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EXHIBITION LECTURE
Annabel Wharton: Models as Ethical Agents
Monday, October 10
The Great Hall and Zoom | 6:30 PM
The claim argued in this lecture is that a model is an agent, like a chemical agent, that has effects on proximate things in the world. Because those effects can be good or bad, a model’s ethical behavior, like that of a human, should always be subject to judgment. The case is made on the basis of an investigation of model prisons.
A discussion following the lecture will be moderated by Sylvia Lavin. This event is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Model Behavior.
Annabel Jane Wharton, William B. Hamilton Professor of Art History, Duke University, received her Ph.D. at the Courtauld Institute, London University. She has also taught as the Harry Porter Visiting Professor of Architectural History at the School of Architecture of the University of Virginia and as a Vincent Scully Visiting Professor of Architectural History at the Yale University School of Architecture. She has received fellowships from such institutions as Dumbarton Oaks, the ACLS, The Center for Advanced Study of the Visual Arts at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., and the National Humanities Center. Initially her research focused on Late Ancient and Byzantine art and culture. Works from her early career include Art of Empire (Penn State), Tokali Kilise (Dumbarton Oaks/Harvard); Refiguring the Post-Classical City (Cambridge). With Building the Cold War: Hilton International Hotels and Modern Architecture (Chicago), she began to investigate the effects of modernity on ancient landscapes. She combined her pre-Modern and Modern interests in Selling Jerusalem: Relics, Replicas, Theme Parks (Chicago) and Architectural Agents: The Delusional, Abusive, Addictive Lives of Buildings (Minnesota). She continues to investigate the agency of things in her recent book, Models and World Making (Virginia), and in her new project, tentatively titled Post-Mortem Architects: How Cadavers Make Space.
For Zoom attendance, please register in advance here.
For In-Person attendance, please register in advance here.
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
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CURRENT WORK
Centering Community: PILARES
Wednesday, October 12
Zoom | 6:00 PM
Mexico City’s PILARES (Puntos de Innovación, Libertad, Arte, Educación y Saberes, or Points of Innovation, Freedom, Art, Education, and Knowledge) projects are a series of over 250 (built and in-progress) public community centers. Located predominantly in low-income neighborhoods, these centers provide spaces for a wide range of free programs, including arts, sports, education, and professional development.
In 2020, the mayor’s office commissioned 25 notable design firms and partnerships to create architecturally ambitious PILARES centers. This Current Work program will feature presentations covering nine of these projects.
The presentations will be introduced by Carlos Zedillo Velasco. Zedillo Velasco, whose career has been dedicated to promoting collaborative design processes, served as the architectural coordinator of the PILARES initiative, working as a consultant to the Mexico City government. He previously directed the Research Center for Sustainable Development at Mexico’s National Housing Fund for Workers (often referred to by its acronym in Spanish, INFONAVIT). With his brother Rodrigo Zedillo Velasco, he founded Pienza Sostenible, a nonprofit organization that explores contemporary Mexican conditions in relation to the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Zedillo Velasco holds an MArch and a bachelor’s degree in art and architecture, both from the Yale School of Architecture. He currently practices architecture and planning in Mexico City.
For Zoom attendance, please register in advance here.
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
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STUDENT LECTURE SERIES
Matthew Waxman: Animating the Tectonic Image
Friday, October 14
315F and Zoom | 6:30 PM
Matthew Waxman is founder of Studio Matthew Waxman, a design practice interested in narratives of interdependence and transformation in norms of tectonics, formalism, and institutional paradigms of power. Prior to the Cooper Union, Waxman recently taught alongside media artist Chip Lord at the California College of the Arts. Waxman has been a project designer with Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects in San Francisco and NADAAA Inc. in Boston where his contributions included the University of Toronto Daniels Building Principal Hall and the University of Miami School of Architecture Master Plan. Waxman received an M.Arch from Harvard University Graduate School of Design and B.A.s in history & theory of architecture and film & digital media from UC Santa Cruz.
The presentation will be followed by a conversation moderated by Martina Duque Gonzalez.
For Zoom attendance, please register in advance here.
This event is free and accessible to the public through Zoom. Registration is required.
