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ARCHLOG
Anders Abraham - In Memoriam
Posted Tuesday, May 19
by Anne Romme and David Gersten
Anders Abraham, AR’91 and faculty member from 2000-03, died on May 1, 2020 after a long period of illness.
There are certain figures, who through their life and work, create a new horizon, re-imagine and re-articulate the aspirations of a discipline and, in doing so, become the hope of a generation. Anders Abraham is just such a figure; he set the bar for all of us through his deep intellect, ethos of precision, exploratory mind and generosity of spirit.
Anders studied at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen (now KADK) before transferring to The Cooper Union, where he graduated in 1991. He was a visiting scholar at Cranbrook Academy of Art from 1995-97 and defended his PhD dissertation at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen in 2004. For many years, he worked between New York and Copenhagen, before settling with his family in Copenhagen, where his practice, Anders Abraham Architects, is based. He founded the M.Arch program in Art and Architecture at the KADK, where he had been professor of architecture theory, design and artistic research since 2010. He served on the board of the KADK until his illness prevented it, and, together with his colleague Peter Bertram and his wife Christina Capetillo, he established the Works+Words Biennale for Artistic Research.
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SUMMER PROGRAM
Introduction to Architecture Online: Live Information Session
Wednesday, May 20
Zoom | 4:00PM
In light of the recent spread of COVID-19 in New York City, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union is proud to announce our upcoming summer intensive program that features a new virtual curriculum accessible to 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 engagements, 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.
Join our public Live Information Session
to meet our faculty and staff and get an overview of the program's curriculum, pedagogy, and focus for this year. The session will feature examples of former participants' work and presentations by program faculty including Prof. Mersiha Veledar and Prof. James Lowder, followed by a live Q & A session with Assistant Dean Hayley Eber.
All are welcome. Zoom account registration is required, you may
register here
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SENIOR SNAPSHOTS
Architecture 2020
Posted Monday, May 11
Jeremy Son, Kayla Montes de Oca, and Helmuth Rosales, all fifth-year students in The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, took the time to speak with us as they prepared for their thesis presentations held on May 5 and 6. Working from their homes in Brooklyn—Kayla and Helmuth in Bushwick, Jeremy in Bensonhurst—all of them had chosen thesis projects that explored the impact of movement and time on materials and, especially in the case of Kayla’s project, on the human body.
The three classmates agreed that the review experience, despite being virtual, was a fulfilling one. Jeremy, who hopes to start his new job at the architecture firm Allied Works as soon as quarantine restrictions are lifted, said, “The presentation went very well; it was very productive and celebratory. Very glad to have a great jury, with professors that guided me through the past five years in different studios and on other occasions.”
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VIRTUAL EXHIBITION
An Ideal View: City Plans Without Cities
Monday, May 4 through Sunday, June 21
Web based
“They would reconstruct society on an imaginary plan, much like the astronomers for their own calculation would make over the system of the universe.”
–Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, on the utopian socialists
The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Archive is pleased to present a selection of city plans from its collection of over 10,000 4” x 5” lantern slides. The collection, which was donated to the Archive by Cooper Union’s Library in 1987, was formerly used to teach History of Architecture and Town Planning. It documents historical sites, architecture, painting, sculpture, manuscripts, city planning, drawings, jewelry, and mosaics from ancient history through the 20th century. This plans in this exhibition—
now presented online
—were originally curated by Patrick McElnea and presented in 2013 as a series of prints in the School’s 3rd floor hallway gallery.
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VIRTUAL EXHIBITION
One-to-One | 1:1, Online Exhibition
Monday, April 27 through Sunday, June 14
Web based
One to One | 1:1 is a literal and conceptual parallel between Ja Architecture Studio's space in Toronto and the School of Architecture’s hallway gallery. It is the one-to-one unrolling of the walls of our studio space in Toronto including all of the works (models, drawings, and details) and their placement onto the walls of Cooper hallway gallery. The parallel overlay of two different physical spaces, both operating as more than just an exhibition space, becomes an effort to transpose the life of a practice onto that of a school and vice versa.
