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CURRENT WORK
Walter Hood
Tuesday, December 15
Zoom | 7:00PM EST
Walter Hood is the creative director and founder of Hood Design Studio. Based in Oakland, California, the studio defines itself as a cultural practice, working across art, fabrication, design, landscape, research, and urbanism. Hood combines “architectural and fine arts expertise with a commitment to designing ecologically sustainable public spaces that empower marginalized communities.” Throughout his career, he has transformed traffic islands, vacant lots, and freeway underpasses into spaces that challenge the legacy of neglect of urban neighborhoods. Through community engagement, his work investigates the natural and social histories of a place as well as the aspirations of current residents.
Hood is a recipient of the 2017 Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award and in 2019 was awarded the Knight Foundation Public Spaces Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize.
The lecture will be followed by a conversation with Mabel O. Wilson and Mario Gooden.
This lecture is co-sponsored with The Architectural League of New York. Attendance is free and accessible to the public.
The event will be conducted through Zoom. Please register in advance here.
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EXHIBITION
Views Along Broadway
Friday, December 4 through Sunday, January 10
Online
This online exhibition features postcards from the Architecture Archive’s Joseph Covino New York City Postcard Collection. Dating from the late 19th to mid-20th century, the collection is among the largest of its kind. Its nearly 3,800 postcards were donated to the Archive between 1999 and 2003 by Joseph Covino, an avid postcard collector.
Most of the postcards document New York City’s built environment and infrastructure, including many no-longer-extant buildings, interiors, businesses, and public spaces. They record a city in constant flux, capturing several decades of urban development across all five boroughs, from the city’s piers, airports, subways, and armories to its public parks, aquariums, monuments, and libraries. These postcards also attest to the diverse commercial and public interests that shaped both the subjects they depict and their own role as mass communication media. In addition to recording the city’s evolving physical form, the postcards are commercial artifacts marking the rise of consumer culture, the growth of middle-class tourism, and the development of publishing technologies that fostered their widespread distribution and explosion in popularity during the first decades of the 20th century.
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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 find and watch our video content from The Cooper Union website. When a recording of an event is available, you can find the video embedded at the bottom of their web listing on our website. This feature allows you to use the Cooper website's search bar to look for a particular lecture title or a lecturer's name to find available videos of their events with us along with other pertinent event and bio information.
If you missed a lecture or event you wanted to see this semester, make sure to check out the Fall 2020 Lecture and Events List. 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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MANIFESTO AND CALL TO ACTION
To Build a Cooper Union Free of Racial and Social Injustice
Posted Wednesday, September 2
SUBMITTED BY THE ANTI-RACISM TASK FORCE OF THE IRWIN S. CHANIN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
In July 2020, students, faculty and alumni of the School of Architecture of The Cooper Union formed an ad hoc task force to propose positive actions to dismantle structures of racism and injustice in our institution.
To view and sign the full document—A Manifesto and Call to Action to Build a Cooper Union Free of Racial and Social Injustice—please click here.
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ONLINE RESOURCES
The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Online Resources
Posted Friday, April 3
The School of Architecture has posted a list of online Resources for its students, faculty, and staff on The Cooper Union’s website. This content includes messages from Dean Tehrani, registration instructions, IT resources, upcoming online lectures, media and relevant links from architecture and other cultural institutions.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
COVID-19 Updates
For campus-wide COVID-19 updates, please visit The Cooper Union's website.
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Nader Tehrani, Arch dean/fac | Lecture | Live Academy, December 13, 2020, virtual | Featured | “Best of the Best: Announcing the Winners of the 2020 AN Best of Design Awards,” THE ARCHITECTS’ NEWSPAPER, December 2, 2020 | Featured | “Leaning into the Future of Learning,” AT COOPER, Fall 2020
Hayley Eber, AR ’01, Arch assoc dean/fac | Featured | “Leaning into the Future of Learning,” AT COOPER, Fall 2020
Lydia Kallipoliti, Arch fac | Book | Konrad Wachsmann’s Television, Post-architectural Transmission by Mark Wigley
Ja Architecture Studio (Nima Javidi, Arch fac) | Award | “Wardell,” 2020 Canadian Architect Award of Excellence, Canadian Architect, see cover/pg. 30, Toronto, Ontario, December, 2020
Farzin Lotfi-Jam, Arch fac | Featured | ”Re-imagining Exhibitions,” AT COOPER, Fall 2020
Anna Bokov, Arch fac | Featured | ”Re-imagining Exhibitions,” AT COOPER, Fall 2020
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Michael Samuelian, AR ’95/Arch fac | Speaker | Defending Density: The Future of Urban Systems In New York, Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech, December 15, 2020, webinar
