Current Work is a lecture series featuring leading figures in the worlds of architecture, urbanism, design, and art. This fall and early winter, Current Work spotlights influential and innovative design practices that bring widely varying perspectives to contemporary housing challenges. Yasmeen Lari is the cofounder and CEO of the Heritage Foundation of Pakistan, an organization
Current Work is a lecture series featuring leading figures in the worlds of architecture, urbanism, design, and art. This fall and early winter, Current Work spotlights influential and innovative design practices that bring widely varying perspectives to contemporary housing challenges. Andrew Freear and Rusty Smith direct Auburn University’s Rural Studio, a context-based service-learning program that
Current Work is a lecture series featuring leading figures in the worlds of architecture, urbanism, design, and art. The spring 2022 Current Work series focuses on architectural practices designing museums, schools, and cultural centers that contend with the complex legacies of place. Since its founding in 2012, Wolff Architects has aimed to cultivate, in its
Current Work is a lecture series featuring leading figures in the worlds of architecture, urbanism, design, and art. DnA_Design and Architecture is an interdisciplinary practice founded in Beijing, China, in 2004. Its founding principal, Xu Tiantian, practices what she calls “architectural acupuncture”: a subtle, localized approach to the revitalization of rural China’s built environment. In
Current Work is a lecture series featuring leading figures in the worlds of architecture, urbanism, design, and art. The fall 2022 Current Work series examines projects and firms enacting new modes of architectural practice, collaboration, and community engagement. MASS (Model of Architecture Serving Society) Design Group was founded in 2008 as a nonprofit organization with
Members of the experimental German collective discuss their subversive approach to architectural practice. The 2022–23 Current Work series examines projects and firms enacting new modes of architectural practice, collaboration, and community engagement. Founded ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, raumlaborberlin is an experimental collective working at the intersection of architecture, urban planning,
The architect presents recent work from her studio in Bangkok. The 2022–23 Current Work series examines projects and firms enacting new modes of architectural practice, collaboration, and community engagement. Founded in Bangkok in 2009, all(zone) is a group of design professionals who, in their own words, “are fascinated by ever-changing mega metropolises.” From temporary urban
Egyptian architect May al-Ibrashy presents her people-driven approach to architectural conservation. The 2022–23 Current Work series examines projects and firms enacting new modes of architectural practice, collaboration, and community engagement. Cairo’s Al-Khalifa neighborhood houses an extraordinary density of historic sites, from mosques and cemeteries to museums and public space. Since 2012, Megawra, an Egyptian nonprofit
The lecture led by Rafi Segal will explore how work of architecture is shaped through dialogues, multiple back-and-forth interactions between research and practice, object and site, city and building, figure and ground, user and designer. These conversations define, shape, and nourish the creative process and outcome. This lecture will be followed by a discussion moderated by Yudi
After two years of Russia’s full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine, the world continues to be inspired by Ukrainian resilience and resistance. On the eve of the two-year mark of this conflict, leading experts will convene to explore the issues. Panelists will include 2022 Nobel Peace Prize winner and head of the Center for Civil
Join a conversation between artists Clifford Prince King and Lyle Ashton Harris on the occasion of King’s first public art exhibition, Let me know when you get home. The discussion will explore the intersections between the artists’ practices in photography and collage, examining ideas of gender, sexuality, and belonging. This in person event will take place on February 27 at
This event is the book talk of Histories of Ecological Design; An Unfinished Cyclopedia (Actar, 2024) by Lydia Kallipoliti. It will be conducted in-person in the third floor lobby of the Cooper Union and through Zoom, free and open to public. The talk will be presented in conjunction with the Third Floor Hallway Gallery exhibition
