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Wednesday, January 13th, 2016

EXHIBITION: "Affordable New York, A Housing Legacy" Museum of the City of New York Public Programs Series

Exhibition on view from September 18th, 2015 - February 16th, 2016, Museum of the City of New York. Public programs January 19th, 2016 and February 4th, 2016

Upcoming Affordable New York Public Programs:

Housing a Growing City on Tuesday, January 19 at 6:30 pm - Join a panel of leaders in New York City urban planning -- including housing advocates, community leaders and city officials -- to discuss these changes in our urban fabric and the potential solutions to ensuring the city remains a leader in affordable housing.
http://www.mcny.org/event/housing-growing-city

Affordable Housing, Neighborhoods, and Communities on Thursday, February 4 at 6:30 pm - Join a diverse panel of city officials, developers, and community advocates to discuss how to create more equitable neighborhoods through zoning, economic development, community engagement, and prioritization of tenants' rights.
http://www.mcny.org/event/affordable-housing-neighborhoods-and-communities

At the Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave, New York, NY

The Cooper Union is a co-sponsor of "Affordable New York, A Housing Legacy" public programs series.

Image by Michael Tompsett

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OPEN CALLS & OPPORTUNITIES

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS | Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture CROSS-AMERICAS: PROBING DISGLOBAL NETWORKS. The 2016 ACSA International Conference will focus on emerging disglobal narratives in the academic and design communities throughout the Americas through seven topics and one open category. Authors are invited to submit 500 word abstracts, in English or Spanish, and a maximum of 5 images. The abstracts should be prepared for a blind peer review process with no references to author or institution. The same abstract may not be submitted to multiple topics. Authors of the selected abstracts will be invited to develop the full paper (no longer than 4,000 words) which will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Authors of the selected abstracts will also deliver a 10-15 minute presentation in a conference session that will include four to six other authors. Deadline: January 20th, 2016 Learn More...

CALL FOR PROJECTS | Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecure CROSS-AMERICAS: PROBING DISGLOBAL NETWORKS. In recognition of the highly visual research and creative work being done by architecture faculty members and practitioners around the world, the Cross Americas Conference will feature a juried Research + Design Projects Exhibition. Educators, practitioners, and advanced graduate students are invited to submit projects and reports on ongoing research, presented in a single PDF image (20" x 30" / 50.8 x 76.2cm, portrait), along with an optional abstract. The submissions will be reviewed by a jury of renowned designers. Accepted projects will be included in a physical exhibition held during the conference and published online after. Additionally, the jury will select a number of projects for special merit awards in Student and Professional categories. Deadline: Feb 24th, 2016 Learn More...

INTERNSHIP | Design Workshop an international landscape architecture, land planning, urban design and strategic services firm, we're pleased to announce our 2016 summer internship program for recent graduates as well as students pursuing degrees in landscape architecture, urban design and/or planning. Assignments during the ten week internship, starting in June 2016, will vary and may include project research, site visits, sketching, computer production, design reviews and assisting on marketing proposals, ensuring interns are exposed to both the creative and business environment. Deadline: March 26th, 2016 Learn More...

CALL FOR PROPOSALS | Arch Out Loud On a site that borders the East River and the Eleventh Street Basin in New
York City, arch out loud proposes the implementation of a public aquarium and park to provide communal space for the surrounding city. Arch Out Loud challenges designers to experiment with conventional interpretations of this program and investigate how it can create a relationship to its context. Deadline: April 4th, 2016 Learn More...

DEADLINE APPROACHING

RESIDENCY | University of Michigan STAMPS Roman J. Witt residency program. The mission of the Roman J. Witt Residency Program is to support the production of new work with assistance from the Stamps School of Art & Design community. The program awards one residency per academic year for a visiting artist/designer to work at the school to develop a new work in collaboration with students and faculty. To witness and partake in the creation of a defined work from idea to realization is the centerpiece of the residency. This visibility of the artist's process is intended as an exemplary teaching tool for the school as a whole. The residency is expected to culminate in the realization of the proposed work, as well as a presentation that summarizes the process and work accomplished. Deadline: Jan 15th, 2016 Learn More...

DESIGN COMPETITION | The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and the FabLab Barcelona are pleased to announce the 6th Advanced Architecture Contest, on the theme of PRODUCTIVE CITY. The aim of the competition is to promote discussion and research through which to generate insights and visions, ideas and proposals that help us envisage what the city and the habitat of the 21st century will be like. The competition is open to architects, engineers, planners and designers who want to contribute to progress in making the world more habitable by developing a proposal capable of responding to emerging challenges in areas such as ecology, information technology, architecture, and productive cities. Prize (Total value: 60.000,00 EUR) will be distributed at the discretion of the Juries following the bases scheme. Deadline: Janurary 18th, 2016 Learn More...

