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EXHIBITION
2021 End of Year Show
Tueday, May 25 through Sunday, June 13
The annual End of Year Show is a decades-old tradition at The Cooper Union, a moment when the schools of Architecture, Art, and Engineering mark the end of the academic year by mounting exhibitions of student work in the Foundation Building and 41 Cooper Square. Each year this celebratory act shares the work of the school with alumni and the general public.
Although the school’s buildings remain inaccessible to the public, the faculty, students, and staff of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture have collaborated to create an installation of fourteen digital monitors along the Foundation Building’s first floor, west-facing colonnade. The monitors feature projects and coursework from the 2020-21 academic year across fourteen undergraduate and graduate design studios, as well as numerous seminar courses and electives. Comprised of over 500 videos, the installation represents not only the breadth of work produced over the past nine months, but also the thoughtful, innovative approaches taken by the school’s faculty and students in their explorations of the discipline of architecture.
The schools of Architecture, Art, and Engineering are also launching online exhibitions of student work from the 2020-21 academic year on June 7. Website links and details will be announced in the near future.
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SUMMER PROGRAM
The Digital Fabrication Summer Program: Design-Build Education
Enrollment Deadline: Monday, June 14
Enrollment Deadline: June 14, 2021
High school, college, and continuing education students with practical knowledge of Rhino 3D are welcome and encouraged to apply.
3D printing, fabrication and computation technologies complement the learning modalities offered by The Cooper Union through their extensive experimentation possibilities. Students will be introduced to design and fabrication methodologies through hands-on, project-based work guided through collective and individual-based prompts supported by periodic mentorship and discussion sessions.
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EXHIBITION
Stanley Prowler: Brazil, Spain, & Portugal
Wednesday, April 14 through Friday, June 4
Online
This collection consists of over 6,000 transparencies by the late architect Stanley Prowler. For over five decades beginning in the 1940s, 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. Prowler’s photographs of Brazil in the late 1970s, and Spain and Portugal in the mid-1980s, shown here online, were originally curated by Patrick McElnea and presented in the Third Floor Hallway Gallery in 2013 and 2014 respectively.
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CURRENT WORK
Toyo Ito: Rethinking Architecture from Modernism
Thursday, June 17
Zoom | 7:00PM
Ito's lecture will focus on rethinking what he describes as the "Modernist ideology" that has encouraged "the massive development of cities along with the global economic system." Noting the recent "time-out" imposed by the Covid-19 virus, he asks, "Will the society that is metropolitan-oriented change? Or will we return to where we were?"
Toyo Ito founded his Tokyo-based office in 1971. Among the firm’s main works in Japan are Sendai Mediatheque and Tama Art University Library, Hachioji Campus. His international projects include the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (UK), Torres Porta Fira (Spain), Museo Internacional del Barroco (Mexico), and National Taiwan University, College of Social Sciences (Taiwan).
The lecture will be followed by a conversation and Q&A moderated by architect Toshiko Mori, founder of New York-based Toshiko Mori Architect, Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard University GSD, and co-founder of VisionArc. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and recently received the AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education.
This lecture has been approved to offer 1.5 AIA and New York State CEUs.
This event is co-sponsored by The Architectural League of New York and the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture.
This event is free and accessible to the public. You may register here.
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SUMMER PROGRAM
Introduction to Architecture Online
Enrollment Deadline: Monday, June 14
In light of the spread of COVID-10 in New York City, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union announces our upcoming summer intensive program that features a virtual curriculum accessible to high school and college 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 engagement, 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.
Applications are currently open and all potential students are encouraged to apply early.
You may watch our public Live Information Session to get an overview of the program's curriculum, pedagogy, and focus for this year. The video features examples of former participants' work and presentations by faculty and staff.
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VIDEO ARCHIVE
Watch Our Public Lectures and Events Anytime
Vimeo | On Demand
The School of Architecture records, archives and publishes videos of public programs to open access and accommodate asynchronous learning and research for audiences in different time zones. You may visit our Vimeo channel for access to all our video content.
You may also use Cooper website's search bar to look for a particular lecture title or a lecturer's name to find embedded videos of their events with us, if any are available, along with other pertinent event and bio information.
If you recently missed a lecture or event you wanted to see, make sure to check out the Fall 2020 and the Spring 2021 Lecture and Events Lists. Links to earlier semester event lists are found at the bottom of their respective event pages.
Our public programs are free and recorded for access anytime.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Coronavirus Response
For campus-wide COVID-19 updates and resources, please visit The Cooper Union's website.
