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Andrew Lam (AR'15) receives RSA Student Design Award

2014 END OF THE YEAR SHOW

Opening Reception
May 27, 5-9PM
Foundation Bldg
and 41 Cooper Square

This annual exhibition transforms the classrooms 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:
Tuesday - Saturday, 12 - 7pm
Closed Sundays and Mondays

Free and open to the public.

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BOOK LAUNCH AND RECEPTION

Lessons from Modernism: Environmental Design Strategies in Architecture, 1925-1970

May 16 at 6PM
Peter Cooper Suite
8th Floor
7 East 7 Street

The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture and The Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design will host a book launch on Friday 16 May in the Peter Cooper Suite.

Lessons from Modernism Environmental Design Strategies in Architecture, 1925-1970

Kevin Bone, Editor, with Steven Hillyer and Sunnie Joh

Published by The Monacelli Press

Lessons From Modernism examines twenty-five works of architecture completed between 1925 and 1970 through the lens of sustainability. Through an analysis of the influence of nature and the environment in architectural design, this book provides new insights into works by a diverse selection of architects, including Le Corbusier, Paul Rudolph, Jean Prouvé, and Oscar Niemeyer, illustrating how these architects integrated environmental concerns into their designs and exploring the extent to which these practices have produced environmentally performative and distinctive architecture. These buildings demonstrate the importance of the aesthetic of clarity and utility that characterizes twentieth-century modern architecture. This aesthetic, and these values, inform the contemporary green building movement today.

Please RSVP

The book is a development of the exhibition Lessons from Modernism: Environmental Design Considerations in 20th Century Architecture, 1925-1970, held in the Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery from January 29 - March 23, 2013. The publication will be available for purchase beginning May 13, 2014 via The Monacelli Press and the School of Architecture websites. Please contact Sarah Burrell (sburrell@cooper.edu).

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BOOK LAUNCH AND SIGNING

Tony Candido:

The Great White Whale is Black

May 27, 4-5pm
Architecture Archive, Rm 235
Foundation Bldg

The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture will host a book signing on Tuesday 27 May in the Architecture Archive, celebrating the work of Professor Tony Candido, who has been an educator at the school for over forty years.

Tony Candido: The Great White Whale is Black stems from an exhibition of the work of Professor and Painter/Architect Anthony Candido, held in The Cooper Union's Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery from February 2 - March 13, 2010. This publication presents Candido's Cable Cities, a visionary idea of the interplay between humanity and the contemporary environment and what the future of architecture could be, while also highlighting his calligraphic brush and ink paintings and drawings, which have been an important part of his output since 1967. Through this selection of work, which spans the past five decades, Tony Candido: The Great White Whale Is Black portrays a bold expression of one man's life vision, and illustrates Candido's ongoing commitment to art and architecture.

This publication will be available for purchase beginning May 27, 2014 via the School of Architecture website. Please contact Sarah Burrell (sburrell@cooper.edu).

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RSA STUDENT DESIGN AWARDS

Andrew Lam (AR '15)

May 2014

Andrew Lam (AR '15) received the Architecture Internship with Grimshaw Architects and the Techmer PM Award for Designcraft Project: Free Trade Zone in Transit at the 2014 Royal Society of Arts U.S. Student Design Awards.

Project Description:

FREE TRADE ZONE IN TRANSIT

Once the most important trading route that connected the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, the Panama Canal, endured a history of political and cultural strife that specifically dealt with the autonomous control of the waterway between the Republic of Panama and the United States of America. More than a decade later, after the handover of the canal back to Panama, the country is now facing a new shift in global interests. With the growing economical demand of the international community, the size of container ships has redefined the ownership of the Panama Canal; as a canal belonging to the world. My project deals with the internal workings of the Panama Canal as well as the growth in container vessels, as a way to create a new urbanism which involves the use of boats and floating programmatic spaces. It will be a community created on the basis of trade and interaction between the vessels and boats, and also a way to urbanize areas where activity is stagnant.

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OPEN CALLS & OPPORTUNITIES

NEW!

