STUDENT LECTURE SERIES
Kabage Karanja + Stella Mutegi: The Anthropocene Archive

Today, March 18
Zoom | 6:30PM

Cave_Bureau is a Nairobi based bureau of architects and researchers charting explorations into architecture and urbanism within nature. Our work addresses the anthropoIogical and geological context of the postcolonial African city as a means to confront the challenges of our contemporary rural and urban lives.

Kabage Karanja is an architect and spelunker. He founded Cave_bu­reau in 2014 alongside Stella Mutegi. He is a natural environment enthusiast leading geological and anthropological investigations into architecture and nature, synonymous with the bureau's work. He leads the research, orchestrating expeditions and surveys into caves within the Great Rift Valley, navigating a return to the limitless curiosity of our early ancestors. These playful and intensive research studies form part of a broader decoding of the pre and post-colonial African city, where he oversees the bureau's work that manifests through drawing, storytelling, construction, and the curation of performative events of resistance within caves. 

Stella Mutegi is an architect and spelunker. She founded Cave_bu­reau in 2014 alongside Kabage Karanja. She is a natural environment enthusiast, heading up the technical department at Cave_bureau, where she orchestrates the seamless coordination of ideas into built form. Stella is well known in the bureau as the problem slayer of all design issues, helping steer the geological and anthropological investigations towards a unique architectural product. She partakes in the Cave_bureau expeditions and surveys into caves within the Great Rift Valley, navigating a return to the limitless curiosity of our early ancestors. She also interrogates the intensive research studies that form part of a broader decoding of the pre and post colonial African city. 

This event is free and accessible to the public through Zoom. Please register in advance here.
EXHIBITION LECTURE
David Heymann, AR'85: A Building You Should Know - The John S. Chase Residence

Thursday, March 25
Zoom | 6:30 PM

In 1959, John S. Chase, the first African American to be licensed as an architect by the State of Texas – but that only after petitioning the state for special permission to sit for the exam – completed a remarkable modern house for his own family in Houston. Though largely ignored within architecture, the house as a gathering place was a landmark in local, state, and national culture and politics. You should know it.

The presentation will be followed by a conversation and Q & A moderated by Nader Tehrani.

David Heymann, AR'85, FAIA, is an architect, author, and the Harwell Hamilton Harris Regents Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas. His focus is the complex relationship of constructions and landscapes. Heymann is the author of My Beautiful City Austin and, with Stephen Fox, John S. Chase - the Chase Residence. He is a contributing writer for Places Journal; his essay Landscape Is Our Sex received the 2012 Bradford Williams Medal. Heymann’s architectural work has been recognized with various design honors, including selection for Emerging Voices by the Architecture League of New York. He is an AIA/ACSA Distinguished Teaching Professor, and has received numerous teaching awards, including recognition by DesignIntelligence in 2017 and 2018. Heymann holds degrees from the Cooper Union and Harvard’s GSD.

This event is free and accessible to the public through Zoom. Please register in advance here.
EXHIBITION
A Building You Should Know - The John S. Chase Residence

Friday, March 12 through Friday, April 23
Online

This exhibition follows the early trajectory of John S. Chase's practice along with the development of his residence. The house Chase completed in Houston for his family in 1959—and then substantially altered in 1968—was thus a remarkable personal accomplishment. It was also a crucial meeting place in Houston’s social and political life (and beyond), and a landmark in American architecture: the Chase Residence was one of the first Modernist houses to use an enclosed interior courtyard as a true extension of the public realm of the house, not as a garden, lightwell, or circulation space. 

-- David Heymann, AR'85, FAIA
Harwell Hamilton Harris Regents Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas

This exhibition is free and accessible online.
EXHIBITION
Pullman Porters: A Legacy of Resilience, Resistance and Progress

Closing Friday, March 19

In honor of Black History Month 2021, The Cooper Union presents this look at the journey of the Pullman porters. The below posters were designed to fit into the windows on the West side of the Foundation Building, facing the street. The text is extracted from the posters.

