LECTURES AND EVENTS

Thursday, May 31 , 2018
The 2018 Annual Student Exhibition


This annual exhibition transforms the classrooms, hallways and studios of The Cooper Union into galleries showcasing work from the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, the School of Art, and the Albert Nerken School of Engineering

Located in the Foundation Building (7 East 7th Street) and 41 Cooper Square. 

Exhibition Hours 

May 22 - June 10, 2018
Tuesday thru Sunday, 12 - 7PM
Closed Saturday & Sunday, May 26-27
FACULTY NEWS
Nader Tehrani, Arch dean/fac | Session Co-chair | NEW INSTRUMENTALITIES: 2018 ACSA/COAM International Conference, El Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid (COAM), June 14-16, 2018, Madrid, Spain

Lorena del Rio, Arch fac | Panelist | Interview Practice, Milano Arch Week, May 27, 2018, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy

Guido Zuliani, Arch fac | Group Exhibition | 2018 Architecture Biennale: Time - Space - Existence, The European Cultural Center, May 26-November 25, 2018, Venice, Italy

Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, Arch fac | Group Exhibition | DATA AND MATTER, 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, May 26-November 25, 2018, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy

Eva Franch, Arch fac | Exhibitor | Storefront for Art and Architecture at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, May 24-May 27, 2018, Venice, Italy

Yasmin Vobis, Arch fac | Roundtable Participant | Now Practice Now: Stuff-What are we making? Why are we making it?, Boston Society of Architects, May 24, 2018, Boston, MA
ALUMNI NEWS
Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Elizabeth Diller, AR '79, Ricardo Scofidio, AR '55/Arch fac emeritus) | Article | "Adjaye, BIG and DS+R reveal shortlist designs for Adelaide Contemporary," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, May 14, 2018 | Article | "Diller Scofidio + Renfro Design 'Heavenly Bodies' at the Met," ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, May 17, 2018 | Article | "Diller Scofidio + Renfro's mile-long opera is coming to the High Line this fall," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, May 17, 2018 | Article | "DS+R wins competition to build new V&A collections center in east London," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, May 18, 2018  | Article | "Diller Scofidio + Renfro win competition for V&A Collection and Research Centre," METALOCUS, May 20, 2018

Daniel Libeskind, AR '70 | Article | "Daniel Libeskind will design this year's Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree star," THE ARCHITECTS' NEWSPAPER, May 18, 2018

Toshiko Mori, AR '76 | Article | "Campus and Community," THE HARVARD GAZETTE, May 16, 2018

Elizabeth Diller, AR '79 | Participant | Bed-In Interviews, Storefront for Art and Architecture at the 2018 Venice Architecture, Dutch Pavilion, May 24, 2018, Venice, Italy | Participant | The School of Athens: On Pedagogical Models, Storefront for Art and Architecture at the 2018 Venice Architecture, Dutch Pavilion, May 26, 2018, Venice, Italy

Jesse Reiser/Nanako Umemoto (AR '81/AR '83) | Group Exhibition | Vertical Fabric: density in landscape: Hong Kong in Venice, Collateral Event of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition -  La Biennale di Venezia, Campo della Tana, May 25-  November 25, 2018, Venice, Italy

Smith-Miller + Hawkinson (Laurie Hawkinson, AR '83) | Award | 2018 SARA NY Award Winner

Shigeru Ban, AR '84 | Article  | "From the Ground Up: Shigeru Ban," ARCHINECT, May 18, 2018

Murray Legge, AR '90 | Article | "Abstract Arch: Architecture as Art," TEXAS ARCHITECT, May/June 2018

Frank Jacobus, AR '98 | Article | "Next Progressives: Silo AR+D," ARCHITECT magazine, May 16, 2018

Jean Brownhill, AR '00 | Honoree | HELP HEROES Awards Gala, June 4, 2018, NYC

Thomas Tsang, AR '00 | Co-curator | Vertical Fabric: density in landscape: Hong Kong in Venice, Collateral Event of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition -  La Biennale di Venezia, Campo della Tana, May 25-  November 25, 2018, Venice, Italy

Rural Urban Framework (principals John Lin, AR '02, Joshua Bolchover) | Exhibition | Japan Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia Architectural Ethnography, The Japan Pavilion Giardini della Biennale, May 26-November 26, 2018, Venice, Italy

Sony Devabhaktuni, AR '03 | Exhibition | Japan Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia Architectural Ethnography, The Japan Pavilion Giardini della Biennale, May 26-November 26, 2018, Venice, Italy

Joseph Bedford, AR '07 | Launch | Listening Series: Playing Spaces, Storefront for Art and Architecture, May 17, 2018

Theodore Kofman, AR '13 | Article | "Urban Odor Maps And Flavor-Changing Spoons: The Cooper Hewitt Shows Why We Need Multisensory Design," FORBES, May 15, 2018
OPEN CALLS & OPPORTUNITIES
NEW   

CALL FOR PAPERS | AMPS Conference: Education, Design and Practice: Understanding skills in a Complex World The relationship between education and practice is complex and constantly in flux. This conference invites multiple perspectives on best teaching and critique practices. Deadline: December 1, 2018. Learn More...  

CALL FOR PAPERS | 21st International Congress of Aesthetics Belgrade 2019 invites all researchers and scholars interested in our theme, "Possible Worlds of Contemporary Aesthetics: Aesthetics Between History, Geography and Media," to participate in the Congress with a paper. Deadline:   September 1, 2018. Learn More...  
DEADLINE APPROACHING   

DESIGN COMPETITION | Kimball Design Hack: Smart Furniture calls for proposals which, in their use of innovative forms, materials or technology, can help integrate the influence of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the digital transformation to furniture design. Deadline: May 31, 2018. Learn More... 

NEW GRAD FREE MEMBERSHIP | The American Institute of Architects (AIA) offers up to 18 months of free membership upon graduation. Learn More... 

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | Dialectic VII Journal, Architecture and Citizenship: Decolonizing Architectural Pedagogy calls for papers and projects engaging with the complications of traveling design studios and the idea of teaching for global citizenship in a globe that is profoundly anti-democratic. Deadline: June 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...
ONGOING  

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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