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NEWS
Hayley Eber Named Acting Dean
Posted: Wednesday, August 31
President Sparks has appointed Hayley Eber Acting Dean for the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, effective August 29, for the 2022-2023 academic year. Dean Eber has served as Associate Dean since 2019, an important leadership position within the School of Architecture. Hayley is principal of Studio Eber, an award-winning New-York based practice for architecture and design. She is a graduate of The Cooper Union and has been a member of the architecture faculty since 2007. Given these experiences, she is intimately familiar with life as a student and faculty member in the School of Architecture, the school’s pedagogy, and faculty governance.
Hayley’s leadership will shepherd the School of Architecture through this academic year as the Faculty Search Committee and President Sparks continue the search to name a leader with the vision and experience sought for this critical position.
Please extend your support and good wishes to Acting Dean Eber.
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GALLERY REMARKS
Jacob Sebastian Bang and Anne Romme
Tuesday, September 13
Third Floor Hallway Gallery | 6:30 PM
In conjunction with the exhibition At the Intersection of Ideas and Material Conditions, which highlights faculty work from the Institute of Architecture and Culture, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, faculty members Jacob Sebastian Bang and Anne Romme will conduct Gallery Remarks on the evening of Tuesday, September 13 at 6:30 pm.
Jacob Sebastian Bang is Associate Professor and the head of program at ‘Helhed og Del’ at the Royal Danish Academy, School of Architecture. He is a member of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, member of the Society of Artists. His research interests are architecture and representation, and artistic methodology. He works within multiple media – painting, drawing, model-making and graphical techniques.
Anne Romme is Associate Professor at the Institute of Architecture and Culture and the head of the program at Finder Sted | Taking Place. She also runs an independent architecture practice invested in critical, experimental projects. Her work ranges from theoretical inquiries into the commons in architecture to digital fabrication and the design of a building system based on pure plate shell structures.
Open to students, faculty, and staff.
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ARCHITECTURES OF TRANSITION
McKenzie Wark: From Architecture to Kainotecture
Wednesday, September 14
315F and Zoom | 12:00 PM
Perhaps the whole idea of architecture implies a certain kind of stability, or the possibility of a stabilization, that is connected to the Holocene epoch, an epoch in which we no longer dwell. How then to think about built form outside of the assumptions of that stabilization. How to think about built form for a qualitatively different time (kainos)? Prof. Wark wants to bring two very different kinds of experience to thinking about this. One is from architecture's opposite—warfare. What was the built form of the D-day invasion? How was it conceived and executed? The other is from the more local and particular forms of queer and trans mutual aid and mutual care. How do people who were mostly excluded from the expectations of a stable time build lives together?
The presentation will be followed by a conversation moderated by Elisa Iturbe.
McKenzie Wark is professor of culture and media at The New School. Her books include The Beach Beneath the Street (Verso), Molecular Red (Verso) and the forthcoming Raving (Duke). She is currently coediting a special issue of eflux journal called Black Techno | Queer Rave.
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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ARCHITECTURES OF TRANSITION
Tatiana Bilbao: Domestic Imaginaries — Platforms for Social Change
Tuesday, September 20
315F and Zoom | 6:30 PM
In this lecture Tatiana Bilbao will speak on her exploration, experimentation and research focusing on domestic environments as they relate to her vision and pedagogy. Bilbao will present examples of her theories applied to various projects.
The presentation will be followed by a conversation moderated by Elisa Iturbe.
Tatiana Bilbao began her eponymous studio in 2004 with the aim of integrating social values, collaboration and sensitive design approaches to architectural work. The work of the office intersects with research allowing to design for diverse circumstances and in reconstruction or crisis scenarios. Prior to founding her firm, Bilbao was an Advisor in the Ministry of Development and Housing of the Government of the Federal District of Mexico City, during this period she was part of the General Development Directorate of the Advisory Council for Urban Development in the City.
Bilbao holds a recurring teaching position at Yale University School of Architecture and has taught at Harvard University GSD, AA Association in London, Columbia University GSAPP, Rice University, University of Andrés Bello in Chile, and Peter Behrens School of Arts at HS Dusseldorf in Germany. Her work has been published in The New York Times, A + U, Domus, among others.
