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STUDENT LECTURE SERIES
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes: Maneouvering Boundaries
Thursday, March 3
Zoom | 6:30 PM
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes is Assistant Professor of Urban Design at Harvard Graduate School of Design. Architect, urban designer, and scholar, Malterre-Barthes’ interests are related to urgent aspects of contemporary urbanization, material extraction and climate emergency, and how struggling communities can gain greater access to resources, the mainstream economy, better governance, and ecological/social justice—a strategic practice of urban design. Recently she started the initiative ‘A Global Moratorium on New Construction’ with B+ interrogating current protocols of development. While directing the MAS Urban Design at the Chair of Marc Angélil, Malterre-Barthes has earned her doctoral degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich on the political economy of commodities on the built environment. She is the coauthor of prize-winning books Migrant Marseille: Architectures of Social Segregation and Urban Inclusivity (2020), Some Haunted Spaces in Singapore (2018), and Housing Cairo: The Informal Response (2016), among others. Malterre-Barthes is a founding member of the Parity Group and of the Parity Front, activist networks dedicated to improving gender equality and diversity in architecture.
This event is accessible to the public through Zoom. Zoom account registration is required, please register in advance here.
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PLURIVERSAL, BEWILDERED AND OTHERWISE
Elias and Yousef Anastas: AAU ANASTAS
Tuesday, March 8
Zoom | 12:00 Noon
Born into a family of architects, Elias and Yousef Anastas graduated from Paris with Masters in Architecture and both worked there for a while. Elias returned to Bethlehem after winning a competition for a music conservatory while Yousef graduated from Paris with a second Masters in Structural engineering.
The lecture will be followed by a discussion moderated by Stephen Rustow.
Elias and Yousef founded Local Industries in 2012, a community of bold artisans and designers dedicated to industrial furniture-making, and SCALES in 2016, a research department that is constantly enhanced by linking scales that are usually opposed. Their studio’s work brings together architecture practices, furniture making, research projects and cultural initiatives.
This event is accessible to the public through Zoom. Zoom account registration is required, please register in advance here.
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EXHIBITION
Ezra Stoller: Photographs of Architecture
On View Tuesday, March 8 through Thursday, March 31
Third Floor Hallway Gallery
This exhibition presents a series of Ezra Stoller photographs generously donated to the School of Architecture in 2020 by Peter Katz A’76. These images—ten in total—were originally included in Ezra Stoller: Photographs of Architecture, 1939 – 1980, an exhibition of sixteen photographs held in 1981 at Max Protetch Gallery. Ezra’s daughter, Erica Stoller, graciously donated three additional prints shown at Protetch to complement Katz’s gift.
For this installation, Stoller’s photographs are accompanied by drawings and images—many selected from the Architecture Archive’s Blueprint Collection—contextualizing the projects they depict. Following the exhibition, the photographs will remain on view in the Foundation Building as a pedagogical reference for students, faculty, and visitors.
This exhibition is open to current Cooper Union students, faculty, and staff.
Image Credit: TWA Terminal, John F. Kennedy International Airport (detail). Ezra Stoller, 1962.
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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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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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ROUNDTABLE
Under Pressure: Urban Housing and Other Hybrids
Tuesday, March 23
Zoom | 6:00 PM
This roundtable discussion curated by Hina Jamelle and Daisy Ames. The invited speakers include Brian Phillips, Scott Erdy, Laia Mogas-Soldevila, and Nader Tehrani who are contributors to Under Pressure, a book edited by Hina Jamelle about instigation and design in urban housing. This book gathers and contextualizes relevant conversations in urban housing unfolding today across architecture through four topics: Learning from History, Changing Domesticities, Housing Finance and Policy, and Design and Material Innovation. The result is a multi-disciplinary amalgam of research and design intelligence from thought leaders in the fields of architecture, real estate, economics, policy, material design, and finance. The discussion will be moderated by Daisy Ames, coordinator of the Housing Studio sequence at The Cooper Union Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, and speakers will engage in the themes of this year’s studio design prompts of hybridity and invisibility.
This event will be conducted through Zoom. Zoom account registration is required, please register in advance here.
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ARCHLOG
Stella Betts' Design IV Studio Field Trip to Albany, NY
Posted Tuesday, February 15
A Design IV studio section led by Stella Betts traveled to Albany this past week to visit the Empire State Plaza, the subject of her studio’s brief.
Titled Re-Imagining Empire State Plaza, the studio is both an urban and architectural investigation. Conceived and designed by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller and the architect Wallace Harrison, Empire Plaza was built in New York’s capital city of Albany in the late 1960s and early 70s, and is a paradigm of modernist urban planning. Through a series of choreographed operations, Betts is prompting students to deeply re-adapt the plaza by transforming its relationship to its larger urban context and infrastructural systems, rethinking its program and use, adapting its existing buildings to become carbon neutral, and imaging a new kind of public plaza for the people of Albany and the citizens of New York.
The field trip featured visits to the plaza’s buildings, including a performing arts venue known as The Egg, Corning Tower and its observation deck overlooking the city, the New York State Museum and Library, the Justice Building, and the concourse below the plaza. In addition, the studio visited two H.H. Richardson buildings—the State Capital, with its famous “million dollar stair” completed in 1899, and Albany City Hall, completed in 1883.
