NEWS AND EVENTS

Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Current Work: Nat Oppenheimer, Silman
Moderated by Paul Lewis


Oppenheimer develops engineering systems to support new construction, renovations, and historic preservation and is Principal in Charge of much of Silman's institutional work, which includes some of the most significant American cultural centers of the last decade. Recent projects include Grace Farms designed by SANAA in New Canaan, CT, the expansion and renovation of the Harvard Art Museums, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, both designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop. For Cornell University, Oppenheimer worked with OMA to engineer the College for Architecture, Art and Planning's Milstein Hall, which features a distinctive horizontal plate that cantilevers over one of the University's main thoroughfares. Oppenheimer is currently working on the expansion of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. by Steven Holl Architects.

This event 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. For ticket inquiries, please refer to The Architectural League of New York  website.

Image:  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Renzo Piano Building Workshop in collaboration with Cooper Robertson Partners. Photo Credit Nic Lehoux 2015. 

2017 Benjamin Menschel Fellowship Exhibition


The Benjamin Menschel Fellowship Program to Support Creative Inquiry was endowed by a grant given to The Cooper Union by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation in 1994 to support work in the fields of art, architecture, design and engineering. The program is designed to provide students in their penultimate year of study the opportunity to travel and research specific areas of personal interest. This year's fellows are Yu Kiu Chan, Kelsey Lee, Piao Liu, Maja Griffin, Jenny Hsiao, Hui Rong Liu, Sarah Schmitt, Anamika Singh, and Daniil Ashtaev. The exhibition includes projects on a range of cultural, environmental and social issues in Tibet, Japan, Baltimore, the Inside Passage in the Pacific Coast of North America, the Adaman and Nicobar Islands in India, and Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia.

The exhibition is free and open to the public from 11AM through 7PM

Image: Jenny Hsiao and Hui Rong Liu. 

WAYS TO GIVE BACK
The William Cooper Mack Thesis Fellowship

The William Cooper Mack Thesis Fellowship program was established in 2008 by John and Harriet Mack at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture in memory of their son William Cooper Mack, class of 2006. Fellowships are awarded each year to support primary research and inquiry in the development of significant and original thesis projects. Students have conducted site surveys, oral histories, research at local archives, photographic documentation, studies of indigenous building practices and interviews of community leaders in numerous countries as integral components toward the making of architecture.

We invite you to support the efforts of our thesis students to broaden the reach and impact of architecture through a contribution to this important program.  Learn More...

Image:  Stephanie Restrepo. 

OPEN CALLS & OPPORTUNITIES
NEW

CALL FOR SESSION TOPICS | 106th ACSA Annual Meeting: The Ethical Imperative ACSA and the conference co-chairs invite topics that will generate considerable discussion related to questions for areas in which ethics and power are relevant. Deadline: March 1, 2017.  Learn More...

CALL FOR PAPERS | 3rd Alvar Aalto Researchers Network Seminar - Why Alto? The Alvar Aalto Academy invites researchers and practitioners to come to a research seminar to be held in Jyväskylä, Finland, 9-10 June 2017. The seminar will explore the questions which provoke us to ponder, from a variety of perspectives, what Aalto means for today's architecture. Deadline: March 15, 2017. Learn More... 


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...

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...

DEADLINE APPROACHING  

CALL FOR ENTRIES | Regional Plan Association in collaboration with Guy Nordenson and Paul Lewis of Princeton University, presents an ideas competition inviting architects, planners, and designers to envision how the region develops over the next half century. Teams may be a design firm, organization, or collaboration assembled for this work. Deadline: February 9, 2017. Learn More...

CALL FOR ENTRIES | 2017 Architectural League Prize: Support  Young architects and designers are invited to submit work to the annual Architectural League Prize Competition. Projects of all types, either theoretical or real, and executed in any medium, are welcome. The jury will select work for presentation in lectures, digital media, and an exhibition in June 2017. Winners will receive a cash prize of $2,000. Deadline: February 13, 2017.  Learn More...

DESIGN COMPETITION | arch out loud: Borders, Korean Demilitarized Zone Underground Bath House challenges designers to explore the possibility of creating an underground bath house within the Korean Demilitarized one which responds to the surrounding geopolitical conditions. The role tourism can play in opening relations across a border begs the question: How does architecture position itself in the middle of this condition of tension? Deadline: February 16, 2017.  Learn More...
ONGOING

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | PLOT is an award-winning annual journal produced by the Master of Landscape Architecture students of the City College of New York's Spitzer School of Architecture. The theme of PLOT Volume 6 is CLOUD. Despite its hazy interpretations, the CLOUD has also become a place of storage, suggesting a space of permanence - for data and the digital. What is a cloud?Submissions are open to all: students, professors, practitioners, collaborators, and friends. Deadline: February 20, 2017.   Learn More... 

CALL FOR PROPOSALS | The CCA Emerging Curator Program encourages a wide range of proposals aiming to rethink and re-examine the scope and the boundaries of "curating architecture." Particular attention will be given to projects that intend to locate the discourse of architecture within a broader context across disciplines and practices. Deadline: February 27, 2017. Learn More...