Employed by industrialist George Pullman shortly after the end of the Civil War, Pullman porters served wealthy and middle-class travelers riding in high style on the nation’s rapidly expanding rail lines. Despite low wages and abysmal working conditions, these porters became key sources of financial and cultural support for Black communities around the country. They went on to establish the first African American labor union in the U.S. and were central to the formation of what would become the Civil Rights Movement.

This exhibition was organized and curated in a collaboration between the School of Architecture Archive and the Communications Office of The Cooper Union.
ELEANORE PETTERSEN LECTURE
Lesley Lokko + Sumayya Vally, Counterparts: This Fragile Condition

Tuesday, March 30
Zoom | 12:00 Noon

Counterparts presents a dialogue that has been developing between Lesley Lokko and Sumayya Vally for the last six years. It is an event full of ‘betweens’ - between a performance and a presentation; between women; between generations; between disciplines; between time and territory; between talking and telling; between teaching and testing; between words and images, thoughts and things. In short, Counterparts are betwixt and between.

The event will be introduced and moderated by Nader Tehrani. The initial discussion, which will last approximately 45 minutes, will take the form of a dialogue between Lesley Lokko and Sumayya Vally and touch upon race, gender, identity, difference and diaspora and their vexed relationship to architectural canon. The conversation will be joined by Nader Tehrani who will moderate questions from the audience.

This event is co-presented by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture and The Architectural League of New York. 

This event is free and accessible to the public through Zoom. Please register in advance here.
SUMMER PROGRAM
Introduction to Architecture Online

Application Portal is Open

In light of the spread of COVID-10 in New York City, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union announces our upcoming summer intensive program that features a virtual curriculum accessible to high school and college students worldwide. As an institution that is committed to the pursuit of excellence and learning, we view our current circumstances as an opportunity to advance our thinking through radical experimentation between various forms of online engagement, digital interface, virtual modeling and representation techniques. The pleasure of making and experimentation are fundamental to our discovery of architecture and the innovation of the discipline, as well as a deeply thoughtful form of social and cultural dialogue where the imaginary becomes possible.

Applications are currently open and all potential students are encouraged to apply early.

You may watch our public Live Information Session to get an overview of the program's curriculum, pedagogy, and focus for this year. The video features examples of former participants' work and presentations by faculty and staff.

Please direct all questions and concerns to architecture.summer@cooper.edu.
VIDEO ARCHIVE
Watch Our Public Lectures and Events Anytime

Vimeo | On Demand

The School of Architecture records, archives and publishes videos of public programs to open access and accommodate asynchronous learning and research for audiences in different time zones. You may visit our Vimeo channel for access to all our video content.

You may also use Cooper website's search bar to look for a particular lecture title or a lecturer's name to find embedded videos of their events with us, if any are available, along with other pertinent event and bio information.

If you recently missed a lecture or event you wanted to see, make sure to check out the Fall 2020 and the Spring 2021 Lecture and Events Lists. Links to earlier semester event lists are found at the bottom of their respective event pages.

Our public programs are free and recorded for access anytime.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Coronavirus Response

For campus-wide COVID-19 updates and resources, please visit The Cooper Union's website.
Faculty News
Nader Tehrani, Arch dean/fac | Award | "2021 Newly Elected Members," AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS, March 5, 2021

Lydia Kallipoliti, Arch fac | Lecture | Bubble Problems: An Archeology of Infection and Environmental Control, Rice School of Architecture Spring 2021 Lecture Series: New Proximities, March 24, 2021, Zoom

Lesley Lokko, Arch fac | Featured | “6 Women Making Waves in Architecture and Design Education," INTERIOR DESIGN, March 8, 2021 | Article | “Lesley Lokko: A comet of uncommon brightness," ARCHITECTS' JOURNAL, March 8, 2021
Anna Bokov, Arch fac | Book Review | "Review of 'Building a new New World: Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture' and 'Avant-Garde as Method: Vkhutemas and the Pedagogy of Space, 1920–1930'," ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, March 8, 2021

