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Los Angeles, CA (September 30, 2008)– The Southern California Institute of Architecture is pleased to present Live Wire, a site-specific installation in the SCI-Arc Gallery by Los Angeles-based architects and SCI-Arc Studio Design Faculty Members, Dwayne Oyler and Jenny Wu, in collaboration with the engineering firm Buro Happold. read more
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Words by Katie Gerfen
Who knew a bagel shop delivered to studio? It’s 9:30 on a Friday morning, and nine sleepy fourth- and fifth-year students at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture are preparing to present their research when a cell phone chirps and one person makes a break for the door. “Is she coming back?” asks visiting professor Philip Beesley, down for a biweekly visit from the University of Waterloo in Ontario. The student returns, bagel in hand, and the conversation resumes as each student presents information on architectural theory, ranging from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s noosphere to Eric Owen Moss’ efforts to, as Beesley puts it, “build [James Joyce's] Finnegans Wake in Culver City.” read more
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The interest between academia and professional practice continues with the creation of CASE, a joint research effort between Rensselaer Polytechnic and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. A group of researchers reside at the SOM Wall Street address and work together with architects and engineers to reshape the profession and industry. Having witnessed its development and surge to push innovation in technology, I do believe we will see interesting work coming out of this collaboration. read more
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CIGNA headquarters x Velux 08′ midterm
The skylight apertures are responsive to the geometries of the sun’s seasonal and daily cycles in a way that produces internal spaces that fluctuate in time. Architecture itself, does not physically move in space, however the bit of it reliant on light for the definition of its form may undergo phenomenological change both physically and performatively as a function of light. by Jerome Hord & Athony Morin read more
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A special double issue featuring:
+ Community Wireless Networks as Situated Advocacy, by Laura Forlano and Dharma Dailey
+ Suspicious Images, Latent Interfaces, by Benjamin Bratton and Natalie Jeremijenko read more
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Shigeru BAN, Architect, Shigeru Ban Architects, Tokyo and Paris “Recent Projects” Thursday, November 6 2008
Pratt Institute Higgins Hall Auditorium 6pm read more
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Ventulett Symposium: Textile Tectonics
Generally structure is associated with simplicity and strength, while today digital tools allow us to understand structure as being integral to material complexity and aesthetic delicacy. Based on Gottfried Semper’s understanding of textile as the key component of architecture this symposium discusses tectonics as the expressivity of matter itself, arriving at a point where the classic opposition of structure and ornament, or abstraction and empathy, begins to dissolve. read more
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This year’s Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts goes to the Japanese Architect Toyo Ito. Andreas Mailath-Pokorny, Vienna’s City Councillor for Culture and Science, presents the award on 16th October, 2008, at 11 a.m, at the Senate Chamber of the City Hall Vienna. read more
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Design by:Natasha Harper, Katie Adee, and James Baldauf.
Some colleagues (Michael Chen and Jason Lee) over @ Pratt Institute are doing some great work in their Degree Project Studio that can be viewed on the site>> Crisis Fronts. It seems to be a solid source of writings and student work that opens up some issues that are close to heart. We will be sure to keep an eye on its development and you can count on it heating up as the semesters unfold. read more
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