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ROUNDTABLE
AIANY 16th Annual Deans' Roundtable
Friday, November 6
Zoom | 6:00PM EST
Please join us for the Center for Architecture’s 16th-annual Deans’ Roundtable.
Representatives from over a dozen northeastern schools of architecture will discuss current directions in architectural education. The program includes 18 deans representing the top U.S. architecture schools, of which our own Dean Nader Tehrani, as well as alumnus Evan Douglis, AR '83, take part.
The discussion will be moderated by Milton Curry, Dean, USC School of Architecture.
This event is free and accessible to the public. Please register in advance here.
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ENTANGLEMENTS
Héléne Frichot + Naomi Stead with Michael Young: Writing Within and Without Architecture
Tuesday, November 10
Zoom | 6:30PM EST
Architects and fiction writers share the same ambition: to imagine new worlds into being. Every architectural proposition is a kind of fiction before it becomes a built fact; likewise, every written fiction relies on the construction of a context in which a story can take place. Reflecting on their recently-released edited collection Writing Architectures: Ficto-critical Approaches (Bloomsbury, 2020) Hélène Frichot and Naomi Stead consider ficto-critical approaches to writing, as a creative architectural practice.
A live debate and conversation will follow moderated by Lydia Kallipoliti.
This lecture will be conducted through Zoom. Please register in advance here.
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ROBERT GWATHMEY CHAIR LECTURE
Peter Eisenman: The Becoming Unmotivated of the Sign
Tuesday, November 17
Zoom | 2:00PM EST
Peter Eisenman, the Fall 2019 Robert Gwathmey Chair in Architecture and Art at The Cooper Union, is an internationally recognized architect and educator whose award-winning large-scale housing and urban design projects, innovative facilities for educational institutions, and series of inventive private houses attest to a career of excellence in design.
A roundtable with respondents Pier Vittorio Aureli, Preston Scott Cohen, Elisa Iturbe, Greg Lynn and Nader Tehrani as moderator will follow the lecture.
This event is free and accessible to the public through Zoom. Please register in advance here.
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STUDENT LECTURE SERIES
Aleksandr Mergold: Un-appealing
Friday, November 13
Zoom | 6:30PM EST
After working for several large architecture firms such as Perkins Eastman Architects and Swanke Hayden Connell Architects, he joined the office of Pentagram in New York where he spent six years as senior architect, working on a variety of architectural and design projects. In 2008, Aleksandr Mergold along with Jason Austin, established architectural and landscape design practice, Austin + Mergold.
This lecture is free and accessible to the public.
The event will be conducted through Zoom. Please register in advance here.
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MEMORIAL
Margaret Morton Remembered
Sunday, November 22
Zoom | 4:00PM EST
Hosted by the School of Art.
Margaret Morton, former School of Art Professor, passed away unexpectedly in New York City on June 27, 2020. Morton taught, mentored, and motivated generations of Cooper students who passed through the school. For many, their Cooper education began with Professor Morton in the first-year Foundation 2-Dimensional Design course. In addition to graphic design ad photography, she was known for teaching Art of the Book, an annual course exploring the medium of the "artist book." She had a profound influence on four decades of designers and photographers.
This memorial event will be conducted through Zoom. Please register in advance here.
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VISITING LECTURE
Sumayya Vally, Counterspace Studio: Counterpoints
Tuesday, November 24
Zoom | 12:00PM EST
Counterspace is a Johannesburg-based collaborative architectural studio led by its founder and principal, Sumayya Vally. Inspired by its location and working through design research, publishing, pedagogy, built things, buildings and other forms of architecture, Counterspace is committed to developing design expression particularly for the continent.
The studio is an exploration into evolving methods of collaborative practice and research, and it operates adjacent to the academy, with Sumayya leading Unit 12 at the Graduate School of Architecture, Johannesburg and collaborations on several research projects with the school and the City.
This lecture is free and accessible to the public.
The event will be conducted through Zoom. Please register in advance here.
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EXHIBITION LECTURE
Stepwells of Ahmedabad: Past, Present and Future
Tuesday, December 1
Zoom | 6:30PM EST
In conjunction with the online exhibition Stepwells of Ahmedabad, Priyanka Sheth, Tanvi Jain, and Aashini Sheth will speak about traditional water structures that form the architectural vocabulary of the semi-arid regions of the Indian subcontinent. With a focus on a particular type of historic subterranean water structure called a stepwell, the lecture will touch upon issues of heritage, gender, patronage, and the current condition of these structures in the city of Ahmedabad. The talk will also explore and speculate about the future of urban water infrastructures in semi-arid regions by referencing traditional systems like stepwells to address the challenges of an impending water crisis posed by climate change.
The presentation will be followed by a conversation and Q & A moderated by Anthony Vidler.
This lecture is free and accessible to the public.
The event will be conducted through Zoom. Please register in advance here.