DESIGN COMPETITION | Shape the Future is a joint collaboration between Metropolis and DuPont™ Corian® and open to architects, interior designers, industrial designers, and students. The competition asks participants to reimagine Corian® solid surface as a building and design resource, with the goal of innovating new, exciting uses for the time-tested material. Entries should envision how Corian® can be applied in the design of structures, environments, installations, furniture and objects to breathe life into typologies such as Healthcare, Workplace, Education, Retail, Residential, Hotels, Restaurants, Transportation, Institutional and Cultural. Deadline: August 1, 2014 learn more ...

APPROACHING DEADLINES

FCALL FOR ESSAYS: COMMON SHARE | Urban Omnibus announces their third annual writing competition, this year on the topic of common ownership, private property, and the sharing economy. With this competition, UO invites writers to infuse the discourse around structural economic change with narrative, theory, history, or humor. Deadline: May 12, 2014 learn more ...

ONGOING

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS | The 2014 Saratoga Design Conference"s theme for their inaugural conference is "New Practice /New Design", an exploration of the dramatic changes we are seeing in the practice of architecture and the innovative design work that results. The Design Conference's main goal is to impart practical and theoretical knowledge that will allow attendees to expand the areas of practice they engage in and do more relevant and innovative design work. Deadline: May 16, 2014 learn more ...

2014 AIANYS DESIGN AWARDS | AIA New York State, the state organization of The American Institute of Architects, has recognized outstanding works of architecture through its annual Design Awards Program each year since 1968. The purpose of the program is to celebrate achievements in design excellence by New York State architects; to generate greater public interest in architecture; and to honor the architects, clients and consultants who work together to create and enhance our built environment. Registration: May 18, 2014 learn more ...

2014 BERKELEY PRIZE | The primary goal of the The Berkeley Teaching Fellowship is to support innovative thinking by architecture faculty as they work to focus their students' attention on the social, behavioral, and physical characteristics of the users of the buildings and spaces they design. Deadline: May 31, 2014 learn more ...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | As part of the transformation of the Brooklyn Navy Yard into a green technology and sustainable manufacturing complex, ONE Lab, a new school for design and science, will establish a collaborative teaching facility and public outreach center for socio-ecological design, to open in 2015. ONE Lab is seeking design proposals for the Smart Dock that are both symbolic and buildable . Register by June 30, 2014 learn more ...

STUDENT FILM CONTEST | The National Fenestration Rating Council is celebrating 25 years of service by calling students in the U.S. and Canada to submit an original short film exploring the important role windows, doors, and skylights play in everyday life. Creativity is encouraged and all genres are welcome. Deadline: August 1, 2014 learn more ...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | Issue 10 of the Cornell Journal of Architecture invites you contribute a ghost story, a haunted house, a virtual reality, or a distillation that engages the spirit's complex and inevitable inhabitation of architecture. Deadline: August 1, 2014 learn more ...

DESIGN COMPETITION | This international competition aims to rethink and redesign one of the most iconic streets in the world-42nd street in Midtown Manhattan. The competition is intended to encourage architects, planners, and urban designers from around the world to develop creative proposals for remaking this important but noisy, traffic-clogged street into an enhanced, world-class pedestrian environment and public space that is served by a high-quality, low-floor, modern surface light rail tram. Register by September 8, 2014 learn more ...

FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS

KEYNOTE | Anthony Vidler will deliver the keynote at the Setting Out: 11th Annual AHRA (Architectural Humanities Research Association) Student Research Symposium at the School of Architecture, Landscape and the Built Environment, University College in Dublin, Ireland on May 19, 2014. learn more ...

ALUMNI NEWS*

Daniel Libeskind (AR '70) | speaker | "Innovators: The Uses of Tiles Today," Center for Architecture, New York, NY, May 7, 2014

David Heymann (AR '85) | lecture | UNCLAD: Portland Statue University Architecture International Lecture Series, Portland, Oregon, May 15, 2014

Robert Cowherd (AR '88) | award | 2014-2015 Fulbright Scholar Grant

Vladimir Belogolovsky (AR '96) | lecture | "Harry Seidler: Lifework," Austrian Cultural Forum, Washington, DC, April 30, 2014

Jean Brownhill Lauer (AR '00) | article | "Sweeten.com Tries to Make Home Renovation Process Less Bitter," The Wall Street Journal, February 28, 2014

*Please submit your news to archbulletin@cooper.edu