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Commonly understood today as a set of beliefs or practices in conflict with prevailing dogma, the word “heresy” derives from the Greek “heiresis,” meaning “choice.” In classical antiquity, the term also signified a period during which a young philosopher would examine various schools of thought in order to determine his future way of life.

symposium: “Modern Architecture in L.A.: A Confederacy of Heretics” with Ewan BRANDA, Hernan DIAZ ALONSO, Todd GANNON, Wes JONES, Jeffrey KIPNIS, Thom MAYNE, Eric MOSS, Andrew ZAGO, & more.
Friday, 06/14, 3.00-9.00 p.m,
Saturday, 06/15, 10.00 a.m.-4.00 p.m.
SCI-Arc Campus
960 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California 90013

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SCI-Arc
critic: Marcelyn GOW

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Nicholas BARGER & Brian HARMS: Buoyant Depositions focuses on the implications of technology in the design process by exploring questions of reproducibility, fluctuation and variability, as well as an aesthetic of the undesigned, or perhaps, the undesignable. The project specifically explores how robotic motion control may allow designers to generate and analyze inexact forms through unpredictable material interactions.

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SCI-Arc
critic: Andrew ATWOOD

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Austin SAMSON & Danny KARAS:
Painting: The project revolves around the idea of using the Chiaroscuro effect as a way to create and manipulate three-dimensional space within a two dimensional drawing or image. This is done by using conventional drawing techniques, such as hatching, in new ways to represent shade and shadow. The layering of these hatching techniques may either enhance shadow, produce fake shadow (where shade is literally painted on) or flatten areas of the image in order to produce moments of ambiguity within each drawing.

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SCI-Arc
critic: Ramiro DIAZ-GRANADOS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Spike LIU & Mark A. SANTA INES: As an object on the block, our interest was to develop a unit interlocking strategy that would integrate in section, composing neighborhoods within a hinged bar, collectively coming together as a massing that would remain undefined as a housing project.

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SCI-Arc
critic: Florencia PITA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Kyle ONAGA: The figure in architecture is neglected and feared. This thesis embraces the figure.
The exploration seeks an alternative starting point for architecture that does not originate from abstracted forms.
Using a literal figure as massing, the head is taken as the architectural primitive.

The figure in its nature, has apriori associations. In its reading, the figure creates an engagement.

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Oyler Wu Collaborative: Designed and built by the office of Oyler Wu Collaborative along with students of the Southern California Institute of Architecture, Stormcloud is the third project in a series of installations designed for SCI-ARC. The previous two installations, Netscape and Centerstage were designed for the school’s graduation ceremonies in 2011 and 2012 respectively. With SCI-Arc celebrating its 40th anniversary, the school commissioned the new pavilion for the after-party of its April 2013 gala. Tasked with the challenge of revamping the existing Netscape pavilion, Oyler Wu Collaborative saw the project as an opportunity to take a completely different approach to the problem.

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critic: Erick CÁRCAMO

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Lord CENIZA & Juan C. BAEZ: Our objective was to develop a design proposal for a housing complex in downtown Los Angeles that deviates from the constricting demands of the typology of housing with a goal towards the eccentric. Breaking from the standard but respecting functionality we searched for a middle ground. The challenge was to not let repetition becoming monotonous rather to inspire thought and lead to new discoveries.

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Eugene KOSGORON & Evelina SAUSINA: Fractal Projections is a play on the idea of the cube broken in space to create an interlocking grid system that follows a linear deformation, allowing them to break from the norm grid behavior into a family of fractal surfaces. Audience is meant to circulate the space to discover the projections that is composed from a series of smaller cubes that houses these fractal surfaces. Fractal Projections pays homage to architecture and how SCI-Arc Alumni have transformed the school over the 40 years.

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Satoru SUGIHARA speaks on agent-based design, consumption and development of scripted tools, emergence, and much more.

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Peter ZELLNER discusses SCI-Arc Future Initiatives (SCIFI), Differential Urbanism, computational design, and much more.

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