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EXHIBITION LECTURE
Typography at VKhutemas, the Soviet Union's Revolutionary Art School
Monday, November 14
Zoom | 6:30 PM
VKhuTeMas, or Higher Art and Technical Studios, is a revolutionary Soviet art school that opened its doors just a year after the founding of Bauhaus in Germany. Today, the school is usually remembered for a slew of avant-garde artists who worked there — Kandinsky and Malevich, Rodchenko and Stepanova, Lissitzky, and Tatlin, among many others. However, the school’s innovative pedagogy and its democratic admission structure geared towards working class students deserves attention as well. Following some of the formal, theoretical, and political debates that happened in and around VKhuTeMas allows us to better understand the ground-breaking use of typography that developed there and became a staple of constructivist art and design. This lecture will shed light on the origins and trajectory of VKhuTeMas, paying especially close attention to how ideas on typography fed into the school’s artistic output and how they evolved over time.
A discussion following the presentation will also include Anna Bokov, the author of Avant-Garde as Method: Vkhutemas and the Pedagogy of Space, 1920–1930 (Park Books, 2020) and a faculty member of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union.
The lecture is co-sponsored by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union.
This event is free and accessible to the public through Zoom. Eventbrite registration is required. Please register here in advance.
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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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EXHIBITION
Beyond the Frame — SITU Research
Thursday, October 27 through Sunday, November 13
Third Floor Hallway Gallery
Beyond the Frame is an exhibition presenting a selection of recent projects by SITU Research, a visual investigations practice based in Brooklyn, New York. The exhibition is organized by their approach to human rights and environmental justice through spatial studies and analysis across multiple scales—from the effects of a 6oz (40mm) tear gas canister on protesters to the impact of centuries-long mining in the Peruvian Andes of Cerro de Pasco.
In conjunction with the exhibition's opening, Brad Samuels AR'05, a founding partner of SITU, and Gauri Bahuguna, a computational designer and research at SITU, gave a lecture about their work on October 27th.
SITU Research develops new forms of fact-finding to cut through digital noise and amplify truth. Working together as a group of designers, urbanists, computer scientists, and analysts, the team synthesizes disparate forms of digital evidence to provide exhaustive, factual accounts of contested events.
SITU Research is comprised of Gauri Bahuguna, Researcher; Matt Cortright, Analyst; Bora Erden, Senior Research/Technical Lead; Helmuth Rosales, Researcher; Brad Samuels, Director and Founding Partner; Candice Strongwater, Project Coordinator.
This exhibition is open to current Cooper Union students, faculty, and staff.
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CURRENT WORK
NYC: Building Community
Tuesday, November 15
Scholastic Big Red Auditorium | 7:00 PM
As a counterpart to the League’s recent PILARES program, this event explores several new New York City community spaces and the diversity of programs, stakeholders, and constraints that have shaped their designs. Currently in various stages of completion, the featured projects represent a wide breadth of typologies, from large-scale athletic facilities to temporary neighborhood activations.
The program will consist of five presentations by the projects’ architects and designers, followed by a moderated roundtable discussion. The presenters will include:
This lecture is co-sponsored with The Architectural League of New York.
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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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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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 70 works and objects by 45 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.
Free and open to the public.
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VIDEO ARCHIVE
Watch Our Public Lectures and Events Anytime
Vimeo | On Demand
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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 | Designing Tomorrow's Met, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 17, 2022, NYC
Dionisio Cortes Ortega AR’09/Arch fac | Opening Reception | Croton Arch of Triumph Celebration, November 13, 2022, Dobbs Ferry, NY
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SITU Research (Basar Girit AR’05, Aleksey Lukyanov-Cherny AR’05, Brad Samuels AR’05/Arch fac, Gauri Bahuguna, Arch fac) | Article | “How Russian Soldiers Ran a ‘Cleansing’ Operation in Bucha,” ASSOCIATED PRESS, November 3, 2022 | Visual Investigation | “Crime Scene: Bucha,” Associated Press, PBS Frontline, SITU Research, November 3, 2022
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Carmi Bee AR’67 | Webinar | “(Two) New York Affordable Housing Case Studies: Senior and Infill Housing Projects,” SMART DENSITY, November 1, 2022
Toshiko Mori AR’76 | Lecture | Fay Jones School of Architecture, University of Arkansas, November 14, 2022, Fayetteville, AR
Karen Bausman AR’82 | Featured | ”How Can Wind Power Reshape the NYC Waterfront for Sustainability and Access? Toward a more accessible, adaptable city coastline,” PRATTFOLIO, Fall 2022
William Lane, AR'82 | Featured | “Miami's Colorful Guard Shacks Reflect Queer Joy of Creator,” OUT TRAVELER, Fall 2022
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Shigeru Ban AR’84 | Featured | “ Snapshot: Shigeru Ban Sets a Zen Wellness Center on Japan’s Awaji Island,” ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, October 31, 2022
Michael Morris AR’89 | Featured | “SoA Faculty Michael Morris contributes to The Institute of Competition Sciences' First Program, Space Entrepreneurs Academy,” PRATT NEWS, November 2022
Nandini Bagchee AR’93 | Presenter | NYC: Building Community, Architectural League, November 15, 2022, NYC
Jean Brownhill AR’00 | Featured | “Mastercard celebrates Black women business owners with ‘Black Panther’ tie-in,” DIVE WIRE, October 27, 2022
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Open Calls & Opportunities |
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
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
ROUNDTABLE
DEADLINES APPROACHING
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ONGOING
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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
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
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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