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
In addition to Year-End gallery shows and exhibitions that many of the NYC-based schools will be holding, The Cooper Union, FIT, Parsons, Pratt, and SVA will be hosting our annual “NYCxDESIGN Student Showcase Night,” online—featuring presentations from our leading design students. For the first time, a gallery of select student projects from each school will
I Can Drink the Distance, a solo exhibition by artist Torkwase Dyson, the Spring 2019 Robert Gwathmey Chair in Architecture and Art at The Cooper Union, considers how the body unifies, balances, and arranges itself to move through built environments. Attuned to the shape patterns of industry—from the history of global trade to contemporary colonization
Siddhartha Deb delivers a free, public lecture as part of the Intra-Disciplinary Seminar series. What can fiction do when the historical past dissolves into fake news and the future comes in different shades of dystopia? How can writing engage with the convergence of authoritarianism, climate change, and diminishing freedom, individual and collective, that has become the most
Presented by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union and California College of the Arts / Digital Craft Lab Curated by Andrew Kudless and Adam Marcus Emerging technologies of design and production have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing. This exhibition, the second volume in
This exhibition celebrates The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture's experimental and influential pedagogy by presenting undergraduate Thesis projects completed at the school over the past 50 years. Curated from materials documented in the Student Work Collection of the school's Architecture Archive, the exhibition includes physical hand drawings, born-digital drawings, and models of 35 undergraduate
Typographics is a design festival for people who use type. The annual event series, now in its 4th year, takes place June 11–21, 2018, and is devoted to contemporary typography, with talks, workshops, and tours focusing on where typography is today and where its future may lie. Registration is required. Programming includes: Conference June 15–16 The highlight
New Speculative Drawing Exhibition Reconsiders Climate Change through a Manifesto on the Environmental Imagination Geostories: Another Architecture for the Environment, an exhibition presented by The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art from October 17 through December 2, 2017, brings together four speculative research projects by Design Earth, that visualize climate change on
This exhibition presents the work of the 2016-17 Master of Architecture II Graduate Design Studio graduate thesis work. Thesis positions the architectural studio as a space for the exploration, experimentation and production of new forms of knowledge and design innovation. In a semester-long endeavor of architectural research, students both negotiate and interrogate a vast range
The thirteenth Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (XIII BEAU) will be exhibited for the first time in the United States in Cooper Union’s Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery. The exhibition, entitled Alternativas / Alternatives, features 22 jury selected projects completed between January 1, 2013 through December 31, 2015 by contemporary Spanish architects. The installation,
This exhibition presents the work of the 2015-16 Master of Architecture II Graduate Design Studio, focusing on Thesis projects but presenting a selection of work from the entire academic year. The projects represent an approach that, without prescribed boundaries, challenges the established frontiers of architecture through critical and visionary responses to contemporary issues, while simultaneously
Current Work Kazuyo Sejima SANAA 1.5 AIA and New York State CEUs This lecture is co-sponsored by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union. Each year The Architectural League’s Current Work series features the work of significant international figures who powerfully influence contemporary architectural practice and shape the future of the
