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PANEL DISCUSSION AND BOOK LAUNCH
Husserl and Spatiality: A Phenomenological Ethnography of Space
Friday, February 11
3rd Floor Lobby and Zoom | 5:30 PM
Please join the School of Architecture for an interdisciplinary panel discussion and launch of the book Husserl and Spatiality: A Phenomenological Ethnography of Space, authored by Tao DuFour, AR’02, and published in 2022 by Routledge. Participants will include Tao Dufor, moderator Leslie Hewitt, Natalie Melas, Jorge Otero-Pailos, and Anthony Vidler. This event is accompanied by an exhibition of associated photographs and field notes from DuFour’s fieldwork in Brazil.
Husserl and Spatiality is an exploration of the phenomenology of space and embodiment, based on the work of Edmund Husserl. Little known in architecture, Husserl’s phenomenology of embodied spatiality established the foundations for the works of later phenomenologists, including Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s well-known phenomenology of perception. Through a detailed study of his posthumously published and unpublished manuscripts on space, DuFour examines the depth and scope of Husserl’s phenomenology of space. The book investigates his analyses of corporeity and the “lived body,” extending to questions of intersubjective, intergenerational, and geo-historical spatial experience, what DuFour terms the “environmentality” of space.
In-person attendance to the lecture is open to Cooper Union students, faculty, and staff. Members of the public may attend through Zoom only. Please register for Zoom attendance in advance here.
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EXHIBITION
Husserl and Spatiality: A Phenomenological Ethnography of Space
On View Tuesday, February 8 through Thursday, March 3
Third Floor Hallway Gallery
The black and white photographs presented in this exhibition were taken during Tao DuFour’s fieldwork in the city of Salvador, Brazil in the summer of 2010. They are exhibited accompanying the launch of DuFour’s book, Husserl and Spatiality: A Phenomenological Ethnography of Space, published in 2022 by Routledge.
Husserl and Spatiality is an exploration of the phenomenology of space and embodiment, based on the work of Edmund Husserl. Little known in architecture, Husserl’s phenomenology of embodied spatiality established the foundations for the works of later phenomenologists, including Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s well-known phenomenology of perception. Through a detailed study of his posthumously published and unpublished manuscripts on space, DuFour examines the depth and scope of Husserl’s phenomenology of space. The book investigates his analyses of corporeity and the “lived body;” extending to questions of intersubjective, intergenerational, and geo-historical spatial experience; what DuFour terms the “environmentality” of space.
This exhibition is open to current Cooper Union students, faculty, and staff.
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CURRENT WORK
Wolff Architects
Tuesday, February 15
Zoom | 12:00 PM
Founded by Ilze Wolff and Heinrich Wolff in 2012, Wolff Architects has aimed to cultivate, in its own words, “an enduring public culture around the city, space, and personhood.” Informed by the colonial history of its surroundings, the Cape Town-based firm excavates sites of historic inequity and erasure, using design, research, and advocacy tools to construct what it calls an “architecture of consequence.” From urban-scale infrastructure to handmade zines, its work embraces “a multiplicity of means of representation and expression, rather than accepting the constraint of speaking through buildings,” according to The Architectural Review.
This event will be conducted through Zoom. All participants must register in advance. Please register here to attend online via Zoom.
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VISITING LECTURE
Stella Betts: Thirteen Ways of Looking...
Thursday, February 24
315F and Zoom | 6:30 PM
Stella Betts will present a selection of recently completed and in process projects including branch libraries, installations and houses. The title of the lecture Thirteen Ways of Looking… comes from a recently published book called Thirteen Ways of Looking at House. The book includes thirteen topic texts on the elements of the house as well as thirteen houses as case studies.
The lecture will be followed by a conversation moderated by Mersiha Veledar.
Stella Betts is a founding partner at LEVENBETTS, an award winning New York City based architecture practice. LEVENBETTS is committed to the creation of non-hierarchical, nonprescriptive space that we think of as open architecture. This approach enables us to see architecture in multiple ways and at all scales – to design for the issues of the equitable city in the same way that we consider the elements of the home.
The in-person lecture is open to Cooper Union students, faculty, and staff in room 315F only. This event is accessible to the public through Zoom. Zoom account registration is required, please register in advance here.
