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EXPANDING BOUNDARIES:
M.ARCH.II 2012-2013
Advanced Design Studio
Thesis Exhibition
| On view through
October 5
Houghton Gallery
7 East 7 St, 2nd Fl
NYC
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Professor: Diana Agrest, FAIA
Instructor: Lydia Xynogala
This exhibition presents the work of the Master of Architecture II graduate studio, focusing on the Thesis projects but presenting a selection of work from the entire academic year. The work represents an approach which, without prescribed boundaries, challenges the established frontiers of architecture through critical and visionary responses to contemporary issues, while simultaneously thinking and re-thinking architectural discourse itself. Time has been the subject of the studio, focusing on the Urban Dimension and Nature.
Based on the subjects developed in the previous semesters, individual thesis proposals were made on subjects of each student's choice, developed with extraordinary drawings and models.
Between Land and Water: Mangroves and Anaerobic Natural Structures.
Military Urbanism: The City as Enactment of Segregation: Cape Town, South Africa
Clouds as Environment: Transformational Tools: Sahara Dessert, Sudan
The Three Gorges Dam In China: The Real And Filmic. Based On The Film Still Life By Jia Zhangke
Colliding Matter: Meteoric Impact and its Effects: Meteor Crater, Arizona
Fluctuating City: Topography of Population Activity in Manhattan
City of Waters: Floods in Bangkok, Thailand
Exhibition on view September 12 at 6:30pm, through October 5
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Sunday 12-7pm
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Image: (Project title) Growth in Anoxic Conditions
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THE FIVE THOUSAND POUND LIFE
Climate Change in the American Mind
| Oct 2 at 7PM
The Great Hall
7 East 7 Street
NYC |
Anthony Leiserowitz With responses by Dale Jamieson, Paul Lewis, and Kate Orff Presented by the Architectural League of New York and hosted by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture. In the opening event of The Five Thousand Pound Life, Anthony Leiserowitz will frame the different ways in which Americans perceive the threat of climate change, how we understand our collective and individual capacity to address it, and how willing we are to act on our understanding. Leiserowitz will dissect and examine the underlying values that are reflected in our various views of climate change, and the extent to which our views are based on cultural predispositions rather than scientific data. As the director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, Anthony Leiserowitz has led research studies, repeated over a number of years, that have identified "six Americas," each responding differently to climate change. His work is based on the premise that communication about climate change can only be effective if it is based on an understanding of the factors that influence how that communication is received. FREE TO CURRENT COOPER UNION STUDENTS/FACULTY/STAFF AND ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE MEMBERS.
Image via Flickr User London Permaculture
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LECTURE BY LUCY BULLIVANT
| Oct 3 at 6PM
Rose Aud
41 Cooper Square
NYC |
Lucy Bullivant Hon FRIBA is an author, critic, curator, guest lecturer and consultant specialising in architecture and urban design, and Adjunct Professor, Urban design history and theory, Syracuse University in London. In 2012 she founded her own webzine, Urbanista.org, on urban design responding to contemporary social, cultural and political patterns. Lucy has a Master's degree in cultural history (RCA). Formerly Heinz Curator of Architecture, Royal Academy of Arts, London, she has curated exhibitions for Vitra Design Museum, Triennale di Milano, and the British Council, and her conferences have been staged at Tate Modern, the ICA, the Architectural Association, and Strelka Institute, Moscow.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Image credit: Jade Ecopark, Taichung, Taiwan, Philippe Rahm architectes, Mosbach paysagistes, Ricky Liu & Associates, 2012-2015
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LAUNCH RECEPTION
Manifest Journal
| Oct 4 at 6-8PM
Houghton Gallery
2nd Floor
7 East 7 Street
NYC |
