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We’re looking for the best student suckerPUNCHES of 2011 – the projects with the ambition and attitude to take architecture out back and rough it up. It doesn’t matter if your project was down and dirty, polished and refined, or elegantly wasted, just needs to be a barnburner…

Land of Tomorrow Gallery and suckerPUNCH are excited to announce a competition and exhibition featuring the most exciting work from architecture students in the United States. The projects will be narrowed down through online voting to determine which will be featured in the show. Our jury will then select three projects to have portions prototyped at full scale to be displayed in the exhibition. The prototypes will be fabricated by PR&vD. For more information on the exhibition and submitting your projects click HERE
jury to include: Hernan Diaz Alonso, Aaron Betsky, Mark Gage, Greg Lynn, Michael Speaks, Tom Wiscombe

london UNITED KINGDOM

This term Mark Cousins’s Friday evening lectures will deal with the fact that commonplaces nonetheless frequently exercise a powerful attraction—it will attempt to account for this by reference to the Imaginary. The series will take place on the following dates at 5.00 pm: February 3rd, March 2nd, March 9th.

mark COUSINS
“The Poetics of Cliché”
Friday, 01/27
7.00 pm / lecture hall
Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES

los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

rob LEY (of URBANA): Draper is permanent installation for the Visual Arts Department building at Florida State University.

Composed of hundreds of unique stainless steel strips, this project is an experiment in how mass and gravity, along with an experimental force-feedback fabrication technique can create a carefully tuned lattice structure. At 75′ in height, the project passes through 5 separate floors and sub-departments of a visual arts school, offering each level a unique view of the project.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Christy Lange has noted that Beasley’s ‘sculptures and photographs, as mute and minimal as they appear, unexpectedly open onto literary worlds’. Working between sculpture and photography – often printing at a 1:1 scale – allows Beasley to ask sculptural questions of the photographic and to interrogate the sculptural from the position of the photographic object. Conceptual and instinctual attitudes are bound intensely into the centre of her practice. . . .

becky BEASLEY
Feet & Hinges (and Other Literary Models): Artist Talks Series organized by Parveen Adams
Friday, 01/27
6.30 pm /
Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES

new orleans LOUISIANA

Instructor: Sheena A. Garcia
Seminar: ADGM6300 Theories in Digital Media, Tulane University School of Architecture

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
hannah AMBROSE, caroline MEYER, shea TRAHAN, & andrew GRAHAM: This VIP tent for the Spring 2012 Mercedes Benz Fashion Week embodies the idea that high fashion is a complex and seductive organism capable of consuming human interest through the ritual of spectacle.

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vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

joseph HOFMARCHER, rangel KARAIVANOV, jurgen STROHMAYER, siim TUKSAM: Sitting at a high point of the Bosphorus valley, Levent Vertical Mass responds to the urban context of the Istanbul metropolis at large by integrating the high velocity axes of the Golden Horn highways and contextualizing views to the old city. The building’s urban scale ceiling facade is oriented towards the boulevard of Levent, characterized by commercial high-rise buildings, as well as the adjacent valley neighborhood.

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new york NEW YORK

London and Berlin-based architect David Adjaye kicks off the spring 2012 GSAPP lecture series by questioning the meaning of time. When is now, and how does it manifest in his recent work? Projects range from the ephemeral to the institutional (“Genesis,” Design Miami; Moscow School of Management, Skolkovo), and from the contemporary to the historic (Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington DC).

david ADJAYE
lecture: “When is now? ”
Wednesday, 01/25
6.30–8.00 pm / Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Columbia GSAPP

1172 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, New York 10027

los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

kid KITCHAIYA: Primal Parts focused on exploring the possible affects and spatial conditions in architecture by analyzing the heterogeneous composition of biological parts. A set of biological parts were configured then dismembered through the use of butchering techniques. The conditions that yielded from these cuts were harvested based on the necessity of parts. Some cuts yielded spatial conditions and were then applied to the program. The characteristics of these biological parts create an immersive environment—an intensive exchange between architecture and product.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

michel ROJKIND
Wednesday, 01/25
7.00 pm / W. M. Keck Lecture Hall
Southern California Institute of Architecture
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

saint louis MISSOURI

Fall 2011 digital fabrication studio. Students in order by last name: Zephyr Anthony, Andrew Davis, Kyle Fant, Xiaoshuang Hu, Allyson Justmann, Andrew McCready, Kelly Peoples, Xiaofei Ren, Bo Sheng, Jody Smith, Ben Stephenson, Tommy Watkins, Duo Yu.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

SALTWORKS: The installation requirements were the piece had to be designed on a bio-mimetic principal using parametric modelling, and the end result should be kinetic.

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