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SUMMER PROGRAM
Introduction to Architecture Online: Summer 2022
Applications are now open.
The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union announces our upcoming summer intensive program that features a virtual curriculum accessible to high school and college students worldwide. As an institution that is committed to the pursuit of excellence and learning, we view our current circumstances as an opportunity to advance our thinking through radical experimentation between various forms of online engagement, digital interface, virtual modeling and representation techniques. The pleasure of making and experimentation are fundamental to our discovery of architecture and the innovation of the discipline, as well as a deeply thoughtful form of social and cultural dialogue where the imaginary becomes possible.
Applications are currently open and all potential students are encouraged to apply early.
High School Student Program Dates: July 5 - August 5 | Apply Now
College Student Program Dates: July 5 - July 29 | Apply Now
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.
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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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Nader Tehrani, Arch dean/fac | Article | "Met Museum to Renovate Its Ancient Near East and Cypriot Galleries," THE NEW YORK TIMES, February 9, 2022
Young & Ayata (Michael Young, Arch fac) | Lecture | University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, February 23, 2022, Austin, TX and virtual | Group Exhibition | "In the Round, On the Flat," Pratt School of Architecture, February 10-March 25, 2022, Brooklyn, NY
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Thomas Phifer, Arch fac | Featured | "Thomas Phifer Establishes Architecture Fellowship at Clemson University," CLEMSON UNIVERSITY, February 16, 2022
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Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Elizabeth Diller AR’79, Ricardo Scofidio AR’55/Arch fac emeritus) | Group Exhibition | "In the Round, On the Flat," Pratt School of Architecture, February 10-March 25, 2022, Brooklyn, NY “| Award | The Shed and Menil Drawing Institute among the winners of the 2022 AIA Architecture Awards," THE ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER, February 16, 2022
Carmi Bee AR’67 | Article | “6 Examples of Affordable Housing Through Adaptive Reuse,” gb&d, January 12, 2022
Jesse Reiser AR’81, Nanako Umemoto AR’83 | Lecture | The KPF Lecture, Weitzman School of Design, UPenn, March 16, 2022, Philadelphia, PA | Article | “Taipei Music Center by Reiser+Umemoto," ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, January 4, 2022 | Group Exhibition | "In the Round, On the Flat," Pratt School of Architecture, February 10-March 25, 2022, Brooklyn, NY
Karen Bausman AR’82 | Group Exhibition | "In the Round, On the Flat," Pratt School of Architecture, February 10-March 25, 2022, Brooklyn, NY
John Conaty AR’90 | Featured | "10 Years Ago, FDR Four Freedoms Park Opened: What Do the Pioneers Think About it Now?," ROOSEVELT ISLAND, NEW YORK, DAILY NEWS, February 3, 2022
Gina Pollara AR’91 | Featured | "10 Years Ago, FDR Four Freedoms Park Opened: What Do the Pioneers Think About it Now?," ROOSEVELT ISLAND, NEW YORK, DAILY NEWS, February 3, 2022
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Catherine Seavitt Nordenson AR’94 | Featured | "Spitzer Faculty Among Brinck Book Award Winners," CCNY SPITZER SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, February 5, 2022
Elizabeth Graziolo AR’95 | Speaker | Founders Showcase: Black Firms in the Spotlight, Center for Architecture, February 23, 2022, webinar
Anthony Titus AR’98 | Lecture | “Rupture and Reconciliations,” John Hejduk Soundings Lecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, February 17, 2022
Michael Wen Sen Su AR’02 | Group Exhibition | "In the Round, On the Flat," Pratt School of Architecture, February 10-March 25, 2022, Brooklyn, NY
SITU Fabrication (Basar Girit, Aleksey Lukyanov-Cherny, Brad Samuels, all AR’05) | Featured | "Playscape," THE BATTERY, no date
Gia Mainiero AR’06 | Featured | "The Shed and Menil Drawing Institute among the winners of the 2022 AIA Architecture Awards," THE ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER, February 16, 2022
Helmuth Rosales AR’20 | Featured | "Myopia and Focus in Event Reconstruction," IN MEDIA RES, February 9, 2022
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CALL FOR APPLICANTS
Full Time Architecture Teacher The Dalton Visual Arts Department seeks a dynamic and collaborative teacher (full or part time) beginning in late August 22. Deadline: Rolling
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
The 2030 Fund provides student loan debt relief and licensure support for aspiring BIPOC architects pursuing licensure. Deadline: April 1
DEADLINES APPROACHING
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AZUKO: Designing with dignity invites course participant applications for a workshop on site in Rangpur Division, Blangladesh on participatory design, construction, group work and facilitation. Information Session: March 17
ONGOING
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Architectural League of New York: New City Critics invites applications for the inaugural cohost of New City Critics - a fellowship program to empower new, fearless, and diverse voices to challenge the ways we design, plan and develop cities. Deadline: March 23
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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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CALL FOR ENTRIES
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
CALL FOR APPLICANTS
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.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Harvard Design Press seeks book proposals from researchers, practitioners, theorists, historians, and critics, among others. Deadline: Rolling
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 ALLIES
CALL FOR STUDENT PROPOSALS
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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