THE IRWIN S. CHANIN
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE 
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Scolari Exhibition On View
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STUDENT LECTURE SERIES:
Giancarlo Mazzanti       
OCT 18 at 6:30PM
RM315
Foundation Bldg

ARCHITECTURE AS A MECHANISM OF SOCIAL INCLUSION 
 
Based in Bogot�, Giancarlo Mazzanti is a leading architect of public works in his native Colombia. He spearheaded the urban transformation of Medell�n with projects including the libraries Le�n de Greiff and Biblioteca de Espa�a, and the coliseums for the 2010 South American Games. Other recent work includes a Kindergarten in Santa Marta and a school in Cartagena.  
 
Mazzanti's awards are numerous. He received the first prize in the 2008 Ibero-American Architecture Biennial in Lisbon. In 2006, the architect was awarded first prize in the Urban Design and Landscape category at the 10th Venice Architecture Biennale; and, in 2008, he won the Best Work award at the Bienal Iberoamericana. He is also set to receive the highest architectural award from the XXIII Bienal Colombiana, which takes place in October 2012. In November 2011, the Museum of Modern Art acquired architectural models from three of Mazzanti's recent projects making him the first Colombian architect to have his work included in the museum's collection. 
 
Giancarlo Mazzanti earned his degree in Architecture at the Universidad Javeriana, Bogot� in 1987 and pursued post-graduate studies in the History and Theory of Architecture and in Industrial Design at the University of Florence, Italy in 1991. He has taught at universities in Colombia and has guest lectured at universities in the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Peru and Panama. He is currently Visiting Lecturer in the School of Architecture and the Program in Latin American Studies at Princeton University. 



MASSIMO SCOLARI:
The Representation of Architecture 1967 - 2012   
On view through
NOV 21, 2012    

Massimo Scolari: The Representation of Architecture, 1967-2012 is presented by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture and organized by the Yale School of Architecture. Additional support for the exhibition is provided by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Turner Foundation, and by Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown.

The Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery
The Cooper Union
7 E. 7th St. (b/w 3rd and 4th Aves.), 2nd floor
New York, NY 10003
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 12-7pm, Gallery Closed: Sunday and Monday
 
 

Learn more about the installation of Massimo Scolari's The Glider, a four-hundred pound wooden and metal sculpture with a 22-foot wingspan, on the third floor balcony of the Foundation Building.

 


Image: Installation view 


TOD WILLIAMS AND BILLIE TSIEN Head/Hand   
OCT 24 at 7PM
The Great Hall
7 E. 7 Street
  
"To see architecture as profound optimism" is the foundational principle behind the work of Tod Williams and Billie Tsien. The husband-and-wife firm began working together in New York in 1977, establishing their firm nine years later in the same Central Park South studio where they work today. As exemplified by important works like the American Folk Art Museum (2001) and the recently completed Barnes Foundation building in Philadelphia, "matter, light, texture, detail, and most of all experience" are the essence of their architecture. Their architecture is widely appreciated for its sensitivity, timelessness, and beauty.

Their body of work ranges from large cultural institutions to new skating rinks for Brooklyn's Prospect Park, the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University, and the recently awarded commission to design the New Embassy Compound in Mexico City. Parallel to their practice, Williams and Tsien maintain active teaching careers and lecture worldwide.

This lecture is co-sponsored by the Architectural League of New York 



Image: TWBTA--Tata Consultancy Services, Mumbai, India | Photo by Shengning Zhang


MIKE TAYLOR | HOPKINS ARCHTECTS
Track Record
OCT 30 at 7PM
The Great Hall
7 E. 7 Street

The leader of the design team for the London 2012 Velodrome, Mike Taylor is a senior partner at Hopkins Architects, founded by Michael Hopkins in 1976. The firm, renowned as pioneers of prefabricated, lightweight, and sustainable architecture, is "guided by deeply-rooted architectural, environmental, and social convictions." The design practice focuses on integrating advanced design, craft, and sustainable solutions-from early conceptual designs through construction.

In addition to his role at Hopkins Architects, Taylor has lectured and tutored regularly at United Kingdom schools of architecture and has taught a postgraduate design course at Yale University.

This lecture is co-sponsored by the Architectural League of New York.



Image: Hopkins Architects-British Antarctic Survey | photo: Hopkins Architects

AROUND THE SCHOOL


INTERDISCIPLINARY SEMINAR:
David Deitcher   
OCT 23 at 7PM
Rose Aud.
41 Cooper Square

In his lecture, art historian, independent curator and critic David Deitcher discusses "Once More, with Feeling" (a work in progress), his memoire examining the relationship between memory, emotion and forgetting in stories that date as far back as his childhood in Montreal during the 1950s and early 60s. These he weaves together with other accounts relating to the mid-to-late-1980s in New York and to the AIDS crisis, which decimated the generation of gay men to which Deitcher belongs. Surveying works by artists-some well known and many unknown for having died so young-that range across every medium, Deitcher's lecture considers what was at stake in the return of affect and emotion to contemporary works of art that relied not on expressionist rhetoric but on the grammar and syntax of Minimalism and Conceptualism, whose apparently rigorous lack of content and emotion they implicitly critique.
 
