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I am pleased to introduce this, the third annual Architecture The same year, the Architectural Alumni Association Esmond Shaw, by then Dean of the School of Art and at Cooper, and especially so, as this marks the 150th presented a $10 prize for the best set of plans and sections Architecture, hired John Q. Hejduk in 1964 and appointed anniversary of The Cooper Union for the Advancement and The Architectural Society of The Cooper Union was him Head of the Department of Architecture the next year. of Science and Art and the almost 150 years of the teaching formed with nearly one hundred students. Architectural In 1975, on the completion of his renovation of the Foundation of architecture at the school. Research by Steven Hillyer drawing, then, as now, was a centerpiece of instruction, with Building, John Hejduk was named the first Dean of the now and Sara Jones in the School of Architecture Archive the courses expanding in 1909 to graduate the largest class separate School of Architecture. has resulted in the timeline of great interest that you will (of forty) in the history of the institution. The downturns in the A brief outline of this kind only implies the complex internal find in this issue. economy and construction during the war years of 1917– development of the architecture program, which has never 1919 resulted in a reduction in the number of applications. The timeline shows us that only one year after the opening been static, in response to the development of the profession However, by 1925, applications were up and the initial version of the school, over one hundred students were entered into and its broader social and cultural context. For this reason of the Home Test, a “written intelligence test,” was required the first class in architectural drawing offered at the time by the School of Architecture is celebrating the 150th for the first time. It was later expanded in 1933 to include the Department of Night Instruction, leading to the formation anniversary of The Cooper Union with a comprehensive a test in “Spatial Relations and Vocabulary,” together with of a Department of Architecture three years later. The first exhibition, “Architecture at Cooper, 1859–2009,” opening an examination for applicants to show their ability to draw class of the four-year course in architecture graduated in in the fall of this year. The exhibition will trace the history geometric shapes and solve math problems, a test that 1887, and the alumni were numerous enough by 1898 to form of building and teaching architecture at The Cooper Union, was further elaborated in 1939. the Architectural Alumni Association. By 1904, there were accompanied by a series of lectures and discussions over a thousand applicants for courses in architectural But it was not until 1960 that the Art School proposed degree- on the present state of architectural education and its future drawing, among whom nearly seven hundred were admitted. granting courses in Architecture and Fine Arts in the Day challenges. I believe it is this future that the school, in its The Trustees reported that “The Evening Classes for School and was renamed The Cooper Union School of Art 35th year, is ready to confront, retaining the strong traditions Architectural Drawing have continued their very efficient work and Architecture. Under the leadership of Esmond Shaw, of design and thought while actively engaging with the through the term under the same masters as in the preceding an architect who had been teaching at The Cooper Union fundamental social and environmental questions that face year, and with their accustomed excellent and practical result. since 1935 and had served as Acting Director since 1945, us with such great urgency today. It does not appear that this result could be improved in the structure of the architecture curriculum was now defined character under existing limitations of time given to the work of as a five year program, beginning with a foundation course this course.” The description of the courses shows a carefully and culminating in a thesis. The program was to be calibrated drawing sequence, beginning in the first year with accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board instruction in the use of scales and dividers, pens and brushes, five years later: together with the copying of frame, brick, stone, and structures. The study of the classical Orders, together with First Year: (Foundation Course): Drawing I, Design the drawing of plans and elevations of modern buildings, (Three-Dimensional I), Design (Two-Dimensional I), followed in the second year. These exercises were continued Lettering I, Architectonics, History of Art, English Composition, in the third year, supplemented by the preparation of a Physical Education complete set of drawings from briefs and specifications. Second Year: Architectural Design I, Architectural Construction, The fourth year consisted of “an original design with details,” Graphics: Drafting and Descriptive Geometry, Perspective no doubt the origin of our present Fifth Year Thesis. and Rendering; Mathematics II, Physics I, Oral Interpretation, World Literature I, World Literature II By 1907 the Architecture Department had developed a formal Third Year: Architectural Design II, Mechanics of Materials description of its curriculum: "The Architectural Department and Structural Design I, Building Equipment I, Physics II, is divided into two distinct sections, one the Construction History of Architecture I, World Literature III & IV, Social section, in which the student is instructed in general building and Economic Institutions construction, the development of interiors, the preparation of Fourth Year: Architectural Design III, Structural Design II, plans and elevations for country houses, and original designs Building Equipment II, Working Drawings and Specifications, for city residences; while in the other section the student is Landscape Architecture, Site Planning, History of Architecture II, made conversant with the Orders, classical and other historical Contemporary Literature, Social Philosophy styles of architecture, interior development or decoration, Fifth Year: Architectural Design IV and Thesis, Structural and the preparation of a design for a city residence in one Design III, Professional Practice, Town Planning, Anthony Vidler of the styles taught. The course in either section is four years. and History of Architecture III Dean and Professor No entrance examination is required." The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture

CELEBRATING 150 YEARS OFTHECOOPERUNION LECTURES AND EVENTS

The Irwin S. Chanin Remo Guidieri: Surviving Italy STUDENT HONORS The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture/ School of Architecture/ The Architectural League of New York / Tuesday 10/14 2009 Benjamin Menschel Fellows The Architectural League Whitney Museum of American Art Espen Vatn and Alexander Wood: of New York Chimera Mojave Desert Friday 10/17 Buckminster Fuller Symposium Tuesday 10/28 Proposal: The production of a film to Craig Dykers, Co-founder, Snøhetta Birth of Molloy investigate the relation of myth, science Visionary designer, philosopher, poet, inventor, engineer, Current Work: Snøhetta Tuesday 10/21 and man in the Mojave Desert. Our and advocate for sustainability, Buckminster Fuller was project is itself an apocalyptic Western, one of the great transdisciplinary thinkers of the last century Tuesday 11/3 Blossoming Graves a clandestine experiment, and a with a legacy that extends to nearly every field of the arts Kengo Kuma, Founder and Principal, Friday 10/24 nomadic ritual. and sciences. He described himself as a “comprehensive Kengo Kuma & Associates Roman Graffiti anticipatory design scientist,” setting forth to solve the Current Work: Kengo Kuma & Associates 2009 Fulbright Fellow escalating challenges that faced humanity before they Introduced and moderated by Thursday 1/22 Anna Kostreva, South Africa became insurmountable. This symposium took its cue from Kenneth Frampton, Ware Professor Christine Hawley, Dean of the Proposal: I will be studying Fuller’s dictum, “I always say to myself, what is the most of Architecture, Graduate School Faculty of the Built Environment, architecture, democracy and urban important thing we can think about at this extraordinary of Architecture, Planning, and The Bartlett School of Architecture reinvention in Johannesburg, moment,” and explored the diverse ways in which Preservation, Columbia University Bartlett Works and Other Things South Africa. I plan to work with young contemporary scholars and practitioners are pushing Fuller’s Tuesday 11/8 Tuesday 2/24 people to create an exhibition about ideas and projects into the 21st century. Adriaan Geuze, Founder and Principal, Nicholas Boyarsky, Partner, post-apartheid urbanism. Friday 9/12 West 8 Boyarsky Murphy Architects Keynote Roundtable 2009 RTKL Traveling Fellowship Current Work: West 8 Off the Grid and Other Reversals Sanford Kwinter, Professor, School of Architecture, Co-sponsored by American Institute Noah Garcia, Ghana Rice University of Architects New York Chapter, The School of Architecture Michael Sorkin, Professor of Architecture and Director, the Governors Island Preservation and Student Lecture Series 2009 KPF Traveling Fellowship Graduate Urban Design Program, City College of New York, Education Corporation and the New Espen Vatn, Rome, Marseille, Berlin Fall 2008 Principal, Michael Sorkin Studio York Chapter of the American Society Moderator: Anthony Vidler, Professor and Dean, The Irwin of Landscape Architects Thursday 9/25 Lotus Club Foundation S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union Elizabeth Grosz, Professor, Women’s Bert L. Stern Award Thursday 11/20 Introduction: Allegra Fuller and Gender Studies, Rutgers University Anna Kostreva Wolf D. Prix, Co-founder, Saturday 9/13 Coop Himmelb(l)au Thursday 10/30 Graduate Study On Architecture, Design, and Science Enrique Walker, Professor, Graduate Current Work: Coop Himmelb(l)au This year graduating students Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor, Introduced and moderated by School of Architecture, Planning and and recent graduates were offered Department of Physics, Director, Collection of Historical Thom Mayne, Principal, Preservation, Columbia University admission to the following graduate Scientific Instruments, Harvard University mOrphosis Architects, Inc. Under Constraint programs: Yale School of Architecture, Chuck Hoberman, Designer, Artist, Engineer, and Inventor Thursday 11/6 Columbia University Graduate Felicity Scott, Professor, The Graduate School of Architecture, The 2009 Eleanore Pettersen Lecture Michael Sorkin, Professor of School of Architecture, Planning and Planning and Preservation, Columbia University Thursday 4/2 Architecture and Director of the Preservation, Harvard Graduate School Anthony Vidler, Professor and Dean, The Irwin S. Chanin Billie Tsien, AIA, Partner, Graduate Urban Design Program, of Design, University of Pennsylvannia School of Architecture of The Cooper Union Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects City College of New York; Principal, School of Design, Technische Universiteit Moderator: K. Michael Hays, Eliot Noyes Professor of Women’s Work is Never Done Michael Sorkin Studio Delft (The Netherlands), Princeton Architectural Theory, Co-Director, Doctoral Programs, University School of Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Adjunct The Annual Eleanore Pettersen Lecture Eutopia Now! Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Curator of Architecture, Whitney Museum of American Art was established in honor of Cooper Friday 11/21 University of California San Diego. Union alumna Eleanore Pettersen Jan Edler, Co-founder, realities:united On Influence and Contemporary Art through a generous donation to the Realitites: United! Carol Bove, Artist Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture. Pedro Reyes, Artist The lectures, dedicated to the voices Spring 2009 Elizabeth A. T. Smith, Chief Curator and Deputy Director of women in architecture, is a lasting for Programs, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Thursday 1/29 tribute to Ms. Pettersen, her significant Victoria Vesna, Artist David Turnbull, Professor, impact in the world of architecture, Moderator: Dana Miller, Associate Curator, The Irwin S. Chanin School of and her love of The Cooper Union. Whitney Museum of American Art Architecture of The Cooper Union This symposium ran in conjunction with the exhibition The 2009 Feltman Lectures It is not what it is_it is what it does Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe, on view at the and Seminar Thursday 2/5 Whitney Museum of American Art, June 26–September 21. Mark Linder, Professor and Chairman, Monday 4/27 Graduate Program, School of Simone Giostra, Founder, Architecture, Syracuse University The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Simone Giostra and Partners Architects The New Liberalism: Banham Re-runs of The Cooper Union /The Architectural League GREENPIX: Media, Content Thursday 3/5 of New York /Parsons The New School for Design / and Performance Marshall Berman, Distinguished The India China Institute of the New School Monday 5/4 Professor of Political Science, City With thanks to Cornell University College of Architecture, Chris Allen, Creative Director, College of New York and The Graduate Art and Planning, Mark Fletcher, and AD magazine for their The Light Surgeons, London Center, City University of New York support of the conference. True Fictions and Other Stories Thursday 3/12 EMERGING EXCHANGES: NEW ARCHITECTURE OF INDIA Monday 5/11 Rahul Srivastava and Matias Echanove, Keynote by Arjun Appadurai Charles Stone, President, Urbanologists, Mumbai Convened by Kazi Ashraf and Brian McGrath Fisher Marantz Stone, Inc. Dharavi (Mumbai): Mess n’ More Participants include: Himanshu Burte, Prem Chandavarkar, Light is the Messenger Thursday 4/9 Kenneth Frampton, Soumitro Ghosh and Nisha Mathew, The Feltman Lectures and the Feltman Reinhold Martin, Co-founder, Sudhir Jambhekar, Rajeev Kathpalia, Anupama Kundoo, Seminar are made possible by the Ellen Martin/Baxi Architects Reinhold Martin, Gurjit Singh Matharoo, Anuradha Mathur and Sydney Feltman Fund established and Dilip da Cunha, Rahul Mehrotra, Geeta Mehta, Thursday 4/23 at The Cooper Union to advance the Vyjayanthi Rao, Samira Rathod, Margie Ruddick and Diana Agrest, Professor, principles and benefits of lighting Tom Zook, Michael Sorkin, Neerja Tiku, and Billie Tsien The Irwin S. Chanin School design through the exploration of the and Tod Williams of Architecture of The Cooper Union, practical, philosophical, and aesthetic Co-founder and Principal, Agrest Thursday 4/30 attributes of light and illumination. and Grandelsonas Architects Keynote The 2009 Feltman Chair was held by Incursions in Architectural Discourse: “Architecture and Amnesia in Indian Modernity” Professor David Turnbull An Autobiography Arjun Appadurai, Goddard Professor for Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University The School of Architecture Lectures 2009 Faculty Talks /Sponsored Introduced by Anthony Vidler, Professor and Dean, by School of Architecture The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Thursday 10/2 Student Council of The Cooper Union Architects Draw—Freeing the Hand Panel Discussion to celebrate the Tuesday 3/3 Friday 5/1 publication Architects Draw by Kevin Bone, Professor, Partner and Conference Sessions Sue Ferguson Gussow Principal, Bone/Levine Architects Economic growth, euphoric urbanism, media technologies, transnational modes of production, as well as new state Panelists: Crafting a Life (In Architecture) and social dynamics are challenging India’s long-standing Sue Ferguson Gussow, Painter, Tuesday 3/31 modernist ethos, revising notions of culture, identity, Professor Emerita, The Irwin S. Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, Professor, practices, and obligations. This two-day conference Chanin School of Architecture of Principal, eiroa architects addressed the architectural and urban forms that are The Cooper Union Towards a New Autonomy: Enfolding emerging as a turbulent “second modernity” rearranging a Dore Ashton, Author, Professor Contemporary Canons vast part of the landscape of India. As a theater of these new of Art History, The Cooper Union Tuesday 4/14 challenges and conceptualizations, recent works of School of Art, Senior Critic in Anthony Vidler, Professor and Dean architecture and planning in India were explored through Painting/Printmaking, presentations by Indian and foreign architects working in Yale University School of Art Entering the Stirling Archive India, responses, panel discussions, and a keynote address Francois de Menil, Principal, FdM:Arch Thursday 4/16 by Arjun Appadurai. Steven Hillyer, Director, The Irwin S. Diane Lewis, Professor, Principal, Chanin School of Architecture Archive Diane Lewis Architect Michael Webb, Professor, Beat the Devil: Mies and Faust The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union Introduced by: Anthony Vidler, Dean, Elizabeth O’Donnell, Associate Dean, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union 3

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EXHIBITIONS Architects Draw–Freeing the Hand Demolished Manhattan Hotels: A History in Postcards Installed by the School of Architecture Archive October 2–14, 2008 Selections from The Joseph Covino New York City The Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. Gallery Postcard Collection In Memoriam Curated by Sue Ferguson Gussow and Steven Hillyer February 12–April 9, 2009 William Cooper Mack Curated by Barb Choit The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture recently April 2, 1982–June 3, 2008 celebrated the launch of Architects Draw, a book by Demolished Manhattan Hotels: A History in Postcards is a by way of observation Sue Ferguson Gussow, Professor Emerita at the School selection from the Joseph Covino New York City Postcard September 19–26, 2008 of Architecture. Released as the inaugural volume Collection, held at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture The Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. Gallery of the Architecture Briefs series published by Princeton Archive. Donated by Joseph Covino in three separate Curated by Steven Hillyer and Raha Talebi Architectural Press, Architects Draw outlines Gussow’s installments between 1999 and 2003, the collection consists pedagogy of teaching freehand drawing to architects of thousands of postcards of New York City dating from the William Cooper Mack, Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture developed over more than thirty years at The Cooper Union. late-1800’s to the mid-1900’s. This exhibition presented class of 2006, died on 3 June 2008 following a four-month battle It is illustrated with drawings by one hundred twenty original postcards of eighteen Manhattan hotels, which have with acute leukemia. A tribute to Cooper (as he was known to five of Gussow’s Freehand Drawing and Advanced Drawing all since been demolished. The oldest hotel, Astor House, everyone at the School) was held on September 19 in the Arthur students, and includes the work of architects who was built in 1836, and the last surviving, the Hotel Hermitage, A. Houghton, Jr. Gallery, along with the opening of an employ freehand drawing as a significant component was destroyed in 1991. The postcards in this exhibition can installation to celebrate his academic and professional work. of their practice. be seen as a survey of buildings as they become obsolete, The installation, by way of observation, was the result of thereby adding a historical dimension to the postcards’ the collaborative efforts of colleagues, family and friends 3rd Floor Hallway Exhibitions original function as souvenirs. who knew and loved Cooper or came to know him through his work. These included Raha Talebi (AR ’05), the Mack Lost and Found: and Talebi families, fellow graduates from the class of 2006, The Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture, 1938–67 friends and neighbors from Rogers, Arkansas, current November 21, 2008–February 10, 2009 students, staff of the School of Architecture, the School Curated by Barb Choit and Steven Hillyer of Art, and the School of Architecture Archive. During the 2005–06 academic year, as preparations were The tribute brought together faculty, staff, and many alumni made to vacate the Hewitt Building, the Architecture Archive from The Cooper Union as well as professional colleagues, became involved in the process of a building-wide search extended family, and friends. Dean Anthony Vidler remarked for materials pertaining to the history of the institution. that Cooper’s “welding of tradition and research, technology The search brought to light a collection of photographs and science, art and architectonics in every way exemplified dating from 1938–1966. These documents expanded the the vision of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of scope of the Architecture Archive’s records, which had Science and Art as founded by the engineer and inventor previously dated from 1964. The photographs depict a time Peter Cooper in 1857. His quiet and persistent search for new during which Esmond Shaw was Head of the School of Art answers to old questions in architecture, together with his (which included the Department of Architecture), the interior open mind and his commitment to serve the community, was renovation of the Foundation Building designed by John recognized in awards, prizes, and positions of responsibility, Hejduk had not yet been initiated, and the pedagogy but above all in the example he gave of the potential for the documented in the 1971 Education of an Architect: A Point twenty-first century practice of architecture to transcend the of View, had not yet been developed. limits of tradition while remaining rooted in its principles.”

The William Cooper Mack Thesis Award has been established by Cooper’s family and friends in his honor at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture. These endowed awards will be made each year to students entering their thesis year of study to support the development of significant and original thesis projects through primary research and inquiry. Gifts of any size to the fund are greatly appreciated and can be made at any time to: The William Cooper Mack Thesis Award c/o The Cooper Union.

