Category Archives: Review

Top Fuel Review

By Neil Leach | Published 2012-03-26 | Posted in Review

Dean Qingyun Ma in pneumatic structure produced in ‘Performance Pneus’ workshop The review of the Top Fuel workshop, ‘Performance Pneus’, took place this afternoon. Students working in three teams had been working on the project for 8 days, directed by Achim Menges and Thomas Auer. Reviewers included Greg Lynn, Tom Wiscombe, Peter Testa and Marcello Spina.

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parametric design_final reviews @ usc 091215

By Roland Wahlroos-Ritter | Published 2010-01-15 | Posted in Review, seminar

Continuing todays review marathon, the students of David Gerber’s and Roland Wahlroos-Ritter’s Parametric Design I seminar presented their final work today at USC. The seminar was structured in two parts. The first part was dedicated to Case Studies. The students were asked to research, analyze and develop a parametric design strategy for building CATIA models [...]

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non-linear aggregations_final reviews @ usc 091215

By Roland Wahlroos-Ritter | Published 2010-01-13 | Posted in design studio, Review

The students of the non-linear aggregations studio presented their explorations into algorithmic design techniques to a panel of guest critics at usc. The undergraduate studio lead by Roland Wahlroos-Ritter is a design research studio investigating algorithmic design techniques with an emphasis on space, form and complex morphologies. Techniques of non-linear algorithms are tested through the [...]

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Houhai CBD, Shenzhen, China

By Neil Leach | Published 2010-01-12 | Posted in design studio, Review

This project sought to evaluate an existing proposal for a CBD in Houhai, Shenzhen, and develop an alternative, improved version. The project took one semester and was undertaken by a team of postgraduate students from the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California on behalf of the Shenzhen Planning Department. The approach adopted was to see [...]

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(n)certainties (biotopes) 4.0_final review @ usc

By Roland Wahlroos-Ritter | Published 2009-12-15 | Posted in design studio, Review

After a semester of intense work the students of Marc Fornes’, Stephan Henrich’s and Francois Roche’s (n)certainties studio presented their final work yesterday at usc. The studio opened a new territory for usc by venturing deeply into a speculative realm of materiality, technology and ultimately architecture. Subversively leaving the bounds of what at usc is [...]

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