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ARCHLOG
Diego Salazar AR'16, Completes New York Titans
Posted Thursday, February 3
2016 School of Architecture graduate Diego Salazar recently completed New York Titans, a multimedia project honoring New York City’s built environment. Initiated in response to his 2016 encounter with the National September 11 Memorial in Lower Manhattan, the work began with his vision for a large drawing to commemorate, twenty years later, those who lost their lives on 9/11. As Salazar developed a visual language that transposes human and architectural form, he began a parallel effort to create a series of drawings featuring iconic New York City buildings. He would create fourteen drawings, all at 36 x 60 inches.
Over the next five years, Salazar expanded the New York Titans project to include several collaborators, some of them former Cooper Union classmates. He had started a company, Studio Rombo, which represents and collaborates with artists and designers, and began traveling to Oaxaca, Mexico to meet local artists and artisans. Diego quickly realized that he could combine his two endeavors and commissioned Oaxacan artists to create, along with him, work for New York Titans. He also reconnected with his childhood friend Rafael Quijano, a practicing artist, in late 2020. Salazar invited in Quijano to develop artworks based on the Titans concept and in return Quijano agreed to find an exhibition venue for the project as a whole.
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SUMMER PROGRAM
Introduction to Architecture Online: Summer 2022
Applications are now open.
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.
High School Student Program Dates: July 5 - August 5 | Apply Now
College Student Program Dates: July 5 - July 29 | Apply Now
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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STUDENT LECTURE SERIES
Felipe Correa: Building a Culture of Description
Thursday, March 10
Zoom | 6:30 PM
Felipe Correa is a founder and managing Partner of Somatic Collaborative. Through Somatic Collaborative Correa has directed a wide range of applied research and design projects across multiple spatial contexts in the Americas, Asia and Europe.
He is currently the Vincent and Eleanor Shea Professor and Chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Virginia (UVA). Prior to joining UVA, Correa was Associate Professor and Director of the Urban Design Degree Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD). Correa is also c o-director of the South America Project, a trans-continental applied research network that proactively endorses the role of design within rapidly transforming geographies of the South American Continent. He is the author of multiple books including “Beyond the City: Resource Extraction Urbanism in South America (University of Texas Press, 2016), “Mexico City: Between Geometry and Geography “(Applied Research and Design Publishing, 2015) and “A Line in the Andes” (Applied Research and Design Publishing 2014) which won first prize at the Pan American Architecture Biennale. His most recent book, “Sao Paulo: A Graphic Biography” a bilingual edition that traces the history of the city’s urban form was released in 2018 by the University of Texas Press.
This event will be conducted through Zoom. Zoom account registration is required, please register in advance here.
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NEWS
The School of Architecture Announces a Search for Its Next Dean
Posted Tuesday, January 11
The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art invites nominations and letters of application for the position of Dean, the academic and administrative leader of the School. The Cooper Union is comprised of the schools of Architecture, Art, Engineering, and the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences. The institution follows Peter Cooper’s radical commitment to diversity and his founding vision that fair access to an inspiring free education and forums for courageous public discourse foster a just and thriving world. The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture occupies an exceptional position, nationally and globally, as an intensive laboratory for pedagogy, design, and distinguished scholarship in architecture.
