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ARCHITECTURES OF TRANSITION
Tatiana Bilbao: Domestic Imaginaries — Platforms for Social Change
Tuesday, September 20
315F and Zoom | 6:30 PM
In this lecture Tatiana Bilbao will speak on her exploration, experimentation and research focusing on domestic environments as they relate to her vision and pedagogy. Bilbao will present examples of her theories applied to various projects.
The presentation will be followed by a conversation moderated by Elisa Iturbe.
Tatiana Bilbao began her eponymous studio in 2004 with the aim of integrating social values, collaboration and sensitive design approaches to architectural work. The work of the office intersects with research allowing to design for diverse circumstances and in reconstruction or crisis scenarios. Prior to founding her firm, Bilbao was an Advisor in the Ministry of Development and Housing of the Government of the Federal District of Mexico City, during this period she was part of the General Development Directorate of the Advisory Council for Urban Development in the City.
Bilbao holds a recurring teaching position at Yale University School of Architecture and has taught at Harvard University GSD, AA Association in London, Columbia University GSAPP, Rice University, University of Andrés Bello in Chile, and Peter Behrens School of Arts at HS Dusseldorf in Germany. Her work has been published in The New York Times, A + U, Domus, among others.
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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COOPER x CLIMATE WEEK
Climate, Labor, and Policy
Monday, September 19
The Great Hal | 6:30 PM
Cooper Climate Coalition and The New Republic present a discussion on the climate crisis in recognition of Climate Week NYC. Join The New Republic contributing writer Liza Featherstone as she moderates a discussion with New York State Assemblymember Zohran Kwame Mamdani and Dr. Genevieve Guenther on climate justice, policy, labor, and more.
For In-Person attendance, please register in advance here.
The Cooper Climate Coalition, an open body of students, faculty, and staff at The Cooper Union, facilitates conversations, events, and student projects within the institution that center the Climate Crisis and its intersections with races, classes, genders, sexualities, histories, economies, political structures and more.
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
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COOPER x CLIMATE WEEK
If Walls Could Speak: Architect Moshe Safdie Shares His Life in Architecture
Wednesday, September 21
The Great Hall | 6:30 PM
Architect Moshe Safdie is joined by Sam Lubell, executive editor of Metropolis Magazine, for a conversation that charts Safdie’s over 50-year-career and his vision for the role architecture can and should play in society at large. The event celebrates the debut of Safdie’s memoir, If Walls Could Speak: My Life in Architecture. Rizzoli Bookstore will sell books at the event.
Safdie has built some of the world’s most influential and memorable structures—from Habitat ’67, the radical modular housing scheme in Montreal; Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Israel; the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas to extraordinary projects in Singapore such as the iconic integrated resort Marina Bay Sands and Jewel at Changi Airport which features an indoor rainforest and waterfall. For Safdie, the way a space functions is fundamental; he is deeply committed to architecture as a social force for good, believing that any challenge, including extreme population density and environmental distress, can be addressed with solutions that enhance community and uplift the human spirit.
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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ARCHLOG
Anders Abraham AR'91: 16-8
Posted: Thursday, September 16
This project—16-8: Various Things of Different Sizes–A Grid of (no) Ideas—by Anders Abraham AR'91 is drawn from At the Intersection of Ideas and Material Conditions, a Third Floor Hallway Gallery exhibition showcasing work by architects, researchers, and teachers at the Royal Danish Academy.
A gallery of images from Abraham's 16-8 project can be viewed here, and he described his project as follows:
"…by nature, the grid is abstract, and when, for example, Le Corbusier used it in the beginning of the twentieth century it implied a strong ideological positioning: the grid started in ideological opposition to the historical context. New technology originating from early industrial building systems created the floor plate-column construction which, throughout the twentieth century, became the most dominant construction form in the world. In the same period, city centers, in particular, developed with a high degree of complexity—becoming a new nature—with increasing levels of infrastructure, density, and heterogeneity.
Today the grid is no longer in distinct opposition to the historical—we experience the same buildings in Ørestaden, Tokyo, New York, and Beijing. In the rapidly growing city, urban space and building interiors are alike-but-different.
The grid creates a placelessness! The pure grid creates an ideal condition which deletes all local traces: spaces are so alike that the site is transformed from a specific locality to a non-place..."
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ARCHLOG
Motherboard: A Collective Territory
Posted: Thursday, September 16
The exhibition, currently on view in the Third Floor Hallway Gallery, is part of an ongoing dialogue between faculty and students of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture and the Institute of Architecture and Culture at the Royal Danish Academy.
The project, as described by Flarup and Mengel:
"The table: We gather around it; sharing meals, ideas and disagreements, playing games, making plans. It is a tool for civilizing human interaction. It is the most common object framing our daily routines and rituals, as well as a stage for starting wars and negotiating ceasefires. It is an architectural gesture, a construction lifting the ground, establishing a framed territory for social interaction.
