Pressing Matters 4

University of Pennsylvania School of Design Department of Architecture 207 Meyerson Hall 210 S. 34th Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6311 215.898.5728 www.design.upenn.edu/architecture

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274 Post-Professional Degree (PPD) 703 Introduction by Ali Rahim 292 Travel 298 Advanced 706 Thesis Introduction by Annette Fierro 304 M Arch - Master in Environmental Building Design (MEBD) Introduction by William Braham, PhD

312 MS & MSE - Integrated Product Design (IPD) Introduction by Sarah Rottenberg 316 PhD - Doctoral Degree Program Introduction by David Leatherbarrow, PhD

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Winka Dubbeldam

Professor & Chair, Department of Architecture

This is a great year. We are entering the 125th year of the Architecture Department at PennDesign. Benjamin Franklin founded the University of Pennsylvania in 1740, which was originally called the College of Philadelphia, and was the nation's first University [1791]. The School of Design also has a long and distinguished history; courses in architecture were first taught at Penn in 1868, making it the second program in architecture in the US.

Now in 2015, we are off to a great start for the next school year at PennDesign’s Department of Architecture. The Architecture

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expanded field.” There with my co-chair, Nader Teherani, I ran and moderated the conference sessions. We greatly enjoyed having the ACSA as our guest and look forward to future collaborations.

The Architecture Department goes GLOBAL, our collaboration with the AA under leadership of Professor Homa Farjadi, will reach its twelfth year when our students will again study in London this Fall. Last year we added Seoul to the list. Thanks to our Alumnus, Mr. Young-Kyoon Jeong’s [CEO of Heerim Architects & Planners] generous donation, this year our students will travel again to Seoul to collaborate with students from Seoul National University on an exiting project. Of course the new Summer Programs are also going strong. Our traditional Paris Program (spearheaded by professor Annette Fierro), the Greece program (under leadership of Danielle Willems and Ezio Blasetti), as well as the Colombia Program (run by Eduardo Rega Calvo and Juan Ricardo Rincon from Bogota), have inspired students over the last few years and strengthened PennDesign’s collaborations in Europe and now, Latin America.

The Department of Architecture offers an Undergraduate major, a professionally accredited Master’s degree, two postprofessional Master’s programs [MSS in AAD and the MEBD], and a research-based Master of Science and Doctoral program.

The Department is situated within a multi-disciplinary School of Design and a strong research University. This allows for many kinds of connections and specialized studies, including undergraduate minors, certificate studies at the Master’s level, and dual degrees in a host of disciplines. You

can find more on our website: design.upenn.edu/architecture/graduate/ work We hope to see you soon at PennDesign!

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and sponsoring of the YES pavilion. And of course we are all exited to have Thom Mayne as the new Cret Chair Professor of Practice, he started his position at PennDesign this July 2015.

In our lecture series we looked a bit deeper into the subject of OOO [Object Oriented Ontology] with a lecture by Graham Harman, which subsequently led to a collaboration with Syracuse’s Dean Michael Speaks. That resulted in a day long symposium and great discussion in NYC around the same subject. These conversations are a continuation of many of the subjects we had started to discuss in the “The New Normal, Experiments in Contemporary Generative Design,” a conference we held at Penndesign in 2013. Last spring, Penn’s focus on DesignResearch stayed strong with lectures

by David Benjamin, Antoine Picon, and Florian Idenburg to name a few. Details can be found at: design.upenn.edu/ architecture/graduate/events. Visiting studio critics this past year included great names such as: Neil Denari, Tom Wiscombe (both from LA), Michel Rojkind from Mexico City, Laura Baird and Reinier de Graaf of OMA & AMO from Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Last Fall, the Winka Dubbeldam Architecture Professor & Chair Department of - Founded Archi-Tectonics (1994) PennDesign was - Received Master's degrees from the Academy of Architecture in invited by the Rotterdam (1990) and Columbia GSAPP, NYC (1992) ACSA’s president - Lectured & taught in the masters programs at Columbia GSAPP, elect Ming Fung, Harvard, and Cornell. to host the ACSA’s - External examiner for the AA's annual RIBA review & on the board of Directors for the Institute for Administrator’s Urban Design, NYC; & for BOFFO, NYC. conference “EXPANSE, architecture in an

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Department has grown substantially over the last 2 years, and not only increased its quantity but even more its quality;— DesignIntelligence, on behalf of the Design Futures Council, raised the PennDesign Department of Architecture from the 14th spot to the 7th spot in its national ranking of “America’s Best Architecture & Design Schools”. This rather large jump in ranking happened in just one short year. You can find more here: di.net/articles/americasbest-architecture-schools-2015. Further, we were honored that DesignIntelligence ranked both the Chair of the Architecture Department Winka Dubbeldam, and the Dean of PennDesign, Marilyn Taylor, amongst the 30 most admired educators in 2015.

With that said, I am happy to present to you our latest annual publication: Pressing Matters IV. This wonderful compilation of design and research performed at PennDesign’s Department of Architecture features recent student work, news, important symposia and lectures, and a special article on the “YES Pavilion”. The “YES Pavilion” was an innovative smart structure designed by our first year students under the great guidance of Professors Danielle Willems and Ezio Blasetti. It was executed through a collaboration of 500, 600, and 700 students who enrolled in a design/built seminar taught by Professor Mohamad Alkhayer.

The results were on time, within budget, and impressive. We are also happy to welcome Andrew Saunders who, after an intense search, joined us at the Department as tenure track Associate Professor. He took on the coordination of the first year [501] design studio, taught an elective seminar, and coordinated the construction

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SEPTEMBER 2014

Andrew Saunders joins PennDesign We are very happy that Andrew Saunders joined the faculty at PennDesign, with his appointment as tenure track Associate Professor. Andrew is currently the first year 501 Coordinator and teaches an elective seminar called: "Reinterpreting the Baroque; A Parametric Analysis".

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Dept. of Architecture Chair, Winka Dubbeldam is included in Vladimir Belogolovsky’s new book "Conversations with Architects in the Age of Celebrity" FROM DOM Publishers.

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In 'Designed for the Future', author Jared Green asks eighty of today’s most innovative architects, urban planners, landscape architects, journalists, artists, and environmental leaders the same question: what gives you the hope that a sustainable

future is possible? PennDesign's Marion Weiss was include amongst the group.

The new book from Princeton Architectural Press has been featured in Wired, Smithsonian, Architectural Digest, Dwell, and Yale Environment 360.”

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PennDesign Brings Morphosis' Principal Into Fold

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Dubbeldam Named One of Most Admired Educators of 2015

Young & Ayata Win Honorable Mention

Each year, Design Intelligence honors excellence in education and education administration by naming 30 exemplary professionals in these fields. Educators and administrators from the disciplines of architecture, industrial design, interior design, and landscape architecture are considered for inclusion. As the founder of Archi-Tectonics who focuses on sustainability and technology in Buildings, Winka Dubbeldam brings a fresh, new vision to PennDesign, as well as a great New attitude. She is forward-thinking and leads with “clarity and intent, with the purpose of promoting the profession.”

Kutan Ayata’s firm, Young and Ayata, received an honorable mention for the Dalseong Citizen’s Gymnasium in South Korea.

Thom Mayne announced as Paul Philippe Cret Practice Professor of Architecture.

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October 10 2013

Routledge Publishing signs Trubiano

IPD students win at 2014 Collab Student Design Compeition

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Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss Wins Award Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss won an award from an Applied Arts Association in Novi Sad, Serbia for an industrial design product entitled Z-Blocks installed in Serbia and in New York City for art and performance events.

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Student, Margaret Gerhart Receives 2014 AIA Heritage Ball Scholarship

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Franca Trubiano was awarded a book contract by ROUTLEDGE for Building Theories: Integrating Matter, Energy, Data and Labor for a New Ethics of Architecture.

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Two IPD students won Honorable Mention and two won the People’s Choice Award in the 2014 Collab Student Design Competition.

Honorable Mention: Clementine Gilbert for "The Nightlife Chair" Honorable Mention: Olga Karabinech for "Twister" People's Choice Award: Monica Butlerfor "Droplet" People's Choice Award: Julia Sigal for "Roly-Poly" Collab is a collaboration of design professionals supporting the Modern and Contemporary Design Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. OCTOBER 2013

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Jackie Martinez receives 2014 ASLA Student Honor Award

At this year’s Heritage Ball – the annual joint fundraising gala of the AIA New York Chapter and Center for Architecture Foundation to benefit the Center for Architecture – dual Architecture/Landscape Architecture student and PennDesign Student Council President Margaret Gerhart was the recipient of the AIA New York Chapter and Center for Architecture Foundation’s Design Scholarship.

The gala brings together over 1,000 distinguished leaders from New York's architecture, design, engineering, construction, and real estate communities. Each year, the committee honors a group of individuals whose work has made a significant impact on New York City, and those honorees are then invited to elect an academic program to receive a scholarship in their name.

Dean Marilyn Jordan Taylor, who received the 2014 President’s Award for her lifetime of accomplishments as an architect and educator, nominated Gerhart for the scholarship noting her exceptional leadership qualities and commitment.

"Marilyn creates a whole host of opportunities between each of the design professions which she weaves together within PennDesign. As I complete my degree and enter the fields of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, I hope to be as conscientious to the specificity of these fields, but also as broadminded as she has exemplified, in the cultivation of unique perspectives within the design profession. I look to her leadership at SOM, PennDesign, and beyond, and am so pleased to have witnessed the recognition of her lifetime of leadership in the 2014 President's Award," said Gerhart.

The 2014 ASLA Student Awards were announced and Dual MLA/MArch student Jacqueline Martinez received an Honor Award in the Analysis and Planning Category for her project, “The Plexus Spine of North Philly,” under the guidance of faculty advisors Lucinda Sanders and Michael Miller.

The ASLA Professional and Student awards honor top projects from around the U.S. and the world. Recipients will be honored at the ASLA Annual Meeting and EXPO in Denver on Monday, November, 24. Click here for a full list of this year's winners.

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Book by Jared Green

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Dubbeldam in new Belogolovsky Book

Recently, Archi-Tectonics hired photographers Floto+Warner to photograph their Weiss/Manfredi's New Book 32,500 SF V33 Buildfrom PAPress. ing. The 9-story V33 Building consists Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi (of of 7 “villa’s” with Weiss/Manfredi) have a new book called underground parking, Public Natures, Evolutionary Infrastruc- including two triture. An excerpt from Princeton Archiplexes and a 2-story tectural Press (PAPress): penthouse, located As elements of the built landscape, in TriBeCa NYC. works of infrastructure are a means "We considered rather than an end. Our cities' rail the V33 building not lines, bridges, highways, waterways and as a traditional off-ramps are essential in a practical apartment building sense, but dead in a social one because but rather a set of they create boundaries that prevent one stacked individumetropolis from physically connecting ally designed urban with another. Yet their very physical villas. These villas presence reveals hidden qualities key to are custom-designed revitalizing urban life. In Public Nawith their own autures, New York City--based firm WEISS/ thentic qualities MANFREDI tests such possibilities by and spaces and vary crafting a hybrid manifesto/monograph greatly through the filled with essays, roundtable discusbuilding. Because of sions, and recent projects that explore their extremely gennew opportunities for infrastructure. erous size [between 3500 and 5000 sf], large outdoor spaces [terraces & gardens] and sometimes multiple floors, they create ideal living environSEPTEMBER 2014 04 ments. The fact that interior and exterior spaces flow Marion Weiss In New seamlessly..."

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Brian Phillips/ISA Architects receive Philadelphia AIA Merit Award

IPD and PennDesign launch the iDesign Prize

Brian Phillips/ISA Architects receive BSA Design Award

The goal of supportive housing is to create an environment for changed and changing lives. In this context, buildings become proactive agents in the rehabilitation and empowerment of their residents. This project functions as a generator, creating an integrated ecology of relationships among people, buildings, sites, the environment, and the city. A continuous double-loaded corridor twists in a knot to create a variety of living environments, public/private relationships, and shared outdoor spaces. The building reactivates the urban fabric within and around the central but underused site, helping to position it for positive future transformations.

Social knot as an urban generator.

OCTOBER 2014

Korean Translation of Franca Trubiano's Book Expected

The Korean translation of Franca Trubiano’s book, Design and Construction of High Performance Homes, was selected as one of KPIPA’s (Korea Publication Industry Promotion Agency) excellent books.

KPIPA is a government agency which plans to elevate the international competitiveness with respect to publishing media and industry. They vitalize publication of high-quality written works on humanities, social sciences and sciences by holding various competitions including Sejong Outstanding Scholarly Book Awards.

320 books were chosen from across the world. These award winning books including the Korean version will be purchased by the Government and distributed at a national library and 1,400 other public libraries.

The iDesign Prize is a competition presented by the Integrated Product Design (IPD) program promoting the design of physical objects that solve a real world problem.

The IPD Master's Program and PennDesign are excited to announce the second year of the $50,000 iDesign prize (the University's largest). The prize will give the chance for Penn student teams to successfully launch an innovative product design venture after graduation. We are looking for an innovative physical product that solves a real problem in the world and is supported by a holistic design, engineering and business plan.

2015 was the inaugural year for the iDesign Prize—developed to create the next generation of product design leaders by providing funding for graduate student teams to start their own companies.

Prize winning students were Anastasia D’Orazio, WG’16, Ravit Dung, GEN’15, Meet Vora, MSE’15 and Matt McGuire, WG’16 proposed the winning concept, SafeStamp, a security tag for medication packaging which enables immediate point-of-purchase verification designed to reduce counterfeit medication in developing nations.

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Yongsu Choung wins The New National Gallery and Ludwig Museum Competition

Bittertang, a MoMA PS1 Finalist

PPD student Yongsu Choung has been selected as one of 5 winners for The New National Gallery and Ludwig Museum Competition!

Michael Loverich of The Bittertang Farm is one of five finalists in MoMA PS1's Young Architect Program, considered one of the most prestigious showcases for emerging architects in North America.

Bittertang is a small New Yorkbased design farm run by Loverich and Antonio Torres "who strive to bring happiness and pleasure into the built world by referencing that pleasurable world which surrounds us."

The Roxbury, Massachusetts apartment building designed

by Brian Phillips and his firm ISA Architects has won a BSA Design Award.

Here is a juror's comments regarding the project: 'Concise, elegant, and clever, this energy positive four-townhouse project sits playfully within the fabric of an eclectic urban neighborhood. The architecture introduces rich patterning through cladding components and formal gestures to create wonderful textures and visual rhythms. The design begins with a simple box that is affordable to construct and predictable in its ability to be tightly air-sealed.

The roofs are sloped to maximize solar geometry for photovoltaic panels and a reverse bay window at each unit lets in generous natural light. The facade is excellent, demonstrating real economy of expression...

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Kutan Ayata’s firm, Young and Ayata, received an honorable mention for the Dalseong Citizen’s Gymnasium in South Korea. Excerpt from their website, ' The Dalseong Citizens Gymnasium questions the site through an aesthetic estrangement of the ground.

The site in Dalseong, Korea is a mix of topographically complex natural hills with dense vegetation and a haphazard collection of generic commercial buildings.

The facilities are placed into the hill in a manner that would have minimal presence as a building on the land. Instead it would look like a odd lumpy mound. This burying of the gym into the ground would take advantage of the thermal mass of the earth to balance heating and cooling and also shift the emphasis onto the roof itself, which for any long span sporting facility is a primary architectural concern. The strangeness of this aesthetic decision would only be implied through a intricate circulation route passing over and through the roof structure, but would clearly be explicated from above, from the aerial view. It is here that the landscape is revealed as completely artificial as a series of outdoor courts merge between the sculpted ground and the interweaving ribs of the building's roof.

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This course is the introductory course in the Master of Architecture Design Studio sequence. In contemporary pedagogy, design studio is the primary course in the preparation of the professional architect.

Exercises and projects are designed to train the student so that the methodology gained will sustain the practitioner through the challenges of practice. More importantly, this methodology provides a framework of values and criticality to elevate the output of this practice to its highest expression.

For the first semester of this studio sequence, carefully developed projects will introduce you to the first principles of material and its properties, shaped and formed in particular geometries, to produce space and enclosure that imparts meaning. Furthermore, first semester studio will impart the irreducible basics of architectural design media, its notations of communication, and their spaces of design.

The studio will provide the framework to learn basic ideas and essential methods for the production of spaces as well as important strategies in critical and analytical thinking. We will expect to see production-- the production of spaces, forms, organizations, and ideas.

The production and choreography of architecture will be situated within its intrinsic elements of partition, threshold, stair, and window, as well as in larger cultural, social, or even political issues. It is these macro issues that the studio will introduce—with the understanding that these issues are introduced in order to provide a primer to advanced questions raised again in intermediate and advanced studios of the curriculum.

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There are two projects that successively build upon one another. The first project is a two-part exercise that will take up the first half of the semester. The first part is in constructing aggregations and part-to-whole relationships, examining its constituent parts, and their material properties and behaviors. The second part develops a new object through a series of transformations. The training for an architect begins with the understanding that to draw is to make knowledge, that material has meaning and geometric consequence, that connections determine use. These studies take the previous aggregation and create a full-scale site and building: a field and figure. The architectural discipline determines that the use of an object leads to an understanding of scale and the tempering of interior spaces. The six-week second project will be located in the city. You will design a building within a selected site. This project will utilize the skills and analytics from Project 1 to engage fully with program and form.

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and computational tools -including those of digital modeling and fabrication. These techniques and strategies will be gained through the studio’s progression of three projects and the lectures and readings that accompany each project. Each project requirements will include the appropriate 2D and 3D documents as well as a short writing requirement. The studio will also be integrated with the assignments of the Visual Studies (ARCH 521) course.

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Naum Gabo Torsion Variation

The artwork of Russian constructivist Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner are categorized by there use of the developable and ruled surface. Gabo's Torsion Variation was the starting point of this project. Along with recreating the sculpture digitally, a focus on Identifying the topological signatures of these works of art were key in developing the project. Topology concerns itself with the valid transformation of one manifold surface into another. The topological investigation Torsion Variation, led to the following iterations. First, exploring the two dimensional qualities of the ruled tant with the toplogical signature from the original sculptures, carry themselves out towards a point of architecture, as the project develops.

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“ ...solid vs hollow, heaviness vs light, monolithic vs fragmented, open vs enclosed, wide vs narrow, private vs public, etc...the concept of cracking.” - Ruohan Ding

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CRITIC: Lasha Brown STUDENT: David Brian Harrop 01-04

“The spaces of the project are a system of shells within shells, or rooms within rooms, that create certain moments of layering in the poche.” - David Brian Harrop

CRITIC: Lasha Brown STUDENT: Shicheng Shen 05-10

“ Through rotating, scaling, shifting & deformation, a field of squares was created to form the basic geometries of the pavilion... controlled by its site, including landscape, plant growth, water flow & perspective views...” - Shicheng Shen

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CRITIC: Michael Loverich STUDENT: Yihui Gan 01-06

- Master of Architecture (MArch I) from the University of California Los Angeles; Dept. of Architecture and Urban Design (2007) - Received the Architectural League Prize for Young Designers: Resource (2010)

“...enhances the relationship between sunlight, nutrients, liquid & bathing to create a system of terraced landscape & canopy to choreograph how water flows, nutrients dissipate, sunlight enters & bathers bathe.” - Yihui Gan

- AIA New Practices New York Award (2014)

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CRITIC: Michael Loverich STUDENT: Yunhwan Jung 07-10

“ All the zones of the frozen pavilion have created aggregations of each floor plate, it allows for variations of each space and transitional plates.” - Yunhwan Jung

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- Editor, & Art Director of the Editorial Project and Investigation system “From Spam to Maps” - Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design at Columbia University

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CRITIC: Eduardo Rega STUDENT: Michael O'Neill 01-05

“ ...the process of cloning never creates an exact duplicate; the "clone", whether human, spatial typology or landscape, inevitably adapts and updates...” - Michael O'Neill

- BArch, University of Las Palmas, Spain

CRITIC: Eduardo Rega STUDENT: Sabrina Xueyan Li 07-10

“Tony is capable of transferring between bodies during instances of spatial or programmatic similarity in various children’s lives.” - Sabrina Xueyan Li

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Longitudinal Perspective

CRITIC: Danielle Willems STUDENT: Jung Jae Suh 01-05

“ Kahn's trope used as coded system for a new pavilion integrating modulation & perturbation of the poche that response to it's environment.” - Jung Jae Suh

CRITIC: Danielle Willems STUDENT: Mark Chalhoub 06-11

“ This project is a reactionary structure to the natural behavior of its site. Its growth responds to the daylight it gets, becoming more dense towards shade, and lesser dense towards lighter zones.” - Mark Chalhoub 501 Design Studio - Fall 2014 - instructor : Danielle Willems

Student : Mark Chalhoub

University of Pennsylvania - PennDesign

NOVEMBER 2014

NOVEMBER 2014

National Academy Academician Professor Marion Weiss

Young & Ayata Are Finalists for MOMA's (YAP)

Tom Wiscombe's New Monograph Coming

Graham Professor of Architecture Marion Weiss is among a select group of prominent artists and architects elected into the National Academy. As a National Academy Academician, distinguished practitioners are recognized for their “exceptional creative work and contribution to the arts.” Congratulations, Marion!

NOVEMBER 2014

The Young Architects Program is an annual collaboration between The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 that fosters innovative design research and promotes emerging talent. Young & Ayata's The Bosphorus Grove was designed for the 2015 MoMA Young Architects Program at the Istanbul Modern Museum. On first glance the arrangement of clusters of branching columns with petal like elements is reminiscent of a natural tree grove, but the elements are clearly not nature. This grove is somewhere between the mechanical and the biological as the tubes allude to cultural situations as diverse as auto machinery shops and medical treatment facilities. These elements are symmetrical in plan, but where the traditional tree grove is ordered on the planted ground with the tree canopy taking on natural asymmetries above, The Bosphorus Grove is symmetrical above and informally asymmetrical on the ground.

The project will be exhibited in Istanbul Modern this summer.

PennDesign Visiting Advanced Studio Professor Tom Wiscombe has been contracted

by Hong Kong Architecture Science Press for his second Monograph. Objects, Containers, Worlds to be released in 2015.

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NEWS & EVENTS

Winka Dubbeldam Co-Chairs at 'EXPANSE' In November 2014 Winka and Nader Tehrani (MIT) were co-chairs for a UPENN hosted Administrators’ ACSA conference titled “EXPANSE: Architecture Education in an Expanded Field”.

The 3-day event featured panel discussions and lectures that focused on ideas surrounding smart, responsive and sensible spaces and how this relates to modern architecture theories in education.

NOVEMBER 2014

Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss Wins Commission by Storefront for Art & Architecture Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss wins a commission by and Architecture web TV program for 2015 to termezzo. Modern Intermezzo are short video tecture and modern art initiated by MoMA in by a Former Doorman of The Salon de Fleurus Spring Street in Soho, Manhattan.

Storefront for Art broadcast Modern Instories about archiNew York, and managed formerly installed on

NOVEMBER 2014

Tom Wiscombe in LOG #33 Tom Wiscombe releases “The Object Turn: A Conversation” in LOG #33. Wiscombe discusses the relation of Object-oriented Philosophy and architecture with Todd Gannon, Graham Harman, David Ruy.

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CRITIC: Danielle Willems STUDENT: Choa Liu

“ ...the central gallery, the exhibition circle, & the corridors covered by the skin provides an gradually changing view of the exterior environment, as well as a rich play of light & shadow creating a unique experience.� - Choa Liu

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DECEMBER 2014

DECEMBER 2013

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Winka Dubbeldam Participates in AIA Panel

Kutan Ayata’s firm, Young and Ayata, received honorable mention for their entry ‘The Problems of Strange Objects, 1641’ for the Pamphlet Architecture Competition.

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CRITIC: Danielle Willems STUDENT: Mark Chalhoub

In December 2014 Winka took part in the AIA Panel discussion event “Leaning Out ll : On Identity”. The discussion centered around what it means to be a woman in the design& construction industry. The panel made up of business owners and educaDECEMBER 2014 tors included Galia Solomonoff, LiseCecil Balmond DECEMBER 2014 Anne Couture, Hayes on New Year Sade, Suzanne Rodri'The Design Goes Beyond guez, Jill Lerner , Honours list Winka Dubbeldam, and Building' a Conversation Mary Anne GilmarExcerpt from Dezeen. with Michel Rojkind & Winka tin. Along with the com: Architect and panel discussion Dubbeldam structural engineer each participant Cecil Balmond, who delivered a fiveConversation among architects Michel Rojcollaborated with minute presentation kind and Winka Dubbledam for MEXTRÓPOLI | artist Anish Kapoor about their life as International Festival of Architecture and on the ArcelorMittal an architect and City. Originally posted on Arquine.com Orbit for the 2012 career milestones.

Olympic Games site, who will be awarded Officer of the DECEMBER 2014 Order of the British Empire (OBE).

Archi-TectonBalmond was formerly deputy chairman of ics Invited UK firm Arup – one to Jingzhou of the world's largest architecture and Competition engineering companies – but left in From Archi-Tectonics website: The Ji2010 to start his nan District Government in China invited own studio. He has Archi-Tectonics to participate in an Urban taught architecture Design Competition to propose a developat Harvard and Yale ment strategy for the city of Jingzhou.

DECEMBER 2014 and worked with Toyo The design concepts focused on a bottom-up Ito to design the approach for Jingzhou, using an acupuncA|N Invite 2002 Serpentine Pature strategy by creating four specific vilion.

Winka Dubbel- areas of development with strong individual characteristics. These new areas are dam as Juror designed to be more flexible and addaptfor Best of able to the economic and cultural presand changes. There are four ‘acuDesign Awards sures puncture’ approaches that we created for Jingzhou: Winka was invited to

1. Re-develop the historic center be a juror for The as authentic life work area [not Architect’s Newspajust tourism] per Best of Design

2. Introduce a “Ribbon City” (inteAwards. Entries were grated work/live/play zone) along judged based on crithe main boulevard teria including pre 3. Introduce an “Edge City” (food sentation, sustainproduction/ nature living) at the ability, technology city edge and more.

4. Create a “Water City” (recreation/ play area) on the waterfront

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Danielle Willems

How can one city exist within another?

This year, Architecture 502 examined a particular phenomenon in contemporary cities in which a city emerges within another city—forming a dialectic between a purely planned sub-city and the larger, existing and often ungraspable urban entity outside. Within the fabric of existing cities occasionally ruptures allow for an emergence of another coherency, both dependent and liberated from the first.

