ELEANORE PETTERSEN LECTURE
Lesley Lokko + Sumayya Vally, Counterparts: This Fragile Condition

Tuesday, March 30
Zoom | 12:00 Noon

Counterparts presents a dialogue that has been developing between Lesley Lokko and Sumayya Vally for the last six years. It is an event full of ‘betweens’ - between a performance and a presentation; between women; between generations; between disciplines; between time and territory; between talking and telling; between teaching and testing; between words and images, thoughts and things. In short, Counterparts are betwixt and between.

The event will be introduced and moderated by Nader Tehrani. The initial discussion, which will last approximately 45 minutes, will take the form of a dialogue between Lesley Lokko and Sumayya Vally and touch upon race, gender, identity, difference and diaspora and their vexed relationship to architectural canon. The conversation will be joined by Nader Tehrani who will moderate questions from the audience.

The Eleanore Pettersen Lecture Series
The Eleanore Pettersen Lecture, established through a generous gift to The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, is dedicated to the voices of women in architecture as a lasting tribute to Ms. Pettersen's significant impact in the world of architecture and her love of The Cooper Union. Pettersen, who had worked as an apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright and would later design the post-White House home of Richard M. Nixon, was one of the first women to be licensed as an architect in New Jersey, and developed a successful practice there that spanned over fifty years.

This event is co-presented by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture and The Architectural League of New York. 

This event is free and accessible to the public through Zoom. Please register in advance here.
ARCHLOG
Ja Architecture Studio Receives P/A Award

Posted Thursday, March 25

Ja Architecture Studio, a Toronto-based practice established by Visiting Professor Nima Javidi and Behnaz Assadi, has received a Progressive Architecture Award for Wardell, a recently completed residential addition on Wardell street in Toronto.

P/A jurors embraced the project, noting of its approach that the “steel-and-wood-framed addition allows the architects maximum flexibility in their willful form-making. At the same time, their decision to clad every exterior surface in brick allows the bold shape to play well with its more prosaic neighbors. The simple, straightforward design on a tricky site is both evocative and poetic, transforming an ordinary material typical of the neighborhood into something memorable both inside and out."

In December 2020, Wardell also received an Award of Excellence from Canadian Architect. A juror there described the project as “a little jewel in the middle of the city[.]”
IN CONVERSATION
Michael Young + Bryan Young: Sheets, Decks, Levels

Friday, April 2
Zoom | 12:00 Noon

Michael Young and Bryan Young are brothers and also architects, teachers, sons-of-teachers, music lovers, products of 1980s southern California suburbia, post-punk, rock collectors, of skateboards, of sometimes high-scores, or forts and other things that they will be discussing.

Michael is an assistant professor at the School of Architecture. He is a founding partner of Young & Ayata. Bryan is an assistant professor adjunct at the School of Architecture. He is the founder of Young projects.

The In Conversation Lecture Series is predicated on the need for discourse that involves faculty, students, and the greater community, alike. Short presentations will be given by the invited faculty in response to the lecture topic, and will be followed by a student-moderated Q&A.

This event is free and accessible to the public through Zoom. Please register in advance here.
VISITING LECTURE
Tei Carpenter: Lively Things

Tuesday, April 6
Zoom | 6:30 PM

The lecture will discuss Tei Carpenter / Agency—Agency’s recent work that explores the life of materials, infrastructures and designed elements within larger environmental transformations and within the everyday.

This event will be moderated by Daisy Ames.

Tei Carpenter is an architectural designer, educator and founder of Agency—Agency, an award-winning New York City and Toronto-based architecture and design studio. The practice works on projects at a variety of scales including buildings, infrastructures, objects, and environments. She is Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto where she teaches design studios and seminars.

This event is free and accessible to the public through Zoom. Please register in advance here.
CURRENT WORK
Lionel Devlieger: Rotor - Reverse Architecture

Thursday, April 15
Zoom | 1:00 PM

Brussels-based Rotor was founded in 2006 as a research and design practice that “investigates the organization of the material environment.” In 2016, the firm launched Rotor Deconstruction, a cooperative that organizes the reuse of construction materials through the dismantling, processing, and trading of salvaged building components. 

Rotor cofounder Lionel Devlieger is a researcher, designer, educator, and exhibition maker. His work focuses on the material implications of contemporary culture, especially in the realm of architecture. Devlieger has taught architecture at UC Berkeley, TU Delft, Columbia University, and London’s AA School. He has curated and designed, with Rotor, exhibitions on architecture and material culture, and in 2018 coauthored Deconstruction et reemploi, a reference textbook on building component reuse.

The lecture will be followed by a conversation and Q&A moderated by Paul Lewis, partner at LTL Architects, professor and associate dean at Princeton University School of Architecture, and president of The Architectural League of New York.

This lecture has been approved to offer 1.5 AIA and New York State CEUs. 

This event is organized by The Architectural League of New York and co-presented with The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union.

This event is free and accessible to the public. You may register here.
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.
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.