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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EXHIBITION
At the Intersection of Ideas and Material Conditions
Tuesday, September 6 through Sunday, September 25
Third Floor Hallway Gallery
If architecture is conceived of as an art form, then it cannot just be a solution to a given problem but must examine fundamental questions within the discipline, across time and space. The work in this exhibition, located in the Third Floor Hallway Gallery, is situated at the intersection of ideas and material conditions of different times and building cultures. Historic architectures are always relevant to understanding contemporary architectural practice and offer critical distance from mainstream agendas. Artistic practice in architecture is not concerned with innovation but with the reinvention of problems.
This exhibition presents work by architects, researchers, and teachers at the Institute of Architecture and Culture at the Royal Danish Academy, a school with a long tradition of connecting artistic research and pedagogy. The work of its faculty is thus closely related to teaching—it explores the ambiguous relationship between method and artistic practice, and between teaching and learning. Artistic research produces work in its own right, but it also represents a pedagogical vehicle for establishing architecture as a discourse and a reflective practice. To that end, the work presented here raises methodological and pedagogical questions, and examines conditions for creative collaborations and communities. Its authors commit to the fundamental academic virtues of problematization and critique.
In conjunction with the exhibition, Anne Romme, an Associate Professor at the Institute of Architecture and Culture, will be on hand for Gallery Remarks on the evening of Tuesday, September 13 at 6:30 pm. For more details, please click here.
Open to 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 60 works and objects by 44 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.
In tandem with the exhibition, the School of Architecture will present two Great Hall lectures: by art historian Annabel J. Wharton on October 10 and by architect Kiel Moe on November 8. Details to follow.
Free and open to the public.
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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 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
For campus-wide COVID-19 updates and resources, please visit The Cooper Union's website.
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Hayley Eber, Arch Dean/AR'01 | Featured | Hayley Eber Named Acting Dean, The Cooper Union, August 31, 2022
Nader Tehrani, Arch fac | Award | Design Visionary, 2022 National Design Awards, Cooper Hewitt | Article | Nader Tehrani, Rural Studio, and David Hertz lead the field of 2022 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award winners, Archinect.com, September 8, 2022
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Diane Lewis, Arch fac/AR'76 (Deceased) | Article | “INside Architecture: L’Equilibrio Armonico — Progetto di Diane Lewis Architect & Emma Fuller, Fuller/Overby Architecture,” INTERNI Magazine No. 8, pg. 40-45, July - August, 2022
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Geovanna Septimio Landivar AR’27 | Featured | “In Memoriam: Maurice Kanbar,” THE COOPER UNION, August 29, 2022
Toshiko Mori AR’76 | Lecture | USC School of Architecture, September 12, 2022, Los Angeles, CA
Murray Legge AR’90 | Lecture | “Project Round-up,” The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, September 14, 2022, Austin, TX
Suzan Wines AR’90 | Article | “Tree (House) Grows in Brooklyn; Six-Story Apartment Building Has Wooden Beams,” U.S. NEWS, August 17, 2022
Vladimir Belogolovsky AR’96 | Speaker | Book Presentation and Roundtable Discussion on China Dialogues, Power Station of Art, September 4, 2022, Beijing, China
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Michelle Krochmal AR’98 | Article | “ The Insider: Architect’s Own South Slope Row House Grows Up and Out, Prioritizes Energy Saving,” BROWNSTONER, September 1, 2022
Tao DuFour AR'02 | Guest Editor | Future Anterior Journal: Space and Heritage, Special Edition, 2023
Emma Fuller AR’06 | Article | “INside Architecture: L’Equilibrio Armonico — Progetto di Diane Lewis Architect & Emma Fuller, Fuller/Overby Architecture,” INTERNI Magazine No. 8, pg. 40-45, July - August, 2022
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Open Calls & Opportunities |
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SUBSCRIPTION PROMOTION
Azure Magazine is offering a 58% discount for students and faculty for their 2022 magazine subscription.
CALL FOR ENTRIES
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
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Future Anterior Journal is a peer-reviewed journal that approaches the field of historic preservation from a position of critical inquiry. Deadline: January 31
DEADLINES APPROACHING
CALL FOR STUDENTS
OPEN CALL
CALL FOR APPLICANTS
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
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
ONGOING
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
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CALL FOR WRITING
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
CALL FOR APPLICANTS
ACSA seeks a Staff Editor to join their team and sheperd journals and books through peer review, production, and publication stages. Deadline: Ongoing
CALL FOR ENTRIES
Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant provides single or multiple awards of up to $25,000 for early to mid-level architects who wish to further their personal and professional development through travel. Deadline: October 5
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 ALLIES
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 APPLICANTS
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