Occasionally these new cities are planned by specific agencies, frequently they arise from their own set of circumstances.

Less often is this occasion found within established cities, but sometimes an opportunity arises, especially in areas that have been previously marginalized, even in the looming presence of a metropolis just outside. Having recently acquired a piece of land located just across the Schuylkill River south of the main campus, the University of Pennsylvania plans to embark soon on a new experimental research and development facility, called at the present, “South Bank.”

The nature of this facility is entirely openended in terms of its defining activities, as well as in its urban morphology and its operating relationship with the city-at-large of Philadelphia.

Buried within larger entities, these cities give pause to basic question of assumed urbanisms: What could a city become given the opportunity to establish itself under differently prioritized characteristics?

Here it is important to distinguish the differences between the concept of a city and the concept of urbanization. The Greek polis (city), is an example of an archipelago, and in contrast to its insular nature, the Roman urbs, where logics of relentless expansive behaviors constitute an example of urbanization.

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Annette Fierro Associate Professor

- MArch from Rice University (1984) - BS in Civil Engineering from Rice University (1980) - Author of The Glass State: The Technology of the Spectacle/Paris 1981-1998 (MIT Press, 2003)

CRITIC: Annette Fierro STUDENT: Jung Jae Suh 01-05

“ ...creatively instigating public behavior-- from creative meander, to collective celebration, to outright transgression--around the action & narratives of imaginary figures, fictional representations...” - Annette Fierro

- Lectured at Cornell University, Columbia University, and Penn as well as for the Institute of French Culture and Technology

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CRITIC: Annette Fierro STUDENT: Michael O'Neill 06-08

“ ...this is a place of slipping, sliding, shouting, dancing and reinventing what it means to inhabit the city.” - Michael O'Neill

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CRITIC: Joshua Freese STUDENT: Miguel Abaunza 01-05

“ The red ‘membrane’, meant to be perceived as a continuous whole plays multiple roles; from structure to skin, guardrail to loge box. ” - Miguel Abaunza

- Graduated with a Bachelor of Design in Architectural Studies from Florida International University and an MArch from Penn's School of Design - Previously was a designer at Interface Studio Architects, HWKN in NY, UN Studio in Amsterdam, and OMA in Rotterdam

CRITIC: Joshua Freese STUDENT: Yunhwan Jung 06-11

“ These patterns redefined each program through erosion, stability, permeation, compression, and layering.

Through the building, the patterns distinguished each programs very clearly.” - Yunhwan Jung

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CRITIC: Abigail Hume STUDENT: David Brian Harrop 01-07

“ ...a series of masses generated from the ferrofluids interact & attract each other under certain thresholds... the ideas of attraction & threshold are apparent, allowing for dynamic relationships between spaces.” - David Brian Harrop

- Graduated with a MArch from Yale University (2006) - Earned a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from University of Virginia (2001)

CRITIC: Abigail Coover STUDENT: Yuheng Ouyang 08-11

“ Peeling traffic towards the site allows flow of human activities to merge & weave, opening more dialogue between artificial & nature..." - Yuheng Ouyang

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PROTO-PLAN SPAN OF THE STRUCTURE ALLOWS ACTIVATION OF A LARGER AREA

Original Megastructure Manual

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CRITIC: Eduardo Rega STUDENT: Emma Yunxiu Peng 01-04

“ ...forms elevated pathways, roof gardens or semi-public spaces to further generate a sense of carnival through encouraging access, mitigating social hierarchies besides the more literal degradation of water & waste. ” - Emma Yunxiu Peng

CRITIC: Eduardo Rega STUDENT: Garesa Hao En Au 05-08

“ Through the habitable & inhabitable planes becoming means of access & circulation & forms enclosure, walls or floors, a continuous varied programmatic distribution merges the interior & exterior conditions.” - Garesa Hao En Au

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CRITIC: Andrew Saunders STUDENT: Chao Liu 01-04

“ the design seeks to challenge the spatial threshold & the notion of interior & exterior spaces by weaving secondary & tertiary space in between, with specific natural lighting conditions for various programs.” - Chao Liu

CRITIC: Andrew Saunders STUDENT: Yihui Gan 05-09

“ The telescoping of the void & mass form a cone-like structure nested inside the other. By simulating, extracting, & refracting, the project aims at looking into the city & tries to contextualize site & program.” - Yihui Gan

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description: Philadelphia, regarded as a great city undergoing the process of “urban decay” in the last century until now, intrigues me not only with its typical and historical housing style known as “Row House”, but also the alleys between them. The special scale of the city makes these small alleys easily forgotten by the pedestrian also the residents. I define these small alleys between the houses as the “SEAM” of the whole city. Some of the seams are nicely been taken care of by the people living nearby, but most of them were forgotten behind. The mission of the architecture should not only meet the require of its own, but should also respond to the city-scale problem, as a public building, the architecture should also serves as the connection between those seams. And it should provide an approach to elevate the quality of the nearby city seams in its particular way.

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CRITIC: Danielle Willems STUDENT: Sabrina Li 05-09

“ space blends and blurs spatial territories and serves as a connection from the landscape to program to exterior shell. Programmatic pressures form thickness & density of surface creating a duality of structure...” - Sabrina Li

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YES Pavilions Exhibition PennDesign Architecture Students Partner with Industry to Build Graduation Pavilion

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The YES pavilion was an initiative of the Graduate Samantha Aguilar Jose Rafael Holguin Architecture Department in collaboration with Cynthia Anastasiou Amanda Huang faculty Ezio Blasetti, Danielle Willems and Noor Al Awadhi Kyle J Ingber Mohamad Alkhayer and coordinated by Andrew Elizabeth Bland Sameeha Joshi Saunders, Associate Professor of Architecture.

Mark Chalhoub Erik C Leach Ruiyi Chen Matthew Lewis The pavilion design grew out of a first-year Jae Young Cheon Harry M Lam design studio project titled “Tessellations”. The Michelle Chew Ning Ma exercise examined higher order assemblies and Alex S Chin Walaid B Sehwail Jon D Canter Jung Jae Suh productions. The ability to rapidly produce John Darby Benita Trenk and control variability generated new modes of Yannick E R Diaz Kathryn C Vergeyle Ruohan Ding Billy Wang design. Eighteen large constructions exhibited Daniel Fachler Elaine Wong throughout Meyerson were Characterized by Rhea G Gargullo Jie Xu topological constructs based on material properties Clay Gruber Xi Yao Emily Gruendel Chaoran Yu and assembly logics.

First year student teams each chose their own construction material for their component studies. One prototype featured silver and gold flashing, a thin layer of waterproof material usually used to prevent water damage, and taking advantage of its material properties to influence the aesthetics and materiality of the YES pavilion.

Berger Building Products, a Euramax company based in Langhorne, Pa., provided the flashing material featured prominently in the design, donating 234 Rolls of Aluminum Flashing material.

A 700-level seminar advanced the winning designs with exploration of techniques, morphology and detailing of the pavilion for construction on Penn’s campus. The development process included hands-on workshops and focused on acquiring knowledge through making (Techne), understanding the morphological transformation of a given geometric packing and building with readily available materials.

Students built and tested physical models that simulated the actual pavilion before turning to lightweight materials to fabricate the pavilion’s components, including structural members, panels and joints required for the pavilion’s superstructure and envelope.

Partnerships with industry in architectural education are essential, providing benefits to industry and enabling young designers to further their own research.

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“The students’ explorations bring new discoveries, new ways of thinking to industry as well as provides visibility. We rigorously rethought our core curriculum, one aspect being direct collaborations with experts outside of the university, including industry. One proposal used this amazing flashing material, which you typically never see – it’s usually hidden between a window and wall. But here it is shown to have another use that is actually quite innovative and beautiful.”

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Winka Dubbeldam, Professor and Chair of the Architecture Department

September 3rd, 2014

Opening Lecture: Bjarke Ingels, principal at BIG / Bjarke Ingels Group

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Hot to Cold, An Odessey of Architectual Adaptation exhibit at the National Building Museum, Washington D.C., 2015

September 17th, 2014

Lecture: Manuel DeLanda, Author and Philosopher

September 22nd, 2014

Lecture: Graham Harman, Distinguished Professor, American University in Cairo

October 27th, 2014

Lecture: Frank Barkow, Partner, Barkow & Leibinger, Berlin

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In the 2011-12 academic year, we restructured the ARCH 601 Design Studio to become an Urban Housing Studio that moves beyond the traditional programmatic housing studio approach to propose contemporary modes of living in an urban environment. Hybrid forms of housing/ dwelling including a commercial or cultural program that can co-exist with housing is the topic explored during this semester.

Due to the difference in scale between housing and a cultural program, an inherent curricular goal is to develop formal arrangements in accumulation and variation in scale that develop a comprehensive solution for a 50,000 sq. ft. building located in an urban environment.

The use of digital techniques is a given for this semester’s projects, but the goal is to use these technologies in an opportunistic fashion for the generation of growth and the evaluation of patterns in the development of form. In particular, each studio examines part -to -whole organizations and their potential for architecture by offering the tools to create effects that exceed the sum of their parts.

Most part -to -whole organizations share common characteristics, including structure: defined by parts and their composition; and the interconnectivity of the various parts that have functional, structural, and spatial relationships with each other. During this semester, a primacy is given to formations that are in variation, accumulative, and subject to changes that may shift in spatial experiences, scale, and materials. In addition, buildings incorporate program, space, structure, and enclosure into a singular formation that incorporates a range of experiences and formal variations of gradated intensities and patterns.

An exceptionally sophisticated partto-whole relationship is one which goes a step further and resolves the integration of materials, structure, scale, and spatiality to allow for the overall formation to appear

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suspended, or possessed of a particular lightness. In terms of formal appearance, this lightness includes qualities of fineness and daintiness, determined within the multiple individual elements and parts that constitute the building design. The scale of the part to the whole is attenuated, adjusted with precision and refinement, in order to produce the desired affect. If the scale of the part is too diminutive in relation to the whole, or if the whole is constituted of too many smaller building components, then the occupant of the space may be overwhelmed. When the relation of part [housing unit] to whole [building] is attuned, unique living environments and housing solutions can be achieved.

The form of the building impacts the selected urban environment that ranges from New York City to Vienna in 2011 and from NYC to Miami in 2014. Each instructor provides their own site for exploration within a city of the instructor’s choice. Each building’s goals contribute to and impact the city in which the building is located. The highly formed object incorporates a detailed façade and its relationship to the massing, plans, and sections, with an understanding of vertical and horizontal pedestrian circulation that maximizes their impact on the urban environment.

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The studio explored a building for an art residency program on the Highline near Chelsea in New York City. The building provided short term living accommodations for the guest artists, as well as the art studio spaces . The public functions of the project consisted of 2 galleries, a small auditorium, workshop spaces and a fine arts library. In addition to housing for the guest residences in various configurations, there are studio spaces designated for each artist.

Philosopher Graham Harman has quite a startling point to make in this simple statement: “Most philosophies either undermine an object by stating that the object is not as important as the smaller pieces that form it, thus removing the larger aggregate from reality. Or, they take the counter position and “overmine” the object by stating that the object is only a construction of the human perceptual or cognitive faculties

Turing Tower Jonas Coersmeier, critic Fall 2014 (TA: Christopher Arth) page 102 - 105 The studio refers to the 20C British mathematician Alan Turing in two ways: First, it clarifies a correlation between the workings of the universal algorithmic machine that Alan Turing invented in 1936, The Turing Machine, and the routines fostered by contemporary architectural design tactics (see below ‘The Turing Model’.) Particular attention is given to Turing’s fundamental study of living systems, which initiated the modern field of mathematical biology.

The objective here is to identifiy and act upon the generative potential that lies in transposing fundamental morphogenetic principals of living systems into the domain of architectural design production; and specifically how they apply to combinatory patterns of modular housing units.

Second, as a programmatic and cultural marker, the studio assumes the newly founded Turing Institute as its client. The British government recently dedicated the Turing Institute to the advancement of big data and algorithm research, and it announced major funding for its operations (see quote above.) The Turing Tower serves as a boarding house for the Institute, and it invites expert scholars, as well as young talent to participate in new modes of vertical housing and working. The objective here is to establish combinatory logics for minimal and luxury housing (units) and to articulate a new form of metropolitan livework environment.

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Object Clusters Kutan Ayata, critic Fall 2014 (TA: Walaid Sehwail) page 098 - 101

* Harman, Graham “Quadruple Object”. Hunts, UK: Zero Books, 2011, p 8-13

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This studio will examine emergence and its relation to the formulattion of architecture by using digital techniques in an opportunistic fashion for the generation of growth and the evaluation of patterns in the development of form. In particular, this studio will examine part-to-whole organizations and their potential for architecture by offering the tools to create effects that exceed the sum of their parts.

Most part-to-whole organizations share common characteristics, including structure, defined by parts and their composition, and interconnectivity of the various parts of a system that have functional, structural, and spatial relationships between one another. In this studio, we will give primacy to formations that are in variation, accumulative and subject to changes that may shift in spatial experiences, scale, and materials. In addition, projects using digital techniques incorporate program, space, structure, and enclosure into a singular formation that incorporates a range of experiences and formal variations of gradated intensities and patterns.

An exceptionally sophisticated part– to-whole relationship is one which goes a step further and resolves the integration of materials, structure, scale, and spatiality to allow for the overall formation to appear suspended or possessed of a particular lightness and elegance. In terms of formal appearance, this lightness includes qualities of fineness and daintiness, determined within the multiple individual elements and parts that constitute the building design. The scale of the part to the whole will be attenuated, adjusted with precision

and thus has no reality of its own outside of human consideration.”* In both of these positions the status of the object is seen as a fiction that can be criticized as a naive fetish. For the “Underminers”, reality is in relations between analyzable parts. For the “Overminers” reality is in the relations that humans construct. Both directions are part of a problem for Harman and they relate to very relevant discussions within the discipline of architecture. Though this notion of the object presents great potentials and a fresh way of thinking for the generation of architectural provocations, it also sets forth serious challenges to overcome: Architecture is always made of smaller parts towards a whole and architecture always enters the realm of debate through relationism.

This recent speculative turn towards the re-conception of the architectural object requires us to explore new methods of design. Our section experimented with the initial development of unit clusters (not at the building scale nor at single unit scale but in between) as stand alone objects.

These objects neither aimed to constitute an expression of the habitable unit, nor a rational of parts towards a linear building assembly. These objects seeked to integrate the diversity of the program (including the various unit types) and circulation into their section as well as the aspects of envelop and structural integrity. They were evaluated as stand alone objects with their own aesthetic provocations. As they began to cluster with other objects and encounter site/urban conditions, students developed strategies of fusing, touching, intersecting, scaling, deforming to define the building. The end goal of the studio was to define a character towards a wholesome architectural object which aimed to escape the defined aesthetics and assumptions of this architectural type.

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and refinement, in order to produce the desired effect. If the scale of the part is too diminutive in relation to the whole, or if the whole is constituted of too many smaller pieces, then the occupant of the space may be overwhelmed, and the potential of producing elegance is lost. When the relation of part to whole is attuned, elegant sensations – rather than chaotic ones – may be achieved at the point of transformations.

The intended result is a project exhibiting innovative architectural organizations using topological surfaces, unit arrangements, and patterns scaling from an individual room to the entire building, with different spatial and material qualities contributing to the development of architecture.

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Readings: Marc J. De Vries. "Gilbert Simondon and the Dual Nature of Technical Artifacts." Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 12.1 (2008): 23-35.

Wes Jones and Peter Pfau. “Primitive Huts.”

Pamphlet Architecture 12 Building; Machines. Ed. Robert McCarter. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1985. 40-57.

Wes Jones. “Hot Rod.” Instrumental Form. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996.109-112.

Christian Norberg-Schulz, “Heidegger’s Thinking on Architecture.” Perspecta Vol 20 (1983): 61-68.

Douglas Graf, “Diagrams.” Perspecta Vol 22 (1986): 42-71.

Le Corbusier, “Five Points Towards a New Architecture” (1922).

Neal Leach. Camouflage. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2006.

Hybrid Logics And Transformative Types: Housing+Fashion Design Center In the Miami Design District Julian Palacio, critic Fall 2014 — page 110 - 113 The studio investigates alternative models of urban housing by exploiting the potential for hybrid organizational logics to modulate new spatial, formal and material vocabularies. Students engaged opportunities for architectural invention by capitalizing on the tensions and frictions that emerge when the requirements for diverse and seemingly contradicting programmatic requirements - in this case housing and a fashion design center - are tactically calibrated as part of a single architectural whole.

Another component of the studio is the research into the contemporary agency of the “surface” in articulating difference and variation across programs, environments, and scales. The liberation of the floor plan from the regime of the vertical surface, an idea at the core of the modernist agenda, had a wide impact in the development of a language in contemporary practice that favors generic forms and homogeneous spaces. It could be argued that while this autonomy allowed for unprecedented planimetric flexibility, the separation also meant that functional specificity was no longer necessarily expressed in the formal resolution of a building. Within this framework, the studio revisits the synthetic qualities of the surface to develop a set of techniques that permits the registration of hybrid uses and performances, articulating new effects and correspondences between the building’s plan, section and volumetric expression at the scale of the dwelling unit and the building.

The ambition is to generate a body of work that is capable of challenging conventional paradigms for housing with more robust architectural constructs that respond to the complex cultural, social and

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specific minimums of domesticity. In parallel, students will analyze the site, demographics and history of the area and prepare the necessary base documentation.

As part of this investigation, students will be required to develop a written theoretical thesis for their project that posits a specific argument for how their project meets the requirements of the studio and the larger social needs of the program. Each student will develop the specific assigned program components in ways that reinforce their thesis through individual and group research.

Upon completing this course each student will be able to construct, present, and defend advanced comprehensive architectural proposals that integrate form and space defined by systems of structure, enclosure, circulation and environmental systems. These systems will be organized by hierarchical patterns, articulated by the qualities of shape, color and texture, and determined by the principles of scale, and theories of proportion, aesthetics and compositional arrangement.

In addition, the Week of October 6th will focus on Building Plans Development, and the Week of October 20th will focus on Building Façade and Section Development.

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Located in Philadelphia’s Loft District, the Reading Viaduct is a formidable artifact of the Industrial Revolution that has been difficult to erase due to both its physical presence and its less visible legal delineation.

The district was primarily farmland until the 1840s, when the Baldwin Locomotive Company built a factory in the area. In order to accommodate the industrial workers needed to run the plant, numerous row homes were constructed. As the area continued to grow in the 19th century with additional factories, the neighborhood became an industrial and residential center. The Viaduct represents a medium of connectivity between Philadelphia and the surrounding region that provided both material and cultural enrichment to our city for many years. The geometry and shape of this complex artifact are the outcome of multiple programs: commerce, structure, communication and each of these purposes is present in the convergence of its form.

French philosopher Gilbert Simondon developed the notion of convergence though his work on individuation, and more specifically in his 1958 work On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects.

To better understand convergence, it helps to understand Simondon’s ideas of concretization. His efforts helped to identify the various stages of progression being evolutionary to the form of an object with convergence as the synthesis of functions and physical properties into a structural unit. Specifically, concretization refers to two stages in the sequence of the object-process that leads to greater sophistication and convergence. The first, less sophisticated phase is the stage of craftsmanship. Within an object, there are still separate parts for separate functions.

The second more sophisticated phase is industry, which is when functions combine

and synthesize into one element. In any object-process trajectory, there is this crude starting phase, craftsmanship, which leads to greater sophistication, industry.

We will approach our work this semester utilizing this notion of craftsmanship and industry.

Program: NSA Housing is merit-based scholarship housing limited to graduate, post-graduate, international transfer students and research fellows who are attending Philadelphia area universities or are employed by local organizations that are at the cutting edge of the information sciences. While these individuals function at a very high virtual level, the NSA (National Science Association) and its backers are developing this housing in order to better understand and enhance the social and physical interaction among Philadelphia’s intellectual elite. The NSA will observe and record the actions of these residents as part of their research focused toward the betterment of society.

The gross programmatic area is limited to 50,000sf. Solutions must conform to the requirements of local code requirements (IBC 2009), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and ANSI 117. More detailed program information will be distributed at the appropriate time.

Methodology: The pedagogical objective of this studio is to develop problemsolving skills that are directly applicable to architectural practice. These skills will be based on a heightened awareness and attention to site, program, building systems and sustainable technologies. This course will heighten the student’s awareness of a solutions-based approach to design, where architectural form is the legible expression of purpose.

The studio will commence with a short warm-up exercise to design a temporary on-site single occupancy dwelling as a way to better understand the site and the

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The microhousing trend has caught on in value-heated markets like New York, Boston and San Francisco where smaller units make dense, expensive neighborhoods more affordable. However, there are signs that there is a role for modestly scaled housing in more moderately priced cities like Chicago, Philadelphia and elsewhere. The nature of such projects, where amenities and social life are just as crucial as affordability, provided a rich set of inputs for the studio’s project investigations. Among the considerations were the nature of shared spaces, social networking, compact living prototypes, and the unique behaviors of millenials.

The studio encourages a pro-active role for the architect, positioning design as an entrepreneurial, innovative, and deeply intelligent engagement of the problem at hand. The language of architecture will act as a proving ground for urban influence, and as a change agent across a diverse set of stakeholders beyond the confines of architecture proper. Projects seek to be radically pragmatic, in that they amplify seemingly everyday considerations into programmatically powerful, functionally superior, formally elegant, and experientially engaging solutions. The studio seizes the opportunity to re-think our collective expectations of housing and to explore new potentials for how housing can satisfy its occupants, neighborhood, and city. Projects are encouraged to engage within a set of complex, sometimes contradictory, forces that will require the architectural proposals themselves to engage with the unfolding, and very current, cross-disciplinary dialogue around urbanism and building

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- Architect and Director at Contemporary Architecture Practice, NY (2003) - Graduated with an MArch from University of Michigan Taubman College, where she received the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Leadership Award.

- Author of the upcoming book Migrating Architectural and Structural Formations (2013) and co-author of Elegance (2007)

CRITIC: Hina Jamelle STUDENT: Ya Wen Angela Huang

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CRITIC: Kutan Ayata STUDENT: Ae Ree Rho

“...the contrast between privacy and transparency is emphasized. Global symmetries and local dissymmetries are played out to orient views and privacy to and from the high line and the main road.” - Ae Ree Rho

- Bachelor of Fine Arts in Architecture from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston (1999)

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CRITIC: Kutan Ayata STUDENT: Yuhang He

“Relationships between room to room, and room to façade creates a set DNA for the rest of the project’s formal and spatial qualities to drive program, aesthetic, and conditions of environmental controls...” - Yuhang He

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Jonas Coersmeier Lecturer - Founded Büro NY, NY (2004) - Received a Master’s degree from Columbia University GSAPP (2000) - Received an engineering degree from TU-Darmstadt (1998) & MIT Architecture (1996) - Teaches studios & research seminars at Pratt & serves as guest critic at Princeton and Columbia GSAPP

CRITIC: Jonas Coersmeier STUDENT: Jae Geun Ahn

“...defined as a field of uncertainty, which is created by interconnected, skip floored aggregation of spatial units driven from a diatom cell...the field is specified into multiple room types through controlled visual & physical connections.” - Jae Geun Ahn

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CRITIC: Jonas Coersmeier STUDENT: Zuoda He

“While interrogating the delicate form of design, this project generated a new form of living style for its residents.

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- Founding partner of Erdy McHenry Architecture, PA (1998) - Received MArch, Syracuse University (1990) - Received BSc Architecture, Ohio State University (1987)

CRITIC: Scott Erdy STUDENT: Ian Yan Liu

“...promotes interaction among its inhabitants by limiting access to high-speed internet throughout the area of the fellow’s apartments in order to urge them out ...& into the more social gathering space...” - Ian Yan Liu

- Received the AIA Philadelphia Gold Medal (2001) and the AIA Philadelphia Silver Medal (2004)

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CRITIC: Scott Erdy STUDENT: Liangjie Zheng

“The building extends the plane of the viaduct, wrapping it horizontally to create a new public gathering space, that forms a sense of community, while enhancing the prospect of the observers. ” - Liangjie Zheng

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“An active interaction network happens through the creation of multi-level hierarchical communities... The same operation of vertical stacks is solved through blurring the boundary between public programs.” - Adrian Subagyo

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CRITIC: Julian Palacio STUDENT: Emily Gruendel

“This dominantly high-end retail and restaurant community will be invigorated by means of this educational and residential facility that blurs the lines between the live / work experience.” - Emily Gruendel

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“...proposes a transformative structure that evolves with changing life patterns of residents as well as market & economic forces. In an era of rapid change, the project is tooled for equally rapid reconfiguration...” - Basak Huner

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CRITIC: Brian Phillips STUDENT: FeiFei Zhao

“The project asks fundamental questions about the nature of dwelling & the temporal aspects of occupation in a moment defined by a shift from a culture of 'consumption' to one of 'collaboration'.” - FeiFei Zhao

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Lecture - Giancarlo Mazzanti, Principal, Mazzanti & Arquitectos S.A., Bogota, Colombia

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Lecture - Dept. Chair, Winka Dubbeldam introduces Kutan Ayata & Michael Young, Partners, Young & Ayata

JANUARY 2014

The Department of Architecture is excited to announce that its ranking in "America's Best Architecture & Design Schools" moved up from the the 14th to the 7th ranking, in one year alone!

America’s Best Architecture & Design Schools is conducted annually by DesignIntelligence on behalf of the Design Futures Council. The research ranks undergraduate and graduate programs from the perspective of leading practitioners. This 15th annual survey was conducted in mid-2014. For more see:

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Multiple PennDesign Faculty Participate In Exhibition 'Treatise: Why Write Alone?'

Winka Dubbeldam Juror for Azure Magazine Awards

PennDesign Visiting Lecturers Kutan Ayata (Young & Ayata) and Michael Loverich (Bittertang) exhibit in Chicago at the Graham Foundation named “Treatise: Why Write Alone?” organized by Jimenez Lai FEBRUARY 2015

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Alicia Siman have been selected to impleWe are very pleased ment their social impact project: Designto share a bit of ing Healthy Eating Experiences. They are warm and very welworking with students at Huey Elementary come news: Bill School and AUNI to design and brand plates Braham, Associate that encourage students to eat healthy Professor of Arfoods and to develop new products that chitecture, Direcwill help students choose healthier foods. tor of the Master of Environmental FEBRUARY 2015 Building Design degree and Director of the TC Chan Center for Building Simulation PPD Graduate and Energy Studies, has been promoted to Full Professor.

