philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

University of Pensylvania, PennDesign
critic: Ali RAHIM

suckerPUNCH: 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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san francisco CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Jennifer GEORGESCU: It seems that while that we can recognize that we are a part of nature, there is evidence of a disconnect taking place. We have no solid definition of what it is that we claim to be a part of, and rationality is privileged over wildness and chaos. We set aside small areas of land for enjoyment, we pay to see caged animals; we want to “dabble” in nature so that we can feel closer to it. Sand, Stones, Dead Leaves & Bone examines our relationship to nature and the anxiety that comes from our lack of contact with it.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

University of Illinois at Chicago
critic: Paul PREISSNER

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Ryan HERNANDEZ: This project explores the idea of awkward architecture produced with a certain precision. The elements appear haphazard and ignored. The design seems to lack a certain amount of skill, though, these decisions are on purpose.

This project, an aggregation of cylinders, combines them in clumsy yet specific way; a way which causes the user to feel a certain level of discomfort. The cylinders are slightly leaned against one another in a careless fashion.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

Tempera is an indoor temporary pavilion for exhibition “A New Sculpturalism: Contemporary Architecture from Southern California” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (June 16–September 16, 2013). The pavilion theme is a fantastic garden where visitors see their own images reflected into a three-dimensional immersive painted canvas. The subject of the graphic depictions of the pavilion reinterprets the topic of “Still Nature”; in particular, the original subject represented here is 3-D scanned acquisitions of natural elements such as flowers and insects.

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new york NEW YORK

POP: Protocols, Obsessions, Positions, investigates what constitutes a position in architecture today and how that might be generated through the architect’s drawing. The exhibition presents 30 original drawings of the Storefront gallery space at 97 Kenmare Street by an international group of architects asked to go “from protocols, to obsessions, to positions.”

“POP: Protocols, Obsessions, Positions” with Stan ALLEN, Alex MAYMIND, Eric MOSS, Caroline O’DONNELL, P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S, Bernard TSCHUMI, Gia WOLF, & more
opening: Tuesday 06/18, 7.00 p.m.
exhibition: 06/18–07/26
Storefront for Art and Architcture
97 Kenmare St.
New York, NY 10012

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ann arbor MICHIGAN

University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning
Raoul Wallenberg Studio, Winter 2013
critic: Alex MAYMIND (2012-13 Walter B. Sanders Fellow)

students: Ciera CLAYBORNE & Alexis STEWART; Phil LOCKWOOD & Ross KUCHIN; Stella DWIFARADEWI & Christopher BAIR; Jake HOLBROOK & Matt JONIEC.

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new york NEW YORK

This long overdue retrospective, the first major museum exhibition of Ken Price’s work in New York, will trace the development of his ceramic sculptures with approximately sixty-five examples from 1959 to 2012. The selection will range from the luminously glazed ovoid forms of Price’s early work to the suggestive, molten-like slumps he has made since the 1990s. In addition to the sculpture, the exhibition will feature eleven late works on paper by the artist. Price’s close friend, the architect Frank O. Gehry, designed the exhibition.

“Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective”
06/18–09/22
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street)
New York, NY 10028

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

“Cultural Ascent” is a design proposal for the Taichung City Cultural Center that merges the programs of a public library, fine arts museum, and city park into an iconic contemporary architectural landmark. The architectural intent of the building is to augment its programmatic contents by creating gradient spatial conditions through sectional movement, while utilizing variable façade patterning and articulation to register varying programmatic conditions.

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign
critics: Tom WISCOMBE & Nate HUME

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Cedric AL KAZZI & JiaRui SU: Following the idea of “Figures in a sack,” Architecture as a model highlights the importance of the component as an object. It shifts from the discourse of fields and surfaces to the notion of objects assembled. The super-component model as part to whole, reacts based on the shape, composition, and scale of the objects.

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new york NEW YORK

MoMA presents its first major exhibition on the work of Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, 1887–1965), encompassing his work as an architect, interior designer, artist, city planner, writer, and photographer. Conceived by guest curator Jean-Louis Cohen, the exhibition reveals the ways in which Le Corbusier observed and imagined landscapes throughout his career, using all the artistic techniques at his disposal, from his early watercolors of Italy, Greece, and Turkey, to his sketches of India, and from the photographs of his formative journeys to the models of his large-scale projects. . . .

exhibition: “Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes,” curated by Jean-Louis COHEN with Barry BERGDOLL
06/15–09/23
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
11 W 53rd St.
New York, NY 10019

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