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The AAG symposium presents theoretical works and practices linked to new geometrical development applicable to architecture. The event aims to gather the diverse components of the contemporary architectural tendencies which push the building envelope towards free form and respond to the multiple current design challenges with a renewed mathematical rigor.

Centre Pompidou Exhibition Symposium: Advances in Architectural Geometry at Centre Pompidou, Paris
Featuring: Herwig Baumgartner, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Elena Manferdini, Florencia Pita, Peter Testa, and Andrew Atwood.
Friday, 11/30
7.00 pm / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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Jimenez Lai is an Assistant Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago and leader of Bureau Spectacular. Previously, Lai has lived and worked in a desert shelter at Taliesin and resided in a shipping container at Atelier Van Lieshout on the piers of Rotterdam. In the past years, he has built numerous installations and his work was widely exhibited and published around the world. His first manifesto, Citizens of No Place, was published by Princeton Architectural Press with a grant from the Graham Foundation. The second draft of this book has been archived at the New Museum as part of the show “Younger than Jesus.”
www.bureau-spectacular.net

jimenez LAI, “BS”
intro. by herman diaz ALONSO
Wednesday, 11/07
7.00 pm / W.M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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Excessive III
Postgraduate Master Thesis, Die Angewandte
University of Applied Arts Vienna
critics: hernan DIAZ ALONSO, steven MA (assistant professor), jose CARLOS (TA)

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

handan YALKI: This project represents my thesis for the “Excessive” postgraduate program at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, 2012. The aim was to design a new train station for Vienna by reinterpreting the existing Westbahnhof station.

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In spring 2012, the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, issued an international competition to overhaul the campus of the Angewandte, a group of buildings that house the University as well as the Museum for Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria. The competition became the center of a polemic debate marking both the end and beginning of an entirely different architectural landscape in the city of Vienna, the repercussions of which are still unraveling today. This symposium aims to discuss the architectural outcome and the political ramifications of the fragility of an intellectual project.
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“Why Bother,” Jeffrey Kipnis, Wolf Prix, and Patrik Schumacher
Moderated by Hernan Diaz Alonso & intro. by Eric Owen Moss
Thursday, 10/11
7.00 pm / W. M. Keck Lecture Hall
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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University of Applied Arts Vienna, Excessive postgraduate studio
critic: hernan DIAZ ALONSO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

shahira HAMMAD: This project represents my thesis for the “Excessive” postgraduate program at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, 2012. We were asked to envision a new train station for Vienna, one that would either modify or replace the existing Westbahnhof train station. I chose to keep the existing building, but to contaminate it with structures that would express a complexity that now is missing. My intervention was inspired both from Nature and Culture, and beyond its polemical characteristics it does intend to bring back what in science is called: Spontaneous Order.

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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

keyla HERNANDEZ & jason ORBE-SMITH: This project is a single family home located in Los Angeles California. The house and landscape are generated through a study of linework and different formal curve languages.

The ground is first interpreted as a grid and then deformed through a series of disruptions in this linear system in order to create topography and rhythm in a previously flat site.

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[EXHIBITION FINALIST]
SCI-Arc
critic: hernan diaz ALONSO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project

ivan BERNAL: Familiar Primitives. This thesis uses familiar primitives and operations among them to generate complex spatial systems that retain a high level of formal legibility and clarity. Throughout history primitives have been used as an expression of monumentality, religiousness or even utopian dreams. They carry an intrinsic value and formal expectancy that can be used to capture its users.
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CELETON, Excessive Music Hall
Postgraduate Master Thesis, Die Angewandte/University of Applied Arts Vienna

Studio Excessive, Hernan Diaz Alonso

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

alex SMAGA: Music goes under your skin . . . How to translate the sensation of music into architecture? How to explain the pleasure we experience while listening to Mozart, Beethoven or Jimi Hendrix? How architectural mutation processes correspond to music making? How architecture can stimulate the development of new styles in music?

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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

fernando HERRERA: The ambition of the studio was to apply ritualistic/religious procedures on the existing Our Lady of Los Angeles church. This particular project is an unraveling of the typical Catholic church organization alluding to the church’s roots in first century in catacombs. Being that the church was defined by community and not rituals the reformation of large spaces to smaller hubs was the central formal theme.

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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

santosh kumar KETHAM: Historically Vienna is known for its operas and concerts for music lovers. Designing a concert hall in this place is challenging and inspiring.

To me the challenge was to design a concert hall not only as a single architectural building but also as experiencing spaces through urban transition, At same time the design is unique from other music halls, in terms of architectural esthetics, vocabulary and tectonics.

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