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CONFERENCE
EDIBLE; Or, The Architecture of Metabolism
Friday, November 18
Peter Cooper Suite | 5:00 PM
EDIBLE is a conference bringing together participants of the 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennale to The Cooper Union in New York. Their encounter aims to generate a profound debate on the intersections of architecture, food systems, and regenerative design.
Organized by Lydia Kallipoliti, associate professor of architecture at The Cooper Union and co-curator of the 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennale, along with Areti Markopoulou, academic director of the Institute for Advanced Architecture in Catalonia (IAAC). It is kindly supported by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union.
Participants include Andrés Jaque (Office for Political Innovation and Dean of GSAPP, Columbia University), Hayley Eber AR'01 (Acting Dean of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union), Lola Ben-Alon (assistant professor of architecture at GSAPP, Columbia University, and director of the Natural Materials Lab), Sharon Yavo-Ayalon (adjunct assistant professor at Columbia GSAPP and postdoctoral associate at Cornell Tech), Andreas Theodoridis (Research Affiliate, Yale Center for Ecosystems Research and Principal of United Atmospheres), Sonia Ralston (assistant curator at the 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennale), Sanjana Lahiri AR'22 (architect), Mitchell Joachim (principal and co-founder of Terreform ONE, and associate professor of practice at NYU) and Caroline O’Donnell (Chair of the Department of Architecture at Cornell University).
For Zoom attendance, please register in advance here.
For In-Person attendance, please register in advance here.
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
CUAA Founder's Day Award Nominations
Online Form | Due by Monday, November 21
Please submit nominations for the 2023 Awards Ceremony beginning Monday, Oct 24 and ending Monday, Nov 21, 2022 at midnight ET.
Anyone can nominate Cooper alumni for an award. The person who submits the nomination does not have to be associated with the Cooper Union. All nominees are required to be alumni of the school that represents the award they are being nominated for. Alumni from the architecture school are eligible for the Hejduk award, engineering school for the Gano Dunn, art school for the Saint Gaudens award. Any alumna from the Cooper Union who has accomplished extraordinary public service, made a meaningful impact to society etc, is eligible for the The Peter Cooper Public Service Award.
The CUAA handbook and bylaws give a description of what each award is for and it is recommended that nominations adhere to each definition used in the current by-laws. Any nominations received once the nominations period closes, is saved and entered into the pool for the following year.
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CURRENT WORK
MASS: Seeking Abundance
Tuesday, November 29
The Great Hall | 7:00 PM
MASS (Model of Architecture Serving Society) Design Group was founded in 2008 as a nonprofit organization with the mission to research, design, build, and advocate for architecture that promotes justice and human dignity. With offices across the U.S. and headquarters in Boston and Kigali, Rwanda, the organization traverses geographic, typological, and disciplinary boundaries. Since its founding, MASS has grown to a team of over 200 architects, landscape architects, engineers, builders, furniture designers, writers, filmmakers, and researchers representing 20 countries across the globe.
The program will begin with a moderated conversation featuring eight of MASS’s project leaders: Jha D Amazi, Sierra Bainbridge, Christian Benimana, Jonathan Evans, Patricia Gruits, Jeffrey Mansfield, Jean Paul Sebuhayi Uwase, and Caitlin Taylor.
The conversation will be followed by an open Q&A with these 8 project leaders and an additional 14 of MASS’s principals, including Justin Brown, Regina Chen, Rosie Goldrick, Christopher Kroner, Anton Larsen, Ashley Marsh, Sarah Mohland, Julie Rhoad, Alan Ricks, David Saladik, Adam Saltzman, Amie Shao, Katie Swenson, and Peter Torrebiarte.
Tickets are free for Cooper Union students and faculty with valid ID, and League members. For ticket inquiries, please refer to The Architectural League of New York website.
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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 2022 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 fac | Speaker | SHIFT 2022 International Architecture Conference: Building Community, Doma Initiatives Berhad, November 18-19, 2022, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Peter Eisenman, Arch fac emeritus | Article | “Joseph Giovannini’s Architecture Unbound: A Century of the Disruptive Avant-Garde is a deeply researched paean to the architects who left Euclidian geometry behind,” THE ARCHITECT’S NEWSPAPER, November 7, 2022
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The Cooper Union | Review | “Concept as Form: ‘Model Behavior’ at The Cooper Union in New York,” ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, November 8, 2022
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Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Elizabeth Diller AR’79, Ricardo Scofidio AR’55/Arch fac emeritus) | Featured | ” KAARI UPSON at DESTE Foundation in ATHENS,”DSCENE, October 11, 2022 | Article | “Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Prior Performing Arts Center at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester puts the arts on top.” THE ARCHITECT’S NEWSPAPER, November 9, 2022
Daniel Libeskind AR’70 | Article | “Joseph Giovannini’s Architecture Unbound: A Century of the Disruptive Avant-Garde is a deeply researched paean to the architects who left Euclidian geometry behind,” THE ARCHITECT’S NEWSPAPER, November 7, 2022
Shigeru Ban AR’83 | Article | “Joseph Giovannini’s Architecture Unbound: A Century of the Disruptive Avant-Garde is a deeply researched paean to the architects who left Euclidian geometry behind,” THE ARCHITECT’S NEWSPAPER, November 7, 2022
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Sotirios Kotoulas AR’03 | Featured | ” KAARI UPSON at DESTE Foundation in ATHENS,”DSCENE, October 11, 2022 | Group Exhibition | Occupied + Absent: The Jacob H. Strauss '22 Memorial Exhibition, Dartmouth School of Art, June 28-November 13, 2022, Hanover, NH
Dorit Aviv AR’09 | Featured | “2022 ACADIA conference, Hybrids & Haecceities, covers extra-disciplinary collaboration, the importance of tiny things, and the ethics of artificial intelligence,” THE ARCHITECT’S NEWSPAPER, November 11, 2022
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Open Calls & Opportunities |
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Preservation League Scholarship provides an award of $2,500 to 3 NY State students in the fields of historic preservation, architecture, engineering and related fields. Deadline: February 15
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Wortham Fellowship Program gives promising and outstanding candidates the opportunity to teach and conduct research. Deadline: March 10
ROUNDTABLE
DEADLINES APPROACHING
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HERITAGES: Past and Present — Built and Social will consider shifts in how we define heritage — as both material objects and social traditions — from the perspectives of art, architecture, cultural theorists and social historians. Deadline: November 25
ONGOING
CALL FOR APPLICANTS
The Larry Lederman Photography Fellowship The NYBG Humanities Institute cordially invites applicants for a nine-month fellowship awarded to an outstanding photographer whose work focuses on gardens or landscapes. Deadline: December 31
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Future Anterior Journal is a peer-reviewed journal that approaches the field of historic preservation from a position of critical inquiry. Deadline: January 31
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CALL FOR WRITING
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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ACSA seeks a Staff Editor to join their team and sheperd journals and books through peer review, production, and publication stages. Deadline: Ongoing
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.
SUBSCRIPTION PROMOTION
Azure Magazine is offering a 58% discount for students and faculty for their 2022 magazine subscription.
CALL FOR ALLIES
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
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