Kayla Montes de Oca, AR ’20/Arch fac | Featured | “Celebrating the Class of 2020,” AT COOPER, Fall 2020
Austin Wade Smith, Arch fac | Featured | ”Re-imagining Exhibitions,” AT COOPER, Fall 2020
Steven Hillyer, AR ’90/Arch staff | Featured | “Immediate Help from the Cooper Community,” AT COOPER, Fall 2020 | Featured | “Celebrating the Class of 2020,” AT COOPER, Fall 2020 | Featured | ”Re-imagining Exhibitions,” AT COOPER, Fall 2020
Mauricio Higuera, Arch staff | Featured | ”Re-imagining Exhibitions,” AT COOPER, Fall 2020
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Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Elizabeth Diller, AR ’79, Ricardo Scofidio, AR ’55/Arch fac emeritus) | Featured | “Best of the Best: Announcing the Winners of the 2020 AN Best of Design Awards,” THE ARCHITECTS’ NEWSPAPER, December 2, 2020
Peggy Deamer, AR ’77 | Juror | 2021 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers | Housekeeping
Lee Skolnick, AR ’79 | Featured | “Concert for Cooper Raises over $400K,” AT COOPER, Fall 2020
Katherine Kollar, AR ’82 | Featured | “Alumni and Others Give from the Heart,” AT COOPER, Fall 2020
Shigeru Ban, AR ’84 | Featured | “Immediate Help from the Cooper Community,” AT COOPER, Fall 2020
Murray Legge, AR ’90 | Featured | “Best of the Best: Announcing the Winners of the 2020 AN Best of Design Awards,” THE ARCHITECTS’ NEWSPAPER, December 2, 2020
Mariam Cantelmi, AR ’95 | Featured | “Alumni and Others Give from the Heart,” AT COOPER, Fall 2020
Andre Soluri, AR ’98 | Speaker | Adapting to COVID: Design, Center for Architecture, November 10, 2020, online
Sotirios Kotoulas, AR ’03 | Review | “Donald Judd,” BORDER CROSSINGS, issue 155, November 2020
SITU (Sigfus Breidfjord,Basar Girit,Aleksey Lukyanov-Cherny, Wes Rozen, Brad Samuels, all AR ’05) | Featured | “Immediate Help from the Cooper Community,” AT COOPER, Fall 2020
Ballman Khapalova (Peter Ballman, AR ’08, Dasha Khapalova, AR ’07) | Featured | “Best of the Best: Announcing the Winners of the 2020 AN Best of Design Awards,” THE ARCHITECTS’ NEWSPAPER, December 2, 2020
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Ivan Himanen, AR ’10 | Featured | “The alumni quoted below are just a few who found ways of applying their practice and expertise in the midst of crisis,” AT COOPER, Fall 2020
Karim Ahmed, AR ’13 | Facilitator | The Future of the NYC Waterfront: Upper East River, Center for Architecture, December 7, 2020, webinar
Will Shapiro, AR ’13 | Featured | “Immediate Help from the Cooper Community,” AT COOPER, Fall 2020
Helmuth Rosales, AR ’20 | Featured | “Celebrating the Class of 2020,” AT COOPER, Fall 2020
Jeremy Son, AR ’20 | Featured | “Celebrating the Class of 2020,” AT COOPER, Fall 2020
Dylan Dewald, AR ’20 | Featured | ”Re-imagining Exhibitions,” AT COOPER, Fall 2020
Taesha Aurora, AR ’21 | Featured | ”Re-imagining Exhibitions,” AT COOPER, Fall 2020
Jesse Bassett, AR ’21 | Featured | ”Re-imagining Exhibitions,” AT COOPER, Fall 2020
Maksymilian Mamak, AR ’21 | Featured | ”Re-imagining Exhibitions,” AT COOPER, Fall 2020
Austin McInnis, MAR ’21 | Featured | ”Re-imagining Exhibitions,” AT COOPER, Fall 2020
Qicheng Wu, MAR ’21 | Featured | ”Re-imagining Exhibitions,” AT COOPER, Fall 2020
Andrew Hebert, AR ’24 | Featured | ”Re-imagining Exhibitions,” AT COOPER, Fall 2020
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Open Calls & Opportunities |
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NEW
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
PLAT 10.0: BEHOLD Seeks speculations on the significance of a parallel audience distinct from the user: that of the beholder. Deadline: December 30
CALL FOR PAPERS
Technology | Architecture + Design (TAD): INTELLIGENCE invites submissions including human, social, and cultural responses across multiple forms of intelligence, including conceptual frameworks, workflows, user interactions, and post-occupancy evaluations. Deadline: January 15
DEADLINES APPROACHING
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
DRAWING COMPETITION
STUDENT COMPETITION
Architizer: 2nd Annual One Rendering Challenge is an ideas competition that poses a simple question: Is it possible to communicate a powerful story about architecture with a single rendering? Deadlines: December 4 /December 18
STUDENT COMPETITION
ONGOING
CALL FOR PAPERS
CALL FOR PAPERS
TAD 5:2 Intelligence invites submissions of original research from scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students focusing on building automation, smart systems, user-driven design optimization, deep learning and fields related to human-machine interaction. Deadline: January 15, 2021
CALL FOR PAPERS
THE PLAN Journal: Open Issue is accepting new submissions for multiple areas/sections of research within architecture and urbanism involving innovation and potential transformational impact on the fields or the broader socio-cultural context. Deadline: January 18
CALL FOR ENTRIES
VENICE MASKED is a curated exhibition to open a dialogue on the future of public space from a critical standpoint and re-imagine Venice’s immediate future. This call is open to Cooper Union senior students, members of the Cooper Union Alumni Association and Italian architects. Contact Venice.Masked@gmail.com for queries. Deadline: January 30
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Harvard GSD: The 2021 Wheelwright Prize is an open international competition that awards $100,000 to a talented early-career architect to support new forms of architectural research. Deadline: January 31, 2021
CALL FOR APPLICANTS
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
STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION
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
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
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