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Student Work Collection Database: Phase I

The Student Work Collection represents over eight decades of The Cooper Union's experimental, influential approach to architectural education. The material encompasses analog image, text, and audio records as well as born-digital media that document more than 4,500 projects by over 1,500 students from the 1930s through the present are now available via a free, public website at archswc.cooper.edu . Phase I includes the Collection's approximately 20,000 analog records dating from the 1930s to 2000. This work highlights the architectural pedagogy that distinguishes The Cooper Union as preeminent in the education of architects.

Image: Michaela Frühwirth. Design II, Spring 1998. Analysis: Palladio, Villa Emo
CALL FOR ENTRIES
2020 Architectural League Prize | Value

Deadline: February 10

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 2020. Winners will receive a cash prize of $2,000.
INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY
SOM Summer Internships

Deadline: February 28

SOM is looking for the next generation of design leaders to join their Summer Internship Program.

Gain valuable, hands-on experience over the course of 10 weeks working as a member of the SOM team, collaborating with global experts on some of the most exciting and transformative architecture, engineering, planning, and sustainability projects in the world.
Faculty and Staff News
John Hejduk, AR ’50/Arch dean & fac emeritus (deceased) | Article | “Cooper Union opens access to database of student work dating back to the 1930s,” ARCHINECT, December 3, 2019

Nader Tehrani, Arch dean/fac (NADAAA principal) | Article | “Announcing the winners of the 2019 AN Best of Design Awards,” THE ARCHITECTS’ NEWSPAPER, December 4, 2019

Lydia Kallipoliti, Arch fac | Article | “Announcing the winners of the 2019 AN Best of Design Awards,” THE ARCHITECTS’ NEWSPAPER, December 4, 2019
Peter Eisenman, Arch facBook Launch | Authorship: Discourse, A Series on Architecture, Princeton University School of Architecture, December 11, 2019, Princeton, NJ | Article | “Cooper Union opens access to database of student work dating back to the 1930s,” ARCHINECT, December 3, 2019

Elisa Iturbe, Arch fac | Presenter | Speaking of Trees…, Princeton University School of Architecture, December 5, 2019, Princeton, NJ

Steven Hillyer, AR ’90/Arch staff | Article | “Cooper Union opens access to database of student work dating back to the 1930s,” ARCHINECT, December 3, 2019
Alumni News
Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Elizabeth Diller, AR ’79, Ricardo Scofidio, AR ’55/Arch fac emeritus) | Article | “Museum of Modern Art Addition by Diller Scofidio + Renfro with Gensler,” ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, December 2, 2019

Daniel Libeskind, AR ’70 | Article | “Cooper Union opens access to database of student work dating back to the 1930s,” ARCHINECT, December 3, 2019

Toshiko Mori, AR ’76 | Article | “Cooper Union opens access to database of student work dating back to the 1930s,” ARCHINECT, December 3, 2019 | Article | “Announcing the winners of the 2019 AN Best of Design Awards,” THE ARCHITECTS’ NEWSPAPER, December 4, 2019

Elizabeth Diller, AR ’79 | Article |“Cooper Union opens access to database of student work dating back to the 1930s,” ARCHINECT, December 3, 2019

Jesse Reiser, AR ’81 | Book Launch | Authorship: Discourse, A Series on Architecture, Princeton University School of Architecture, December 11, 2019, Princeton, NJ
Nanako Umemoto, AR ’83 | Juror | 2020 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers | Value

Shigeru Ban, AR ’84 | Article | ”Continuing Education: Mass Timber Construction Swatch Headquarters by Shigeru Ban,” ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, December 2, 2019

Gina Pollara, AR ’91 | Article | “Tetsuya Ishida’s First US Show Features Moody Portraits of 20th Century Life,” WTTW, November 20, 2019

Tao (Sule) DuFour, AR ’02 | Article | “Preston Thomas Memorial Symposium Expands Earth Art in Theory and Practice,” CORNELL UNIVERSITY, November 15, 2019

Ballman Khapalova (Peter Ballman, AR ’08, Dasha Khapalova, AR ’07) | Article | “Announcing the winners of the 2019 AN Best of Design Awards,” THE ARCHITECTS’ NEWSPAPER, December 4, 2019
Open Calls & Opportunities
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CALL FOR ENTRIES
The Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers: Value invites young architects and designers 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. Deadline: February 10

DEADLINES APPROACHING  

CALL FOR PAPERS
ACSA and International Union of Architects World Congress of Architects 2020 is being held in Rio de Janeiro and highlights the role of architecture, its potential for diversity, and multiplicity of urban forms, in the urban reality of the contemporary world. Deadline: December 10

FICTION COMPETITION
Fairy Tales 2020 challenges participants to create a unique architectural fairy tale, combining a text narrative with 5 images in the most spectacular way. Deadline: December 19

CALL FOR IDEAS
Storefront for Art and Architecture: Museum of History and Community of Puerta Tierra  What does a museum that serves its community look like? How can we create new understandings of the role of a cultural institution and its public purpose? Deadline: December 20

ONGOING  

DESIGN COMPETITION 
House in Forest 2020 - Wooden House aims to promote environmentally friendly and ideas on sustainability through design. Registration Deadline: December 31

CALL FOR FELLOWS
Humanities Institute of the LuEsther T. Mertz Library at The New York Botanical Garden is pleased to offer three full-time, residential Research Fellowships for 2020 for current Ph.D. students or recent post-doctoral researchers. Deadline: January 6
CALL FOR IDEAS 
Future Architecture explores the boundaries and potential new systems and coalitions in architecture. It is a platform that provides practitioners and conceptual thinkers with opportunities to speak up. Deadline: January 6

CALL FOR SUBMISSION Harvard Graduate School of Design's 2020 Wheelwright Prize is an open international competition that awards $100,000 to a talented early-career architect to support expansive, intensive research. Deadline: January 26, 2020

CALL FOR APPLICANTS
MOA ARCHITECTURE: Kiyoshi Murata Scholarship + Internship  offers an annual merit based private scholarship award + paid summer internship (plus paid travel and living reimbursement) to students in accredited architectural programs. Deadline: January 31

APPLICATIONS OPEN
Bard Graduate Center Research and Visiting Fellowships   are designed to further the institution's goal of promoting research in the areas of decorative arts, design history, and material culture. For questions, please contact fellowships@bgc.bard.edu. Deadlines: November 15, 2019 and February 1

CALL FOR ENTRIES
Superscape 2020 is a biennial prize that seeks to explore new models of urban living within a 30 year timeline. Deadline: March 16

DESIGN COMPETITION
Legendary Bird Home 2020 tasks participants to present innovative designs for a bird house that can be built at home using sustainable materials and methods. Registration Deadline: April 14

DESIGN COMPETITION
BELT TIGHTENING - Bungalows for the Millenial Family  Learning from the history and design of bungalows and utilizing the standard Chicago lot, design a new housing prototype for Chicago. Deadline: May 22