CALL FOR IDEAS | Storefront for Art and Architecture, Taking Buildings Down asks proposals for the production of voids; the demolition of buildings, structures, and infrastructures; or the subtraction of objects and/or matter as a creative act. Removal is all that is allowed. Three monetary prizes will be awarded to the winners of Taking Buildings Down. These include: 1st Prize, $2000, 2nd Prize: $1000, 3rd Prize $500. Winning entries and any additional entries deemed to be worthy of publication will be included in a printed competition compendium released by Storefront for Art and Architecture. Deadline: January 20th, 2016 Learn More...

JOB OPPORTUNITY | Auburn University, Professor & Head - School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecure. This position plays a key role in the context of a multidisciplinary college that emphasizes integrated practice and collaboration. As an academic unit, the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture maintains a strong commitment to excellence in teaching as well as an exemplary working relationship with the professional community and industry. The School is a leader in design and outreach education, and research in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Interior Architecture. The Head of School provides vision, leadership and support for the School's academic, professional and scholarly research goals and initiatives. This is a 12-month, tenured position. Rank and salary are commensurate with experience. Deadline: Jan 21st, 2016. Learn More...

DESIGN COMPETITION | Central Park Summer Pavilion, Arquideas. The objective of this competition for students of architecture and young architects, Central Park Summer Pavilion (CPSP) New York, is to create a multi-usage area in the emblematic Central Park that can host different activities in summer. Deadline: Jan 22nd 2016 Learn More...

FELLOWSHIP | The 2016 Hart Howerton Fellowship Program. Now in its tenth year, the Fellowship provides students with an opportunity to enrich their educational experience. The Fellowship is available to both undergraduate and graduate students in planning, architecture, landscape architecture or urban design who will be entering their final year of study in September 2016. Deadline: January 22nd, 2016 Learn More...

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS | Folly 2016, Socrates Sculpture Park. Socrates Sculpture Park and The Architectural League invite designers and architects to help shape the physical setting in which the park fulfills its mission as an environment for art, creative expression, social programming, and education. Socrates, located in Long Island City, Queens, is distinctive for its combination of waterfront setting, accessibility, and community-driven programs. Deadline: January 25th, 2016. Learn More...

FELLOWSHIP | New York Foundation for the Arts, Artists' Fellowships, awarded in fifteen different disciplines over a three-year period are $7,000 cash awards made to individual originating artists living and working in the state of New York for unrestricted use. Artists' Fellowships are not project grants but are intended to fund an artist's vision or voice, regardless of the level of his or her artistic development. 2015-2016 cycle includes Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design. Deadline: Jan 28th, 2016 Learn More...

DESIGN CHALLENGE | Metals in Construction magazine invites architects and engineers to redesign the facade of 200 Park Avenue (formerly the Pan Am Building), one of New York City's most recognized landmarks, with the goal of achieving greater energy performance. The magazine will award a $15,000 cash prize to the design judged to exhibit the most innovation, energy efficiency, and aesthetic integrity. Deadline: February 1, 2016. Learn More...

SCHOLARSHIP | Hanbury Evans Summer Scholar program provides a unique opportunity for visiting students and firm professionals to work side by side and learn from each other. Project work, design competitions, field trips, lectures
and critiques are included in the summer experience. This full-time position provides competitive compensation and includes housing. We are accepting applications for our class of 2016, open to upper-level undergraduates and graduate students in architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, and interior design. The program will run from May 30 August 8. Submissions will be evaluated by an in-house jury. Deadline, Feb 15th, 2016. Learn More...

FELLOWSHIP | Princeton-Mellon Initiative. Princeton University invites applications from scholars, writers, critics and practitioners of exceptional promise to pursue projects related to architecture, urbanism, and the humanities, specifically in the context of North and South America. Mellon Fellows may be from any discipline. We seek applicants with outstanding intellectual, literary, and visual talents, who demonstrate an abiding interest in multi-disciplinary work. Deadline, Feb 15th, 2016. Learn More...

CALL FOR ENTRIES | Architectural League Prize, Theme: (im)permanence. Young architects and designers are invited to submit work to the annual Architectural League Prize Competition. Projects of all types, either theoretical or real, and executed in any medium, are welcome. The jury will select work for presentation in lectures, digital media, and an exhibition in June 2016. Winners will receive a cash prize of $2,000. A catalogue of winning work will be published by The Architectural League. Deadline: Feb 17th, 2016 Learn More...

