FALL 2020 VISITING LECTURE SERIES
Landing; Architecture in the age of extinction, entanglements and other bodies

Posted Friday, September 11

The 2020-2021 Visiting Lecture series will explore the role of architecture and urbanism within the context of interconnected global crises, that as Bruno Latour has claimed would eventually land down to earth: the climate emergency, the public health crisis and social inequity. We will investigate how architecture constructs, distributes, and leverages power, as well as how spaces are shaped by larger political agendas that unequivocally involve questions of race, gender, climatic regimes and body politics.

You may read the curatorial statements for our lecture series and a list of all Fall 2020 Semester events and exhibitions here.
VISITING LECTURE
Fronts: Military Urbanism and the Developing World

Tuesday, September 15
Zoom | 6:30PM EST

Kripa and Mueller direct AGENCY, a design and research practice which leverages spatial design and spatial information to counteract nascent forms of global and urban insecurity. From the practice’s position on the US–Mexico border, AGENCY’s work reveals and enacts emerging publics. Working in protracted, conflictual contexts, the practice consistently shifts the narrative, developing targeted methods to identify, appropriate, and subvert subperceptual urban and atmospheric events that violate human rights. AGENCY’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Hong Kong–Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale for Architecture and Urbanism, the Venice Biennale, the Berlin Biennale, Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, and the Richmond Art Center.

The talk will discuss excerpts from Kripa and Mueller's recent book, FRONTS: Military Urbanisms and the Developing World (AR+D, 2020). The book compiles original urban research and analysis, revealing a growing geography of codependence between the global security complex and the urban morphologies of the developing world which it increasingly incriminates. Military doctrine has dramatically shifted its position, viewing the world’s cities as suspect sites of potential aggression. As military training sites simulate physical replicas of urban environments, they provide a lens through which we can understand the shape of the city to come. 

The lecture will be followed by a public live discussion moderated by Nora Akawi.

Kripa and Mueller's lecture will be conducted through Zoom. Please register in advance here. Zoom account registration is required.
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, originally presented as a Third Floor Hallway Gallery show in the fall of 2017, 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. 
COOPER UNION CLIMATE X WEEK 2020
Elisa Iturbe and Rania Ghosn: Carbon Fictions

Monday, September 21
Zoom | 6:00PM EST

In a free, public event as part of Cooper Union x Climate Week, Elisa Iturbe, a critic at the Yale School of Architecture and Adjunct Assistant Professor at The Cooper Union, will be in conversation with Rania Ghosn, a founding partner of Design Earth and Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture + Planning. They will explore the role of representation and speculative futures in architecture’s relationship to the climate crisis.

This event will be conducted through Zoom. Please register in advance here.
ENTANGLEMENTS
Janette Kim + Lydia Kallipoliti: Beneath the Dome and the Closed World

Wednesday, September 23
Zoom | 6:30PM EST

This Entanglement reflects on the politics and atmospheres of enclosure. Janette Kim will lecture on two projects that rework the risks and rewards of climate change. This project emerged from Janette’s involvement in the Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge. Lydia Kallipoliti will follow with a brief presentation of her book The Architecture of Closed Worlds presented in the format of a manifesto.

A live debate and conversation will follow moderated by Farzin Lofti-Jam.
STUDENT PROGRAM
The Architectural League of New York Student Program

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.
A MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN
Reconsidering Our Foundations - A New Beginning

Posted Wednesday, September 2

Welcome to the fall semester of 2020! And a special welcome to the Class of 2025; after just one day of classes, they have already made history by being our first group of students to enter the halls of The Cooper Union online. Ironically, they are also the first to be inhabiting our new studio spaces for what I hope will the entire academic year, but removed from the very faculty and catalytic studio culture those spaces elicit. Instead, the Class of 2025 will form a new culture with upper-level students, stemming from the hybrid learning environment set in motion this year. 

Nader Tehrani, Dean
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 the full document—A Manifesto and Call to Action to Build a Cooper Union Free of Racial and Social Injustice—please click here.
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.
ANNOUNCEMENT
COVID-19 Updates

For campus-wide COVID-19 updates, please visit The Cooper Union's website.
Faculty News
John Hejduk, AR ’50/Arch dean & fac emeritus (deceased) | Article | “Mother and Daughter Architects Toshiko Mori and Tei Carpenter Talk Shop,” CULTURED, August 31, 2020

Michael Young, Arch fac | Article | “Recessed Apertures and Atypical Heft Distinguish a Mexico City Apartment House,” Metropolis Magazine, September 1, 2020
Elizabeth O’Donnell, AR ’83/Arch fac | Article | For a Time, Say Yes To Whatever Comes Along, Act, WOMEN IN THE PROFESSION OF ARCHITECTURE, September 17, 2020, online
Alumni News
Toshiko Mori, AR ’76 | Article | “Mother and Daughter Architects Toshiko Mori and Tei Carpenter Talk Shop,” CULTURED, August 31, 2020

Shigeru Ban, AR ’84 | Article | “5 Accessible and Inclusive Public Washrooms Enliven Tokyo,” AZURE, August 27, 2020
Snarkitecture (Daniel Arsham, A ’03, Alex Mustonen, AR ’05) | Article | “Tokyo: NZ3110 by LDH Kitchen Opening,” SUPERFUTURE, August 18, 2020

Laela Baker, AR ’24 | Article | “This Virtual Lecture Series Offers a Crash Course in Authentic Design,” SURFACE, September 2, 2020
Open Calls & Opportunities
NEW

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: September 18 / Rolling

CALL FOR APPLICANTS
Cooper Union Continuing Education: Design for Change offers a series of lectures on architects who sought to reform architecture radically for their time and in ways that are still resonant today. Deadline: October 5

ART SUPPLIES DISCOUNT
Blick Art Supplies is offering 15% off art materials with this coupon. Deadline: October 15

DEADLINES APPROACHING

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
2021 ACSA/EAAE Teachers Conference: Curriculum for Climate Agency welcomes a range of formats for presentation and communication, from full-paper and project based presentations, to workshop-based interactions, to graphic, visual and/or textual analyses on themes. Deadline: October 14

ONGOING 

CALL FOR ALLIES
M.E.D Working Group for Anti-Racism students with support from the Yale School of Architecture are calling for allies to organize and join a number of events in order to incubate anti-racist discourse. Send inquiries to ysoa.med@gmail.com. 

CALL FOR APPLICANTS
AIANYS 2020 Burton L. Roslyn Memorial Scholarship is intended to support participation in the Architect Registration Examination (ARE). Please send information requests and inquiries to Molly Bibisi. Deadline: Rolling 

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 
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

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

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

DESIGN COMPETITION 
2021 Intl. Residential Architecture Conceptual Design Competition: The Future of Housing invites designers to break through the existing framework in residential design and submit forward-looking proposals. Deadline: November 30

DISTANCE LEARNING DISCUSSIONS 
ACSA Open, Web-Based Meetings Archive offers a series of discussions and resources on distance learning from academic professionals across the country. Ongoing Access.

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