An unprecedented collection of design projects and practices, 30 Years of Emerging Voices: Idea, Form, Resonance documents close to 250 of the most innovative North American design firms of the past three decades. Since 1982 The Architectural League of New York's Emerging Voices program has recognized architects, land­scape architects, and urban designers whose distinctive voices promise to influence architectural discourse, design, and practice for years to come. Insightful essays and commentaries by leading critics, architects, and historians consider and contextualize the continuing impact of the Emerging Voices' inventive work on architectural culture and the built environment.

The awardees spanning the thirty year history include 23 School of Architecture Alumni and Dean Nader Tehrani.  

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Photo by Leandro Viana 

Lessons from Modernism: Environmental Design Strategies in Architecture, 1925-1970, a highly-acclaimed exhibition organized by the School of Architecture Archive and curated by Kevin Bone has traveled to the Elmhurst Art Museum in Illinois. The exhibition coincides with the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial. The exhibition examines twenty-five modern building projects through the lens of sustainability. Incorporating environmental strategies that solve critical issues of comfort, use and economy, these projects, dating from 1925 to 1970, recognize and adapt to natural forces and serve as inspiration and guide for the current green building movement.

Kevin Bone will be leading a tour of the exhibition on September 12, 2015.

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Image: Housing at Sunila Pulp Mill - Alvar Aalto, 1936

The Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design is working with Institute Fellow, Prof. Albert F. Appleton, to present the blog Twenty-First Century Choices: Identifying Strategies for a Sustainable World. 

This blog has been created to serve two purposes.  First, it is meant to foster a running conversation on how sustainability, the defining challenge of the 21st century, should shape public policy choices, particularly with respect to urban design, infrastructure, and public investment. Second, in conducting that debate, it seeks to refine what we mean by sustainability: that is the concept of ensuring economic prosperity and a vibrant, coherent society by designing an economy that conserves and creates wealth by living within the limits of the resources of our planet and the dynamics of its ecological processes.

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