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MANIFESTO AND CALL TO ACTION
To Build a Cooper Union Free of Racial and Social Injustice
Posted Wednesday, September 2
SUBMITTED BY THE ANTI-RACISM TASK FORCE OF THE IRWIN S. CHANIN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
In July 2020, students, faculty and alumni of the School of Architecture of The Cooper Union formed an ad hoc task force to propose positive actions to dismantle structures of racism and injustice in our institution.
To view and sign the full document—A Manifesto and Call to Action to Build a Cooper Union Free of Racial and Social Injustice—please click here.
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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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Nader Tehrani, Arch dean/fac | Participant | 2020 Deans’ Roundtable, Center for Architecture, November 6, 2020, webinar
Lydia Kallipoliti, Arch fac | Podcast | “The Nature of Enclosure: Session 1,” UrbanNext Series | Lecture | “The Curious Case of Closed Worlds,” Texas-Tech University, College of Architecture Lecture Series, October 21, 2020, Online
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Tulay Atak, Arch fac | Talk | Ludovico Quaroni’s project for Quartiere Cepalle Barene di San Giuliano 1959. Faculty Flash Talks: Climate Research, Practice and Activism, Pratt School of Architecture, October 28, 2020, Zoom
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Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Elizabeth Diller, AR ’79, Ricardo Scofidio, AR ’55/Arch fac emeritus) | Article | “The High Line’s Final Piece is Complete,” INTERIOR DESIGN, October 26, 2020 | Article | “Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Rubenstein Forum cantilevers with gargantuan bird-safe curtain walls and zinc,” THE ARCHITECTS’ NEWSPAPER, October 30, 2020
Toshiko Mori, AR ’76 | Feature | “The Conversation: Re-designing the world with COVID-19,” BBC SOUNDS, October 26, 2020 | Lecture | National Academy of Design, 2020 National Academicians Induction, October 28, 2020, virtual
Peggy Deamer, AR ’77 | Mentor | Negotiating Practice, Teaching & Family, WOMEN IN THE PROFESSION OF ARCHITECTURE, November 9, 2020, online
Karen Bausman, AR ’82 | Lecture | Wind Power New York City, Faculty Flash Talks: Climate Research, Practice and Activism, Pratt School of Architecture, October 28, 2020, Zoom
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Maurice Cox, AR ’83 | Lecture | Designing Equity, RPI School of Architecture, November 9, 2020, online
Evan Douglis, AR ’83 | Parcipant | 2020 Deans’ Roundtable, Center for Architecture, November 6, 2020, webinar
Nandini Bagchee, AR ’93 | Speaker | ACSA 2020 Administrator’s Conference, Community Design Centers: COMMUNITY TABLE, November 5-6, 2020, online
John Lin, AR ’02 | Review | “The Things Around Us: 51N4E and Rural Urban Framework, JAE Exhibit Review, October 23, 2020
Nicholas Pevzner, AR ’05 | Article | “Studio Reports: Green and New,”
URBAN OMNIBUS, October 28, 2020
Anna Kostreva, AR ’09 | Interview | Recast by Design: Yalla Yalla (Full Version) - w/Anna Kostreva (Threads*sub_ʇxǝʇ), October 3, 2020
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Open Calls & Opportunities |
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NEW
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
EastEast magazine: (no) borders issue invites artists, researchers, scholars, thinkers, and writers to offer up projects and stories based around the (no) borders theme. Deadline: November 20
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
AMPS URBAN ASSEMBLAGE CONFERENCE Looks at the city as an assemblage of architecture, media, AI and big data and calls for papers that touch on themes related to digital art, intelligent design, smart cities, AI and data, film, photography, urban design, and architecture. Deadline: December 1
STUDENT COMPETITION
CALL FOR PAPERS
DEADLINES APPROACHING
CALL FOR ESSAYS
What is Sustainable Architecture? Do you have something to say about sustainable architecture? ARCHHIVE BOOKS is calling for essay submissions for their next print publication. Deadline: November 11
CALL FOR APPLICANTS
DESIGN COMPETITION
ONGOING
CALL FOR APPLICANTS
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
CALL FOR PAPERS
TAD 5:2 Intelligence invites submissions of original research from scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students focusing on building automation, smart systems, user-driven design optimization, deep learning and fields related to human-machine interaction. Deadline: January 15, 2021
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CALL FOR PAPERS
THE PLAN Journal: Open Issue is accepting new submissions for multiple areas/sections of research within architecture and urbanism involving innovation and potential transformational impact on the fields or the broader socio-cultural context. Deadline: January 18
CALL FOR APPLICANTS
FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY
STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION
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 APPLICANTS
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Shifting Ground The Architectural League of New York invites you to submit photographs, videos, or drawings accompanied by short written observations about the spaces around you. Deadline: Rolling
DISTANCE LEARNING DISCUSSIONS
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