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
The Belgian collective rethinks the possibilities of adaptive reuse. The 2022–23 Current Work series examines projects and firms enacting new modes of architectural practice, collaboration, and community engagement. Founded in Brussels in 1998, 51N4E is, in its own words, “a self-steering collective that wants to empower people to be both autonomous and connected.” The practice
Members of the London-based collective visit New York to present their recent projects. Current Work is a lecture series featuring leading figures in the worlds of architecture, urbanism, design, and art. Assemble is a collective working across disciplines including architecture, research, design, and public art. Founded in London in 2010 to undertake a single self-built
Join MASS Design Group for an evening with The Architectural League of New York, as part of their Current Work lecture series, which examines projects and firms enacting new modes of architectural practice, collaboration, and community engagement. The program will begin with a moderated conversation featuring seven of MASS’s Principal leaders: Jha D Amazi, Christian
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
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. This fall and early winter, Current Work spotlights influential and innovative design practices that bring widely varying perspectives to contemporary housing challenges. Over decades, the architects Anne Lacaton and Jean Philippe Vassal have collaborated on design and
Current Work is a lecture series featuring leading figures in the worlds of architecture, urbanism, design, and art. Spanish architects Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem, and Ramon Vilalta founded RCR Arquitectes in 1988 in their hometown of Olot, Girona. The firm’s projects are rooted in a strong sense of place and community, as reflected in their choice of
Current Work is a lecture series featuring leading figures in the worlds of architecture, urbanism, design, and art. Sofia von Ellrichshausen and Mauricio Pezo founded Pezo von Ellrichshausen in the southern Chilean city of Concepción in 2002. The two believe that architecture is a form of knowledge that provides “a tool to experience, read, and eventually understand
In conjunction with her exhibition I Can Drink the Distance, a solo exhibition at the 41 Cooper Gallery, artist Torkwase Dyson will deliver a free, public lecture about her work in Cooper Union’s Great Hall on Tuesday, April 2 at 7pm. The lecture will be followed by a conversation with moderator Mario Gooden, as well as an opening
Learn about the human and social implications of artificial intelligence and machine learning through the concerns and questions of NYC teens. This discussion, sponsored by Cooper Union's STEM Outreach, is part of an ongoing initiative to engage more students in STEM learning and careers. Featured speakers include: Tara Chklovski is an engineer and the founder
A conversation with Jeanne Gang, Amanda Williams, and Mabel O. Wilson. How can historians, architects, and designers make visible and physically memorialize lost histories—what the founding Director of the Smithsonian’s National African American Museum of History and Culture, Lonnie Bunch, refers to as “histories that hide in plain sight”? What are the design implications of
