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Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Cooper Union Staff Show

Opening  Tuesday, December 13, 2016 6:00pM - 8:00PM in 41 Cooper Gallery

An exhibition of works by The Cooper Union staff opening on December 13th from 6-8pm. 

Participants include:

Wayne Adams, Aisha Bell, Ian Burnley, David Derish, Pablo Diaz, Gearoid Dolan, Brenda Ferebee, Amanda Friedman, Melanie Gonzalez, Marina Gutierrez, Stephanie Hightower, Mauricio Higuera, Anna Hostvedt, Haisi Hu, Anna Hutchings, Einat Imber, Frank Kurtzke, Joyce Lee, Marget Long, Simone Meltesen, Lawrence Mesich, Emmy Mikelson, Laura Mircik-Sellers, Eric Monasterio, Dale Perreault, Zach Poff, Dan Porvin, Joe Riley, Garrett Rosenblum, Mark Rossi, Emmanuela Soria Ruiz, Vanessa Gully Santiago, Maggie Sullivan, Tessa Sutton, Nicole Thomas, Ryan Toth, Annasophia Vukovich, Andy Wilhelm, Jennifer Williams and Bryan Zimmerman. 

On view Dec 13 - Dec 17, 2016, Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 7pm. The 41 Cooper Gallery is located in 41 Cooper Square, on Third Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets.

OPEN CALLS & OPPORTUNITIES
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DESIGN COMPETITION | Arch Out Loud: Borders, Korean Demilitarized Zone Underground Bath House challenges designers to explore the possibility of creating an underground bath house within the Korean Demilitarized one which responds to the surrounding geopolitical conditions. New forms of non-military architecture could occupy this border zone and begin to ease the existing tension. The role tourism can play in opening relations across a border begs the question: How does architecture position itself in the middle of this condition of tension? Deadline: February 16, 2017. Learn More... 
ONGOING

Mathematical Photo Submissions | MoMath: SeeingMath  Do you see math in the world around you? Now is your opportunity to contribute a favorite mathematical photo to MoMath's _Seeing Math_ contest. Winning photos will be displayed on the large screen in the Museum as part of this visual tour of the mathematical world around us. To enter the _Seeing Math_ contest, please email your original photographic image (no photoshopping please) together with the formulae or commentary that would overlay the image. Please submit all entries to [email protected] and limit the size of your email to 5 MB or less. Deadline: January 1, 2017.  Learn More...

PRE-COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP | The Anthony Quinn Scholarship Program Organized as a vehicle to perpetuate Anthony Quinn's vision for an art conscious society, the Anthony Quinn Foundation Scholarship Program raises and distributes funds for arts education. The Scholarship Program is for young adults in high school who demonstrate exceptional talent and dedication with a strong commitment to personal artistic growth and who will benefit from financial support. The Foundation makes an effort to distribute the funds evenly across the fields of focus: Visual Arts & Design, Dance, Theatre, Singing, Instrumental, Media Arts, and Literary Arts. Deadline: January 4, 2017. Learn More... 

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | Loeb Fellowship at Harvard Graduate School of Design represent the broadest spectrum of accomplished practitioners who are influential in shaping the built and natural environment and whose work advances positive social outcomes. Loeb Fellows are architects and landscape architects, urban planners and journalists, public artists and affordable housing developers. They come from around the world to the Harvard GSD with a common purpose: to make the world a better place for all. After a transformative Fellowship year in residence, they join a powerful worldwide network of over 450 colleagues and friends. The connections, collaborations and learning are there for a lifetime. Deadline: January 5, 2016. Learn More...

APPLICATIONS OPEN | Gensler's Design Strategist Development (DSD) Program is a 24-month, on-the-job professional training program that gives participants firsthand exposure to the skills and experiences they need to achieve professional success as a design strategist. It propels participants directly into meaningful project work, offers world-class professional development, and connects them with a global community of colleagues and mentors. Tailored to each person's strengths and ambitions, the program provides the maximum breadth and depth of design strategy experience. Each year, Gensler hires a new cohort to work and train in select Gensler offices. Each DSD Program participant joins Gensler as a consulting analyst and receives a competitive salary and benefit package. Deadline: January 6, 2016. Learn More... 