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EXHIBITION
Model Behavior
Tuesday, October 4 through Friday, November 18
First Floor Colonnade and Lobby | Hours: Tuesday – Friday 2-7 PM, Saturday and Sunday 12-7 PM
The term “model behavior” is commonly used to describe good social skills. This exhibition, curated by the Anyone Corporation, turns that concept on its head to investigate how models themselves behave. Conceptual models, study models, section models, and presentation models are givens in the practice and production of architecture, but the role of the architectural model in projecting or eliciting social behavior is seldom considered. At a moment when models in other disciplines – such as climate change and COVID models – are clearly affecting social behavior, how do architectural models reflect those changes or contribute to changing behaviors? This exhibition provides an opportunity for individuals to rethink the potentials of the architectural model, both within the discipline and in its relationships to the myriad models that shape contemporary culture.
Exhibited in the colonnade and first floor of Cooper Union’s historic Foundation Building, Model Behavior features more than 70 works and objects by 45 artists and architects including artists Olafur Eliasson, Isamu Noguchi, Ekow Nimako, and Thomas Demand, and architects Peter Eisenman, Darell Wayne Fields, Greg Lynn, Forensic Architecture (Eyal Weizman), First Office (Anna Neimark and Andrew Atwood), MALL (Jennifer Bonner), Ensamble (Débora Mesa and Antón García-Abril), and Höweler and Yoon (Eric Höweler and Meejin Yoon), as well as School of Architecture graduates Stan Allen AR’81, David Gersten AR’91, Jürgen Mayer AR’91, Jesse Reiser AR’81, and Nanako Umemoto AR’83, and faculty member Michael Young.
In tandem with the exhibition, the School of Architecture will present two Great Hall lectures: by art historian Annabel J. Wharton on October 10 and by architect Kiel Moe on November 8. Details to follow.
Free and open to the public.
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ARCHITECTURES OF TRANSITION
The Architecture Lobby Green New Deal Working Group with The Cooper Climate Coalition: A Just Transition for Architecture
Monday, October 17
Frederick P. Rose Auditorium and Zoom | 7:00 PM
Like the energy sector, the building sector operates at the heart of the fossil fuel economy. We - architects, engineers, and designers - are fossil fuel workers, and the basic functioning of our industry is ecologically untenable. Architectural projects entail the mobilization and consumption of enormous quantities of material, land, and energy. The entire economy of the building sector needs to be reoriented to achieve a racially, socially, and ecologically just future.
In response, The Architecture Lobby’s Green New Deal Working Group will be joined in conversation by the Cooper Climate Coalition to discuss the need to build collective power, engage with policy and policymakers, and advocate for a Just Transition for architecture. The conversation will be moderated by Elisa Iturbe.
For Zoom attendance, please register in advance here.
For In-Person attendance, please register in advance here.
This event is free and open to the public in-person and through Zoom. Registration is required.
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IN-CLASS LECTURE
Studio Talks — Brigitte Shim
Tuesday, October 18
315F and Zoom | 4:00 PM
The lecture is part of Nima Javidi, Elizabeth O'Donnell, Julian Palacio and Ryan Brooke Thomas ARCH 121A Design II Studio Course. A free-flowing conversation with a presentation by architect Brigitte Shim about her studio practice and the manner in which it shapes her work. The conversation will be moderated by the Design II Studio faculty.
Brigitte Shim is a Professor at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto and a principal at Shim-Sutcliffe Architects. Shim, along with her partner A. Howard Sutcliffe, formed the architectural design practice Shim-Sutcliffe Architects in 1994. Their critical design practice reflects their shared interest in and passion for the integration and interrelated scales of architecture, landscape, and interior and industrial design. To date, Shim and Sutcliffe have received fourteen Governor General’s Medals and Awards for architecture as well as an American Institute of Architects National Honor Award, among many other professional accolades.
Public attendance is limited to Zoom, please register in advance here.
In-person attendance to the lecture is open to Cooper Union students, faculty, and staff. Members of the public may attend through Zoom only.
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EXHIBITION LECTURE
Beyond the Frame
Thursday, October 27
315F and Zoom | 6:30 PM
Never have the facts been more elusive. It is not necessarily that they are harder to determine, but rather, harder to agree upon. What do we consider to be a reliable source? How can we think about justice in the context of a fractured landscape of information?
This talk will examine the pursuit of facts through a series of case studies exploring war crimes in Ukraine, gender-based violence in Mali, and the suppression of dissent by police forces in the United States. All of this will be contextualized within the increasingly critical role the designer plays at the nexus of design, technology, and human rights. The presentation will focus on emerging forms of fact-finding, coupled with an examination of the changing nature of evidence–from the deluge of citizen-generated video to the muli-perspectival capture and event reconstruction of contested events.
Fact-finding is often described as searching for the signal within the noise. What does the sheer amount of noise portend for the future of democracy and dissent, and how does the education of an architect prepare us to take on this question?
