VISITING LECTURE
Jürg Keller + Christian Scheidegger: Society of Rooms

Tuesday, February 9
Zoom | 12:00PM

In contrast to other programs, rooms in housing are small and occur in large numbers. Permeated by laws and conventions, they are yet surprisingly free in their arrangement, connections, geometry, size and construction, while they take on many different shapes and scales depending on the type of housing. Rereading the genius loci and questioning the program, the existing and the given framework opens up unexpected spatial possibilities: collective overlaps, unexpected sequences, two-story spaces, leaps in scale. Working in these spatial moments, the project becomes specific, but at the same time attackable and vulnerable.

The presentation will be followed by a conversation and Q & A moderated by Nader Tehrani and Nima Javidi.

This event is free and accessible to the public through Zoom. Please register in advance here.
STUDENT LECTURE SERIES
Cruz Garcia & Nathalie Frankowski: Post-Colonial Narratives and other Loudreading Manifestos

Thursday, February 11
Zoom | 6:30PM

WAI Architecture Think Tank is a planetary studio practicing by questioning the political, historical, and material legacy and imperatives of architecture and urbanism. Founded in Brussels during the financial crisis of 2008 by Puerto Rican architect, artist, curator, educator, author and theorist Cruz Garcia and French architect, artist, curator, educator, author and poet Nathalie Frankowski, WAI is one of their several platforms of public engagement that include Beijing-based anti-profit art space Intelligentsia Gallery, and the free and alternative education platform and trade-school Loudreaders. Based on the emancipating and persecuted alternative practice of education performed by lectores like Luisa Capetillo in the tobacco factories in the Caribbean, Loudreaders is an open pedagogical platform and free trade school that engages with architectural education as a form of mutual aid and critical solidarity in the age of Covid-19.

The presentation will be followed by a conversation and Q & A moderated by Sanjana Lahiri.

This event is free and accessible to the public through Zoom. Please register in advance here.
EXHIBITION
The Waltemath Foundation

Thursday, February 4 through Friday, March 12
Online

The Waltemath Foundation is a non-profit foundation in Hooper, Nebraska established by the abstract painter Joan Waltemath. Based in New York but born and raised in Nebraska, Joan bought the building on the corner of Main Street as a place to paint- the ceilings were tall enough to fit the 14-foot paintings she was developing at the time. The project quickly evolved into a place not only to work, but also to show art, engage with the local community, and contribute to the longevity of the small agricultural town, while becoming a kind of pilgrimage site for the extended art community.

As documented through the exhibition, a spatial language for the project arose from an analysis of the land and the existing building that, over time, began to resonate not only with Joan’s work but also with the principles and process through which she creates it. Included in this exhibition are paintings from three different periods of her work, each utilizing different techniques for making space with harmonic progressions.

The project is currently under construction.

This exhibition is free and accessible to the public online.
SUMMER PROGRAM
Introduction to Architecture Online: Applications Open!

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.
VISITING LECTURE
Mason White + Lola Sheppard: Piles, Drifts, Freezers, and Icebreakers

Tuesday, February 16
Zoom | 12:00 PM

This talk will centre on the unique nature and impact of architecture in the circumpolar territories. It will show the emergence of arctic architecture in Canada, and select project and research initiatives of Lateral Office in pursuit of understanding and identifying an Arctic vernacular.

The lecture will be followed by a conversation and Q & A moderated by Lydia Kallipoliti.

Lateral Office is an experimental practice focused on architecture's entanglement with environment. It is run by Lola Sheppard, Mason White and Kearon Roy Taylor.

This event is free and accessible to the public through Zoom. Please register in advance here.
OPENING RECEPTION
A World of Many Worlds: Graduate Architecture Thesis Exhibition

Wednesday, February 17
Zoom | 6:30 PM

Following the completion of the fall 2020 Graduate Thesis projects, and in keeping with the annual tradition of presenting their work to the public, the School of Architecture is pleased to announce the exhibition A World of Many Worlds. Presented online and as a physical installation, this exhibition synthesizes nine individual thesis projects, referencing the worlds in which they were created and those they aspire to build as a communal endeavor.