One to One | 1:1 opened in the 3rd floor hallway of the Foundation Building on February 23 2020, and was scheduled to run through mid-March. Because public access to the physical exhibition was cut short, this
online exhibition
re-presents the work through photographs by Maeve FitzHoward paired with the text panels and captions featured in the original presentation.
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ARCHLOG
One, Two, Few - Architectonics Final Reviews
Posted Monday, May 4
On Thursday, April 30th the first year Architectonics studio held the School of Architecture’s first final review of the spring semester, led by Professors Ted Baab, Nima Javidi, and Tamar Zinguer. Review guests included Michael Abel, Behnaz Assadi, Ben Aranda, Zach Cohen, Nile Greenberg, James Lowder, Elizabeth O'Donnell, Julian Palacio, Nader Tehrani, and Mersiha Veledar.
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ONLINE RESOURCES
The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Online Resources
Posted Friday, April 3
The School of Architecture has posted a list of online Resources for its students, faculty, and staff on The Cooper Union’s website. This content includes messages from Dean Tehrani, registration instructions, IT resources, upcoming online lectures, media and relevant links from architecture and other cultural institutions.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
COVID-19 Updates
For campus-wide COVID-19 updates, please visit The Cooper Union's
website.
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Guido Zuliani, Arch fac
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Lecture
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One Life. But we are not the same. Observations on the architectural oeuvre of John Hejduk
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Università degli studi di Torino, May 13, 2020, Turin, Italy
Austin Wade Smith, Arch fac |
Article
| “Cooper Volunteers Use New Maker Lab to Support Health Workers,” THE COOPER UNION, May 7, 2020
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Steven Hillyer, AR ’90/Arch staff
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Article
| “Cooper Volunteers Use New Maker Lab to Support Health Workers,” THE COOPER UNION, May 7, 2020
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Dionisio Cortes Ortega, AR ’09
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Article
| “Ten Artists Awarded The 2020 Socrates Annual Fellowship to Create Monument Projects for Socrates Sculpture Park,” SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK, March 22, 2020
Daphne Binder, AR ’11, Teddy Kofman, AR ’13
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Book
| “Minus 400 and Over 40 Degrees: Architecture in the Dead Sea, 1948–1971, ISRAEL AS A MODERN ARCHITECTURAL EXPERIMENTAL LAB, 1948–1978, January 2020
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Helmuth Rosales, AR ’20
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Article
| “Senior Snapshots: Architecture,” THE COOPER UNION, May 11, 2020
Jeremy Son, AR ’20
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Article
| “Senior Snapshots: Architecture,” THE COOPER UNION, May 11, 2020
Kayla Montes de Oca, AR ’20
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Article
| “Senior Snapshots: Architecture,” THE COOPER UNION, May 11, 2020
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Open Calls & Opportunities
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DEADLINES APPROACHING
DESIGN COMPETITION
OPEN CALL
OPEN CALL
Open Call at The Shed
will support NYC-based early-career artists and collectives as they make and present urgent new work. Deadline: May 31
CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROJECTS
DISTANCE LEARNING DISCUSSIONS
COVID-19 RESOURCE KIT
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Log 50: Model Behavior
is a thematic issue that explores the models that architecture produces and the behaviors they elicit and project. Deadline: June 1
ONGOING
CALL FOR ENTRIES
Dezeen Awards 2020
welcomes entries for its third edition of international awards. Eight new categories have been introduced this year including landscape project, infrastructure project, bar interior, restaurant interior, large retail interior, small retail interior, architectural lighting design and exhibition design. Deadline: June 9
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
CALL FOR APPLICANTS
The Ghost Residency
is a competitive 9-month internship for graduate architects offered by Mackay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects. Deadline: June 30
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
CALL FOR PAPERS
DESIGN AWARDS
The SARAs 2020
celebrate design excellence in architecture and design through an annual Awards Program which attracts entries from individuals, firms, and students from around the world. Deadline: July 15
CALL FOR ENTRIES
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