CALL FOR SOLUTIONS | L-ternative Visions: Reimagining 14th Street and Beyond  The looming shutdown of the L train is a transportation crisis in the making. Hundreds of thousands of people will be directly impacted, and virtually all New Yorkers will feel the pinch. Though the extent of City and State action is uncertain, one this is clear: the public has a key role to play in pushing both the City and the State to rise to the challenge. Our hope is that the L-ternatives competition will inject some creative yet practical ideas into the mix of solutions. We encourage both student and professional submissions from individuals and consortiums. Deadline: January 8, 2017. Learn More... 

CALL FOR PROPOSALS | Folly/Function 2017 is a design/build competition organized by The Architectural League of New York and Socrates Sculpture Park inviting designers and architects to help shape the physical setting in which the park fulfills its mission as a venue for art, creative expression, public programming, and education. As a venue for the presentation of public art, a New York City park, and an active social space, Socrates has for 30 years harnessed the power of creative minds to transform the urban landscape. The competition has shifted emphasis, asking entrants to fuse form with utility, creating designs that explore the intersection of art and architecture while addressing and improving the conditions of the Park. Continuing this trend, the 2017 competition asks architects and designers to design and fabricate four portable, demountable structures to replace four standard tent structures that are deployed as needed throughout the Park. Deadline: January 9, 2017.   Learn More... 

CALL FOR FELLOWS | THE HUMANITIES INSTITUTE, a research division within the LuEsther T. Mertz Library at the New York Botanical Garden, is pleased to offer a full-time, residential Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for 2017 for current Ph.D. students or recent post-doctoral researchers whose work focuses on areas of inquiry connecting natural history to the human experience. The Institute creates a forum for stimulating new thinking on subjects that reconnect the sciences and humanities.  Candidates are invited to submit a proposal for independent research in the environmental humanities. Deadline: January 12, 2017.  Learn More...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | Zumtobel Group Award 2017: Innovations for Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment is an architectural award that acts as a stimulus for new developments and concepts in the built environment that help meet current and future demands for improved urban living conditions and energy needs. The award aims to encourage research into and implementation of new sustainable and socially beneficial perspectives in the built environment. Deadline: January 15, 2017. Learn More...   

ART AND ARCHITECTURE RESIDENCY | I-Park Foundation Artist-in-Residency Program is offered free of charge to accepted/invited artists. When funding is available, a limited number of travel grants are offered to non-North American artists. The format is self-directed and non-judgmental. Residents are provided with a private bedroom, a private studio, a meal program as well as shared amenities. The typical residency session has a 4-week duration. Deadline: January 16, 2016.    
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LAND ART COMPETITION | Nka Foundation invites submissions from creative practitioners and organizations dedicated to community placemaking to participate in its 2017 Land Art Competition. The competition is open to landscape architects, artists, curators, designers, architects, urban planners, structural engineers, university students and others from around the world to submit ideas for large-scale and site-specific public art installations based on site in rural Ghana. The submitted entries can be functional or nonfunctional works but must aim at creating a truly unique experience that becomes emblematic of what an arts village is and how it needs to function as a PLACE. The arts village is designed as a learning center to provide relational spaces for creative people from the region and other countries to live, work, learn and create. Registration Deadline: January 31, 2017. Learn More...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | Harvard GSD 2017 Wheelwright Prize announces the fifth cycle of its open international competition awarding a $100,000 fellowship to a talented early-career architect to support travel-based research. This annual prize is dedicated to fostering new forms of architectural research informed by cross-cultural engagement.  Deadline: January 31, 2017. Learn More...

