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MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN
Postcript, 2020: The Present Moment Seen Through an Autobiographic Lens
Posted Saturday, May 30
Dear Fellow Members of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture:
The final reviews are over, grading is done, and graduation is now concluded . With the formality of official narratives behind us, it has also given us a moment to sleep, catch up, think and confront the world in which we live. This morning, I woke up to the melodic tunes of Us3’s “You Can’t Hold me Down,” and despite the urge to get up and groove, I felt the weight of its lyrics “….ain’t gonna be pushed around” on top of me, and poignant to a collective sentiment recognizing the life of George Floyd—now lost. There is something deeply historic about the moment we are living today.
The song transported me to a telling moment in my childhood, from 1970 to 1974, when I lived in South Africa. Still in the Apartheid era, I had the fortune to be jolted from the familiar state of consciousness that children are usually buffered by and allowed to peer into a world that in all its inequity, was also protected by the laws and conventions that come with state-sponsored agendas. On a family trip from Johannesburg to Maseru, I recollect our first journey through the countryside, as my parents would have us sing along to West Side Story’s “I want to Live in America” with an innocent optimism, at that time not knowing in any way that my destiny would, in fact, bring us to this America. That period was by no means the end of Apartheid, but even at the age of seven, I was witness to the first signs of its waning moments. No, there were no official proclamations. The signs were somehow encrypted in everyday practices of the very people that were part of the fabric of our daily lives: the abrupt departure of close friends, the divestment in key businesses, and the suppressed murmur of Nelson Mandela’s voice as it found its way from his prison cell into the streets.
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VIRTUAL EXHIBITION
End of Year Show 2020
Opens Wednesday, June 17 at 5:00 PM
While the academic year has ended with everyone finishing their work remotely and a celebration of the school’s graduates via a Zoom commencement ceremony, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture will continue its year-end tradition by mounting a virtual End of Year Show!
In a highly collaborative effort, Architecture faculty, students and staff are developing a virtual exhibition using Unreal Engine gaming technology to visualize and simulate the Foundation Building, allowing visitors to traverse its spaces and explore student work in a digital environment.
The End of Year Show includes work from across all five years of undergraduate design studios, from first year foundational Architectonics through Thesis, as well as work from the Master of Science in Architecture program, seminars, and other non-design studio courses.
The show will open on Wednesday, June 17 at 5 pm. Please check back here in the coming days for a link to the virtual exhibition site.
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SUMMER PROGRAM
Introduction to Architecture Online: Information Session Video
Posted Wednesday, May 20
In light of the recent spread of COVID-19 in New York City, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union is proud to announce our upcoming summer intensive program that features a new virtual curriculum accessible to 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 engagements, 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.
Watch the recording of our public Live Information Session
to see an overview of the program's curriculum, pedagogy, and focus for this year. The video features examples of former participants' work and presentations by program faculty including Prof. Mersiha Veledar and Prof. James Lowder, followed by a live Q & A session with Assistant Dean Hayley Eber.
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VIRTUAL EXHIBITION
An Ideal View: City Plans Without Cities
Monday, May 4 through Sunday, June 21
Web based
“They would reconstruct society on an imaginary plan, much like the astronomers for their own calculation would make over the system of the universe.”
–Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, on the utopian socialists
The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Archive is pleased to present a selection of city plans from its collection of over 10,000 4” x 5” lantern slides. The collection, which was donated to the Archive by Cooper Union’s Library in 1987, was formerly used to teach History of Architecture and Town Planning. It documents historical sites, architecture, painting, sculpture, manuscripts, city planning, drawings, jewelry, and mosaics from ancient history through the 20th century. This plans in this exhibition—
now presented online
—were originally curated by Patrick McElnea and presented in 2013 as a series of prints in the School’s 3rd floor hallway gallery.
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VIRTUAL EXHIBITION
One-to-One | 1:1, Online Exhibition
Closing Sunday, June 14
Web based
One to One | 1:1 is a literal and conceptual parallel between Ja Architecture Studio's space in Toronto and the School of Architecture’s hallway gallery. It is the one-to-one unrolling of the walls of our studio space in Toronto including all of the works (models, drawings, and details) and their placement onto the walls of Cooper hallway gallery. The parallel overlay of two different physical spaces, both operating as more than just an exhibition space, becomes an effort to transpose the life of a practice onto that of a school and vice versa.
One to One | 1:1 opened in the 3rd floor hallway of the Foundation Building on February 23 2020, and was scheduled to run through mid-March. Because public access to the physical exhibition was cut short, this
online exhibition
re-presents the work through photographs by Maeve FitzHoward paired with the text panels and captions featured in the original presentation.
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SENIOR SNAPSHOTS
Architecture 2020
Posted Monday, May 11
Jeremy Son, Kayla Montes de Oca, and Helmuth Rosales, all fifth-year students in The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, took the time to speak with us as they prepared for their thesis presentations held on May 5 and 6. Working from their homes in Brooklyn—Kayla and Helmuth in Bushwick, Jeremy in Bensonhurst—all of them had chosen thesis projects that explored the impact of movement and time on materials and, especially in the case of Kayla’s project, on the human body.
The three classmates agreed that the review experience, despite being virtual, was a fulfilling one, with Jeremy adding that "it was very productive and celebratory. Very glad to have a great jury, with professors that guided me through the past five years in different studios and on other occasions.”