Konstantina Winka Dubbeldam, Professor and Chair of Koligliati Graduate Architecture, together with the faculty of Architecture, join Dean Taylor Exhibits in in extending our heartfelt congratulations GRE > NYC to Bill.

Architect Cecil Balmond awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire Excerpt from the Daily FT article:Cecil Balmond, a Lankan-born world-renowned designer architect, was recognised in the UK’s 2015 New Years’ Honours List and awarded ‘Officer of the Order of the British Empire’. The OBE is by far the most prestigious award in the British culture.

CRITIC: Jonas Coersmeier STUDENT: JaeGeun Ahn

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Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss curates 'Romancing True Power' Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss curated an exhibition about architecture of power entitled Romancing True Power, together with Nina Khrushcheva, Professor and granddaughter of former Soviet president Nikita Khrushchev.

The exhibition is displayed from February 12-26th, 2015 at The Aronson Galleries located on 5th Avenue and 13th street in Manhattan. The opening of the exhibit and a discussion with CNN and former Time Magazine journalist was scheduled for February 18th, 2015. photo: Helga Taxler

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FEBRUARY 2015

Konstantina Koligliati, a recent 2014 PPD graduate, was invited to participate in the GRE > NYC exhibition with a project she designed in Ferda Kolatan's 744 seminar last Spring.

The exhibition presents the academic and professional work of Greek architects who are practicing architecture in New York.

Congratulations Konstantina!

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William Braham Social Impact Project Funded to Design Healthy Eating ExPromoted to periences Fulltime Professor IPD students Yichen Huang, Aobo Zhou, and

In January 2015 Winka traveled to Toronto to serve as a member of the AZ awards jury organized by Azure Magazine.

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The advent and recent maturation of digital technologies within the field of architecture have fundamentally changed the ways in which we conceptualize, design, fabricate, and construct buildings. New and innovative tools and materials have enabled us to challenge conventional notions of building while nonlinear information flow has altered the way in which we communicate with consultants and organize the logistical flow of the design process.

Advanced software simulation programs allow us to visualize building properties from structural behavior to environmental performance during the early stages of design development. Parametric programs allow for an efficient and interconnected design process in which part-to-whole relationships are deeply integrated and reciprocally controlled. Sophisticated 3d modeling tools coupled with new fabrication methods and intelligent materials allow for complex geometries to be imagined, designed, optimized, and build.

Building Integration benefits especially from these developments as we rapidly move away from a layered and inflexibly structured relationship of mechanical parts towards an organic and more adaptive relationship of networked components. Thus the integration of building systems ceases to be merely a supplemental afterthought to the design itself and instead becomes a vital part within a deeper design ecology, weaving together the specific properties of architectural systems with the material, formal, and geometrical characteristics of contemporary architectural design.

The ramifications of these technological innovations signify a profound shift of larger cultural and historical relevance by moving away from the modernist paradigm of “Machine” towards the current paradigm of “Nature”. While the former advocates an ethics of optimization and perfection through the technological means of standardization, the latter champions

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adaptability and variability through the means of customizable and nonlinear processes. This shift is not only reflecting a more resourceful and sensible approach to building and environment but also a wider cultural tendency towards intricacy and a more finely articulated, organic approach to design. The convergence and mutual integration of software, material intelligence, and fabrication techniques into the design process define a substantial progress in the field of architecture, particularly as it pertains to Building Integration.

The Integrated Design Studio (602) deals with these issues through the development of a comprehensive design project, which emphasizes on the collaborative nature of architecture practice. To achieve this, two mayor components are introduced to the format of the studio. First, all projects are developed within small teams in an effort to foster a practice-like environment in the studios. Second, professional consultants from structural, mechanical, and environmental engineering as well as software and fabrication experts are invited to collaborate directly with the students on the development of their projects. During these consultancy sessions all students are exposed to the most advanced technological tools (software and fabrication), which are being utilized today in building design.

ARCH 602 Studio Descriptions T he Museum of Useless Things Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY Ferda Kolatan, critic Spring 2015 — page 128 - 131 “Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings” - Levi Strauss

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Auction House & Galleries. Chelsea. New York City.

Hina Jamelle, critic Spring 2015 page 136 - 139 (Studio Consultants: Dan Brodkin, Principal.

ARUP and Matt Jackson Senior Structural Engineer. Arup) The site is between West 20th and 21st Streets-The West Side Highway and 10th Avenue in Chelsea. Catalyzed by the Highline project, the program is of a uniquely configured Auction House and Galleries.

This studio will examine emergence and its relation to the formulation of architecture by using digital techniques in an opportunistic fashion for the generation of growth and evaluation of patterns in the development of form. Digital techniques allow us to deal with the full complexity of material systems that lead to effects that are greater than the sum of their parts.

We will examine organizations that are highly integrated formal and spatial systems which operate the same as organic systems where the forms result from their adaptation to performance requirements; in our case the structure, inhabitable surfaces and enclosure. Achieving an integrated whole entails the refinement of spatial and structural organization and the integration of building systems, including stairs, structure and skins inflecting and adapting to each other providing an overall

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This studio explored the design of a public Natatorium on Pier 26 on the Westside Waterfront of Manhattan, both with indoor and outdoor swimming facilities. The

type requires two radically different environments for its functions: Humid for the Pool areas and dry for all other functions. This typically results in isolation through mechanical means or hard boundaries. The environmental control systems along with spatial configurations were designed to address these different conditions and the transitions between them. Pools of varies length and depth require varying sections requiring a complex circulation and sectional configuration which was the starting point of the project. In most blunt terms, the buildings were organized around a series of water containers which have specific dimensional, structural and environmental constraints.

The envelope then was developed as an agent to negotiate the differences, transitions and spatial characteristics between these various containers.

The precedents of Pier buildings on the Hudson yield no provocative architectural precedents as they fall to conventions of shed buildings, so do the majority of this particular architectural type, resulting in radical interiorization of the program with an inaccessible periphery. The site as a pier which needs to remain public, demands otherwise. The projects attempted to engage their periphery and define active urban fronts. Programs oriented

outwards and the presence of outdoor facilities reinforced the exchange between the architectural object and the pier. The potential aesthetics of this peculiar moment in the city was central in developing the qualities of the architectural objects. This is a moment where the architectural object bares naked, visible from all sides, without an immediate context but in the foreground to the City. How could this end/beginning object of the City become unfamiliar as a Pier Building in the continuum of the City’s Fabric and gain its autonomy as a thing, formally, materially, qualitatively?

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projects aimed to reinforce the recreational aspect of the edge condition through yeararound activities. Particular effort was spent in articulating a synthesis between the flows of the Riverfront Park and the Building itself, without necessarily blending one into the other, as to claim clarity and autonomy for each condition, but not at the expense of integration.

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The “Museum of Useless Things” will display everyday objects, which critically and humorously reflect the omnipotent and often indiscriminate productivity of our contemporary society.

Through the advent of a web-based global marketplace and subsequently heightened individual entrepreneurship, late capitalism has given rise to unprecedented production and sales opportunities ranging from personalized web flea-markets in the vein of Etsy to wholesale vending giants like Ali Baba. As a result millions of things are produced daily and added to the evergrowing online-catalog often to be discarded shortly thereafter.

The museum will exhibit a revolving show of some of these items as a collective material memory of our time. The “useless” artefacts are understood as ontologically flat, meaning that they are not separated into categories of privilege or hierarchy such as monetary value, aesthetics, rarity, function, style, etc. They are all treated equally, simply as things.

Thematic Context: For the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, Rem Koolhaas raised some eyebrows when he declared that the Biennale entitled “Fundamentals” would be about “architecture, not architects”.

Consequently the exhibition “Elements” featured architectural components that throughout history have constituted buildings. These elements were displayed separated from the context of building as individual artefacts. Koolhaas through his Studio Topic:

focus on components also proclaimed the rise of a “single modern language” based on global manufacturing standards and the emergence of a universal aesthetic.

However, possibly as an unintended consequence, the Elements show also hit another contemporary nerve. By emphasizing individual architectural elements and estranging them from their build context, the exhibition drove attention to the quality of these objects beyond their functionality or subservient role within the larger context of the building itself.

This individuation of components is a radical departure of long-standing architectural principles from Alberti’s harmonious part-to-whole dictum to modernist notions of form-follows-function all the way to recent computer driven techniques of formal blending. As such the Elements show posits a new set of questions for architecture and challenges existing concepts of the role and capacity of design components in relationship to each other and to the architectural whole.

Studio Objective: The studio will take on the above challenge and investigate new ways of thinking of design parts as estranged entities within their building context. While we accept Koolhaas’ notion of a universal manufacturing reality, we will question his conclusion that this leads to a universal style or language as an inevitable consequence.

Strategies will be developed to work within the real constraints of architectural components without succumbing to a utilitarian new normal or glorifying the everyday banal, but instead looking for original, innovative, and specific solutions.

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Digital technology is undoubtedly an important evolution in defining the usefulness of architecture as a critical professional practice. Design processes in terms of procedure and outcome continue to be restructured by digital technology, which exhibits an ever increasing capacity to solicit and input increased amounts of information to direct resolution and provision of design solutions. Through a procedure of applied data, algorithmic design, and rigorous testing the studio aims to research information management, processing and generative development and design strategies that result in architectural systems with increased environmental responsiveness, performance, and overall system logistics. The issues of form generation and systems design are intentionally combined whereby distinctions are eliminated during design and information processing, between geometry and analysis and during evaluation, between appearance and performance.

Program: The studio addressed the issue of air quality and remediation systems in New York City while simultaneously exploring the resurgence of large scale public infrastructural architecture to reduce energy consumption, remediate environmental degradation and harvest and distribute energy

Optimizing Zero: Responsive High Performance Architecture Integrating - Light + Air Franca Trubiano, critic Spring 2015 — page 148 - 151 This studio is dedicated to the design of High Performance Buildings that actualize the potential of “responsiveness” in positing important transformations for architectural

design. The studio advances Responsiveness as both a process and a set of ideas that can be harnessed for achieving significant gains in sustainability.

Whenever buildings are capable of self-modification, internal regulation and tectonic adaptability, they are said to be responsive. Buildings can be designed to react intelligently to changes of various kinds, including changes in: environment (light, air, humidity, and temperature) use (program, occupant, density) material ( decay, weathering) This studio asserts that buildings are never inert, static or limited by the initial process of construction. Like nature, buildings too are constantly subject to the dynamic forces of the environment in which they are located and as such should be designed to respond to a host of possible future conditions. Differently than in the past, contemporary buildings can be more symbiotically designed with the knowledge of such forces. In this studio students will be exposed to the qualitative and quantitative measures that define our experience of the elements that are light and air. As catalysts for design, these environmental forces help shape our buildings in design, construction and operations and form the basis of high performance design. The impact of light and air on a building’s skin and on the design of its structural and environmental section are of central interest to the studio.

Moreover, being able to measure the outcome(s) of one’s design is the definition of building performance design and students will be introduced to design metrics via the latest building simulation software used in the industry to evaluate the environmental impact of our material and energy choices; be they measured in levels of illuminance, transmittance, solar absorption, air flow or wind speed.

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In the last two decades bicycle culture has made a significant resurgence. The development of new technologies in cycle frames and components making them lighter, faster, more mobile and nimble has had a big impact in all aspects of the sport. This is true from high speed racing to endurance to mountain bike riding to the culture of urban commuting. A combination of carbon footprint awareness, overcrowding of public transportation in big cities, and a new generation of people who see cars as a threat to public safety and health, has propelled the culture of bike riding to new levels. It is not difficult to understand the impact this is having in cities, from bike shares to complete redesigns of city master plans centered on reorienting bicycles as the primary form of transportation.

This studio was charged with gaining a high level understanding for the culture of bicycle riding, racing, and recreation, as it currently exists as well as a historical understanding of the sport. This research was the basis for redefining the typology of the sporting event venue as a hybrid between bicycle recreation center, community center, and a competitive sport complex.

The studio worked in partnership with several key architectural and structural offices who's practices are based in the realization of sporting complex. SHoP Architects worked with the studio in the development of complex facade systems while Burro Happold provided guidance on the studio's structural solutions.

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The goal for each student is to develop a sophisticated understanding of form using strategies to design architecture that flows from topological surfaces and spatial arrangements in transformation, and to apply these to a range of familiar architectural issues. The final proposal of each student will emerge out of an interrelated working method between program, space, structure, material and fabrication logics that combine to develop an innovative building formation.

Structural integration will be addressed through the material associations of each projects design development. These associations allow us to understand the behavior of materials such as steel, concrete or composites that will translate directly into structural diagrams and test models. This allows for an integrated design methodology by translating the compression and tension of transformed geometries.

Refined and precise digital models allow for the development of structural models that feed-back through the designs immediately as the control of geometry and constructability becomes crucial to the success of each project. Computational tools have altered and expanded our ability as architects to design, so too have they expanded our capacity to make. These models establish a fluidity between the digital realm and the material one that can test structural strategies. Thus, the integration component to the studio will focus on the realization of design intent as it feeds back through structural and design techniques unleashing a series of new potentials for investigation, refinement and elegant solutions.

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- Founding partner of su11 architecture + design, NY (2004) - Received an architectural diploma with distinction from the RWTH Aachen (1993) - Received MsAAD, Architecture from Columbia GSAPP (1995) - Selected as a Young Society Leader by The American Turkish Society (2011)

CRITIC: Ferda Kolatan STUDENT: Joseph Giampietro Yuhang He

“...evolving from the collection of various found objects; studying their individual qualities (profile, edge, crease, & seam) & using those qualities to blend & morph each into one another, creating new hybrid objects. ” - Joseph Giampietro & Yuhang He

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CRITIC: Ferda Kolatan STUDENTS: Jae Ahn Dunbee Choi

“By giving contrast of exterior versus interior materiality, interior space has more ambiguity of geometry. Inside the corridors visitors feel estranged from the outside.”

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CRITIC: Kutan Ayata STUDENTS: Basak Huner Daniel Lau

“...defined by interlocking, alignment & misalignment, each object normalizes each other, much like the pier they sit on. Through aligning, misaligning, depressions, peeling & pushing, separations & spaces are formed.” - Basak Huner & Daniel Lau

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CRITIC: Kutan Ayata STUDENTS: Rajika Maheshwari Roza Pattah

“Visitors enter at ground level & ceremonially travel up to the wet & dry floors. Each pool is distinct to create an ambiance relevant to its purpose, while maintaining an engagement with the periphery.” - Rajika Maheshwari & Roza Pattah

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CRITIC: Hina Jamelle STUDENTS: Can Fu YaWen Angela Huang

“...façade pieces continue to the interior & serve as the purpose of circulation, structure, & lighting. Reinventing the traditional organization of an auction house, like the facade, there is a start & end of a space.” - Can Fu & YaWen Angela Huang

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CRITIC: Hina Jamelle STUDENTS: Shiyuan Wang Agnes Xi Yao

“With vertical formation of spaces, we created continuous spatial sequence along z-axis to provide everyone from audience, staff, to citizens different spatial experiences while they travel through the building.” - Shiyuan Wang & Agnes Xi Yao

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- Founded Gradient Design Studio, NYC (2006) - Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Florida (1999) - MArch degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, GSAPP (2004)

CRITIC: Ben Krone STUDENTS: Di Meng Serena Siyuan Yin

“Each kick or movement is embodied with series of different force applications. The characters of different forms and geometries capture moments of pause, turn, twist, and other BMX tricks. ” - Di Meng & Serena Siyuan Yin

- Won the McKim Prize for Excellence in Design & the Sol Kaplan Traveling Fellowship.

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CRITIC: Ben Krone STUDENTS: Phoebe Hiu-Nam Leung Chih-Kai Chan

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- Co-founder of Urban Data Design, NY (2010) - Received MArch with Certificate in Urbanism from the University of Virginia; received BArch from Syracuse University - Lecturer &/or juror at Washington Univ., Univ. of Virginia, Prairie View State Univ., Univ. of Illinois–Champagne/Urbana, Yale, PennDesign, Cornell, Rice, Georgia Tech, & Univ. of Michigan.

CRITIC: Shawn Rickenbacker STUDENTS: Feifei Zhao Liangjie Zheng

“...serves as a dynamic site of experiment & innovation...It takes advantage of the form of peak & valley, the rational oriented chimneys & arms, & the raised footages not only maximize the air movement...” - Feifei Zhao & Liangjie Zheng

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“This project is about Air pollution...Assembling of a single Jack to create a new form with multiple legs. Legs are columns for support of the building, are bridges to connect program, & act as chimneys for ventilation.” - Kangyi Zheng

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- Received a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania - Received both an MArch and a BArch from McGill University

CRITIC: Franca Trubiano STUDENTS: Nuo Bu Chenyi Shen

“...assisted with exhaustive environmental simulations in order to make the structure, mechanical & façade systems reasonable. It's a project with innovation in form & configuration, while seeking rationalization...” - Nuo Bu & Chenyi Shen

- Editor and co-author of the recently published Design and Construction of High Performance Homes: Building Envelopes, Renewable Energies and Integrated Practice (2012)

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CRITIC: Franca Trubiano STUDENTS: Zuoda He Andy Haiteng Liu

“...blurring/burning zones are spread out through the building next to the exterior glazing. These zones create microclimates that separate itself from the interior 'controlled' climate.” - Zuoda He & Andy Haiteng Liu

November 12th, 2014

Lecture - Reinier de Graaf, Partner, OMA and Director of AMO

November 24th, 2014

Lecture - Neil Denari, Principal, Neil M. Denari Architects, Inc.

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Winka Dubbeldam & Marion Weiss in UVA Symposium

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HWKN Unveils Design for "Pennovation Center"

Brian Phillips named 2015 Emerging Voice by ArchLeague

PennDesign graduate, Marc Kushner '99, partner of HWKN recently unveiled designs for the University of Pennsylvania's Pennovation Center, a contemporary structure with an eye-catching multifaceted north facade. A former DuPont laboratory, the 58,000-squarefoot building will serve as a great example of adaptive reuse and will be the first major development on Penn’s 23-acre Pennovation Works site intended to enable entrepreneurs, researchers and industry partners to translate inventiveness into viable ventures in a dynamic environment.

Emerging Voices is an invited competition for North American firms and individuals with distinct design voices and significant bodies of realized work. Brian Phillips founded Philadelphia-based ISA in 2004. ISA is committed to “bringing innovative design with a strong environmental agenda to urban environments.” Although a particular focus is housing, the firm works in a wide range of scales and typologies in Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago, as well as speculative projects for cities nationwide.

Recent projects include the Roxbury E+ homes, net-zero energy housing prototypes; Mass Logic, a supportive housing project in Syracuse; and The Modules, a 72-unit student apartment building assembled out of more than 80 prefabricated boxes. Current projects include FLEX 2, a 31-unit townhouse development in Chicago, and the 100K Houses, an ongoing collaboration with developer Postgreen Homes, a production housing line for the modest, green, urban infill market.

This AD issue features the apartment renovation for musician John Legend and model Chrissy Teigen that Archi-Tectonics and Desinderata Design collaborated on. The article is titled “Step Inside John Legend and Chrissy Teigen’s New York City Home’.

Archi-Tectonics also designed the Brewster Carriage House, the building that John and Chrissy’s apartment is located in.

The warm atmosphere that drew them in is a direct result of the recycled wood walls, and exposed brick that ArchiTectonics preserved and re-used from the original structure.

Archi-Tectonics also designed their previous NYC apartment.

Winka Dubbeldam (Chair) and Marion Weiss (Professor) at University of Virginia School of Architecture both participated in the "Lineages and Trajectories: The Case of Architecture Pedagogy" Symposium.

"This symposium will consider the complex conditions of a pedagogy arising from the confluence of a Modernist lineage with contemporary methods and processes, and charged with responding to the mandates of an ever complex context. We hope to recognize gaps in architecture pedagogy – to reveal what has sustained during this period, what has been lost, and how it can be brought back".

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Hannah Gompers Wins AIA West Virginia Scholarship AIA West Virginia, a Chapter of The American Institute of Architects, has announced the recipients of its annual scholarship program for West Virginia students pursuing a career in Architecture.

In 2014, AIA West Virginia was able to award $15,000.00 to five students, due in part to a $1000.00 grant from the National Component of the American Institute of Architects headquartered in Washington, DC, a very generous donation from the Elliot Family Foundation in Charleston, along with numerous other chapter member donations.

Excerpt from Core77: In the fall of 2014, students from (Jordan) Goldstein’s class were challenged by the Italian design manufacturer Alessi to consider a straight-forward design brief: What would a next-generation standing desk or workstation look like when manufactured by an innovative manufacturer like Alessi?

As principal and managing director of international design firm Gensler’s Washington D.C. office, Goldstein created a “skunk works”-like setting for product ideas and innovation by leading his students through a four-phase design process...

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Tom Wiscombe's Old Bank District Museum scheme for L.A.

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Andrea Yaos featured on SuckerPUNCH.com!

Andrea Yaos' project Inter-Lock, from Jonas Coersmeier's 601 studio this past fall, has been featured on SuckerPunch.

This project began with a spatial unit that was designed to aggregate in a completely space-filling manner. These units were then arranged on the site and divided into housing spaces as well as circulation and public spaces on the ground floors.

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Tom Wiscombe Architecture completes Schematic Design for Developer Tom Gilmore’s Old Bank District Museum in Downtown Los Angeles. It is a 90,000 SF. museum of Los Angeles art, located inside, beneath, and on top of several notable historical buildings.

Students Receive Honorable Mention from eVolo Three PennDesign students (Yongsu Choung, Ge Zhang, and Chuanjingwei Wang) were awarded Honorable Mention in the eVolo Annual Competition for Skyscraper Design.

Their project was titled: “Deep Skins: New Skyscraper Typology in NYC as an Adaptive Organism.”

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New Book Features Winka Dubbeldam/ Archi-Tectonics The TED publication by Marc Kushner March 2015 entitled “The Future of Architecture: 100 Buildings” featured Archi-Tectonics’ downtown Bogota Urban Design Proposal.

The book describes the A-T bottom-up proposal as: “We’re asking more of architecture than ever before; the response will define our future”. My ideal city is featured in the Social Catalysts chapter.

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Urban Architectures Architecture 701 is the third year elective studio, where different faculty members investigate the critical relationship between architecture and the future city. In this time where urban environments are transforming fast and city centers, once deserted, are now filling up again, it is crucial to rethink the role of architectures in these changed densifying urban fields. Especially Latin American cities have been, and are experiencing, a huge boom in the growing middle class, transforming not only the composition of their society drastically, but even more the generation of their cities.

Currently, more than 75 percent of Latin America’s 590 million inhabitants live in cities, a record for the developing world.

This trend is global: in 1950, just 730 million people lived in cities; by 2009, the figure had risen to over 3 billion. The United Nations report* of July 2014 states that today, 54 per cent of the world’s population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 66 per cent by 2050. Projections show that urbanization combined with the overall growth of the world’s population could add another 2.5 billion people to urban populations by 2050, with close to 90 percent of the increase concentrated in Asia and Africa. This is far outside of the norm. The design studios thus move beyond traditional planning to propose contemporary modes of inhabiting these new built environments, where there is a more critical relationship between architecture and the urban, between the micro and the mega, and between public and private. The resulting designs function in three ways, as objects in the city that allow the city to respond to the proposals, as provocative responses to their contexts that negotiate the existing conditions in the city or a transformative relationship between the object and the context.

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The rapid growth of Megacities puts (often) unmanageable stresses on their political, economic, technological and social infrastructure. Because cities, and particularly cities in the developing world, are growing so quickly, formal methods of governance or systems of infrastructure are

X - POINT CITY / 2014 Neil M. Denari, critic (TA: Jonathan A. Scelsa) Fall 2014 — page 190 - 193 Urbanism in Los Angeles is constrained by one thing: transportation. We’ve had and still have lots of utopic dreams here, but they’re always quashed by traffic.

Actually, most of those dreams revolve around ‘solving’ that problem, because if we could, then ‘other’ kinds of dreams could play out. LA wants to work better, like the great pedestrian cities of the world, but not so much that it would kill its unique appearance. We don’t want to look like Paris, but an undeground would be great.

Actually, we wouldn’t mind looking a little like Tokyo, but not like Blade Runner, with those big pyramids, the fire, and those flying cars. More like the real Tokyo, which has a clockwork like subway and masses of people in small spaces. That’s not part of LA’s near future unfortunately, but there are things to do in the meantime that aim toward a more sustainable future that just may have some sense of another world, but one that LA is ready for.

You want to build a project that changes the population density even on a local level?

In a way that touches a level of plausibility that makes a proposition compelling? You

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System D Reinier de Graaf & Laura Baird , critic Fall 2014 — page 186 - 189

With the introductions of these systems, the design of cities is no longer the property of bureaucrats or city planners; essentially, no longer on the side of power. System D empowers the citizens and designers to reclaim the city…

The selection made for Pressing Matters includes a waste recycling system for a landfill site in India, a water management proposal for the city of Los Angeles, and an example of what could happen when we would embrace the counterfeit economy and establish a parallel economic system between New York and Shenzhen, China.

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Other Interiors: Over the last half-century, architecture, like popular culture more broadly, has revolved around the individual - privileging uniqueness, contradiction, and difference rather than uniformity, regularity and equality. Technology has played a key role in the proliferation of difference and variation through both software and fabrication equipment. However, there is one aspect of architecture that is growing more homogenous, not less: the interior environments of buildings.

Air conditioning conditions a building’s inhabitants as well as its air: occupants of conditioned buildings tolerate a far smaller range of temperature and humidity than working and living in other buildings. A truly heterogeneous architecture (not to mention a sustainable one) must host a greater range of environmental conditions.

This is where the studio will start: with the creation and management of dramatically different interior environments within a single building.

Stacking: Despite our preoccupation with environments, this is not a studio focused on energy gradients and diffuse fields. Instead, students will be asked to define and organize distinct climates and spaces through concrete geometry and tectonic assemblies.

Architecture’s tectonic potential was largely suppressed in favor of the smooth and the virtual during the discipline’s digital turn, but the tectonic is being re-engaged and rethought to address an entirely different set of ambitions than those the term once evoked. This recent mode of tectonic expression does not convey structural stability and solidity, but instability, porosity and contingency.2 Piles, heaps and stacks

proving increasingly inadequate in the face of the changes and evolution resulting from this growth.