Motherboard—a central point for connection and memory—is simultaneously a physical table and a scale model of the former seaplane hangar at Holmen in Copenhagen, which now houses 150 students of architecture. The spatial gesture of the hangar—its large, open, flexible space invites us to experiment with teaching formats and encourage a culture of collaborative practices. Motherboard is the beginning of a conversation about this shared territory. It is an object, a memory, and a place for making things—together..."
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NEWS
Hayley Eber Named Acting Dean
Posted: Wednesday, August 31
President Sparks has appointed Hayley Eber Acting Dean for the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, effective August 29, for the 2022-2023 academic year. Dean Eber has served as Associate Dean since 2019, an important leadership position within the School of Architecture. Hayley is principal of Studio Eber, an award-winning New-York based practice for architecture and design. She is a graduate of The Cooper Union and has been a member of the architecture faculty since 2007. Given these experiences, she is intimately familiar with life as a student and faculty member in the School of Architecture, the school’s pedagogy, and faculty governance.
Hayley’s leadership will shepherd the School of Architecture through this academic year as the Faculty Search Committee and President Sparks continue the search to name a leader with the vision and experience sought for this critical position.
Please extend your support and good wishes to Acting Dean Eber.
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EXHIBITION
At the Intersection of Ideas and Material Conditions
Tuesday, September 6 through Sunday, September 25
Third Floor Hallway Gallery
If architecture is conceived of as an art form, then it cannot just be a solution to a given problem but must examine fundamental questions within the discipline, across time and space. The work in this exhibition, located in the Third Floor Hallway Gallery, is situated at the intersection of ideas and material conditions of different times and building cultures. Historic architectures are always relevant to understanding contemporary architectural practice and offer critical distance from mainstream agendas. Artistic practice in architecture is not concerned with innovation but with the reinvention of problems.
This exhibition presents work by architects, researchers, and teachers at the Institute of Architecture and Culture at the Royal Danish Academy, a school with a long tradition of connecting artistic research and pedagogy. The work of its faculty is thus closely related to teaching—it explores the ambiguous relationship between method and artistic practice, and between teaching and learning. Artistic research produces work in its own right, but it also represents a pedagogical vehicle for establishing architecture as a discourse and a reflective practice. To that end, the work presented here raises methodological and pedagogical questions, and examines conditions for creative collaborations and communities. Its authors commit to the fundamental academic virtues of problematization and critique.
In conjunction with the exhibition, Anne Romme, an Associate Professor at the Institute of Architecture and Culture, will be on hand for Gallery Remarks on the evening of Tuesday, September 13 at 6:30 pm. For more details, please click here.
Open to students, faculty, and staff.
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BOOK LAUNCH
Todd Gannon: Figments of the Architectural Imagination
Tuesday, October 4
Cooper Union Library and Zoom | 12:00 Noon
Architect, critic, and historian Todd Gannon is joined by School of Architecture faculty Lydia Kallipoliti and Michael Young to discuss his collection of essays, Figments of the Architectural Imagination (AR+D, 2022).
Gathering twenty essays written over twenty years, Figments of the Architectural Imagination explores the frontiers of speculative architectural design, theory, and pedagogy to offer clear-eyed and incisive treatments of some of the most important projects, practices, and polemics at work making contemporary architecture contemporary.
Todd Gannon is professor of architecture at the Knowlton School at The Ohio State University. His books include Figments of the Architectural Imagination, Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech, The Light Construction Reader, A Confederacy of Heretics (co-edited with Ewan Branda), and monographs on Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Morphosis, Eric Owen Moss, Mack Scogin/Merrill Elam Architects, Bernard Tschumi, and UN Studio.
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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EXHIBITION
Model Behavior
Tuesday, October 4 through Friday, November 18
First Floor Colonnade and Lobby | Hours: Tuesday – Friday 2-7 PM, Saturday and Sunday 12-7 PM
The term “model behavior” is commonly used to describe good social skills. This exhibition, curated by the Anyone Corporation, turns that concept on its head to investigate how models themselves behave. Conceptual models, study models, section models, and presentation models are givens in the practice and production of architecture, but the role of the architectural model in projecting or eliciting social behavior is seldom considered. At a moment when models in other disciplines – such as climate change and COVID models – are clearly affecting social behavior, how do architectural models reflect those changes or contribute to changing behaviors? This exhibition provides an opportunity for individuals to rethink the potentials of the architectural model, both within the discipline and in its relationships to the myriad models that shape contemporary culture.
Exhibited in the colonnade and first floor of Cooper Union’s historic Foundation Building, Model Behavior features more than 60 works and objects by 44 artists and architects including artists Olafur Eliasson, Isamu Noguchi, Ekow Nimako, and Thomas Demand, and architects Peter Eisenman, Darell Wayne Fields, Greg Lynn, Forensic Architecture (Eyal Weizman), First Office (Anna Neimark and Andrew Atwood), MALL (Jennifer Bonner), Ensamble (Débora Mesa and Antón García-Abril), and Höweler and Yoon (Eric Höweler and Meejin Yoon), as well as School of Architecture graduates Stan Allen AR’81, David Gersten AR’91, Jürgen Mayer AR’91, Jesse Reiser AR’81, and Nanako Umemoto AR’83, and faculty member Michael Young.