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Nora Akawi, Arch fac | Speaker | Architecture-Colonialism-Palestine, Rhode Island School of Design, May 10, 2021, virtual
Anna Bokov, Arch fac | Book Review | "Avant-Garde as Method tracks the secret history of the Soviet Russian Bauhaus," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, May 18, 2021
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Michael Samuelian AR’95/Arch fac | Article | "Cornell urban tech hub issues recommendations for ‘rebooting’ NYC," SMART CITIES WORLD, May 14, 2021
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Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Elizabeth Diller AR’79, Ricardo Scofidio AR’55/Arch fac emeritus) | Featured | "NYCxDESIGN Awards Project Winners 2021," INTERIOR DESIGN, May 17, 2021
Daniel Libeskind AR’70 | Article | "Studio Libeskind designs geometric Jewish Museum for Lisbon," DEZEEN, May 14, 2021
Peggy Deamer AR’77 | Exhibitor | Austrian Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia, May 22-July 31, 2021, Venice, Italy
Reiser + Umemoto (Jesse Reiser AR’81, Nanako Umemoto AR’83) | Article | "Here’s what to see at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, May 19, 2021
Laurie Hawkinson AR’83 | Article | "At Columbia, an inflatable pavilion is the SPOT for GSAPP’s graduation," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, May 18, 2021
Andre Soluri AR’98 | Featured | "NYCxDESIGN Awards Project Winners 2021," INTERIOR DESIGN, May 17, 2021
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Sally Chen MAR’21 | Featured | Student Spotlight, NYCxDESIGN, May 2021
Zhenia Dementyeva AR’21 | Feature | "30 Seconds in the Studio with Zhenia," THE COOPER UNION, May 13, 2021
Maren Speyer AR’21 | Featured | Student Spotlight, NYCxDESIGN, May 2021
Dusseldorf Museum Group (Marina Akopyan AR’23, Minghao (William) Du AR’23, Kyungmin Park AR’23, Tianyang Sun AR’23) | Featured | Student Spotlight, NYCxDESIGN, May 2021
Leslie-Fairuz Abad-Neagu AR’25 | Featured | Student Spotlight, NYCxDESIGN, May 2021
Riley Howard AR’25 | Featured | "A More Perfect Union," THE COOPER UNION, May 19, 2021
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Open Calls & Opportunities |
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CALL FOR STUDENT PARTICIPANTS
CALL FOR APPLICANTS
The PAVE Scholarship Program provides financial assistance to 3rd or 4th year students in educational programs preparing them for careers in the retail environments industry, including but no limited to retail design, visual merchandising, interior design, architecture, and industrial design. Deadline: July 18
DEADLINES APPROACHING
CALL FOR STUDENT ENTRIES
CALL FOR ENTRIES
THE PLAN Award 2021 is an annual international prize that recognizes excellence in architecture, interior design, and urban planning. Deadline: May 31
STUDENT AWARD COMPETITION
AWARD COMPETITION
THE PLAN AWARD 2021 invites professionals to submit projects in multiple categories. Deadline: May 31
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
CALL FOR ENTRIES
CALL FOR ENTRIES
ONGOING
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
PURE DESIGN CONTEST challenges participants to design a piece of furniture and/or set of furniture for children. Deadline: June 20
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
CALL FOR PAPERS
STUDENT COMPETITION
Into the Wild: Manhattan Wildscraper aims to approach the element of nature from different perspectives to discover new synergies between human and natural ecosystems. Deadline: July 15
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STUDENT AWARD COMPETITION
SARA 2021 National Design Awards has opened and invites students and professionals to submit projects for consideration in this year’s awards program. Deadline: August 1
CALL FOR APPLICANTS
SOM: YEAR ONE is a program that cultivates the next generation of design leaders with a unique program to jumpstart your career in architecture, engineering, urban planning, or interior design. Rolling Deadline: April 1 - August 15
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
Global Design Graduate Show 2021 invites recent graduates in the creative fields, including architecture and art, to submit their thesis projects for an online showcase. Deadline: August 25
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
CALL FOR PAPERS
FREE GROCERIES
The College Student Pantry welcomes all college students in need of groceries. Founded in September 2020, we are 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.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Harvard Design Press seeks book proposals from researchers, practitioners, theorists, historians, and critics, among others. Deadline: Rolling
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 STUDENT PROPOSALS
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
CALL FOR APPLICANTS
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