Within megacities, the need to cope has produced new, unexpected and amorphous systems, which have often developed from the bottom-up. System D – a new class of urban dwellers – have become inventors, problem solvers, and entrepreneurs, not out of ambition, but out of necessity. But what would happen when one would push the boundaries of the solutions proposed by the debrouillards? If these would be designed into a system, perhaps the informal would somehow be taken to a whole new level, where it would begin to rival (what is left of) the formal...

As compared to the other 700 level studios, the methodology of this studio exhibited two very important distinctions.

Firstly, the students, rather than limiting their site of investigation to that of a traditional “building site”, researched and made proposals at the scale of the megacity, or in some cases even a megacity region. Secondly, instead of taking a formal approach to design, this studio approached design at the systems level, taking into account a much larger context, as well as various types of infrastructure at a larger scale in order to formulate a design proposal.

The projects in this studio are ten distinct design solutions for sites in 10 different cities, spread geographically over the world. Each of the design solutions apply, in one way or another, System D’s informal methods, economy, or strategies to a problem created by outdated infrastructures. The systems that the students designed are layered systems comprised of elements which are, for the most part, already proven; the ingenuity is therefore in the scale of application, or the combination of various elements into one coherent application.

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The Air of the Future Brennan Buck, critic (TA: Christopher Connock) Fall 2014 — page 182 - 185

produce the tectonic version of a floating signifier, expressing ambiguity and openness at level of structure. We will be testing these modes of the tectonic for their spatial potential, studying stacked assemblies from the inside-out as much as the outside-in, designing buildings that must distinguish between and express contrasting interior spaces but that are also porous - that let the outside in.

Climate Simulation Center, Mexico City The studio program will be a new Climate Simulation laboratory where potential future atmospheres will be simulated through precise control of air temperature, humidity, chemical content and light levels in five 125,000 ft autonomous rooms. Each room is surrounded by an equal volume of mechanical space. The building will also include: -Offices for staff & scientists -Conference and meeting facilities -A public circulation route through which visitors can see experiments taking place and even enter the labs to feel their future climate.

The building will be located in the Bosque de Chapultepec in the heart of Mexico City, the site of several modernist concrete public buildings including the National Museum of Anthropology by Pedro Ramirez Vazquez, Museo Tamayo by Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon, the Museum of Modern Art and the National Auditorium.

- Dynamic cosmopolitanism/slow locality - Cool global networks vs dominant globalized ‘cheap’ - Food mixed use share mesh programming - Dynamic locality vs stable vernacular.

- Architectural terroire vs regress to the vernacular - Virtual / physical access - Scales of energy efficiency

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Similar to the Rauschenberg 1953 art piece, Erasing a De Kooning Drawing, to recreate the condition of the void, of the absence, for a monochrome without any other traces than the furrows of the pencil pressures on the surfaces of the paper… our intention is to nibble the city, literally, by operative mode as crunching, scrunching, munching, through digesting, metabolizing, stomaching…to regurgitate new assemblages, new (dis)order of smashed construction by vomiting, pooping, extruding, aggregating…with delicate violences…to reboot flagshi(t)p…and drift, shift social delusion of organization… UPenn Course Fall-2014 The new ‘agencement’ will be developed as a permanent question and formulation of its ‘Raison d’Etre (Questioning the notion of property, of limit, of endlessness entropy, of permanence and/or nomadism, of relationship between species and substances, material and immaterial, through neighborhood instructions and combinatory of possibilities, lines of escapes… re-contractualising the transactional process and rules of social organisation…/ in the pursuit of the ‘Insurrectional Architecture’ [Chaneac, Friedman / see text below)].

Remapping the city with instrument of recycling-digesting will be in this case a kind of rebooting to occupy situations with others strategies...of contacts, of frictions, of conflicts.

It includes strategies of contamination, of chemistry exogenous or endogenous agents, of decay and metamorphosis directly applied on urban corpse as the antidote of the system of survey which has never been so highly developed since the Panoptical Jail of Pennsylvania, and described in ‘the

History of the Madness’ of Michel Foucault.

It includes to reconsider Heterotopia vs Panoptical, property vs nomadism, finitude vs un-achievement, eternity vs time lapse, sustainability vs erosion….decay…

Technologies will be used as a process to reset-reboot contents and morphologies from flagship icon addiction to proliferating protuberances… mixture of disease and cancroid logic-illogic growing in a symbiotic exchanges with all the ingredient of the urban corpse, in a ‘play’ of exquisite cadaver http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse 3D entertainment effects are mainly used in the time of last blockbusters toreport and enjoy cataclysm and ‘catastrophes’, rarely to construct a urban aesthetic (some counter example: 2046 of Wong Kar-wai in an homage to Chernikov, or the multiple layer of the Constant-New Babylon syndrome in some others…or with naive ideology of the peace full future as the Thirteenth floor…or through topological fold of existing tissues as Inception…etc).

Playing the city as the theatre of the major disasters, snatching infrastructure and high rises in an apocalyptic vision (see the short list of movies below) seems to be the main occupation of the special effect studio. Architect are contradictorily designing a urbanity that Main Stream Blockbuster explodes, implodes, earthquakes, floods, twists, hurricanes and smashes as a busy daily routine of alienated entertainment.

‘Erotism’ chose definitively the devil side, as the Hell part of ‘the delight of the earthly garden’ of Hieronymus Bosh, where the Titanic singers bawled ‘god save the queen’…

Why do we are so attracted by the vision of our own urban environment and design devastated and erased with so much sophisticated violence and pleasure?

What kind of symptom is it revealing? Just a business? Not sure in fact.

Could we, as a pervert reciprocity,

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This studio focused on the design of urban live/ work housing centred on food. In a critical study of cultural ecologies of food and urban space entitled ‘hungry city ‘ carolyn steel reminds us that in london or any city of its size, 30 milion meals per day must be produced, transported, bought and sold, cooked, eaten and disposed of. The effect of each activity on design of public and private spaces of housing in the city framed the work of the studio during the semester.

Steel’s forumulation of ‘sitopia’ (from greek sitos = food and topos = place) offers a challenge asking for a parallel thinking to utopic plans to consider cities as organic entities inexorably bound to locally specific ecosystems. Therefore while utopian plan hold its force in framing ideal objectives it also is to be responsive to demands of locality to produce new concepts.

The research sought alternative approaches to the design of new and hubrid housing typologies prompted by processes of food production, consumption and waste in the city. 21st century london poses its own questions in relation to globalized economies of food and urban housing. Slow food movement, ‘eat your view’ rendition of urban agriculture, share/mesh organisation of building programing, access networks and products offer some contemporary responses to related concerns. Following pairs of concepts guided the design research:

assive Gangrene {but}…

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have to reduce the number of cars and increase the FAR of a site. Simple. (Besides money and politics, but for this excercise, we have all we need of those currencies.) But you need mass transportation to support the paradigm shift, because otherwise you’ll have a nightmare traffic problem and therefore no one will want it or believe it. I always prefer a little reality to go along with my fantasy.

Ok, we have a beginning here. LA is building a metro system that looks and works like mass transportation, but it doesn’t serve the masses (right now and really never will). Cars do. It’s not an unwilling populace here, it’s just that the system is not expansive enough to make it possible to live without the car. This is called the “Last Mile Problem” by Toyota, i.e. how to get from a station or main infrastructural hub to your last destination. In LA, it’s more like the “Last Five Miles Problem”. How can we close that gap, not everywhere, but in one small region? Actually, how about just a point? - thus the name and the concern of the studio. Is LA ready?

Let’s say that part of the populace is ready. A couple shares one car. People have scooters and bikes. Fitness walking turns into an 800 meter (10 minutes) stroll to work. Zip cars, yes. Plus, there’s uber now.

These are little ‘utopic’ steps in the atopic world of North American horizontality. In a way, they are political steps too. Few people are ‘forced’ to change lifestyles, so it’s really a reflection of a post 2008 era when some said, ‘too much!’ Others, like recent college grads, don’t have lifestyles to change - they will inherit the ethos that this is a better way of life anyway. Actually, architecture was blamed in a lot of this, so it’s time to make architecture work in connection with these micro steps towards a better future, to make it effective, but in ways that still challenge the status quo. I always prefer a bit of resistance to go with the reality. Isn’t this utopic enough for now?

Readings: “The Accursed Share”, and “Story of the eye” of Georges Bataille ‘The society of the spectacle’ of Guy Debord ‘T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone’,Hakim Bey(Peter Lamborn Wilson) published in 1991 by Autonomedia The ruins as an Aesthetic ‘entertainment’ Zabrisky point (in LA) / Idiotcracy (in LA) / Fight Club / La jetee (Twelves Monkeys) But also and mainly the blockbuster where LA is both location of the industry of production (film) and destruction (city) / Independence Day (in LA) / 2012 (LA) / Battle in LA / The day after tomorrow (LA) / Terminator 2 / Judgement day (LA) / Resident Evil Afterlife (zombie) (LA) / Godzilla / Transformer (LA) The Ruins as a post War or Climate deregulation

in the studio is markets. Markets as an architectural program, markets as a human behavioral concept of exchange and negotiation, and markets as the matter which produces urbanity over time, particularly in the space and growing fabric of Mexico City. The students travelled from the most informal and undeveloped settlements in the city, to the most futuristic and global--seeing how markets grow and work within them-- with the intention of integrating that wisdom into a cohesive and innovative architectural project.

The key linguistic device for the semester was the word "negotiations."

"Negotiations" was used to describe the literal negotiations between stakeholders in an urban architectural project (specifically in Mexico City), between the space the building produces and the spaces territorialized by the people of the city, between more largescale things like ecologies and politics, and then amongst the components of their own process/projects.

The studio was used to test the notion that at urban scales, it is architecture's task to rewrite the brief, as much or more than it is to complete it.

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‘Spectacle is the guardian of sleep’ to quote Guy Debord.

The Ruins as romantic approach Ruskin, The stones of Venice / The desert of Retz…

Mexico City, Assembled Through Retail Michel Rojkind & Arturo Ortiz-Struck , critics (TA: Joshua Jordan) Fall 2014, page 176 - 179 The title of the studio, as opened in September, is Mexico City, Assembled through Retail. Students were tasked with multi-block scale architectures that are typically between 180K and 220K square meters.

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CRITIC: Brennan Buck STUDENTS: Yihan Li

“...reinterprets spheres through scaling, tangency, & dissecting with rigid orthogonal cuts & eventually created various distinctive spaces with both soft & hard thresholds that suit the unique functions of each room...” - Yihan Li

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- Partner at OMA & Director of AMO, Netherlands - Holds an architecture diploma from Delft University and a masters degree in architecture from the Berlage Institute

CRITICS: Reinier de Graaf Laura Baird STUDENT: Cass Turner

“ ...a pier system in NY (allowing buildings to technically be 'offshore'), a system of pop-up & squatter establishments, & even a new type of shared factory in which both official & counterfeit products are produced.” - Cass Turner

- Co-Curated two exhibitions, On Hold at the British School in Rome (2011) and the travelling exhibition Public Works: Architecture by Civil Servants (Venice Biennale, 2012; Berlin, 2013)

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- Associate at OMA, New York (2008) - Received an MArch from Rice University (2008) - BA in Public Policy Studies from Duke University. (2004)

CRITICS: Reinier de Graaf Laura Baird STUDENT: Yunsu Kim

“ ...combines formal & informal technologies to reduce presence of waste in landfills, remediate the leftover soil, & initiate a 'town' using a combination of waste as building blocks & new, organic, zero waste building material.”

- Yunsu Kim

- Co-Curated two exhibitions, On Hold at the British School in Rome (2011) and the travelling exhibition Public Works: Architecture by Civil Servants (Venice Biennale, 2012; Berlin, 2013)

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- Prinicpal NMDA, Los Angeles (1988) - Winner of two National AIA Honor Awards - Received a MArch, Harvard GSD and a BArch, Univ. of Houston - Tenured Professor at the UCLA AUD

CRITIC: Neil Denari STUDENT: Kayleen Kulesza Nicole Cabezas

“...explores a graphic play on the flattening of 3D geometry in the 2D drawing & in the 3D reality of the urban scheme through a repetitious articulation of surface & variable family of forms.” - Kayleen Kulesza & Nicole Cabezas

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“By adding and subtracting from a simple stacked and rotated geometry, we have created a system of large glazed and perforated panels that are bold and graphic, yet ambiguous in their meaning.” - Nicholas Auger & Jonathan Gorder

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- Principal of Farjadi Architects (1987) - Received a Graduate Diploma from the AA School of Architecture in London and an MArch with distinction from Tehran University

CRITIC: Homa Farjadi STUDENTS: Kyle Inger Jee Kim

“ Inspired by the farm-to-table process, the project aims to minimize the distance between food production & consumption by having an orchard corridor wrap the perimeter of each floor to provide direct access.” - Kyle Inger & Jee Kim

- The work of her office has been exhibited and published internationally. Her projects have received numerous prizes in international design competitions and awards of distinction for built work.

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“ ...designed to facilitate the reception of food waste, recycling that material, & redistributing resources on-site & throughout the city. This is an intervention for reducing & reversing the damage of food waste.” - Stephen Ellis & Rose Florian

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- Partner at SsD Architecture, New York (2003) - Received the Emerging Voices Award from the Architectural League of New York (2012) - Received the AIA Young Architects award (2006) - Earned a MArch, Harvard GSD (1996) and a BArch, Univ. of Virginia (1991).

CRITIC: John Hong STUDENT: Jiajun Ren

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“...at center lies a stadium where watchers & athletes engage in daily activities. Negotiation of identity & space become a constant choreographed action throughout the day as public & private space merge. ” - Kordae Henry

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- Co-founded New Territories/ R&Sie(n) (1989) - Graduated from the School of Architecture of Versaille (1987) - His work was profiled in the book, 'Bioreboot: The Architecture of R&sie{n}' (2010)

CRITIC: François Roche STUDENTS: Billy Wang Geongu Lee

“ In an attempt to disguise our shelters, we are forced to collapse our once proud metropolises...We use destruction as our camouflage, favoring the unfavorable and redefining the ruin. ” - Billy Wang & Geongu Lee

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CRITIC: François Roche “ The smell of shit, grease & cum surround the younglings’ STUDENTS: climb to the nest, a space for many, a place for Jacqueline Martinez entertainment, & joy, a place to take out trash & bring Walaid Sehwail - Jacqueline Martinez & Walaid Sehwail

street life up & defecates their waste.”

Agave culture Ravine reuse

Retention Basin

Plastic Manufacturing Building Components

Hydroponic culture

PET sorting /recycling Trash reuse

Pop up retail Plastic units

Water treatment facility rainwater reuse

NGO office

Train Station (Toluca)

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Advanced I —ARCH 701 Design Studio—Rojkind

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Michel Rojkind Lecturer

- Founding Partner of Rojkind Arquitectos, Mexico City (2002) - Studied Architecture and Urban Planning at the Universidad Iberoamericana (1994) - Winner of the Emerging Voices Award by the Architectural League of New York (2010) - Awarded the International Architecture Award (2008).

CRITIC: Michel Rojkind STUDENT: Claire Laurence

“...the city could use the disposed plastic to make building components which could transport water, creating a hydraulic structure supplying water. A landscape of articiality emerges, contrasting the natural ravine.” - Claire Laurence

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CRITIC: Michel Rojkind STUDENT: Natasha Chamilakis

“Hyper-designed buildings that house a mix of institutional and cultural programs are intertwined with a web of pathways and open spaces, blurring the boundary between inside and outside.” - Natasha Chamilakis

Michael Royer (MR), Walaid Sehwail (WS), Michael Zimmerman (MZ)

MR So, what’s this all about?

WS It’s about developing conversations.

MZ And about cultivating student culture.

WS T he conversations get people out of the studio and give them a chance to talk about the work. It’s important to discuss our work, not only for the sake of helping each other to better the project, but the conversations should facilitate a better understanding of the differences between studio agendas.

MZ T hey will be much different than reviews. There won’t be a jury…and it’s not about critiquing a specific project or recent work. The conversations should attempt to make connections – or question the connections – that students observe among the studios within the school.

WS O f course. All of that work influences what we do in studio just as much as the work happening around the school.

It’s just as important to address that work in the conversations.

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MR T hese conversations should include faculty in some way. After all, they’re the ones creating the studio agendas and we should consider their own work as much as we consider the work within the studios.

MZ Y es…but let’s make sure the conversations don’t turn into interviews. There’s a difference between an interview and a conversation.

WS T he conversations should be much more informal than an interview would be.

MZ … and that informality has to do with the idea of cultivating the student culture. These conversations should aim to put aside hierarchies.

Students should feel comfortable addressing these issues with their own instructors…they should be raising questions about the studio work and making more critical observations about it too.

WS . ..and on the other hand, the faculty should encourage the discussion and participate as the students do.

MR T he conversations will also allow students to address faculty without necessarily being in their studio.

WS Y es, and that should inspire interesting discussions because observations and questions will be introduced from different perspectives.

MZ I think we should stop there. Let’s not define this thing too much…leave room for the conversations to define themselves…and new ideas to emerge that we don’t predict from the onset.

MR It’s just a framework.

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MR W hat about the work that students check out from different blogs or journals?

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Hatch aims to enrich the student culture by hosting conversations between students and faculty outside of the studio setting.

The conversations are meant to engage students in contemporary disciplinary issues in order to enhance the discourse and work within studios.

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I think that Jason and Heather are definitely like arch-parents.

Basically all of the instructors I had at UCLA, I mean Greg Lynn for sure, even though he hardly met with us, there were a few things he said that were some of the most powerful things that I still remember. But also, say, Reiser Umemoto. But a lot of it too is that you’re fighting them the whole time that you’re kind of learning from them.

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A re there specific things that you’re working on that you think you’ve taken from these people and now made your own?

Or things that you think about and , maybe not yet, but you’re trying to push?

Saunders For us, I start early with process and geometry. It’s more about having students start to look more closely at geometry and to really start to have explicit control over what they’re doing.

Especially with so many digital tool sets, data is easily generated very quickly and I think that there’s a bit of a loss for

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C an you talk about your obsession with crafted curvature?

I guess it has to do with a reaction towards being able to operate through platforms where a lot is dictated by the platform itself and begin to develop of a level of mannerism, or craft, within that and really understand how you control that... Also, part of it is also that when I started, there were no computers. I started drawing by hand. So, I’m in this generation where I’ve seen both sides, and I have to say that I resisted computers for a long time. I went through grad school without

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Can you talk about the graphic quality of your project? There seem to be different types of graphics, so can you talk about what is important about the graphics that you use in your work?

Wiscombe I love the way that you can change the reading of a mass through something that we assume to be hierarchically below mass. The graphic can change the reading of the mass and I find that to be a contemporary quality.

However, I think there’s also a movement to talk about pure painterly effects in architecture and I think that delimits the things that we’re able to achieve in architecture, and I would never want to remove mass from that equation.

500 and 600 level students sat down with the following participating faculty: Mikey Loverich Andrew Saunders Eduardo Rega Kutan Ayata Tom Wiscombe Josh Freese Ferda Kolatan

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S omething that’s very important to both of your studios is the process. How much of the process is important to be read in the final design? If it is not important to read the process within the final design, then how would you like the final design to be evaluated?

touching any 3D software at all.

But I was always interested in crafting something, and I think when maybe it shifted for me and curvature modeling through rhino, which was the primary tool that we engaged with at Reiser-Umemoto...it’s actually more they’re influence on me then something I just developed on my own...but somehow, a tool that allows me to draw and build surfaces simultaineously, draw and model or model through drawing, has been a natural habit for me coming from hand drawing. And I guess that the

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everything that you gain there.

I’m not against the procedural softwares, but for everything that you gain there you’ve lost an ability to explicitly decide and to recognize certain spatial and formal qualities and create them. So, my process lately is to have students look closely at geometry and be able to understand and be responsible and take authorship over what they’re doing.

January 21st, 2015

Lecture: David Benjamin, founder The Living and Assistant Professor, Columbia GSAPP

Hy-Fi Installation at PS1 MoMA, New York, NY 2014 Hy-Fi Installation at PS1 MoMA, New York, NY 2014

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AIANY Exhibition to Feature “ Built by Women Awards”

PennDesign alum Wins League Prize Award

“Built by Women” was an exhibition hosted by the Beverly Willis Foundation and the AIANY, the New York Chapter, held from March - April 2015. Archi-Tectonics’ 497 Greenwich Building got awarded as one of the best Residential building designed by a woman, and was included the exhibition. Built by Women (BxW) is a social and educational initiative, celebrating women’s contributions to the built environment. In addition to recognizing and supporting the diverse women working in these professions.

Please join us in congratulating PennDesign alum Clark Thenhaus (M.Arch 2007), of Endemic, on his Architectural League of New York Prize win!

"The Architectural League Prize is one of North America’s most prestigious awards for young architects and designers. The Prize, established in 1981, recognizes exemplary and provocative work by young practitioners and provides a public forum for the exchange of their ideas."

AIA Names 2015 Fellows

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Beantown Goes Deep Green with ISA

Young & Ayata published

Brian Phillips featured in The Architect's Newspaper as one of the winners of the E+ Green Building Program’s competition!

Young & Ayata published “The Estranged Object” by the Graham Foundation.

APRIL 2015

PennDesign On Catwalk At The Wharton Charity Fashion Show

MAY 2015

On the evening of Thursday, April 09, 2015, the Crystal Tea Room in the historic Wanamaker Building--Philadelphia’s first department store--transformed into a catwalk for Wharton’s Spring Charity Fashion Show.

The show, an annual student-run event that features world-class designers and raises funds for a local Philadelphia Charity, is run and staffed by volunteers and students from the Wharton student body. One hundred percent of this year’s proceeds will go to YouthBuild Philadelphia, a second chance program for innercity high school dropouts aged 18-21, who have aged out of the public school system.

A group of twelve PennDesign students topped off the first half of a stunning show. The fashion-forward ensemble they created was composed of aggregated Mylar triangular units...The piece was inspired by designers such as Iris van Herpen, whose cutting edge creations focus on emerging materials, textures and technologies.

The design was led by M.Arch Candidates Benita Trenk, Olga Karabinech, Mia Landsbergis, Kevin Chan and Pingle Li. Fabrication was led by Roni Gerner, MEBD Candidate, Elizabeth Bland, MArch/CPLN Candidate and Tanuja Manohar, MArch Candidate and supported by photographer Alex Chin, MArch/MLA Candidate.

JUNE 2015

PennDesign's Franca TruOckman Award- biano’s Book ed Graham Selected as Foundation 'Excellence' Grant

by Korea Publication InThe Graham Foundation has named Joan dustry PromoOckman, lecturer tion Agency and Distinguished Senior Fellow, among a select group of individuals awarded funds to pursue projects that engage original ideas in architecture.

PennDesign’s Ockman was awarded in the category of publications for Architecture among Other Things, which gathers twenty-five essays and occasional pieces written by the author over the course of her career as an architectural critic, historian and educator.

Natasha Chamilakis and Juan Tejedor of Franca Trubiano's studio win AIA Knowledge Community (e.g. Healthcare Design and COTE Top Ten) for Arch 602!

Juror's Comments: "This project stands out for its fantastical aesthetics and strong graphic capabilities. There is an impressive analysis of resources and a careful consideration of the envelope.

It sparks a pertinent conversation about performance and parametrics. The design is energizing and inspiring for its attempt to provide a performative backbone to the geometric exercise of parametric design.

The intention to derive the geometry by the desire to regulate light and solar gain should be lauded".

The Korean translation of Franca Trubiano’s book, Design and Construction of High Performance Homes, was selected as one of KPIPA’s (Korea Publication Industry Promotion Agency) excellent books. KPIPA is a government agency which plans to elevate the international competitiveness with respect to publishing media and industry. They vitalize publication of high-quality written works on humanities, social sciences and sciences by holding various competitions including Sejong Outstanding Scholarly Book Awards.

The winners of the 2015 Sejong Outstanding Scholarly Book Awards were announced on June 26th. The competitive nominates were thoroughly reviewed by renowned professionals. As a result, 320 books were chosen. These award winning books including the Korean version will be purchased by the Government and distributed at a national library and 1,400 other public libraries.

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The American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment (AIA COTE) partnered up with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) to announce the first annual AIA COTE Top Ten for Students.

“The program challenged students to submit projects that use a thoroughly integrated approach to architecture, natural systems, and technology to provide architectural solutions that protect and enhance the environment. The competition recognizes ten exceptional studio projects that seamlessly integrate innovative, regenerative strategies within their broader design concepts.” - via www.acsa-arch.org We are extremely pleased to announce that Franca Trubiano’s responsive building studio students (Arch 602 – Spring 2014), Natasha Chamilakis and Juan Tejedor, have won! Their project will be exhibited at AIA Atlanta in May and ACSA Seattle in 2016.

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The 2015 Jury of Fellows from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) elevated 147 AIA members to its prestigious College of Fellows, including the University of Pennsylvania School of Design lecturers in architecture Neil Denari, Scott Erdy and David McHenry as well as alumni Marc Marguiles, C’75, M.Arch’79, Harry A. Mark, M.Arch’95 and Daniel K. McCoubrey, C’75, M.Arch’81.

Out of a total AIA membership of over 85,000 there are over 3,200 members distinguished with this honor.

The Fellowship program was developed to elevate those architects who have made a significant contribution to architecture and society and who have achieved a standard of excellence in the profession. Election to fellowship not only recognizes the JUNE 2015 achievements of architects as individuals, but also their significant contriStudents Win COTE Top 10 bution to architecture and society on Studio Award a national level.

JULY 2015

Archi-Tectonics/ Winka Dubbeldam in New York Magazine

PPD Is Now Master of Science in Design

The Chelsea Townhouse was featured in a 5-page spread in the Summer 2014 issue of New York Magazine. The article titled “With the Flow” featured an interview with both Winka and the client.

The Chelsea Townhouse project was a gutrenovation of an existing landmark townhouse, and enlarged with a 12’ garden extension. Further changes were made to the building height, façade and interior, with a complete redesign of the interiors and garden space. The new folded garden façade of steel and recycled palisander hardwood has large pivot doors fluidly connecting the in- and outside.

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PennDesign Team Wins Vertical Cities Asia 2015 Over the course of the summer, six PennDesign students developed two alternate proposals as submittals for the Vertical Cities Asia International Design Competition, an event organized by the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the World Future Foundation. The competition asked design students from 10 select universities around the world to speculate on future configurations of urban form at a density of no less than 100,000 people per square kilometer.