As the Foundation Building is currently closed to the public, the students will be exhibiting their work in the building’s exterior windows along Third Avenue, between 7th and 8th Streets. The installation represents diverse project themes and methods of execution, while sharing the school’s work with the public.

The exhibition and reception is free and accessible to the public in person and through Zoom. Please register for the virtual reception in advance here.
WORKSHOP
Anti-Racism in Thesis

Saturday, February 27
Zoom | 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

How does decolonial and anti-racist pedagogy translate onto the Thesis syllabus, formats of conversation, and advising models? Considering the architecture design Thesis as a world-making exercise, how can the course advance an approach for “a world in which many worlds fit,” recognizing and working against the discipline’s biases and maintenance of white supremacy and other constructed hierarchies of peoples, cultures, and histories? Understanding that “every community practices the design of itself,” (Escobar, 2017), what might be some guiding principles for the architecture design Thesis curriculum to advance work that rethinks the communal and dismantles white supremacist and other racist or patriarchal power dynamics, not just through speculative design work, but also in the studio and other learning environments.

This event is organized by Assistant Professor Nora Akawi and the students in the Master of Science in Architecture program.

This event has been made possible by generous support from The Cooper Union Grant Program. This event is free and accessible to the public. Please register in advance here.
VISITING LECTURE
Nerea Calvillo: Feminist Sensing to Land in Aeropolis

Tuesday, March 2
Zoom | 12:00 PM

Aeropolis is a conceptual, methodological and discursive framework to think about air pollution as a material, situated, embodied and socio-technical assemblage. Drawing on feminist and queer literature, the concept of “attuned sensing” challenges what counts as evidence in toxic regimes, who does the sensing and what exactly is being sensed. “Attuned sensing” will be put to work through experimental interventions developed at C+ arquitectas and the collaborative project In The Air, to multiply the spaces of intervention in and within our polluted world.

The presentation will be followed by a conversation and Q & A moderated by Lydia Kallipoliti.

This event is free and accessible to the public through Zoom. Please register in advance here.
PORTFOLIO REVIEW
2021 Architecture Portfolio Reviews

Through February
Online

Cooper Architecture students are invited to get valuable feedback
on their portfolio from talented
alumni in multiple one-on-one virtual
portfolio reviews throughout the month of February!

Students may use their Zoom meetings to have their
portfolio reviewed and to engage
in professional discussions.

Advanced registration is required.

Must have a portfolio in order to
participate. After you register, the Center for Career Development will follow up with you to schedule your portfolio review with an architecture professional.

Open to all Cooper Union architecture students.

You may register here.
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
NADAAA (Nader Tehrani, Arch dean/fac, principal) | Award | Special Mention, Best of Year - North America, 2021 A+ Awards, ARCHITIZER | Award | Special Mention, Best of Year – Small Firm, 2021 A+ Awards, ARCHITIZER

David Gersten, AR ’91/Arch fac | Lecture | “New York City: A 5,000-Year History,” Cooper Together: Global Block Party, February 1, 2021, online

Daisy Ames, Arch fac | Group Exhibition | RE-SOURCE, an exhibition and benefit to support Storefront for Art & Architecture, Storefront for Art & Architecture, November 2020-January 2021, NYC

Elisa Iturbe, Arch fac | Lecture | “Outside Development: Projects for an Urban Ground,” Michael Owen Jones Memorial Lecture, University of Virginia School of Architecture, February 8 at 6PM, Online
Stephanie Lin, Arch fac | Group Exhibition | RE-SOURCE, an exhibition and benefit to support Storefront for Art & Architecture, Storefront for Art & Architecture, November 2020-January 2021, NYC | Article | “Storefront for Art and Architecture holds first in-person exhibition since pandemic began," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, January 28, 2021

Farzin Lotfi-Jam, Arch fac | Group Exhibition | RE-SOURCE, an exhibition and benefit to support Storefront for Art & Architecture, Storefront for Art & Architecture, November 2020-January 2021, NYC
Alumni News
Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Elizabeth Diller, AR ’79, Ricardo Scofidio, AR ’55/Arch fac emeritus) | Article | "Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Stefano Boeri Architetti tapped for massive mixed-use revival in Milan," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, January 29, 2021