Please direct all questions and concerns to architecture.summer@cooper.edu.
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.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Coronavirus Response

For campus-wide COVID-19 updates and resources, please visit The Cooper Union's website.
Faculty News
Nader Tehrani, Arch dean/fac | Article | ”New Green Line Stops Bring New Public Art to Medford, Somerville, and Cambridge," STREETS BLOG MASS, March 8, 2021 | Jury Leader | AIA Florida/Caribbean Region 2021 Design Awards

Hayley Eber, AR’01/Arch assoc dean/fac | Juror | AIA Florida/Caribbean Region 2021 Design Awards
Diana Agrest, Arch fac | Article | “The Hype of Representation: Some Thoughts on the Roles of the Hyperreal and the Hyperobject in Contemporary Landscape Architecture,” Richard Weller, ri-vista, Digital Semi-Annual Scientific Journal, University of Florence, Figures 5-6, pp.37-38

Elisa Iturbe, Arch fac | Juror | AIA Florida/Caribbean Region 2021 Design Awards
Alumni News
Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Elizabeth Diller, AR’79, Ricardo Scofidio, AR’55/Arch fac emeritus) | Featured | "10 New Books Pushing the Boundaries of Design," AZURE magazine, March 5, 2021

Daniel Libeskind, AR’70 | Article | "Daniel Libeskind plans for Hampstead Maggie’s Centre approved," ARCHITECTS' JOURNAL, February 22, 2021

Suzanne DiGeronimo, AR’73 | Featured | "AIA New Jersey Celebrates our Female Fellows: Suzanne DiGeronimo, FAIA," AIA NEW JERSEY, March 12, 2021

Peggy Deamer, AR’77 | Lecture | Pratt SoA Provocations: Peggy Deamer, Quardean Lewis-Allen, Jess Myers and Amelyn Ng: Labor and Creative Justice, Pratt School of Architecture, March 30, 2021, Zoom | Featured | “10 New Books Pushing the Boundaries of Design," AZURE magazine, March 5, 2021

Elizabeth Diller, AR’79 | Featured | "10 Architecture Studios Led by Women [VIII]," METALOCUS, March 8, 2021
David Wallance, AR’80 | Fellow | 2021 New Fellows Celebration, Center for Architecture, March 24, 2021, webinar

Maurice Cox, AR’83 | Co-author | "A Civil Society," HARVARD DESIGN MAGAZINE: AMERICA, No. 48, S/S 2021

David Heymann, AR’84 | Article | "Model Home," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, March 12, 2021

Francois de Menil, AR’87 | Conversation | Book Talk – “Making Houston Modern: Howard Barnstone’s Life and Architecture,” Center for Architecture, March 30, 2021, virtual

John Lin, AR’02 | Article | "John Lin joins the judging panel for the 2021 AR New into Old awards," THE ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, March 12, 2021

Michael Morris, AR’89 | Speaker | The 3rd AIAA LA-LV Space Architecture Gathering (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Los Angeles-Las Vegas), March 27, 2021, online
Open Calls & Opportunities
NEW

CALL FOR APPLICANTS
Chair of Undergraduate Architecture Pratt Institute seeks outstanding candidates to lead their undergraduate program. Deadline: Rolling starting April 15

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Harvard Design Press seeks book proposals from researchers, practitioners, theorists, historians, and critics, among others. Deadline: Rolling

DEADLINES APPROACHING

GRANT OPPORTUNITY
NYC X DESIGN: The Breakout Grant promotes entrepreneurship in design to turn great ideas into reality. Deadline: March 26

RESIDENCY SCHOLARSHIPS
2021 Virtual Summer Architecture Residency is a 25-day intensive studio that challenges participants to think and design critically. Of the residents selected for the program, some will be awarded grants which waive tuition fees. Deadline: March 28

OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
PLOT Volume 10: X, an award-winning annual journal produced by the Master of Landscape Architecture students of the Spitzer School of Architecture, invites submissions from anyone with any take on its theme: X. Deadline: April 1

GRANT OPPORTUNITY
ACSF: Lindsay Jones Memorial Research Fund supports research on the meaning and significance of the built environment. Deadline: April 1

CALL FOR INTERNS
Architecture Unit of the Port Authority of NY&NJ is seeking an architecture and a landscape architecture intern to join their staff. Deadline: April 9

ONGOING 

CALL FOR CANDIDATES 
Technology | Architecture + Design (TAD) Journal is seeking candidates to join the journal’s Editorial Board. Candidates should have a record of peer-reviewed publication in architecture or affiliated disciplines. Deadline: April 4

STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION
Bauhaus Campus 2021 calls for student participation in re-thinking an educational space where the status quo of architecture can be challenged. Deadline: April 4

CALL FOR ENTRIES
AIANY Reset: Torwards a New Commons invites projects that envision new dynamics of living and community that challenge urban trends towards ever-increasing isolation. Deadline: April 7

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. Deadline: April 8

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The Bricsys Stay Connected Student Challenge invites designs that help people stay connected without touch. Deadline: April 16

CALL FOR STUDENT ATTENDEES 
Waterfront Conference invites students to an exciting learning and networking opportunity at the region's premier forum for discourse about our waterfront and waterways. For admission, fill out this short application. Deadline: April 16

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

AWARD COMPETITION
Silk Matters: Architecture Affiliate Awards 2021 aims to promote the affiliated career opportunities for architects who want to do more than architecture, and recognize the many talents acquired in doing so. Registration Deadline: April 30
STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION
LYCEUM Fellowship: Reimagining the Visitor's Experience - The Ames Estate asks students to design an event pavilion. Deadline: May 14

STUDENT AWARD COMPETITION
THE PLAN AWARD: Architects of Tomorrow Special Contest has opened a special category welcoming student submissions. Deadline: May 31

AWARD COMPETITION
THE PLAN AWARD 2021 invites professionals to submit projects in multiple categories. Deadline: May 31 

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
FST StudioProjects Fund helps defray the costs of studio rents for artists in New York City. Deadline: June 1 

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 
Special Issue, Environmental Futures: Creative Explorations Through Science, Engineering, Design, and Art invites papers focusing on knowledge beyond disciplinary boundaries. Deadline: October 31

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 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 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
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

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.