Stephanie Lin, Arch fac | Featured | "6 Women Making Waves in Architecture and Design Education," INTERIOR DESIGN, March 8, 2021
Alumni News
Eleanore Pettersen, AR’41 (deceased) | Article | "You Already Know Frank Lloyd Wright — Now See Houses by 3 of His Illustrious Female Colleagues," APARTMENT THERAPY, March 9, 2021

Daniel Libeskind, AR’70 | Article | "Legacies: Daniel Libeskind," MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE, March 3, 2021

Elizabeth Diller, AR’79 | Speaker | “New York Edition: Virtual World Tour," Architects, not Architecture, March 4, 2021, virtual | Shortlist | Team of the Year, WAN Female Frontier Awards

Anik Pearson, AR’95 | Speaker | AIA Brooklyn Women in Architecture: Talk Series | Mentorship Platforms, AIA Brooklyn, March 10, 2021, online

Yingfan Zhang, AR’06 | Shortlist | Architect of the Year, WAN Female Frontier Awards | Shortlist | Team of the Year, WAN Female Frontier Awards | Shortlist |Unsung Hero, WAN Female Frontier Awards
Tanner Clapmann, AR’10 | Featured | “Co Architects Promotes 21 Team Members for Exemplary Performance,” Taylor&Company, January 28, 2021

Ivan Himanen, AR’10 | Group Exhibition | DxD 2021: Ground Truth, March 5, 2021-no end date indicated, online

Noah Garcia, AR’10 | Group Exhibition | DxD 2021: Ground Truth, March 5, 2021-no end date indicated, online

Angelique Pierre, AR’10 | Speaker | AIA Brooklyn Women in Architecture: Talk Series | Mentorship Platforms, AIA Brooklyn, March 10, 2021, online
Open Calls & Opportunities
NEW

CALL FOR INTERNS
Architecture Unit of the Port Authority of NY&NJ is seeking an architecture and a landscape architecture intern to join their staff. Deadline: April 9

CALL FOR APPLICANTS
AIANY Civic Leadership Program (CLP) is open to architects, designers, and urban planners who are interested in exploring the intersection of design, advocacy, and policy. Deadline: April 26

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
Global Design Graduate Show 2021 invites recent graduates in the creative fields, including architecture and art, to submit their thesis projects for an online showcase. Deadline: August 25

CALL FOR PAPERS 
Special Issue, Environmental Futures: Creative Explorations Through Science, Engineering, Design, and Art invites papers focusing on knowledge beyond disciplinary boundaries. Deadline: October 31

DEADLINES APPROACHING

DESIGN CONTEST
Melissa Next gives talented design students the chance to design a shoe and launch it as a Melissa colab. Deadline: March 21

DESIGN AWARDS 
SARA PA Design Awards invites students and professsional architects to register for participation in the 16th awards competition. Deadline: March 22

GRANT OPPORTUNITY
NYC X DESIGN: The Breakout Grant promotes entrepreneurship in design to turn great ideas into reality. Deadline: March 26

RESIDENCY SCHOLARSHIPS
2021 Virtual Summer Architecture Residency is a 25-day intensive studio that challenges participants to think and design critically. Of the residents selected for the program, some will be awarded grants which waive tuition fees. Deadline: March 28

OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
PLOT Volume 10: X, an award-winning annual journal produced by the Master of Landscape Architecture students of the Spitzer School of Architecture, invites submissions from anyone with any take on its theme: X. Deadline: April 1

GRANT OPPORTUNITY
ACSF: Lindsay Jones Memorial Research Fund supports research on the meaning and significance of the built environment. Deadline: April 1