DESIGN CHALLENGE | Reimagine Structure: Metals in Construction Magazine invites architects and engineers to submit their design for a high-rise building that integrates its enclosure and it primary structure for the purpose of minimizing embodied energy. The magazine challenges participants to substitute a hybrid frame-and-skin system for the typical aluminum-and-glass curtain wall of a steel-framed high-rise office building. The design must integrate elements providing environmental protection and resistance to wind and seismic forces. Entries will be judged on the amount of embodied energy reduced in the form of building mass, as well as on the overall performance of the enclosure. Deadline: February 1, 2017. Learn More... 

APPLICATIONS OPEN | The Arnold W. Brunner Grant Promotes engagement in advanced architectural investigation that contributes to the practice, teaching or knowledge of the Art and Science of Architecture. The Brunner Grant is a prestigious award given to mid-career architects. The proposed investigation is to result in a final written work, design project, research paper, or other form of presentation. Deadline: February 1, 2017.  Learn More... 

CALL FOR ENTRIES | 2017 Architectural League Prize: Support  Young architects and designers are invited to submit work to the annual Architectural League Prize Competition. Projects of all types, either theoretical or real, and executed in any medium, are welcome. The jury will select work for presentation in lectures, digital media, and an exhibition in June 2017. Winners will receive a cash prize of $2,000. Deadline: February 13, 2017.  Learn More...

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS | Cities, Communities and Homes: Is the Urban Future Livable? A conference organized by AMPS and the University of Derby springing from documentation of the complexity of our cities and their socio-economic differences. This conference seeks to explore how the three issues of city development, sense of community and housing need, all combine to make lives in our cities livable - or not. Contributing to the broader research areas of the organization initiating the conference, Architecture, Media, Politics, Society (AMPS) and the concerns of academics at the University of Derby, this event is interdisciplinary by default. Deadline: March 1, 2017. Learn More... 

SUBMISSIONS OPEN | arch out loud: DEATH AND ARCHITECTURE  will examine the juxtaposition of these terms, delving into the ever-changing sociological responsibilities of architecture and the constant, unchanging condition of death. This is an open call for submissions of original written or graphic work pertaining to the relationship between the dead and the city. This issue intends to touch on topics such as the status of land and its value in growing cities; historical trends of burial grounds in cities; recent innovations regarding the handling of the dead; and the stigmas surrounding radical changes in the ways in which we lay to rest those who have passed on. Deadline: Not Specified.  Learn More...

FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS 
Nader Tehrani, Arch dean/fac | Conclusion | ARCHITECT d.b.a., Book Launch, Center for Architecture, NY | Article | "NADAAA Masterfully Renovates 1920's House With Simple Plywood," INTERIOR DESIGN, November 29, 2016

Diane Lewis, AR '76/Arch fac | Contributor | ARCHITECT d.b.a., AIA New York

David Turnbull, Arch fac | Speaker | International Architectural Roundtable: Designing Resilient Buildings in the Face of Climate Change, World of Concrete Pavilion, November 30, 2016, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Aranda/Lasch (Benjamin Aranda, Arch fac) | Exhibition | "Meeting the Clouds Halfway," Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, October 29, 2016-January 29, 2017, Tucson, AZ  | Article | "Aranda\Lasch and Terrol Dew Johnson Showcase Spectacular Baskets,"  INTERIOR DESIGN, November 29, 2016

Mauricio Higuera, Arch staff | Group Show | Cooper Union Staff Show, 41 Cooper Square Gallery, December 13-17, 2016, NYC

ALUMNI NEWS 
Peggy Deamer, AR '77 | Contributor | ARCHITECT d.b.a., AIA New York

Shigeru Ban, AR '84 | Article | "From Antoni Gaudí to Zaha Hadid, 55 architects and their chairs in one book," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, December 2, 2016

OBRA Architects (Jennifer Lee, AR '97, Pablo Castro) | Group Exhibition | CAMPO, e-flux
architecture, December 6 2016

Stephanie Restrepo, AR '17 | Article | "Exhibition Gives a Taste of What's Brewing at Cooper," THE COOPER UNION, December 7, 2016

                                                                                         

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