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ARCHITECTONICS “Correct” refers to the discipline imposed by the volumes DESCRIPTIVEGEOMETRYANDCOMPUTERAPPLICATIONS themselves, an understanding and appreciation of the Professor Michael Young FALLSEMESTER precise rules governing their formation. It also refers to the “The plane known through its traces” Professor David Gersten appropriate uses of different volumes to different uses, both Professor Anne Romme private and social. This year long course developed the student’s knowledge Professor Anthony Titus and skill in architectural representation through a close “Magnificent” refers to the capacity of the volumes to inspire Professor Uri Wegman examination of the geometric procedures that underlie our emotions, imaginations, and idealism. Precise geometric representation. The students are encouraged to develop a This year we focused on questions of individual creativity volumes are supreme human inventions. They link us with critical and creative approach to understanding the relations within a willing community and the capacity of the creative the very sources of human creativity. between conceptions, perceptions, tools, and techniques. imagination as a cultural and intellectual force. We began with two works of architecture that exemplify the aspirations FREEHANDDRAWING The fall semester topics include exercises on plane geometry, of these questions: Chandigarh, by Le Corbusier and The Professor Michael Webb proportion, and descriptive geometry. The constructive logic Seagram Building by Mies van der Rohe. The students drew Professor Jane Lea and graphic operation of interrelated orthographic projections these works in a full spectrum of scales and in multiple develops the student’s ability to visualize the relationship To use drawing, which can be defined as the precipitating* combinations of individual and group work. These studies between two-dimensional drawings and three-dimensional of meaningful marks on a 2D surface… to use drawing as a revealed the curve and the straight line, the transparent and building. The exercises work through related orthographic way of transforming and developing the base metals of those the opaque, within the space, structure and program of these projections, auxiliary projections, true shape /true length, ideas, was our avowed aim in this course. To this end we have two works. Following these studies, fragmentary volumetric surface development, and the intersections of surfaces offered assignments, the execution of which require a moments of each work were extracted, re-articulated and and solids. modicum of invention and design, what might be termed as assembled into a group site. This site was then brought to ‘thinks’ drawing. Thus, gingerly steering between the Scylla The spring semester investigates these geometric the city and juxtaposed and embedded within the high-line of Architectonics (where, inevitably, much instruction in techniques through other architectural representations. site along the west side of NYC constructing a new site drawing is given and design issues are complex) and the The themes in order are: Shade and Shadow, Oblique and of multiple horizons. Within this rich commingled site the Charybdis of Descriptive Drawing: Isometric, Perspective and Projective Geometry. These topics programs of Public Pool and Film House were pursued are investigated through manual drafting and the digital in small groups of students. The structure of each program Like: modeling program Rhino. Understanding the geometry was looked at and tested through the many questions and A scripted drawing: students developed a procedure, a script, within representation allows the students to investigate lenses of the site. What is light in a Public Pool? What is a set of instructions, and presented the drawing derived from differences and similarities between operating in a manual it in a Film House? What is gravity, in water, in film? Time? the same. or digital environment. Structure? Through intense work, debate, and creative We asked the students to respond graphically to a showing urgency the students created a new architectonic geography The coursework is documented in a series of notebooks that of the movie “Brazil.” The coincidence of the visit of within the constructed landscape of the site, they the students generate through weekly drawing assignments. Archigrammer Dennis Crompton with this program suggested re-imagined these programs, manifesting their questions These notebooks organize the material of the course into certain graphic techniques that might be employed. of the curve and the straight line, the transparent and a document that the students will be able to continually the opaque… it was magnificent. Such amusing moments from the movie engendered thoughts, reference throughout their architectural studies. In addition proposals for further developments and journeys of the to the notebook, there are six drawing experiments SPRINGSEMESTER imagination… DRAW THEM! Think like a child. Be uninhibited throughout the year. These experiments are opportunities for Professor Lebbeus Woods by the thoughts that assail adults like: “it can’t be done,” the student to creatively challenge and extend the exercises Professor Anne Romme “it’s impractical,” “it’s too expensive.” In conclusion, learned each week. Professor Anthony Titus remember that the brains behind this movie was Terry Professor Uri Wegman Gilliam, one of the Monty Python gang. To what extent is the tongue in the cheek? Le Corbusier’s dictum sums up well the spirit and focus of this studio course: *At the risk of the dreaded mixed metaphor, the dictionary’s definition of the word “precipitate” makes its use here “Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play appropriate: “condensation and deposition on a surface of of volumes assembled under light.” moisture from vapor.” Condensed from vapors ideas in the “Masterly” refers to the architect’s deep understanding of a student’s head are marks deposited on the sheet of paper. passion for geometric volumes, a prerequisite for deploying them well in architecture. Architectonics should deal with the basic volumes—cube, cylinder, pyramid, and cone. 8 11

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DESIGNII:FALLSEMESTER DESIGNII:SPRINGSEMESTER DESIGNIII:FALLSEMESTER Professor Michael Young Professor Kevin Bone Professor Tamar Zinguer Professor Felecia Davis Professor Felecia Davis Professor Lyn Rice Professor Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa Professor Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa Professor Stephen Rustow Professor Michael Young The fall semester of the Design II Studio sought to engage Professor Samuel Anderson, Building Technology issues of form, space and tectonic in architectural analysis Terra-Tectonics Professor Ashok Raiji, Environmental Technology and design. The semester consisted of a single project This studio developed small-scale architectural proposals During fall semester 2008, the Third Year Design Studio divided into three phases. Discussions and presentations for an imaginary site having specific geophysical properties. undertook the analysis of significant buildings designed throughout the semester dealt with contemporary and Each project was expected to address the properties of the and built during the twenty years following WWII, from historical arguments related to form understood through site and explore plan, section, and program as a synthesis 1945 to 1965. During that time, the architectural precepts conceptual logic and sensory experience. of spatial and programmatic strategies. established in the early years of twentieth century Five Baroque churches provided the stimulus for this work: modernism were already familiar, allowing for further The first five weeks of the studio were devoted to a series San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane—Francesco Borromini invention and experimentation with spatial concepts, site, of investigative probes. The site was studied through working Sant Ivo della Sapienza—Francesco Borromini material and form. models cast from the main CNC milled site model. The first San Andrea al Quirinale—Gian Lorenzo Bernini probe was focused on concepts of measuring and inscription. Each student chose a project from an assigned list. Following San Lorenzo—Guarino Guarini Using architectonic strategies the students proposed inter- the meticulous documentation of each building, the students Santa Maria in Campitelli—Carlo Rainaldi ventions that marked and measured conditions of the site. analyzed the spatial, tectonic, material and structural The first phase of the project documented the buildings Other probe exercises followed including movement aspects of the projects in addition to their site conditions and through plans, sections, elevations, physical models and and illumination. other environmental considerations. The studio addressed digital models. Due to the multiple and sometimes conflicting as a design project. It encouraged experimentation Students were then required to propose and develop their analysis sources of information regarding these buildings, a and the invention of a different methodology of examination. own program. Programs such as dwelling, places of substantial amount of historical and forensic research into Each student was asked to develop a system of documentation assembly and spaces for work were coupled with gardens, the buildings was required in order to construct a complete and representation that was particularly appropriate to the greenhouses, small-scale agricultural production, energy and interrelated set of documents and models. chosen building. A creative design process was thus initiated generation and water collection. Throughout the development by identifying analytic concepts in each of the structures and The second phase of the project consisted of individual of the program students were asked to return to the concepts then carrying those concepts through a comprehensive formal analysis. The students were asked to understand of the probes, critically bridging the distance between the series of drawings and models, thereby letting them transform formal organizations and concepts through analytical earthworks proposed as measure/marking and the our familiar knowledge of each one of those structures. drawings, diagrams and models. Varied trajectories taken architectural intervention motivated by use and occupation. Buildings (Partial list): by the students included primitive typologies, procedural The second half of the semester saw these projects as part Le Corbusier—Unite d’Habitation, Marseille, 1946–1952 transformations, historical processes, geometric configu- of a larger assemblage requiring designs to address Alvar Aalto–Baker Dormitory, MIT, rations, urban conditions, topological deformations, spatial and respond to the actions of the adjacent architectural Cambridge Massachusetts, 1947–1948 relations, tectonic articulations, and experiential sensations. propositions. A master plan evolved where ideas of James Stirling—History Faculty Library, Cambridge In the last phase of the semester, each student further interaction and the interweaving of individual works were University, England 1964–1968 articulated their analytical work by projecting aspects of the explored. All students were required to build an expression Alison and Peter Smithson—Hunstanton School, analysis beyond the specifics of the initial church reference. of their final project in the group site model. This site model Norfolk, 1949–1954 Emphasis was placed on the creative aspects of analysis that was both a working model and a presentation model that Mies Van Der Rohe—Crown Hall, IIT, 1950–1956 tie into the critical aspects of design to open possibilities for the allowed the students to test their individual projects in the Frank Lloyd Wright—Price Tower, extension of their findings into potential design methodologies. context of an ever-evolving community of projects. This Bartlesville Oklahoma, 1952–1956 aspect of the studio explored how particular architectural Louis Kahn—Trenton Bath House, 1954–1959 concepts in relation to the land become adaptable and Le Corbusier—Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, 1955 variable within a continuously changing landscape without Alvar Aalto—House of Culture, Helsinki, 1955–1958 also losing their own conceptual ground. Thus the expanded Hans Scharoun Berlin Philharmonic Hall, 1956–1963 definition of landscape as both real and imagined, personal Frank Lloyd Wright—Guggenheim Museum, 1956–1959 and communal, elemental and variable, natural and artificial. Frederick Kiesler—Shrine of the Book, Jerusalem, 1959–1965 Eero Saarinen—TWA Terminal at JFK, 1956–1962 Alvar Aalto—Vuoksenniska Church, Imatra 1956–1959 Le Corbusier—Convent of La Tourette, 1957–1960 Jorn Utzon—Sidney Opera House, 1957–1973 3

