LECTURES AND EVENTS

Tuesday, April 17 , 2018
Current Work: City of Detroit, Maurice Cox AR '83


Post-bankruptcy Detroit is becoming a leading laboratory for urban regeneration, and Cox has earned widespread acclaim for his innovative role in this process. To reshape the city into a vibrant and dynamic place, Cox channels citizen participation into democratic practices while achieving the highest quality of design excellence.  Cox previously served as mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia; design director of the National Endowment of the Arts; and director of the Tulane City Center in New Orleans. Early in his career, he spent a decade teaching and practicing architecture in Florence, Italy.

For Current Work, he will present a portfolio of City-commissioned work in landscape architecture, housing, and public space by some of the nation's leading professionals. 

1.5 AIA and New York State CEUs

This lecture is co-sponsored with The Architectural League of New York.

Free for all Cooper Union students, faculty and staff, and League members.  Members of the public may obtain tickets  here
Gallery Round Table| Architecture Between Environmental Change and Planning Resilience


A conversation with Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Assistant Professor Lorena del Rio; Michael Marrella, Director of Waterfront and Open Space Planning, NYC Department of City Planning; architect Jonathan Marvel, co-founder of Resilient Power Puerto Rico; Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, co-author of Structures of Coastal Resilience; and Assistant Professor Mersiha Veledar. Moderated by Professor Diana Agrest.
 
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Productive Hybrids: Design III Urban Housing in San Juan, currently on view from April 10-27, 2018. This exhibition highlights a work in progress - the Spring 2018 Third Year Design Studio - as the class develops new proposals for post-disaster hybrid housing typologies in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
 
Reception to Follow

Gallery Hours
Tuesday - Friday 2-7PM
Saturday and Sunday 12-7PM

This Exhibition and Gallery Round Table event is free and open to the public. 
Exhibition | Productive Hybrids: Design III, Urban Housing in San Juan


This exhibition highlights a work in progress - the Spring 2018 Third Year Design Studio - as the class develops new proposals for post-disaster hybrid housing typologies in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The project seeks to create innovative dwelling types that respond to new ways of "living-working-producing" within the tropical climate and the complex social, economic and cultural context, with a focus on long-term resilience.

Gallery Round Table: The Architecture of Forecasting, Between Environmental Change and Planning Resilience
Tuesday, April 24, 6:30PM

Gallery Hours
Tuesday - Friday 2-7PM
Saturday and Sunday 12-7PM

This Exhibition and Gallery Round Table event is free and open to the public. 
FACULTY NEWS
Lorena del Rio, Arch fac | Keynote Speaker | Future of Design: Intersections, IABSE (International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering), April 28, 2018, NYC

Eva Franch i Gilabert, Arch fac | Article | "Storefront for Art and Architecture seeks new director?," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, April 9, 2018

Powell Draper, Arch fac | Organizing Committee member | Future of Design: Intersections, IABSE (International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering), April 28, 2018, NYC
ALUMNI NEWS
Daniel Libeskind, AR '70 | Article | "Studio Libeskind's first NYC building will be affordable housing for seniors in Bed-Stuy," CURBED.COM, April 10, 2018

Stan Allen, AR '81 | Article | "Realism Represented," -NESS 1, Spring 2018

Shigeru Ban, AR '84 | Article | "Shigeru Ban Architects: Mt. Fuji World Heritage Centre Reflections Beyond the Image," THE PLAN magazine, #105, April 2018

Martin Finio, AR '88  | Lecture | J. Robert F. Swanson Lecture, Cranbrook Academy of Art, April 25, 2018, Bloomfield Hills MI

Suzan Wines, AR '90 | Installation | Reverse Room, installation, Foscarini, Milan Design Week Salone del Mobile in Milan, April 17-22, 2018, Milan, Italy

Jean Brownhill, AR '00 | Article | "26 Women of Color Diversifying Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley, Media, and Beyond," VANITY FAIR, March 28, 2018 | Feature | "Raising Your Voice and Venture Capital, VANITY FAIR, April 13, 2018 

