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Thursday, March 16, 2017
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Current Work: Lene Tranberg, Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects
Moderated by Karen Stein
Tranberg is an adjunct professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. She has served as visiting professor at The University of Washington, Seattle, and is an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects. Most recently, she was a member of the Jury at the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award 2015. Five of Lundgaard & Tranberg Architect's buildings have been awarded the prestigious RIBA European Award by The Royal Institute of British Architects.
Karen Stein is a writer, editor, architectural consultant, and the executive director of the George Nelson Foundation.
This lecture is co-sponsored with The Architectural League of New York.
Tickets are free for Cooper Union students and faculty with valid ID, and League members.
Image: LTArchitects, Tietgen Dormitory, Copenhagen, 2006. Photo: Jens Lindhe
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Current Work: Kengo Kuma
Moderated by Kenneth Frampton
Kengo Kuma strives to create buildings that are sensitive to context. For him, architecture is most successful when it upholds interrelationships inherent in the natural environment. Kuma employs natural materials in designs that merge the regional vernacular with a sublime minimalism often resulting in an effect of dematerialization. "Rather than pursuing one's original style as an architect, you actually visit the place and follow what grows out of it," in Kuma's words.
This lecture is co-sponsored with The Architectural League of New York.
Tickets are free for Cooper Union students and faculty with valid ID, and League members.
Image: Kengo Kuma & Associates, Nagaoka City Hall "Aore", Niigata, Japan, 2012. Photo: Erieta Attali
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Current Work: Nader Tehrani | Schools of Thought
Introduced by Anthony Vidler and Moderated by Florian Idenburg
Nader Tehrani is the principal of
NADAAA, a practice he founded in 2011 with Katherine Faulkner and Daniel Gallagher. The firm grew out of Office dA, a practice he formed in 1986 with Rodolphe El Khoury, which later expanded to include Monica Ponce de Leon in 1991. With offices in New York and Boston, NADAAA is dedicated to "the advancement of design innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and an intensive dialogue with the construction industry."
Tehrani is the current Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union.
Anthony Vidler is professor of architecture at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union, where he served as dean from 2002-2013.
Florian Idenburg is Founding Partner of
SO-IL and Associate Professor in Practice of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
This lecture is co-sponsored with The Architectural League of New York.
Tickets are free for Cooper Union students and faculty with valid ID, and League members.
Image: NADAA. Daniels Faculty of Landscape, Architecture, and Design, University of Toronto. Ontario, Canada. Photo: Peter MacCallum.
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John Jay Iselin Memorial Lecture: Preet Bharara
The Cooper Union's 2017 John Jay Iselin Memorial Lecture, which is free and open to the public, will feature Preet Bharara, formerly United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Due to overwhelming demand, we have reached capacity for RSVPs. Please note that an RSVP does not guarantee admission. To sign up for the wait list, please click here. There will be a separate line for those on the wait list the day of the event.
Free and open to the public.
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Sue Ferguson Gussoe Scholarship
Members of The Irwin S. Chanin School or Architecture class of 1995 are leading an effort to raise an endowed scholarship named in honor of Sue Ferguson Gussow A'56, professor emerita, who has taught drawing to generations of students of the school. Our goal is to reach $100k by the end of this fiscal year, which will allow for a scholarship to be awarded to a first-year architecture student every year in perpetuity.
The Cooper Union welcomes Laura Sparks as our new president. Her stewardship, and our support and work will jointly determine a return to full tuition scholarships of all admitted students. We ask that alumni who were so deeply affected by Sue's teaching join this effort to both honor Sue and move closer to that goal by contributing generously to this fund.
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OPEN CALLS & OPPORTUNITIES
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CALL FOR FELLOWS | Het Nieuwe Instituut announces an open call for three research fellows to work in residence from September 2017 to February 2018. The fellowship will be developed through independent research; individual support and interaction with the Research & Development department. Research offering departures from established modes of thinking in the disciplines of architecture, design, and digital culture are encouraged. Deadline: April 16, 2017. Learn More...
