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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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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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ARCHLOG
It Cannot Always Be Night
Posted: Thursday, September 22
This project—It Cannot Always Be Night by Peter Møller Rasmussen—is the final post in a series 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. The exhibition 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. Faculty work from both schools was recently shown in Practices of Risk, Control, and Productive Failure, an exhibition held at the Brønshøj Water Tower in Copenhagen, Denmark from May 17 to June 10, 2022.
Of his project, Rasmussen notes:
"This summer, the fourth Dinesen & Royal Danish Academy Summer School took place in the countryside of Southern Denmark. As in previous years, we added simple buildings, rooms, and programs to an abandoned farm. In time, we imagine the place will become something like a residency or a field station for the Academy, and for Dinesen—a wood floor manufacturer—a place of making and doing, a situation, a provisional school, and a place of community and strange opportunities..."
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ARCHLOG
Islands: Jacob S. Bang & Anne Romme AR'05
Posted: Thursday, September 22
The exhibition, currently on viewing 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. Faculty work from both schools was recently shown in Practices of Risk, Control, and Productive Failure, an exhibition held at the Brønshøj Water Tower in Copenhagen, Denmark from May 17 to June 10, 2022.
Romme and Bang describe their project as follows:
“Despite its well-defined boundaries, the island is a very fuzzy entity” states landscape architect Stefania Staniscia. (1) As a result of their geographic reality, islands, throughout history, have been used for isolation, political separation, and quarantine. Yet they are also used extensively as metaphors, embodying a variety of dichotomies without necessarily resolving them. The project Islands represents such an unresolved fuzziness. It investigates the island as having a non-binary relationship to its surroundings. It asks: What is an island if understood as an artistic problem of combining technology and accident, intent, and force?"
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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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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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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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CURRENT WORK
Centering Community: PILARES
Wednesday, October 12
Zoom | 6:00 PM
Mexico City’s PILARES (Puntos de Innovación, Libertad, Arte, Educación y Saberes, or Points of Innovation, Freedom, Art, Education, and Knowledge) projects are a series of over 250 (built and in-progress) public community centers. Located predominantly in low-income neighborhoods, these centers provide spaces for a wide range of free programs, including arts, sports, education, and professional development.
In 2020, the mayor’s office commissioned 25 notable design firms and partnerships to create architecturally ambitious PILARES centers. This Current Work program will feature presentations covering nine of these projects.
The presentations will be introduced by Carlos Zedillo Velasco. Zedillo Velasco, whose career has been dedicated to promoting collaborative design processes, served as the architectural coordinator of the PILARES initiative, working as a consultant to the Mexico City government. He previously directed the Research Center for Sustainable Development at Mexico’s National Housing Fund for Workers (often referred to by its acronym in Spanish, INFONAVIT). With his brother Rodrigo Zedillo Velasco, he founded Pienza Sostenible, a nonprofit organization that explores contemporary Mexican conditions in relation to the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Zedillo Velasco holds an MArch and a bachelor’s degree in art and architecture, both from the Yale School of Architecture. He currently practices architecture and planning in Mexico City.
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
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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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Hayley Eber AR’01/Arch Acting dean & fac | Featured | “Panorama Setting: Widening Perspectives at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture,” THE COOPER UNION, August 29, 2022
John Hejduk AR’50/Arch dean,fac emeritus (deceased) | Article | “Architectural Problems, problema ed esercizio alla Cooper Union di John Hejduk: dialogo con Guido Zuliani,” STOA 04, Anno II, 2/3, Estate 2022 | Featured |“Panorama Setting: Widening Perspectives at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture,” THE COOPER UNION, August 29, 2022
Anthony Vidler, Arch fac | Featured | “Panorama Setting: Widening Perspectives at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture,” THE COOPER UNION, August 29, 2022
Nader Tehrani, Arch fac | Featured | “Panorama Setting: Widening Perspectives at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture,” THE COOPER UNION, August 29, 2022
Michael Young, Arch fac | Featured | “Panorama Setting: Widening Perspectives at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture,” THE COOPER UNION, August 29, 2022
Mersiha Veledar, AR’03/Arch fac | Featured | “Panorama Setting: Widening Perspectives at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture,” THE COOPER UNION, August 29, 2022
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Lydia Kallipoliti, Arch fac | Featured |“Panorama Setting: Widening Perspectives at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture,” THE COOPER UNION, August 29, 2022 | Review | ” Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2022 explores architecture’s learnings from food,” WALLPAPER*, September 14, 2022 | Review | “Tallinn Architecture Biennale exhibition explores ‘the notion of food both literally and metaphorically,’” Dezeen, September 15, 2022 | Review | “Editorial: TAB 2022 ‘Edible; Or, the Architecture of Metabolism,’” koozArch, September 7, 2022 | Review | “EDIBLE; Or, the Architecture of Metabolism,” e-flux, August 30, 2022 | Review | “Stoffwechsel des Bauens Zu Besuch auf der Architekturbiennale Tallinn,” Baunetz, September 16, 2022
Elizabeth O’Donnell AR’83/Arch fac | Featured |“Panorama Setting: Widening Perspectives at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture,” THE COOPER UNION, August 29, 2022
Guido Zuliani, Arch fac | Article | “Architectural Problems, problema ed esercizio alla Cooper Union di John Hejduk: dialogo con Guido Zuliani,” STOA 04, Anno II, 2/3, Estate 2022
Steven Hillyer AR’90/Arch staff | Featured | “Great Hall History Comes Alive in New Digital Archive,” THE COOPER UNION, August 29, 2022
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Jesse Reiser AR’81, Nanako Umemoto, AR’83 | Featured | “Panorama Setting: Widening Perspectives at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture,” THE COOPER UNION, August 29, 2022 | Exhibition | Weaponized Craft, a83 Gallery, opening reception September 29, 2022 | Participants | Multiplicity: Agency, Constraint, and Freedom in Contemporary Architecture Symposium, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, October 1, 2022
Suzan Wines AR’90 | Awardee Faculty Sponsor | “Winners of the 2022 Timber Competition,” ACSA NEWS, September 9, 2022
Catherine Seavitt Nordenson AR’94 | Featured | “Three SSA Profs Named Co-PIs in CCNY Research Vision Project,” SPITZER SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, September 11, 2022
Sony Devabhaktuni AR’03 | Article | “Speculation’s Spatial Terms: Imminence and Inevitability in Amaravati,” ARCHITECTURAL THEORY REVIEW, volume 26, issue 1 (2022)
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SITU (Basar Girit AR’05, Aleksey Lukyanov-Cherny AR’05, Wes Rozen AR’05, Brad Samuels AR’05/Arch fac) | Featured | “Meet architects, researchers, and fabricators SITU: Your Next Employer?,” ARCHINECT, September 13, 2022
Yaoyi/Chloe Fan AR’18 | Featured | “Panorama Setting: Widening Perspectives at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture,” THE COOPER UNION, August 29, 2022
Kevin Savillon AR’19 | Featured | “Panorama Setting: Widening Perspectives at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture,” THE COOPER UNION, August 29, 2022
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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
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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
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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
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
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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
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
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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.
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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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