In tandem with the exhibition, the School of Architecture will present two Great Hall lectures: by art historian Annabel J. Wharton on October 10 and by architect Kiel Moe on November 8. Details to follow.
Free and open to the public.
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EXHIBITION LECTURE
Annabel Wharton: Models as Ethical Agents
Monday, October 10
The Great Hall and Zoom | 6:30 PM
The claim argued in this lecture is that a model is an agent, like a chemical agent, that has effects on proximate things in the world. Because those effects can be good or bad, a model’s ethical behavior, like that of a human, should always be subject to judgment. The case is made on the basis of an investigation of model prisons.
Annabel Jane Wharton, William B. Hamilton Professor of Art History, Duke University, received her Ph.D. at the Courtauld Institute, London University. She has also taught as the Harry Porter Visiting Professor of Architectural History at the School of Architecture of the University of Virginia and as a Vincent Scully Visiting Professor of Architectural History at the Yale University School of Architecture. She has received fellowships from such institutions as Dumbarton Oaks, the ACLS, The Center for Advanced Study of the Visual Arts at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., and the National Humanities Center. Initially her research focused on Late Ancient and Byzantine art and culture. Works from her early career include Art of Empire (Penn State), Tokali Kilise (Dumbarton Oaks/Harvard); Refiguring the Post-Classical City (Cambridge). With Building the Cold War: Hilton International Hotels and Modern Architecture (Chicago), she began to investigate the effects of modernity on ancient landscapes. She combined her pre-Modern and Modern interests in Selling Jerusalem: Relics, Replicas, Theme Parks (Chicago) and Architectural Agents: The Delusional, Abusive, Addictive Lives of Buildings (Minnesota). She continues to investigate the agency of things in her recent book, Models and World Making (Virginia), and in her new project, tentatively titled Post-Mortem Architects: How Cadavers Make Space.
For Zoom attendance, please register in advance here.
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
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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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Lydia Kallipoliti, Arch fac | Feature | “TAB 2022: 'Edible; Or, The Architecture of Metabolism' | Interview with Lydia Kallipoliti and Areti Markopoulou, the curators of 6th Tallinn Architecture Biennale,” ARCHISEARCH, September 5, 2022
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James Lowder, Arch fac | Featured | ”Students Model South Asian Architecture at MoMA,” THE COOPER UNION, August 29, 2022
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Peggy Deamer AR’77 | Article | “Recent academic departures offer lessons about how architectural education should change,” THE ARCHITECT’S NEWSPAPER, September 8, 2022
Joshua Katz AR’88 | Committee Member | ” Center for Architecture and AIANY Award $95,000 in Academic Scholarships in 2022,” CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE NEWS, September 7, 2022
Catherine Seavitt Nordenson AR’94 | Committee Member | ” Center for Architecture and AIANY Award $95,000 in Academic Scholarships in 2022,” CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE NEWS, September 7, 2022
Vladimir Belogolovsky AR’96 | Interviewer | Re-Thinking It All: Art and Design in a New Critical Context, Center for Architecture, September 15, 2022, NYC
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Earl Kwofie AR’23 | Award | ” Center for Architecture and AIANY Award $95,000 in Academic Scholarships in 2022,” CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE NEWS, September 7, 2022
Andrew Song AR’23 | Featured | ”Students Model South Asian Architecture at MoMA,” THE COOPER UNION, August 29, 2022
Leah Alfred AR’27 | Award | ” Center for Architecture and AIANY Award $95,000 in Academic Scholarships in 2022,” CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE NEWS, September 7, 2022
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Open Calls & Opportunities |
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NEW
CALL FOR ENTRIES
Biodesign Sprint 2022 is a month-long design exploration of food as part of environmental and physical well-being. Deadline: September 16
OPEN INVITATION
CALL FOR INTERNS
DEADLINES APPROACHING
CALL FOR STUDENTS
OPEN CALL
CALL FOR APPLICANTS
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Architecture, Climate Change & Society The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture and ACSA announce the 4th year of a competitive call for course proposals. Deadline: October 19
ONGOING
CALL FOR ENTRIES
2023 Rome Prize Competition from the American Academy in Rome, awards the Rome Prize to support innovative and cross-disciplinary work in the arts and humanities. Deadline: November 1
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
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
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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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CALL FOR APPLICANTS
ACSA seeks a Staff Editor to join their team and sheperd journals and books through peer review, production, and publication stages. Deadline: Ongoing
CALL FOR ENTRIES
Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant provides single or multiple awards of up to $25,000 for early to mid-level architects who wish to further their personal and professional development through travel. Deadline: October 5
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
CALL FOR APPLICANTS
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