley FU, Saeed GHODS, Peter JEUNG, Jonathan LEE, Andrea MENDOZA, David NICHOLSON, Krithika PRABHAKARAN, Zenah SAKAAMINI, Eugene SU, Vicky WONG, & Graham WOOD: The Glass Pavilion is an investigation of the aesthetic and structural qualities of glass. The use of polycarbonate, a transparent material with many of the same structural properties as glass, allowed us to create a self-supporting structure on a smaller budget.
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Professor Mark Burry is the founding Director of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University’s Design Research Institute (DRI). Established in 2008, DRI positions design research’s role as an explorer and tester of design options focusing on the challenges of urbanization and growing cities of the future. With this urban focus, DRI’s supports three flagships: Future Fabric of Cities, Mediated City, and Urban Technology Nexus.
Mark BURRY
Wednesday, 04/10
6.00 pm /
Gin D. Wong, FAIA Conference Center, Harris Hall
University Southern California
Mark BURRY, NOTHINGeverHAPPENS, RMIT, Spatial Information Architecture Lab, USC
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