Phase 1 Reviews // 07-08 JULY 2021

bhooshan STUDIO

GAMIFICATION / ROBOTIC FABRICATION / MASS-CUSTOMIZED DESIGN

The studio explores robotic fabrication while enabling mass-customisation strategies that can compete with contemporary co-living models in highly productive cities. The promise of mass-customisation integrated with new models of housing now allows for the generation of a vibrant community fabric.

Schumacher STUDIO

CYBER-URBAN INCUBATOR / TECTONISM

The studio contributes to the The space of social communication after Covid-19 should be designed simultaneously as both real and virtual navigation and communication realms, as cyber-urban spaces, seamlessly integrating physically immediate and digitally mediated communicative interactions, constituting a new augmented mixed reality. The matrix is coming.

Spyropoulos Studio

ELEMENTAL / WATER / EARTH / FIRE / AIR

The studio challenges the fixed and finite orthodoxies of building design for a latent and unknown world. Within the contemporary condition new conceptual terrains emerge that raise questions of agency and intelligence within a deep ecology of our environment. The studio examines the elemental phenomena as technology Can we control the clouds? Can we grow our homes? An architecture of constructed atmosphere as energy.  

DAY 1 // July 07th 2021

morning session // 12pm-3pm GMT

CRITICS: MONIA DE MARCHI / THEO SARANTOGLOU LALIS / EDOARDO TIBUZZI / MARIANTHI TATARI / TOM KOVAC

afternoon session // 4pm-7pm GMT

CRITICS: HOMA FARJADI / TOM WISCOMBE / NURIA ALVAREZ LOMBARDERO / DANAE POLYVIOU / ROSS LOVEGROVE

DAY 2 // JULY 08th 2021

morning session // 12pm-3pm GMT

CRITICS: NATALY GATTEGNO / JASON JOHNSON / THEO SARANTOGLOU LALIS / EDOARDO TIBUZZI / ALISA ANDRASEK / TOM KOVAC

AFTERNOON session // 4pm-7pm GMT

CRITICS: REFIK ANADOL / TOM WISCOMBE / MARIANTHI TATARI / DAVID KIRSCH / ROSS LOVEGROVE

Guest critics:

Refik Anadol (UCLA) https://refikanadol.com/ 

Refik Anadol is a media artist and director born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1985. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He is a lecturer and visiting researcher in UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts.

Homa Farjadi (UPENN / Farjadi Architects) https://www.design.upenn.edu/.../people/homa-farjadi-0 

Homa Farjadi, AA Grad Dip RIBA/ARB is principal of FARJADI ARCHITECTS in London and Practice Professor of Architecture at University of Pennsylvania where she conducts graduate level research studios and a studio on London urbanism.

Tom Wiscombe (Sci-Arc / TWA) https://tomwiscombe.com 

Tom Wiscombe is Principal and Founder of Tom Wiscombe Architecture (TWA) in Los Angeles and the Undergraduate Program Chair in SCI-Arc. He is a leading voice in contemporary design culture, speaking, writing, and organizing discourse around the ideas of today.

Theo Sarantoglou Lalis – (AA / LASSA architects) https://lassa-architects.com/ 

Theo Sarantoglou Lalis is a French and Greek architect, and co-founder of LASSA an architecture practice based in London. He currently teaches at the Architectural Association in London. He has taught postgraduate studios at Harvard and Columbia and undergraduate studios at Chalmers and LTU in Sweden.

Nataly Gattegno – (CCA / Futureforms) https://www.futureforms.us/projects 

Nataly Gattegno is an artist and founding managing partner of FUTUREFORMS. She brings an expertise in design research and urban speculation, through the lens of art and design theory and urban design. she is currently an Associate Professor at the CCA in San Francisco, CA.

Jason Johnson – (CCA / Futureforms) https://www.futureforms.us/projects 

Jason Kelly Johnson) is lead artist and founding design partner of FUTUREFORMS. He brings an expertise in computational design and advanced digital fabrication, through the lens of critical art production and interactive technologies. Johnson is currently an Associate Professor at the CCA in San Francisco, CA.