Toshiko Mori, AR ’76 | Article | "Now What? How Home Design and Architecture Should Adapt to a Post-COVID World," ELLE DECORE, January 7, 2021

Murray Legge, AR ’90 | Article | "COVID Classroom by Murray Legge Architecture Creates a Safer Education Environment for Kids," WORLD ARCHITECTURE, January 24, 2021

Anthony Titus, AR ’98 | Group Exhibition | RE-SOURCE, an exhibition and benefit to support Storefront for Art & Architecture, Storefront for Art & Architecture, November 2020-January 2021, NYC

Ballman Khapalova (Peter Ballman, AR ’08, Dasha Khapalova, AR ’07) | Award | Winner, Best in Typology - Architecture - Conceptual, 2021 A+ Awards, ARCHITIZER
Atelier Alter (Yingfan Zhang, AR 06, principal) | Award | Special Mention, Best in Specialization – Public Projects, 2021 A+ Awards, ARCHITIZER | Award | Finalist, Best in Typology - Architecture - Cultural, 2021 A+ Awards, ARCHITIZER | Award | Special Mention, Best in Typology - Architecture - Institutional, 2021 A+ Awards, ARCHITIZER | Award | Special Mention, Best of Year - Asia, 2021 A+ Awards, ARCHITIZER | Award | Special Mention, Best of the Year - Small Firm, 2021 A+ Awards, ARCHITIZER

Lydia Xynogala, AR ’09 | Group Exhibition | RE-SOURCE, an exhibition and benefit to support Storefront for Art & Architecture, Storefront for Art & Architecture, November 2020-January 2021, NYC | Article | “Storefront for Art and Architecture holds first in-person exhibition since pandemic began," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, January 28, 2021
Open Calls & Opportunities
NEW

DESIGN COMPETITION
Back to the Future of Public Space: Postcards from 2020 invites creatives to submit postcard designs reflecting on the praxis of inhabiting public space. Deadline: February 15

CALL FOR PAID COLLABORATORS
Housing Unathorized Epistemologies, a Cooper Union Grant project lead by Prof. Daisy Ames and Prof. Ife Vanable, seeks student collaborators from The Cooper Union's schools of Art, Architecture or Engineering to develop research and drawings. Email your combined CV and Portfolio as a single pdf (10MB max) to Daisy Ames and Ife.Vanable. Deadline: February 12 / Start date: February 16

DEADLINES APPROACHING

CALL FOR ENTRIES
2021 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers: Housekeeping invites submission of projects of all types, either theoretical or real, and executed in any medium. Deadline: February 8

DESIGN COMPETITION 
Rethink Urban Design: Rethink Bayonne calls all designers, architects and urban planners to rethink what is possible in Bayonne and compete for prizes. Deadline: February 20

STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION
atX DESIGN OF THE YEAR challenges students to design a visitor center that celebrates its site while providing visitors with a unique experience. Registration Deadline: February 28 

ONGOING 

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. 

DISCOUNT SUBSCRIPTION
AZURE MAGAZINE is offering students a discounted subscription to its award-winning contemporary architecture and design magazine. Deadline: March 1

SCHOLARSHIP
Selser Schaefer Architects: Diversity Equity and Inclusion Scholarship offers a one-time award of $2,500 to offset the student’s tuition and related expenses at their current academic institution. Deadline: March 1

STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION
Formica Corporation: 2021 FORM invites architecture and design students to submit a furniture design imagined for the next generation that incorporates Formica Laminate products. Deadline: March 12
GRANT OPPORTUNITY
ACSF: Lindsay Jones Memorial Research Fund supports research on the meaning and significance of the built environment. Deadline: April 1

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

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

STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION
LYCEUM Fellowship: Reimagining the Visitor's Experience - The Ames Estate asks students to design an event pavilion. Deadline: May 14

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.