CALL FOR PROPOSALS | KADK: Drawing Millions of Plans Conference invites scholars and practitioners to submit proposals for papers and/or to submit actual drawings. The conference will consist of academic and work-based sessions, with the latter including presentations of submitted drawings. We ask for an abstract of maximum 500 words. Please submit proposals by email to
millionsofplans@kadk.dk. Deadline: May 15, 2017.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | Elevate Your Pitch 2017
is sponsored by Schindler and administered by the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS). This elevator pitch competition presents students with a great opportunity to pitch their business ideas to a panel of judges for a chance to win recognition and earn one of three cash prizes. Submissions should be innovative in nature and should try to solve a unique problem. Deadline: May 26, 2017. Learn More...
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DEADLINE APPROACHING
CALL FOR IDEAS | NYSCA Independent Project Grants are awarded to innovative proposals that emphasize the artistry of design excellence. Projects may lead to the creation of design prototypes, explore new technology that impacts design, research a topic in design or architectural history, or engage in critical or theoretical analyses. Deadline: March 20, 2017. Learn More...
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | New York Business Plan Competition The New York City Semifinal Competition will be held at the Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus. Student teams from the NYC region are invited to submit applications for their idea or venture in one of these categories: Information Technology/Software, Social Entrepreneurship/Non-Profit, Clean Technology, Advanced Technology, Products, and Services. Deadline: March 20, 2017.
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CALL FOR ALTERNATIVE PROPOSALS | #WeWontBuildYourWall: ADPSR calls for architects, designers, and contractors to submit alternative proposals to the federal government's solicitation for "more comprehensive long-term strategies related to the border wall." Deadline: March 31, 2017.
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ONGOING
CALL FOR PROPOSALS | The 2017 Buckminster Fuller Challenge Launched in 2007, the Fuller Challenge has helped initiate the whole systems approach to understanding and intervening in complex and interrelated crises for wide-scale social and environmental impact. To express your interest in entering the 2017 Fuller Challenge, email
challenge@bfi.org or sign up for their newsletter,
Trimtab, to stay updated on cycle announcements. Before entering, read the
2017 Call for Proposals. Deadline: March 31, 2017.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | Kalejdohill: Design a Story Submit an imaginary story that takes place on Kvarnbacken, the hill close to the Jakobsberg train station in Stockholm. Illustrate your story on one A2 page, describing where it takes place and what went on. Show us how you imagine that place in the future, the buildings and the people that inhabit it. Send your submissions to designastoryjarfalla@gmail.com. Deadline: April 1, 2017. Learn More...
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | Fresh Meat IX: The Fake and the Radical The formulation and production of architecture is constantly leveled against its past, present, and future authorities, that forever rewrite the rulebook. Fresh Meat Journal invites submissions regarding forms that hide, react, reject, conceal, and distort the rules of the day. Deadline: April 1, 2017.
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | Spazio Artisti Art and Architecture Residency is located in Pozzuoli, a city and commune of the Metropolitan City of Naples. The focus of the residency is to explore the relationship between the city and its province and the tension between two sides of Mediterranean modernity as it appears in the working class "province" and the bourgeois center (Napoli). Deadline: April 6, 2017.
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FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY | Forefront Fellowship 2017: Design for Arrival explores how urban design, development and technology can strengthen historic and emerging immigrant communities in New York City. Deadline: April 14, 2017. Learn More...
OPEN CALL | Socrates Sculture Park 2017 Broadway Billboard Series: Your Image Here All Artists, designers, art students, architects, emerging or retired, are welcome to submit a proposal on the topic of democracy and American identity to be placed on a billboard at Socrates Sculpture Park. Proposals Deadline: April 15, 2017. Learn More...
CALL FOR PROPOSALS | The Deborah J. Norden Fund Students of architecture, architectural history, and urban studies are invited to propose research projects for up to $5,000 in travel grants. Deadline: April 23, 2017.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | Take Shape: Loft, a nonfiction publication at the intersection of politics and architecture, is seeking submissions exploring how lofts function for their residents and in the broader context of affordable housing within a city. How are spaces that are classified as lofts treated differently form other forms of illegal dwelling and low-income housing? Deadline: April 31, 2017.
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CALL FOR PAPERS | Thresholds 46: SCATTER! The MIT Department of Architecture's peer-reviewed journal will be edited with the aim to examine the history and future of the circulation, distribution and dissemination of architectural knowledge. Deadline: May 1, 2017. Learn More...
