LECTURES AND EVENTS

Thursday, January 11 , 2018
Current Work: Róisín Heneghan and Shih-Fu Peng, heneghan peng architects
Moderated by Stephen Rustow

heneghan peng architects rose to international prominence in 2003, when its designs for the Grand Egyptian Museum was selected from over 1,500 competition entries. Scheduled to open in 2018, the museum will feature a translucent stone facade and dramatic views of the nearby Giza Pyramids.  

Founded in New York in 1999, heneghan peng relocated to Dublin, Ireland in 2001. Its work spans a variety of scales and typologies, from urban master plans and major cultural facilities to offices and bridges.  

Stephen Rustow is a principal of museoplan and a professor at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture.  

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.
FACULTY NEWS
Nader Tehrani, Arch dean/fac | Article | "How NADAAA Saved One Spadina's Amazing Ceiling," AZURE magazine, December 11, 2017  | Participant | Conversations/Conversazioni: Nasser  Rabbat and Nader Tehrani, moderated by John Ochsendorf - Fluidity,
American Academy in Rome, January 11, 2018, Rome, Italy  | Award | "University of Toronto Daniels Building at One Spadina," NADAAA, AIA New York 2018 Design Awards, Architecture Honors | Award | "Justice in Design," NADAAA, AIA New York 2018 Design Awards, Urban Design Merit

Diane Lewis, AR '76 (deceased) | Article | "In Memoriam: Who we lost in 2017," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, December 13, 2017

Benjamin Aranda, Arch fac | Article | "Tribute wall for Vito Acconci rises at Storefront," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, December 19, 2017 | Juror | Montello Foundation competition, A Desert Waypoint for Contemplation and Exhibitions

Anna Bokov, Arch fac | Shortlisted | "Shortlist for the Open Call for Curator," OSLO ARCHITECTURE TRIENNALE, November 21, 2017

Lauren Kogod, Arch fac | Article | "RIBA Announces 2017 President's Medals for World's Best Student Projects," ARCHDAILY, December 5, 2017
ALUMNI NEWS
Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Elizabeth Diller, AR '79, Ricardo Scofidio, AR '55/Arch fac emeritus) | Article | "Diller Scofidio + Renfro to Design Exhibition on 'Fashion and the Catholic Imagination' for the Met," ARCHDAILY, November 8, 2017 | Article | "Adelaide Contemporary: Adjaye, DS+R, Ryue Nishizawa and SO-IL on shortlist for Australian contemporary art museum," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, December 13, 2017 | Participant | Dimensions of Citizenship: U.S. Pavilion Venice
Architecture Biennale 2018 | Article | "U.S. State Department releases final list of designers for worldwide embassies," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, December 15, 2017

Daniel Libeskin, AR '70 | Award | "Canadian National Holocaust Monument," Libeskin Studio, AIA New York 2018 Design Awards, Architecture Merit

Shigeru Ban, AR '84 | Article | "Shigeru Ban Architects: La Seine Musicale Sinuous, rigueur in
concert," THE PLAN, 103, December 2017 | Article | "Shigeru Ban's timber tower in Vancouver on track to begin construction," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, January 5, 2018

Erika Hinrichs, AR '90 | Speaker | Leaning Out V: Displacements: Women in Academic Leadership Now, Center for Architecture, January 11, 2018, NYC

Murray Legge, AR '90 | Article | "2017 Best of Design Awards for Landscape - Private," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, December 12, 2017

OBRA Architects (Jennifer Lee, AR '97, Pablo Castro) | Group Exhibition | Biennale d'Architecture d'Orléans, October 10, 2017-January 4, 2018, Orleans, France

Emma Fuller, AR '06 | Grantee | 2018 New York State Council on the Arts League-sponsored Independent Projects Grantee

Espen Vatn, AR '10 | Visiting Critic | Herbert H. Greenwald Visiting Critic, College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago, Spring 2018

Daniel Hall, AR '17 | Article | "RIBA Announces 2017 President's Medals for World's  Best Student Projects," ARCHDAILY, December 5, 2017

Katherine Sullivan, AR '19 |  Scholarship Recipient | "Scholarships for New York City Architecture Students," AIA BROOKLYN, November 28, 2017
OPEN CALLS & OPPORTUNITIES
NEW   

PORTFOLIO COMPETITION | AIANY New Practices New York 2018: Consequences Is a biennial competition that serves as the preeminent platform to recognize and promote new and innovative architecture and design firms in NYC. Deadline: January 5, 2018. Learn More...  

CALL FOR PROPOSALS | Design, Justice & Zero Waste is a conference and research collaborative to explore pathways to the circular economy. The Tishman Center and GAIA invites practitioners, researchers, advocates and activists to propose innovative designs, advocacy campaigns and scholarly research on this subject. Deadline: January 19, 2018. Learn More...  

CALL FOR APPLICANTS | Art House Residency Program includes room, board and studio at no charge for early and mid-career artists and designers from May 9th to June 5th. Deadline: January 31, 2018. Learn More...  

DESIGN COMPETITION | Design the Next-Generation Facade 2018 This year's Metals in Construction magazine competition invites ideas for a facade system that can play a major role in enhancing employee health and well-being at a speculative tech incubator on the Williamsburg waterfront. Deadline: February 1, 2018. Learn More...  

