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Tuesday, October 18, 2016
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| School of Architecture in Granada - Architect: Víctor López Cotelo, Photograph: Lluís Casals |
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Alternativas / Alternatives - XIII Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism
Presented by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union and the Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism.
The thirteenth Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (XIII BEAU) will be exhibited for the first time in the United States in Cooper Union's Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery. The exhibition, entitled
Alternativas / Alternatives
, features 22 jury selected projects completed between January 1, 2013 through December 31, 2015 by contemporary Spanish architects. The installation, which also includes an additional 20 shortlisted works, features large-scale image displays and audiovisual commentary about the winning projects, as well as drawing reproductions and architectural models.
In conjunction with this exhibition, a group of distinguished scholars will be assembled on Saturday, November 12, to participate in a lively conversation about Spanish architecture.
The exhibition is free and open to the public.
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Four Sport Halls for the South American Games in Medellin, Colombia - Architect:
El Equipo Mazzanti, Photograph: Sergio Gomez
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Current Work: Giancarlo Mazzanti, El Equipo de Mazzanti
Giancarlo Mazzanti's firm,
El Equipo de Mazzanti
approaches architectural design as a catalyst that "triggers behaviors and new dynamics, encouraging people to act in ways they will never think to act." For Mazzanti, architecture represents an evolving process rather than a static, finished object.
Tickets are free for Cooper Union students and faculty with valid ID, and League members. For ticket inquiries, please refer to The Architectural League of New York website.
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OPEN CALLS & OPPORTUNITIES
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DEADLINE APPROACHING
Open Poll Competition | Redesign the Voter Experience As the nation prepares for an extraordinarily contested election season, the Van Alen Institute is launching the Open Poll Flash Competition, calling on designers, planners, and engaged citizens to join forces and consider: How can design address the perceived problems of the voting poll experience, from long lines at obscure locations to bungled technology and counting conundrums? How can the voter experience in cities be reimagined to be more equitable, accessible, and engaging to citizens? Gather a multidisciplinary team of two to four members and send us a 200-word concept by October 24, 2016.
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RESEARCH GRANTS | The James Marston Fitch Mid-Career Fellowship will award grants of up to $15,000 to one or two mid-career professionals who have an academic background, professional experience and an established identity in one or more of the following fields: historic preservation, architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, environmental planning, architectural history and the decorative arts. The James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation will consider proposals for the research and/or the execution of the preservation-related projects in any of these fields. Deadline: October 26, 2016.
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APPLICATIONS OPEN | Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant
The
Center for Architecture is currently accepting applications for the
Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant with the purpose t
o further the personal and professional development of an architect in early or mid-career through travel. Travel plans should be focused on a selected topic of interest to the individual, rather than a part of a larger humanitarian or institutional endeavor. If appropriate, the winner may be asked to present at the Center for Architecture upon return. Proposals should be judged on need, focus and benefit. Deadline: November 1, 2016. Learn More...
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ONGOING
ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS | Living and Sustainability: An Environmental Critique of Design and Building Practices, Locally and Globally Estimates of the building industry's contribution to world carbon emissions reach as high as 30% worldwide - with figures on energy consumption in the region of 40%. The need for alternative low energy approaches to building, construction and design are obvious. However, key to a sustainable future are also related social questions. Badly planned developments can not only lead to the destruction of habitats, they bring unaffordable housing, displaced communities and negative effects on physical health. Hosted in London and in the context of a housing crisis and various government initiatives to massively increase housing provision across the UK and elsewhere, this conference will focus on how these initiatives can be done in a sustainable manner. Deadline: October 30, 2016.
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FELLOWSHIP IN ARCHITECTURE | The James Steedman Fellowship in Architecture Our age is increasingly defined by unpredictability and a need for contingency in design. However, the life of a building or design cannot always keep pace with changes in culture, context, or climate. How is the rigidity of architecture slackened? Where does the ability to adjust, modify, or respond to factors exist? Can (and does) Architecture adapt? The Steedman 2016 jury seeks forward-thinking research proposals on instances and ideas of adaptation in architecture. Deadline: November 1, 2016.
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RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP | Bard Graduate Center invites
scholars from university, museum, and independent backgrounds with a PhD or equivalent professional experience to apply for funded research fellowships, to be held during the 2017-18 academic year. The theme for this period is "What is distance?" Applicants are asked to address in a cover letter how their projected work will bear on this question. The fellowships are intended to fund collections-based research at Bard Graduate Center or elsewhere in New York, as well as writing or reading projects in which being part of our dynamic research environment is intellectually valuable. Eligible disciplines and fields of study include-but are not limited to-art history, architecture and design history, economic and cultural history, history of technology, philosophy, anthropology, and archaeology. Deadline: November 1, 2016. Learn More...
ART EDUCATION GRANT | UCAE Fund Grants are sponsored by the University Council for Art Education and provide funds for projects that show promise in advancing exemplary art education. They might include, but not be limited to innovative programs, experimental curriculum design, professional development, post doctoral research and studio projects. Deadline: November 1, 2016.