ONGOING 

CALL FOR CANDIDATES 
Technology | Architecture + Design (TAD) Journal is seeking candidates to join the journal’s Editorial Board. Candidates should have a record of peer-reviewed publication in architecture or affiliated disciplines. Deadline: April 4

STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION
Bauhaus Campus 2021 calls for student participation in re-thinking an educational space where the status quo of architecture can be challenged. Deadline: April 4

CALL FOR ENTRIES
AIANY Reset: Torwards a New Commons invites projects that envision new dynamics of living and community that challenge urban trends towards ever-increasing isolation. Deadline: April 7

FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY 
Lilly Reich Grant for Equality in Architecture launched by the Fundació Mies van der Rose aims to generate research in relation to identity, social inclusion, and all elements of sustainability. Deadline: April 8

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The Bricsys Stay Connected Student Challenge invites designs that help people stay connected without touch. Deadline: April 16
CALL FOR STUDENT ATTENDEES 
Waterfront Conference invites students to an exciting learning and networking opportunity at the region's premier forum for discourse about our waterfront and waterways. For admission, fill out this short application. Deadline: April 16

AWARD COMPETITION
Silk Matters: Architecture Affiliate Awards 2021 aims to promote the affiliated career opportunities for architects who want to do more than architecture, and recognize the many talents acquired in doing so. Registration Deadline: April 30

STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION
LYCEUM Fellowship: Reimagining the Visitor's Experience - The Ames Estate asks students to design an event pavilion. Deadline: May 14

STUDENT AWARD COMPETITION
THE PLAN AWARD: Architects of Tomorrow Special Contest has opened a special category welcoming student submissions. Deadline: May 31

AWARD COMPETITION
THE PLAN AWARD 2021 invites professionals to submit projects in multiple categories. Deadline: May 31 

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
FST StudioProjects Fund helps defray the costs of studio rents for artists in New York City. Deadline: June 1 

STUDENT AWARD COMPETITION
SARA 2021 National Design Awards has opened and invites students and professionals to submit projects for consideration in this year’s awards program. Deadline: August 1 

CALL FOR APPLICANTS
SOM: YEAR ONE is a program that cultivates the next generation of design leaders with a unique program to jumpstart your career in architecture, engineering, urban planning, or interior design. Rolling Deadline: April 1 - August 15

FREE GROCERIES
The College Student Pantry welcomes all college students in need of groceries. Founded in September 2020, we are open first and third Wednesdays from 3-5pm. Stop by 602 E 9th St in the East Village (corner of Ave B) for a free bag of groceries. Ongoing: 1st and 3rd Wednesdays at 3PM. 

CALL FOR SUPPORT
Mophradat: Support the Arts in Beirut Prioritizing those already disadvantaged, and those who influence the community around them in a thoughtful manner, Mophradat offers resources to artists, visual thinkers and architects. Deadline: Rolling

CALL FOR ALLIES
M.E.D Working Group for Anti-Racism students with support from the Yale School of Architecture are calling for allies to organize and join a number of events in order to incubate anti-racist discourse. Send inquiries to ysoa.med@gmail.com. 

CALL FOR STUDENT PROPOSALS
Write for Urban Omnibus! Shaped by a wide range of contributors In an effort to advance the collective work of city making, Urban Omnibus calls for students and professionals to submit article proposals. Deadline: Ongoing

CALL FOR APPLICANTS
AIANYS 2020 Burton L. Roslyn Memorial Scholarship is intended to support participation in the Architect Registration Examination (ARE). Please send information requests and inquiries to Molly Bibisi. Deadline: Rolling 

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Shifting Ground The Architectural League of New York invites you to submit photographs, videos, or drawings accompanied by short written observations about the spaces around you. Deadline: Rolling

DISTANCE LEARNING DISCUSSIONS 
ACSA Open, Web-Based Meetings Archive offers a series of discussions and resources on distance learning from academic professionals across the country. Ongoing Access.