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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 2021 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 | Article | "NADAAA will reimagine the historic Otis House in Boston," THE ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER, February 3, 2022
Daisy Ames, Arch fac | Honorable Mention | Linée Occulte: Drawing Architecture, AN Best Design Exhibition Design Category | Grant | “Designing Housing for a Changing Climate: Nomadic Living and Unseen Environmental Elements,” Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant 2021 | Group Exhibition | “In the Round, On the Flat,” Pratt School of Architecture, Brooklyn, NY, February 10 through March 25, 2022
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Stella Betts, Arch fac | Mentor | Women in Architecture Speed Mentoring, Center for Architecture, February 9, 2022, webinar
JA Studio (Nima Javidi, Arch fac, principal) | Award | Architectural League Emerging Voices 2022
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Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Elizabeth Diller AR’79, Ricardo Scofidio AR’55/Arch fac emeritus) | Article | "Diller Scofidio + Renfro Collaborate With Brininstool + Lynch on a LEED Gold-Certified Addition to the University of Chicago," INTERIOR DESIGN, February 2, 2022
Peggy Deamer AR’77 | Article | "Unionization at SHoP Architects stalled out, but architecture’s labor movement is far from over, THE ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER, February 3, 2022
Elizabeth Diller AR’79 | Lecture | "Recent Work" Yale University School of Architecture, January 27, 2022, online | Award | "Elizabeth Diller, Momoyo Kaijima and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Receive 2022 Wolf Prize," arch daily, February 11, 2022
RUR Architecture (Jesse Reiser AR'81, Nanako Umemoto AR'83) | Article | Music Center in Taipei, Taiwan, Architectural Record, January 2022 Issue
Anik Pearson AR’95 | Mentor | Women in Architecture Speed Mentoring, Center for Architecture, February 9, 2022, webinar
Kenneth Francis AR’97 | Juror | 2022 Lyceum Fellowship Competition, UNDERLAND: Project for the Friesenhahn Cave Site
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Charles Blanchard AR’15 | Article | "Diller Scofidio + Renfro Collaborate With Brininstool + Lynch on a LEED Gold-Certified Addition to the University of Chicago," INTERIOR DESIGN, February 2, 2022
Kevin Chow AR’22 | Group Exhibition | 2021 Menschel Fellowship Exhibition, February 15-March 3, 2022, Cooper Union, NYC
Annabella Chen AR’22 | Group Exhibition | 2021 Menschel Fellowship Exhibition, February 15-March 3, 2022, Cooper Union, NYC
Ahzin Nam AR’22 | Group Exhibition | 2021 Menschel Fellowship Exhibition, February 15-March 3, 2022, Cooper Union, NYC
Chau-Anh Nguyen AR’23 | Group Exhibition | 2021 Menschel Fellowship Exhibition, February 15-March 3, 2022, Cooper Union, NYC
Jiawen Chen AR’23 | Group Exhibition | 2021 Menschel Fellowship Exhibition, February 15-March 3, 2022, Cooper Union, NYC
Elias Dills AR’24 | Group Exhibition | 2021 Menschel Fellowship Exhibition, February 15-March 3, 2022, Cooper Union, NYC
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Open Calls & Opportunities |
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CALL FOR ENTRIES
Lyceum Travel Fellowship: Underland invites students to design a boundary between the present day suburban condition of San Antonio, TX and the “deep time” of the Pleistocene epoch Friesenhahn Cave site. Deadline: May 26
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Architectural League of New York: New City Critics invites applications for the inaugural cohost of New City Critics - a fellowship program to empower new, fearless, and diverse voices to challenge the ways we design, plan and develop cities. Deadline: March 23
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
AZUKO: Designing with dignity invites course participant applications for a workshop on site in Rangpur Division, Blangladesh on participatory design, construction, group work and facilitation. Information Session: March 17
DEADLINES APPROACHING
CALL FOR ENTRIES
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2022-23 Visiting Professorships The Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture invites early to mid-career practitioners, scholars, and studio educators to apply for the Ann Kalla Professorship in Architecture and the Joseph F. Thomas Visiting Professorhip. Deadline: February 14, 2022
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The Marker Design Challenge is a dedicated recognition of women in architecture in which participants are prompted to design a physical marker that will be placed next to a structure designed by a woman anywhere in the world. Deadline: March 30
CALL FOR REGISTRANTS
International VELUX Award invites students of architecture to explore the role of daylight and sunlight as sources of energy in architecture and inspire new thinking. Deadline: April 15, 2022
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CALL FOR ENTRIES
MICROHOME - Small living, huge impact is an ideas competition open to students and professionals that prompts participants to design a new concept of small-scale architecture. Deadline: April 19
CALL FOR ENTRIES
Iceland Volcano Coffee Shop is a project competition that prompts participants to design a coffee shop at the base of an Icelandic volcano. Deadline: April 20
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Caramel Shore Traveller Rooms is a project competition open to all that prompts participants to design eco-friendly cabins in Europe’s greenest country. Deadline: April 20
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CALL FOR ENTRIES
Lyceum Fellowship 2022 Competition: UNDERLAND challenges students to create a solution for the Friesenhahn Cave site, an important paleontological site outside of San Antonio and managed by Concordia University in Austin, Texas. Deadline: May 26, 2022
CALL FOR APPLICANTS
Interior Design Instructor Position Texas Christian University invites any qualified recent architecture graduates to join the Department of Design to prepare the next generation of creative leaders in the arts. Deadline: Open until filled
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FREE GROCERIES
The College Student Pantry welcomes all college students in need of groceries. 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
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