Snarkitecture (Daniel Arsham, A '03, Alex Mustonen, AR '05) | Group Exhibition | "The Senses: Design Beyond Vision," Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, April 13-October 28, 2018, NYC | Article | "Snarkitecture creates amphitheatrical installation for Caesarstone at Salone del Mobile," WALLPAPER*, April 13, 2018

Theodore Kofman, AR '13 | Group Exhibition | "The Senses: Design Beyond Vision," Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, April 13-October 28, 2018, NYC
OPEN CALLS & OPPORTUNITIES
NEW   

CALL FOR ARTISTS | FIRST STREET GREEN: Open Art Space Mural in cooperation with NYC Department of Parks and Recreation calls for mural submissions for the eastern plywood walls facing Houston Street in First Park. Submission Deadline: April 23, 2018. Learn More...  

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | SARA National Design Awards 2018 attracts international entries from architecture students and professionals. Registration Deadline: April 30, 2018. Learn More...  
DEADLINE APPROACHING   

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | AAC&U's The Academic Minute is a radio segment produced by WAMC Northeast Public Radio in partnership with AAC&U that features faculty and researchers form colleges and universities around the world discussing what's new in the academy and the ways in which it contributes to the public good. Send submissions to David Hopper: [email protected]Learn More...

AWARD COMPETITION | NYCxDESIGN Awards celebrates outstanding achievements across major areas of design. Products and New York City-based project submissions are open to all fairs, exhibitors, and firms. Deadline: April 18, 2018. Learn More...

CALL FOR PROPOSALS | The Deborah J. Norden Fund, a program of The Architectural League of New York, supports an array of different projects and travel contributing to an applicants intellectual and creative development. An info session will take place on February 26, 2018. Deadline: April 22, 2018. Learn More...

CALL FOR ENTRIES | AIA New York: New York Designs celebrate the work of NYC-based AIA members, providing a snapshot of the work being produced in our city. Deadline: April 26, 2018. Learn More...

CALL FOR PROPOSALS | Urban Omnibus: Urban Wild Writer seeks a writer to explore and interpret the contemporary urban landscape where highways meet gas wells, herons, and kayakers. Deadline: May 1, 2018. Learn More...

IDEAS COMPETITION | DWELL: Mumbai Mixed Housing arch out loud challenges competition entrants to design a mixed dwelling development on one of the last undeveloped sections of Mumbai's coastline. Deadline: May 1, 2018. Learn More... 

CALL FOR PROPOSALS | AIA New York State: Small Firms Symposium is a new series of educational symposiums for architects working in small firms and we are seeking presenters. Deadline: May 4, 2018. Learn More...
ONGOING  

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | FiGMENT Weekend NYC 2018 will be a two-day participatory arts event held on Governors Island on June 23 & 24, showcasing art that encourages participants to play, dance, sing, create, and explore their environment. Deadline: May 18, 2018. Learn More... 

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS | Global Conference on Applied Physics, Mathematics & Computing invites abstract submissions and proposals for oral presentations, and poster presentations within the thematic range of the conference. Deadline: May 1, 2018. Learn More...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | Amps, Kent State University: Alternatives to the Present A Conference on Architecture, Urbanism, Sociology, Development & Planning seeks abstracts focusing on interdisciplinary alternatives to the 20th century's top-down and disciplinary understandings of the urban condition. Deadline: June 5, 2018. Learn More...

DESIGN CHALLENGE | Eleven Magazine: Macro to Micro Future living elicits a revolution in the way we live at multiple scales. Following the connections between housing and environmental crises, a question remains: urban expansion or natural preservation? It is time for a bold, radical shift in perception and action. Deadline: June 6, 2018. Learn More... 

DESIGN CHALLENGE | COMMUN: Hyperlocal is looking for proposals for a new "hyperlocal" commuting system for Mumbai which, given the many issues interrelated with transportation in this populous and thriving city, may completely transform it by 2030. Deadline: June 15, 2018. Learn More...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | Ardeth #04: RIGHTS Design professionals and their actions seldom enter the debate regarding the relationship between city, rights, and powers. The project of architecture is often the carrier of a "tyranny of values" (Schmitt, 1966), as it breeds paradigms centered on form, on function, or even on consensus, that, for instance have indirectly reinforced the High-Tech trend. Deadline: July 15, 2018. Learn More...

                                                                                         

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