Lecture: Torkwase Dyson | Summer Program Application Portal Opens

LECTURES AND EVENTS

Wednesday, February 27 , 2019

Robert Gwathmey Chair in Architecture and Art Lecture| Torkwase Dyson: Distance and Perception in the Wake of Climate Change

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 in The Great Hall

Torkwase Dyson, the Spring 2019 Robert Gwathmey Chair in Architecture and Art, was born in Chicago, Illinois and spent her developmental years between North Carolina and Mississippi. Traversing these regions helped her develop a fundamental sensitivity towards urban development, southern landscape, and black spatial justice. Dyson earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from Virginia Commonwealth University and her Master of Fine Arts in painting from the Yale School of Art. In 2016 Dyson designed and built Studio South Zero (SSZ), a solar-powered mobile studio where the context of nomadicity became the framework for learning and making art about the environment. It was traveling with SSZ that inspired her experimental project The Wynter-Wells Drawing School for Environmental Liberation, where she explores contemporary theorizations of space, architecture, and the infrastructure of extraction economies.

The lecture will be moderated by Mario Gooden and presented in conjunction with Dyson's solo exhibition I Can Drink the Distance at the 41 Cooper Gallery.

This lecture is co-sponsored with the School of Art and The Architectural League of New York. This event is free and open to the public. RSVP required and you may reserve tickets here.

Application Portal for the Introduction to Architecture Summer Programs is Now Live

The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture offers two full-time, rigorous, studio based summer programs to introduce students to the discipline and practice of architecture, one at the college level and another for high school students. Admission to our summer programs is competitive. Applicants accepted to the program will be notified on a rolling basis beginning March 20, 2019. We recommend that applications be submitted before May 1, 2019, as the programs may reach capacity by that date. Learn More...

FACULTY NEWS

Michael Young, Arch fac | Symposium Participant | "Natures of Ornament: Legacies," Yale School of Architecture, February 23, 2019, New Haven, CT

Brad Cloepfil, Arch fac | Lecture | Spotlight on Design, National Building Museum, March 7, 2019, Washington, DC

Julian Palacio, Arch fan | Lecture | "Matters of Resistance," Syracuse Architecture in Florence, February 19, 2019, Florence, Italy

ALUMNI NEWS

Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Elizabeth Diller, AR '79, Ricardo Scofidio, AR '55/Arch fac emeritus) | Article | "First phase of Hudson Yards set to finally open to the public," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, February 21, 2019 | Article | "DS+R reveals design of "eroded" building at the University of Toronto," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, February 21, 2019

RUR (Jesse Reiser, AR '81, Nanako Umemoto, AR '83) | Office Visit | The Architectural

League: First Friday, March 1, 2019, NYC

Erika Hinrichs, AR '89 | Article | "Educating for the Future: Undergraduate Architecture Chair Erika Hinrichs," PRATT, February 22, 2019

Nandini Bagchee, AR '93 | Article | "Radicals and Real Estate," URBAN OMNIBUS, February 6, 2019

OPEN CALLS & OPPORTUNITIES

NEW

CALL FOR PROPOSALS | Cooper Union Internal Grant Program offers faculty, staff, and students funding for projects that enhance student learning experience, enhances pedagogical practice, ideas for our future and opportunities for the community to come together. Deadline: March 1, 2019. Learn More...

CALL FOR PAPERS | 14th Conference on Advanced Building Skins invites professionals to present a paper on topics associated with innovative products and technologies for building skins, advanced building skin design, performance of the building envelope, and other aspects. Deadline: March 10, 2019. Learn More...

GRANT SPONSORSHIP | Van Alen Institute 2020 NYS Council on the Arts Grant Sponsorship The Architecture + Design Program of the NYSCA awards project grants for professionals in architecture, design, and historic preservation fields. Van Alen Institute is pleased to offer design professionals the opportunity to apply by serving as fiscal sponsors for the NYSCA grants. Deadline: March 11, 2019. Learn More...