The prompt called for a new city district on the site of the former Paya Lebar Air Base located in Singapore where the thematic concept "Everyone Contrib-

utes" would be answered through the students' schemes.

On July 7, 2015, the six students presented their scheme to an international jury of design experts at the National University of Singapore.

On July 9, Team A from PennDesign was announced as the 1st Prize Winner for Vertical Cities Asia 2015. Teammates Joseph Rosenberg, Daniel Lau, and Lindsay L Rule were then invited to present their scheme to the guest of honor, Singapore's Minister of State for National Development, Dr. Mohamad Maliki, who shared their enthusiasm for innovative farming technology and productive landscapes within Singapore.

It's official! Our former Master of Architecture II post-professional degree, sometimes referred to as PPD, is now the Master of Science in Design with a concentration in Advanced Architectural Design (MSD-AAD). There will be no significant change to the program, though our faculty are always working to improve content and coursework for all of the programs at PennDesign. Please note that the Master of Science in Design degree is a separate, distinct program and should not be confused with our Master of Science in Architecture degree program; the MSD-AAD has a concentration in design whereas the MS Architecture focuses on research. We look forward to receiving applications for the first MSD class when our application opens on September 1st!

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M.Arch's Gary Polk on suckerPUNCH

PennDesign YES Pavilion on ArchDaily

Refraction is defined as the fact or phenomenon of light being deflected in passing obliquely through the interface between one medium and another, or through a medium of varying density.

From ArchDaily. com: "the PennDesign Pavilion is a surprisingly lightweight, flexible structure despite its hefty looking exterior. Formed of wooden arch works as a frame with metal laid over the top, the pavilion aims to explore topological construction and the logic of assembly".

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CRITIC: Neil Denari STUDENTS: Gregory Whitney Dana Stokes

“Where horizontal & vertical typologies connect a corruption within the tower cluster forms an atrium space acting as a mixing chamber, blending users & stimulating cultural & economic opportunities.” - Gregory Whitney & Dana Stokes

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Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss in New Book

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“ A shelter designed to confuse the majority...Violence in architecture, through demarcation of resources is unavoidable, and in a coup this concept must be embraced, enhanced....a visible wreck on the skyline...” - Michael Royer & Peter Wildfeuer

Young & Ayata Win Bauhaus Museum Competition

From ArchDaily.com: The Foundation Bauhaus Dessau has announced two winners in its competition to design the new Bauhaus museum.

The winning teams of Gonzalez Hinz Zabala and Young & Ayata, from Barcelona and New York respectively, were selected from a total of 815 designs submitted after the competition was launched earlier this year. In its press release, the Foundation stated that both designs "continue the Bauhaus tradition, albeit from very differing approaches." With the new museum planned for completion in time for the Bauhaus' 100th anniversary in 2019, the Foundation has stated that they "will commence parallel negotiations with the two first award winners" in order to award the commission for the final design, with the intention of resolving the stalemate within the next three months.

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CRITIC: Francois Roche STUDENTS: Michael Royer Peter Wildfeuer

Architectural Record announces the winners of its second annual Women in Architecture Awards, celebrating five architects for their contributions to the field while highlighting the increasingly visible role women play in the profession.

On October 6, just one day before RECORD’s 2015 Innovation Conference, a morning symposium followed by a luncheon honoring the winners will take place at the Time & Life Building in the heart of New York City. Sylvia Smith, principal and senior partner of FX Fowle, and Julia Murphy, associate with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, will speak at a morning symposium about the challenges women face as design leaders in large firms. For more information on how to attend, visit arwomeninarchitecture.com.

“We aim to push the conversation about women in architecture forward with this forum,” says Cathleen McGuigan, editor-inchief, Architectural Record, “to spotlight their accomplishments and encourage firms to promote women architects and their work.”

While a 2014 report by the National Architectural Accrediting Board found that women comprised 43 percent of students en-

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'New Urban Ideologies' positions architecture as a conceptual twin, driver, enabler, of spatial dis-charge for architecture in contested urban ideologies.

The research-based seminar conducted at University of Pennsylvania School of Design Architecture Department inves'tigates possible roles of a future designer in practice engaged vis-a-vis emerging aspects of new urban ideologies that affect fields of architecture, urbanism, art and activism.

rolled in accredited architecture programs and 42 percent of those awarded degrees, the American Institute of Architects’ 2014 firm survey found that just 26 percent of licensed architects are women. “There’s more work to be done, especially in terms of increasing women principals and partners, but the number of women in the field is growing,” says McGuigan.

“We’re pleased to recognize a few of the many impressive professionals with these awards each year.”

This year’s winners of the five awards are Billie Tsien, Meejin Yoon, Anna Dyson, Pat Sapinsley and our very own Marilyn Jordan Taylor won the 'Educator Award'. Honoring a professional who has helped the advancement of women.

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Simon Kim

Homa Farjadi

Sulan Kolatan

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Winka Dubbeldam

Coordinator Ali Rahim

Marion Weiss

Nanako Umemoto

Tom Wiscombe

In the last semester of PennDesign we give the students the option of doing independent thesis or a Design-Research studio. The notion of Design-Research at the architecture department of PennDesign, unlike research in many fields, is informed through the active and iterative process of design and is inseparable of design.

As the final semester of the Master of Architecture program, this studio is a capstone educational experience shaped by a range of contemporary theoretical and methodological lenses. These exploratory pursuits allow students to expand on the foundations established in the prior semesters. The aim is to develop critical, creative, and independent thinking that recognizes the necessary agility contemporary architects must have to integrate seemingly incongruous criteria into the evolution of design. We see the collaborative studio format as a team building pursuit that enhances the dialogue and deepens the research.

At the upper levels of the program, students establish individual trajectories by selecting from leading figures in architecture, such as for example Thom Mayne, Jason Payne, Tom Wiscombe, Marion Weiss, and Cecil Balmond, working in an immersive laboratory. Each studio is an incubator that brings distinct forms of experimental approaches to the practice of architecture. This diverse range of studies have included: emergent forms created through non-linear methodologies, operations in engineered chance, inquiries into transformative waterfront development in Dhaka, parametric strategies for coherence with misfit objects, architectural studies in extreme farming, and inventing new academic/ entrepreneurial form giving ecosystems.

Characterized by an immersive engagement in techniques from the digital to the dialectic, each studio brings design speculation to center of the discipline.

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This research may be informed by a panoramic cross section of systems, whether parametrically linked or located closer to parallel disciplinary algorithms.

Each Design Research studio is cast as a distinct experiment led by reknowned architects, requiring each student to establish individual trajectories and bring an elasticity of expectations to the agenda of architecture.

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The Superblock Homa Farjadi, critic (TA: Charles Curran) Spring 2015 — page 214 - 217 As in previous years this studio will take up two texts of architecture. The two, one in design and one in words, are unrelated in their chronology and address parallel yet unrelated issues. Our work in design studio is to construct counterfactual arguments between the two as an autonomous exercise propelling critical/ constructive design thinking for a contemporary design of a super block.

Miguel Fisac is a Spanish architect whose work is mostly celebrated as a designer with engineering innovation. Reinforced vaulted brickwork, long span hollow concrete beams as in his Center for Hydrographic Studies in Madrid may suggest an osteo structural – design, many of his building for the industry would have elemental precedents. Yet in these industrially scaled constructions of long span hollow pre-stressed concrete set on blank concrete walls a special category of space is found which goes beyond simple analogies of skin + bones. It prompts

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F ormative Logos Cecil Balmond with Ezio Blasetti, critics Spring 2015 — page 214 - 217

lenses of perception of abstract figures, whose structure always escapes a complete representation. The process begins with building a matrix of sufficient complexity.

If we set the subject inside the matrix, the result is morphogenetic, at the origins of life. As we shift to the exterior the resultant structure becomes geologic, crystalline.

As an architectural inquiry, the study of hyper-dimensional objects attempts to rethink fundamental elements and methods of our discipline. The ‘sectional object’ problem, or even the very act of the architectural section is open to investigation. Interiority and Individuation become flux. Symmetry in this context looses its bio mimicry and its elevated to an abstract quality.

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The Infinite Corridor is the hallway, 251 meters that runs through the main buildings of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The recent territorial merging of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the city of Cambridge has crystalized the potential of an ideal incubator for academic research and entrepreneurial productivity.

MIT, unlike many urban institutions, has embraced the notion of a more porous delineation between campus and city. This outlook has stimulated the creation of a new special use district at the east edge of campus and south edge of Cambridge, designated as a new high density live/work research district that is simultaneously urban and academic.

The Project: Isolated Utopia or Networked Centers The current master plan of this new district divides buildings by use and lot; our studio challenge is to recast this plan through new ideological lenses, inflecting the identity of this territory to suggest entirely different architectural typologies.

While social scientists at MIT have speculated that150 meters is the physical limit of the probable “collisions” that lead to collaborative enterprise and innovation, parallel research on cities and innovation confirms that the creation of patents and inventions are exponentially increased in urban centers. This delta between architectural and urban distances raises the question of what new configurations, lateral and vertical, natural and artificial, can amplify the inclination to initiate unplanned collaborative initiatives.

The studio will question not only the urban and landscape identity of this new district, but also the lateral distance

This research studio will investigate nonlinear algorithmic procedures at both a methodological and tectonic level. This exploration will take the form of design research, which will be tested through a concrete architectural proposal. Design research is not defined here as a linear scientific process with objective outcomes, but rather as the iterative, non-linear and speculative process with the ability to reassess and shift our disciplinary discourse.

Project: The studio will propose a hybrid program between a spiritual/religious function and an archive/library. Key elements of the programmatic narrative will be internal to the development of each project and are expected to emerge out of the dialogue between the abstract ontological component of the project and the architectural intention. This is a speculative research studio and the definition of the program is part of the design problem.

Conceptual framework: ‘How can a being manifest being’s anteriority to manifestation? What is it that permits mathematical discourse to bring to light experiments whose material informs us about a world anterior to experience?’ In this short passage, speculative realist philosopher Quentin Meillassoux claims the primacy of mathematics over perception, in the access of qualities of things. Expanding on this notion beyond the ability of description of the world, this research studio will investigate the underlying idea that formal systems and algorithmic processes have the capacity for expansive translatability between mediums.

Hyper-dimensional objects: Inherent in every object is a multiplicity of dimensions, a nexus of qualities with different ways and degrees of access. Similarly, in geometry, the study of higher dimensional Euclidean orders is always a process of negotiation: data and its manifestation withdraws relative to different perspectives. Notions of projection, intersection, mapping and embedding are

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between structures and the vertical limits of collaboration. Without predetermined answers, the creation of this new campus at the edge of campus, city at the edge of the city, raises critical questions: How can we recast prior academic and corporate models to create a new academic/entrepreneurial ecosystem? What design strategies effectively leverage the subsurface zone? What marriage of ecological and academic aspirations will translate into new infrastructures that can catalyze innovation?

This studio challenges students to recast the conventional distinctions between an academic center and think tank, suggesting new reciprocities between technology, urbanity and academic inquiry, where the finite boundaries of an urban network is radically globalized by its wireless connections to international markets.

Research and Proposition: The focus of this studio will be the development of a new urban incubator, initiated with a three week research project on research centers, both academic and corporate, investigating the utopian legacy of these models and inflecting those models to engage new ecological imperatives and cultural agendas.

The studio will develop, at multiple scales, a framework plan for an innovation district and academic incubator, capable of leveraging the latent ecologies of this urban/ academic site and the multiple identities implicit in this hybrid petri dish for research.

The final project will select a DNA slice of this new territory to give measure to the architectural potential of this unfinished corridor and create new ground for utopian aspirations, academic enterprise and entrepreneurial innovation.

As we are continuing to discover the many ways in which green space in combination with blue space is performing ecosystem services and increasing urban

Topic: Grey Space as Green Space

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H aute Couture: Alexander Mcqueen Headquarters Ali Rahim, critic (TA's: Lois Suh & Maru Chung) Spring 2015 — page 214 - 217 The design of the Headquarter for Alexander McQueen aims to underline its

innovation, new techniques in production, provocative forms of presentation and cutting edge couture. We studied McQueen's contribution to the developments in the design and manufacturing of garments.

With a keen interest in fabrication and new materials we developed a building that combines the latest form, materials and technologies available to Haute Couture.

We utilized these innovations in the development of a headquarter particular to Alexander McQueen that serves Japan and the region.

McQueen has recently sold its major share to the Gucci Group who is currently trying to infiltrate the Japanese market, and is interested in expanding in Asia. Aoyama in Tokyo has been selected for the location of a new regional headquarters. One of the most popular entertainment and shopping areas in Tokyo, Aoyama recently became a new center for the international fashion industry where world renowned brands Neil Barrett (Zaha Hadid Architects), J.P.Tod's (Toyo Ito), Dior (Sanaa), Chanel and others opened flagship stores to claim a presence on Omotesando street. The local Japanese market is well established nationally but fails to become regional in most cases.

Fashion Industry Innovation: Recent developments in the fashion industry include innovations in form, material and technology. New form is developed using sculpted surfaces, structural boning and voluminous pleating inspired by nature. These formal techniques include integrating differences into surface continuity with varying opacity and transparency as well as luminosity. Structure is also integrated into the compositions, particularly a new method of structuring and contouring called boning which is constructed by advanced plastics, reducing weight and increasing flexibility and formal definition. In addition to lightweight aluminum and glass, latex and silicones have been refined for the use in new technologies for fashion so that their consistency is ideal for molding and

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For this iteration of the research studio into immersive kinematics and agency, the

The Geometry of Green _ Ecology Lab in Istanbul Sulan Kolatan critic (TA: Robert Cervellione) Spring 2015 — page 214 - 217

and social resilience, we arrive at the conclusion that we must introduce more green/ blue spaces into our cities. But this may not be possible to the degree necessary in order to significantly increase urban resilience.

The conversion of urban land, i.e. real estate, into patches of nature to any significant extent has its limitations. As long as we are designing grey space as usual and proposing green space as a remedy to the pathologies of grey space, while attaching most of the significant resilience performance to green space, we find ourselves on the loosing end of a self-imposed zero-sum-game.

On the other hand, if we can turn grey space green by designing the morpho-material qualities of built space, architectural objects and urban surfaces in such a way that they can operate more like natural systems, we can create the potential of a future urbanism where there is not only more actual green space in cities, but where patches of green/blue infrastructure and synthetic built space become inextricably linked in a mutualistic mode of super-sized ecosystem services instead of being engaged in a zero-sum-game competition for limited urban terrain.

Thus, my goal here is not to present an alternative to green space, but to propose an extension of the notion of green performance and the qualities of resilience beyond green space.

The studio will explore these issues based on the typology of the “science lab”, more specifically, a lab for ecological research. The excessive surface affordance will be designed for flora and fauna, as well as the building’s contact and exchanges with earth, water and air.

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durational objects and environments is amplified while the motivating procedures are narrowly focused. Rather than occupy the realm of Anthropic Mechanism, and what began in the 17th century of partsto-whole determinism, the studio pursued architecture of transformation. At the site of the 1967 World Exposition in Montreal, lineaments and features of architecture, formed by a nervous matter, continually shifts, ruptures, and pulse. The studio is engaging architecture and urban design from the perspective of the space within and without a ductile envelope. By allowing these environments and atmospheres to have sovereignty or dominion over their own properties, the architectural discipline is afforded an expanded repertoire. Not to be confused as miasma, or ether, the fluid that is present among occupants and buildings is shaped and moved by all participants.

The projects presented here develop a design response to spatial and tectonic conditions in vitae. By imbuing forms in space with sensate and responsive traits, an architecture may emerge of moving sound, drawing scent, and ripping interference patterns. These active transactions are multifold in seasonal shifts, human awareness, and even networked with other environments.

The Fun Palace Project of Cedric Price was studied at the archives of the Canadian Centre of Architecture (CCA). The work of the Self-Assembly Lab of Skylar Tibbits, the Mediated Matter Group of Neri Oxman, and the FARMM at McGill was closely examined during a research trip.

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questions around its industrial structure, forms of material mass, aleatory perception of dimension or scale as well as phenomenal reception of light and cavity enabling an industrial program and technology of prefabricated construction to create conceptual form.

Fisac’s Santa Ana church in Madrid, separates the wall and ceiling. Soft lined plasticity of one and the metric seriality of the other merge to define a massive interior space which transforms the apparent structural discrepancy between the two.

In other projects he experiments with soft formwork concrete where surface stops working as structure. The lessons of the work may be easy to find in their constructive process but harder to learn in the conceptual framework. Designing for the industry, for the office space or for a church, the attenuations of elements and bending surfaces is not simply aesthetic or structural. We will look into the structural, material and spatial operations of each to analyze the matrix of logics operative in the conceptual expression it constructs.

Alan Colquhoun’s essays in our second text re-assess modernism in light of assumed abstractions. His writing dissects, projects and ideas with a sharp thinking tool. Myths around nature and technological determinism, typologies in transformation, urbanism of the superblock and others give us a perspective on how design criteria operate in our time in respect of the modernist Avant Garde. The class will analyze individual topics from 6 essays, and intersect their criteria in the design process assumed by the work of Fisac. Conceptual conflicts will be encouraged.

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Black Holes, Black Diamonds, & Reified Reflections Tom Wiscombe, critic (TA's: Andreas Kostopoulos & Constantine Kiratzidis) Spring 2015 — page 214 - 217 This studio will continue work on the problem of near-figuration, which is a form of resolution of the polarizing discourse of form versus shape of the last ten years.

Near figuration is defined as the appearance of distinct, legible objects from illegible or fluid conditions, that is, as the simultaneity of things which have both graphic and formal features. This semester, we will extend that problem to include involuted figures, which can simultaneously create exterior depth effects but also interior spatial figuration.

One of the fundamental things architecture does is characterize the threshold between exterior and interior. In this, it must take an ontological position with regards to the state of existence of “outside” and “inside”, and the degree to which they might be illusions. LaTour captures that indeterminacy so well when he says “there is no outside… the outside is just another inside.” In this studio, we will define this threshold as elastic but not blurred. We will assume boundaries and limits to understanding rather than the illusion of a world of chatter and flows.

Rather than smooth topological holes, as in Reimann’s or Klein’s diagrams of curved space manifolds so prevalent in the relational era of the late 20th century, we will favor strange, primitive holes made from either subtracting or pushing chunky figures into crystalline containers or into one another.

The interplay between figures which push out, push in, or remain hidden will be used to create mysterious formations which defy access, although they may appear to have

multiple ‘doorways’.

Like black holes, these involutions may not constitute literal points of entry but rather moments of allure and lack of access.

When Dave Bowman, rocketing across the expanse of the monolith, utters “my God, It’s full of stars”, we are confronted with a vexing entity that is delimited in scale on its exterior, yet seems to contain the universe.

Its contents are bigger than the container-something Timothy Morton associates with “hyperobjects”, or entities that are vast yet withdrawn. In this studio, we will speculate on new container/contained and inside/out relations in architecture, and seek to produce strange new forms of interiority.

A key part of this work will be the exploration fake and real shadows, reflections, and halos, in terms of how they may emanate from objects and deep involutions and then be reified into physical features.

These features may exist as surface effects, such as changes of material or sheen (matte, gloss, mirror), or they may be used to transform the three-dimensional mass more aggressively. The goal will be to create flattening, depth, or obscuring effects that heighten the mystery and irresolution of the building object. Rendering will not be used to represent finished designs or produce ‘special effects’ or other phenomena, but rather as a tool to study possible configurations and patterns of lightness and darkness in service of noumena, or the thing-in-itself.

At stake, ultimately, is the status of objects, their qualities, and our lack of access to them as they withdraw into their dark interiors. Qualities, for us, will begin to slip off objects, making them more abstract and ineffable. While contemporary object-oriented philosophy may offer us windows into this problem, it will be important for us to operate within the discipline of architecture. We must generate our own lexicon and basis for success and failure, and no doubt invent new forms of subjectivity, without which architecture cannot exist.

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The occasion of the Yokohama Port Terminal competition in 1995 was a watershed for the discipline in many respects. A new generation of architects and theorists across the globe seized it as a platform to explore emerging modalities in design, design technology, and delivery which would in the ensuing decades become the medium through which and against which much of contemporary practice plays out. To understand this shift is to recognize that Yokohama elicited changes not simply in one architectural register but across almost all of the disciplinary and sub-disciplinary categories that involve the conception and practice of design.

Yokohama came at a threshold moment

trajectory of those ideas in the field.

The studio traveled to Yokohama and Tokyo.

The students also participated in symposia held at Tokyo University and Princeton University, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Yokohama Port Terminal Competition.

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Yokohama Redux Nanako Umemoto, critic (TA: Hilary Simon) Spring 2015 — page 214 - 217

when design concepts submitted to the jury: from typology to historicist post modernism, to neo–modernism, to deconstruction came up against proponents of fluent geometry, topology, single surface projects, and a host of emerging design models inspired by philosophical concepts of becoming (Deleuze), complexity theory, non-linear dynamics, etc. For this new group architecture would break its venerable pact with ideality and plunge into the material world and the ‘real’ through alliances with disciplines as disparate yet materially rooted as structural engineering, biology, and network theory.

All of this being underwritten and sustained by then emerging technologies of the digital which while not necessarily a cause of this work certainly made it possible. Finally and crucially, for the purposes of this studio, almost all the practicing proponents of architecture as a speculative discipline either directly or indirectly took part or had a hand in this competition; through word, influence, creative action or deed.

One of the guiding tropes from this period was the notion that architecture should involve itself in models of continuity and coherence: spatial, surface, programmatic, etc. as opposed to models of discreteness and boundedness: objects, collage, disjunction, etc. The power of continuity was that it seemed to apply to radically different approaches to architecture irrespective of ideology. Indeed it may be argued that some of the best work being done today freely combines models of continuity with those of the discrete; the problem lies not in the models but in the obligation to justify them in purely ideological or representational terms and thus perpetuating the specious argument that continuity and discreteness are mutually opposed categories. This studio reengaged the Yokohama Port Terminal competition twenty years out based upon the accumulated knowledge gleaned from the salient speculative projects to emerge out of the competition and the subsequent

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smoothness, while allowing for flexibility in movement. Additional advancements in materials are driven by technologies including 3D Printing, Laser Cutting and Computer Controlled Weaving. We will explore the relation of these and additional innovations and combine them with design techniques at the scale of architecture to yield a novel form for McQueen's Headquarter Building.

Haute Couture: Design Research Haute Couture is an urban and architectural setting and combines various materials and combinations of materials to formulate novelty. The resulting quality is exhibited in excessive redundancy by way of the overt accumulation of appurtenances that reflect current society.

Just as the garment is an assemblage of constituent parts, Haute Couture is form that is overtly complex providing redundant features in quantity and quality accumulated to excess. The explorations of Haute Couture seek to push beyond the austerities of digital technique and reductionism, encouraging concerns for refinement and precision to unleash an intelligence pertinent to architecture for Alexander McQueen.

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Marion Weiss Graham Chair Professor of Architecture Organizational Operation A // Stagger

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- Co-founder of WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/ Urbanism, NY (1989) - Received her MArch at Yale University and her BArch from the University of Virginia

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Public Mixing Space Private Space

- WEISS/MANFREDI has completed numerous buildings across the nation and is the winner of many architectural awards

CRITIC: Marion Weiss STUDENTS: John Luke Prifogle Gregory Whitney

“The plinth is held in place by cores that reach out to the sky. When these systems meet, mixed spaces are created to allow innovation between everyone...allowing growth with MIT & Cambridge...” - John Luke Prifogle & Gregory Whitney

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“...making synergy between city & campus, academic & entrepreneur, this design creates flexible indoor space with receptible space frames to accommodate programs which are frequently changed every year.” - Yun-su Kim & Yu Chang Tseng I-1

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PennDesign Arch 704: Spring ‘15, Instructors: Cecil Balmond, Ezio Blasetti

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Cecil Balmond Paul Philippe Cret Practice Professor

Advanced I —ARCH 704 Design Studio—Balmond & Blasetti

Advanced I —ARCH 704 Design Studio—Balmond & Blasetti

Team: Anyi Song, Xiaoqing Leah

- Founding Principal of Balmond Studio, London & Columbo (2010) - Received a MSc from the Imperial College of Science, London, and a BSc, from the University of Southampton

CRITICS: Cecil Balmond Ezio Blasetti STUDENTS: Anyi Song Xiaoqing Leah Liu

“Postulates: Counting is fundamental to thought.

Counting is discrete.

Reality is in a form of discreteness.”

- Designed the 2006 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion with Rem Koolhaas PennDesign Arch 704: Spring ‘15, Instructors: Cecil Balmond, Ezio Blasetti

- He has received numerous international awards.

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CRITICS: Cecil Balmond Ezio Blasetti STUDENTS: Jose Holguin Harry Lam Billy Wang

“...recursive subdivision may be used as a method of creating a virtual infinitude within a finite geometry. These self-similar geometries inevitably converge to points of infinitesimal size.” - Jose Holguin, Harry Lam & Billy Wang

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Advanced I —ARCH 704 Design Studio—Balmond & Blasetti

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Advanced I —ARCH 704 Design Studio—Farjadi

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CRITICS: Homa Farjadi STUDENT: Ryan Kane Chaoran Yu

“We imagined our superblock having various levels of porosity, density, directions and patterns of grain that would deal with this question of structure and light and thresholds on the superblock scale.” - Ryan Kane & Chaoran Yu

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Advanced I —ARCH 704 Design Studio—Farjadi

Advanced I —ARCH 704 Design Studio—Farjadi

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CRITICS: Homa Farjadi STUDENT: Jianan Zhang Xianping Wang Kunyu Zhu

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“...structure is occupiable, transforming the simple beam into a complex, 3D structural matrix of spaces...combination of varied scales & formal transformations to create a new structural logic of the industrial building type...”

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Advanced I —ARCH 704 Design Studio—Kim

- Co-founded Ibañez Kim Studio, PA & MA, (1994) - Graduated from the Design Research Laboratory at the Architectural Association (AA) - Taught studios and seminars at Harvard, MIT, Yale, and the AA.

