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EXHIBITION LECTURE
Kiel Moe: The Broken World Model of Design
Tuesday, November 8
The Great Hall and Zoom | 6:30 PM
Freed of the provisional stabilities that alternately enabled and constrained modernity, our models of what architecture is, does, and could be in this century radically shifts in a Broken World model of design in which, as Steve Jackson notes, 'we take erosion, breakdown, and decay, rather than novelty, growth, and progress, as our starting points in thinking.' The Broken World model shift is equally epistemic in scope, practical in application, and hopeful in disposition: a model of architecture beyond growth, beyond comfort, and beyond the doldrums of normalizing pedagogy and practices.
A discussion following the lecture will be moderated by Sanford Kwinter. This event is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Model Behavior.
Kiel Moe is a practicing architect and author of several books on the material and energetic basis of architecture.
For Zoom attendance, please register in advance here.
For In-Person attendance, please register in advance here.
This event is free and open to the public in-person and through Zoom.
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ELEANORE PETTERSEN LECTURE
Maria Shéhérazade Giudici: Carefree, Not Careless
Thursday, November 10
315F and Zoom | 6:30 PM
Maria Shéhérazade Giudici is this year's Eleanore Petterson Lecturer. In addition, this event is part of the Architectures of Transition series.
Care is one of the most powerful keywords in contemporary discourse, as it becomes increasingly clearer that the ecological crisis we face is entangled with forms of social and political violence. However, the way Western culture understands care is problematic: constructed as a dyadic, unidirectional effort geared to foster growth, the 'care' capitalism promotes might well be one of the hallmarks of environmental exploitation, rather than a solution to it. In this talk we will retrace the way such a culture of care was first articulated through the development of domestic space, analyzing the way in which the heteronormative family has been constructed as the hegemonic model of care. Through a series of case studies of residential architecture, we will discuss how the emergence and naturalization of specific architectural types has been both the cause and the effect of the effort to construct the very subjectivity of motherhood as the ultimate locus of caring. Modern housing educated its inhabitants to an idea of care that is inadequate, perhaps even dangerous when scaled up to the planet. Studying and challenging its domestic roots might help reimagine the spatial and political possibility for other forms of care to emerge: socialized rather than individualized, based on solidarity rather than on the protection of one's possessions.
The lecture will be followed by a discussion moderated by Elisa Iturbe.
Maria Shéhérazade Giudici leads the History and Theory course at the School of Architecture of the Royal College of Art and coordinates the PhD Programme of the Architectural Association. Maria is the founder of research platform Black Square and the editor of AA Files; her work focuses on the relationship between space and the construction of subjectivity.
For Zoom attendance, please register in advance here.
For In-Person attendance, please register in advance here.
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
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CURRENT WORK
Lacol: Community Infrastructure
Tuesday, November 8
Zoom | 12:00 PM
Lacol is an architectural cooperative established in 2009 in the Barcelona neighborhood of Sants. The group works to generate community infrastructures through architecture, cooperativism, and user participation. Focused on improving the quality of urban life, Lacol encourages debate on the management of urban spaces and the recovery of local heritage.
In the words of the RIBA Journal, Lacol’s work “is proof that another way is possible; where disempowered communities can be galvanized, that land deemed out of reach can be secured, and that cooperation by all at the most fundamental levels can—when guided by architects—realize great design.”
This lecture will be presented by two of Lacol’s 14 cofounders, Cristina Gamboa Masdevall and Eliseu Arrufat Grau.
This event is free and open to the public through Zoom. Please register here in advance.
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EXHIBITION
Beyond the Frame — SITU Research
Thursday, October 27 through Sunday, November 13
Third Floor Hallway Gallery
Beyond the Frame is an exhibition presenting a selection of recent projects by SITU Research, a visual investigations practice based in Brooklyn, New York. The exhibition is organized by their approach to human rights and environmental justice through spatial studies and analysis across multiple scales—from the effects of a 6oz (40mm) tear gas canister on protesters to the impact of centuries-long mining in the Peruvian Andes of Cerro de Pasco.
