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.
VISITING LECTURE
Mokena Makeka: Experiments in Agonistic Praxis

Tuesday, October 13
Zoom | 12:00PM EST

In 1995, one year after South Africa threw off the shackles of Apartheid and began the cathartic process of  cultural reinvention, Mokena Makeka joined the first year class of Architecture, in Cape Town, South Africa. "Experiments in Agonistic Praxis" is a syntactic journey spanning twenty years of practice, in various economic and social terrains, contested territories; covering strategic leaps, tactical conundrums and spatial dialectics that move through and beyond the morphological and programmatic concerns of Architecture. For Mokena, Architecture is seen and conceived as “tactical spatial politics,” with the agility of guerilla warfare, and the ambitions of catalyzing progressive social change and inclusive modes of being, through the lens of design- sometimes modest, sometimes imperious, always curious. 

This lecture will be conducted through Zoom. Please register in advance here.
STUDENT LECTURE SERIES
Michelle M. Wright, The Physics of Diaspora: Why All Black Lives Matter

Thursday, October 15
Zoom | 6:30PM EST

Michelle M. Wright is the Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Professor of English at Emory University, and the author of Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora (Duke UP, 2004) and Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology (University of Minnesota Press, 2015). 

In this talk, Wright will discuss the ethical conundrums that are often suppressed in Black Studies when it comes to academic representations of Blackness in a diasporic framework. How does one formulate critique within and of a vulnerable population within the Ivory Tower? The answer, she argues, lies in straight lines, Black physics, and Epiphenomenal time. 

This lecture will be conducted through Zoom. Please register in advance here.
CURRENT WORK
Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell, Grafton Architects

Tuesday, October 20
Zoom | 1:00PM EST

The Dublin-based 2020 Pritzker Prize laureates, Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell co-founded Grafton Architects in 1978 after meeting at the School of Architecture at University College Dublin. As architects and educators, the partners honor "history while demonstrating a mastery of the urban environment and craft of construction," as their Pritzker Prize announcement states. The practice's academic, civic, cultural, and residential projects balance strength and delicacy, resulting in impactful and unique works.

This lecture will be conducted through Zoom. Please register in advance here.
STUDENT LECTURE SERIES
Caitlin Taylor: The Architecture of the Food System

Friday, October 23
Zoom | 6:30PM EST

Caitlin Taylor is an architect with a background in agriculture; she brings to the firm an interdisciplinary focus on environmental, economic, and social justice in the food system. She directs the Food System Design Lab at MASS, and is leading projects around the country including the operational design of the Poughkeepsie Public Market, the Good Shepherd Conservancy in Lindsborg, Kansas, Brigaid school kitchen design guidelines, and a temporary agricultural installation in Columbus, Indiana. 

This lecture will be conducted through Zoom. Please register in advance here.
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.
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.
ANNOUNCEMENT
COVID-19 Updates

For campus-wide COVID-19 updates, please visit The Cooper Union's website.
Faculty News
Lydia Kallipoliti, Arch fac | Lecture | “On Displacement and Environmental Inequality,” ETSAM Lecture Series: Our House is on Fire, Polytechnic University of Madrid, October 14, 2020 

Joan Ockman, AR ’80/Arch fac | Keynote Speaker | Remote Practices: Architecture in Proximity, University of Sydney School of Architecture Design and Planning, National University of Singapore Department of Architecture, School of Design and Environment, October 8-9, 2020
Michael Morris, AR ’89/Arch fac | Article | “NASA, BIG, SEArch+, and ICON team up to develop a lunar city,” THE ARCHITECTS’ NEWSPAPER, October 1, 2020
Alumni News
Shigeru Ban, AR ’84 | Article | “Shigeru Ban and Ole Scheeren to Create New Art and Cultural Destination in Hangzhou,” ARCHDAILY, September 25, 2020

Sotirios Kotoulas, AR ’03 | Exhibition | “Fate of a Cell,” MARTINOS, September 8, 2020 | Webinar | YTL Leaders Lounge, Young Transatlantic Leadership Initiative, September 24, 2020
SITU RESEARCH (Basar Girit, Aleksey Lukyanov-Cherny, Brad Samuels, all AR ’05) | Article | “’Kettling’ Protesters in the Bronx,” HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, September 30, 2020

