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VISITING LECTURE
Zhu Pei: Architecture of Nature, an experimental approach
Tuesday, March 22
3rd Floor Lobby and Zoom | 6:30 PM
In this lecture Zhu Pei will focus on one project, The Imperial Kiln Museum, in order to represent his design philosophy. Pei will cover his approach to contemporary architecture through the lens of ecological and cultural sustainability based on ancient Chinese Nature Philosophy. Rooted in a traditional cultural background and inspired by the rich material traditions of China, Pei's design philosophy and work generates 'material' propositions across different tectonic terrains. The lecture will touch on the breadth of his work by presenting images from various other projects.
The lecture and discussion following it will be introduced and moderated by Nader Tehrani.
Zhu Pei founded Studio Zhu Pei in Beijing in 2005, and from there he has produced an extraordinary corpus of cultural works that have made him one of the leading figures of his generation.
His works have been exhibited at world important museums such as MoMA, Venice Biennial, GA Gallery, Centre Pompidou, Victoria and Albert Museum, Kassel, Dresden State Art Museum, Sao Paulo Art Biennial, the solo exhibition at Aedes, Harvard University, Rome MAXXI Museum and so on. His works have been collected by MoMA, Pompidou Art Center, the Victoria and Albert Museum and M+.
The in-person lecture is open to Cooper Union students, faculty, and staff in the 3rd Floor Lobby. This event is accessible to the public through Zoom only. Zoom account registration is required, please register in advance here.
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ROUNDTABLE
Under Pressure: Urban Housing and Other Hybrids
Wednesday, March 23
Zoom | 6:00 PM
This roundtable discussion curated by Hina Jamelle and Daisy Ames. The invited speakers include Brian Phillips, Scott Erdy, Laia Mogas-Soldevila, and Nader Tehrani who are contributors to Under Pressure, a book edited by Hina Jamelle about instigation and design in urban housing. This book gathers and contextualizes relevant conversations in urban housing unfolding today across architecture through four topics: Learning from History, Changing Domesticities, Housing Finance and Policy, and Design and Material Innovation. The result is a multi-disciplinary amalgam of research and design intelligence from thought leaders in the fields of architecture, real estate, economics, policy, material design, and finance. The discussion will be moderated by Daisy Ames, coordinator of the Housing Studio sequence at The Cooper Union Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, and speakers will engage in the themes of this year’s studio design prompts of hybridity and invisibility.
This event will be conducted through Zoom. Zoom account registration is required, please register in advance here.
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ARCHLOG
JA Architecture Studio Named an Emerging Voice by the League
Posted: Thursday, March 10
JA Architecture Studio—founded by Iranian-Canadian architects Nima Javidi and Behnaz Assadi—has been selected by The Architectural League of New York for its 2022 Emerging Voices competition and lecture series. Javidi is currently The Cooper Union’s Gwathmey Professor in Architecture; Assadi is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design.
Being named an Emerging Voice by The Architectural League is one of the most coveted awards in North American architecture. Since 1982, the program has identified more than 300 awardees who have since developed influential careers. Paul Lewis, an Emerging Voices jury member and president of The Architectural League, describes the work of the 2022 winners, noting:
“In our initial review of the applications for this year’s Emerging Voices, the jury was struck by the breadth of the different types of work. But, rather than indicating a fracturing of our discipline, this year’s winners were united in how they each clarified new types of agency, and new notions of value motivated by an optimism about what an architect could and should do.”
Image Credit: Bauhaus Museum Dessau, 2014. Dessau, Germany. 4th Prize, Bauhaus Museum Competition.
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EXHIBITION RECEPTION
Ezra Stoller: Photographs of Architecture
Tuesday, March 29
Third Floor Hallway Gallery and Lobby | 6:30PM
Please join the School of Architecture for an exhibition reception to celebrate the gift of ten photographs by the architectural photographer Ezra Stoller from Peter Katz A’76, as well as the gift of six additional photographs by Stoller’s daughter, Erica Stoller. This body of images—which reprises an exhibition of Stoller’s work held at the Max Protetch Gallery from late 1980 to early 1981—is now part of the permanent collection of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Archive.