CALL FOR PAPERS | ARDETH: INNOVATION as it happens is a call for papers for a collective-oriented, non-corporate account of design practices investigating the embodiment of politics through innovation processes and other contemporary notions of innovation. Deadline: March 25, 2019. Learn More...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | Log 47: Overcoming Carbon Form is a thematic issue edited by Elisa Iturbe interrogating architecture's role in both the formation and outcome of the climate crisis. Deadline: May 31, 2019. Learn More...

DESIGN COMPETITION | Bubble Competitions: Eliminate Loneliness welcomes provocative ways to eliminate loneliness by design. Deadline: April 4, 2019. Learn More...

DEADLINE APPROACHING

CALL FOR CANADIAN ARCHITECTS | Canada Council for the Arts: Prizes is offering several prizes to recognize your achievement or boost your international career. Deadline: March 1, 2019. Learn More...

GRANT SPONSORSHIP | The Architectural League of New York 2020 NYS Council on the Arts Grants Sponsorship The Architecture + Design Program of the NYSCA awards project grants for professionals in architecture, design, and historic preservation fields. The Architectural League of New York welcomes all applicants and will sponsor the first 25 eligible individuals. Deadline: March 11, 2019. Learn More...

DESIGN COMPETITION | The NYC Privately Owned Public Space Logo Design Competition seeks submissions of logo designs to appear on signs at New York City's 550+ privately owned spaces (POPS). Deadline: March 15, 2019. Learn More...

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | The Wright-Ingraham Institute Workshop: Field Stations is a tuition free program addressing integrative studies in landscape, environment, architecture and sustainability. Deadline: March 15, 2019. Learn More...

GRANT OPPORTUNITY | Official U.S. Presentation at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice is open to not-for-profit art, architecture, educational and cultural organizations. Deadline: March 28, 2019. Learn More...

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | The Falling Walls Lab New York gives your researchers and entrepreneurs a state to share their innovative ideas or projects in front of their peers and a distinguished jury. Deadline: March 31, 2019. Learn More...

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | Toptal Scholarships for Women awards $10,000 and a year of mentorship to five future female leaders who want to change the world. Entries will be judged on the originality of the idea, your plan for making it happen, and your passion for the cause it represents. Deadline: March 31, 2019. Learn More...

DESIGN COMPETITION | VHO and VMDO: Modular Set Design Competition is seeking a set design that will rethink what such a set can be. Open to students and professionals. Deadline: March 31, 2019. Learn More...

ONGOING

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | AMPS NY Conference: Education, Design and Practice is a unique conference interested in how we prepare the next generation of professionals to design, construct and manage the built environment. It seeks papers on teaching and learning. Deadline: April 1, 2019. Learn More...

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | The Sally Boasberg Founder's Fellowship is a paid fellowship that includes housing to work at TCLF's office in Washington, D.C. and learn valuable skills related to research, documentation, and advocacy of cultural landscapes. Deadline: April 1, 2019. Learn More...

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | The KTUA Cultural Landscape Fellowship is a paid fellowship that will take place in San Diego, California. Housing is not provided. The recipient will learn valuable skills related to the research and documentation of cultural landscapes. Deadline: April 1, 2019. Learn More...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | FIGMENT NYC 2019 is a free participatory arts event that celebrates creativity by challenging artists and participants to find new ways to create, share, and dream. Deadline: April 7, 2019. Learn More...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | CLOG is an international publication that critically explores one topic at a time from as many perspectives as possible. The current topic is CANNABIS. Deadline: April 20, 2019. Learn More...

CALL FOR PROPOSALS | The 2019 Deborah J. Norden Fund supports a fascinating array of projects through a travel grant to students, recent graduates in the fields of architecture, architectural history, and urban studies. A live information session is scheduled for February 20, 2019. Deadline: April 21, 2019. Learn More...

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS | AMSP Florida Conference: Experiential Design offers a unique invitation to engage cross disciplinary discourse around the role of people, objects and environments and how our individual practices and professions are, in reality, inseparable from each other. Deadline: June 20, 2019. Learn More...

CALL FOR APPLICANTS | Jason Pettigrew Memorial ARE Scholarship is an early career award for an emerging architect working towards licensure and covers the full cost of the ARE as well as study materials. Applications will open in early summer 2019. Learn More...

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