Manifest: A Journal of American Architecture and Urbanism is an independent annual print publication edited by Anthony Acciavatti, Justin Fowler, and Dan Handel, which is supported in part by the Graham Foundation. Founded as a means to initiate a critical conversation about the state of American architecture, its cities, and its hinterland, Manifest tackles head-on what others have abandoned. While Manifest intends to question the assumptions behind singular notions/constructions of America by tracing its origins and its global influence, the journal also strives to define the uniqueness of American forms of city-building and the distinct set of political parameters through which these forms are shaped. The inaugural issue "Looking Inward," includes essays by Diana Agrest, Pedro Ignacio Alonso, Robert Longo, Michael Maltzan, Enrique Ramirez, among others. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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LECTURES BY MICHAEL BELL
on Henri Labrouste and
Giuseppe Terragni
| Oct 8 & 15 at 12:30PM
RM 315
Foundation Building
7 East 7 Street
NYC |
Tuesday 8 October
Finite Element Analysis
Henri Labourste: The Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève Tuesday 15 October
Photo-Elasticity
Giuseppe Terragni: The Palazzo del Littorio Project Michael Bell is an architect practicing in New York. He is professor of architecture at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation where he is the founding chair of the Columbia Conference on Architecture, Engineering and Materials and the Director of the Master of Architecture program Core Design Studios. Bell's architectural design has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art and his work is also included in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His Gefter-Press House is featured in Kenneth Frampton's American Masterwork Houses of the 20th and 21st Century. learn more ...
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CURRENT WORK: ARCHI-TECTONICS
Winka Dubbeldam
| Oct 10 at 7PM
The Great Hall
7 East 7 Street
NYC |
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Architectural League of New York. Founded by Winka Dubbeldam in 1994, Archi-Tectonics pursues elegance and innovation in the exploration of both form and sustainability in projects such as the folded glass structure of the 497 GW Project in New York. The firm's international practice spans project types from residential design and commercial interiors to large-scale mixed-use towers-all exemplifying Dubbeldam's abiding concern with "three fields of investigation: armature, surface, and interface." Recently completed projects include the Brewster Carriage House and the Vestry Building, both in Manhattan; the American Loft Tower, Philadelphia; a redesign of the ground floor of the Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam; and residences in New York and Germany. In design or under construction are an orphanage and school in Liberia; the Xian Media Center in China; and the GHM hotel and condominiums in Philadelphia. Archi-Tectonics was recently awarded the commission for the Yulin Culture and Art Center, a multi-purpose cultural development in China, and is directing a collaborative crowd-sourced urban design for downtown Bogota. FREE TO CURRENT COOPER UNION STUDENTS/FACULTY/STAFF AND ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE MEMBERS.
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Image: Archi-Tectonics-Downtown Bogota // My Ideal City, Exhibition, AEDES Gallery, Berlin, Germany |
image courtesy of Archi-Tectonics
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BOOK LAUNCH AND CONVERSATION
Reiser + Umemoto and
Jeffrey Kipnis
| OCT 11 at 6-8PM
2nd Floor Lobby
Foundation Building
7 East 7 Street
NYC |
Reception for the publications:
O-14: Projection and Reception by Reiser + Umemoto
A Question of Qualities: Essays in Architecture by Jeffrey Kipnis
Participants include:
Cynthia Davidson, Jeffrey Kipnis, Sanford Kwinter, Sylvia Lavin,
Jesse Reiser (AR '81), Nanako Umemoto (AR '83) and Brett Steele.
Hosted by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture
Book sales by Van Alen Books
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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Image credit: O-14, Reiser + Umemoto
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OPEN CALLS & OPPORTUNITIES |
DUE THIS WEEK
CALL FOR PROPOSALS | What is the next important question in the architectural discourse of professional practice and/or education? What burning issues should the Journal of Architectural Education be addressing? The JAE invites provocative proposals for Issue 68:2 to be published in the fall of 2014. Proposals may be broadly framed or specifically situated but should clearly state the intended premise and scope of the suggested topic. Deadline: October 1, 2013 learn more ...
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GENSLER INTERN PROGRAM | Gensler is currently reviewing applications for our Global Intern program. Gensler invites global students to join our creative studio environment as we redefine what's possible through the power of design. Applications are reviewed monthly and outstanding applicants may be contracted by Gensler when an opportunity opens. Deadline: Ongoing. learn more ...