CALL FOR APPLICANTS | The CCA Curatorial Internship Program is designed to share the CCA's expertise with students and young professionals in architecture, the design disciplines, the arts, the humanities, and cultural studies who are interested in exploring editorial and curatorial work in architecture. Students and young professionals born on or after 1 January 1986 are eligible regardless of citizenship and place of residence. Deadline: February 27, 2017. Learn More...

CALL FOR PAPERS | The Journal of Technology | Architecture + Design (TAD) ACSA is launching its first new journal in over 70 years. As part of our commitment to advancing architectural pedagogy, TAD will be a forum for rigorous primary research, interviews, articles, and reviews, that explore technology in relationship to architecture and design. Paper submissions for the second issue, SIMULATIONS: Modeling, Measuring, and Disrupting Design, are now open. Deadline: March 1, 2017.    Learn More... 

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS | Cities, Communities and Homes: Is the Urban Future Livable?  A conference organized by AMPS and the University of Derby springing from documentation of the complexity of our cities and their socio-economic differences. This conference seeks to explore how the three issues of city development, sense of community and housing need, all combine to make lives in our cities livable - or not. This event is interdisciplinary by default. Deadline: March 1, 2017.  Learn More... 

CALL FOR ENTRIES | Speed Presentations Edition 8: Community Interiors The AIANY Interiors Committee is pleased to announce this call for projects that make significant contributions to neighborhoods through design, program, service, and/or other strategies. New York-based architects are encouraged to submit their best interiors projects to be presented on Wednesday, March 22, 2017 from 6PM through 8PM at the Steelcase showroom. Deadline: March 3, 2017.   Learn More... 

CALL FOR PAPERS | World Multidisciplinary Art Symposium is a platform for academicians, professionals and artists to collaborate, share knowledge and contributions in multiple disciplines of the arts. Deadline: March 10, 2017.    Learn More...

CALL FOR ENTRIES | Eleven Magazine: Biomimicry  Our latest competition celebrates Nature as the ultimate designer. We are looking for entries that showcase design and production of materials, structures, and/or systems that are modeled on and inspired by biological entities and processes in either form, function or both. Deadline: March 11, 2017.   Learn More... 

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. 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. 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.    Learn More...  

SUBMISSIONS OPEN | arch out loud: DEATH AND ARCHITECTURE  will examine the juxtaposition of these terms, delving into the ever-changing sociological responsibilities of architecture and the constant, unchanging condition of death. This is an open call for submissions of original written or graphic work pertaining to the relationship between the dead and the city. Deadline: Not Specified.   Learn More...  

FACULTY NEWS  
Nader Tehrani, Arch dean/fac | Lecturer | The Jean & Bill Booziotis Lecture in Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, January 30, 2017, Austin, TX | Article | "Immigration Ban Rocks Architecture Community," ARCHITECTURAL RECORD,  February 1, 2017

Elizabeth O'Donnell, AR '83/Arch assoc dean & fac | Moderator | Laskey Charrette, Sam Fox School of Architecture, Washington University in St. Louis, January 27-29, 2017, St. Louis, MO

Nima Javidi, Arch fac | Article | "Immigration Ban Rocks Architecture Community,"  ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, February 1, 2017

ALUMNI NEWS
Daniel Libeskind, AR '70 | Article | "Developer Scraps Libeskind's Jerusalem Pyramid Plan," ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, January 30, 2017 | Article | "Studio Libeskind, Architects for Society Speak Out Against Trump's Travel Ban," AZURE magazine, 31 January 2017 | Article | "A Driver's License Can be Revoked for the Elderly, but Artistic License? Never.," 99U.COM | Article | "Immigration Ban Rocks Architecture Community," ARCHITECTURAL RECORD,
February 1, 2017

Toshiko Mori, AR '76 | Article | "Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin D. Martin House Complex," ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, February 1, 2017

Laurie Hawkinson, AR '83 | Lecturer | Canadian Institute of Steel Construction  Lecture, McGill University School of Architecture, February 20, 2017, Montreal, Canada

Vladimir Belogolovsky, AR '96 | Article | "Emilio Ambasz: "I Detest Writing Theories, I Prefer Writing Fables," ARCHDAILY.COM, January 24, 2017 | Lecturer | URA Speaker Series - Architecture Toward Nature, URA Function Hall, February 6, 2017, Singapore

OBRA Architects (Pablo Castro and Jennifer Lee, AR '97) | Group Exhibition | "MISUNDERSTANDINGS: On The Collection of Le FRAC Centre-Val Loire, Orleans", Le FRAC Centre-Val De Loire, Orleans, France, January 18 through April 23, 2017

Situ Studio (Basar Girit, Aleksey Lukyanov-Cherny, Wes Rozen, Bradley  Samuels, all AR '05, Wes Rozen also Arch fac) | Article | "Explore SITU Studio's new  gallery at the Brooklyn Navy Yard," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, February 2,  2017

Lydia Xynogala, AR '09 | Article | "House in Achladies," DOMUS, January 13, 2017

                                                                                         

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