The reception will include remarks by Nader Tehrani, Dean; Steven Hillyer, Director of the School of Architecture Archive; and Peter Katz.
This reception is open to current Cooper Union students, faculty, staff.
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BOOK LAUNCH
Thesis 2018 - 2021
Wednesday, March 30
Third Floor Lobby | 6:30 PM
Please join the School of Architecture for the launch of four recent Thesis publications, from 2018 – 2021. These books, which celebrate undergraduate Thesis projects completed by graduating Cooper Union students, are part of an eight-year tradition dating back to 2014. Each year since then a group of student editors has collaborated with Thesis faculty and the Architecture Archive to create a lasting document of their final, pre-professional, individually initiated design studio work. The last four publications present projects by seventy-nine students working under the guidance of twelve faculty members and thirty-six Thesis advisors. Three of these books were completed remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This event will be open to 2018 – 2021 School of Architecture graduates as well as current Cooper Union students, faculty, and staff.
Image: Cue the Confetti—Parade for a Theatrical City, Yu Kiu Chan. Spread from Thesis 2018.
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EXHIBITION
Ezra Stoller: Photographs of Architecture
On View Tuesday, March 8 through Thursday, March 31
Third Floor Hallway Gallery
This exhibition presents a series of Ezra Stoller photographs generously donated to the School of Architecture in 2020 by Peter Katz A’76. These images—ten in total—were originally included in Ezra Stoller: Photographs of Architecture, 1939 – 1980, an exhibition of sixteen photographs held in 1981 at Max Protetch Gallery. Ezra’s daughter, Erica Stoller, graciously donated three additional prints shown at Protetch to complement Katz’s gift.
For this installation, Stoller’s photographs are accompanied by drawings and images—many selected from the Architecture Archive’s Blueprint Collection—contextualizing the projects they depict. Following the exhibition, the photographs will remain on view in the Foundation Building as a pedagogical reference for students, faculty, and visitors.
This exhibition is open to current Cooper Union students, faculty, and staff.
Image Credit: TWA Terminal, John F. Kennedy International Airport (detail). Ezra Stoller, 1962.
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EXHIBITION
Lyrical Urbanism: The Taipei Music Center
On View Wednesday, April 6 through Friday, April 29
Third Floor Hallway Gallery
Lyrical Urbanism: The Taipei Music Center celebrates and communicates the vibrant energy and intensity of the recently completed Taipei Music Center that was designed by architects and Cooper alumni Jesse Reiser AR’81 and Nanako Umemoto AR’83 of Reiser+Umemoto, RUR Architecture. The exhibition introduces the complex’s iconic architecture to an American audience through large-scale photographs, videos, music, and architectural models and drawings. Lyrical Urbanism illustrates the many ways the Music Center is currently inhabited—from informal daytime outdoor markets to organized evening-time music festivals—and how it has become an important urban district where Taiwanese music and culture is cultivated, celebrated, and projected toward a global audience.
In conjunction with the exhibition, a lecture, panel discussion, and musical performance will be held in Cooper Union’s Great Hall at 6:30 pm on April 6, 2022. Details to follow.
This exhibition is free and open to the public.
Image: Taipei Music Center. Reiser+Umemoto, RUR Architecture. Yana Zhezhela & Alek Vatagin, photographers.
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EXHIBITION
Conceiving the Plan: Nuance and Intimacy in the Construction of Civic Space
On View Thursday, April 7 through Friday, April 29
Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery
In Honor of Diane Lewis (1951 –2017)
First exhibited as part of the Italian Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia October 8 – November 21, 2021
In a series of post-2020 civic architecture projects for different sites, Conceiving the Plan inaugurates a dialogue with the legacy of the late architect and longtime Cooper Union Professor Diane Lewis AR’76. It asks the following questions: How can civic spaces be imbued with nuance? In what ways does such a quality persist in the city? Can one discuss intimacy in architectural terms? In her built and unbuilt works, teaching, and writing, Diane Lewis upheld the capacity of architecture to profoundly and intimately embody our collective life. For Lewis, the city was not only the result of a great number of inextricable historical strata of form and memory, it was also a proposition about a moral and ethical life together. She approached the city as a mental universe all its own, greater than the sum of its individual architectures. Her unique presence—her unmistakable voice—is among the most characteristic distillations of the architectural “message” of The Cooper Union from the 1970s to the mid-2010s.
