Feifei Zhou is a Chinese-born artist and architect. She holds an MA in architecture from the Royal College of Art in London and was a guest researcher at Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA). Her work explores spatial, cultural, and ecological impacts of the industrialized built environment. She co-edited the digital publication Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene with Anna Tsing, Jennifer Deger and Alder Keleman Saxena, which was published in October 2020. She currently lives and works between London and China. 

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Kabage Karanja is an architect and spelunker. He founded Cave_bu­reau in 2014 alongside Stella Mutegi. He is a natural environment enthusiast leading geological and anthropological investigations into architecture and nature, synonymous with the bureau's work. He leads the research, orchestrating expeditions and surveys into caves within the Great Rift Valley, navigating a return to the limitless curiosity of our early ancestors. These playful and intensive research studies form part of a broader decoding of the pre and post-colonial African city, where he oversees the bureau's work that manifests through drawing, storytelling, construction, and the curation of performative events of resistance within caves. 

Stella Mutegi is an architect and spelunker. She founded Cave_bu­reau in 2014 alongside Kabage Karanja. She is a natural environment enthusiast, heading up the technical department at Cave_bureau, where she orchestrates the seamless coordination of ideas into built form. Stella is well known in the bureau as the problem slayer of all design issues, helping steer the geological and anthropological investigations towards a unique architectural product. She partakes in the Cave_bureau expeditions and surveys into caves within the Great Rift Valley, navigating a return to the limitless curiosity of our early ancestors. She also interrogates the intensive research studies that form part of a broader decoding of the pre and post colonial African city. 

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Following the completion of the fall 2020 Thesis projects by the graduate students of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, and in keeping with the annual tradition of presenting their work to the public, the School of Architecture is pleased to announce the exhibition A World of Many Worlds. Presented as a website online, a reception including presentations and responses, and as a physical installation, this exhibition synthesizes nine individual thesis projects, referencing the worlds in which they were created and those they aspire to build as a communal endeavor.

As the Foundation Building is currently closed to the public, the students will be exhibiting their work in the building’s exterior windows along Third Avenue, between 7th and 8th Streets. Each student is creating an installation in a single bay of windows. These individual atmospheres will collectively represent diverse project themes and methods of execution, while sharing the school’s work with the public.

This exhibition has been made possible by generous support from The Cooper Union Grant Program.

This exhibition is free and accessible to the public.

This exhibition was organized and curated in a collaboration between the School of Architecture Archive and the Communications Office of The Cooper Union.

David Heymann, AR'85, FAIA, is an architect, author, and the Harwell Hamilton Harris Regents Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas. His focus is the complex relationship of constructions and landscapes. Heymann is the author of My Beautiful City Austin and, with Stephen Fox, John S. Chase - the Chase Residence. He is a contributing writer for Places Journal; his essay Landscape Is Our Sex received the 2012 Bradford Williams Medal. Heymann’s architectural work has been recognized with various design honors, including selection for Emerging Voices by the Architecture League of New York. He is an AIA/ACSA Distinguished Teaching Professor, and has received numerous teaching awards, including recognition by DesignIntelligence in 2017 and 2018. Heymann holds degrees from the Cooper Union and Harvard’s GSD.

This event is free and accessible to the public through Zoom. Please register in advance here.

This event is free and accessible to the public through Zoom. Please register in advance here.

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.

Please direct all questions and concerns to architecture.summer@cooper.edu.

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