Monia De Marchi – (AA) https://www.aaschool.ac.uk/people/Monia-De-marchi 

Monia De Marchi is an architect and Head of the First Year Undergraduate Programme at the AA. She has been teaching there since 2005, and from 2011 is the Head of First Year Programme. She has been involved in architectural practice, in the past with her own office with worldwide projects across a range of scales.

Marianthi Tatari (UNStudio) https://www.unstudio.com/ 

Marianthi Tatari is a Director and Senior Architect in UNStudio. Marianthi has worked worldwide in over 15 countries with projects in architecture, urbanism, and interior design.

Alisa Andrasek (RMIT / Biothing) https://www.alisaandrasek.com 

Designer and innovator, Alisa Andrasek is working on the convergence of design, computer science and exponential technologies. She is the founder of Biothing, an award winning design laboratory; a partner of Bloom Games; and co-founder of AI Build, Andrasek is currently a Professor of Design Innovation at RMIT.

Ross Lovegrove http://www.rosslovegrove.com/ 

Ross Lovegrove is a designer and visionary whose work is considered to be at the very apex of stimulating a profound change in the physicality of our three dimensional world. He has completed projects for many companies worldwide, while is also the winner of numerous international awards. His work has been extensively published and exhibited internationally including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Guggenheim Museum NY, Axis Centre Japan, Pompidou Centre, Paris and the Design Museum, London, when in 1993 he curated the first permanent collection.

Danae Polyviou (AA / AKTII) https://www.akt-uk.com 

Danae Polyviou is a structural engineer. She has worked in Stuttgart for Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering and in Berlin for HENN Architects as a researcher before moving in London to work for Atelier One and currently as a Senior Engineer at AKT II. She is currently teaching at the AA and the Bartlett.

David Kirsh https://adrenaline.ucsd.edu/kirsh

Dr. David Kirsh, Professor/past chair of the Dept. of Cognitive Science/UCSD, received a D. Phil.(Oxford), did post-doctoral work at MIT (AI Lab), held research or Visiting Professor positions at MIT and Stanford, and the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL. He has written on situated and embodied cognition, how environments can be shaped to simplify/extend cognition, and how space, external representations, our bodies and even manipulable objects become interactive tools for thought. He is co-Director of the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination and on the Board of Directors for the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture. He is Adjunct Professor at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.

Edoardo Tibuzzi (AKTII) https://www.akt-uk.com 

Edoardo Tibuzzi (Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering) is a designer and researcher based in London. He is currently design director at AKTII. He collaborated with KTH University in Stockholm, Tor Vergata University in Rome, the AA and the RCA in London, and the NYIT in New York, running various lectures and workshops.

Nuria Alvarez Lombardero (AA / Canales Lombardero) https://canales-lombardero.com 

Nuria Alvarez Lombardero is unit master in the Architectural Association and has previously taught at the University of Cambridge and the University of Seville. In 2003, she co-founded the office Canales & Lombardero with Francisco Gonzalez de Canales.

Albert Taylor (AKTII) https://www.akt-uk.com 

Albert Williamson-Taylor leads AKT II’s design and engineering practice and has led the engineering tutoring for the AA DRL architectural master’s course since 2011. He has been a member of London’s Newham and Southwark design review panels for many years, gaining Fellowship with the Institution of Structural Engineers, and Honorary Fellowship with the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Xuexin Duan (ZHA) https://www.zaha-hadid.com/people/xuexin-duan 

Xuexin is an architect in Zaha Hadid Architects and has worked on several of the ZHA's key projects. She received her Master's degree in architecture at the Architectural Association, London in 2013.

Tom Kovac https://www.rmit.edu.au/contact/staff-contacts/academic-staff/k/kovac-professor-tom

Tom Kovac is a Professor of Architecture at RMIT University and Deputy Director of the (SLWC) Sir Lawrence Wackett Defence & Aerospace Centre RMIT. Previously he was Visiting Professor at IoA Die Angewandte Urban Strategies, Vienna, Studio director at SCI-Arc, Los Angeles and Director of Alessi Airspace Architectural Association, London.