This exhibition is free and open to the public.
Image: Trading, Tracing, and Telling Stories: The Alchemies of Exchange - Catherine Ann Somerville Venart.
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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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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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The Cooper Union (Julian Palacio, Arch fac and Melody Baglione, David Wootton, Cosmas Tzavelis, all Eng fac) | Award Finalist | 2022 Solar Decathlon Design Challenge, Multifamily Building Category
Thomas Phifer, Arch fac | Article | "Eskenazi School built using Mies van der Rohe's rediscovered 1952 design, opens at Indiana University," METALOCUS, February 23, 2022
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Esther Choi, Arch fac | Panelist | Book Launch: Formulations, Center for Architecture, New York, Saturday, March 26, 2022 at 12PM in-person and through Vimeo
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Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Elizabeth Diller, AR'79, Ricardo Scofidio, AR'55/Arch fac emeritus) | Featured | “Transparency Links Town and Gown at Columbia’s New Business School," ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, March 2, 2022 | Article | "DS+R completes Columbia Business School at University’s New Manhattanville Campus," METALOCUS, February 28, 2022
Shigeru Ban AR’84 | Article | "shigeru ban is designing a zen wellness center for awaji island in japan," DESIGN BOOM, February 25, 2022
Elizabeth Graziolo AR’95 | Featured | "10 Black Women Changing the Architecture and Design Space," ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST, February 28, 2022
Sotirios Corp. (Sotirios Kotoulas AR’03, principal) | 2021 Award Winner | Copper Development Association Inc.
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Oskar Arnorsson AR’08 | Featured | "DS+R completes Columbia Business School at University’s New Manhattanville Campus," METALOCUS, February 28, 2022
Emily Vo Nguyen AR’11 | Featured | "DS+R completes Columbia Business School at University’s New Manhattanville Campus," METALOCUS, February 28, 2022
Arta Perezic AR’15 | Group Exhibition | "A Section of Now: Social Norms and Rituals as Sites for Architectural Intervention," CCA: Canadian Centre for Architecture, November 13, 2021-May 1, 2022, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
The Cooper Union (Kai Huang AR’22, Pei-Ju Lin MAR’22, Chia-Wei Hung MAR’22, Ru Jia AR’24, Minghao Du AR’23) | Award Finalist | 2022 Solar Decathlon Design Challenge, Multifamily Building Category
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Open Calls & Opportunities |
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Urban Ocean Lab 2022-23 Research Fellows is open to undergraduate and graduate students and committed to rigorous, creative and equitable research for the future of climate policy and coastal cities. Deadline: April 1
CALL FOR ENTRIES
NYCxDESIGN Awards invites product design entries including but not limited to accessories, architectural products, fabric, furniture, kitchen & bath, lighting and wall coverings from graduate and undergraduate students in an accredited design program in NYC. Deadline: April 7
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
MIT Press | Thresholds 51 Journal: Heat is particularly invested in alternative architectural and aesthetic mobilizations of heat — in the contestation of thermal violence, in the activation of ritual, or in the warmth of community, desire, and lust. Deadline: June 1
DEADLINES APPROACHING
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
CALL FOR APPLICANTS
Full Time Architecture Teacher The Dalton Visual Arts Department seeks a dynamic and collaborative teacher (full or part time) beginning in late August 22. Deadline: Rolling
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
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 APPLICANTS
ONGOING
CALL FOR ENTRIES
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 APPLICATIONS
The 2030 Fund provides student loan debt relief and licensure support for aspiring BIPOC architects pursuing licensure. Deadline: April 1
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
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
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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CALL FOR ENTRIES
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
OPEN CALL
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
CALL FOR ENTRIES
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
CALL FOR APPLICANTS
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
CALL FOR APPLICANTS
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