In conjunction with the exhibition's opening, Brad Samuels AR'05, a founding partner of SITU, and Gauri Bahuguna, a computational designer and research at SITU, gave a lecture about their work on October 27th.
SITU Research develops new forms of fact-finding to cut through digital noise and amplify truth. Working together as a group of designers, urbanists, computer scientists, and analysts, the team synthesizes disparate forms of digital evidence to provide exhaustive, factual accounts of contested events.
SITU Research is comprised of Gauri Bahuguna, Researcher; Matt Cortright, Analyst; Bora Erden, Senior Research/Technical Lead; Helmuth Rosales, Researcher; Brad Samuels, Director and Founding Partner; Candice Strongwater, Project Coordinator.
This exhibition is open to current Cooper Union students, faculty, and staff.
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EXHIBITION LECTURE
Typography at VKhutemas, the Soviet Union's Revolutionary Art School
Monday, November 14
Rose Auditorium | 6:30 PM
VKhuTeMas, or Higher Art and Technical Studios, is a revolutionary Soviet art school that opened its doors just a year after the founding of Bauhaus in Germany. Today, the school is usually remembered for a slew of avant-garde artists who worked there — Kandinsky and Malevich, Rodchenko and Stepanova, Lissitzky, and Tatlin, among many others. However, the school’s innovative pedagogy and its democratic admission structure geared towards working class students deserves attention as well. Following some of the formal, theoretical, and political debates that happened in and around VKhuTeMas allows us to better understand the ground-breaking use of typography that developed there and became a staple of constructivist art and design. This lecture will shed light on the origins and trajectory of VKhuTeMas, paying especially close attention to how ideas on typography fed into the school’s artistic output and how they evolved over time.
The lecture is co-sponsored by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union.
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Please register here in advance.
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CONFERENCE
EDIBLE; Or, The Architecture of Metabolism
Friday, November 18
Peter Cooper Suite | 5:00 PM
EDIBLE is a conference bringing together participants of the 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennale to The Cooper Union in New York. Their encounter aims to generate a profound debate on the intersections of architecture, food systems, and regenerative design.
Organized by Lydia Kallipoliti, associate professor of architecture at The Cooper Union and co-curator of the 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennale, along with Areti Markopoulou, academic director of the Institute for Advanced Architecture in Catalonia (IAAC). It is kindly supported by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union.
Participants include Andrés Jaque (Office for Political Innovation and Dean of GSAPP, Columbia University), Hayley Eber AR'01 (Acting Dean of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union), Lola Ben-Alon (assistant professor of architecture at GSAPP, Columbia University, and director of the Natural Materials Lab), Sharon Yavo-Ayalon (adjunct assistant professor at Columbia GSAPP and postdoctoral associate at Cornell Tech), Andreas Theodoridis (Research Affiliate, Yale Center for Ecosystems Research and Principal of United Atmospheres), Sonia Ralston (assistant curator at the 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennale), Sanjana Lahiri AR'22 (architect), Mitchell Joachim (principal and co-founder of Terreform ONE, and associate professor of practice at NYU).
For Zoom attendance, please register in advance here.
For In-Person attendance, please register in advance here.
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
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CURRENT WORK
NYC: Building Community
Tuesday, November 15
Scholastic Big Red Auditorium | 7:00 PM
As a counterpart to the League’s recent PILARES program, this event explores several new New York City community spaces and the diversity of programs, stakeholders, and constraints that have shaped their designs. Currently in various stages of completion, the featured projects represent a wide breadth of typologies, from large-scale athletic facilities to temporary neighborhood activations.
The program will consist of five presentations by the projects’ architects and designers, followed by a moderated roundtable discussion. The presenters will include:
This lecture is co-sponsored with The Architectural League of New York.