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DESIGNIII:SPRINGSEMESTER Throughout the semester, a regular sequence of pin-ups and Each project was developed in plan and section at two scales, Professor Stephen Rustow invited juries allowed for review of individual progress and a the urban and the intimate in models and drawings. The Professor Lyn Rice broader discussion of issues common to all projects. TOWER/ACROPOLIS proposed programs such as: residence Professor Tamar Zinguer and performance place for the musicians of Carnegie Hall, DESIGNIV:FALLSEMESTER diplomats congress library domicile facing the United Professor Samuel Anderson, Building Technology Professor Diane Lewis Nations, a street chapel at the west of Trinity Church, a Professor Elizabeth O’Donnell, Structures Professor Peter Schubert domestic tower with the town house block at Lincoln Tunnel, Professor Ashok Raiji, Environmental Technology Professor Thomas Tsang cinema theatres, studios and an archive spanning Houston Design III explores a single building type through a series Professor Mersiha Veledar Street, a university at St. Barts, a new wing for the Museum of analytical and design exercises over the course of the of Natural History, a “dovecote” museum tower facing JP TOWER / ACROPOLIS fall and spring semesters. This year the library was the Morgan at Wall Street, a bridge/theatre between Harlem and typological subject. The emphasis in the spring semester free | engaged | disengaged | relieved | imbedded | ghosted Columbia University in Morningside Heights, along with a was on the formal and tectonic possibilities that reside (removed, subtracted) | doubled | bundled | tangent | number of other programs specifically responsive to the in site and surround, in structural systems, in materials en framed | suspended existing conditions of the site. and the technological aspects of construction, first as axes These conditions for the architectural expression of a of analysis and then as parts of an integrative design process. DESIGNIV:SPRINGSEMESTER tower and that of an acropolis can be read into the existing Programmatic issues specific to the library typology were Professor Diana Agrest urban fabric to express new visions for the intrinsic character of particular importance, from the analysis of use/space Professor Thomas Leeser of Manhattan. components and their combination into a parti, to an extended Professor Masha Panteleyeva consideration of the place of reading in contemporary life This studio program is a challenge to define and locate these ARCHITECTURE OF NATURE / NATURE OF ARCHITECTURE and the diverse modes and media that frame it. two archetypes of urban form and spatial phenomenon: the tower and the acropolis in the fabric of Manhattan. The spring design work was preceded by a seminar in the fall, POTENTIALS which presented the history and origins of the library typology Manhattan is a city of towers from without, and rarely from Design IV Studio focused on the question of Nature from as well as a close reading of a number of library buildings, within, Seagrams and Chase being notable. the philosophical and scientific discourses that have both American and European, from the eighteenth century to explained it historically, to the transformations and present The tower has become a commercial typology that does not the present. Dean Anthony Vidler joined us in an exploration conditions of the natural world as it affects our modes of bear the spatial potency of its architectural meaning. The of the development of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, habitation. The natural elements considered were also the project was to locate towers and the civic spatial spans that can one of the most influential of modern libraries, as well as the ones that were present in Radiant City, such as Sun, Air, amplify their presence, at any scale from intimate to mile high. 1989 competition for its expansion. The work of Aalto, Green, plus Water and Soil. Each one of them implied a great Asplund and Kahn were examined in detail, as well as the The positioning of such conditions in Manhattan necessitates number of conditions that affect, and are affected by, our Carnegie program of library building in the United States. both intervention and/or the spatial redefinition of existing human environment. conditions at whatever scale the studio participant deemed For the design problem, two Manhattan sites were selected Architecture and all its urban modes of configuration is appropriate to both the tectonic and spatial demands of their and a program of approximately 50,000 sf was elaborated the locus where these conditions are enacted, going from proposed ideal civic program. that revised and updated the typical New York City branch the ideological concepts on which The Architecture Project library, which was built on the Carnegie model in the first The relation of form to program is tested and evaluated for is based to its interaction with the technological and the decades of the twentieth century. Special collection and its richness and redefinition of the strata of the city and a pragmatic domains. Historically, there has always been exhibition spaces were added, as well as a complement of continuum of civic to private activities in any selected area. an active interaction between these different levels of audio-visual and digital media spaces to the standard base architectural production, but they take a prominent position The project was developed through a series of required studies: program of stacks, reading rooms and circulation. at this moment in time. 1. THE VERTICAL AXIS OF MANHATTAN: A drawing of select The semester began with a two-week series of talks by each The subject of Nature in its many complex modes of interaction and definitive horizontal strata of the city fabric from both of the design faculty covering, in intensive fashion, the analysis with architecture, economics, the political, the ideological, inside and out. of site and program, structural concept design, the integration the scientific and technological, were examined at various of mechanical systems and the development of building 2. A PLAN ANAYLYSIS OF THE ACROPOLIS ATHENS: Each scales from the national to the regional and the local. enclosure with respect to climactic and performance issues. architect “read” the Acropolis for inspiration to a civic still life. “Potentials” was the leading concept for this exploration: The pedagogical objectives of the course hinged on the 3. AUTONOMOUS DERIVATION OF A TOWER: AN IDEAL potential sources, potential sites, potential elements, continuing development of students’ design skills with STRUCTURAL AND SPATIAL PLAN /SECTION RELATION potential new architectural/urban concepts. problems of increasing complexity and the thorough integration FOR A CONTEMPORARY TOWER—WITH & WITHOUT of ancillary and supporting contextual material including real Traditional concepts such as Site, Land Use, Density, INTEGRATION TO EXISTING FABRIC. site issues, program constraints, and technical considerations. Materiality, Ecology, and Energy were critically revised. 7 9

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THESIS:FALLANDSPRINGSEMESTERS To reach this goal the schedule for the spring semester was The layered curtain wall system envelops a clean space for Professor Anthony Vidler structured as three phases just like the fall semester, but the inhabitants while also giving them the capacity to form Professor Hayley Eber with increasing urgency and precision. a collective landscape: the clean air city. Professor David Turnbull . Through exploring continuous line 2008–2009 Thesis Proposals (a partial list): Roll Out Fabrication In the FALL SEMESTER we thought about how architects structures, the objective is to propose a method of construction research and draw PROCESSES, how they DRAW LIFE, and Gates for Fragments of the City (Gates for Seoul). Within the last that is separate from a kit-of-parts approach. The line serves how in relation to the LIFE of an architectural project the hundred years, Seoul has expanded ten fold and experienced as the building block that can take on many variations derived “site” could be interpreted as “milieu,” “genius loci,” “place,” abrupt changes including Japanese occupation (1910–45), from principles of weaving and knotting. The interest in this “space,” “environment,” “surroundings,” “context,” or the Korean War (1950–53), industrialization (1962–96), and process lies in the fact that the structure is not composed of “ecology.” Part of the semester was devoted to exploring the declaration of democracy (1987). During this period, the parts, but a single element taking on various functions within when and how and in what way these notions emerged, in city developed into fragments with little historical or spatial an integrated body. for example the “biosphere” in the 1920s, ecology in the 50s continuity. To reconstruct the comprehensive and cohesive and again in the 70s, etc., and how they were represented understanding that the city gates and walls once provided Self-portraiture as an architectural methodology for engaging . My thesis is woven through or “embodied” in architecture, to introduce a way of for the old city of Seoul, a network of gates will allow one in a spatial dialogue with others biographical and anatomical studies of my body. Neither self- understanding “green” as more than a pop buzz word and to understand a local part of the city in relation to the larger portraiture nor architecture exists as a destination in this ecological thinking as obligatory. city. A series of small towers are placed in each fragment project. My intent is to carry them through as adjacencies of the city, which create new datums throughout the city. In The identification and graphic description of ISSUES that in a journey to bridge two seemingly incompatible acts: self- these towers, material elements of the locality are gathered, Architects can take an active role in addressing provided the thinking self and self-thinking others. It is my hope to bring classified, stored, shared, and distributed. staring point—the Goal for the semester was the production the two practices together, as an act of mediation between of a beautiful BOOK of ISSUES, illustrating the purpose and Jaffa-Yafo: Reciprocal Urban Spaces in a Deurbanized City. self and the other through the construction of spatial mirrors. the supporting material that defines the student’s THESIS Jaffa’s neighborhoods are segregated along both national . The investigation of the properties of glass brings PROJECT. With each focus of research, the architectural and socio-economic lines. Over the period of Israeli rule, Jaffa Glass together the experiential nature of transparency and issue was foregrounded. In other words, in an effort to resist has been marginalized and deurbanized. The architectural reflection with the visual perception of these qualities. It a late translation of concepts into architecture, the student language of war and separation can be transformed into that takes Colin Rowe’s two types of transparencies, literal and would endeavor to ask inherently architectural questions of connectivity and sharing. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict phenomenal, and proposes a third condition in which the where possible. has produced built artifacts of separation and enclosure. physical experience of these qualities informs the spatial However, because of the sharing of infrastructure and life in The fundamental principle guiding our thoughts about the organization of the building. undefined borders, porosity is maintained despite walls and structure of the SPRING semester was that by May 13th, the barriers. Jerusalem Boulevard, the main axis of the city, . Taking a far leap forward students would have a substantial portfolio of work that is Flooded: Redesigning the City Block is now being transformed by a light train track placed where in time, to when sea level has risen to about 25 feet, the comprehensive and coherently organized. The portfolio will a promenade once was. Reciprocal urban spaces will be city block is now flooded and independent from the city contain: books, folders, sketchbooks, diaries, drawings, created around it, in which the identities of the two peoples infrastructure and must sustain itself. My project focuses on diagrams, photomontages, CD-ROMs, DVDs, using any and can coexist and contribute to one another, and allow for the the redesign of the City Block in the flooded urban landscape. all modes of description or representation that explain the urban potential of the city to reemerge. Changes in the spaces of the existing buildings and a large breadth and richness of the research and the sophistication roof structure that is suspended above the block are the main of the architectural proposition(s). . My thesis is about an obsession with 54 Concrete cylinders aspects of this project. identical concrete cylinders, which exist in a monumental It was our goal that the FINAL REVIEW and the end of year abandoned grain silo. Their pureness, in form and material, . The port city of EXHIBITION of THESIS work would include the presentation Famagusta: Refuge within a Ghost Town the extruded circle and the concrete, are together the Famagusta, or Ammoxostos, was once a prosperous of EVERY thought and action that has been necessary to nostalgia of a significant past. The cylinders are innocent and commercial and industrial center of Cyprus. In the summer arrive at the student’s architectural proposition. The final pure, almost perfect. The only thing missing is the experience of 1974, Turkey invaded Cyprus and captured 38% of the presentation is designed to communicate the following: of them. The cylinders need life. island, including a major part of the district of Famagusta. architectural drawings of the highest quality shown WITH Most of the city was evacuated by its over 40,000 Greek explanatory text and diagrams integrated into the drawings, . Breathing room is a housing project for Breathing Room inhabitants. The city has since remained barricaded and photographs, models (digital and physical) on the wall, the three prototypical sites with excessive air pollution problems: unoccupied. A plant nursery and center for refugees will be floor, the ceiling, on a screen or screens, on paper, in any Linfen, China; Norilsk, Russia; and La Oroya, Peru. Each of placed within an existing abandoned building on the eastern form that is necessary. We hoped that the last four weeks these cities has the volatile combination of unmitigated most point of the green line. of THESIS would be used as a time for the systematic industry and a mountainous landscape. Pollution particles PROCESSING of the presentation material—the are attracted to a dry filter on the main facade of the building REFINEMENT of the presentation and REHEARSAL of and to a wet filter on the facade facing the mountains, presentation technique. thereby resolving the elevations by means of accumulating, sorting, recycling and articulating microscopic matter. 1 3

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Kantan. Traveling in search of enlightenment, Rosei naps at Watershed. An area of the Delaware River basin and the that accept the present (abandoned) state of the three towns an inn where he rests his head on the pillow of Kantan and New York City watershed overlaps with the Marcellus shale, and embrace this state as an ideal condition are a Bee Farm, sees himself in a dream as great and powerful. On an ancient natural gas bearing shale plate; it is the largest a Press and a Seedbank. awakening, he realizes it was only a vision, and reconciling to reserve in the country. Drilling in the watershed threatens . Every scale of view can provide his life, returns to his native village. the source of drinking water for millions of people down- Scale as a generative tool a certain amount of specificity and a certain amount of stream and poses a major economic, ecological, and . In traditional Buddhist temples, the sound generality. When we think of an individual architectural Vertical Temple environmental catastrophe. I propose a series of water of chanting or instruments reverberates in open air or inside program alone, we may imagine something different than monitoring facilities/conference halls located at different a single hall. A vertical temple, an urban element, is created if we imagine that same program working with other points along the Delaware River. Leading up to the facilities by a layer of platforms in an enclosure with voids where the programs. This project focuses on the disjunction between borehole, water and air samples will be taken within the sound of the ritual spreads vertically throughout, for the the way the architect designs the part and the way the basin that get tested in the laboratory. These nodes along collective experience of the ceremony. architect designs the whole. It attempts to create with this the river provide people upstate and downstate with a place disjunction and to display it. Perception of the mountains in the city of Seoul. The thesis to meet and realize the necessity to constantly monitor our investigates the current condition of the four mountains, natural resources and safeguard not only the places and The Mediterranean region is increasingly becoming a desert which were carefully chosen as the boundary of the old city, environments we love so much, but our investments and our climate, changing rapidly with risks of desertification and in relation to the expanded city of Seoul. At the beginning health; within the conference halls, the true “currency” extreme heat waves. A site is determined by its specific of the city in 1394, shrines for the city (village) to the north of the river will be discussed. climatic qualities: wind, archaeological ruins, dry land, heat and the south, a shrine for the ancestor to the east, and a waves, topography, seawater, layered archaeological ruins, . The constant motion of a world shrine for the agriculture to the west were constructed in The Tower in the Desert extreme tourism patterns. The proposal questions variations in development affords exuberant possibilities and freedom, relation to the mountains that were imbued with sacred and of temperature and cooling—the notion of progressing from but requires also sacrifice, suffering, and subservience. mythical figures. The current perception of the mountains hot to cold and how it can be filtered through architectural This dichotomy is endemic to the practice of architecture as the last vestige of the nature left in the city leaves out and programmatic elements. This is a project operating on and gives rise to ethical questions every architect must face. the significance of the mountains as the once structural and under the terrain, cooling down, shading, varying the Studying Dubai and the Burj Dubai as exemplars of 21st- elements of the city. The benefit of the higher topography degrees of exposure to heat and ultimately redefining the dry century conditions, a first tentative step toward an ethical is being exploited to view the city, rather than allowing the land. Once cooled down, a fertile topos preserving and practice of architecture performs a spatial critique of the experience of the mountains themselves. Thus the proposal enhancing the historical and mythological layers embedded powers and forces that underlie them. is to provide space to view trees, structures, and the onto the landscape emerges. mountains on different parts of the city by reconsidering the , Heteronativity, Heteronaivety Heteronormativity . Halfway houses provide non-discriminatory conventional notion of the frame and exploring the relation Heteronormative, Heteronative, Heteronaive Halfway House medical attention and social guidance, but do not curb between the structural element and the cone of the vision. Heteronorm, Her-Norm, He-Norm, Hetero(ig)nor(ance), recidivism or the underlying motives of the prison industrial Hetero(ab)norm(ality) . A redesign of the Amsterdam complex. In order to effectively break the cycle of recidivism, New York : New Amsterdam Heterotopia Houses, a public housing site in New York City, will begin the halfway house must play a stronger, more definitive role by reintroducing street life to the site of this post-war Tidal Shelter. Traditional farming uses: 1 liter of water=1 by improving crime-ridden communities, encouraging superblock. The project involves the addition of community calorie of food. Through transforming tidal energy into exchange with other “rungs” of the socio-economic ladder, programs and outdoor public and semi-public spaces in reverse-osmosis performative architecture, the prototype and providing a place to learn, grow, and acquire skills. Three a structure that connects the existing buildings with the project provides an ideal hydroponic farming system on sites were chosen that have a specific relationship to the Manhattan street grid. This is a case study for creating more the surface of the ocean. This structure provides clean, prison, including a small prison town in upstate New York diverse and self-sufficient communities out of existing public drinkable water through humidification and condensation, and an inner-city neighborhood whose dense populations and housing blocks. a protective shelter in emergencies, and is infinitely high arrest rates “export” prisoners to other facilities in less transportable and expandable. populated areas. A Campus for the Languages of South Africa. Johannesburg is the geographic center of many different language groups. Bentley, Bodie, and Romerosa: Three Towns. This project Farm prototype in Poland. Family farms utilizing traditional It was also the epicenter of the student uprisings in 1976, begins with a research on abandoned towns in Spain and methods of working the land dominate Poland. The integration which protested the dominance of Afrikaans and acted as the the United States. I studied their birth, their life and their of Poland with the European Union results in unprofitable pivot-point towards meaningful democracy in South Africa. death as an archeologist examines the fossils of an ancient fields becoming vacant. The farmland is sold for pieces; By subverting an apartheid-era Court House with a campus civilization. I focused my research on the church, the single family homes selected from architectural catalogues for languages, the urban space of Johannesburg will commissary and the post-office, because these buildings rise up in place of crops. My thesis reinvents the region’s transform. Through strategies of opposition, networking, are the measure of order that embody the identity of the agriculture and reorganizes the community lost within the and dividing, transitions apparent in the city will be manifest town. These contemporary ruins have become places of myth suburbanization. A farm prototype intervening on an existing in architecture. and beauty, but the often-terrifying juxtaposition of a grand block of houses creates a coop, an agricultural park, and a past with an insignificant present makes these spaces geothermal bath. unbearable for the architectural practice. Three interventions 5