This event is free and open to the public 

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STUDENT OPPORTUNITY


2013 LYCEUM TRAVEL FELLOWSHIP:
Competition 
DEADLINE:
March 20, 2013

The Lyceum Competition welcomes submissions from students attending participating schools including The Cooper Union (complete list of schools here). Lyceum travel awards are intended to enrich the academic experience. As such, all competitors are required to have at least one year of study remaining so that a travel award may be fulfilled prior to the completion of the current or an immediately subsequent architectural degree program. Students should work individually; submissions resulting from individual work completed in a design studio are encouraged.  

 

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ONGOING
Exhibitions & Opportunities 

THE BATTERY CONSERVANCY AMERICAS DESIGN COMPETITION 2012 | The Battery Conservancy invites students and professionals from the Americas (Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean), to design an iconic moveable outdoor seating element. The winning design will be fabricated for use at The Battery, the 25-acre park at the tip of Manhattan which annually welcomes six million visitors. Updated: DEADLINE: Accepting submissions through October 30, 2012.  learn more ... 

15TH ANNUAL BERKELEY PRIZE | An essay contest in three stages open to all current full-time registered students in an undergraduate architecture degree program, undergraduates majoring in architecture, or diploma students in accredited schools of architecture worldwide. Each year  the Prize Committee selects a topic important to the understanding of the interaction of people and the built world that becomes the focus of the Essay Competition. This year the topic is: The Architect and the Accessible City. STAGE ONE DEADLINE: November 1, 2012   learn more ... 

STEWARDSON KEEFE LeBRUN TRAVEL GRANT | The Center for Architecture is currently accepting applications. The purpose of the grant is to further the personal and professional development of an architect in early or mid-career through travel. Travel plans should be focused on a selected topic of interest to the individual, rather than a part of a larger humanitarian or institutional endeavor. DEADLINE: November 1, 2012, 5:00pm  learn more ... 

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | CLOG is now accepting submissions for its upcoming issue on BRUTALISM. DEADLINE: November 5, 2012.  learn more ... 

GOWANUS by DESIGN ANNOUNCES AN OPEN DESIGN AND PLANNING COMPETITION |
The competition will focus on the post-industrial development of a contaminated site in the Gowanus Canal watershed that offers the challenge of rethinking how a new community resource can become an agent for remediation within a diverse urban context. The jury will be comprised of industry professionals and experts in the areas of architecture, sustainable design, landscape design, and community development. Jurors include: Julie Bargmann, David J. Lewis, Richard Plunz, Robert M. Rogers, Andrew Simons and Joel Towers.  DEADLINE: 
December 14, 2012.  

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METROPOLIS MAGAZINE NEXT GENERATION DESIGN COMPETITION | This competition was created in 2003 to promote environmental activism, social involvement, and entrepreneurship in young designers. The Next Generation Design Competition is open to any designer or architect in practice for ten years or less, as well as design students. The $10,000 prize is intended to support designers whose entries reflect considerations of inclusive design, systems thinking, sustainability, materials exploration, progressive technologies, function, and provocative form. Each design should speak to at least one or several of the 6 sub-disciplines of design supported by the magazine-architecture, urban planning, landscape design, interior design, product design, and graphic design. Interdisciplinary collaborations are encouraged. DEADLINE  February 18, 2013  learn more ... 

EXHIBITION | FIELD CONDITIONS EXHIBIT AT SFMOMA | Works by Lebbeus Woods, Stanley Allen (AR '81), Daniel Libeskind (AR '70), as well as projects by other noted architects and contemporary artists, are on view at the SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA, September 1, 2012 - January 6, 2012. In addition, on October 4, 2012, Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, Assistant Curator of Architecture and Design, will deliver a lecture on Lebbeus Woods' Conflict Space Series.  

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FACULTY NEWS 

RETHINK ATHENS COMPETITION | Anthony Vidler served as the Chairman of the First Stage Jury for the Rethink Athens European Architectural Competition sponsored by the Onassis Foundation

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ALUMNI NEWS 
Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Elizabeth Diller, AR '79; Ricardo Scofidio, AR
'55) | article | "New Bridge Segues the Two Campuses of Lincoln Center," eOculus, October 10, 2012

Paul Amatuzzo (AR '69) | exhibition | Thesis Retrospective 1990-2012 Amatuzzo Studio Section - Archtober Event, NYIT, Old Westbury, NYOctober 13-November 11, 2012

Paul Seletsky (AR '82) | participant | Bits & Mortar: Architecture in the Age of Digital Communication, Center for Architecture, October 13, 2012

Laurie Hawkinson (AR '83) | panelist | Architecture and Contemporary Urbanism Now Sysmposium, Pratt Institute School of Architecture, November 8, 2012

Berman Horn Studio (Bradley Horn, AR '94) | article | "A True Original," Interior Design, September 2012

Situ Fabrication (Basar Girit, Aleksey Lukyanov, Wes Rozen, Bradley Samuels, all AR '05) | exhibition design | "Hava Nagila: A Song for the People," Museum of Jewish Heritage, September 13-May 2012


                                                                                         

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