VISITING LECTURE
Zhu Pei: Architecture of Nature, an experimental approach
Tuesday, March 22
3rd Floor Lobby and Zoom | 6:30 PM
In this lecture Zhu Pei will focus on one project, The Imperial Kiln Museum, in order to represent his design philosophy. Pei will cover his approach to contemporary architecture through the lens of ecological and cultural sustainability based on ancient Chinese Nature Philosophy. Rooted in a traditional cultural background and inspired by the rich material traditions of China, Pei's design philosophy and work generates 'material' propositions across different tectonic terrains. The lecture will touch on the breadth of his work by presenting images from various other projects.
The lecture and discussion following it will be introduced and moderated by Nader Tehrani.
Zhu Pei founded Studio Zhu Pei in Beijing in 2005, and from there he has produced an extraordinary corpus of cultural works that have made him one of the leading figures of his generation.
His works have been exhibited at world important museums such as MoMA, Venice Biennial, GA Gallery, Centre Pompidou, Victoria and Albert Museum, Kassel, Dresden State Art Museum, Sao Paulo Art Biennial, the solo exhibition at Aedes, Harvard University, Rome MAXXI Museum and so on. His works have been collected by MoMA, Pompidou Art Center, the Victoria and Albert Museum and M+.
The in-person lecture is open to Cooper Union students, faculty, and staff in the 3rd Floor Lobby. This event is accessible to the public through Zoom only. Zoom account registration is required, please register in advance here.
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ROUNDTABLE
Under Pressure: Urban Housing and Other Hybrids
Wednesday, March 23
Zoom | 6:00 PM
This roundtable discussion curated by Hina Jamelle and Daisy Ames. The invited speakers include Brian Phillips, Scott Erdy, Laia Mogas-Soldevila, and Nader Tehrani who are contributors to Under Pressure, a book edited by Hina Jamelle about instigation and design in urban housing. This book gathers and contextualizes relevant conversations in urban housing unfolding today across architecture through four topics: Learning from History, Changing Domesticities, Housing Finance and Policy, and Design and Material Innovation. The result is a multi-disciplinary amalgam of research and design intelligence from thought leaders in the fields of architecture, real estate, economics, policy, material design, and finance. The discussion will be moderated by Daisy Ames, coordinator of the Housing Studio sequence at The Cooper Union Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, and speakers will engage in the themes of this year’s studio design prompts of hybridity and invisibility.
This event will be conducted through Zoom. Zoom account registration is required, please register in advance here.
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EXHIBITION RECEPTION
Ezra Stoller: Photographs of Architecture
Tuesday, March 29
Third Floor Hallway Gallery and Lobby | 6:30PM
Please join the School of Architecture for an exhibition reception to celebrate the gift of ten photographs by the architectural photographer Ezra Stoller from Peter Katz A’76, as well as the gift of six additional photographs by Stoller’s daughter, Erica Stoller. This body of images—which reprises an exhibition of Stoller’s work held at the Max Protetch Gallery from late 1980 to early 1981—is now part of the permanent collection of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Archive.
The reception will include remarks by Nader Tehrani, Dean; Steven Hillyer, Director of the School of Architecture Archive; and Peter Katz.
This reception is open to current Cooper Union students, faculty, staff.
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BOOK LAUNCH
Thesis 2018 - 2021
Wednesday, March 30
Third Floor Lobby | 6:30 PM
Please join the School of Architecture for the launch of four recent Thesis publications, from 2018 – 2021. These books, which celebrate undergraduate Thesis projects completed by graduating Cooper Union students, are part of an eight-year tradition dating back to 2014. Each year since then a group of student editors has collaborated with Thesis faculty and the Architecture Archive to create a lasting document of their final, pre-professional, individually initiated design studio work. The last four publications present projects by seventy-nine students working under the guidance of twelve faculty members and thirty-six Thesis advisors. Three of these books were completed remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This event will be open to 2018 – 2021 School of Architecture graduates as well as current Cooper Union students, faculty, and staff.
Image: Cue the Confetti—Parade for a Theatrical City, Yu Kiu Chan. Spread from Thesis 2018.
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SUMMER PROGRAM
DIGITAL FABRICATION: Design-Build Education
Applications are now open.
The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union announces our upcoming intensive Design-Build Education Summer Program. This full-time in-person course offers advanced high school, undergraduate and graduate level students and professional participants a comprehensive foundation to digital fabrication workflows and technologies via the unique studio ethic of the School of Architecture.
Program participants from all academic fields are welcome and encouraged to apply. Prospective students need not be currently enrolled in an academic institution but are required to have completed coursework in or have practical knowledge of Rhino 3D as covered in our Introduction to Architecture Online summer programs or elsewhere.
Applications are currently open and all potential students are encouraged to apply early.
July 5 - July 29, 2022 | 4-weeks | In-Person Monday - Thursday, 11AM-2PM EST. | Apply Now
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ARCHLOG
The Future Food Deal Open Call
Posted: Friday, March 18
The 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB), co-curated by Cooper Union Professor Lydia Kallipoliti, has recently announced The Future Food Deal, an open call that invites students and recent graduates to contribute their design proposals to a compendium of cookbooks and manuals for sustainable food futures.
The open call is one component of the work to be explored in the Tallinn Architecture Biennale at large, whose theme “Edible, Or the Architecture of Metabolism” deals with the relationship between architecture and the metabolic relationships that produce fuel, waste and nutrients. Professor Kallipoliti’s seminar at the Cooper Union during the spring 2020 semester offers a glimpse into the types of issues, work, and research that will correlate with the biennale exhibition that opens on September 7th, 2022, in Estonia. Ranging from the architecture of food systems, to new building materials made of edible materials, to geopolitical questions related to circular economies, TAB offers a range of responses to the spatial and existential connections between architecture and food that surface in different scales: from the stomach to the territory and the ways in which we process mentally the journey of the edible arriving to our table. TAB explores how architecture can use its expressive capacity to investigate and act upon metabolic relationships, digestion, and the generation of resources.
The Future Food Deal Open Call. Image by stuudiostuudio (TAB, 2022).
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LEECTURE / PANEL DISCUSSION / PERFORMANCE
The Taipei Music Center
Wednesday, April 6
Livestream and The Great Hall | 6:30 PM
In conjunction with the exhibition Lyrical Urbanism: The Taipei Music Center, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture and Cooper Union’s Communications Office are presenting a Great Hall public program on Wednesday, April 6 at 6:30 pm. The event will include a lecture by the Music Center’s architects—Jesse Reiser AR’81 and Nanako Umemoto AR’83 of Reiser+Umemoto, RUR Architecture; a panel discussion with Joshua Barone, Yale Evelev, Sandra Hsu, Jeffrey Kipnis, and Sylvia Lavin, moderated by Dean Nader Tehrani; and a performance by a Taiwanese string quartet.
Lyrical Urbanism: The Taipei Music Center celebrates and communicates the vibrant energy and intensity of the recently completed Taipei Music Center designed by Reiser and Umemoto, both alumni of Cooper Union. The exhibition introduces the complex’s iconic architecture to an American audience through large-scale photographs, videos, music, and architectural models and drawings. Lyrical Urbanism illustrates the many ways the Music Center is currently inhabited—from informal daytime outdoor markets to organized evening music festivals—and how it has become an important urban district where Taiwanese music and culture is cultivated, celebrated, and projected toward a global audience.
This lecture was made possible by generous support from the YC Foundation, Inc., New York.
This event will be conducted in-person in The Great Hall and Livestreamed.
Image: Taipei Music Center. Reiser+Umemoto, RUR Architecture. Yana Zhezhela & Alek Vatagin, photographers.
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SYMPOSIUM
Nuance and Intimacy in the Construction of Civic Space
Saturday, April 9
Arthur A. Houghton Gallery and Zoom | 10:00 AM
In a series of post-2020 civic architecture projects for different sites, Conceiving the Plan inaugurates a dialogue with the legacy of the late architect and longtime Cooper Union Professor Diane Lewis AR’76. It asks the following questions: How can civic spaces be imbued with nuance? In what ways does such a quality persist in the city? Can one discuss intimacy in architectural terms? In her built and unbuilt works, teaching, and writing, Diane Lewis upheld the capacity of architecture to profoundly and intimately embody our collective life. For Lewis, the city was not only the result of a great number of inextricable historical strata of form and memory, it was also a proposition about a moral and ethical life together. She approached the city as a mental universe all its own, greater than the sum of its individual architectures. Her unique presence—her unmistakable voice—is among the most characteristic distillations of the architectural “message” of The Cooper Union from the 1970s to the mid-2010s.
This event will be conducted in-person in the Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery and through Zoom. Zoom account registration is required, please register in advance here.
Image: Star Stories. Sotirios Kotoulas.
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EXHIBITION
Lyrical Urbanism: The Taipei Music Center
On View Wednesday, April 6 through Friday, April 29
Third Floor Hallway Gallery
Lyrical Urbanism: The Taipei Music Center celebrates and communicates the vibrant energy and intensity of the recently completed Taipei Music Center that was designed by architects and Cooper alumni Jesse Reiser AR’81 and Nanako Umemoto AR’83 of Reiser+Umemoto, RUR Architecture. The exhibition introduces the complex’s iconic architecture to an American audience through large-scale photographs, videos, music, and architectural models and drawings. Lyrical Urbanism illustrates the many ways the Music Center is currently inhabited—from informal daytime outdoor markets to organized evening-time music festivals—and how it has become an important urban district where Taiwanese music and culture is cultivated, celebrated, and projected toward a global audience.
In conjunction with the exhibition, a lecture, panel discussion, and musical performance will be held in Cooper Union’s Great Hall at 6:30 pm on April 6, 2022. Details to follow.
This exhibition is free and open to the public.
Image: Taipei Music Center. Reiser+Umemoto, RUR Architecture. Yana Zhezhela & Alek Vatagin, photographers.
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EXHIBITION
Conceiving the Plan: Nuance and Intimacy in the Construction of Civic Space
On View Thursday, April 7 through Friday, April 29
Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery
In Honor of Diane Lewis (1951 –2017)
First exhibited as part of the Italian Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia October 8 – November 21, 2021
In a series of post-2020 civic architecture projects for different sites, Conceiving the Plan inaugurates a dialogue with the legacy of the late architect and longtime Cooper Union Professor Diane Lewis AR’76. It asks the following questions: How can civic spaces be imbued with nuance? In what ways does such a quality persist in the city? Can one discuss intimacy in architectural terms? In her built and unbuilt works, teaching, and writing, Diane Lewis upheld the capacity of architecture to profoundly and intimately embody our collective life. For Lewis, the city was not only the result of a great number of inextricable historical strata of form and memory, it was also a proposition about a moral and ethical life together. She approached the city as a mental universe all its own, greater than the sum of its individual architectures. Her unique presence—her unmistakable voice—is among the most characteristic distillations of the architectural “message” of The Cooper Union from the 1970s to the mid-2010s.
This exhibition is free and open to the public.
Image: Trading, Tracing, and Telling Stories: The Alchemies of Exchange - Catherine Ann Somerville Venart.
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SUMMER PROGRAM
Introduction to Architecture Online: Summer 2022
Applications are now open.
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.
High School Student Program Dates: July 5 - August 5 | Apply Now
College Student Program Dates: July 5 - July 29 | Apply Now
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.
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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 2021 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.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Coronavirus Response
For campus-wide COVID-19 updates and resources, please visit The Cooper Union's website.
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NADAAA (Nader Tehrani, principal, Arch dean and fac | Article | "'MIT Site 4' Multifunctional Complex: The Elegant Balance of Form and Technology," THE PLAN, March 2022, 136 | Featured | "In the News," AIA NEW YORK NEWS, March 9, 2022
John Hejduk, AR’50/Arch dean & fac emeritus (deceased) | Solo Exhibition | LONDON MASQUE, Royal Academy of Arts, March 22-May 21, 2022, London, England | Panel | JOHN HEJDUK: MASQUES AND MEANING, Royal Academy of arts, March 23, 2022, London, England
Lydia Kallipoliti, Arch fac | Featured | “Open Call der Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2022,” baunetz.de, March 14, 2022
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Ja Architecture Studio (Nima Javidi, Arch fac) | Presentation | Architectural League 2022 Emerging Voices, March 17, 2022, online | Award | “Introducing the 69th Annual Progressive Architecture Award Winners,” Architect Magazine, March 10, 2022
Michael Samuelian AR’95/Arch fac | Speaker | Presidential Forum: Meeting the Grand Challenges of the 21st Century, American Technion Society, Lotte New York Palace, March 17-19, 2022, NYC
Thomas Phifer, Arch fac | Featured | “In the News," AIA NEW YORK NEWS, March 9, 2022 | Featured | "2022 Newly Elected Members," American Academy of Arts and Letters, March 3, 2022
LEVENBETTS (Stella Betts, principal, Arch fac) | Featured | "In the News," AIA NEW YORK NEWS, March 9, 2022
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Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Elizabeth Diller AR’79, Ricardo Scofidio AR’55/Arch fac emeritus) | Article | “Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Savvy Business School at Columbia," AZURE magazine, March 2, 2022 | Featured | "Architects Respond to the Invasion of Ukraine," AIA NEW YORK NEWS, March 9, 2022 | Featured | "In the News," AIA NEW YORK NEWS, March 9, 2022
Frank Gerard Godlewski AR’82 | Featured | "Plan to demolish Caldwell Public Library goes before council tonight," SPOT ON NEW JERSEY, March 1, 2022
Anik Pearson AR’95 | Featured | "Inside One Upper East Side Home With a Decidedly Modernist Edge," ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST, February 18, 2022
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Vladimir Belogolovsky AR’96 | Introduction | Yung Ho Chang: Building Issues, Center for Architecture, March 15, 2022, NYC
SITU Research (Basar Girit, Aleksey Lukyanov-Cherney, Brad Samuels, all AR’05) | Featured | "Colombia: Reconstrucción revela cómo las fuerzas de seguridad atacaron intencionadamente a manifestantes pacíficos en Cali el 3 de mayo," AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, February 25, 2022
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Open Calls & Opportunities |
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CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
DEADLINES APPROACHING
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Architectural League of New York: New City Critics invites applications for the inaugural cohost of New City Critics - a fellowship program to empower new, fearless, and diverse voices to challenge the ways we design, plan and develop cities. Deadline: March 23
CALL FOR APPLICANTS
CALL FOR ENTRIES
The Marker Design Challenge is a dedicated recognition of women in architecture in which participants are prompted to design a physical marker that will be placed next to a structure designed by a woman anywhere in the world. Deadline: March 30
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Urban Ocean Lab 2022-23 Research Fellows is open to undergraduate and graduate students and committed to rigorous, creative and equitable research for the future of climate policy and coastal cities. Deadline: April 1
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
The 2030 Fund provides student loan debt relief and licensure support for aspiring BIPOC architects pursuing licensure. Deadline: April 1
CALL FOR ENTRIES
NYCxDESIGN Awards invites product design entries including but not limited to accessories, architectural products, fabric, furniture, kitchen & bath, lighting and wall coverings from graduate and undergraduate students in an accredited design program in NYC. Deadline: April 7
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
CALL FOR REGISTRANTS
International VELUX Award invites students of architecture to explore the role of daylight and sunlight as sources of energy in architecture and inspire new thinking. Deadline: April 15, 2022
CALL FOR APPLICANTS
Full Time Architecture Teacher The Dalton Visual Arts Department seeks a dynamic and collaborative teacher (full or part time) beginning in late August 22. Deadline: Rolling
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
ONGOING
CALL FOR ENTRIES
MICROHOME - Small living, huge impact is an ideas competition open to students and professionals that prompts participants to design a new concept of small-scale architecture. Deadline: April 19
CALL FOR ENTRIES
Iceland Volcano Coffee Shop is a project competition that prompts participants to design a coffee shop at the base of an Icelandic volcano. Deadline: April 20
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CALL FOR ENTRIES
Caramel Shore Traveller Rooms is a project competition open to all that prompts participants to design eco-friendly cabins in Europe’s greenest country. Deadline: April 20
OPEN CALL
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
CALL FOR ENTRIES
CALL FOR ENTRIES
Lyceum Fellowship 2022 Competition: UNDERLAND challenges students to create a solution for the Friesenhahn Cave site, an important paleontological site outside of San Antonio and managed by Concordia University in Austin, Texas. Deadline: May 26, 2022
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
MIT Press | Thresholds 51 Journal: Heat is particularly invested in alternative architectural and aesthetic mobilizations of heat — in the contestation of thermal violence, in the activation of ritual, or in the warmth of community, desire, and lust. Deadline: June 1
CALL FOR APPLICANTS
FREE GROCERIES
The College Student Pantry welcomes all college students in need of groceries. 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 PROPOSALS
Harvard Design Press seeks book proposals from researchers, practitioners, theorists, historians, and critics, among others. Deadline: Rolling
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
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
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