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ADVANCEDDRAWINGSEMINAR ADVANCEDCONCEPTS,MAPPING COMPUTERGRAPHICS,IMAGEPROCESSINGANDVISION Professor Sue Ferguson Gussow Professor Joan Waltemath Professor Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa Having explored the fundamental vocabulary of freehand The technological developments that have given us Google This course revisited the contemporary potential for an drawing in first year, students enrolled in the Advanced maps and GPS systems have called for a reassessment of architecture autonomy through the reconsideration of Drawing Seminar were encouraged to develop an ongoing the traditional notions of the spatial representations we call canonical structures to find a strategy to redefine post- series of drawings based on themes of their own choosing. maps. When the camera was invented, photography forced structuralism as a continuity of structuralism. The testing At this level of drawing education, the student’s task is to the traditional discipline of painting to reassess its relevance of the structuralist strategies of Wittkower’s Palladian Villas create drawings that incorporate themes that have grown as well as its possibilities; cartography now faces a similar diagrams, Rowe’s Palladio – Le Corbusier diagram, Hejduk’s in the crucible of each individual imagination, thought and crisis. JB Harley and David Woodward’s pioneering project Texas Houses, and Eisenman’s Houses series, in relation experience. In working toward that goal, the basic concepts to collect maps from all cultures around the globe began to contemporary post-structuralist canons, provided an axis of drawing, previously attained, are essential. But beyond at the University of Chicago and is still underway; it served of reference to revise a more critical role of deconstruction that, in the process of exploring media and means to achieve as a point of departure for this course as well as a source for avoiding its current iconographic tergiversation. that end, technique is simultaneously honed. many diverse examples of mapping. A second generation of The intention of this content-oriented workshop was to scholars, collected in Denis Cosgrove’s “Mappings,” provides The course sought to expand the student’s range of skills, critically relate the autonomy of architecture to the virtual grounding for the continuing discourse around this important vocabulary and fluency in the language of drawing and to space of the computer, using specific software strategies. shift. The class was set up as a dialogue with students develop in each an imprimatur informed by internal necessity. Surface writing and parametric design as algorithms relied through a series of lectures and responses from students both on analog and digital strategies between sketches, The seminar met weekly for extensive group and individual in visual form. Photoshop, AutoCAD, MathCAD, Rhino and MAYA software. critiques, with the input of occasional distinguished guest The exercise was presented with an animated digital critics. Among those visiting in the Fall 2008 semester were THEFELTMANSEMINAR simulation that reworked time-based sequential diagrams Dore Ashton, Karen Bausman, Charles Kreckelberg and Professor David Turnbull that indexed and edited its constitutional process. Jesse Reiser. NIGHT VISION Students developed a series of diagrams to analyze and develop CROSSINGS Last year my take on LIGHT was simple: energy and LIGHT alternative possible problems implicit in the relationships Professor Anthony Candido are inextricably linked to matter and power. LIGHT is the within a generic nine square grid structure and possible message carrier of the 21st century and LIGHT ‘in itself’ is further displacements to achieve other consequential spatial My experience in my own work and in observing others’ at the center of environmental discourse (as it was in the 11th transformations that would overcome the original given type. accomplishments is that in order to achieve something century in Europe so it is now…) so the seminar started with meaningful and unique we must relinquish pre-conceptions a journey from the Abbe Suger in St. Denis initiating the and proceed along an unfamiliar path. One may have the soaring light filled spaces of Gothic architecture via the Light desire to do something but will not know it until it appears. Sabers of Darth Vader’s crew, 20th Century Science Fiction At that time he or she will recognize it, and it will be as fresh and Fact, to the contemporary condition where optical fiber to that person as to others. It is the kind of experience a lights up with information and where everything has an IP painter or architect might have upon awakening in the address—the intersection of Informatics and Ecology. morning and when viewing the work of the night before, This journey involved encounters with unbelievable beauty, seeing it as if for the first time. There is something immutable incomparable ugliness, conspiracy, tragedy, and ecstasy, that distinguishes architecture from just another building. dreams and nightmares, life and death, in heaven and on Nevertheless we have to deal with dynamic factors such earth. It ended in DARKNESS, in and at the sea. This is where as program, conditions, and technology without losing sight we started, swimming in the ocean, near the seabed, almost of our spiritual goals. In my view, in order to arrive at blind, surrounded by unseen, alien eyes. We then learned architecture, a totally plastic resolution must be achieved. how to love the dark and everything that happens in I wrote of drawings of mine in a sketchbook from 1956, “They darkness. We taught ourselves to see in the DARK, and to see are the seeds of an insight—the beginning of the fulfillment those paradoxical optical effects that are only visible when it of a vision. They are virgin material... genuine. Every mark is is dark. The lectures and discussions grappled with the need clearly there in drawing out the content.” In that same article for darkness and techniques for addressing the 21st century I also wrote, “For me, plasticity is the content bearer.” problem of an unacceptable, energy consuming, surplus of Content in art and architecture, the use of a sketchbook/diary light, and ‘The END of NIGHT.’ The students invented, drew as a repository of initial and unedited thoughts and insights, and fabricated devices for seeing in the dark or for seeing its importance in the development of a project and its darkness. These were exhibited at the end of the seminar significance in the creative process, was a major focus of in a celebration of NIGHT VISION. this seminar. Guests Speakers Friday 11/7 TOWN PLANNING in Scheduled Classes Ackbar Abbas, Author, Professor Professor David Grahame Shane and Chair, Department of Comparative Tuesday 9/30 ADVANCED TOPICS Literature, U C Toby Cumberbatch, Professor Professor Anthony Vidler Irvine of Electrical Engineering, The Albert Friday 10/3 Still Life: The City and Film Nerken School of Engineering Kevin McLaughlin, Professor of Friday 11/14 of The Cooper Union English and Comparative Literature Hartmut Frank, Architect, Historian, Ghana Mud-Block: Villages and and German Studies, Department Author, Professor, Hamburg University. Dogon Settlements 1 of English, Brown University The Two Berlins: Urban History and Tuesday 10/21 Friday 10/10 Political Systems Anthony Vidler, Professor and Dean, Detlef Mertins, Professor of Friday 11/21 The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania Mark Jarzombek, Author, Professor, Architecture of The Cooper Union School of Design History and Theory of Architecture, The Enlightenment and Imperial City: School of Architecture and Planning, Paris, from Rimbaud to Benjamin Friday 11/14 MIT Eduardo Cadava, Professor of English, Tuesday 10/28 Princeton University Ward Verbakel, Professor, Department ADVANCED CONCEPTS of Architecture, Urban Design and Friday 12/5 Professor Georg Windeck Regional Planning, Katholieke Thomas Y. Levin, Professor of German, Thursday 2/12 Universiteit Leuven Princeton University Daniel Schuetz, Architect, French Colonial and Post-Colonial Design Friday 12/12 Munich/New York Strategies in Asian Cities Andreas Huyssen, Professor of Recent Trends in Masonry Construction Tuesday 2/10 German and Comparative Literature, Thursday 3/5 Roberto Sanchez, Professor of Columbia University 2 Robert Silman, President, Environmental Sciences, Robert Silman Associates University of California, Riverside ADVANCED CONCEPTS Panama Modern and the Canal Zone Professor Kevin Bone Falling Water: Structural Intervention, In Time Tuesday 2/17 Monday 10/27 Thursday 4/16 David Gouveneur, Professor, Albert F. Appleton, Professor, Will Laufs, PhD, Vice President of Departments of Landscape Graduate Program in Urban Affairs Specialty Structures, Thorton Tomasetti Architecture and City and Regional and Planning, Hunter College Use of Glass in Building: Planning, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania CROSSINGS: ON SITE Technological Evolution Caracas Modern History + Medelin Professor Elizabeth O’Donnell BUILDING TECHNOLOGY Slum Rehab Examples Monday 9/8 Professor Samuel Anderson Tuesday 2/24 Raymond Mark, Project Manager, Wednesday 10/15 Dennis Crompton, Architect, Author, F.J. Sciame Construction Co., Inc. Jon Maas, Project Manager, Co-founder, Archigram Design Assist: The Façade The Paratus Group, LLp Japanese Megastructures 2 Monday 10/6 Case Study: Glass, Steel & Concrete: Thursday 3/5 Pavel Getov, Project Architect, The Toledo Art Museum's Glass Pavilion Crompton 99¢ CHARRETTE mOrphosis Architects, Inc. by Sanaa Origins of Archigram Organizers: Design Development Wednesday 3/4 Professor Uri Wegman Tuesday 4/7 Monday 11/10 Mark Kolodjaczek, Architect Professor Anne Romme Roxanne Ryce-Paul, Architect Jean Oei, Job Captain and Project Approved as Noted: Shop Drawings and Urban Planner, EcoEcoBuilding On a beautiful spring day in April, a group of seventeen students Designer, mOrphosis Architects, Inc. and Collaboration with Fabricators Town Planning and Historic devoted a Sunday to a full-scale, full-value experiment, in an Site Walk-Through Wednesday 4/1 Conservation in Trinidad attempt to establish a creative exchange of ideas. The goal was Thursday 11/13 Mark DuBois, Partner, Ohlhausen to explore the relationship between architecture, the value Kurt Clandening, Structural Engineer, DuBois Architects ADVANCED TOPICS of money, the city, and the potential of inventive, collaborative John A. Martin & Associates Case Study: Architectural Concrete Professor Suzan Wines efforts. In exchange for