LECTURES AND EVENTS

Wednesday, July 26, 2017
2017 Summer Program is Underway

We are three weeks into this year's summer program and our students have been busy drawing, making models, discussing and building on foundations of work for their introduction to an architectural education. The course began with a material and spatial transformation of a common utilitarian object, the umbrella; now as students begin their final projects, they have an uncommon chance to break through to architectural thought. 

Learn more about our summer programs here.  

OPEN CALLS & OPPORTUNITIES
NEW   

CALL FOR PAPERS | Journal of Architectural Education Volume 72:1 seeks Design as Scholarship and Micro-Narratives that critically examine and expose the project and projection of architecture as a tool for thinking. Please note, this issue is not accepting scholarship of design. Deadline: August 1, 2017. Learn More...

IDEAS COMPETITION | 2017 Burnham Prize: Under the Dome is a speculative ideas competition. All entrants are charged with reprogramming the dome with a speculative new endeavor that will revitalize the existing decaying dome of St. Stephen's Church. Deadline: August 18, 2017. Learn More...  

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS | Affective Architectures: More-than-representational Approaches to Heritage Abstract This call for papers seeks to assemble a conversation among critical scholars interested in more-than representational (affective) ways of engaging with places of memory and memorialization.   Please submit expressions of interest outlining your proposed paper in no more than 350 words, as well as your CV, by email to co-editors Jacque Micieli-Voutsinas ( jmicielivoutsinas@clarku.edu) and Angela M. Person ( a@ou.edu). Abstract Deadline: September 17, 2017. Paper Deadline: July 2018.  

CALL FOR PRESENTERS | OAA Annual Conference: Continuing Education The Ontario Association of Architects invites individuals or organizations to invite presenters to submit proposals for ConEd sessions to be considered for the 2018 OAA Conference: Bold by Design. Deadline: September 29, 2017. Learn More...  

IDEAS COMPETITION | UNFUSE: The Black Taj is  prompted by the possibility that a second mausoleum across the Taj Mahal was supposed to exist, how would build it?   Deadline: October 29, 2017. Learn More...  

IDEAS COMPETITION | SHELTER 48: Emergency Life-Support Design For this challenge, Eleven Magazine focuses on natural disasters by looking at the concept and definition of shelter in their immediate aftermath and posing the question: how can architecture and design help protect, shelter and save lives when they strike? Deadline: November 11, 2017. Learn More...
DEADLINE APPROACHING   

CALL FOR PROPOSALS | AIA Conference on Architecture 2018 is accepting proposals for educational sessions reflecting emerging trends, new ideas, engaging learning, and knowledge level in support of our curricular framework. Deadline: August 1, 2017. Learn More...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | The Journal of Technology, Architecture and Design (TAD): Open represents inclusion exploration and open-mindedness. For this issue, TAD seeks original research from scholars, practitioners, architects, scientists, and engineers who engage with technology, architecture, and design. Manuscripts are to demonstrate a connection, translation, or integration between technology and design. Deadline: August 1, 2017. Learn More...

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS | Feasibility Study of the Staten Island Skyway Project  The Staten Island Economic Development Corporation's (SIEDC) executive committee is seeking a planning, transportation, and/or engineering team to perform a technical and engineering assessment of the proposed Staten Island Skyway  - an elevated park located primarily in the Port Richmond neighborhood. Deadline: August 11, 2017. Learn More...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | Eleven Magazine: Planetarium, The Experience of Space asks if architecture itself could become - once again - the tool for experiencing and understanding space. We invite you to imagine a new typology of Planetarium. Deadline: August 11, 2017. Learn More...
ONGOING

DESIGN COMPETITION | Figment: The City of Dreams 2018 Pavillion Design Competition Figment has teamed with the Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) of the American Institute of Architects NY Chapter (AIANY) and the Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEAoNY) to host a competition to design and construct an architectural pavilion on Governors Island, the City of Dreams Pavillion. The City of Dreams Pavillion will be a gathering place for people to meet, learn about the arts programs on the island, enjoy a performance or lecture, and experience the interaction of art and the historic context of Governors Island. Registration Deadline: September 15, 2017. Learn More...

DESIGN COMPETITION | The 2018 Better Philadelphia Challenge In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Parkway, we're seeking your creative concepts for what a new 'Parkway' could be in a dense and developed 21st century city, connecting neighborhoods with nearby natural and cultural resources. Deadline: September 28, 2017.  Learn More... 

DESIGN COMPETITION | arch out loud: Nuclear Landmarker for a Waste Isolation Site asks competitors to design a marker or marker system to deter inadvertent human intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. The purpose of the marker is to communicate with future generations that transuranic waste is buried within a repository at the facility. Deadline: October 21, 2017. Learn More...

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS | Amps Critical Practice in an Age of Complexity aims to stimulate critical debate about the standard practices dominating the built environment seeking perspectives from architects, urban designers, planners, artists, human geographers, sociologists, media specialists and more. Deadline: December 5, 2017. Learn More...

FACULTY NEWS  
Nader Tehrani, Arch dean/fac | Article | "This design team has ideas for a better, more humane jail system," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, July 14, 2017  | Article | "Nader Tehrani Is Literally Shaping the Future of Architecture," ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST, July 20, 2017 | Article | "A look at 22 talented immigrants expanding the definition of American architecture," ARCHINECT, July 4, 2017  

John Hejduk AR '50/Arch dean & fac emeritus | Article | "Spotlight: John Hejduk," ARCHDAILY, July 19, 2017

Michael Young, Arch fac | Speaker | Tomorrow's Talks, Onassis Cultural Centre, May 17, 2017, Athens, Greece

Powell Draper, Arch fac | Article | "City of Dreams: New aluminum casting technique creates Governors Island pavilion," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, July 12, 2017

ALUMNI NEWS
Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Elizabeth Diller, AR '79, Ricardo Scofidio, AR '55/Arch fac) | Article | "Gehry, DS+R, Snøhetta, Piano, Foster, and Levette compete for a new concert hall in London," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, July 11, 2017

Daniel Libeskind, AR '70 | Article | "A look at 22 talented immigrants expanding the definition of American architecture," ARCHINECT, July 4, 2017

Stan Allen, AR '81 | Book | Stan Allen: Four Projects, Ed. Benjamin Wilke, Applied Research and Design Publishing, 2017

Shigeru Ban, AR '84 | Article | "Shigeru Ban will design 20,000 shelters for a Kenyan refugee settlement," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, July 19, 2017

Snarkitecture (Alex Mustonen, AR '05, Daniel Arsham, A '03) | Article | "In Paris, the Two Women Who are Colette," The New York Times, March 3, 2017

Eduardo Alfonso, AR '14 | Curator | Charrette, Kings Leap, July 15-August 20, 2017, NYC

Laura Genes, AR '14 | Group Exhibition | Charrette, Kings Leap, July 15-August 20, 2017, NYC

Max Dowd, AR '16 | Article | "City of Dreams: New aluminum casting technique creates Governors Island pavilion," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, July 12, 2017

                                                                                         

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