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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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VIRTUAL EXHIBITION
Stanley Prowler: Expo '67
Monday, April 20 through Sunday, May 17
Web based
The Stanley Prowler Travel Photos Collection
consists of over 6,000 transparencies by the late architect Stanley Prowler. For over five decades beginning in the 1940’s, Prowler traveled extensively in the U.S. and abroad, documenting architecture throughout South America, Europe, and Asia. Using medium format and 35mm cameras with an architect’s eye, Prowler captured the essence of the sites and built environments he visited. After each trip he held gatherings at his apartment where he presented his photographs accompanied by insightful observations and details about the people and places he encountered. Following his death, Prowler’s collection of travel photographs was donated to The International Center—where he served as a board member—and in 2006 the Center donated the collection to the
Architecture Archive
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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.
The guiding principles of the studio were driven by the theme One, Two, Few. How many parts are required to make one? Is two a pair, or two parts of a whole? Does few mean there are too many or not enough? When does a group start behaving like a single? One, Two, Few is a series, a progression of increasing number and complexity. But it is also One Too Few: not enough, or a test of economy and precision.
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ARCHLOG
Shigeru Ban, AR '84 Designs Temporary Shelters for Japan's Homeless
Posted Tuesday, April 23
School of architecture alumnus
Shigeru Ban
, AR’84, has developed a design solution for members of Japan’s homeless population who can no longer rely on internet and comic (manga) cafes now shuttered due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These establishments, which previously operated 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, many of them offering shower facilities, had been a form of temporary housing for as many as 4,000 people in Tokyo alone. Originally conceived as places for late night working or temporary space for commuters unable to return to their homes at night, these cafes have, in more recent years, become shelters for those who cannot afford housing.
At a repurposed martial arts hall in Yokohama, Ban has designed temporary shelters that allow individual privacy and are spaced to prevent Coronavirus spread.
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DIGITAL EXHIBITION
Postcards from Under New York
Wednesday, April 8 through Sunday, May 17
Web Based
This digital exhibition—adapted from a 2010 hallway exhibition curated by Barb Choit—presents images from the
Joseph Covino Postcard Collection
supplemented by historical maps and photographs. Dating from the late 19th to mid-20th century, the Collection is among the largest of its kind. Its nearly 3,800 postcards were donated to the
Architecture Archive
between 1999 and 2003 by Joseph Covino, an avid postcard collector. Most of the postcards document New York City’s built environment and infrastructure, including many no-longer-extant buildings, interiors, businesses, and public spaces. They record a city in constant flux, capturing several decades of urban development across all five boroughs, from the City’s piers, airports, subways, and armories to its public parks, aquariums, monuments, and libraries.
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NEWS
COVID-19 Compiler Transforms Pandemic Data
Posted Friday, April 24
At a moment where “pivoting” has become the byword for many small businesses,
Topos
, a company co-founded by Will Shapiro AR’13 that is focused on transforming the understanding of cities using Artificial Intelligence, has gone from being totally devastated by the COVID-19 crisis to parsing the pandemic data for the public good. The result, the
COVID-19 Compiler
, has gained the attention of healthcare and public policy professionals, as well as media like The Rachel Maddow Show.
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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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Aranda\Lasch (Benjamin Aranda, Arch fac)
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Award
| “Valextra Gal Harbour Shops,” Overall Winner - Interior Design, ARCHMARATHON AWARDS, February 29, 2020, Miami
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Jesse Reiser, AR ’81
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Exhibition
| “UnBuilding Building: 2020 Post-Professional M.Arch Thesis Exhibition,” Princeton University School of Architecture, May 4, 2020 |
Exhibition
| “Building Beyond Place: RUR Engages Taiwan’s Architectural Cosmopolitanism,” E. Tay Gallery, September 19, 2020, NYC
Stan Allen, AR ’81
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Exhibition
| “UnBuilding Building: 2020 Post-Professional M.Arch Thesis Exhibition,” Princeton University School of Architecture, May 4, 2020
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Christoff:Finio (Martin Finio, AR ’88)
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Article
| “Transformation of Bennington College's Commons building by Christoff:Finio,” METALOCUS, April 27, 2020
Catherine Ahn, AR ’09
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Exhibition
| “UnBuilding Building: 2020 Post-Professional M.Arch Thesis Exhibition,” Princeton University School of Architecture, May 4, 2020
Isaac Islas-Cox, AR ’21
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Honorable Mention
| Kohn Pedersen Fox Traveling Fellowship 2020, KPF, May 12, 2020
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Open Calls & Opportunities
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NEW
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
DEADLINES APPROACHING
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Douglass Haskell Award for Student Journals
was founded to encourage student journals on architecture, planning, and related subjects, and to foster regard for intelligent criticism among future professionals. Deadline: May 15
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
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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
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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