depositing their wallets for the day, Design, NAB students were given the challenge of going out to the city in Structural and Structural Glass Walls in a Monday 4/13 search of materials and tools for construction of an inhabitable New Mexico House Robert Neuwirth, Journalist and Author Monday 11/3 space using nothing but a budget of 99 cents per person. Jeff Thompson, P.E., L.E.E.D., Bruo Wednesday 4/15 The Extroverted City of System D Happold Consulting Engineers and Aleksey Lukyanov, Member, The participants divided themselves into 5 groups, each Monday 2/23 Natalia Traverso-Caruana, Project SITU Studios responsible for a single surface of the space to be built: Elliot D. Sclar, Professor of Urban Designer, mOrphosis Architects, Inc., four walls and a roof. Each surface was assigned a physical CNC: Digital Technology in Fabrication Planning, School of International characteristic and each wall was required to have an Modeling, Analyzing, and Constructing and Design/Build and Public Affairs, Director, Center opening/entrance. The roof was to embody opacity; each wall the Mega-mesh for Sustainable Urban Development, HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE II was to manifest transparency, porosity, elasticity or reflectivity. Monday 11/3 Columbia University Professor Anthony Vidler Peter Simmonds, Ph. D., P.E. The Millennium Development Goals Mapping the students’ search for materials and tools, we Advanced Technology Group, Friday 3/13 and the City noticed how our understanding of the city as a social, cultural, I.B.E. Consulting Engineers Steven Nelson, Associate Professor and economic construct influenced choices of movement and Monday 3/2 of African and African American Art interaction. Gradually the lobby of the architecture school was Thermal Comfort Design in the NAB Smita Srinivas, Assistant Professor History, UCLA transformed into a construction site of innovative materials and of Urban Planning, Graduate School Bi-weekly site visits led by construction techniques, and by then end of the day, after of Architecture, Planning, and Ryan Murphy, Project Manager, Friday 4/3 intense negotiations and collaboration, an inhabitable structure Preservation, Columbia University F.J. Sciame Construction Co., Inc. Michael Hays, Eliot Noyes Professor appeared. We celebrated the efforts with invited guests, a of Architectural Theory, Harvard Industrial and Technological Changes: discussion and a dinner. ADVANCED CONCEPTS University Graduate School of Design Indian Cities and Regions in Perspective Professor Diana Agrest The Vicissitudes of Surface, 1956 to 1966: Monday 3/9 Friday 10/3 Mies in America, Venturi Viren Brahmbhatt, Visiting Assistant Carlos Brillembourg, Author, Principal, Friday 4/17 Professor, Pratt Center for Planning MASTEROFARCHITECTUREII Carlos Brillembourg Architects Hays: The Structuralization of the City: & the Environment, Pratt Institute, INAUGURALCLASS Architecture and Poetry, Raul Villanueva Rossi, Rowe Principal, de.Sign This spring, the School of Architecture received over 80 applications for its new Master of Architecture II degree and Cesar Vallejo Friday 4/24 Architecture of Disjuncture: Transformation and Transmutation program. The Master of Architecture II is a full scholarship, Friday 10/10 Hays: The Textualization of the Object: of Cities Under Globalization design research, post-professional degree program; Jean Louis-Cohen, Sheldon H. Solow Eisenman and some progeny applicants must have a first professional degree in Professor, History of Architecture, Friday 5/01 ADVANCED CONCEPTS, MAPPING architecture (Bachelor of Architecture or Master of New York Univeristy Hays: Encounters: Hejduk and progeny Professor Joan Waltemath Architecture I) from a program accredited by the NAAB The City and Political Movements or equivalent accrediting agency in another country. Friday 5/8 Thursday 1/29 Friday 10/17 The program will serve professionals who wish to continue Hays: Peter Fend, Artist, Founder, Ocean Sarah Whiting, Architect, Historian, Spacing and Event: in practice with higher research and design skills, prepare Earth Development Corporation Author, Assistant Professor, Tschumi, Koolhaas individuals who wish to develop parallel careers in teaching, (OCEAN EARTH) School of Architecture, Wednesday 5/13 and/or provide an opportunity to engage in research toward Princeton University Vikram Prakash, AIA, Professor, Thursday 3/26 an appropriate Ph.D. degree at another institution. Diane Lewis, Professor, The Public Sphere: Architecture Department of Architecture, The program will begin in Fall 2009 with a class of 7 students. The Irwin S. 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Raimund Abraham, Architect Preservation, Columbia University, Following two semesters of design studio and seminar Director, Temple Hoyne Buell Center coursework, each Master of Architecture student will for the Study of American Architecture complete a thesis during the final semester of the yearlong Form: Architecture, Art, Literature program, to be held during the summer session. The thesis Friday 10/31 presentations of this inaugural class will be held during the Rose Lee Goldberg, Author, first week of classes of the 2010–2011 academic year, and Performance Art Producer, Director of will be open to all students and faculty of the school. “Performa” performance Art Biennial, Faculty, NYU. Affecting the City through Performance 5 7

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ARCHITECTURE AT COOPER 3: 08–09

FACULTY AND STAFF ACTIVITIES 2008–2009

The current work of Professor Diana Agrest includes the Professor Anthony Candido is currently working on an Professor David Gersten lectured and participated in the John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park. This 4.5 acre exhibition to celebrate his teaching work at The Cooper Union round tables for “Creative Imagination in the Shadow of Sculpture Park in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, is the site since 1959, scheduled for Winter 2010 in The Arthur A. Oppenheimer,” Harvard University Graduate School of Design, for a major collection of contemporary Sculptures donated Houghton, Jr. Gallery. The exhibition will be a cross-section and “The Polymorphic Characteristics of Disciplinary to the Des Moines Art Center to be exhibited to the public of his independent work in architecture, painting, and Education,” Rhode Island School of Design, and lectured on land given by the city, with completion expected in August drawing, which are related to his teaching and will highlight at Parsons School of Design and City College of New York. 2009. The Gateway Design Initiative for the City of Newark his Urban Farm Project and the architecture of what he calls, His essay, “Playing with Broken Glass,” was published in Office of the Mayor/Division of Planning & Community, Cable Cities and City Forms. He has been the artist in Works in Progress, RISD. Gersten is working on a set of prints, “This Is Newark, Gateway Design Initiative” program, is part residence for the Nancy Meehan Dance Company since 1970 “Hunting Life Figures,” with master printmaker Lorenzo of a gateway improvement program on city owned sites at and designed and made the costumes for the company’s Clayton, which will be part of a forthcoming portfolio of artists highway off ramps and local street crossings. The first phase 2009 season at St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery. published by The Cooper Union School of Art. In addition to implementation will be Fall 2009. Professor Agrest lectured teaching at The Cooper Union and RISD, he conducted a series at the Ecole Pratique en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France Collections Assistant in the School of Architecture Archive, of interdisciplinary critiques in the Graduate Studies Division and at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Barb Choit has presented two solo exhibition projects: of the Rhode Island School of Design. Cooper Union. She also participated in the conference an installation at Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA and “Metropoles en Mirroir,” organized by L’ Institut d’Etudes a performance at Forever & Today, New York, NY. Group Professor Sue Ferguson Gussow’s book, Architects Draw Avances, Paris, France. exhibitions include, “The Longest Train I Ever Saw,” Rachel (Princeton Architectural Press) was launched with a panel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY and “Local,” curated by The discussion in The Great Hall and a concurrent exhibition, Visiting Professor Samuel Anderson presented a paper to Apartment, Fillip Studio, Vancouver, Canada. This summer “Freeing the Hand” in the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. Gallery on the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums and lectured at the she will be an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio October 2, 2008. Introduced by Anthony Vidler and Elizabeth American Institute for Conservation’s Annual Meeting. His Center, preparing for her two solo exhibitions this fall. O’Donnell, the panelists, Gussow, Dore Ashton, Francois firm, Samuel Anderson Architects recently completed a new deMenil, Steven Hillyer and Michael Webb examined art conservation center for the Harvard Art Museums, and Professor Adjunct William Clark received a 2008–2009 the impact of freehand drawing on architectural vision. continues to design new conservation facilities for the Barnes PSC-CUNY Research Award. He co-organized sessions with The exhibition was co-curated by Gussow and Hillyer and Foundation, in collaboration with Tod Williams Billie Tsien Professor Robert Bork and presented his paper “Money, mounted drawings that illuminated the pages of Architects Architects, and the Gardner Museum in Boston, with the Documents, and Stories: A New Chronology for Saint- Draw. An article discussing Gussow’s pedagogy, “Aligning Renzo Piano Building Workshop. SAA also assisted in the Denis?” with Dr. Thomas Waldmand at the 44th International Hands with Minds” by Lawrence Biemiller, was featured in renovation of The Great Hall of The Cooper Union. Among his Congress of Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University. the Chronicle of Higher Education on February 13, 2009. ongoing projects are an expansion/renovation of the Allen He also organized a session at the 40th Annual Meeting Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, a collections study of the American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies in Director of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Archive, for the Guggenheim Museum and some private residences. Richmond, VA. Forthcoming publications include: “Signed, Steven Hillyer is currently developing his next feature film, Sealed and Delivered: The Patronage of Constance de “My Place in the World,” which he co-wrote and will produce. Professor Kevin Bone delivered lectures this past year France,” in Essays in Honor of Bonnie Wheeler (tentative title), The project received fiscal sponsorship from the New York at The Pratt Institute, The Yale University Club, and The Irwin “Introduction,” Written in Stone: Studies on the Science, Foundation for the Arts in the fall of 2008. As with his previous S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union. In the Technology and Art of Medieval Limestone Monuments, and an film, “The Event”, Olympia Dukakis will play a major role. summer of 2008, he led an urban design studio workshop entry in the Census of Gothic Sculpture in American Collections, Hillyer is also developing a stage play, “Mend,” which he with current and former Cooper Union students. The work- titled, “Head of the Virgin, in the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, co-authored. The project recently received grant funds to take shop produced a project study document entitled “1-2-1 Queens College.” the piece to the next step of a staged performance. Urban Field.” Professor Bone led the initiative for Professor David Orr to give the inaugural lecture for The Cooper Special Projects Assistant in the School of Architecture Union’s recently established Institute for Sustainable Design. Archive, Sara Jones teaches painting and drawing at Pratt Bone/Levine Architects, in addition to its numerous New Institute’s Manhattan campus. Her work was shown earlier York City based projects, has begun renovation work on the this year in Sao Paolo, Brazil, as part of the “Pratt Prints” modernist Penn Mutual Tower in Philadelphia and a major exhibition, as well as at the Scope Art Fair in New York renovation to Peitro Bulushi’s 99 High Street in Boston. in March. She is a co-founder and curator of “Windows This year the studio completed work on a house and 200-acre Brooklyn,” an exhibition on view from June 6–13, 2009, ranch complex in western Colorado and is involved in the on Smith Street and Court Street in Brooklyn, NY. planning phase for a number of projects in Newark, NJ, including a master plan for Broad Street, a parking garage and park structure and the reprogramming and expansion of The Newark Symphony Hall along with the renovation of the historic City Hall. FACULTY AND STAFF ACTIVITIES 2008–2009 continued

