los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

dave BANTZ + cat PHAM: Designed as a direct counter proposal to Renzo Piano’s New Whitney Museum “Box” this studio, run by Lise Anne Couture or Asymptote while visiting at SCIARC, encouraged students to explore the varied and diverse work of the America artists who may have their work displayed in the museum itself. Highlighting the struggle to reconcile to big box museum with more intricate, detailed, and formal architectural design approaches, the studio began with simple formal exercises meant to explore possible techniques for the dissolution and opening up of the traditional box museum with aperture, structural expression, and integration of color.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

adam VUKMANOV + julia KOERNER: Morphology of Biodivers[c]ity is a research project that studies form and structure in natural and biological environment of California. It was generated through 6 months residency program and scholarship at MAK Center, Los Angeles. The exhibition, held in the new gallery at Mackey apartments (design and built by Rudolph Schindler in 1939), was design as a multimedia set of results showing the morphologies of diverse natural and organic phenomenons as well as the man-made environment.

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UCLA
critic: greg LYNN

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

harlen MILLER & sontaya BLUANGTOOK: The Vault at Beverly Hills redefines the fine art and jewelry retail experience by merging commercial display and architectural form. The Vault acts as a display window and vertical plinth that emerges from the ground rather than the facade. Merchandise displays are oriented both towards the street as well as to the interior of the department store. The retail window display no long becomes a static plane, but an activated three dimensional construct.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

sara SHAKIB: The Treescraper is a more sustainable version of the skyscraper, evolving the typology from an out-dated form of real estate
speculation towards a form of sustainable civic infrastructure, The Treescraper represents a novel future of these outdated bastions of speculative capital. The human population will increase to 9 billion by the year 2050, which suggests that increased density will be needed to produce food, however, at present 80% of the suitable lands for harvests are being used, therefore the idea of farming vertically seems like an good way to go about this problem. However, these skyscrapers need to dramatically reduce their carbon footprint by exploiting the emergent advances in green technology.

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the city of angels offers tours of some of the finest examples of mid 20th century modern dwellings as well as works by neil denari, morphosis, and coop himmelblau.

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includes works by neil denari, morphosis, and coop himmelblau.

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