CRITICS: Simon Kim STUDENTS: JungHyo Lee Yue Chen

“Material properties & elastic connections would produce an adaptable mechanism that would change in function as well as form. Designed duration would be manifested in transitions from hard, soft, open, & closed.” - JungHyo Lee & Yue Chen

- Director of the Immersive Kinematics Research Group

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Advanced I —ARCH 704 Design Studio—Kim

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CRITICS: Simon Kim STUDENT: Philip Roberson

“...interested in living architecture...Bodies would move up & project outward. Ideas of permanence & durability were shifted in large-scale bodies & terrain that would never exhibit the same sequence twice.” - Philip Roberson

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ANAMIKA NARAYNSINGH_ROSE FLORIAN RODRIGUEZ /// SULAN KOLATAN_SPRING 2015///

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ANAMIKA NARAYNSINGH_ROSE FLORIAN RODRIGUEZ /// SULAN KOLATAN_SPRING 2015///

Sulan Kolatan Professor

/// UNIT CELL_1.0

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Advanced I —ARCH 704 Design Studio—Kolatan

Advanced I —ARCH 704 Design Studio—Kolatan

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ME_ 802 cm3

- Principal of New York-based KOL/MAC LLC (1988) - Received a MS in Architecture and Building Design degree from Columbia University - Holds a Dipl.Ing. Arch. degree from the RWTH Aachen, Germany - Her work has been published worldwide, notably, at MoMA, Cooper-Hewitt, Centre Georges Pompidou, and Barbican Art Gallery London.

ANAMIKA NARAYNSINGH_ROSE FLORIAN RODRIGUEZ /// SULAN KOLATAN_SPRING 2015///

ANAMIKA NARAYNSINGH_ROSE FLORIAN RODRIGUEZ /// SULAN KOLATAN_SPRING 2015///

CRITIC: Sulan Kolatan STUDENTS: Anamika Naraynsingh Rose Mary Florian Rodriguez

“...primarily focused on protecting & restoring the flora & fauna...by integrating citizens with scientists creates investigation & curiosity, inspiring awareness of the Marmara ecosystem & marine life sensitivity.”

- Anamika Naraynsingh & Rose Mary Florian Rodriguez

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Fungi Garden

Advanced I —ARCH 704 Design Studio—Kolatan

Advanced I —ARCH 704 Design Studio—Kolatan

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Fungi Garden

Sheep Garden

Courtyard

CRITIC: Sulan Kolatan STUDENTS: Ming Zhong Jiajun Ren

“There are mycelium labs (dry-labs) for making fungi bricks which can be decomposed and fully recycled, and wool factories (wet-labs) which can create new building insulation materials.” - Ming Zhong & Jiajun Ren

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Advanced I —ARCH 704 Design Studio—Umemoto

- Partner of Reiser + Umemoto, RUR Architecture(1996) - Received a BArch, Cooper Union, New York (1983) - Received a Bach. of Art in Urban Design & Landscape Design, Osaka University of Art, Japan (1975)

CRITICS: Nanako Umemoto STUDENTS: Eunil Kim Szu-An Yao

“Inspired from casting, contouring & folding, a cloud-like lattice structure surrounds an internal program void.

The structure is deformed following the underwater geography, & program spaces are carved out.” - Eunil Kim & Szu-An Yao

- Awarded the Presidential Citation from President George Campbell from Cooper Union (2008)

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Advanced I —ARCH 704 Design Studio—Umemoto

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CRITICS: Nanako Umemoto STUDENTS: Tong Zhang Xinhui Wen

“Inspired from casting, contouring & folding, a cloud-like lattice structure surrounds an internal program void.

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Advanced I —ARCH 704 Design Studio—Rahim

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Ali Rahim Professor

- Founded Contemporary Architecture Practice (CAP), NY (1999) - Received an MArch from Columbia GSAPP, where he won the Honor Award for Excellence in Design & the Kinney Traveling Fellowship - Books include Catalytic Formations: Architecture & Digital Design (2006), Elegance (2007), Contemporary Techniques in Architecture (2002), & Contemporary Processes in Architecture (2000).

CRITIC: Ali Rahim STUDENTS: Stephen Ellis Yannick Rodriguez Diaz

“...inspired by the craft of high fashion, stitching together carefully organized volumes of various habitation & program while allowing that organization to be released like an abundant accumulation undone.” - Stephen Ellis & Yannick Rodriguez Diaz

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CRITIC: Ali Rahim STUDENTS: Walaid Sehwail Shiyun Wang

“A singular element that makes up a fur coat is pushed to an extreme mass...with an addition of cutting or multiple rakes & parting of the single element qualitative difference occurs at different scales.” - Walaid Sehwail & Shiyun Wang

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- Founder and Principal of Tom Wiscombe Design (2011) - Received an MArch from University of California, Los Angeles (1999) and a BArch from University of California, Berkeley (1992)

CRITIC: Tom Wiscombe STUDENT: Jaeho Jin

- Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor, Yale University (2012)

“Fake & real shadows, reflections, & halos are reified into physical features...existing as surface effects...They create flattening, depth, or obscuring effects that heighten the mystery & irresolution of the building object.” - Jaeho Jin

- Senior Design Faculty and Applied Studies Coordinator at SCI-Arc

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CRITIC: Tom Wiscombe STUDENT: Wongi Su

“...searched for a new form of museum by changing the gravitational center from the earth to the museum building itself...contrasting the 'architecture' that is affected by gravity of Earth.” - Wongi Su

February 9th, 2015

Lecture - Nanako Umemoto & Jesse Reiser, Reiser + Umemoto, RUR Architecture, New York

O-14, Dubai, UAE, 2006

Kaohsiung Port Terminal, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China, 2010

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274 Post-Professional Degree (PPD) 703 Introduction by Ali Rahim 292 Travel 298 Advanced 706 Thesis Introduction by Annette Fierro 304 M Arch - Master in Environmental Building Design (MEBD) Introduction by William Braham, PhD

312 MS & MSE - Integrated Product Design (IPD) Introduction by Sarah Rottenberg 316 PhD - Doctoral Degree Program Introduction by David Leatherbarrow, PhD

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PPD 703 Faculty

Ali Rahim

Ferda Kolatan

Peter Trummer

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Ali Rahim

Director

The post professional program will leverage design techniques and open them up to making an impact on the built environment of New York City. We will employ these techniques to develop a large scale building that contributes towards the development of New York City as deemed necessary by its political leadership.

Program Organization The program is organized around design research and a rigorous sequence in the history and theory of architecture of New York and intensive design techniques. The opportunity for debate, criticism, multidisciplinary experimentation between urban issues and architectural solutions with political pressures, improvisation and applied theory point towards a robust approach for studying the city. Design techniques in this format which have been exclusionary are open and inclusive of all complex information that yields excellent projects that make a real impact in New York City.

PPD as Think Tank for New York City The intention is to open up techniques to take on real world challenges and participate in the political process of New York City. Contributing towards the city through partnerships within the planning department, Mayor’s office as well as the Design Review Committee for all public projects is a start to developing a robust approach to formulating a new research for New York City- allowing Penn PPD to become a think tank for the city. This robust approach lacking in New York- other academic institutions do operate in New York but do not take on challenges of the city. By locating ourselves in this particular milieu we will open up large avenues for making an impact politically as well as develop substantive and cohesive design research which is current.

Studio: Design Research Topics will be set in consultation with the Mayor’s office, Planning Department, Design Review Committee of New York City.

Seminars are selected to compliment the thesis of the design research for New York City, providing both a platform to build historical and theoretical knowledge on New York City as well as explore the outer potentials of design techniques.

703 Coordinator, Ali Rahim.

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In times of immense growth in capital due to economies in China, India and the Middle East there is more capital than ever in the world today. While monetary capital has always played a significant role in determining the built environment, recent shifts in the character of global finance have resulted in a new relationship between investment practices and buildings. More specifically, the studio probes the notion that the increments of architecture (units, buildings, parcels of land, etc.) increasingly operate primarily as financial investment assets in contradistinction with the performance attributes typically associated with the art and science of building.

The growth of capital leads to affects in architecture and urbanism. New York City for example has 12 per cent of its housing market vacant. That is a large number.

How can architecture take on this issue and be more in alignment of or critique architecture formed global capital markets?

Project Propose a building related to capital markets for One57, 157 W 57th street in Manhattan, New York City, between 6th and 7th avenues.

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- Received a Master's degree from the Technical University in Graz and finished his post-graduate studies at the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam (1997) - Professor and Head of the Institute for Urban Design & Spatial Planning at the University of Innsbruck

CRITICS: Ali Rahim Ferda Kolatan Peter Trummer STUDENTS: Dongni Lu, Runliang Song, Xinhui Wen

- Lectures, teaches, & an invited critic at the Berlage Institute, the AA in London, the University for Applied Art, IAAC, SCI-Arc & Rice University.

“...a continuity in section & discontinuity in elevation of the spatial arrangement of the tower...The accumulation of facade units are clearly articulated, forming intricate silhouettes & a sense of disequilibrium.” - Dongni Lu, Runliang Song, & Xinhui Wen

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“...the line between the natural exterior & mechanical interior blurs & formulates a strange experience. It is not necessarily the seemingly familiar natural park, but a unique & bizarre artificial hybrid.” - Qinheng Zhang, Feici Liu, & Wei Tang

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“...the whole building is designed as an giant aesthetic ornament piece, ornament is no longer something added to architecture...it becomes the architecture and can't be detached.” - Tong Qi, Chen Ju, & Jianan Zhang

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“These conditions are both surficial and spatial, creating a context where the diversity of scales weaves in and out of the tower. This articulation of the form creates a unique and extravagant building image.” - Wongi Su, Eda Yeyman, & Shuang Zhang

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“...a continuity in section & discontinuity in elevation of the spatial arrangement of the tower...The accumulation of facade units are clearly articulated, forming intricate silhouettes & a sense of disequilibrium” - Xiani Wang, Jie Xu, Chaoran Yu & Bo Zhang

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As architecture has become a global discourse that spans cultures, economies, and building practices, PennDesign provides a number of opportunities for students to travel and study abroad. Travel opportunities range from a full semester abroad at the Architectural Association in London with Homa Farjadi (see Architecture 701) to new summer programs in Paris, Colombia and Greece, to week-long study trips in design studios at the 700-level to cities such as Mexico City, Tokyo, Madrid, and London to name a few. We also have an annual exchange with SNU in Seoul, which was generously funded by Alumnus Mr. Jeong, Young Kyoon, CEO of the Heerim Architecture and Development Company in Seoul, South Korea.

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Travel : Michel Rojkind studio in Mexico

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Travel : Eduardo Rega studio in Colombia

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The architectural masters thesis at Penn is by definition an open work, that is, its scope is limited only by the parameters of the issues raised within it. These issues, conceived initially as open questions, and finally articulated as the thesis statement, are formulated by the individual students with the guidance of faculty advisors. Taken through a rigorous process of assessment at different stages of development, Penn’s thesis is an honors program.

A thesis question is both rhetorical and speculative. The thesis question typically begins for students as a residual curiosity from work previously done or ideas left unexplored from arenas of interest that have lingering provisional character. These necessarily reside within realms identified as architectural, whether belonging to the spectrum of issues in building practices or the multiple discourses embraced historically or currently within the architectural discipline. Yet while the architectural thesis at Penn resides within the discipline, it also attempts to stretch the boundaries of its definition by challenging modes of practice that are representational, technological, economic and political. Through the full year of the thesis process, these questions are concurrently researched, elaborated, edited, and finally manifested in a work of architectural design. A thesis project is a work of craft: imagining, expanding, honing and composing a set of ideas and processes into a final set of conclusions.

Students pose widely varying topics.

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Can we develop a method by which the growth of new urban tissue is structured through the decay of the old, to both animate and evolve the urban corpse? Currently, the decay of our human artifacts, this urban entropy, typically gets type cast as signs of degradation (both land and society), blight, or nostalgia. But in fact, it is the natural ecology of urbanity. A latent potential lies embedded within the process of urban entropy. Instead of vilifying and eradicating this aspect, I propose to use these processes as generative sources of urban growth, choreographing the deterioration, prompting an evolution of the architecture instead of an end or a beginning. Working in the Philadelphia Navy Yard, on a silver of land, excluded from the commercial redevelopment masterplan, the project poses a new development gateway to Philadelphia, connecting the Navy Yard, Delaware River, and FDR Park. Arriving at a strategy of an emergent architectural scaffold, the scaffold, both physical and operative, has the bundled agenda of manipulating and subverting the successional process, choreographing the building life cycle evolution, and fostering emergent development and urban wilderness biotopes creating a resilient structure of urbanism generated from process’ of decay.

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History and structure are traditionally seen as barriers: blockades between zones of occupation. But in fact both melt and dissolve even as they are formed. Structure and history are not blockades, rather thresholds-themselves fully occupiable.

The interaction of contemporary and historic systems allows for radical and otherwise unattainable transformations. This project is the total upgrade of an existing building. A subversion of traditional adaptation. Investigating beyond existing means of preservation, the upgrade and recasting of Edward Bok AVTS projects a catalytic process and product: the synthesis of volumetric, organizational, and material recursions toward an architecture that challenges modes of design within a historic framework.

This thesis explores abandonment and radical preservation solutions that address social and political fluctuations vis-a-vis upgrade and architectural transformation. The confluence of this investigation lands at the intersection of heritage and design. In order to better understand peer projects that have also centered at this same intersection, this thesis presents additional research of adaptation strategies with foundations in typological and systemic research; probing preservation and architectural design solutions with a precedent-driven awareness for extant work and a process-driven awareness for contemporary thought places the design transformation of Edward Bok AVTS within the field of contemporary architectural and preservation theory.

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ADVISOR: Simon Kim STUDENT: HyeJi Yang

The relationship between architecture and human occupants has a long tradition of being hierarchical and one-way. Once built, architecture merely becomes a static passive object utilized with specific purpose. There are now many attempts for architecture that responds, interacts and transforms; the behaviors usually are yet restricted to the translation of given elements in very expected and repetitive patterns. The mobility breaks the total dependency of humans towards architecture; yet, there should be more intelligence, flexibility and autonomy in the way that architecture behaves. My interest lies on the interface and the possible medium of interaction between space and human occupants.

The goal is to investigate new design methodology for architecture that self-structures, responds and evolves through emergent adaptive material, computational framework and their convergence with technology.

It should further be constructed and even mobilized with the built system. It is based on the idea that architecture is always undergoing transformation with different parameters. The true meaning and interaction, according to the conversation theory of Gordon Pask, comes from a two-way conversation between entities, not as a unilateral system of one-way reactivity. As a medium of interaciton, pneumatic envelope, magnetism and electricity have been materialized to achieve soft behaviors of architecture. Contingently acting and reacting to context, human and even self, architecture machines construct their own meaning and culture.

Governed through emerging collective interactions, the architectures of these agency would construct new type of interaction and culture.

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William Braham, PhD

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William Braham, PhD

Director Rob Diemer, PE

The Master in Environmental Building Design (MEBD) is a specialized, postprofessional degree developed to train architects in the new skills and knowledge required for environmental design and especially in the design techniques with which those skills must be integrated into the practice of architecture. The one-year course of study includes coursework on building performance simulation, integrated building design, building envelopes and systems, lighting, daylighting, and the theory and practice of environmental design.

Environmental building design is a process of discovery, of deciding what to work on, before it ever becomes a matter of design. Diagramming energy and resource flows and understanding the ecological theories of self-organization, maximum power, and energy exchange hierarchies provide a scientific basis for the different kinds and scales of design practice involved.

Advanced simulation tools are used to test alternative design proposals, with parametric exploration deployed to refine and optimize their performance. The challenge is to simultaneously operate at scales greater and smaller than buildings, requiring the understanding of the chemistry of materials as well as consideration of the impact of populations of buildings on local, regional, and global ecosystems.

The MEBD operates organically with the research activities in the TC Chan Center for Building Simulation and Energy Studies.

Many MEBD students work as research assistants to faculty working the center, and the public activities of the Center provide an extension of the formal curriculum. For the last three years, the faculty in the TC Chan Center have organized an international

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conference on the topic of Architecture and Energy. This year’s event was called Energy Accounts, and it looked at the different ways in which energy is represented as data, as part of performance analysis, and as an integral part of any depiction of the future: www.architectureandenergy.com The coursework in building science, performance simulation, and theories of environmental design are tested in a Performance Design Workshop and then synthesized in an intensive Environmental Design Studio. Through their year of study, MEBD students help develop the research basis for the Design Studio. This year investigations culminated in a studentorganized symposium called 'After Growth: Designing Environmental Settlements,' which invited a variety of faculty and outside experts to help prepare them for the design studio.

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Jordan Goldstein

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Katrin Mueller-Russo

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The Integrated Product Design Master’s program brings the School of Design together with two other world class institutions, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Wharton School of Business, to offer students an opportunity to develop a holistic understanding of the product design process. There are few programs like it in the country and none that place equal emphasis on all three disciplines.

We bring in students from design, engineering, and business backgrounds and teach them to understand and integrate the other disciplines. Our graduates go on to become design engineers, leaders of innovation teams, product designers and entrepreneurs.

The Integrated Product Design program addresses many trends that are reshaping design. Businesses increasingly acknowledge the impact of design on their bottom lines, and bring designers into the product development process earlier and in strategic roles. Anyone interested in creating digital or physical products can do so at low costs. Rapid prototyping capabilities like 3D printing have shrunk the resources required to prototype, test, and manufacture products. And the products, services, and experiences that attract both customers and capital are those that combine hardware and software to create a compelling user experiences.

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Sarah Rottenberg Lecturer - Directing Associate at Jump Associates, a growth strategy firm - Received a Master of Science in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago (1997) and a Bachelor's in Foreign Service from Georgetown University (1995) - Prior to her career in consulting, Sarah worked as an assistant to the Cultural Attaché at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC.

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A home office chair that is modular to enhance economy of design, uses movement to create surprise, and is portable so you can work wherever.

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The bedroom is one of the most private spaces in the home. Because of this, it must serve your public self as well as a private self that you may not reveal outside of the bedroom space. Nightlife is a bedroom chair that accommodates your public self as well as your hidden personal self.

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Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto, PhD

David Leatherbarrow, PhD

Peter McCleary

Frank Matero, PhD

Andrew Saunders

Yun Kyu Yi, PhD

Franca Trubiano, PhD

For many years, scholarship in Penn’s Ph.D. Program has operated under a double constraint: the development of knowledge that is both descriptive and productive.

Although dedication to productive knowledge may not be common in other fields, it is entirely relevant to architecture.

Marx’s dream for philosophy—to change, not merely interpret the world—is nothing special in architecture; rather, it is a fairly obvious commonplace. Architecture is a form of engagement par excellence, aimless if not oriented toward given conditions, intent on their transformation. The particularity of architecture’s productive sort of knowledge, that it gets its hands dirty in the actual transformation of the environment in which we live, has been and remains a central concern of Penn’s architectural scholarship.

Dedication to both descriptive and productive knowledge may be apparent in the titles of some of the books published by Ph.D. graduates. Among the recent books are: Jin Baek, Nothingness: Tadao Ando’s Christian Sacred Space; Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto, Medici Gardens: From Making to Design; Thomas Beck, La Villa; Nathaniel Coleman, Utopias and Architecture; George Dodds, Building Desire: On the Barcelona Pavilion; David Haney, When Modern Was Green: Life and Work of Leberecht Migge; Zhongjie Lin: Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement in Japan; Alex Anderson, Modern Architecture and the Commonplace; Claudio Sgarbi, Vitruvio ferrarese De Architectura, la prima versione illustrate; William Braham, Modern Color/ Modern Architecture; Judith Major, To Live in the New World: A.J. Downing and American Landscape Gardening; Harry Mallgrave, Gottfried Semper: Architect of the Nineteenth Century; Gevork Hartoonian, Ontology of Construction; and Cornelis van de Ven, Space in Architecture.

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David Leatherbarrow and Ariel Genadt The full book list can be seen here:

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Since its founding in 1964, scholarship in Penn’s Ph.D. Program in Architecture has operated under a double motive: the development of knowledge that is both descriptive and productive. Although dedication to productive knowledge may not be common in other fields, it is entirely relevant to architecture. It is a form of engagement par excellence, aimless if not oriented toward given conditions, intent on their transformation. The particularity of architecture’s productive sort of knowledge, that it gets its hands dirty in the actual transformation of the environment in which we live, has been and remains a central concern of Penn’s architectural scholarship.

Dedication to both descriptive and productive knowledge may be apparent in the titles of some of the books published

by Ph.D. graduates. These books clarify developments in a number of periods and investigate a range of subjects related to architecture, landscape architecture, building technology, and urbanism. Concepts are examined—space, style, or surface color, for example—but also particular figures: Gottfried Semper, Le Corbusier, Gio Ponti, A.J. Downing, and Lawrence Halprin. This range indicates the possibility of striking a balance between architecture’s disciplinary identity, ultimately based in practice, and its engagements with several subjects and dimensions of scholarship in the university at large. Yet more than balance is at issue here, for we have learned that neither scholarship nor practice in architecture can be realized fully without reference to the other, that neither drawing nor writing can realize its potential when pursued in isolation. In reciprocity, though, they can help us know the world by productively

engaging in its transformation.

On the occasion of the program’s 50th birthday we have compiled an online display of books published by its graduates, demonstrating the diversity of approaches to architecture history and theory practiced over the years, and celebrating our community’s achievements.

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range of subjects related to architecture, landscape architecture, building technology, and urbanism. Concepts are examined— space, style, or surface color, for example— but also particular figures: Le Corbusier, A.J. Downing, Gottfried Semper, and Mies van der Rohe. This range indicates the real possibility of striking a balance between architecture’s disciplinary identity, ultimately based in practice, and its engagements with several subjects and dimensions of scholarship in the university at large.

Yet more than balance is at issue here, for we have learned that neither scholarship nor practice in architecture can be realized fully without reference to the other, that neither drawing nor writing can realize its potential when pursued in isolation. In reciprocity, though, they can help us know the world by productively engaging in its transformation.

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ARCH 511 HISTORY AND THEORY I Joan Ockman (2014C)

with each new issue adding greater complexity even as previous layers retain their significance.

ARCH 531 CONSTRUCTION I ARCH 521 VISUAL STUDIES I

This course examines the history of modern architecture since World War II, with an emphasis on relationships between architectural practices and increasing knowledge of the environment. Buildings, projects, and texts are situated within the historical constellations of ideas, values, and technologies that inform them through a series of close readings. Rather than presenting a parade of movements or individuals, the class introduces topics as overlaying strata,

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ARCH 522 VISUAL STUDIES II Danielle Willems (2015A) Visual Studies-II extends the use of the computer as a tool for architectural representation and fabrication by engaging in digital three-dimensional modeling.

Modeling is approached first of all as a set of techniques for exploring and determining design intent and direction. Attention is given to precision and detailed modeling, paralleled by the development of the critical understanding for the constructive translation between physical and digital working environments.

This course analyzes the intensive and extensive properties at the scale of the city through a series of mapping exercises. Computational strategies of transformation are deployed to create explicit formations, by utilizing the analytical methods as generative procedures. The resulting systems become the basis for experimentation with computer aided manufacturing tools of the school. In parallel to the development of

Lecture and digital modeling course exploring the basic principles of architectural technology and building construction. The course is focused on building materials, methods of on-site and off-site construction, architectural assemblies, and the performance of materials. Topics discussed include load bearing masonry structures for small to medium size buildings, heavy and light wood frame construction, glazing, roofing, sustainable construction practices, emerging + engineered materials, and integrated building practices. The course also introduces students to Building Information Modeling (BIM) in a series of 5 workshops that result in construction documents for a residential masonry load bearing/ wood frame building.

ARCH 532 CONSTRUCTION II Phillip Ryan (2015A) A continuation of Construction I, focusing on light and heavy steel frame construction, concrete construction, light and heavyweight cladding systems and systems building.

ARCH 533 ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS I Robert Diemer (2014C) An introduction to the influence of thermal and luminous phenomenon in the history and practice of architecture. Issues of climate, health and environmental sustainability are explored as they relate to architecture in its natural context.

The classes include lectures, site visits and field exploration.

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William Braham (2015A) This course examines the environmental technologies of larger buildings, including heating, ventilating, air conditioning,

ARCH 611 HISTORY AND THEORY III Daniel Barber (2014C) This is the third and final required course in the history and theory of architecture. It is a lecture course that examines selected topics, figures, projects, and theories from the history of architecture and related design fields during the 20th century. The course also draws on related and parallel historical material from other disciplines and arts, placing architecture into a broader socio-cultural-political-technological context.

Richard Farley (2014C) Theory applied toward structural form.

The study of static and hyperstatic systems and design of their elements.

Flexural theory, elastic and plastic.

Design for combined stresses; prestressing. The study of graphic statics and the design of trusses. The course comprises both lectures and a weekly laboratory in which various structural elements, systems, materials and technical principles are explored.

ARCH 536 STRUCTURES II

A continuation of the equilibrium analysis of structures covered in Structures I. A review of one-dimensional structural elements; a study of arches, slabs and plates, curved surface structures, lateral and dynamic loads; survey of current and future structural technology. The course comprises both lectures and a weekly laboratory in which various structural elements, systems, materials and technical principles are explored.

Sarah Rottenberg (2013C) The first half of this year-long course will introduce students to the theories and methods of integrated product design through a combination of lectures, readings, and exercises. The course will examine the different ideas and techniques

ings at the overall building’s scale and at the very “close-up” detail scale. At the “middle scale” the class will study elements such as stairways, apertures (windows, doors, skylights) and shading devices for external surfaces, such as louvers, tensile membrane elements, etc. At the smallest scale fragments of buildings such as door handles, handrails, hinges, etc. The role of the craftsperson, building user, fabricator, installer, will be traced as an integral factor in the design process. Students will research, in depth, aspects of the above which interest them, document them with drawings, text, photographs and physical models built in the Penn Fabrication laboratory.

This will be a very “close-up” “hands-on” class focusing on the joy of thinking out details, documenting them, and testing them in use. The Architectural Archives and the many written works on detail design will be used as reference material, as will existing buildings students visit.

ARCH 621 VISUAL STUDIES III Nate Hume (2014C) The final of the Visual Studies halfcredit courses. Drawings are explored as visual repositories of data from which information can be gleaned, geometries tested, designs refined and transmitted.

Salient strengths of various digital media programs are identified and developed through assignments that address the specific intentions and challenges of the design studio project.

Richard Farley (2015A)

ARCH 561 IPD THEORIES/METHODS I ARCH 534 ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS II

involved in integrated product design, reviewing critical concepts, historical developments, and the role of different techniques of representation and fabrication.

ARCH 631 TECHNOLOGY CASE STUDIES I Lindsay Falck (2014C) A study of the active integration of various building systems in exemplary architectural projects. To deepen students’ understanding of the process of building, the course compares the process of design and construction in buildings of similar type. The course brings forward the nature of the relationship between architectural design and engineering systems and highlights the crucial communication skills required by both the architect and the engineer.

