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 Melpi Magklivera, June Wang Jungle in Central Park USA 2000, 4’07” This project was presented at Columbia University during the academic year 1999-2000. Under the guidance of professor Karl Chu, Melpi Magklivera and June Wang collaborated to the creation of an ‘artificial architectural jungle’ in Manhattan's Central Park. The project aimed at exploring the ways in which the Lindermayer System (L-System ) can lead to the creation of an urban architectural world deriving from mathematical equations, also known as axioms. The goal was to grow a complicated structure from a simple code by enabling an element to replicate, generate and eventually evolve into new kinds of species. This project is divided into two episodes. Melpi Magklivera. She was born in Athens, Greece. Her early love for the arts (music as well as drawing and cinematography) led her to pursue a diploma degree in the School of architecture engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. There she distinguished herself and received various awards such as the Technical Chamber of Greece Award, the Thomaidis Institution Award and the Kautatzoglion Award for academic performance. After completing her studies there, she joined the Advanced Architectural Design Master of the Science degree program of Columbia University, New York. She graduated in May 2000. At Columbia she was introduced to the use of digital media for design analysis and presentation of architecture. She was very interested in exploring the new possibilities opened by the incorporation of design tools like MAYA, Formz and of Internet software like Dreamweaver, Flash, etc. in the way we think and perceive architecture. Since then, she has been working in New York City, being involved in the design of mostly residential projects while, at the same time, starting SSMMdesign in collaboration with Savvas Sarafidis. June Wang was born in Xian, the oldest and the most civilized city in China. After six years of peaceful childhood, her family and she moved to Hong Kong in 1978. In 1989 she had the opportunity of going to Taiwan (National Cheng Kung University) to study Architecture. Since the school was very conservative in teaching architecture, she got a very basic point of view there and did not have the chance to explore much in architectural design. After finishing college there, she attended the University of Washington in Seattle where she explored architectural design freely. It also enabled her to go to Rome for a foreign study program. She took the chance to travel in Europe extensively; France, Germany, Holland, Italy and Spain were full of her footprints. She also went to Liverpool for an exchange program, during which she experienced a totally English way of perceiving architecture. When she was in Seattle, she had many opportunities to discuss architecture in a group. It made her want to become a teacher in the future. When the Columbia University offered her the opportunity of joining the AAD (Advanced Architectural Design) program, she was able to experiment many issues in the making of architecture. The project we submitted is the best representation of her experience and our experiment. |
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