August 29–December 6, 2022
New York 10003
United States
The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is pleased to announce its public programs for the fall of 2022. This program of lectures, conversations, book launch events, and exhibition openings—held both on campus and online—features designers, artists, theorists, and researchers from New York and around the world.
The semester’s programming includes the Current Work series, hosted in conjunction with The Architectural League of New York, and the Student Lecture Series, curated by students and fostering conversations around today’s most pressing and current issues. The programming for these will be announced in mid-September on The Cooper Union’s website.
In addition, each year, the school invites one architecture faculty member to curate a year-long lecture series. This year's series is curated by Elisa Iturbe. Titled Architectures of Transition, these events will interrogate architecture’s alliance with the project of carbon modernity. At stake is architecture’s role in broad civilizational transition—unquestionable and problematic in the context of our last energy transition into fossil fuels, yet indeterminate and full of possibility in relation to the transitions to come. Together, these lectures and discussions will bring space and form into dialogue with energy and power, reframing the causal landscape of the climate crisis and reimagining our vocabulary of alternatives.
Events will be held in person on The Cooper Union campus in New York City with the option to stream online. All Zoom events will require registration in advance, please find registration links here. In-person events may require registration in advance, please check the event announcements for details.
Please note that more events are added as the semester progresses and that event details are subject to change; visit The Cooper Union’s website, or join the School of Architecture’s newsletter for updates throughout the semester.
August 29–September 11—exhibition
Models from MoMA
Third Floor Lobby
September 6–25—exhibition
At the Intersection of Ideas and Material Conditions
Faculty Work: Institute of Architecture and Culture, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
Third Floor Hallway Gallery
September 13, 6:30pm—exhibition gallery remarks
Anne Romme, Associate Professor, Institute of Architecture and Culture, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
Third Floor Hallway Gallery
September 14, 12pm—lecture
McKenzie Wark, From Architecture to Kainotecture
Architectures of Transition
Moderated by Elisa Iturbe
Room 315
September 19–23—event series
Cooper Climate Week, more details forthcoming.
September 20, 6:30pm—lecture
Tatiana Bilbao, Domestic Imaginaries: Platforms for Social Change
Architectures of Transition + Cooper Climate Week
Moderated by Elisa Iturbe
Room 315
September 21, 6:30pm—lecture
Moshe Safdie, If Walls Could Speak: Architect Moshe Safdie Shares His Life
Great Hall
October 4, 12pm—book launch
Todd Gannon, Figments of the Architectural Imagination
In conversation with Lydia Kallipoliti and Michael Young
Room 315
October 4–November 18—exhibition / October 4, 6:30–8:30pm—opening
Model Behavior, curated by Cynthia Davidson
First Floor Colonnade and Lobby
October 10, 6:30pm—exhibition lecture
Annabel Wharton, Models as Ethical Agents
Great Hall
October 13–November 6—exhibition
Beyond the Frame – SITU Research
Third Floor Hallway Gallery
October 13, 6:30pm—exhibition lecture
Beyond the Frame
Brad Samuels + Gauri Bahuguna SITU Research
Room 315
October 17, 7:30–9:30pm—roundtable
The Architecture Lobby’s Green New Deal Working Group, with Cooper Climate Coalition, A Just Transition for Architecture
Architectures of Transition
Moderated by Elisa Iturbe
Frederick P. Rose Auditorium
October 25–November 27—exhibition / October 25, 6:30pm—exhibition opening
Vkhutemas: Laboratory of the Avant-Garde, 1920–1930
Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery
November 1, 6:30pm—lecture
Eve Blau, Modernizing Baku: The Difference that Oil Makes
Architectures of Transition
Moderated by Elisa Iturbe
Room 315
November 4, 4–7pm—conference
EDIBLE; Or, The Architecture of Metabolism
Conference organized by Lydia Kallipoliti in conjunction with the Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2022
Peter Cooper Suite
November 8, 6:30pm—exhibition lecture
Kiel Moe, The Broken Model of Design
Great Hall
November 10, 6:30pm—lecture
Maria Giudici
Eleanor Petterson Lecture, and Architectures of Transition
Moderated by Elisa Iturbe
Room 315
November 15–December 6—exhibition
Dominic Leong: Leong Leong
Third Floor Hallway Gallery
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