ARCH 632 TECH DESIGNATED ELECTIVE: DAYLIGHTING Jessica Zofchak (2015A) This course aims to introduce fundamental daylighting concepts and tools to analyze daylighting design. A wide range of topics includes site planning, building envelope and shading optimization, passive solar design, daylight delivery methods, daylight analysis structure and results interpretation, and a brief daylighting and lighting design integration. Each session is composed of a lecture and a workshop. The lecture part will cover the fundamental knowledge and case studies that focus on effective daylighting design. The workshop will cover key daylight analysis tools currently used in the industry, and students will have opportunities to explore them to work on assignments and the final project. In addition, in order to orient the students to understand actual light levels, students will keep a daylighting journal with a light meter to discuss interesting daylight encounters via photos and measurements.

ARCH 632 DEPLOYABLE STRUCTURES ARCH 632 DETAIL DESIGN STUDIES Lindsay Falck (2015A) This class will explore notable build-

Mohamad Al Khayer (2014A) The objective of this course is the introduction to the history, theories and application of the rapidly growing field of

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ARCH 512 HISTORY AND THEORY II Daniel Barber (2015A)

Visual Studies-I is the engagement of graphic and visual information found in the world and in media, and its ability to contain – and more importantly, to convey – meaningful information. Intelligence in visual information is deployed to transfer cultural values, to educate and influence, and to create new relationships not easily expressed through mathematics, linguistics, and applied science.

One of the challenges in the course is the re-invention of a means of assessment, the development of notations and techniques that will document the forces and the production of difference in the spatial manifestations of the generative systems. Tactility, material, scale, profile, shape, color, Architecture works primarily in the assertion of these modes, and the meaningful production and control of these modes of communication are imperative for all designers.

Franca Trubiano (2014C)

lighting, and acoustics. Modern buildings are characterized by the use of such complex systems that not only have their own characteristics, but interact dynamically with one another and with the building skin and occupants. Questions about building size, shape, and construction become much more complex with the introduction of sophisticated feedback and control systems that radically alter their environmental behavior and resource consumption. Class meetings are divided between lectures, demonstrations, and site visits. Course work includes in-class exercises, homework assignments, and a comprehensive environmental assessment of a room in a building on campus.

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Danielle Willems (2014C) The century between the Crystal Palace and Lever House witnessed the emergence of a dramatically new building culture with far-reaching consequences. In this overview of international architecture from the second half of the nineteenth century through the first half of the twentieth, we will situate the icons and isms, the pioneers and hero figures within a broad technological, economic, sociopolitical, and cultural context. The thirteen lectures will move both chronologically and thematically, tracing architecture’s changing modes of production and reception; its pivotal debates, institutions, and tendencies; and its expanding geography, highlighting the ways the culture of architecture responded to and mediated the unprecedented experiences of modernity. We will also reflect on modernism’s legacy today. The objective of the course is not just to acquaint students with seminal buildings and their architects but also to foster a strong understanding of history and of architecture’s place in a modernizing world. Readings drawn from primary and secondary literature as well as a recently published text that is among the first to place modern architecture into a global perspective will supplement the lectures and provide a rich introduction to the historiography of the hundredyear period.

modeling skills, exercises in visualization emphasize both the analytic and affective possibilities of computer generated imagery.

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This course develops techniques for integrating environmental performance analysis and the design of buildings, with an emphasis on parametric methods.

Performance analysis techniques can provide enormous amounts of information to support the design process, acting as feedback mechanisms for improved performance, but careful interpretation and implementation are required to achieve better buildings.

Parametric descriptions will be combined with decision-making methods to achieve more complete integration. Students will begin by using analytical tools to examine the environmental performance of buildings. Following the analysis, the students will be introduced to decision-making and parametric form control methods to achieve high performance designs. The course will be given on specific topics each session. No computer programming background is required for this tutorial.

However, students are assumed to have some background in using geometric modeling tools such as Rhino, Grasshopper and basic of building environment.

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Mike Avery (2015A) Through the nearly seamless ability to output digital designs to physical objects, digital fabrication has transformed the way designers work. Over the past several years the techniques of sectioning, tessellating, folding, contouring, and forming have received a great deal of attention and have become standard methods of practice in the field. Drawing from the tradition of the architectural installation as a test bed for new technologies, this course will review the established modes of digital making while focusing primarily on the exploration of 3D printing and its place within this continuum. It is our belief that the 3D printed component has the ability to offer a unique perspective on digital fabrication, one that sidesteps the subtractive and material intensive ‘traditional’ digital techniques, and can bring with it novel ways of looking at assemblies and structure at the level of the detail.

ARCH 632 MATERIAL AND STRUCTURAL INTELLIGENCE Mark Nicol (2014C) The semester long project will involve a gradual development of architectural ideas that are intimately informed by and centered on knowledge of Structure and Materiality. Employing both physical and digital simulations, the students will synthesize knowledge acquired in previous courses in structures, materials, and construction methods to develop architectural solutions within a carefully selected set of determinants.

Work will begin with individual research and experimentation into formal systems using a given set of material and structural constraints. It will grow into a collaborative small group effort with a focus on the rationalization, resolution and execution of the design for a small scale architectural intervention. The students will learn to develop solutions by starting with a wide variety of ideas which are then funneled through critical assessment, elimination, and enriched through the constant inquiries into efficiency and elegance. The process would thus take them from concept design to design development, culminating in the development of detailed drawings and building systems for a well resolved design.

This six-week course covers the fundamentals of architectural acoustics. The lectures cover the following topics: overview of acoustics in the built environment, the role of the acoustic consultant and the interaction with the architect, fundamentals of sound - sound measurement and representation, sound generation and propagation, sound absorption and reflection and sound isolation and transmission, acoustic materials, case studies of acoustics in building projects, the history and future of performance space design. The course includes measurements and testing in Irvine Hall and two assignments, one practical (Boom Box) and one theoretical (Sound Space).

ARCH 638 SIX FACTS, SIX SCALES Billie Faircloth (2015A) This seminar proposes a seven week dissection and remapping of six numerical facts, originating at six numerical scales above or below the macroscopic scale – or the scale at which an object can be measured and observed by the naked eye. Numerical facts, originating from disciplines such as industrial ecology, biogeochemistry, microbiology, biology, materials engineering, geoengineering and applied geography, will be dissected and relationally mapped to identify each scaled fact’s potential participation as a parameter in the generation of innovative design solutions for the built environment.

ARCH 638 MECHANISMS FOR DESIGN Jonathan Albert (2015A) Mechanisms enable everything from scissor lifts and corkscrews to elevators and accelerator pedals. To design a properly working mechanism requires knowledge of how to achieve the desired motion and a source of power to make it happen. We will examine a variety of mechanisms to understand how they work and how to apply those concepts to solve mechanical problems at a human scale and beyond.

This class will provide an overview of enclosure design with a focus on materials, methods, and detailing strategies that contribute to a high-performance building envelope. An overview of design criteria, structural design of framing members and cladding materials with consideration of governing codes and standards will be given. Performance standards and rating systems such as LEED, Passive House, and Net Zero will be compared in the context of envelope design. How the design of the envelope intersects with the design and development of other building systems (including mechanical system, lighting, finishes, and structural systems) for a total building performance will be discussed. Case studies of new construction as well as retrofits of various building types will provide a basis for analyzing the development of the curtain wall through all phases, including schematic design, design development and construction detailing, the bid process, mock-up testing, field installation, and on-site field testing.

Research developments such as adaptive facades and energy-generating facades will be examined.

ARCH 638 WATER SHAPING ARCHITECTURE Jonathan Weiss (2015A) While efforts in sustainable design have focused on energy use, carbon footprint, light and materials impacts on human occupants, it could be argued that water is the ultimate test of sustainability.

Without water, there is no life. Water impacts, influences and shapes architecture in many different aspects. As our planet is ever more challenged to provide for increasing populations with finite resources, our approach to water will need to evolve to meet our new and future realities. This course is an investigation of the ways that architecture is informed by the water resources and availability of each specific project region. We will cover a range of subjects including; the physics of water, the systems to gather, distribute, supply and treat potable water, grey water, waste water, including the correlation to energy and recycling that are integrated into the architecture of buildings. How do our choices as architects impact access to water, and

how are those issues predetermined on a building, local, regional and continental scale? How can our projects react resiliently to changing climate and changing reality? If Sustainability is about providing for our needs while allowing for future generations to do the same, how does our outlook on water shape our decision making process?

course is designed as a series of lectures, workshops and discussions that allows students and future practitioners the opportunity to consider and develop the analytical skills required to create buildings in the world of practice.

ARCH 711 TOPICS IN ARCH THEORY: ARCHITECTURE OF PATTERNS David Salomon (2014C)

ARCH 638 TECH SPECIAL TOPICS: CREATIVE PROFESSIONAL WRITING Nicholas Klein (2015A) This seminar will focus on honing concepts and mastering the most dynamic ways of expressing them. Students will sharpen their skills towards becoming more confident, sensitive and evocative.

ARCH 671 PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE Philip Ryan (2014C) Arch 671 is the first of a three course sequence that discusses the issues and processes involved in running a professional architectural practice and designing buildings in the contemporary construction environment. Arch 671 will begin by briefly outlining the overall course sequence in order to locate the first section in the context of the next two courses, Arch 672 and Arch 772.

From there the course will describe the methods involved in getting, designing, and constructing a building project. The lectures will draw connections between the student’s studio design knowledge to date and the instructor’s experience in practice including local building examples and guest lectures by relevant professionals. The second half of the semester will build on the understanding of the project execution process to then shape how an office is formed and managed.

This foundation will set up the segue to Arch 672 which will delve into more detailed analysis of legal, financial, and risk/ quality management practices.

ARCH 672 PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE II Charles Capaldi (2015A) A continuation of ARCH 671. Further study of the organizational structures of architectural practices today, especially those beyond the architect’s office. The

From the structure of the universe to the print on your grandmother’s couch, patterns describe a vast array of conceptual and physical phenomena. For architecture, something that so easily traffics between scientific rigor and personal taste demands attention, which partly explains their revival. While traditionally marginalized as frivolous decoration or overly deterministic principles, recent advances in digital and materials technology have helped produce a new generation of patterns with protean vitality and multifarious intelligence.

These current versions are imbued with properties of elasticity, aperiodicity, opulence, variegation, and idiosyncrasy – qualities that enable them to simultaneously engage numerous operative and material domains. Their newly developed capacity to link seemingly disparate intellectual and cultural categories – such as organization and sensation, graphics and behavior, and process and content – provides an opportunity for a more precise and expansive role for patterns in architecture.

ARCH 711 TOPICS IN ARCH THEORY: MEGALOPOLIS Laura Baird (2014C) As this research seminar is intended to be taken in conjunction with the Megalopoli(tic)s design studio, it is the intention that students will use this opportunity and access to information as a “feeder” which can inform the design solutions they propose in the context of their studio work. It is intended that these courses will work in tandem.

ARCH 711 TOPICS IN ARCH THEORY I: CULTURE, CLIMATE, AND TECHNIQUES OF MODERN ARCH IN JAPAN David Leatherbarrow and Richard Wesley (2013C & 2014A) This seminar surveys modern architec-

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deployable structures and folded plates (complex geometric structural configurations that are used as temporary and rapid assembly configurations) through hands-on experiments conducted in a workshop environment. The course’s objective is to introduce various concepts and techniques to the design, modeling, simulation and the physical building and execution of deployable structures.

Experiments will be conducted using the hand (during the construction and observation of physical models), and computer Modeling of deployable structures using computer simulation software (Solid Works). The course is divided into two parts: in the first part, students work individually on weekly assignments building deployable structures related to the topic taught that week; in the second half of the semester, students work as one team in the fabrication shop, designing and constructing a full-scale deployable structure (working prototype). Studies include geometric studies of Platonic and Archimedean solids, space filling geometries, topology and morphological transformations, studies of different mechanical joints, and computer simulation.

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This course will ask about the interrelationships between topics of design that seem to be categorically distinct: the project’s functionality and its style, its provision of settings that allow the enactment of practical purposes and its contribution to the image and appearance of our landscapes and cities. Our concentration will be at once historical and thematic. We will study and reconsider buildings from the twentieth century and we will ask questions that resonate through the past several decades into the present, questions about the building (its materials, construction, and figuration) as well as the process of design (description, projection, and discovery). Throughout the course we will return to the building’s most visible and articulate surface: the façade. Added to the typical concerns with production and representation will be a topic of design and experience that is often overlooked: performance. A simple analogy should show the environmental import of this topic: what adaptation is to the organism performance is to the work of architecture. The attributes of the façade: its materials, fixed and moving parts, dimensions, and spaces give it capacities to act in response to its encompassing milieu.

Seen as a whole, the course will argue a simple thesis: the way the building’s looks is largely determined by what the building does – how its acts, adapts, and performs, in the city, the country, and

ARCH 712 PHILOSOPHY OF MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES

been called the capital of the twentieth century; part of our task will be to assess and debate the ongoing relevance of the thought of all four thinkers to the cities in the twenty-first century.

Manuel DeLanda (2015A) Diagrammatic thinking informs visual expression and communication in almost every creative discipline and often can be the basis of a visual epistemology—visual information and knowledge systems— that exceeds purely inductive, deductive, analytic, or synthetic means. In this joint seminar between Architecture and Fine Arts, we investigate alternative modes of diagrammatic thinking that are influencing art and design disciplines. The course provides a historical perspective on the evolution of visual epistemologies from the late 1950s and reviews its current state from the lens of contemporary representation theory, computation, fabrication, and information technologies. The goal is to situate 21st Century design in a constantly emerging visual culture and allow students to have a hands-on experience with the contemporary diagramming techniques to advance both their designs and the thinking behind them.

ARCH 712 NEW YORK AS INCUBATOR OF 20TH CENTURY URBANISM Joan Ockman (2015A) This seminar is constructed as an argument among four important urban thinkers whose visions of the twentiethcentury city were shaped by their response to New York's modern urban and architectural development: Lewis Mumford (1895-1990), Robert Moses (1888-1981), Jane Jacobs (1916-2006), and Rem Koolhaas (1944-). We will explore the central issues that preoccupied each of them -- from ecological urbanism and civic representation to urban infrastructure and renewal, from community engagement and diversity to urban spectacle and event -- and highlight differences and similarities in their conception of the city. Emphasis will be on the role of "urban intellectual" in the production of architectural discourse as well as the specific historical context to which each was responding. In addition to reading key writings by each of the protagonists, we will consider a number of other relevant urban theories. New York has

ARCH 712 BUILDING ENVELOPES: A SHORT HISTORY OF THEIR PERFORMANCE Ariel Genadt (2015A) In the 20th century, building envelopes have become the prime architectural subject of experimentations and investments, as well as physical failures and theoretical conflicts. This seminar examines the meaning of performance of 20th -century envelopes by unfolding their functions and behaviors in salient case studies, in practice and in theory.

While the term performance is often used to denote quantifiable parameters, such as exchanges of energy, airs and waters, this seminar seeks to recouple these with other, simultaneous actions performed by the envelope and by the building it encloses. Albeit numbers cannot describe those performances, their consideration is key to the interpretation of quantifiable ones. Ultimately, the articulation of the polyvalence of envelopes becomes the measure of their architectural pertinence. Each class meeting includes a lecture, students’ case studies presentation and documentary film screenings. Lecture topics address construction techniques, environmental conditioning, perception and representation, while each lecture relates one kind of performance to specific buildings where it was articulated most poignantly.

ARCH 712 URBAN IDEOLOGY: WAYS OF BEING INNOVATIVE WITH ARCHITECTURE VIS-À-VIS ACTIVISM Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss (2014A) This seminar explores expanding roles of a designer engaged in urban activism, that engulf fields and knowledge of architecture, urbanism and art. The course provides tools for critical thinking to interpret urban tensions that are often self-organized, anonymous and spatial.

At the same time we will look into tools to interpret recent shifts in the work of Peter Eisenman, Herzog & de Meuron and AMO/OMA as well as explore younger innovative and alternative practices.

The course is given by Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, PhD (Goldsmiths Centre for Re-

search Architecture, London) and former architect and cultural researcher with Herzog & de Meuron Architects (Basel, Switzerland), founder of NAO (Normal Architecture Office) and co-founder or SMS (School of Missing Studies). The participants in the seminar will be involved in conceptualizing and creating the exhibit Romancing Power commissioned by the Anderson Gallery at The New School in New York to open February 2015. The exhibit will be produced in collaboration with Nina Krushcheva, grand-dauther of cold war president of Soviet Union, Nikita Krushchev.

ARCH 712 TOPICS IN ARCHITECTURE II: BAROQUE PARAMETERS

In this course, we will take the museum as a site for critique, invention, and production. As architecture, cultural institution, and site of performance, the museum offers many relevant opportunities. Students will visit, analyze, and discuss a number of local exhibitions and produce their own intervention in individual or group projects. Exhibition design, design of museum, the process of curating, producing artworks ranging from paintings to installation and performance, as well as attention to conservation, installation, museum education, and the logistics and economics of exhibitions will be discussed on site and in seminar.

These topics and others will be open for students to engage as part of their own creative work produced for the class and an online exhibition.

Andrew Saunders (2015A) Deep plasticity and dynamism of form, space and light are explicit signatures of the Baroque Architecture; less obvious are the disciplined mathematical principles that generate these effects.

Through art historians, Rudolf Wittkower, Heinrich Wölfflin, and John Rupert Martin in addition to philosopher Gottfried Leibniz (via Gilles Deleuze), Robin Evans and the history of mathematics by Morris Kline the course will examine how geometry and mathematics were integral to 17th-century science, philosophy, art, architecture and religion. The new revelation of a heliocentric universe, nautical navigation in the Age of Expansion, and the use of gunpowder spawned new operative geometry of elliptical paths, conic sections and differential equations. The geometric and political consequences of these advances are what link Baroque architects Francesco Borromini and Guarino Guarini to other great thinkers of the period including Descartes, Galileo, Kepler, Desargues and Newton. Through the exploitation of trigonometric parameters of the arc and the chord, Baroque architects produced astonishing effects, performance and continuity. Generative analysis by parametric reconstruction and new speculative modeling will reexamine the base principles behind 17th century topology and reveal renewed relevance of the Baroque to the contemporary paradigm.

ARCH 714 MUSEUM AS SITE: CRITIQUE, INTERVENTION AND PRODUCTION Andrea Hornick (2015A)

ARCH 714 PHILOSOPHY OF URBAN HISTORY: THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK Peter Trummer (2014C) The seminar is based on the thesis that “the Architecture of the City” is not only the work of an individual architect or a company but also the product of the city itself. The intention of the seminar is to demonstrate the creative architectural production of the city of New York and particular of Manhattan. The seminar is a build up by the progressive transformation of the architecture of the city within the 20th century until today.

This process of transformation of the architecture of New York starts with the moment architecture was formed by the underlying subdivision of the cities grid, continues with the transformation of architecture becoming the city itself and ends with today’s architectural production of the city as the production of a new ground for the city.

ARCH 719 ARCHIGRAM AND ITS LEGACY Annette Fierro (2014C) Acknowledging the ubiquitous proliferation of "Hi-Tech" architecture in contemporary London, this research seminar examines the scope of technology as it emerges and re-emerges in the work of various architects currently dominating the city. This scope includes the last strains of post-war urbanism which spawned a legacy of radical architecture directly contributing to the Hi-Tech; a

particular focus of the course will be the contributing and contrasting influence provided by the counter-cultural groups of the 60's-Archigram, Superstudio, the Metabolists and others. Using the premise of Archigram's ideas of infrastructure, both literal and of event, the course will attempt to discover relational networks between works of the present day (Rogers, Foster, Grimshaw, etc.)

As this work practices upon and within public space, an understanding of the contribution of technology to urban theatricality will evolve which is relevant to contemporary spheres of technological design practices. Students will be required to produce and present a term research paper.

ARCH 724 DESIGNING SMART OBJECTS FOR PLAY AND LEARNING Carla Diana (2014C) Today's children enjoy a wide array of play experiences, with stories, learning, characters and games that exist as physical stand-alone objects or toys enhanced with electronics or software.

In this course, students will explore the domain of play and learning in order to develop original proposals for new product experiences that are at once tangible, immersive and dynamic. They will conduct research into education and psychology while also gaining hands-on exposure to new product manifestations in a variety of forms, both physical and digital. Students will be challenged to work in teams to explore concepts, share research and build prototypes of their experiences in the form of static objects that may have accompanying electronic devices or software. Final design proposals will consider future distribution models for product experiences such as 3D printing, virtual reality and softwarehardware integration. Instruction will be part seminar and part workshop, providing research guidance and encouraging connections will subject matter experts throughout the Penn campus.

ARCH 724 TECHNOLOGY IN DESIGN: IMMERSIVE KINEMATICS /PHYSICAL COMPUTING: BODY AS SITE Simon Kim (2014C) The aim of this course is to understand the new medium of architecture within the format of a research seminar. The

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ture in Japan since its so called “opening” to the West and its rapid process of industrialization in the second half of the nineteenth century. It looks at built case studies in particular through cultural, aesthetic, climatic, technical and material perspectives. Each session discusses a group of architects whose work exemplifies salient topics and turning points in the history of the practice in Japan. The seminar seeks to develop a critical understanding of the diversity of interpretations of modern architecture in Japan in relation to its particular climatic, historic and cultural setting. By studying graphic, textual and audio-visual accounts of key buildings and architects, techniques and ideas, it will establish a vocabulary to discuss contemporary works in relation to their context and antecedents.

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ARCH 724 TECHNOLOGY IN DESIGN: NON DISCRETE ARCHITECTURES: DIGITAL PROSTHETICS, CONNECTIVITY & AUGMENTED SPACE

This sponsored research course will examine advances in computing technology that are producing a new range of digitally enhanced environments, structures and spaces. Through Digital Prosthetics, Connectivity and Augmented Space designers are now operating equally with tangible form as well as with intangible attributes (the virtual). Referred to as the imiment convergence of digital and physical space, this is being accomplished through new digital interactive exchanges and engagements fostered by increased digital connectivity. Embedded computing, sensors and ever increasing ubiquitous technologies are the enablers, targeting objects, users and physical space. This directly challenges the former singular concept of space known predominantly as static, in favor of new concepts of space, such as: Networked, Interactive, Immersive, Dynamic, Augmented and Data controlled. These new concepts and the corresponding new digital technology medium are the principal subjects of this research seminar. As a laboratory we will investigate the expanding the role of the designer’s work, propose and prototype plausible design fictions and research how we as humans will interface with our new corresponding digital prosthetics, connectivity, dynamic spaces and augmented architectures?

Josh Freese (2015A) Repetition and difference in geometric tiling patterns produce visual complexity, intricacy, economy and articulation. From textiles and ceramics to architectural design, the tradition of tiling has culled from mathematical systems that inscribe two- and three-dimensional geometric conditions, ultimately yielding cultural effects that are unique to their time.

By examining this tradition across time and disciplines, this course will explore a range of mathematical systems, tools and media as well as how they advance contemporary architectural topics such as parametrics, optimization, fabrication, and implementation.

Through lectures, readings and workshops, the course will lead students to develop contemporary and futureoriented methods that establish new parameters for tiling systems. Students will identify particular tiling families from guest lectures, historical precedents and readings, and will establish conditions for scripting new assemblies for generating three-dimensional patterns and assemblies.

Fabrication methods will consider an economy-of-means, using minimal variation in base models and molds to achieve maximum differentiation in the aggregation of tiles into 3-dimensional volumetric models. It is through this negotiation between fixed rules and variable freedoms that tiling systems have historically asserted their cultural value – and this will be the ultimate goal of the course.

ARCH 726 CONTEMPORARY FURNITURE DESIGN Katrin Mueller-Russo (2015A) This course provides a platform, in the form of furniture, to execute and deploy architectural and engineering principles at full scale. It will be conducted as a seminar and workshop and will introduce students to a variety of design methodologies that are unique to product design. The course will engage in many of the considerations that are affiliated with mass production; quality control, efficient use of material, durability, and human factors. Students will conduct research into industrial design processes, both traditional and contem-

porary, and will adapt these processes into techniques to design a prototype for limited production. Instruction will include; model making, the full scale production of a prototype, its detailing; design for mass production and the possibility of mass customization; design for assembly, furniture case studies; design techniques, software integration, optimization studies; Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) and a site visit to a furniture manufacturer.

ARCH 728 DESIGN OF CONTEMPORARY PRODUCTS Carla Diana (2015A) Smart objects are information-based products that are in ongoing dialogs with people, the cloud and each other. By crafting rich interactions, designers can create expressive behaviors for these objects based on sophisticated programmed responses. At the same time, sensor technologies have enabled us to introduce natural gestures as a means of interacting with a product. (Not only can we push, pull and twist a data value, but we can wave at, caress, tilt and shake it as well.) With an explosion of new possibilities for object interaction and human control, it is the designer's role to envision new solutions that are both meaningful and responsible. This course will explore product design solutions through a combination of physical and digital design methods. Beginning with an examination of case studies, students will gain a sense of the breadth of product and interaction design practice as it applies to smart objects. Through a series of lectures and hands-on studio exercises, students will explore all aspects of smart object design including expressive behaviors (light, sound and movement), interaction systems, ergonomics, data networks and contexts of use. The course will culminate in a final project that considers all aspects of smart object design within the context of a larger theme.

ARCH 730 TECHNIQUES, MORPHOLOGY, AND DETAILING OF PHILADELPHIA CITY PAVILION Mohamad Al Khayer (2015A)

southeast corner of Philadelphia City Hall. The course will develop through hands-on workshops and will focus on acquiring knowledge through making (Techne), understanding the morphological transformation of a given geometric packing, and building using readily available materials. The process consists of building and testing physical models that simulates the actual pavilion. In addition to digital simulation sessions to realize the desired design, which answers to the program developed by the Moment Lab curators* The second half of the semester will focus on using lightweight materials to fabricate the pavilion’s actual components, including structural members, panels, and joints, which are required for pavilion’s superstructure and envelop.

ARCH 731 EXPERIMENTS IN STRUCTURE Mohamad Al Khayer (2014C) This course studies the relationships between geometric space and those structural systems that amplify tension.

Experiments using the hand (touch and force) in coordination with the eye (sight and geometry) will be done during the construction and observation of physical models. Verbal, mathematical and computer models are secondary to the reality of the physical model. However these models will be used to give dimension and document the experiments.

