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STUDENT PROGRAM
The Architectural League of New York Student Program
Tomorrow: Saturday, October 3
Zoom | 10:00AM EST
The student program offers an inside look at the architectural profession, highlighting the varied and creative career paths open to graduates of architecture school.
Panelists include Jerome Haferd, co-founder, BRANDT : HAFERD, Pascale Sablan, senior associate, S9 Architecture / founder and executive director, Beyond the Built Environment, Seb Choe, associate director, MIXdesign.
Advance registration is required. All registered participants will be sent a link to participate through Zoom. The program is free and open for current students. Please register with a .edu email address. |
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VISITING LECTURE
Ellie Abrons and Meredith Miller, T+E+A+M
Tuesday, October 6
Zoom | 6:30PM EST
Ellie Abrons and Meredith Miller are co-founders of T+E+A+M, with Adam Fure and Thom Moran. T+E+A+M’s work centers on materiality, image, and environment. Their collaborative projects have been exhibited at the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the Venice Architecture Biennale, Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and A+D Museum in Los Angeles, among other venues. T+E+A+M is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan where they are associate professors at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning.
This lecture and discussion is free and accessible to the public.
This lecture will be conducted through Zoom. Please register in advance here.
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IN-CLASS GUEST LECTURE
Luis c.deBaca and Sharon Prince, Grace Farms: What can you do to combat modern slavery in the built environment?
Wednesday, October 7
Zoom | 6:00PM EST
This lecture is hosted by Structures IV with Professor Nat Oppenheimer.
Although human rights advocates have begun to raise awareness of the pervasiveness of forced labor in construction projects around the world, the use of raw and composite materials produced by forced labor in the built environment largely continues with impunity.
This event is free and accessible to the public.
This lecture will be conducted through Zoom. Please register in advance here.
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VISITING LECTURE
Mokena Makeka: Experiments in Agonistic Praxis
Tuesday, October 13
Zoom | 12:00PM EST
In 1995, one year after South Africa threw off the shackles of Apartheid and began the cathartic process of cultural reinvention, Mokena Makeka joined the first year class of Architecture, in Cape Town, South Africa. "Experiments in Agonistic Praxis" is a syntactic journey spanning twenty years of practice, in various economic and social terrains, contested territories; covering strategic leaps, tactical conundrums and spatial dialectics that move through and beyond the morphological and programmatic concerns of Architecture. For Mokena, Architecture is seen and conceived as “tactical spatial politics,” with the agility of guerilla warfare, and the ambitions of catalyzing progressive social change and inclusive modes of being, through the lens of design- sometimes modest, sometimes imperious, always curious.
This lecture will be conducted through Zoom. Please register in advance here.
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STUDENT LECTURE SERIES
Michelle M. Wright, The Physics of Diaspora: Why All Black Lives Matter
Thursday, October 15
Zoom | 6:30PM EST
Michelle M. Wright is the Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Professor of English at Emory University, and the author of Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora (Duke UP, 2004) and Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology (University of Minnesota Press, 2015).
In this talk, Wright will discuss the ethical conundrums that are often suppressed in Black Studies when it comes to academic representations of Blackness in a diasporic framework. How does one formulate critique within and of a vulnerable population within the Ivory Tower? The answer, she argues, lies in straight lines, Black physics, and Epiphenomenal time.
This lecture will be conducted through Zoom. Please register in advance here.
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CURRENT WORK
Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell, Grafton Architects
Tuesday, October 20
Zoom | 1:00PM EST
The Dublin-based 2020 Pritzker Prize laureates, Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell co-founded Grafton Architects in 1978 after meeting at the School of Architecture at University College Dublin. As architects and educators, the partners honor "history while demonstrating a mastery of the urban environment and craft of construction," as their Pritzker Prize announcement states. The practice's academic, civic, cultural, and residential projects balance strength and delicacy, resulting in impactful and unique works.
This lecture will be conducted through Zoom. Please register in advance here.
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EXHIBITION
New York City Beaches: Coney Island and Rockaway at the Turn of the 20th Century
Wednesday, September 9 through Wednesday, October 7
Online
This online exhibition features postcards documenting the astonishing transformation of New York City’s southern coastline during the last decades of the 19th century. The postcards are drawn from the Architecture Archive’s Joseph Covino New York City Postcard Collection. Dating from the late 19th to mid-20th century, the collection is among the largest of its kind. Its nearly 3,800 postcards document New York City’s built environment and infrastructure, recording a city in constant flux across several decades of urban development from no-longer-extant buildings, interiors and businesses to piers, parks and monuments throughout all five boroughs.
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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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Lydia Kallipoliti, Arch fac | Publication | “Silence Murmur: Takis Zenetos’ Electronic Urbanism,” AA Files 77, pg. 17-27 | Presenter | “Critical Density: Health, Ecology, Economy and Equity,” Conference at NYIT, September 30, 2020
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Michael Samuelian, AR ’95/Arch fac | Article | “How tech can help save NYC: A more inclusive innovation economy can point the way forward,” DAILY NEWS, September 25, 2020
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Studio Libeskind (Daniel Libeskind, AR ’70) | Working Group Member | Neighborhoods Now Summit: Strategies for Reopening and Recovery, Van Alen Institute/Urban Design Forum, October 6, 2020, video discussion
Frank Jacobus, AR ’98 | Presenter | 2020 AIA/ACSA Intersections Research Conference: CARBON, September 20-October 2, 2020, virtual
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Carlos Little, AR ’98 | Group Exhibition | “50+ toilet paper holders: between collectible design and environmental politics,” DOMUS, September 22, 2020
Space ODT (Daphne Binder, AR ’11, Teddy Kofman, AR ’13) | Featured | Summit Live: Ep. 13 Inside the Architect-Designer Process, September 22, 2020, online
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Open Calls & Opportunities |
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NEW
CALL FOR APPLICANTS
Art Omi: Architecture is a residency program for architects that invites 10 early-to-mid-career architects from around the world to develop their work during a full two-week residency on Art Omi’s campus. Deadline: October 20
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
CLOG x Feeds invites submissions of critique, commentary not limited to text to examine the design, behavior, and impact of social media feeds and the myriad way in which we interact with them. Deadline: October 31
CALL FOR APPLICANTS
DEADLINES APPROACHING
CALL FOR APPLICANTS
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
ART SUPPLIES DISCOUNT
CALL FOR APPLICANTS
Black Womxn Design Grant recognizes the importance of supporting emerging designers and pledges to provide $2,500 of direct funding to two eligible individuals or studios. Deadline: October 23
CALL FOR ENTRIES
The HOME Competition 2020 What do you believe will be the future of home? This competition invites all designers to explore ideas of domestic architecture for the future. Deadline: October 25
ONGOING
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
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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
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Gaudi Architecture Prize is the first annual international Design Awards celebrating the unbuilt projects of students and recent graduates all over the world. Registration Deadline: October 30
STUDENT COMPETITION
2021 HUD Innovation in Affordable Housing invites students to form a team, create a plan and make a real-world impact tackling the need for affordable housing. Attend the competition information webinar on September 3. Competition Registration Deadline: November 2
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
DESIGN COMPETITION
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
STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION
DISTANCE LEARNING DISCUSSIONS
FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY
Lilly Reich Grant for Equality in Architecture launched by the Fundació Mies van der Rose aims to generate research in relation to identity, social inclusion, and all elements of sustainability. Multiyear Deadlines: July 16, 2020 / April 8, 2021
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