LECTURES AND EVENTS

Wednesday, June 6 , 2018
The 2018 Annual Student Exhibition


This annual exhibition transforms the classrooms, hallways and studios of The Cooper Union into galleries showcasing work from the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, the School of Art, and the Albert Nerken School of Engineering

Located in the Foundation Building (7 East 7th Street) and 41 Cooper Square. 

Exhibition Hours 

May 22 - June 10, 2018
Tuesday thru Sunday, 12 - 7PM
Closed Saturday & Sunday, May 26-27
FACULTY NEWS
Nader Tehrani, Arch dean/fac | Moderator | Nascent Material Conscience: In Practice, NEW INSTRUMENTALITIES: 2018 ACSA/COAM International Conference, June 14-16, 2018, Madrid, Spain | Moderator | Nascent Material Conscience: In Site,  NEW INSTRUMENTALITIES: 2018 ACSA/COAM International Conference, June 14-16, 2018, Madrid, Spain | Moderator | Nascent Material Conscience: In Construction,  NEW INSTRUMENTALITIES: 2018 ACSA/COAM International Conference, June 14-16, 2018, Madrid, Spain

Lorena del Rio, Arch fac | Panelist | Exporting Professors: Transferring Urban and Architectural Models and Teaching Approaches, NEW INSTRUMENTALITIES: 2018 ACSA/COAM International Conference, June 14-16, 2018, Madrid, Spain

Mersiha Veledar, AR '03/Arch fac | Presentation | Healing the City: Elemental Constructions and the Universal Language of Architecture,  NEW INSTRUMENTALITIES: 2018 ACSA/COAM International Conference, June 14-16, 2018, Madrid, Spain

Julian Palacio, Arch fac | Presentation | Towards the Emergence of a New Material Ethic: The Work of Eladio Dieste and Vilanova Artigas

Tulay Atak, Arch fac | Presentation | One Site, Many Public Spaces: Considering Hannah Arendt's Idea of Public Realm in Manshiya (Tel Aviv), NEW INSTRUMENTALITIES: 2018 ACSA/COAM International Conference, June 14-16, 2018, Madrid, Spain
ALUMNI NEWS
Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Elizabeth Diller, AR '79, Ricardo Scofidio, AR '55/Arch fac emeritus) | Article | "New York Architects Take the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale," AIANY NEWS, May 30, 2018

Toshiko Mori, AR '76 | Article | "Women Architects Demonstrate for Equity at the 2018 Venice Architectural Biennale," ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, May 25, 2018

Shigeru Ban, AR '84 | Article | "'Geneologies of Transformation' Opens at Mori Art Museum," ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, May 29, 2018

Nandini Bagchee, AR '93 | Book | Counter Institution: Nandini Bagchee (PRINCE STREET), McNally Jackson Soho, June 27, 2018

SITU (Basar Girit, Aleksey Lukyanov-Cherny, Wes Rozen, Bradley Samuels, all AR '05) | Article | "Who Killed the Kiev Protesters? A 3-D Model Holds the Clues," THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, May 30, 2018

Ofunne Oganwu, AR '13 | Article | "AIANY Announces 2018 Civic Leadership Program Participants," AIANY NEWS, May 30, 2018
OPEN CALLS & OPPORTUNITIES
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE | Full-Time Faculty Search The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture seeks tenure-track full-time professors in Architecture for its undergraduate professional five-year program and a post-professional graduate program. Learn More... 

NEW

DESIGN COMPETITION | LA+ ICONOCLAST asks you to redesign New York's Central Park, which has been fictionally devastated by eco-terrorists. Deadline: October 10, 2018. Learn More...  

INTERN OPPORTUNITY | Two One Two Design is offering paid summer internships to students working towards their Bachelor's degree in Architecture and those who are genuinely interested learning from others. Send resume and cover letter to info@twoonetwodesign.com. Learn More...  
DEADLINE APPROACHING   

NEW GRAD FREE MEMBERSHIP | The American Institute of Architects (AIA) offers up to 18 months of free membership upon graduation. Learn More... 

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | Amps, Kent State University: Alternatives to the Present A Conference on Architecture, Urbanism, Sociology, Development & Planning seeks abstracts focusing on interdisciplinary alternatives to the 20th century's top-down and disciplinary understandings of the urban condition. Deadline: June 5, 2018. Learn More...

DESIGN CHALLENGE | Eleven Magazine: Macro to Micro Future living elicits a revolution in the way we live at multiple scales. Following the connections between housing and environmental crises, a question remains: urban expansion or natural preservation? It is time for a bold, radical shift in perception and action. Deadline: June 6, 2018. Learn More...

DESIGN CHALLENGE | COMMUN: Hyperlocal is looking for proposals for a new "hyperlocal" commuting system for Mumbai which, given the many issues interrelated with transportation in this populous and thriving city, may completely transform it by 2030. Deadline: June 15, 2018. Learn More...
ONGOING  

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | Ardeth #04: RIGHTS Design professionals and their actions seldom enter the debate regarding the relationship between city, rights, and powers. The project of architecture is often the carrier of a "tyranny of values" (Schmitt, 1966), as it breeds paradigms centered on form, on function, or even on consensus, that, for instance have indirectly reinforced the High-Tech trend. Deadline: July 15, 2018. Learn More...

CALL FOR PAPERS | 21st International Congress of Aesthetics Belgrade 2019 invites all researchers and scholars interested in our theme, "Possible Worlds of Contemporary Aesthetics: Aesthetics Between History, Geography and Media," to participate in the Congress with a paper. Deadline:  September 1, 2018. Learn More...

                                                                                         

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