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CALL FOR ENTRIES | Space Invaders: Diaries of Radical Empathy
invites all city circulators and mavens of transportation to compose and submit a two-minute video of radical empathy. Envision the city from a mode of travel you never take, or can't stand to try. Or try to get from one place to another in the most unexpected or impossible way - swim to work, bike to the airport, kayak to dinner, climb a mountain to the post office. We encourage you to find an experience of the city, from a point of view you've so far never given yourself a moment to know, or even knew existed. Deadline: November 4, 2016. Learn More...
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design is an educational institution offering free tuition in Moscow, Russia, founded in 2009. The institute promotes positive changes and creates new ideas and values through its educational activities. Strelka provides new learning opportunities, while the City remains at the centre of the Institute's research. The program me employs tools and approaches from a wide variety of disciplines and is aimed at young international and Russian specialists from a variety of professional backgrounds with a strong interest in working on urban-related projects who would bring their own unique perspective, vision and expertise to the team: architects, artists, planners, interaction designers, theorists, programmers, economists, engineers, fiction writers, cinematographers, sociologists, etc. Deadline: November 6, 2016.
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DESIGN COMPETITION | The Little Free Library in partnership with Chronicle books and the American Institute of Architects, San Francisco Chapter (AIASF) invites designers, architects, doodlers, and book folks of all stripes to rethink this unique structure, and solve some of the challenges identified by the neighborhood heroes that care for them. Deadline: November 11, 2016.
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DESIGN COMPETITION | Eleven invites thinkers, architects, designers, artists, academics and visionaries from around the world to imagine innovative solutions for Moontopia - the first ever self-sufficient lunar colony designed for living, working, researching and - why not - a little space tourism too. With all this buzz surrounding space travel, will we finally see mankind return to the Moon with a view to inhabit? What does this mean in terms of design? How can architecture adapt to its lunar surroundings and respond to a whole new set of criteria - be it advantages or threats - such as extreme temperature shifts, lunar quakes or reduced gravity? What could lunar architecture actually look like today? Deadline: November 11, 2016.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | MASSA Journal is a platform featuring architectural theory. We believe in gathering creative contributions from a variety of people of different disciplines to create a base for a collective knowledge regarding local architecture. We are looking for writers, artists, illustrators, poets, philosophers, sociologists, photographers and more, who have the affinity, or a passion for architecture, space, place, the city, the countryside or anything other linked to the subject. This is a call for materials, there's no limit regarding the length of an article or the media used for visual contributions. The next issue of MASSA will focus on the subject: "Holy." Deadline: November 14, 2016.
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FLASH COMPETITION | Opportunity Space: An International Design-Build Competition
Beyond the headlines and political rhetoric, the migration crisis in Europe has highlighted one of the toughest challenges that cities around the world will face for decades to come: In an era of great uncertainty, how and where can people find opportunity? In response to this challenge, Van Alen Institute, the City of Malmo, White Arkitekter, Architects Sweden, and Individuell Manniskohjalp are launching this competition to create temporary physical structures that will house programs to foster economic opportunity and social inclusion in Malmo, Sweden. Deadline: Pre-register by November 7, 2016 and Submit Final Proposals by November 18, 2016.
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RESEARCH RESIDENCY | Richard Rogers Fellowship at Harvard Graduate School of Design is open to accomplished professionals and scholars working in any field related to the built environment. The fellowship is dedicated to advancing research on a wide range of issues - social, economic, technological, political, environmental - that are critical to shaping the contemporary city. Harvard will inaugurate the Wimbledon House as the residence for the Richard Rogers Fellowship and as a venue for lectures, symposia, and events in 2017. Deadline: November 28, 2016.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | PLAT Journal of Rice University is currently accepting submissions for the upcoming issue, Absence, which draws attention to the unbuilt structures, spaces, and ideas which hold as much potential and possibilities for architecture as their present counterparts. What does it mean for design to disappear? Absence, often seen as the result of a destructive force, may in fact be productive. While presence implies creation, absence promises possibilities. PLAT 6.0 welcomes architects, designers, thinkers, and anyone provoked by 'Absence' to submit design projects, essays, visual media, narratives, proposals, manifestos, and conversations that engage the notion of absence in architecture and its complementary creative fields. Please submit all materials, abstracts, and/or inquires to
editor@platjournal.com. Deadline: December 1, 2016.
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CALL FOR ENTRIES | Ventura Lambrate 2017
is Ventura Projects' flagship event held during the annual Salone del Mobile/Fuorisalone in Milan. During this week, the district of Lambrate in northeast Milan hosts a thriving design district that showcases the latest developments in international contemporary design. By juxtaposing conceptual experiments with professional presentations, visitors are challenged to take a different view on design. Applications are now open. Deadline: December 1, 2016.
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Mathematical Photo Submissions | MoMath: SeeingMath Do you see math in the world around you? Now is your opportunity to contribute a favorite mathematical photo to MoMath's _Seeing Math_ contest. Winning photos will be displayed on the large screen in the Museum as part of this visual tour of the mathematical world around us. To enter the _Seeing Math_ contest, please email your original photographic image (no photoshopping please) together with the formulae or commentary that would overlay the image. Please submit all entries to seeingmath@momath.org and limit the size of your email to 5 MB or less. Deadline: January 1, 2017.