Team reports will serve as interim and final examinations.

In typology, masonry structures in compression (e.g., vault and dome) correlate with “Classical” space, and steel or reinforced concrete structures in flexure (e.g., frame, slab and column) with “Modernist” space. We seek the spatial correlates to tensile systems of both textiles (woven or braided fabrics where both warp and weft are tensile), and baskets (where the warp is tensile and the weft is compressive). In addition to the experiments, we will examine Le Ricolais' structural models held by the Architectural Archives.

ARCH 733 BUILDING PRODUCT DESIGN Jordan Goldstein (2014C)

The course will focus on the design morphology, detailing, and the construction of “Moment Lab Pavilion” which is to be constructed in Spring 2015 at the

This course introduces students with a design background in architecture, landscape architecture and engineering

to the design of products for buildings.

The emphasis will be on market-driven product design, with discussions and exercises that move from macro to micro, from market analysis to prototyping, through the course of one semester.

The goal of the course is to develop a concrete understanding of the building product design process, which encourages the integration of engineering and business concerns along with the experience of human interaction and emotive qualities. The course will engage with a real manufacturer, establishing the project orientation for the semester and providing access to their design, marketing, and manufacturing strategies. Course work will include marketplace research and analysis and a design project culminating in a final prototype and presentation.

practices of daily life. This course begins by examining the canonical houses of the original avant-garde--Adolf Loos, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Alvar Aalto—on the premise that their houses were working manifestos for rethinking space, form and indeed ideas of life itself—all of which were prompted by new concepts of construction. From this spectrum of issues, contemporary houses and contemporary methods and materials will be studied extensively to develop equally new ideas between matter and quotidian life. As the primary task of the course, students will work in teams to develop highly detailed constructional proposals for a portion of a speculative home.

ARCH 740 FORMAL EFFICIENCIES Erick Carcamo (2015A)

ARCH 734 ECOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE: CONTEMPORARY PRACTICES Todd Woodward (2015A) Building is an inherently exploitive act – we take resources from the earth and produce waste and pollution when we construct and operate buildings.

As global citizens, we have an ethical responsibility to minimize these negative impacts. As creative professionals, we have a unique ability to go farther than simply being “less bad,” We can learn to imagine designs that heal the damage and regenerate our environment. This course explores the evolving approaches to ecological design – from neo-indigenous to eco-tech to LEED to biomimicry to living buildings. Taught by a practicing architect with many years of experience designing green buildings, the course also features guest lecturers from complementary fields - landscape architects, hydrologists, recycling contractors and materials specialists. Coursework includes in-class discussion, short essays and longer research projects.

ARCH 738 THE MODERN HOUSE: TECHNOLOGY THEN AND NOW

The seminar is a discourse based in the use of multi-layered techniques and production processes that allow for control over intelligent geometries, calibration of parts, and behavioral taxonomies, normalizing an innovative field of predictability. Our goal is to explore innovative, potential architectural expressions of the current discourse around form through technique elaboration, material intelligence, formal logic efficiencies and precision assemblies as an ultimate condition of design.

The seminar will develop and investigate the notion of proficient geometric variations at a level of complexity, so that questions towards geometrical effectiveness, accuracy and performance can begin to be understood in a contemporary setting.

ARCH 741 ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN INNOVATION Ali Rahim (2014C) This seminar will explore systemic thinking and digital design techniques that yield architectural forms that have contributed to the contemporary discourse of architecture.

Annette Fierro (2015A) In the current age of new fabrication methodologies, methods are emerging for the conception and design of the contemporary house which have radical potential for enclosure, habitation and

ARCH 743 FORM AND ALGORITHM Cecil Balmond & Ezio Blasetti (2014C) A course on the philosophy and genera-

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subject matter of new media is to be examined and placed in a disciplinary trajectory of building designed and construction technology that adapts to material and digital discoveries.

We will also build prototype with the new media, and establish a disciplinary knowledge for ourselves. The seminar is interested in testing the architecturemachine relationship, moving away from architecture that looks like machines into architecture that behaves like machines: An intelligence (based on the conceptual premise of a project and in the design of a system), as part of a process (related to the generative real of architecture) and as the object itself and its embedded intelligence.

tive tools of Informal design, which is defined in terms of non-Cartesian, non-linear geometries and borrows algorithmic procedures from models in mathematics and the physical sciences. The course reviews readings on the topic, introductory instruction in scripting and assignments through which students gain familiarity and skill with specific non-linear models.

ARCH 744 DIGITAL FABRICATION

ecil Balmond and Ezio Blasetti C (2013C) A course on the philosophy and generative tools of Informal design, which is defined in terms of non-Cartesian, non-linear geometries and borrows algorithmic procedures from models in mathematics and the physical sciences. The course reviews readings on the topic, introductory instruction in scripting and assignments through which students gain familiarity and skill with specific non-linear models.

ARCH 751 ECOLOGY, TECHNOLOGY, AND DESIGN William Braham (2014C) The course draws on theories of ecological design and on the history and philosophy of technology to examine the complex interaction between the built and natural environments. The energy diagramming techniques of HT Odum are used as a common framework for projects in the course.

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Kutan Ayata (2015A)

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This Representation/Design Seminar will start with series of lectures examining the histories of Realism in Art spanning from French Realism of 19th Century through Hyperrealism into Parafictional Art of the recent past with their aesthetic provocations at the center of this inquiry. Weekly discussions of the reading material will be followed by student presentations on assigned topics. The design portion of the seminar will proceed with the generation of “Still Life bound” objects with parafictional scenarios. The process will carry through multiple mediums of image patterning, line drawing, 3D modeling and surface mapping, exploring the potentials of cross-medium translations, evaluated through weekly pin-ups.

These objects will then be fabricated to gain physical presence in the world. The realism of these objects as things in the world will be further explored through a project in rendering and photocomposition as each object will be inserted into

The course provides students with an understanding of building design simulation methods, hands-on experience in using computer simulation models, and exploration of the technologies, underlying principles, and potential applications of simulation tools in architecture. Classroom lectures are given each week, with a series of analysis projects to provide students with hands-on experience using computer models.

ARCH 754 PERFORMANCE DESIGN WORKSHOP Yun Kyu Yi (2015A) The workshop applies simulation and diagramming techniques to a series of discrete design projects at different scales. The emphasis is on refinement and optimization of performance based building design. Performance analysis techniques can provide enormous

vidually with each student contributing a short chapter on their case study for the seminar dossier. The remaining portion of the seminar will focus on the elaboration of individual strategies for a new 1 sq km urban district for 100,000 residents.

While this is not a studio, the expectation remains that students will develop their individual propositions using a range of visual means and modeling techniques.

ARCH 765 PROJECT MANAGEMENT Charles Capaldi (2014C, 2015A) This course is an introduction to techniques and tools of managing the design and construction of large, and small, construction projects. Topics include project delivery systems, management tools, cost-control and budgeting systems, professional roles. Case studies serve to illustrate applications. Cost and schedule control systems are described.

Case studies illustrate the application of techniques in the field.

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ARCH 811 ARCHITECTURE’S CULTURAL PERFORMANCE: THE FACADE

Chris Marcinkoski (2015A)

David Leatherbarrow (2014C)

This seminar will develop entries to the Vertical Cities Asia International Design Competition: www.verticalcitiesasia. com/. Organized by the National University of Singapore School of Design and Environment, and sponsored by the World Future Foundation, the competition is predicated on the belief that a new paradigm of high-density compact urban settlement is necessary for rapidly urbanizing Asian territories besieged by massive rural-urban migrations. Jettisoning the notion of recycling existing urban architectural models to accommodate increasing populations with devastating effects on land, infrastructure, and the environment, the competition endeavors to elaborate fundamentally new models of urbanization within a rapidly transforming 21st century Asian milieu. The first portion of the seminar will focus on developing a dossier of research related to the particular site and theme of this year's competition. This work will be developed collectively within the seminar. The second portion of the seminar will explore canonical 20th century proposals for new urban form and settlement. This work will be developed indi-

This course will examine a basic theme in modern architecture: the project’s functionality and its style; more specifically, its provision of settings that allow the enactment of practical purposes and its contribution to the image and appearance of our landscapes and cities. We will study and reconsider buildings from the twentieth century and ask questions that resonate through the past several decades into the present, questions about the building (its materials, construction, and figuration) as well as the process of design (description, projection, and discovery). Throughout the course we will return to the building’s most visible and articulate surface: the façade. Added to the typical concerns with production and representation will be a topic of design and experience that is often overlooked: performance. Seen as a whole, the course will argue a simple thesis: the way the building looks is largely determined by what the building does – how its acts, adapts, and performs, in the city, the country, and the environments that bind these places together.

ARCH 814 THE IDEA OF AN AVANT-GARDE Joan Ockman (2015A) TNo historian of architecture has written as intensely about the contradictions of architecture in late-modern society or reflected as deeply on the resulting problems and tasks of architectural historiography as Manfredo Tafuri (1935– 1994). For many architects, the Italian historian’s dismissal of “hopes in design” under conditions of advanced capitalism produced a disciplinary impasse. This in turn led to calls to oublier Tafuri—to move beyond his pessimistic, lacerating stance. The seminar will undertake a close reading of one of Tafuri’s most complexly conceived and richly elaborated books, The Sphere and the Labyrinth: Avant-Gardes and Architecture from Piranesi to the 1970s. Initially published in Italian in 1980 and translated into English in 1987, the book represents the first effort to define and historicize the idea of an avant-garde specifically within architecture. Its content centers on the architecture and urbanism of the first three decades of the twentieth century.

Yet surprisingly Tafuri begins his account with the eighteenth-century inventions of Piranesi, and he concludes with a critique of the “neoavantgarde” of his own day. In addition to traversing The Sphere and the Labyrinth chapter by chapter—starting with its formidable methodological introduction, “The Historical ‘Project’”—the seminar will read a number of primary and secondary sources on the historical contexts under discussion and consider some important intertexts that shed light on Tafuri’s thinking. The course’s focus is at once historical and historiographic: we will be concerned not just with actual events but with how they have been written into architectural history. One of our aims will be to reassess the role of an avant-garde in architecture and compare Tafuri’s conception to that advanced in other disciplines. Is the idea of an avant-garde still viable today? Or should it be consigned to the dustbin of twentieth-century ideas?

Note: This course is intended for Ph.D. students. Others will be admitted by permission of the instructor.

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This seminar course investigates the fabrication of digital structures through the use of rapid prototyping (RP) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) technologies, which offer the production of building components directly from 3D digital models. In contrast to the industrial-age paradigms of prefabrication and mass production in architecture, this course focuses on the development of repetitive non-standardized building systems (mass-customization) through digitally controlled variation and serial differentiation. Various RP and CAM technologies are introduced with examples of use in contemporary building design and construction.

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amounts of information to support the design process, acting as feedback mechanisms for improved performance, but careful interpretation and implementation are required to achieve better buildings.

Energy, lighting, and air flow are the three main domains covered in the workshop. Students will learn how to utilize domain tools at an advanced level, and utilize them as applications to examine the environmental performance of existing buildings. Using the results of analytical techniques, the students will develop high-performance design strategies in all three domains.

Lectures will be given on specific topics each week. A series of analytical class exercises will be assigned to provide students with hands-on experience in using the computer models. A case-study building will be provided at the beginning of the course and students will model different components each week throughout the semester. Every week students present the progress of their work, which will be used to correct methodological and technical issues.

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Ferda Kolatan (2015A)

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2014-2015 Complete Roster ARCH 501 - SEMESTER: 2014C DESIGN STUDIO I INSTRUCTOR: ANDREW SAUNDERS Miguel Angel Abaunza Noor W Al Awadhi Shimou Chen Michelle Ann Chew Alexander Bertin Colucci Zhewei Feng Matthew Wood Lewis Caroline Marie Morgan Yunxiu Peng Haiyin Tang Benita F Trenk Mengjie Zhu

INSTRUCTOR: DANIELLE WILLEMS Cynthia Anastasiou Elizabeth Caroline Bland Mark Anthony Chalhoub Ruiyi Chen John Dade Darby Danielle Marie Dong Ricardo Arturo Hernandez-Perez Minyoung Kim Chao Liu Po-Tsen Meng Jung Jae Suh

INSTRUCTOR: EZIO BLASETTI Samantha Phoenix Aguilar Garesa Hao En Au Jae Young Cheon Ruohan Ding Daniel Fachler Nyasha Felder Clay Edward Gruber Esther Hah Yuan Ma Angeliki Mavroleon Gary Polk Chwen-Ping Wang Jiateng Wang

INSTRUCTOR: LASHA BROWN Amanda Leigh Baker Douglas Alec Breuer Aaron Stephensen Dewey Julianna Haahs David Brian Harrop Katrina Louise Healy Zachary Michael Kile Jiyeon Lee Pingle Li Roxanna Nisuel Perez Shicheng Shen Yueting Wang Haosheng Yu

INSTRUCTOR: EDUARDO REGA CALVO Aly Medhat Abouzeid Gesu Omar Almonte Valentin Wing Sum Cheng Luis Hilario Jasso Xueyan Sabrina Li Elsa Listiani Michael Patrick O’Neill Kunil Paik Rosanne Pitarresi Andrew Townsend Singer Lara Zoe Steiner

Jiahua Xu Kaiyue Zhou

Daniel Fachler Hannah Lynn Gompers Ricardo Arturo Hernandez-Perez Yunhwan Jung Pingle Li Roxanna Nisuel Perez Andrew Townsend Singer Jiateng Wang

Keun-Hyuk Jang Daniel Kin Hoe Lau Wan Jung Lee Emma Margaret Molloy Christopher Dean Mulford Ramon Gabriel Pena Toledo Jessica Soe Elizabeth J Young Feifei Zhao

INSTRUCTOR: MICHAEL LOVERICH Wenxin Chen Yihui Gan Hardeep Singh Gujral Insung Hwang Yunhwan Jung Allison Therese Koll Emilija Kaia Landsbergis Violette Levy Matthew Roy Mayberry Yuheng Ouyang Natasha Scalia Sanjaya Alexander Yalda Saroki Yu Zhou

Keun-Hyuk Jang Audrey Tseng Lin Haiteng Liu Tianxin Luo Ramon Gabriel Pena Toledo Chenyi Shen Di Wang

INSTRUCTORS: NEIL DENARI INSTRUCTOR: HINA JAMELLE

INSTRUCTOR: ABIGAIL COOVER Chan, Chih-Kai Chow, Whitney Wing Yin Kang, Moon Ju Kim, Gene Leung, Hiu Nam Martin, Karen Larissa Reiser, Zachary Ehrhart Wang, Shiyuan Ye, Mengyao Yin, Shanshan Yoas, Andrea Grace Zheng, Kangyi Zhuang, Yanhua

INSTRUCTOR: JONAS COERSMEIER Jae Geun Ahn Dunbee Choi Zuoda He Jonathan S Hein Peter Caleb Hiller Chi-Wei Huang Lyly Tonnu Huyen Matthew Lee Mark Di Wang Jie Xu Shanshan Yin Andrea Grace Yoas

Kaihong Chang Can Fu Ya Wen Huang Grace Kwieun Kim Moon Rachel Lee Wan Jung Lee Ian Liu Ae Ree Rho Michael O Shafir Shiyuan Wang Yidi Xu Xi Yao

INSTRUCTOR: BENJAMIN KRONE ARCH 502 - SEMESTER: 2015A DESIGN STUDIO II INSTRUCTOR: ANNETTE FIERRO Amanda Leigh Baker Yangmei Cai Danielle Marie Dong Clay Edward Gruber Katrina Louise Healy Matthew Wood Lewis Matthew Roy Mayberry Michael Patrick O’Neill Alexander Yalda Saroki Jung Jae Suh Benita F Trenk Jiahua Xu Kaiyue Zhou

INSTRUCTOR: EDUARDO REGA CALVO

INSTRUCTOR: KUTAN AYATA

Noor W Al Awadhi Garesa Hao En Au Elizabeth Caroline Bland Ruiyi Chen Jae Young Cheon Nyasha Felder Emilija Kaia Landsbergis Violette Levy Emma Yunxiu Peng Yueting Wang Haosheng Yu Yu Zhou Mengjie Zhu

Morgan Jessilyn Brown Chih-Kai Chan Whitney Wing Yin Chow Stephen Christy Irina V Dukhnevich Yuhang He Grace Kwieun Kim Moon Rachel Lee Karen Larissa Martin Ae Ree Rho Chenyi Shen Chi Zhang

INSTRUCTOR: ANDREW SAUNDERS Douglas Alec Breuer Wing Sum Cheng John Dade Darby Yihui Gan Hardeep Singh Gujral Esther Hah Elsa Listiani Chao Liu Kunil Paik Gary Polk Natasha Scalia Sanjaya Shicheng Shen Chwen-Ping Wang

ARCH 601 - SEMESTER: 2013C DESIGN STUDIO III INSTRUCTOR: HINA JAMELLE Seung-Hyeok Bae Can Fu Ya Wen Huang Hyemi Kang Dami Kim Hiu Nam Leung Tanuja Jayant Manohar Roza Patricia Pattah Alexander Marc Tahinos Caleb William White Heunsun Yoon Yanhua Zhuang

INSTRUCTOR: DANIELLE WILLEMS

INSTRUCTOR: SCOTT ERDY

Samantha Phoenix Aguilar Gesu Omar Almonte Valentin Wenxin Chen Alexander Bertin Colucci Zhewei Feng Julianna Haahs Zachary Michael Kile Allison Therese Koll Xueyan Sabrina Li Angeliki Mavroleon Lara Zoe Steiner Haiyin Tang

Nuo Bu Gene Kim Haiteng Liu Ian Liu Tianxin Luo Ruo Wang Shiyuan Wang Yingfei Wang Yidi Xu Xi Yao Kangyi Zheng Liangjie Zheng

INSTRUCTOR: JOSHUA FREESE

INSTRUCTOR: BRIAN PHILLIPS

Miguel Angel Abaunza Aly Medhat Abouzeid Michelle Ann Chew Aaron Stephensen Dewey

Fang Cai Xinyi Chen Lu Han Basak Gulsen Huner

Chih-Kai Chan Lu Han Peter Caleb Hiller Hiu Nam Leung Matthew Lee Mark Di Meng Adrian Emanuel Subagyo Wei-An Wang Siyuan Yin Elizabeth J Young Chi Zhang Yanhua Zhuang

INSTRUCTOR: SHAWN RICKENBACKER INSTRUCTOR: JULIAN PALACIO Joseph Michael Giampietro Emily Canby Gruendel Yanghui Huang Taylor Michelle Knoche Audrey Tseng Lin Rajika G Maheshwari Di Meng Zachary Ehrhart Reiser Adrian Emanuel Subagyo Wei-An Wang Mengyao Ye Siyuan Serena Yin

ARCH 602 - SEMESTER: 2015A DESIGN STUDIO IV INSTRUCTOR: FERDA KOLATAN Jae Geun Ahn Dunbee Choi Irina V Dukhnevich Joseph Michael Giampietro Yuhang He Lyly Tonnu Huyen Hyemi Kang Aidan J Kim Tanuja Jayant Manohar Karen Larissa Martin Alexander Marc Tahinos Andrea Grace Yoas

INSTRUCTOR: FRANCA TRUBIANO Nuo Bu Xinyi Chen Whitney Wing Yin Chow Zuoda He Yanghui Huang

Matthew Joseph Lopez Brittany C Nargi Bum Jin Park Yiju Tseng Ming Zhong

Morgan Jessilyn Brown Fang Cai Stephen Christy Taylor Michelle Knoche Zachary Ehrhart Reiser Ruo Wang Mengyao Ye Shanshan Yin Feifei Zhao Kangyi Zheng Liangjie Zheng

INSTRUCTOR: KUTAN AYATA Emily Canby Gruendel Basak Gulsen Huner Dami Kim Gene Kim Daniel Kin Hoe Lau Rajika G Maheshwari Emma Margaret Molloy Christopher Dean Mulford Roza Patricia Pattah Jessica Soe Caleb William White Heunsun Yoon

ARCH 701 - SEMESTER: 2014C DESIGN STUDIO V INSTRUCTOR: MICHEL ROJKIND Natasha Chamilakis Olusomi O Delano Christina A Franz Amanda Huang Eunil Kim Harry Lam Claire A Laurence Yongjia Lin

Christopher Gabriel Arth Nicholas W Auger Nicole Cabezas Jonathan C Gorder Andrew Watts Grandjean Olga Karabinech Kayleen M Kulesza Dana L Stokes Emily S Tyrer Gregory T Whitney Michael A Zimmerman

INSTRUCTORS: FRANCOIS ROCHE Rhea G Gargullo Geongu Lee Jacqueline A Martinez Michael S Royer Walaid B Sehwail Billy Wang Peter Wildfeuer Hyeji Yang

INSTRUCTORS: REINIER DEGRAAF & LAURA BAIRD Taylor S Burgess Nathaniel A Hammitt Xiao Han Yun-Su Kim Bernice A Kong Bailong Liu Alexandra S Pawlyszyn Dana J Rice Yu Chang Tseng Cass P Turner

INSTRUCTOR: BRENNAN BUCK Joshua Berliner Erik C Leach Julie H Lee Yihan Li Nicholas E Mariakis Brian P McVeigh Philip R Roberson Anyi Song Elaine Wong In Hea Youm Siwei Yu

INSTRUCTORS: JOHN HONG Jon Canter Alex S Chin Nathan T Galvez Kordae N Henry Jose Rafael Holguin Eunbyul Lee John L Prifogle Jiajun Ren Juan C Tejedor Kathryn C Vergeyle

John P Lewallen Xiaoqing Liu Ye Lu Anamika Naraynsingh Matthew Thomas Niebeling Hugo Fabian Ochoa Yannick E Rodriguez Diaz Shiyun Wang

ARCH703 - SEMESTER: 2014C POST-PROFESSIONAL DESIGN STUDIO INSTRUCTORS: FERDA KOLATAN, ALI RAHIM, & PETER TRUMMER Xingfeng Chen Yue Chen Yongsu Choung Wei Guo Jaeho Jin Sameeha Rajendra Joshi Chen Ju Ryan Thomas Kane Joongho Lee Jung Hyo Lee Chuanzhang Li Feici Liu Dongni Lu Ning Ma Yuchi Shi Runliang Song Wongi Su Wei Tang Ram Annamalai Thennaapan Batul Ismail Tinwala Qi Tong Chuanjingwei Wang Xiani Wang Xianping Wang Xinhui Wen Jie Xu Jun Yan Xingzhe Yang Szu-An Yao Eda Yeyman Chaoran Yu Bo Zhang Ge Zhang Jianan Zhang Qinheng Zhang Shengkan Zhang Shuang Zhang Tong Zhang Yawei Zhang Tuobing Zheng Kunyu Zhu

Ryan Thomas Kane Erik C Leach Feici Liu Yi-Chu Shih Xianping Wang Xingzhe Yang Chaoran Yu Jianan Zhang Shuang Zhang Tuobing Zheng Kunyu Zhu

INSTRUCTORS: THOMAS WISCOMBE Christopher Gabriel Arth Nicholas W Auger Jaeho Jin Jee H Kim Yong Jae Kim Matthew Joseph Lopez Matthew Thomas Niebeling Michael S Royer Dana L Stokes Wongi Su In Hea Youm Michael A Zimmerman

INSTRUCTORS: CECIL BALMOND & EZIO BLASETTI Rhea G Gargullo Jose Rafael Holguin Harry M Lam Geongu Lee Xiaoqing Liu Anyi Song Billy Wang Chuanjingwei Wang Peter Wildfeuer Qinheng Zhang Shengkan Zhang

INSTRUCTORS: TONY ATKINS & GAVIN RIGGALL Xingfeng Chen Yu-Han Chiu Frederick W Day Jonathan C Gorder Xiao Han John P Lewallen Bailong Liu Alexandra S Pawlyszyn Dana J Rice Yuchi Shi Emily S Tyrer Siwei Yu

ARCH 704 - SEMESTER: 2014A RESEARCH STUDIO INSTRUCTOR: MARION WEISS

INSTRUCTORS: NANAKO UMEMOTO

Wei Guo Jeffrey M Jones Yun-Su Kim Chuanzhang Li Ning Ma Brian McVeigh John L Prifogle Runliang Song Yu Chang Tseng Gregory T Whitney Jie Xu Bo Zhang Yawei Zhang

Yongsu Choung Olusomi O Delano Andrew Watts Grandjean Eunil Kim Bernice A Kong Joongho Lee Julie H Lee Wei Tang Xinhui Wen Elaine Wong Jun Yan Szu-An Yao Tong Zhang

INSTRUCTORS: HOMA FARJADI & CHARLES CURRAN

INSTRUCTOR: SIMON KIM

INSTRUCTOR: HOMA FARJADI Stephen A Ellis Rose M Florian Rodriguez Kyle J Ingber Joanna M Karaman Jee H Kim

Nathan T Galvez Amanda Huang

Joshua Berliner Jon D Canter Yue Chen

2014-2015 Complete Roster continued Jung Hyo Lee Yihan Li Dongni Lu Nicholas E Mariakis Philip R Roberson Eda Yeyman

INSTRUCTORS: ALI RAHIM Alex S Chin Stephen A Ellis Claire A Laurence Brittany C Nargi Bum Jin Park Yannick E Rodriguez Diaz Walaid B Sehwail Ram Annamalai Thennaapan Qi Tong Kathryn C Vergeyle Shiyun Wang Xiani Wang

INSTRUCTORS: SULAN KOLATAN Nicole Cebezas Rose M Florian Rodriguez Christina A Franz Kyle J Ingber Sameeha Rajendra Joshi Kayleen M Kulesza Anamika Naraynsingh Hugo Fabian Ochoa Jiajun Ren Batul Ismail Tinwala Ming Zhong

ARCH 706 - SEMESTER: 2015A INDEPENDENT THESIS ADVISOR: ANNETTE FIERRO Nathaniel Hammitt Eunbyul Lee Ye Lu Jacqueline Martinez Cass Turner Hyeji Yang

ARCH 708 - SEMESTER: 2014B COURSE NAME: MEBD INSTRUCTOR: WILLIAM BRAHAM Seung-Hyeok Bae Jennifer Anne Chalos Shai Gerner Amrita Ghosh Jung Won Kwon Chenyang Lu Yingfei Wang Le Zhai

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YES : Year End Show 2014 with Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter

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