DESIGN COMPETITION | Illuminating Engineering Society. The IESNYC is celebrating the 16th year of the Student Lighting Competition on Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at the 404 Event Space located at 404 10th Avenue, near Penn Station. THE CHALLENGE: This year's theme challenges students to construct a 3D study that explores the interaction between LIGHT AND TIME. Whether slow and subtle, quick and intermittent, or entirely random, variations in quality of light change our perception of the world around us. PRIZES 1st place - $2,000 2nd place - $1,000 3rd place - $500 Additional prizes will be awarded to other notable projects. Deadline: Feb 21st, 2016 Learn More...

CURATORIAL RESIDENCY | The Canadian Centre for Architecture is accepting applications for The Emerging Curator Program. This program offers the opportunity to propose and curate a project at the CCA related to contemporary debates in architecture, urban issues, landscape design and cultural and social dynamics. The project is to be developed during a residency of three months at the CCA. Architects, journalists, designers, critics, historians, photographers, artists and other scholars and professionals born on or after 1 January 1981 are eligible for this program, regardless of citizenship and place of residence. The recipient will receive a maximum of $12,000 CAD to cover travel, housing, and living expenses for a period of up to three months in Montreal. Deadline: February 29th, 2016. Learn More...

CALL FOR IDEAS | Buckminster Fuller Institute. Each year, BFI invites scientists, students, designers, architects, activists, entrepreneurs, artists and planners from all over the world to submit solutions for addressing humanity's most pressing problems. Named "Socially-Responsible Design's Highest Award", the Fuller Challenge attracts bold, visionary initiatives focused on critically important, well-defined social and environmental needs. The Fellowship Program is meant to enhance rigorous discourse in the Fuller Challenge review process by bringing additional voices and perspectives into the discussion. Fellows will work closely with BFI Staff and the Fuller Challenge Review Team to review hundreds of diverse entries to the Challenge. Deadline: March 31, 2016 Learn More...

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FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS

Dean Nader Tehrani/NADAA Architects | Award

| Best of 2015, Residential and Single Family, The Architects Newspaper, December 30th 2015. | Juror | Productive City: The Advanced Architecture Contest, organized by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. | Honorable Mention | Best of 2015, Digital Fabrication, The Architects Newspaper, December 21, 2015

Young & Ayata (Michael Young, Arch fac) | Exhibition | Base Flowers, Volume Gallery, December 12, 2015 - Janurary 23, 2016, Chicago IL

John Hartmann (Freecell) , Arch fac | Group Exhibition | Foundation Barbin Presents: Redeux (Sort of), Kai Matsuniya Gallery. Jan 5 - Feb 5, 2016, NYC

Gia Wolff, Arch fac | Group Exhibition | Foundation Barbin Presents: Redeux (Sort of), Kai Matsuniya Gallery. Jan 5 - Feb 5, 2016, NYC

ALUMNI NEWS

Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Elizabeth Diller, AR '79, Ricardo Scofidio, AR '55/Arch Fac Emiritus | Article | 10 Projects We're Watching in 2016, Azure Magazine, Jan 4th 2016. | Shortlist | For the design of Obama Presidential Center, World Architecture News, December 22nd 2015. | Article | Architecture in 2015, A Year in Review: The Good, The Bad and the Potato Chips, Curbed.com. December 15th, 2015

Daniel Libeskind, (AR '70) | Article | Tiny Homes You Can Collect, The New York Times, December 9th, 2015

Elizabeth Diller, (AR '79) | Juror | Productive City: The Advanced Architecture Contest, organized by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia

Alexander Gorlin, (AR '78) | Award | The 2016 AD100, Architectural Digest

Lee Skolnick, (AR ' 79) | Article | Muzeiko Children's Science Discovery Center / Lee Skolnick Architecture + Design Partnership, Archdaily.com, November 28th 2015

Stan Allen (AR '81) | Speaker | Oculus Book Talk: Kenneth Frampton's A Genealogy of Modern Architecture, Jan 11th, 2016

Michael Morris (AR '89) | Article | Life on Mars: Micahel Morris, Space-for-all at Hobby Space. December 12th, 2015

Gia Mainiero, (AR '06) | Article | Design Worth Its SaleL Dattner and WXY Team Up for Municipal Infrastructure on Manhattan's West Side. The Architects Newspaper Blog, December 18th, 2015

Uri Wegman, (AR '08) | Article | $1.5 Million State Grant to Pay for Triangle Fire Memorial, The New York Times, December 21, 2015. | Article | Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition gets $1.5 million state grant to build Richard Joon Yoo and Uri Wegman designed memorial, The Architects Newspaper Blog, December 23, 2015. | Article | Finally, a Fitting Memorial for the Triangle Tragedy, The Villager, December 17th 2015

Alexander McLean (AR '15) | Feature | Graduate Directory, Wallpaper Magazine, Jan 2016

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