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PRE-COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP | The Anthony Quinn Scholarship Program Organized as a vehicle to perpetuate Anthony Quinn's vision for an art conscious society, the Anthony Quinn Foundation Scholarship Program raises and distributes funds for arts education. The Scholarship Program is for young adults in high school who demonstrate exceptional talent and dedication with a strong commitment to personal artistic growth and who will benefit from financial support. The Foundation makes an effort to distribute the funds evenly across the fields of focus: Visual Arts & Design, Dance, Theatre, Singing, Instrumental, Media Arts, and Literary Arts. Deadline: January 4, 2017.
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | Loeb Fellowship at Harvard Graduate School of Design represent the broadest spectrum of accomplished practitioners who are influential in shaping the built and natural environment and whose work advances positive social outcomes. Loeb Fellows are architects and landscape architects, urban planners and journalists, public artists and affordable housing developers. They come from around the world to the Harvard GSD with a common purpose: to make the world a better place for all. After a transformative Fellowship year in residence, they join a powerful worldwide network of over 450 colleagues and friends. The connections, collaborations and learning are there for a lifetime. Deadline: January 5, 2016.
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APPLICATIONS OPEN | Gensler's Design Strategist Development (DSD) Program is a 24-month, on-the-job professional training program that gives participants firsthand exposure to the skills and experiences they need to achieve professional success as a design strategist. It propels participants directly into meaningful project work, offers world-class professional development, and connects them with a global community of colleagues and mentors. Tailored to each person's strengths and ambitions, the program provides the maximum breadth and depth of design strategy experience. Each year, Gensler hires a new cohort to work and train in select Gensler offices. Each DSD Program participant joins Gensler as a consulting analyst and receives a competitive salary and benefit package. Deadline: January 6, 2016.
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LAND ART COMPETITION | Nka Foundation invites submissions from creative practitioners and organizations dedicated to community placemaking to participate in its 2017 Land Art Competition. The competition is open to landscape architects, artists, curators, designers, architects, urban planners, structural engineers, university students and others from around the world to submit ideas for large-scale and site-specific public art installations based on site in rural Ghana. The submitted entries can be functional or nonfunctional works but must aim at creating a truly unique experience that becomes emblematic of what an arts village is and how it needs to function as a PLACE. The arts village is designed as a learning center to provide relational spaces for creative people from the region and other countries to live, work, learn and create. Registration Deadline: January 31, 2017.
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Nader Tehrani, Arch dean/fac |
Speaker | Under Pressure: Urban Housing
Symposium, Penn Design, October 28, 2016, Philadelphia, PA
Anthony Vidler, Arch fac |
Keynote Speaker | The Reports of My Death have Been
Greatly Exaggerated: Libraries for the Future, Center for Architecture, October 29, 2016, NYC
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Panel Participant
| Gallery Talk: Conversations, Princeton University School of Architecture, October 17, 2016, Princeton, NJ School of Architecture Gallery
Diana Agrest, Arch fac |
Panel Participant | Gallery Talk: Conversations, Princeton University School of Architecture, October 17, 2016, Princeton, NJ School of Architecture Gallery
Aranda/Lasch (Benjamin Aranda, Arch fac) |
Article | "Aranda/Lasch wins competition to design furniture for 14+ Foundation's Chipakata Children's Academy in Zambia, Africa," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, October 11, 2016
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Alexander Gorlin, AR '78 |
Article | "A Chelsea Apartment With a Touch of Voyeurism by Alexander Gorlin and Larsen Design," INTERIOR DESIGN, September 28, 2016
Elizabeth Diller, AR '79 |
Keynote Speaker | ACADIA 2016 Conference, Post-Human Frontiers: Data, Designers and Cognitive Machines, October 27-29, 2016, University of Michigan Taubman College, Ann Arbor, MI
Stan Allen, AR '81 |
Panel Participant | Gallery Talk: Conversations, Princeton University School of Architecture, October 17, 2016, Princeton, NJ
Jeanine Centuori, AR '83 |
Exhibition | FAIA Salon: Annie Chu + Jeanine Centuori, Woodbury University School of Architecture, October 27, 2016, Los Angeles, CA
Murray Legge, AR '90 |
Article | "2016 Design Awards: Hollowcat Wild," TEXAS ARCHITECT magazine, September/October 2016
Gina Pollara, AR '91 |
Speaker | A Public Summit for the Future of Penn Station, sponsored by: Untapped Cities and The Museum of the City of New York, venue: The Cooper Union Great Hall, November 2, 2016, NYC
Jennifer Sze, AR '05 |
Speaker | Construction Realities: Cornell Tech, Center for Architecture, October 19, 2016, NYC
Uri Wegman, AR '08 |
Speaker | Community Meeting to Discuss the Triangle Fire Memorial, sponsor: Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, venue: The Cooper Union, October 13, 2016, NYC
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