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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
This 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
.
Expo ‘67
On April 27, 1967, Expo ’67 opened to the public in Montréal, Québec. The first official World’s Fair to be held in the Western Hemisphere, it boasted 90 pavilions built by nations, corporations, and industries. The Expo spanned three sites on the St. Lawrence River, all built for the Expo from 25 million tons of fill excavated for the Montreal Metro: the
Cité du Havre
,
a former pier expanded and transformed into a neighborhood
;
Île Sainte-Hélène
,
created by connecting a series of existing, adjacent islands; and
Île Notre-Dame
, a new artificial island.
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REMOTE LECTURE
Andrea Simitch: Context Matters - Pedagogy in an Expanding Landscape
Thursday, April 23
Web/Zoom | 6:30PM
The making of architecture is dependent on a critical translation of context - one that informs the production of INFORMED FORM: work that has the capacity to engage in distinct forms of dialog with the contexts in which it is located. As educators we must demand a deep reading of context to establish the terms of dialog: to understand where architecture comes from (through studying its cultures and histories), what motivates it (its theories and environments) and what contributes to its production (its technologies and representations).
Andrea Simitch is the
Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow and Chair of the Department of Architecture at Cornell University. She teaches courses in architectural design, architectural representation, and furniture design. Simitch has been a panelist on the New York State Council on the Arts, a department representative for the Cornell Council for the Arts, and was a faculty collaborator with the Andrew Goldsworthy workshop at Storm King. Simitch and Val Warke partner in a collaborative architectural practice. Their recent projects include the Seneca House as featured in Architectural Record, Nalati National Park Resort and the Eco-Tourism Strategic Planning Proposal, both in Nalati, PRC, as well as numerous collaborative design competitions.
This lecture will be aired on
The Cooper Union website
starting at 6:30PM, followed by a public Zoom discussion starting at 7:15PM. Please register in advance
here
. Zoom account registration is required.
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REMOTE LECTURE
Neeraj Bhatia: New Investigations in Collective Form
Tuesday, April 28
Web/Zoom | 6:30PM
Today, society continues to face urban challenges – from economic inequality to a progressively fragile natural environment – that, in order to be addressed, require us to come together in a moment when what we collectively value is increasingly difficult to locate. New Investigations in Collective Form presents a group of design experiments by the design-research office The Open Workshop, that test how architecture can empower the diverse voices that make up the public realm and the environments in which they exist. Organized into five themes for producing collectivity – Frameworks, Articulated Surfaces, the Living Archive, Re-Wiring States, and Commoning – the projects straddle the fine line between the individual and collective, informal and formal, choice and control, impermanent and permanent.
The lecture presents work from the eponymous book which contains contributions by: Neeraj Bhatia, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Peggy Deamer, Clare Lyster, Keith Krumwiede, Jenny Odell, Albert Pope, Rafi Segal, and Charles Waldheim.
The lecture will be followed by a public live panel discussion including Neeraj Bhatia, Peggy Deamer and Keith Krumwiede moderated by Nora Akawi.
This lecture will be aired on
The Cooper Union website
starting at 6:30PM, followed by a public Zoom discussion starting at 7:00PM. Please register in advance
here
. Zoom account registration is required.
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REMOTE 2020 ELEANORE PETTERSEN LECTURE
Mabel O. Wilson: Bulletproofing America's Public Space - Race, Remembrance, and Emmett Till
Wednesday, April 29
Web/Zoom | 6:30PM
Compelling architectural and urban designs like the recent Memorial to Peace and Justice by MASS Design Group have been erected to aid the public in remembering the historic and geographic scope of America’s legacy of racial violence. As architects, planners, urbanists, and historians how do we commemorate America’s fraught history when recent protests by the white nationalist group Unite the Right at historic sites like the University of Virginia, or the need to bulletproof a historical marker at an important site of the Civil Rights struggle tells us that violence still simmers and erupts in the nation's public spaces?
Mabel O. Wilson is the Nancy and George E. Rupp Professor in Architecture and also a professor in African American and African Diasporic Studies at Columbia University. She also serves as the Associate Director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies and co-directs Global Africa Lab. She has authored Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture (2017) and Negro Building: African Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums (2012). She co-edited with Irene Cheng and Charles Davis the recently published volume Race and Modern Architecture: From the Enlightenment to Today (2020). With her practice Studio &, she is a collaborator in the architectural team that recently completed the Memorial to Enslaved African American Laborers at the University of Virginia. For MoMA, she is co-curator of the forthcoming exhibition Reconstructions: Blackness and Architecture in America. She’s a founding member of Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?) a collective that advocates for fair labor practices on building sites worldwide.
