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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
The Open House welcomes all prospective students to meet our community while getting a virtual tour of the school, learning about our unique pedagogy and the educational opportunities and resources The Cooper Union offers.
The virtual event is organized in two parts, beginning with remarks from Dean Nader Tehrani and Associate Dean Hayley Eber, as well as presentations by Nada Ayad, the Associate Dean of the Faculty of the Humanities and Social Sciences, current architecture students, faculty, and staff. This initial part includes presentations and panel discussions. A Q&A session will follow to offer prospective students and their families the opportunity to ask questions and interact with all present members of our community.
The second part of the program splits into two groups in order to focus on topics specific to the undergraduate and graduate programs. These groups will take an in-depth look at their specific program curriculum.
We look forward to meeting you this weekend!
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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ROUNDTABLE
AIANY 16th Annual Deans' Roundtable
Friday, November 6
Zoom | 6:00PM EST
Please join us for the Center for Architecture’s 16th-annual Deans’ Roundtable.
Representatives from over a dozen northeastern schools of architecture will discuss current directions in architectural education. The program includes 18 deans representing the top U.S. architecture schools, of which our own Dean Nader Tehrani, as well as alumnus Evan Douglis, AR '83, take part.
The discussion will be moderated by Milton Curry, Dean, USC School of Architecture.
This event is free and accessible to the public. 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.
The Japan World Exposition—also known as Expo ’70—was the first world’s fair in Asia. Held in Osaka, Japan from March 15 to September 13, 1970, the fair was attended by over 64 million people and remains one of the most successful and well-attended world’s fairs.
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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 event is free and accessible to the public.
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.
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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MEMORIAL
Margaret Morton Remembered
Sunday, November 22
Zoom | 4:00PM EST
Hosted by the School of Art.
Margaret Morton, former School of Art Professor, passed away unexpectedly in New York City on June 27, 2020. Morton taught, mentored, and motivated generations of Cooper students who passed through the school. For many, their Cooper education began with Professor Morton in the first-year Foundation 2-Dimensional Design course. In addition to graphic design ad photography, she was known for teaching Art of the Book, an annual course exploring the medium of the "artist book." She had a profound influence on four decades of designers and photographers.
This memorial event will be conducted through Zoom. Please register in advance here.
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VISITING LECTURE
Sumayya Vally, Counterspace Studio: Counterpoints
Tuesday, November 24
Zoom | 12:00PM EST
Counterspace is a Johannesburg-based collaborative architectural studio led by its founder and principal, Sumayya Vally. Inspired by its location and working through design research, publishing, pedagogy, built things, buildings and other forms of architecture, Counterspace is committed to developing design expression particularly for the continent.
The studio is an exploration into evolving methods of collaborative practice and research, and it operates adjacent to the academy, with Sumayya leading Unit 12 at the Graduate School of Architecture, Johannesburg and collaborations on several research projects with the school and the City.
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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EXHIBITION LECTURE
Stepwells of Ahmedabad: Past, Present and Future
Tuesday, December 1
Zoom | 6:30PM EST
In conjunction with the online exhibition Stepwells of Ahmedabad, Priyanka Sheth, Tanvi Jain, and Aashini Sheth will speak about traditional water structures that form the architectural vocabulary of the semi-arid regions of the Indian subcontinent. With a focus on a particular type of historic subterranean water structure called a stepwell, the lecture will touch upon issues of heritage, gender, patronage, and the current condition of these structures in the city of Ahmedabad. The talk will also explore and speculate about the future of urban water infrastructures in semi-arid regions by referencing traditional systems like stepwells to address the challenges of an impending water crisis posed by climate change.
The presentation will be followed by a conversation and Q & A moderated by Anthony Vidler.
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 | Featured Work | “Design Miami launches an art and architectural drawing sale to fundraise for Beirut recovery.” THE ARCHITECTS’ NEWSPAPER, October 15, 2020
Peter Eisenman, Arch fac | Book Launch | LATENESS, Yale School of Architecture, October 19, 2020, zoom
Aranda/Lasch (Benjamin Aranda, Arch fac) | Featured Work | “Design Miami launches an art and architectural drawing sale to fundraise for Beirut recovery.” THE ARCHITECTS’ NEWSPAPER, October 15, 2020
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Elisa Iturbe, Arch fac | Book Launch | LATENESS, Yale School of Architecture, October 19, 2020, zoom
Erieta Attali, Arch fac | Contributor | PLOT: TOP DOWN/BOTTOM UP, Spitzer School of Architecture, Vol. 9
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Daniel Libeskind, AR ’70 | Article | “The tower by Daniel Libeskind for CityLife has been completed,” DOMUS, October 21, 2020 | Article | “Studio Libeskind will bring a new waterfront neighborhood to New Jersey,” THE ARCHITECTS’ NEWSPAPER, October 22, 2020
Toshiko Mori, AR ’76 | Article | “Design Miami launches an art and architectural drawing sale to fundraise for Beirut recovery.” THE ARCHITECTS’ NEWSPAPER, October 15, 2020
Elizabeth Diller, AR ’79 | Lecture | 14th Annual Arthur Rosenblatt Memorial Lecture: Elizabeth Diller, Center for Architecture, October 27, 2020, webinar
Stan Allen, AR ’81 | Book Launch | LATENESS, Yale School of Architecture, October 19, 2020, zoom | Article | “Design Miami launches an art and architectural drawing sale to fundraise for Beirut recovery.” THE ARCHITECTS’ NEWSPAPER, October 15, 2020
RUR Reiser + Umemoto (Jesse Reiser, AR ’81, Nanako Umemoto, AR ’83) | Featured Work | “Design Miami launches an art and architectural drawing sale to fundraise for Beirut recovery.” THE ARCHITECTS’ NEWSPAPER, October 15, 2020
Stanford Chan, AR ’93 | Speaker | Façade Tectonics Forum: NYC, Facelift: Lessons from Retrofitting the Tall Face of Modernism, November 5, 2020, virtual
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Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, AR ’94 | Contributor | PLOT: TOP DOWN/BOTTOM UP, Spitzer School of Architecture, Vol. 9
Ballman Khapalova (Peter Ballman, AR ’08, Dasha Khapalova, AR ’07) | Article | “Reimagining a no river. LA River by Ballman Khapalova,” METALOCUS, October 12, 2020
Rayyane Tabet, AR ’08 | Article | “Alien Property: In Light of What We Know Now,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 28, 2020, NYC
Dorit Aviv, AR ’09 | Participant | Rethinking Concrete: Material Conventions in the Anthropocene, Princeton University, October 22-23, 2020, online
Kevin Chow, AR ’22 | Contributor | PLOT: TOP DOWN/BOTTOM UP, Spitzer School of Architecture, Vol. 9
Raymond Tan, AR ’23 | Contributor | PLOT: TOP DOWN/BOTTOM UP, Spitzer School of Architecture, Vol. 9
Sarah Saad, AR ’23 | Contributor | PLOT: TOP DOWN/BOTTOM UP, Spitzer School of Architecture, Vol. 9
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Open Calls & Opportunities |
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NEW
CALL FOR PAPERS
THE PLAN Journal: Open Issue is accepting new submissions for multiple areas/sections of research within architecture and urbanism involving innovation and potential transformational impact on the fields or the broader socio-cultural context. Deadline: January 18
DEADLINES APPROACHING
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
DESIGN COMPETITION
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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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