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STUDENT LECTURE SERIES
Caitlin Taylor: The Architecture of the Food System
Friday, October 23
Zoom | 6:30PM EST
Caitlin Taylor is an architect with a background in agriculture; she brings to the firm an interdisciplinary focus on environmental, economic, and social justice in the food system. She directs the Food System Design Lab at MASS, and is leading projects around the country including the operational design of the Poughkeepsie Public Market, the Good Shepherd Conservancy in Lindsborg, Kansas, Brigaid school kitchen design guidelines, and a temporary agricultural installation in Columbus, Indiana.
This conversation 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 LECTURE
Cazú Zegers
Monday, October 26
Zoom | 2:00PM EST
This lecture is hosted by Structures II with professors Thorsten Helbig and Florian Meier.
Cazú Zegers outlines a different take towards Chilean architecture. She searches for an expressive architecture, closely related to Chile, its territory, landscape and traditions. Hence, the work developed by the firm, is not designed to be a “finished work” but a “work in progress” that involves a poetic reflection about the way we inhabit the territory. In a way, these are “prototypes in the territory” (Monographic book, published by Ediciones ARQ in 2008). Zegers has a unique way of undertaking the design process, starting from the relationship between poetry and architecture.
This conversation is free and accessible to the public.
The event will be conducted through Zoom. Please register in advance here.
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ENTANGLEMENTS
Irene Cheng + Richard Sommer: Monuments Rise / Monuments Fall
Tuesday, October 27
Zoom | 6:30PM EST
Monuments have recently re-emerged as charged sites of political debate and struggle. Propelled by a wave of protests against police killings of unarmed African Americans, monuments representing histories of oppression have been toppled, and new monuments commemorating Black lives erected. Simultaneously, many of the simmering conflicts and equations between indigenous understandings of land and sovereignty, colonialism and white supremacy, have brought needed attention to the troubled creation and legacy of a wide array of monuments in the United States. These include not only statues devoted to the ‘heritage’ of the Southern Confederacy, but the many American monuments celebrating America’s ‘founding fathers’ ‘manifest destiny,’ ‘exceptionalism,’ and ‘pioneering’ of the ‘frontier.’ What politics are at play in the historical cycles of constructing and removing such monuments? Are contemporary debates over monuments merely the symptom of a liberal politics of representation or can monuments instigate change by catalyzing thought and action towards greater understanding and justice? By upending certain binds of form and content in the monument, the speakers at this event will examine the relationship between the architecture and aesthetics of monument-making, and its political effects.
The lecture will be followed by a live debate and conversation moderated by Steven Hyllier.
This conversation is free and accessible to the public.
The event will be conducted through Zoom. Please register in advance here.
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IN CONVERSATION
Will Shapiro and Farzin Lotfi-Jam: Extracting Urban Intelligence
Thursday, October 29
Zoom | 11:00AM EST
The primary purpose of the In Conversation Lecture Series is to engender discussion of timely issues and ideas among Cooper faculty and students. Will Shapiro, Adjunct Faculty at The Cooper Union and Co-Founder and CEO of Topos, will be in conversation with Farzin Lotfi-Jam, Assistant Adjunct at The Cooper Union and director of multidisciplinary design studio Farzin Farzin. They will examine both the utility and aesthetics of big data in urban design, from the lenses of their professional and research practices.
This conversation is free and accessible to the public.
The event will be conducted through Zoom. Please register in advance here.
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OPEN HOUSE
The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture
Sunday, November 1
Zoom | 10:00AM EST
Please join us for The Cooper Union Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Open House to learn about our community, curriculum, and unique offerings.
The program will include presentations from the deans, faculty, current students, and staff, as well as a Q&A session. There will be undergraduate and graduate-specific programming for the second half of the morning to provide an in-depth look into the curricula.
This event is free and accessible to the public.
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STUDENT LECTURE SERIES
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi: Insurgent Domesticities
Thursday, November 5
Zoom | 6:30PM EST
‘Home’ has been used as a boundary-forming device to identify, homogenize, normalize and exclude. Composed of family and nation, and attendant notions of their sanctity, ‘home’ is no longer open to reinterpretation and reconfiguration; it is pressured as a lived space. Insurgent Domesticities brings into focus the insurgent environments, objects, and practices that make up the maintenance, creation, labor, and intimacies of home. Our collective investigates the more processual aspects of domesticity, to interrogate the politics of ‘home,’ through histories of solidarity, disobedience, stealth, and militancy, from the scale of the clothesline to that of the state.
This lecture will be conducted through Zoom. Please register in advance here.
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EXHIBITION
Stanley Prowler: Expo '70
Monday, October 5 through Friday, November 6
Online
This online exhibition presents photographs taken by the late architect Stanley Prowler of the Expo '70 world’s fair in Osaka, Japan. Prowler's remarkable collection of mid-20th century photographs, which document architecture and built environments worldwide, is held by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Archive. This online exhibition is the second in a series of shows that were originally presented in the school’s Third Floor Hallway Gallery in 2007 to highlight Prowler’s photography.
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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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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. Aleksandr Mergold is a member of the American Institute of Architects, American Institute of Graphic Arts and is a LEED Accredited Professional.
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 | Lecture | “Probable Architectures of Improbable Reason,” PUBLICNESS: Kosovo Architecture Festival, October 8, 2020, online
Lydia Kallipoliti, Arch fac | Publication | "Learning from Mars, Or, Facing our Shit" in idea journal (2020), interior technicity: unplugged and/or switched on, vol. 17, no. 01, pp.29-50 | Lecture | "The Curious Case of Closed Worlds" with Sylvia Lavin as interlocutor, Princeton University, October 19, online
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Elisa Iturbe, Arch fac | Book Launch | Lateness, The Yale School of Architecture, October 19, 2020, online
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Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Elizabeth Diller, AR ’79, Ricardo Scofidio, AR ’55/Arch fac emeritus) | Article | “Reconnecting downtown Colorado. Southwest Downtown pedestrian bridge by Diller Scofidio + Renfro,” METALOCUS, October 9, 2020
Peggy Deamer, AR ’77 | Lecture | AY 4 KEYNOTE: A Conversation on Labor & Practice, ACADIA 2020, DISTRIBUTED PROXIMITIES, October 24-30, 2020, online + global | Article | “Building Structure and Building Power,” URBAN OMNIBUS, September 30, 2020
Laurie Hawkinson, AR ’83 | Article | “NYC Public Design Commission explores small-scale prefabrication potential in a big-city context,” THE ARCHITECTS’ NEWSPAPER, October 9, 2020
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Michael Morris, AR ’89 | Article | “BIG, ICON and SEArch+ team received funding from NASA to develop ‘PROJECT OLYMPUS’, a lunar city,” METALOCUS, October 9, 2020
Lydia Xynogala, AR ’09 | Article | “Reflections from the Cave,” e-flux Architecture, October 9, 2020
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Open Calls & Opportunities |
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DEADLINES APPROACHING
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
CALL FOR APPLICANTS
CREATIVE TIME: Think Tank Cohort seeks participants to imagine equitable ways to assemble as a means to answer our current moment’s call for reflection, dismantling and acting. Deadline: October 25
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 ABSTRACTS
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
CALL FOR ENTRIES
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 ABSTRACTS
ONGOING
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
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DESIGN COMPETITION
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
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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