Brad Samuels is a founding partner at SITU, an unconventional architecture practice based in New York City that uses design, research and fabrication for creative and social impact. He is responsible for strategic oversight and directs SITU’s research division which focuses on the intersection of design, human rights and technology.
Gauri Bahuguna is a computational designer and researcher based in New York. In her current role at SITU Research, Gauri makes complex human rights cases accessible to wider audiences by wrangling large and diverse datasets into visually compelling interactive web platforms or videos. Gauri holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Columbia University, New York (2017) and a Master of Architecture from Columbia University’s GSAPP (2020).
This event is open to current Cooper Union students, faculty, and staff.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Coronavirus Response
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Hayley Eber AR’01/Arch fac, Acting Dean | Featured | “New Exhibition Questions Impact of Architectural Models on Behavior,” THE COOPER UNION, September 28, 2022
Anthony Vidler, Arch fac | Respondent | Book Launch: Radical Pedagogies, Princeton University School of Architecture, September 29, 2022, Princeton, NJ
Lydia Kallipoliti, Arch fac | Review | “Architecture Eats Itself at the 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennale,” METROPOLIS magazine, September 28, 2022
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Michael Young, Arch fac | Featured | “New Exhibition Questions Impact of Architectural Models on Behavior,” THE COOPER UNION, September 28, 2022
David Gersten AR’91/Arch fac | Foreword | THE EARTH OF: AGGREGATE IN REPOSE, Arts, Letters & Numbers, 2022 | Featured | “New Exhibition Questions Impact of Architectural Models on Behavior,” THE COOPER UNION, September 28, 2022
Steven Hillyer AR'91, Director of the School of Architecture Archive | Participant | "Teaching and Learning at Cooper: A History", Center for Writing, Wednesday, October 12 at 1PM through Zoom
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Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Elizabeth Diller AR’79, Ricardo Scofidio AR’55/Arch fac emeritus) | Article | ”Diller Scofidio + Renfro Design a Cross-Shaped Arts Center for One of the Country’s Oldest Catholic Colleges,” ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, September 28, 2022
Daniel Libeskind AR’70 | Lecture | Paul Rudolph Lecture: Memory Foundations, Yale University School of Architecture, October 6, 2022, New Haven, CT
Stan Allen AR’81 | Featured | “New Exhibition Questions Impact of Architectural Models on Behavior,” THE COOPER UNION, September 28, 2022
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Jesse Reiser AR’81, Nanako Umemoto AR’83 | Featured | “New Exhibition Questions Impact of Architectural Models on Behavior,” THE COOPER UNION, September 28, 2022
Yael Erel AR’02 | Group Exhibition | “HOT•BED presents: WAITING ROOM/Immersive Art for Wellbeing,” GRID, September 29, 2022
Masha Panteleyeva AR’05 | Presenter | Book Launch: Radical Pedagogies, Princeton University School of Architecture, September 29, 2022, Princeton, NJ
Evan Burgess AR’15 | Contributor | THE EARTH OF: AGGREGATE IN REPOSE, Arts, Letters & Numbers, 2022
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Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant provides single or multiple awards of up to $25,000 for early to mid-level architects who wish to further their personal and professional development through travel. Deadline: October 5
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Architecture, Climate Change & Society The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture and ACSA announce the 4th year of a competitive call for course proposals. Deadline: October 19
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2023 Rome Prize Competition from the American Academy in Rome, awards the Rome Prize to support innovative and cross-disciplinary work in the arts and humanities. Deadline: November 1
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HERITAGES: Past and Present — Built and Social will consider shifts in how we define heritage — as both material objects and social traditions — from the perspectives of art, architecture, cultural theorists and social historians. Deadline: November 25
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Future Anterior Journal is a peer-reviewed journal that approaches the field of historic preservation from a position of critical inquiry. Deadline: January 31
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Write for Urban Omnibus! Shaped by a wide range of contributors In an effort to advance the collective work of city making, Urban Omnibus calls for students and professionals to submit article proposals. Deadline: Ongoing
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ACSA seeks a Staff Editor to join their team and sheperd journals and books through peer review, production, and publication stages. Deadline: Ongoing
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The College Student Pantry welcomes all college students in need of groceries. Open first and third Wednesdays from 3-5pm. Stop by 602 E 9th St in the East Village (corner of Ave B) for a free bag of groceries. Ongoing: 1st and 3rd Wednesdays at 3PM.
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Azure Magazine is offering a 58% discount for students and faculty for their 2022 magazine subscription.
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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
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