Tickets are free for Cooper Union students and faculty with valid ID, and League members. For ticket inquiries, please refer to The Architectural League of New York website.
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EXHIBITION
Model Behavior
Tuesday, October 4 through Friday, November 18
First Floor Colonnade and Lobby | Hours: Tuesday – Friday 2-7 PM, Saturday and Sunday 12-7 PM
The term “model behavior” is commonly used to describe good social skills. This exhibition, curated by the Anyone Corporation, turns that concept on its head to investigate how models themselves behave. Conceptual models, study models, section models, and presentation models are givens in the practice and production of architecture, but the role of the architectural model in projecting or eliciting social behavior is seldom considered. At a moment when models in other disciplines – such as climate change and COVID models – are clearly affecting social behavior, how do architectural models reflect those changes or contribute to changing behaviors? This exhibition provides an opportunity for individuals to rethink the potentials of the architectural model, both within the discipline and in its relationships to the myriad models that shape contemporary culture.
Exhibited in the colonnade and first floor of Cooper Union’s historic Foundation Building, Model Behavior features more than 70 works and objects by 45 artists and architects including artists Olafur Eliasson, Isamu Noguchi, Ekow Nimako, and Thomas Demand, and architects Peter Eisenman, Darell Wayne Fields, Greg Lynn, Forensic Architecture (Eyal Weizman), First Office (Anna Neimark and Andrew Atwood), MALL (Jennifer Bonner), Ensamble (Débora Mesa and Antón García-Abril), and Höweler and Yoon (Eric Höweler and Meejin Yoon), as well as School of Architecture graduates Stan Allen AR’81, David Gersten AR’91, Jürgen Mayer AR’91, Jesse Reiser AR’81, and Nanako Umemoto AR’83, and faculty member Michael Young.
Free and open to the public.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
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Anthony Vidler, Arch fac | Participant | Notes on Peter Eisenman: Towards a Celebration, Yale University School of Architecture, November 11-12, 2022, New Haven, CT | Lecture | The Idea of Form in Architecture: An Enduring Vision, Yale University School of Architecture, November 11, 2022, New Haven, CT
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Peter Eisenman, Arch fac emeritus | Featured | Notes on Peter Eisenman: Towards a Celebration, Yale University School of Architecture, November 11-12, 2022, New Haven, CT
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Toshiko Mori AR’76 | Presenter | MASterworks Explorations: Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library Master Plan: Phase 1, Municipal Art Society, November 3, 2022, Brooklyn, NY | Article | “Toshiko Mori and Good Curiosity in the Exercise of Architecture,” ARCHDAILY, October 27, 2022
Joan Ockman AR’80 | Participant | Notes on Peter Eisenman: Towards a Celebration, Yale University School of Architecture, November 11-12, 2022, New Haven, CT
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Tamar Zinguer AR’89 | Speaker | International Conference: Are You a Model? On an Architectural Medium of Spatial Exploration, Technical University of Darmstadt, November 2–4, 2022, Darmstadt, Germany
Tao DuFour AR’02 | Organizer | Space and Heritage: On the Generativity of Environing Worlds, Cornell AAP, Clare Hall, Cambridge, November 22 at 4PM
Sotirios Kotoulas AR’03 | Featured | “Kaari Upson ‘Never Enough’ at DESTE Foundation, Athens,” MOUSSE MAGAZINE, October 19, 2022
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The Larry Lederman Photography Fellowship The NYBG Humanities Institute cordially invites applicants for a nine-month fellowship awarded to an outstanding photographer whose work focuses on gardens or landscapes. Deadline: December 31
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HERITAGES: Past and Present — Built and Social will consider shifts in how we define heritage — as both material objects and social traditions — from the perspectives of art, architecture, cultural theorists and social historians. Deadline: November 25
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Future Anterior Journal is a peer-reviewed journal that approaches the field of historic preservation from a position of critical inquiry. Deadline: January 31
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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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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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