Super Jury

Friday, 5/1/20

Public Symposium: 6:00–7:00pm EDT

Dana Cupkova, Mason White, Mimi Zeiger

GUEST CRITICS

Daniel Jacobs, Anya Sirota, Rebecca Smith

TAUBMAN COLLEGE RESPONDENTS

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Nominated Projects

Art-scape, Yousun Nam (Boyer)

The Architecture of {AI} Language, Yanci Chen, Zhipeng Liu, and Yining Yuan (del Campo + Manninger)

Autopsia in Abstentia, Marco Nieto (Jazairy)

The Disassociated Helper: a 500-Mile Amature, Jonathan Craig (Kulper)

The Last Aquarium/De(re)construction in the Spatialization, Anhong Li (Mitnick)

FORM[less]_Robotically Thermoformed Molds for Concrete Casting, Mackenzie Bruce and Gabrielle Clune (Ng)

The Gap, Delaney McCraney and Reed Miller (Peñarroyo)

Urban Regeneration for Sanlitun, Hengjun Xu (Strickland)

Roaming Herds, Austen Gillen-Keeney and Madeline Kil (Sturt + Blanchet)

Dana Cupkova

Dana Cupkova holds Associate Professorship at the Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture and is a Co-founder and Director of EPIPHYTE Lab, an architectural design and research collaborative. From 2005 to 2012 she was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Cornell University Department of Architecture. From 2014 to 2018 she served on the ACADIA Board of Directors and currently she is on the Editorial Board for the IJAC. Professor Cupkova is Track Chair of SoA’s Masters of Science in Sustainable Design (MSSD) program.

Cupkova's design work engages the built environment at the intersection of ecology, computationally driven processes, and systems analysis. In her research, she interrogates the relationship between design-space and ecology as it engages computational methods, thermodynamic processes, and experimentation with geometrically driven performance logic. Her work has been supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, the AIA NY Center for Architecture Foundation, the Cornell University Faculty Innovation in Teaching Grant, the Architectural League of New York, the AIA Urban and Regional Solution Grant, the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance Grant, CMU's Manufacturing Futures Infinitive and others. Cupkova's design work has been published internationally in professional venues such as Dwell, The Architectural Review, Green Building & Design, The Cornell Journal of Architecture, Architect's Newspaper, International Journal of Architectural Computing and presented at many academic conferences. In May 2018 Epiphyte Lab has been recognized as the Next Progressives design practice by ARCHITECT Magazine, The Journal of The American Institute of Architects.

Dana Cupkova teaches in the core design curriculum, serving as a coordinator for the undergraduate and graduate core design studio Environment, Form and Feedback, as well teaching advanced option studios, graduate design-research MSSD thesis and graduate-level research seminars.

Cupkova received the professional degree of Engineer Architect from the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Design at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava; she completed her thesis at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and holds a Master of Architecture degree from the School of the Arts and Architecture at UCLA, where she was awarded the Unrestricted University Fellowship, the Mimi Perloff Award, and the Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship for outstanding design work. Cupkova was a founder and design director of DCm-STUDIO, an architectural design practice in New York City, and has extensive international professional experience in Europe, the United States, and Southeast Asia. She was previously in practice with Smith-Miller+Hawkinson Architects, RUR Architecture in New York City, and TR Hamzah & Yeang in Malaysia.

Mason White

Associate Professor Mason White’s work and research privileges architecture as a mutable territory that is formed out of and responsive to its environment and history. White founded the design practice Lateral Office (www.lateraloffice.com) in partnership with Lola Sheppard in 2003. He is also a founding editor of the journal Bracket (www.brkt.org), established in 2008.

His work, research and teaching invites readings of architecture as a by-product of complex networks within ecology and culture. Recent research pursues questions of the role of infrastructure and networks within contemporary spatial practice. In the graduate program, White teaches core and advanced design studios on architecture’s complex relationship to environment, and analysis-based electives on the culture of technology in architecture. In the undergraduate program, he teaches a lecture course on forms of urbanism.

Lateral Office has received numerous awards and recognition, including: the 2016 National Urban Design Award from the RAIC; 2014 Special Mention from the Venice Biennale in Architecture; 2013 Progressive Architecture Award; the 2011 Gold Award, North America from the Holcim Foundation; the 2011 Emerging Voices award from the Architectural League of New York; and the 2010 Professional Prix de Rome from the Canada Council for the Art. His practice has participated in the 2017 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, the 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial, and the 2014 Venice Biennale in Architecture, where they were awarded Special Mention from the international jury for the project “Arctic Adaptations.” Lateral Office is the recipient of three Faculty Design Awards from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.

White’s recent research and design work has focused on public infrastructures in northern and remote contexts. White has developed a growing record of inter-disciplinary work pursued collaboratively. He has been a primary investigator and collaborator on several major tri-council grants.

