brooklyn NEW YORK

Led by Professor Lydia Kallipoliti, in collaboration with Martha Giannakopoulou and Katerina Kourkoula, a group of engineering, architecture and art students from the Cooper Union will present an off-grid lighting installation at the Innovation Square of the World Science Festival. The installation will be powered by alternative energy generation techniques including solar cells, bioluminescent pods and an interactive performance with backwards motors that will illuminate the streetscape.

Cooper Union with Lydia KALLIPOLITI, Martha GIANNAKOPOULOU, & Katerina KOURKOULA, “GRID OFF; LIGHTS ON”
Saturday, 06/01
7.30-9.30 p.m. / Polytechnic Institute of New York University
6 Metrotech Center
Brooklyn, New York 11201

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new york NEW YORK

The Non-Linear Solution Unit will feature the project “Instant Installation – Product Architecture” during the 2013 NY design week, May 18th-21st at Studio X New York.

Instant Installation is product is a pop-up Architecture developed by 24 international students guided by NSUs director Caterina Tiazzoldi.

Instant Installation at New York Design Week with Non-Linear Solution Unit & Caterina TIAZZOLDI
05/18–05/21
Studio X New York
180 Varick St.
New York, NY 10014

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berlin GERMANY

For many years UNStudio has been investigating the potential of the temporary installation as an experimental testing ground for manifold architectural concerns and it is these investigations that form the basis of the exhibition “Motion Matters.” The exhibition presents ten of UNStudio’s milestone projects, in addition to conveying their perspective on 25 years of architectural production, their current approach to architectural practice and the wider discourse that determines design challenges today.

opening: UNStudio, “Motion Matters” at Aedes Gallery
Friday, 05/17–07/04
6.30 pm / Aedes am Pfefferberg
Christinenstr. 18-19
10119 Berlin, Germany

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paris FRANCE

In April 2013 Architecture Whispers was launched at the Silencio Club in Paris. The theme for the evening was: Digital submission or Architectural Domination. The Speakers were Odile Decq, Didier Faustino, Luca Galofaro, Veronika Valk and Theodore Spyropoulos.

Architecture Whispers is a series of intimate multidisciplinary and cross-cultural conversations between emerging, established and visionary international architects and their colleagues in other disciplines.

“Architecture Whispers” curated by Matteo CAINER
Friday, 05/17 & Friday, 06/21
2.00–6.00 pm / SILENCIO
142 Rue Montmartre
75002 Paris, France

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nicosia CYPRUS

Having been abandoned for 38 years now, the development of the areas lying within the UN-controlled Buffer Zone in Cyprus has been brought to a practical standstill. The aim of the Visiting School will be to hypothetically re-instantiate this development, fast-forwarding into the near future and speculating on the sprawling tendencies of the confiscated territories. The main agenda will be to use digital tools in order to explore non-linear scenarios of its targeted rehabilitation.

AA Visiting School – Cyprus UN Buffer Zone
“Rebuilding No Man’s Land”
08/23–09/03 // University of Nicosia
31 Michail Yiorgalla
2409 Nicosia CYPRUS

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philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

The Immersive Kinematics Group at PennDesign presents a culmination of semester-long research between two overlapping, but never same-set domains: Art and Design. Steven and Billy Dufala have worked with Simon Kim to produce a show called Nervous Matter, discussing machines in architecture and working with the idea of design agency among humans and reactive materials to create a new medium of design—exhibiting traits of interaction and charm. Nervous Matter has been supported by the RAIR program at Revolution Recovery.

“Nervous Matter: Collaborative Explorations of Interactive Shelters and Reclaimed Materials” with the Dufala Brothers & Immersive Kinematics Group
Thursday, 05/09
5.00–8.00 pm / Project Space, Philadelphia Traction Co
4100 Haverford Avenue
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104

vienna AUSTRIA

We traditionally assume that the built environment, whether in the architectural or the urban scale influences our psyche. What if we can reverse that relationship? What if a kinetic architecture could establish a direct connection between the thoughts of its user and itself in order to reconfigure its physical boundaries accordingly? Originally conceived for the Istanbul Design Biennial (2012) “Cerebral Hut” is an interactive installation that explores the relationship between technology, movement and human thought.

Güvenç ÖZEL, “Cerebral Hut.”
Tuesday, 05/07
7.00 pm / IoA Sliver Gallery, Lichthof 1
University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Oskar Kokoschka-Platz
21021 Vienna, AUSTRIA

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new york NEW YORK

Phyllis Lambert, founding director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, will discuss her new book, Building Seagram, in conversation with Anyone Corporation director and editor Cynthia Davidson, exploring the Seagram’s history in the context of New York’s urban development and the forces that continue to shape the city’s streetscape and skyline.

conversation: Phyllis LAMBERT & Cynthia DAVIDSON on Building Seagram
Thursday, 05/02
7.00pm / Van Alen Books
30 W 22nd St.
New York, New York 10010

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new york NEW YORK

An exhibition examining how museums and cultural institutions, fueled through private funding, have adopted a system and tradition of celebrating donors to the extent that every single public space (physical or digital; temporary or permanent) can eventually be named.

“No Shame: Storefront for Sale,” with Fake Industries Architectural Agonism, Jesse Hlebo, Christine Hill, Interboro Partners, item idem, Playlab+Family, Luis Urculo, & SOFTlab.
Tuesday 04/30–Thursday 06/06
opening reception: Tuesday, 04/30
7.00pm / Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare Street
New York, New York 10012

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brooklyn NEW YORK

This weekend (April 27-28), New Habitat will be hosting a hackathon as part of the Ideas City Festival that will present architecture as an “API” to be hacked. The hackathon will mobilize a diverse group of architects, designers, artists, engineers, and technologists by providing the designs for a proposed building in New York City to be hacked away at, into and through to new ideas for domestic living.

“New Habitat: Hack City”
Saturday, 04/27–Sunday, 04/28
9.00 a.m. / NewLab, Brooklyn Navy Yards
Brooklyn, New York 11205

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