This event is co-presented with The Architectural League of New York.
This lecture will be aired on
The Cooper Union website
starting at 6:30PM, followed by a public Zoom discussion starting at 7:00PM. Please register in advance
here
. Zoom account registration is required.
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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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ARCHLOG
The Destruction of Memory: Tim Slade in Conversation with Nader Tehrani
Posted Tuesday, April 14
Following his January article on cultural heritage in the Architect's Newspaper, "
Cultural Sites Under Attack in the Age of Unaccountability
," Nader expands on Tim Slade's film,
The Destruction of Memory,
in conversation with the director. In adding his perspective as an architect, Nader prompts Tim to offer current examples from his fieldwork on the complex way in which meaning is constructed along with cultural sites and the way these become part of the negotiations of war.
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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, Dean/Arch fac
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Award
| “American Academy of Arts and Letters announces 2020 architecture award winners,” Architect’s Newspaper, April 21, 2020
Diane Lewis, AR 76/Arch fac (deceased)
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Article
| “’Mistresses of Pratt’ honors the legacy of female educators at Pratt Institute's School of Architecture,” ARCHINECT, March 14, 2020
Michael Young, Arch fac
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Article
| “Serious Playfulness: 6 Young Firms Balancing Experimentation and Pragmatism,” Azure Magazine, April 20, 2020
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Guido Zuliani, Arch fac (principal AZ Studio)
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Article
| “Stratificazioni e traslazioni definiscono un edificio residenziale a Milano,” DOMUS, April 9, 2020
Michael Samuelian, Arch fac
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Article
| “Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute Announces Founding Director of Urban Tech Hub,” Cornell Tech, April 22, 2020
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Karen Bausman, AR ’82
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Article
| “’Mistresses of Pratt’ honors the legacy of female educators at Pratt Institute's School of Architecture,” ARCHINECT, March 14, 2020
Nanako Umemoto, AR ’83
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Article
| “’Mistresses of Pratt’ honors the legacy of female educators at Pratt Institute's School of Architecture,” ARCHINECT, March 14, 2020
Shigeru Ban, AR ’84
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Article
| “Japan's homeless 'net cafe refugees' seek shelter amid COVID-19 woe,” CNA CHANNEL NEWS ASIA, April 15, 2020
Christoff:Finio (Martin Finio, AR ’88)
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Article
| “Christoff:Finio Architecture re-energizes Bennington College’s Commons building,” THE ARCHITECTS’ NEWSPAPER, April 15, 2020
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Erika Hinrichs, AR ’90
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Article
| “’Mistresses of Pratt’ honors the legacy of female educators at Pratt Institute's School of Architecture,” ARCHINECT, March 14, 2020
Fiyel Levent, AR ’03
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Article
| “Four Mid-Career Architects Awarded the 2020 Arnold W. Brunner Grant for Architectural Research,” AIA NEW YORK, April 15, 2020
SITU (Basar Girit, Aleksey Lukyanov-Cherny, Brad Samuels, all AR ’05)
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Article
| “Architects develop a COVID-19 screening booth for no-touch testing,” FAST COMPANY, April 13, 2020
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Open Calls & Opportunities
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NEW
CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROJECTS
DEADLINES APPROACHING
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Cophenhagen Architecture Festival
wants to focus on how the character and meaning of home have changed in the midst of a global health crisis. Observations, visions, and considerations on the impact of the Corona-crisis on the built environment are welcome, please submit a photo on instagram. Deadline: April 23
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
AIANY Civic Leadership Program
develops a class of emerging architectural professionals into civic leaders by refining the critical skills that design professionals need to better represent people that they serve. Deadline: April 29
ONGOING
DISTANCE LEARNING DISCUSSIONS
COVID-19 RESOURCE KIT
STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION
NYCxDesign: Product Design Category
Invites students to submit eligible designs for accessories, architectural products, fabric, furniture, kitchen and bath, lighting and wall covering. Deadline: May 11
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
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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 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
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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