White is the 2012-13 Howard Friedman Professor at UC Berkeley; the 2008-09 Arthur W Wheelwright Fellow from Harvard Graduate School of Design; and the 2003-04 Lefevre Emerging Practitioner Fellow at Ohio State University. His work has also been published in The Globe & Mail, Canadian Architect, Landscape Architecture Magazine, Architectural Record, C3, Architect, Praxis, and Architectural Record. His writing has been published in New Geographies, Praxis, Kerb, OZ Journal, MONU, A+U, and 306090. He has lectured and exhibited work internationally including US, Germany, Chile, Bulgaria, Russia, Korea, Iceland, Netherlands, and England, among others. White previously taught at Cornell (2004-05) and Ohio State University (2003-04). He has been an invited external critic at schools widely and internationally.

Mimi Zeiger

Mimi Zeiger is a Los Angeles-based critic, editor, and curator. She was co-curator of the U.S. Pavilion for the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale and curator of Soft Schindler at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture.

She has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Architectural Review, Metropolis, and Architect. She is an opinion columnist for Dezeen and former West Coast Editor of The Architects Newspaper. Zeiger is the 2015 recipient of the Bradford Williams Medal for excellence in writing about landscape architecture.

Zeiger is author of New Museums, Tiny Houses, Micro Green: Tiny Houses in Nature, and Tiny Houses in the City. In 1997, Zeiger founded loud paper, an influential zine and digital publication dedicated to increasing the volume of architectural discourse.

She has curated, contributed to, and collaborated on projects that have been shown at the Art Institute Chicago, 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale, the New Museum, Storefront for Art and Architecture, pinkcomma gallery, and the AA School. She co-curated Now, There: Scenes from the Post-Geographic City, which received the Bronze Dragon award at the 2015 Bi-City Biennale of UrbanismArchitecture, Shenzhen.

She teaches in the Media Design Practices MFA program at Art Center College of Design and is former co-president of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design. She has taught at the School of Visual Art, Art Center, Parsons New School of Design, the California College of the Arts (CCA) and at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc.)

She holds a Master of Architecture degree from SCI-Arc and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University.

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Schedule

Final Reviews

Wednesday, 4/29/20

Morning Session: 10:00am–1:00pm EDT

Afternoon Session: 2:00pm–6:00pm EDT

Perry Kulper

‘Canary’ed, Yellow’

Ian Bogost, Bryan Cantley, Nat Chard, Jason Young, Laida Aguirre, Craig Borum, Daniel Jacobs, Mireille Roddier

Nat Chard, Lydia Kallipoliti, Jason Young, Robert Adams, Jacob Comerci, Dawn Gilpin, Geoffrey Thün

Tsz Yan Ng

Topology+

Behrang Behin, Shelby Doyle, Mania Aghaei Meibodi, Anca Trandafirescu, Glenn Wilcox

Shelby Doyle, Virginia San Fratello, Jen Maigret, Catie Newell, Kathy Velikov, Peter von Bülow

Cyrus Peñarroyo

TBD/IRL

Jia Yi Gu, Sarah Hearne, Lydia Kallipoliti, Adam Fure, Bryan Boyer, Meredith Miller, Anya Sirota

Jia Yi Gu, Sarah Hearne, Jacqueline Shaw, Ellie Abrons, Maria Arquero de Alarcon, Thom Moran

Roy Strickland

Urban Design in the Pacific Rim – Beijing

Behrang Behin, Conrad Kickert, Lars Graebner, Robert Fishman, Kit McCullough, Malcolm McCullough, Ding Qi

Final Reviews

Thursday, 4/30/20

Morning Session: 10:00am–1:00pm EDT

Afternoon Session: 2:00pm–6:00pm EDT

Bryan Boyer

Civic Futures

Behrang Behin, Shelby Doyle, Jacob Comerci, Meredith Miller, Upali Nanda

Behrang Behin, Conrad Kickert, McLain Clutter, Joy Knoblauch, Kit McCullough, Malcolm McCullough

Matias del Campo + Sandra Manninger

A{AI} - Architecture and Artificial Intelligence

Ian Bogost, Alexa Carlson, Jessy Grizzle, Roland Snooks, Philip Yuan, McLain Clutter, John McMorrough, Kathy Velikov

Ian Bogost, Philippe Morel, Jose Sanchez, Neil Leach, Dawn Gilpin, Geoffrey Thün

El Hadi Jazairy

Reassembling the Earth

Christopher Marcinkoski, Lydia Kallipoliti, Zain Abusier, Perry Kulper, Mireille Roddier

Jason Young, Liz Galvez, Ann Lui, Tsz Yan Ng

Keith Mitnick

Fictitious Space

Ed Keller, Jason Young, Melissa Harris, Ana Morcillo Pallares, Steven Lauritano

Ed Keller, Robert Adams, Jen Maigret, Mireille Roddier, Anca Trandafirescu

Jono Sturt + Clement Blanchet

The Future of Work

Jacqueline Shaw, Conrad Kickert, Julia McMorrough, Anya Sirota

Jacqueline Shaw, Shelby Doyle, Maria Arquero de Alarcon, Craig Borum, Jacob Comerci