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Columbia University GSAPP
critic: francois ROCHE with ezio BLASETTI

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

mengyi FAN & joseph JUSTUS: The scenario describes a structure that grew out from the ocean—facing a progressive rising of water as its colonizers struggle to maintain an equilibrium. It is forever undergoing constant repair as it struggles to stay afloat—supported only by a system of mechanic agents who supply it with the necessary substances and means to create inhabitable grottoes. Without this ongoing system, the structure would easily collapse, returning back to the depths of the ocean from which it has once risen.

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Lisa Snyder (Associate Director of the Experiential Technologies Center, UCLA) specializes in the use of interactive virtual reality environments to study and teach about historic urban environments. For the Israel Antiquities Authority, she created a 3-D interactive digital reconstruction of the Temple Mount complex, and, more recently, she’s developed a computer simulation of the 1893 World’s Colombian Exposition. Based on extensive archaeological and historical research, her highly detailed computer reconstructions allow users to explore built environments that no longer exist.

lisa SNYDER
lecture: “Virtual Reality, VSim, and the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893: Is There Hope for the Technically Challenged?”
Tuesday, 01/31
4.00–5.30 pm / Room 114, Avery Hall
Columbia GSAPP

1172 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, New York 10027

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“The machine aesthetic is everywhere,” observed the New York Times of HL23 when it rose above the High Line in 2011, noting that the 14-story Chelsea building’s eastern panels were partially manufactured on the same presses used to make parts for Mercedes trucks. This event brings Los Angeles architect Neil Denari (NMDA) and New York developer Alf Naman (Alf Naman Real Estate Advisors) together to discuss HL23’s realization, from its aerodynamic design and site relationship to its significance for New York’s high-end real estate market.

neil DENARI & alf NAMAN
lecture: “High Design at HL23″
Monday, 01/30
7.30–9.00 pm / Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Columbia GSAPP

1172 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, New York 10027

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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.

adnan IHSAN: The project used the program of a house as a tool to study the shift towards a paradigm of Species as opposed to the ubiquitous platform of Types. If Types are traditionally viewed as categories of standardization, and symbolic expressions of form, then Species are malleable entities that are in constant metamorphosis; adaptation and mutation are the main characteristics from Species. A Species needs a lineage to be acknowledged as such, indeed a Type also needs a lineage to become such. But a Species has more freedom, because it can mutate. A Type can change, but it cannot mutate, it can be combined, or renewed, but it will always be a type.

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suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

fast PACE, slow SPACE:  The purpose of this pavilion is to provide multiple spaces for relaxation, contemplation, and social interaction. The two spaces within the project are broken apart, providing one space for two people to relax in a more private setting, and one space for four people to have a conversation or drink. The angling of the wooden slats was designed to maximize this separation for the private zone, and minimize it for the public zone; thus creating a gradient of visual permeability.

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Permanent Change: Plastics In Architecture And Engineering
Wednesday 30 March – 1 April
Columbia GSAPP
Avery Hall
1172 Amsterdam Ave
New York, NY

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suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

luca FARINELLI: The setting is a post apocalyptic Los Angeles, where the zombie wars have made the environment desolate and dangerous. A family of 5 is trying to survive, living in an insect like structure. Solitary in this tabula rasa, its origins are unknown, its nature unclear, yet it is pleasing to the eye.

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Team Members:
john HOOPER
morgan REYNOLDS
christo LOGAN
david KWON

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

john HOOPER: The project is a continuation of a digital fabrication course at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation taught by Josh Draper and Joe Vidich.
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In Dialogue: Eisenman + Wigley VII
08.11.10
12:00PM – 2:00PM

Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall

An On-Going Conversation between Peter Eisenman and Mark WigleySponsored by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture