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ARCHLOG
Michael Young's Book Reviewed in the Architect's Newspaper
Posted Thursday, January 27
Published in the fall of 2021, Reality Modeled After Images shows, according to Young, “how design is impacted and changed by shifts in image culture, representational conventions and technologies.” In his introduction, Young remarks that typical discussions of architecture and politics frequently overlook “what it is that architects labor over in the day-to-day negotiations that define and redefine the discipline.” Namely, conventions:
“The values that define a discipline are maintained through its conventions. Conventions are what is taught, what is handed down, what links generations. They consist of tools and techniques, norms and models for the production and interpretation of what qualifies as significant work. Conventions specify acceptable modes of appearance, verify expertise, and narrate lineage. They defend the boundaries of what constitutes a discipline.”
Image Credit: Photogrammetry Scan, Ludovisi Sarcophagus. Michael Young, 2020
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VISITING LECTURE
Brad Cloepfil: Calling
Thursday, January 27
Zoom | 6:30 PM
Brad Cloepfil’s talk, Calling, will touch upon the key forces of inspiration, engagement and negotiation, in the work of Allied Works: Forces of site, of cultural context, of construction, of energy and risk. It will be a visual discussion and exploration, augmented by an exchange with Nader Tehrani.
The event will be moderated by Nader Tehrani.
Brad Cloepfil, Founding Principal, Allied Works Architecture Architect, educator, and principal of Allied Works, Brad Cloepfil creates culturally resonant architectural designs that are forged by the defining elements of their mission and site. He has designed and realized a wide range of projects around the world, including civic and educational institutions, arts organizations and museums, and private residences. He has received particular acclaim for his work on creative and cultural projects and for crafting powerful spaces for art and interaction.
This event will be conducted through Zoom. Zoom account registration is required, please register in advance here.
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CU@LUNCH
Karim Ahmed AR'13: Reform Architecture
Tuesday, February 1
Zoom | 12:00 PM
Karim Ahmed is a New York based architect currently working in Bronx, NY. He is founding partner at Reform Architecture with Dionisio Cortes AR'09. The studio is a broad practice, working across New York City Landmarks, public art, and urban planning.
Karim received his B.Arch from The Cooper Union in 2013. He is a part-time faculty member at Parsons School of Design and was a 2020 Faculty Fellow at the Urban Systems Lab at the New School. He is a co-founder and continues to serve on the board of Pillars of Peace, a non-profit founded to break cycles of domestic violence.
This event will be conducted through Zoom. Join using Meeting ID: 973 7390 1003 Passcode: 917039
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EXHIBITION
Husserl and Spatiality: A Phenomenological Ethnography of Space
On View Tuesday, February 8 through Thursday, March 3
Third Floor Hallway Gallery
The black and white photographs presented in this exhibition were taken during Tao DuFour’s fieldwork in the city of Salvador, Brazil in the summer of 2010. They are exhibited accompanying the launch of DuFour’s book, Husserl and Spatiality: A Phenomenological Ethnography of Space, published in 2022 by Routledge.
Husserl and Spatiality is an exploration of the phenomenology of space and embodiment, based on the work of Edmund Husserl. Little known in architecture, Husserl’s phenomenology of embodied spatiality established the foundations for the works of later phenomenologists, including Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s well-known phenomenology of perception. Through a detailed study of his posthumously published and unpublished manuscripts on space, DuFour examines the depth and scope of Husserl’s phenomenology of space. The book investigates his analyses of corporeity and the “lived body;” extending to questions of intersubjective, intergenerational, and geo-historical spatial experience; what DuFour terms the “environmentality” of space.
This exhibition is open to current Cooper Union students, faculty, and staff.
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PANEL DISCUSSION AND BOOK LAUNCH
Jeffrey Nesbit: Nature of Enclosure
Tuesday, February 8
Zoom | 12:00 PM
From Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace to Buckminster Fuller’s Spaceship Earth, nature became enclosed. Fuller’s geodesic domes became symbols of American counterculture, yet in his description of Spaceship Earth, the environment inside the dome seemed to have priority over everything residing outside —a world of civilized control on its interior and wilderness, war, and wasteland on the exterior. Particularly in the postwar era, humanity became obsessed with generating a fully “closed” and synthetically constructed “world in a machine.” This event brings together contributors from the forthcoming book, Nature of Enclosure (Actar, 2022) to explore the various and vast territory for how nature became enclosed. As we will see in various examples here, throughout the twentieth century nature became increasingly limited, demarcated, and sealed. Nature of Enclosure interrogates the role of architecture and urbanization in a post-pandemic society, to discuss closed forms of capital to the exclusive boundaries of environment and politics.
Panel participants include Jeffrey S. Nesbit, Daisy Ames, Lydia Kallipoliti and Mae-ling Lokko.
This event will be conducted through Zoom. Zoom account registration is required, please register in advance here.
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AWARDS CEREMONY
2022 CUAA Founder's Day Awards
Thursday, February 10
Zoom and YouTube | 7:00 PM
This event is presented as part of Cooper Together 2022. Click here to see the schedule of planned events.
This event will be conducted through Zoom. Zoom account registration is required, please register in advance here.
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PANEL DISCUSSION AND BOOK LAUNCH
Husserl and Spatiality: A Phenomenological Ethnography of Space
Friday, February 11
3rd Floor Lobby and Zoom | 5:30 PM
Please join the School of Architecture for an interdisciplinary panel discussion and launch of the book Husserl and Spatiality: A Phenomenological Ethnography of Space, authored by Tao DuFour, AR’02, and published in 2022 by Routledge. Participants will include Tao Dufor, moderator Leslie Hewitt, Natalie Melas, Jorge Otero-Pailos, and Anthony Vidler. This event is accompanied by an exhibition of associated photographs and field notes from DuFour’s fieldwork in Brazil.
Husserl and Spatiality is an exploration of the phenomenology of space and embodiment, based on the work of Edmund Husserl. Little known in architecture, Husserl’s phenomenology of embodied spatiality established the foundations for the works of later phenomenologists, including Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s well-known phenomenology of perception. Through a detailed study of his posthumously published and unpublished manuscripts on space, DuFour examines the depth and scope of Husserl’s phenomenology of space. The book investigates his analyses of corporeity and the “lived body,” extending to questions of intersubjective, intergenerational, and geo-historical spatial experience, what DuFour terms the “environmentality” of space.
In-person attendance to the lecture is open to Cooper Union students, faculty, and staff. Members of the public may attend through Zoom only. Please register for Zoom attendance in advance here.
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STUDENT LECTURE SERIES
Felipe Correa: Building a Culture of Description
Thursday, March 10
Zoom | 6:30 PM
Felipe Correa is a founder and managing Partner of Somatic Collaborative. Through Somatic Collaborative Correa has directed a wide range of applied research and design projects across multiple spatial contexts in the Americas, Asia and Europe.
He is currently the Vincent and Eleanor Shea Professor and Chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Virginia (UVA). Prior to joining UVA, Correa was Associate Professor and Director of the Urban Design Degree Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD). Correa is also c o-director of the South America Project, a trans-continental applied research network that proactively endorses the role of design within rapidly transforming geographies of the South American Continent. He is the author of multiple books including “Beyond the City: Resource Extraction Urbanism in South America (University of Texas Press, 2016), “Mexico City: Between Geometry and Geography “(Applied Research and Design Publishing, 2015) and “A Line in the Andes” (Applied Research and Design Publishing 2014) which won first prize at the Pan American Architecture Biennale. His most recent book, “Sao Paulo: A Graphic Biography” a bilingual edition that traces the history of the city’s urban form was released in 2018 by the University of Texas Press.
This event will be conducted through Zoom. Zoom account registration is required, please register in advance here.
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ARCHLOG
School of Architecture Students Win 2021 SOM Foundation Award
Posted Thursday, January 20
The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture is pleased to announce that Sanjana Lahiri and Kevin Chow, both AR’22, have received the 2021 Robert L. Wesley Award from the SOM Foundation. Named in honor of the first Black partner at SOM, the award supports BIPOC undergraduate students enrolled in architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture, urban design, or engineering programs in the United States.
Dean Tehrani notes “It gives me great pleasure to see that Sanjana and Kevin’s hard work has been recognized by the SOM Foundation. The Robert S. Wesley award goes to young designers and scholars of significant ambition, and both of these students have successfully brought their design interests and scholarship into meaningful confluence. With a sophistication of thought and eloquence of communication, both have led critical discussions within this school for some time. I trust that this award might serve both as a great launching pad for further research, perchance for graduate studies and far beyond.”
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NEWS
The School of Architecture Announces a Search for Its Next Dean
Posted Tuesday, January 11
The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art invites nominations and letters of application for the position of Dean, the academic and administrative leader of the School. The Cooper Union is comprised of the schools of Architecture, Art, Engineering, and the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences. The institution follows Peter Cooper’s radical commitment to diversity and his founding vision that fair access to an inspiring free education and forums for courageous public discourse foster a just and thriving world. The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture occupies an exceptional position, nationally and globally, as an intensive laboratory for pedagogy, design, and distinguished scholarship in architecture.
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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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Michael Young, Arch fac | Book Review | "Aesthetics, architecture, and responsibility collide in Reality Modeled After Images," THE ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER, January 24, 2022
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Tulay Atak, Arch fac | Article | "A Megaform on Wetlands: Quaroni's Project fro Quartiere Cepalle Barene di San Giuliano in Venice-Mestre (1959)," OASE Journal, Issue 110, 2022
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Jean-Ulrick Desert AR’85 | Featured | "Jean-Ulrick Désert receives inaugural AKB & SAVVY Contemporary Commission," E-FLUX, January 12, 2022
Anthony Titus AR’98 | Lecture | John Hejduk Soundings Lecture, "Rupture and Reconciliations, Harvard Graduate School of Design, February 17, 2022, Cambridge, MA
RUR (Jesse Reiser AR’81, Nanako Umemoto AR’83) | Lecture | Humanity Digital Transformation (DX), The 44th Symposium on Computer Technology of Information, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto Japan, December 9, 2021
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Rayyane Tabet AR’08 | Featured | "Here Are the 63 Artists and Collectives Participating in the Closely Watched 2022 Edition of the Whitney Biennial," ARTNET, January 25, 2022
Catherine Ahn AR’09 | Article | "The IPA’s Latest Exhibition on Governors Island Reimagines New York Without the BQE," ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, January 26, 2022
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2022-23 Visiting Professorships The Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture invites early to mid-career practitioners, scholars, and studio educators to apply for the Ann Kalla Professorship in Architecture and the Joseph F. Thomas Visiting Professorhip. Deadline: February 14, 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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Interior Design Instructor Position Texas Christian University invites any qualified recent architecture graduates to join the Department of Design to prepare the next generation of creative leaders in the arts. Deadline: Open until filled
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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.
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Harvard Design Press seeks book proposals from researchers, practitioners, theorists, historians, and critics, among others. Deadline: Rolling
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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
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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
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