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ARCHLOG
Anders Abraham - In Memoriam
Posted Tuesday, May 19
by Anne Romme and David Gersten
Anders Abraham, AR’91 and faculty member from 2000-03, died on May 1, 2020 after a long period of illness.
There are certain figures, who through their life and work, create a new horizon, re-imagine and re-articulate the aspirations of a discipline and, in doing so, become the hope of a generation. Anders Abraham is just such a figure; he set the bar for all of us through his deep intellect, ethos of precision, exploratory mind and generosity of spirit.
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ARCHLOG
One, Two, Few - Architectonics Final Reviews
Posted Monday, May 4
On Thursday, April 30th the first year Architectonics studio held the School of Architecture’s first final review of the spring semester, led by Professors Ted Baab, Nima Javidi, and Tamar Zinguer. Review guests included Michael Abel, Behnaz Assadi, Ben Aranda, Zach Cohen, Nile Greenberg, James Lowder, Elizabeth O'Donnell, Julian Palacio, Nader Tehrani, and Mersiha Veledar.
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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
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Article
| “Carie Penabad: Architecture and the Great Confinement,” ARCHITECT MAGAZINE, May 27, 2020 |
Speaker
| OPENINGS: HOWELER + YOON, NADAAA, BSA (Boston Society of Architects, June 3, 2020 (virtual) |
Article
| “Architecture school leaders speak out in support of protests,” ARCHINECT, June 3, 2020
Lydia Kallipoliti, Arch fac
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Article
| “Bubble Problems; An archeology of infection and environmental control”, Strelka Magazine, June 8, 2020 |
Exhibition
| “HouseWorld” with Xiaoxiao Zhao, Earth Day Architectural Association |
Interview
| “L’architecte interpellé par la pandémie”, ICI Radio Canada, May 24, 2020
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Peter Eisenman, Arch fac
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Jury Member
| “the HOME competition 2020”, Arch Out Loud, June 1
Florian Idenburg, Arch fac
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Jury Member
| “the HOME competition 2020”, Arch Out Loud, June 1
Tulay Atak, Arch fac
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Presentation
| Urbanization and Scales of Architecture: Quaroni’s Project for Venice Mestre (1959), ARCH108 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: OPEN, June 15-19, 2020
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Frank Jacobus, AR ’98
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Presentation
| Advancing Sustainable Wood Design and Technologies through Interdisciplinary Collaboration, ACSA108 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: OPEN, June 15-19, 2020
Yael Erel, AR ’02
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Presentation
| Constructing Mystery, ACSA108 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: OPEN, June 15-19, 2020
Andrew Reed Tripp, AR ’02
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Presentation
| Architecture After Virtue (Inter)Disciplinarity of Ethical and Architectural Theory, ACSA108 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: OPEN, June 15-19, 2020
SITU Research (Basar Girit, Aleksey Lukyanov-Cherny, Brad Samuels, AR ’05)
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Article
| ”Nicaragua: Presentan nueva video-reconstrucción forense sobre las muertes de la Marcha de las Madres,” EQUIPO ARGENTINO DE ANTROPOLOGIA FORENSE, May 2020
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Harding Ostrow (Rosannah Harding, MAR ’14, Matt Ostrow, AR ’09)
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Article
| “Dramatic cantilevered bridge complete with elevated park wins AISC's 2020 Forge Prize,” ARCHINECT, May 26, 2020 |
Article
| “Visionary footbridge/elevated park concept wins AISC’s Forge Prize,” BUILDING DESIGN + CONSTRUCTION, May 26, 2020
Matt Ostrow, AR ’09
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Award
| “Visionary Footbridge/Elevated Park Concept Wins AISC’s Forge Prize, “ AISC, May 22, 2020
Rosannah Harding, MAR ’14
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Award
| “Visionary Footbridge/Elevated Park Concept Wins AISC’s Forge Prize, “ AISC, May 22, 2020
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Open Calls & Opportunities
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NEW
CALL FOR ENTRIES
Architecture Thesis of the Year | ATY 2020
is an international architecture thesis competition that aims to a platform to encourage the tireless efforts and exceptional creativity of students and their path-breaking ideas on a global scale. Deadline: July 31
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 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
DEADLINES APPROACHING
CALL FOR PAPERS
OPEN
Technology | Architecture + Design (TAD) invites submissions of original research from scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students for consideration in the upcoming OPEN issue. Deadline: June 15
CALL FOR CREATORS
Design Science Studio
is an educational incubator for art inspired by a regenerative future that works for 100% of life. Deadline: June 12
ONGOING
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
RADIO ART ARCHIVE FELLOWSHIP
wis a nine-month, part-time engagement for a radio artist and scholar living and working in the United States. Deadline: June 30
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
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CALL FOR APPLICANTS
The Ghost Residency
is a competitive 9-month internship for graduate architects offered by Mackay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects. Deadline: June 30
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
CALL FOR PAPERS
DESIGN AWARDS
The SARAs 2020
celebrate design excellence in architecture and design through an annual Awards Program which attracts entries from individuals, firms, and students from around the world. Deadline: July 15
CALL FOR ENTRIES
DISTANCE LEARNING DISCUSSIONS
COVID-19 RESOURCE KIT
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