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ARCHITECTURES OF TRANSITION
The Architecture Lobby Green New Deal Working Group with The Cooper Climate Coalition: A Just Transition for Architecture
Monday, October 17
Frederick P. Rose Auditorium and Zoom | 7:00 PM
Like the energy sector, the building sector operates at the heart of the fossil fuel economy. We - architects, engineers, and designers - are fossil fuel workers, and the basic functioning of our industry is ecologically untenable. Architectural projects entail the mobilization and consumption of enormous quantities of material, land, and energy. The entire economy of the building sector needs to be reoriented to achieve a racially, socially, and ecologically just future.
In response, The Architecture Lobby’s Green New Deal Working Group will be joined in conversation by the Cooper Climate Coalition to discuss the need to build collective power, engage with policy and policymakers, and advocate for a Just Transition for architecture. The conversation will be moderated by Elisa Iturbe.
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. Registration is required.
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IN-CLASS LECTURE
Studio Talks — Brigitte Shim
Tuesday, October 18
315F and Zoom | 4:00 PM
The lecture is part of Nima Javidi, Elizabeth O'Donnell, Julian Palacio and Ryan Brooke Thomas ARCH 121A Design II Studio Course. A free-flowing conversation with a presentation by architect Brigitte Shim about her studio practice and the manner in which it shapes her work. The conversation will be moderated by the Design II Studio faculty.
Brigitte Shim is a Professor at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto and a principal at Shim-Sutcliffe Architects. Shim, along with her partner A. Howard Sutcliffe, formed the architectural design practice Shim-Sutcliffe Architects in 1994. Their critical design practice reflects their shared interest in and passion for the integration and interrelated scales of architecture, landscape, and interior and industrial design. To date, Shim and Sutcliffe have received fourteen Governor General’s Medals and Awards for architecture as well as an American Institute of Architects National Honor Award, among many other professional accolades.
Public attendance is limited to Zoom, please register in advance here.
In-person attendance to the lecture is open to Cooper Union students, faculty, and staff. Members of the public may attend through Zoom only.
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STUDENT LECTURE SERIES
Rubén Polendo: Dramaturgy, Disruption, and Architecture
Tuesday, October 25
315F and Zoom | 12:30 PM
How does architecture perform? What do we disrupt when we interrogate the dramaturgy of architecture? Framing dramaturgy as the consideration of structure and its impact over time, this presentation will look at a range of approaches to collaboration, architecture, and performativity. Engaging theater-making as an inherently trans-disciplinary art form, the conversation invites a disruption of traditional modes of storytelling, image-making, and collaboration.
The presentation will be followed by a conversation moderated by Martina Duque Gonzalez.
Rubén Polendo is Founding Artistic Director of Theater Mitu. Polendo’s practice and pedagogical work are situated in the tension between acting and performance, theatrical design and installation, multi-media and interactive technology. Theater Mitu is located in its own arts space in Gowanus, Brooklyn called MITU580.
For in-person attendance, please register in advance here.
For Zoom attendance, please register in advance here.
This event is free and accessible to the public in-person and through Zoom. Registration is required.
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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, will speak 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
Beyond the Frame
Thursday, October 27
315F | 6:30 PM
Never have the facts been more elusive. It is not necessarily that they are harder to determine, but rather, harder to agree upon. What do we consider to be a reliable source? How can we think about justice in the context of a fractured landscape of information?
This talk will examine the pursuit of facts through a series of case studies exploring war crimes in Ukraine, gender-based violence in Mali, and the suppression of dissent by police forces in the United States. All of this will be contextualized within the increasingly critical role the designer plays at the nexus of design, technology, and human rights. The presentation will focus on emerging forms of fact-finding, coupled with an examination of the changing nature of evidence–from the deluge of citizen-generated video to the muli-perspectival capture and event reconstruction of contested events.
Fact-finding is often described as searching for the signal within the noise. What does the sheer amount of noise portend for the future of democracy and dissent, and how does the education of an architect prepare us to take on this question?
The lecture will be followed by a discussion moderated by Mersiha Veledar.
Brad Samuels is a founding partner at SITU, an unconventional architecture practice based in New York City that uses design, research and fabrication for creative and social impact. He is responsible for strategic oversight and directs SITU’s research division which focuses on the intersection of design, human rights and technology.
Gauri Bahuguna is a computational designer and researcher based in New York. In her current role at SITU Research, Gauri makes complex human rights cases accessible to wider audiences by wrangling large and diverse datasets into visually compelling interactive web platforms or videos. Gauri holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Columbia University, New York (2017) and a Master of Architecture from Columbia University’s GSAPP (2020).
This event is open to current Cooper Union students, faculty, and staff.
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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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VIDEO ARCHIVE
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If you recently missed a lecture or event you wanted to see, make sure to check out the Fall 2021 and the Spring 2022 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
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Hayley Eber AR’01/Arch acting dean & fac | Featured | “Daily digest: Cooper Union stages exhibition on architectural models, ASLA announces the winners of its Professional Awards, and more,” THE ARCHITECT’S NEWSPAPER, October 4, 2022 | Featured | “Names in the News,” CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE, October 5, 2022 | Review | “Tallinn Architecture Biennale exhibition explores ‘notion of food both literally and metaphorically’,” DEZEEN, September 15, 2022
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Nader Tehrani, Arch fac | Article | “Nader Tehrani Recommends the Left Side of the Plane (When Flying Into La Guardia),” CURBED.COM, October 3, 2022
Lydia Kallipoliti, Arch fac | Review | “Tallinn Architecture Biennale exhibition explores ‘notion of food both literally and metaphorically’,” DEZEEN, September 15, 2022 | Participant | 2022 Lisbon Architecture Triennale as part of "CYCLES" | Speaker | AIA/ACSA Intersections conference on Resilient Futures | Lecture | “Our dirty footprint”, Virginia- Tech School of Architecture
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Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Elizabeth Diller AR’79, Ricardo Scofidio AR’55/Arch fac emeritus) | Article | “New College of the Holy Cross Prior Performing Arts Center by DS+R,” METALOCUS, September 30, 2022
Stan Allen AR’81 | Contributor | INSCRIPTIONS: ARCHITECTURE BEFORE SPEECH, Harvard University Press, 2022
Erika Hinrichs AR’90 | Featured | “Names in the News,” CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE, October 5, 2022
Vladimir Belogolovsky AR’96 | Article | “Steffen Lehmann: "The library is more alive than ever!",” STIR WORLD, September 8, 2022
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SITU Fabrication (Basar Girit AR’05, Aleksey Lukyanov-Cherny AR’05) | Featured | Building of the Day, ARCHTOBER, October 19, 2022
Wes Rozen AR’05, Brad Samuels AR’05/Arch fac)
Stephen Martin AR’08 | Featured | The Chinati Foundation Announces Two New Leadership Positions, CHINATI FOUNDATION
Lawrence Lek, MAR’12 | Article | “Lawrence Lek fuses video game technology and film into digital landscapes,” FAHRENHEIT, September 28, 2022
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Architecture, Climate Change & Society The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture and ACSA announce the 4th year of a competitive call for course proposals. Deadline: October 19
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2023 Rome Prize Competition from the American Academy in Rome, awards the Rome Prize to support innovative and cross-disciplinary work in the arts and humanities. Deadline: November 1
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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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ACSA seeks a Staff Editor to join their team and sheperd journals and books through peer review, production, and publication stages. Deadline: Ongoing
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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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Azure Magazine is offering a 58% discount for students and faculty for their 2022 magazine subscription.
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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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