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | Eleven Magazine: Rome 2017 Competition, 21st Century River Rennaissance is an international ideas and design challenge that seeks to address Rome's current issues by asking the international creative community to consolidate the Tiber river into a new model of Roman life for this millennium. Deadline: May 11, 2017. Learn More...
IDEAS COMPETITION | arch out loud: Human Trafficking Tenancingo Square Mediascape Encompassing both labor and sex, human trafficking denies basic freedoms and degrades life to mere commodification. arch out loud challenges designers to reimagine the town square of Tenancingo, Mexico in response to the prevalent issues of sex trafficking existing in the area. Register by: April 18, 2017. Deadline: May 15, 2017. Learn More...
APPLICATIONS OPEN | The Walter A. Hunt, Jr. Scholarship promotes and encourages the study of architecture by New York City public high school students through a two-year scholarship to supplement tuition and related costs during their freshman and sophomore years at a NAAB-accredited school of architecture in the U.S. Deadline: May 15, 2017. Learn More...
CALL FOR DESIGN IDEAS | The LA+ IMAGINATION Open international Design Ideas Competition asks you to design a new island. You can locate it anywhere in the world, program it any way you want, and give it any form and purpose you can imagine. Deadline: June 2, 2017. Learn More...
FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY | Storefront for Art and Architecture seeks an individual for a one-year fully funded fellowship position to research and develop a global project related to architecture, design, and technology. The Program and Strategy Fellow will primarily support Architecture Conflicts, a high priority project of Storefront.
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Anthony Vidler, Arch fac |
Article | "Anthony Vidler reviews the 'extraordinary models' on display at Columbia GSAPP," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, March 7, 2017
Kevin Bone, Arch fac (principal, Bone/Levine Architects) |
Article | "Anthology Film Archives Files For Enlargement of their Landmarked East Village Building," CITY REALTY, February 3, 2017
Benjamin Aranda, Arch fac (and principal, Aranda/Lasch) |
Article | "Chicago Architecture Biennial announces 2017 participants," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, March 6, 2017 |
Article | "Chicago Architecture Biennial Announces 2017 Participants," ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, March 6, 2017
Debora Mesa, Arch fac (and principal (a) ENSAMBLE STUDIO) |
Article | "Chicago Architecture Biennial announces 2017 participants," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, March 6, 2017 |
Article | "Chicago Architecture Biennial Announces 2017 Participants," ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, March 6, 2017
Dan Wood, Arch fac (and principal WORKac) |
Article | "Chicago Architecture Biennial announces 2017 participants," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, Marcy 6, 2017 |
Article | "Chicago Architecture Biennial Announces 2017 Participants," ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, March 6, 2017 |
Award | 2017 AIA Design Award - Architecture Merit Award |
Article | "WORKac, PORT, and others win Rockefeller Foundation grants to plan future of tristate area," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, March 3, 2017
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Toshiko Mori, AR '76 |
Article | "Chicago Architecture Biennial announces 2017 participants," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, March 6, 2017 |
Article | "Chicago Architecture Biennial Announces 2017 Participants," ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, March 6, 2017
Elizabeth Diller, AR '79 |
Article | "Women Architects We Love," ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST, February 24, 2017
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Article | "Following criticism of the lack of women speakers at the 2017 AIA Conference, Elizabeth Diller added to roster." ARCHINECT, March 6,2017
Stan Allen, AR '81 |
Article | "Chicago Architecture Biennial announces 2017 participants," THE
ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, March 6, 2017 |
Article | "Chicago Architecture Biennial Announces 2017 Participants," ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, March 6, 2017
Evan Douglis, AR '83 |
Lecture | Florida International University, March 31, 2017, Miami Beach, FL
Jeff Hou, AR '90 |
Lecture | "Public Space Activism and the Actually Existing Commons," IAS, University of Minnesota, March 23, 2017, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Gina Pollara, AR '91 |
Keynote Address | Annual Conference: Open to the Public - Making Our Story Heard!, Historic Districts Council, March 4, 2017, NYC
Catherine Seavitt, AR '94 |
Article | "WORKac, PORT, and others win Rockefeller Foundation grants to plan future of tristate area," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, March 3, 2017
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