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | POOL Issue No. 3: Party Rave or riot, gathering or gala - can we use the party to recuperate an architecture of those affective moods we'd prefer to forget? POOL invites the submission of any form of communicative media fit to mingle: illustrations, poems, orthographic drawings, selfies, napkin scribbles, etc. Deadline: February 18, 2018. Learn More...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | CLOG X ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE encourages critique, commentary in any form including images, graphics, diagrams, and/or text submissions from individuals in any field. Deadline: March 15, 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... 
DEADLINE APPROACHING   

DESIGN COMPETITION | National Native American Veterans Memorial is an open, international competition, accessible to professionals, university-level students, and other interested people over the age of eighteen. Deadline: January 9, 2018. Learn More...

OPEN CALL | Arquine Competition No. 20: MEXTROPOLI PAVILLION 2018 The Arquine International Architecture Competition calls for design and build proposals for a public installation that generates civic architectural interactions. Deadline: January 12, 2018. Learn More...

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | Design Workshop: The Summer Internship Program is designed to expose students to a collaborative, professional office environment and a team of experienced design professionals. Deadline: January 12, 2018. Learn More...

CALL FOR FELLOWS | The New York Botanical Garden Humanities Institute invites current Ph.D. students or recent post-doctoral researchers to submit a proposal for independent research in the environmental humanities. Deadline: January 12, 2018. Learn More...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | Harvard GSD Wheelwright Prize 2018 is an open international competition that awards $100,000 to a talented early-career architect to support travel-based research. Deadline: January 14, 2018. Learn More...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | The Plan Journal: Open Issue intends to disseminate and promote innovative, thought-provoking and relevant research. The criteria for selecting contributions will be innovation, clarity of purpose and method, and potential transformational impact on disciplinary fields or the broader socio-cultural context. Deadline: January, 15, 2018. Learn More...

CALL FOR ENTRIES | Study Architecture 10x10 Design Competition invites students and faculty to engage the USA Science and Engineering Festival through the design and installation of a Study Architecture Exhibit Booth. Deadline: January 17, 2018. Learn More...

CALL FOR ENTRIES | Study Architecture 10x10 Design Competition invites students and faculty to engage the USA Science and Engineering Festival through the design and installation of a Study Architecture Exhibit Booth. Deadline: January 17, 2018. Learn More...

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF) provides artists up to $10,000 in support for the Distribution of a recently completed work in all genres of time-based and moving image media, including emergent technology. Deadline: January 18, 2018. Learn More...

CALL FOR APPLICANTS | The Douglas A. Garofalo Fellowship has been established at the UIC School of Architecture dedicated to bringing a young practitioner or recent graduate to teach and conduct independent design research within the School of Architecture. Deadline: January 19, 2018. Learn More... 
ONGOING  


CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | Moving Images - Static Spaces: Architectures, Media, Film, Communication, Digital Art and Design Amps Istanbul is an international and expressly interdisciplinary conference taking place at Altinbas University, Istanbul. The event will explore the complex coexistence of imagery and architecture in its many iterations. Deadline: January 30, 2018. Learn More... 

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | Log 43: The Issue of Geometry is a special section edited by Cameron Wu, in Log 43. Emerging from the contention that architects consume rather than produce geometry and the digital adolesent modes of architectural thought, Log 43 will consider the current and future status of geometry in architecture. Deadline: January 31, 2018. Learn More... 

CALL FOR ART | FIGMENT: Dream Bigger 2018 is the second annual call for art for this special program for high impact projects at FIGMENT NYC. Deadline: January 31, 2018.  Learn More...

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | Arnold W. Brunner Grant furthers advanced study in any area of architectural investigation that will effectively contribute to the knowledge, teaching or practice of the art and science of architecture. Deadline: February 1, 2018. Learn More...

CALL FOR ENTRIES | Ornamental Metal Institute of New York: Design the Next-Generation Facade challenges participants to submit their vision for a facade system that can play a major role in enhancing employee health and well-being at a tech incubator on the Williamsburg waterfront. Deadline: February 1, 2018. Learn More...

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | Bard Graduate Center Visiting Fellowships invites scholars from university, museum, and independent backgrounds with a PHD or equivalent professional experience to apply for non-stipendiary visiting fellowships, to be held during the 2018-19 academic year. The theme for this period is "When is After?" Deadline: February 1, 2018. Learn More...

CALL FOR ENTRIES | 2018 Architectural League Prize | Objective Young architects and designers are invited to submit work with projects of all types, either theoretical or real, and executed in any medium, are welcome. Deadline: February 9, 2018. Learn More... 

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS | The Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Woman Suffrage Movement Monument is commissioning and endowing the creation of the first time in the 164-year history of Central Park that women's contributions to this city, state, and nation will be commemorated in statue form. Deadline: February 14, 2018. Learn More...

CALL FOR PAPERS | Journal of Engineering and Architecture Articles of interdisciplinary nature are particularly welcome. The interested contributors are highly encouraged to submit their manuscripts/papers to the executive editor via e-mail at [email protected]. Deadline: February 28, 2018.  Learn More... 

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | Eleven Magazine: MARSTOPIA Ideas and design competition imagines the vernacular design of Mars. Deadline: March 11, 2018. Learn More...

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | The Melbourne Art Book Fair will bring together international and local publishers and practitioners in a weekend of free talks, book launches, performances, and stalls featuring art, design, architecture and photography publications form around the world. The book fair will take place from March 16 through March 18, 2018. Learn More...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | Tangible - Intanglible Heritage(s) - Design, Social and Cultural Critiques on the Past, Present and the Future Amps London proposes the political register of 'heritage' in regards to its tangible and intangible influence on our view of the past and orientation towards the future. Submissions from artists, architects, social historians, cultural theorists, planners and urban designers are welcome. Deadline: April 1, 2018. Learn More...

                                                                                         

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