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CURRENT WORK
Emmanuel Pratt: [Re]Constructing PUBLIC TRUST - Reframing Past, Present, and Future
Thursday, April 29
Zoom | 6:00 PM
Emmanuel Pratt is cofounder and executive director of the Sweet Water Foundation (SWF), a nonprofit organization based on Chicago’s South Side. SWF engages local residents in the cultivation and regeneration of social, environmental, and economic resources in neighborhoods that have suffered the effects of long-term disinvestment. Drawing on the transformative possibilities of Regenerative Neighborhood Development, defined by SWF as an “emergent design process that dynamically cultivates intentional acts of civic arts and participatory design as integral components to reimagine the urban ecology of the built environment,” SWF has transformed four contiguous city blocks into The Commonwealth, “a real-world, physical manifestation of how built spaces reflect and impact understanding of the common and the collective.”
The lecture will be followed by a conversation and Q&A moderated by Chicago-based Casey Jones, the firmwide Design Leadership Council Director and a principal at Perkins & Will. He formerly served as the Deputy Director for Overseas Building Operations at the U.S. Department of State and the Director of Design Excellence at the U.S. General Services Administration.
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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ARCHLOG
Linee Occulte: Drawing Architecture
Posted: Friday, April 23
Presenting drawings within the context formed by their common theme and exhibition design, "Linee Occulte: Drawing Architecture" gives us the opportunity to see the work of Daisy Ames, Iran Fayyad, Lindsay Harkema, Kevin Hirth, Alfie Koetter, Stephanie Lin, Melissa Shin, Lindsey Wikstrom, and Mersiha Veledar as a collaborative construction.
As explained in the curatorial statement by Studio Ames:
'In Book II on perspective, Sebastiano Serlio referred to an “unthought known” in architectural production. He referred to certain lines as: “linee occulte,” hidden lines. These hidden lines are akin to construction lines in architectural drafting, the lines necessary to conceive of the final form. Serlio describes the process of drawing forms in perspective. Unlike Alberti, he accompanies his text with drawing examples, and from one drawing to the next, certain lines appear and disappear. The ones that disappear are presumably not necessary in communicating the next step and they become a kind of lost history to drawing making. In a time when we are contending with many shared and lost histories, what importance do the lines of the past, hidden out of view, have on our process? This is the question that Linee Occulte: Drawing Architecture asks participants and viewers to consider.'
Studio Ames' exhibition design and curation deploys Trompe l’oeil throughout the space as an inflection that demarcates a space within a space and continues this logic so as to involve each drawing in a dialogue of hidden, yet visible, lines.
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CURRENT WORK
MMBB Arquitetos and Brasil Arquitetura: Regenerating Downtown São Paulo
Thursday, May 20
Zoom | 6:00 PM
This event will includes presentations by Marta Moreira of MMBB Arquitetos and Francisco Fanucci of Brasil Arquitetura that focus on a pair of cultural projects in the historic center of São Paulo, Brazil that brought new services, programs, and public spaces to an area characterized by density, diversity, and neglect. Projects such as SESC 24 de Maio and Praça das Artes offer insight into how architects can combine placemaking, historic preservation, and adaptive reuse to regenerate urban spaces.
The presentations will be followed by a conversation and Q&A moderated by architect and curator Sol Camacho, founder of São Paulo- and Mexico City-based RADDAR and cultural director of Instituto Bardi/Casa de Vidro.
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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EXHIBITION
A Building You Should Know - The John S. Chase Residence
Friday, March 12 through Friday, April 23
Online
This exhibition follows the early trajectory of John S. Chase's practice along with the development of his residence. The house Chase completed in Houston for his family in 1959—and then substantially altered in 1968—was thus a remarkable personal accomplishment. It was also a crucial meeting place in Houston’s social and political life (and beyond), and a landmark in American architecture: the Chase Residence was one of the first Modernist houses to use an enclosed interior courtyard as a true extension of the public realm of the house, not as a garden, lightwell, or circulation space.
-- David Heymann, AR'85, FAIA
Harwell Hamilton Harris Regents Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas
This exhibition is free and accessible online.
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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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SUMMER PROGRAM
Introduction to Architecture Online
Application Portal is Open
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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Nader Tehrani, Arch dean/fac | Lecture | Timely Anachronisms, American University of Sharjah, April 28, 2021, online
Anthony Vidler, Arch fac | Speaker | SOLITUDE: A Dialogue on Today’s Architecture, University of Chicago Department of Art History, April 16, 2021, webinar
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Bryan Young, Arch fac | Article | "Long Island house by Young Projects reimagines local barn architecture," WALLPAPER*, March 19, 2021
Austin Wade Smith, Arch fac | Featured | "Case Study: Place Holder," ARE.NA, April 13, 2021
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Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Elizabeth Diller AR’79, Ricardo Scofidio AR’55/Arch fac emeritus) | Article | “Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s revitalized rail district will house Milan’s 2026 Winter Olympians," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, April 13, 2021 | Article | "Disused railway yard in Milan set to become park and Olympic athletes' village," DEZEEN, April 14, 2021 | Article | "Diller Scofidio + Renfro shares photography of the newly completed Tianjin Juilliard School," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, April 15, 2021 | Article | “Pensando en el Fun Palace. Escuela Tianjin Juilliard por Diller Scofidio + Renfro," METALOCUS, April 15, 2021
Daniel Libeskind AR’70 | Featured | "In the News: In Case You Missed It," AIA NY, April 14, 2021
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Lee Skolnick AR’79 | Featured | "In the News: Skolnick Restores Arts Nonprofit The Church," AIA NY, April 14, 2021
Snarkitecture (Daniel Arsham A’03, Alex Mustonen AR’05) | Featured | "In the News: Snarkitecture Completes Library Street Collective Gallery in Detroit," AIA NY, April 14, 2021
Sean Khorsandi AR’04 | Featured | "Politics and Preservation," OUR TOWN, April 6, 2021
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Open Calls & Opportunities |
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CALL FOR MENTORS AND MENTEES
DEADLINES APPROACHING
CALL FOR ENTRIES
CALL FOR APPLICANTS
AIANY Civic Leadership Program (CLP) is open to architects, designers, and urban planners who are interested in exploring the intersection of design, advocacy, and policy. Deadline: April 26
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Malarkey Film Festival, a NYC women run festival that celebrates firms and their makers, offers free registration/submissions to Cooper Union alumni. Cooper Alumni may use the code: FREE4COOPER. Deadline: April 30
AWARD COMPETITION
ONGOING
STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION
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 SUBMISSIONS
PURE DESIGN CONTEST challenges participants to design a piece of furniture and/or set of furniture for children. Deadline: June 20
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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 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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