Karim Ahmed, AR ’13 | Facilitator | Diversity & Inclusion/Planning & Urban Design roundtable facilitator, The Future of the NYC Waterfront: Harlem River, October 5, 2020, virtual
Open Calls & Opportunities
NEW

CALL FOR COURSE PROPOSALS 
2021 Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change, and Society is organized by Columbia University’s Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture and the ACSA and seeks to position education in architecture and urbanism to address the exigencies of climate change. Deadline: October 14

CALL FOR APPLICANTS
CREATIVE TIME: Think Tank Cohort seeks participants to imagine equitable ways to assemble as a means to answer our current moment’s call for reflection, dismantling and acting. Deadline: October 25

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Amps Conference, Dubai: Rapid Cities - Responsive Architectures is a virtual conference examining design, planning and construction in the modern world. Deadline: Extended through October

STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION 
2021 HUD Innovation in Affordable Housing is a student design and planning competition organized to advance real-world solutions to the production of livable, sustainable housing for low and moderate income communities. Team Registration Deadline: November 2

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Amps Conference, Teaching-Learning-Research: Design and Environments is a virtual conference in collaboration with Manchester School of Architecture seeking to engage education professionals in debate and best practice sharing in the fields of art, design and the social sciences. Deadline: November 5

DEADLINES APPROACHING

CALL FOR APPLICANTS
Cooper Union Continuing Education: Design for Change offers a series of lectures on architects who sought to reform architecture radically for their time and in ways that are still resonant today. Deadline: Extended through October 21

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
2021 ACSA/EAAE Teachers Conference: Curriculum for Climate Agency welcomes a range of formats for presentation and communication, from full-paper and project based presentations, to workshop-based interactions, to graphic, visual and/or textual analyses on themes. Deadline: October 14

ART SUPPLIES DISCOUNT
Blick Art Supplies is offering 15% off art materials with this coupon. Deadline: October 15

CALL FOR APPLICANTS
Art Omi: Architecture is a residency program for architects that invites 10 early-to-mid-career architects from around the world to develop their work during a full two-week residency on Art Omi’s campus. Deadline: October 20

CALL FOR APPLICANTS
Black Womxn Design Grant recognizes the importance of supporting emerging designers and pledges to provide $2,500 of direct funding to two eligible individuals or studios. Deadline: October 23

CALL FOR ENTRIES
The HOME Competition 2020 What do you believe will be the future of home? This competition invites all designers to explore ideas of domestic architecture for the future. Deadline: October 25

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 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
ONGOING 

CALL FOR APPLICANTS 
American Academy in Rome: The Rome Prize awards support for innovative and cross-disciplinary work in the arts, architecture, and humanities. Deadline: November 1

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
M.E.D Working Group for Anti-Racism students with support from the Yale School of Architecture are calling for allies to organize and join a number of events in order to incubate anti-racist discourse. Send inquiries to ysoa.med@gmail.com. 

CALL FOR APPLICANTS
AIANYS 2020 Burton L. Roslyn Memorial Scholarship is intended to support participation in the Architect Registration Examination (ARE). Please send information requests and inquiries to Molly Bibisi. Deadline: Rolling 

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

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 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

DESIGN COMPETITION 
2021 Intl. Residential Architecture Conceptual Design Competition: The Future of Housing invites designers to break through the existing framework in residential design and submit forward-looking proposals. Deadline: November 30

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

STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION
LYCEUM Travelling Fellowship: Reimagining the Visitor's Experience - The Ames Estate asks students to design an event pavilion. Deadline: May 14

DISTANCE LEARNING DISCUSSIONS 
ACSA Open, Web-Based Meetings Archive offers a series of discussions and resources on distance learning from academic professionals across the country. Ongoing Access.

FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY 
Lilly Reich Grant for Equality in Architecture launched by the Fundació Mies van der Rose aims to generate research in relation to identity, social inclusion, and all elements of sustainability. Multiyear Deadlines: July 16, 2020 / April 8, 2021