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“Despite all the sawdust, digital fabrication continues to linger at the fringe of drawing, as an extension of an ongoing representational project, rather than engaging the weight of the issue. It’s time to be more strategic about our fitness goals. . . .”
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Yale School of Architecture (YSOA)
critics: Zaha HADID & Patrik SCHUMACHER
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Teoman AYAS: The project started with physical model studies investigating material properties for shell and tensile structures. These studies were further analyzed in digital form down to a parameterized structural concept/system, which is the impetus behind the formal and spatial explorations for the final proposal.
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Sven-Olov Wallenstein teaches Philosophy at the University College of Södertörn, and Architectural Theory at Royal Institutute of Technology, both in Stockholm. He is the editor-in-chief of SITE (www.sitemagazine.net), the author of Biopolitics and the Emergence of Modern Architecture (Forum Project Publications), several books and essays on contemporary art, philosophy, and aesthetics, and the translator of works by Kant, Frege, Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida, and Deleuze.
Sven-Olov WALLENSTEIN
, “Architecture and the Possibility of Critical Theory”
Thursday, 04/11
6.30 pm / Hastings Hall
Paul Rudolph Hall
Yale School of Architecture
180 York Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06511
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Zaha Hadid, founder of Zaha Hadid Architects, is internationally known for both her theoretical and academic work. Each of her dynamic and innovative projects builds on over 30 years of revolutionary exploration and research in the interrelated fields of urbanism, architecture, and design. Working with senior office partner Patrik Schumacher, Hadid’s interest lies in the rigorous interface between architecture, landscape, and geology as her practice integrates natural topography and human-made systems, leading to experimentation with cutting-edge technologies.
Zaha HADID
, “Zaha Hadid: Recent and Ongoing Work”
Thursday, 04/04
YSoA Open House
6.30 pm / Hastings Hall
Paul Rudolph Hall
Yale School of Architecture
180 York Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06511
Wang Shu, 2012 Pritzker Prize laureate, founded Amateur Architecture Studio in 1997 with his wife, Lu Wenyu, in Hangzhou, China. Wang & Amateur Architecture Studio are known for built works including: Library of Wenzheng College, Suzhou University, China (2000); Ningbo Contemporary Art Museum, Ningbo, China, (2005); Five Scattered Houses, Ningbo, China (2005); Vertical Courtyard Apartments, Hangzhou, China (2007); and more.
WANG Shu, “Construction in Amateur Architecture”
Paul Rudolph Lecture
Wednesday, 04/03
6.30 pm / Hastings Hall
Paul Rudolph Hall
Yale School of Architecture
180 York Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06511
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Yale School of Architecture
critics: Tom WISCOMBE & Nate HUME
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Brandon HALL: This project engages with the discourse of contemporary composites through vacuum formed simulations, creating a composite surface by squishing and embedding objects, imitating thin film layers which could eventually have performative qualities such as EL lighting or thin film solar panels. This meta-assembly explores the relationship between the highly articulated figure and a faceted surface. The assembly embeds 3-D printed figures that have been clicked into the surface, pocketed to accommodate the figures.
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Yale School of Architecture
critics: Joe DAY with Michelle PAUL
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Amir MIKHAEIL: This is what happens when the image becomes time-image…the screen itself is the cerebral membrane where immediate and direct confrontations take place between the past and the future, the inside and the outside, at a distance impossible to determine, independent of any fixed point. The image no longer has space and movement as its primary characteristics but topology and time. — Gilles Deleuze
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Yale School of Architecture
criticL Mark Foster GAGE
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Ryan CONNOLLY: This project is a new headquarters for the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), a non-profit, non-government space organization that seeks out research projects and facilitates revolutionary discoveries in the sciences, at First Ave. and 40th St. in Manhattan.
Victor van der Chijs joined OMA in 2005 as Managing Partner. Next to the day-to-day responsibility for OMA’s operations, he is responsible for business development and expanding and diversifying OMA’s activities. Before joining OMA, he was Managing Director of Schiphol International BV (international airport management company). He also worked for the financial services group ING for over 10 years. Victor van der Chijs holds a masters degree in Law from the University of Amsterdam, and has followed extensive post-graduate education at the Amsterdam School of International Relations and at INSEAD, France.
Victor van der CHIJS, “Imagination and Relevance: The Business of OMA”
Monday, 02/11
6.30 pm / Hastings Hall
Paul Rudolph Hall
Yale School of Architecture
180 York Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06511
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Yale School of Architecture
critics: Tom WISCOMBE with Nate HUME
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Jacqueline HO: Broad Museum Redux in L.A. Intricate figures pushing through elastic surfaces create razor-sharp edges and webbing. Tattoos track with, and sometimes diverge from morphology. Firmly sited but distinct from the ground, allowing movement into, under and around tattooed surfaces via a public plaza.