DESIGN COMPETITION: THE FLOREY BUILDING, JAMES STIRLING | The Queen's College Fellows seek a dedicated team who are inspired by Stirling's exhilarating vision. The challenge: to use advances in technology to update the building, provide modern facilities and achieve exemplary energy design. Expressions of interest by October 9, 2013. learn more ...
DESIGN COMPETITION | Badi 2013: International Green Building Design Competition. We wish the participants explore the possibilities of the green architecture's future on the criteria of energy conservation and architecture design. Registration deadline: October 10, 2013. learn more ...
2014 BERKELEY PRIZE: ESSAY COMPETITION | The Berkeley Undergraduate Prize for Design Excellence endowment was established in the Department of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley College of Environmental Design to promote the investigation of architecture as a social art. This year the topic for the Essay Competition is: The Architect and the Healthful Environment. Deadline: November 1, 2013 learn more ...
DESIGN COMPETITION | Blank Space will soon be launching the world's first narrative-based architecture competition. The proposals will combine text-based architectural fairy tales with innovative graphic representations. Early Registration Deadline: November 8, 2013 learn more ...
SAH FILM AND VIDEO AWARD | The SAH Award for Film and Video was established in 2013 to recognize annually the most distinguished international work of film or video on the history of the built environment. Deadline: December 1, 2013 learn more ...
FOUNDATION FOR LANDSCAPE STUDIES 2014 BOOK PRIZE | There are two prizes for publications on landscape and garden design awarded for 2014. Deadline for nominations: December 1, 2013
DESIGN COMPETITION | The Living Cities design competition asks professionals and students in architecture and engineering to share their vision of multi-use residential towers for the 21st century. Sponsored by Metropolis magazine. Deadline: January 3, 2014 learn more ...
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: SAH | 2015 Annual Conference in Chicago, Illinois, the Society of Architectural Historians. The Society invites its members, including graduate students and independent scholars, representatives of SAH chapters and partner organizations, as well as future members to chair a session at the conference. Deadline: January 15, 2013 learn more ...
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WORLD ARCHITECTURE DAY 2013 | Ashok Raiji will be a main conference participant on "Practical Utopias" at World Architecture Day 2013 held in New York City in October. learn more ...
ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER | The work of Situ Studio, where Wes Rozen is partner, was featured in the article "Situ Fabrication Cracks Google's Code," in The Architect's Newspaper blog on September 20, 2013. learn more ...
KEYNOTE | Joan Ockman delivered the keynote address "The History and Place of Architecture Education in the Historiography of Mid-Twentieth-Century Architecture," at the 2013 Southeastern Society of Architectural Historians Conference held at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, on September 27, 2013. learn more ... |
Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Elizabeth Diller, AR '79; Ricardo Scofidio, AR '55) | news | "A First Look at The Broad in Los Angeles," Architectural Record, September 23, 2013
Daniel Libeskind (AR '70) | workshop leader | World Architecture Day 2013, "Performing Spaces," New York, NY, October 20, 2013
Toshiko Mori (AR '76) | news | "This Just In - Brooklyn Central Library," eOculus, September 25, 2013
Alexander Gorlin (AR '78) | interview | "Musings on a Structure for Heaven," The New York Times, September 25, 2013
Lee H. Skolnick (AR '79) | news | "Little Museum Presents Big Ideas for Children," eOculus, September 25, 2013
Vladimir Belogolovsky (AR '96) | lecture | "Soviet Modernism," University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, October 10, 2013
FREECELL (John Hartmann, AR '00) | lecture | Architecture Lecture: Laura Crahan and John Hartman, College of Design, Iowa State University, October 9, 2013
SITU STUDIO (Basar Girit, Aleksey Lukyanov, Wes Rozen, Bradley Samuels, all AR '05) | article | "Situ Fabrication Cracks Google's Code," The Architect's Newspaper blog, September 20, 2013 |
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