Professor Roderick Knox is the principal of Rod Knox Professor Stephen Rustow delivered a lecture on the urban Assistant Professor Suzan Wines, principal of I-BEAM Architects. Ongoing research includes “Manual of Self- design of the Grand Louvre project in a conference in Paris Atelier, constructed two Pallet House prototypes as part of Guided Tours for Global Art and Architecture.” held to mark the 20th anniversary of the completion of the Milan’s Architecture Triennale Exhibition themed “A House pyramid and the Cour Napoleon spaces, the first phase for All,” along with participating in a panel discussion with Instructor Adjunct Jane Lea is currently working at of the Louvre expansion. He completed several articles for curators and architects featured in the exhibition, including Peter L. Gluck & Partners. a 3-volume history of the Louvre that traces the development MVRDV, Kengo Kuma, Alejandro Aravena, and Massimiliano of the palace/museum from its origins in 1199 to the present, Fuksas. Recent projects include Macao Trading Co., a new Professor Diane Lewis was awarded a National Design to be published jointly by the museum and Fayard in 2010. restaurant in Tribeca and the Hynes Residence, New York, Award from the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt. In April 2009, His firm, SRA/Museoplan, completed the renovation of Il NY. Her work was cited in Play All Day: Design for Children and she presented her competition winning Riverview Music Gabbiano, a gallery of modern art in Rome in 2008, and Spacecraft 2, both published by Verlag, along with The New Quadrangle, a sustainable piazza and music conservatory is currently working with the Museum for African Art in New York Times and At Cooper. and campus plan for Paul Rudolph’s 1957 building at the York. SRA/Museoplan also participated in the competition Providence RISD Museum. The New York Times and New York for the National Museum of African-American History and Professor Lebbeus Woods’ work was featured in the Venice Magazine covered the project, for which her office was given Culture on the Mall in Washington DC as part of the team Biennale of Architecture’s exhibition “Out There: Architecture a grant from the Knoll International Modern Main Street/ of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Kling Stubbins—one of six Beyond Building,” the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the World Monuments fund, and the Gulfcoast Community international teams selected to compete. Guggenheim Museum, NY, the Royal Academy of Art, London, Foundation. Her office team, including three Cooper alumni, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He delivered has been engaged in the design of a house, a penthouse, Professor Ysrael Seinuk’s honors include The NJ Chapter the keynote lecture at the Cornell University symposium, “The furniture, and exhibition projects, among other invited rfqs. of the American Concrete Institute’s Merit Award— Architecture of Disbelief,” as well as participating in the City She was the keynote speaker at the “Architecture with Institutional for the Essex County Hospital, NJ, The Society College of New York’s School of Architecture lecture series. Conscience,” AIA Conference in Sarasota. Her architectural of American Registered Architects’ Synergy Award, and Wood’s ongoing blog, lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com, was monograph was the subject of a panel at the Italian Cultural a Special Mayoral Proclamation Award in recognition rated among the top twenty architecture blogs worldwide. institute in New York. Her lecture on Mies van der Rohe given of top leaders in the Building and Construction Industry. at Harvard GSD is in the process of becoming a transcript, He delivered the keynote at the Spring 2009 Order of the Assistant Professor Michael Young partnered with Kutan and she was invited to give the lecture again at The Cooper Engineering Induction Ceremony, College of Engineering Ayata to open the architectural practice of Young & Ayata Union. New York projects and the approach developed in her and Computing, Florida International University, as well as LLC in the Fall of 2008. Established as an architectural office were included in the March 2009 CITIES issue of AND lecturing at the Skyscraper Museum, the Society of American practice dedicated to both experimental research and built magazine, Florence. A prototype of the “Adamswriter” desk Registered Architects National Convention, Coral Gables, commissions, the firm participated in several concept designed for one of the domicile projects is in production. FL, and at Columbia University. proposals for both cultural and commercial projects, and is Professor Lewis’ drawings and texts were exhibited in the currently designing residences in Westchester County and July–Sept 2008 exhibition entitled “Paessagi Piemontese” Professor David Turnbull held the Ellen & Sidney Feltman Southern California. Concurrently, research projects are at the Fondazione Pistoletto Biella Italy, and published Chair for 2009. He is a Director of ATOPIA LLC and the non- developing through a series of experiments involving gradient in the accompanying book. profit ATOPIA_RESEARCH Inc. They are currently working articulations of surface, structure and sensation. in Beijing on a 100,000sp.meter “place of environmental Assistant Professor Adjunct Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa has discovery” for Parkview international. They exhibited Associate Professor Tamar Zinguer gave a paper titled recently published the book Instalaciones: Sobre el trabajo “On Ecocivility,” a collaborative project with The Harrison “The Velocity of Play around 1900” in the colloquium Speed de Peter Eisenman, developing all of Eisenman’s built Studio, in The Feldman Gallery. They are building the first and its Limits at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, architecture installations. Instalaciones will be presented implementation of the PITCH_AFRICA project with a major Montreal, in Summer 2008. She also participated in the at an international conference in Buenos Aires in June. grant from the Annenberg Foundation. The structure symposium Nameless Science that took place in December His essay “Eisenman’s Palladio Diagrams: Somatic Space of the PITCH harvests rainwater, provides space for a school, 2008 at The Cooper Union School of Art. Held in conjunction as a Form of Affect,” was published in Performalism, Form HIV/AIDS counseling, community healthcare, business with an exhibition at Apexart, the symposium questioned the and Performance in Digital Architecture by Yasha Grobman and development, community based agriculture, a market and significance of artistic research in art education. Currently, Eran Neuman. In Spring 2009, he presented “Towards a New a street soccer tournament venue. A prototype rainwater Associate Professor Zinguer is preparing her manuscript Autonomy: Enfolding Contemporary Canons” at The Cooper harvester is being constructed on the Princeton University Architecture in Play for publication. Union. A Scientific Committee, including Professors Rosalind Campus and a 2010 prototype PITCH will be pre-fabricated Krauss and Hal Foster, among others, selected him to in Los Angeles and shipped to Malawi for testing in use. Professor Guido Zuliani, principal of AZstudio, in association present an essay at the conference Expertise, Media Specificity with EisenmanArchitects in New York and Interplan2 in and Interdisciplinary at The Tel Aviv University. His office Professor and Dean Anthony Vidler is the Guest Curator Naples, has completed the design of a public park and two EIROA ARCHITECTS, is currently working on an installation for the forthcoming exhibition and publication James Frazer pavilions for the city of Pompei. Professor Zuliani has project in Buenos Aires and developing the design for a Stirling (1924–1992): Architect and Teacher, co-organized published the essay “End Games-Note sull’Architettura series of houses, which depart from a Cartesian frame that by the Yale Center for British Art and The Canadian Centre di John Hejduk,” in the volume Documenti del Festival enfolds topological displacements. for Architecture. He organized the symposium, James Stirling: dell’Architettura 4. His entries “The Diamond Houses,” a set Architect and Teacher, at the Yale School of Architecture and of three projects designed by the architect John Hejduk, and Assistant to the Deans, Emmy Mikelson graduated with a as the Brendan Gill Lecturer he gave the keynote address. “The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture,” will be included Masters of Fine Arts in Sculpture from Hunter College in Fall He lectured at the Buckminster Fuller Symposium: Starting in Dizionario dell’Architettura del XX Secolo to be published 2008 and exhibited her work in the “MFA Thesis Exhibition,” with the Universe and at the Guggenheim Museum symposium, by the end of the 2009. The Doctoral School of the Istituto Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, NY. She participated Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward. He also lectured Universitario d’Architettura di Venezia (I.U.A.V.) appointed in the group exhibition “MISC Video and Performance 2008” at Columbia University, New York University, and Syracuse Professor Zuliani to Expert in the Discipline of Architectural and had a solo exhibition, both at NY Studio Gallery, New University. He served on the Advisory Board of Oculus Composition. He participated in the roundtable “La Città York, NY where she was an artist in residence in 2009. and e-Oculus and on the Board for The Institute for Urban come Testo Critico,” organized by the gallery SESV and the Design. His published work includes, “Untitled,” in Larry Università degli Studi di Firenze, and in the panel discussion Professor and Associate Dean Elizabeth O’Donnell worked Pittman: Paintings and Works on Paper, 2005–2008, “For “John Hejduk-Il Disvelarsi del Paesaggio” at the 4th Festival with the design and construction teams of The Cooper Union the Love of Architecture: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux and the of Architecture in Modena. Professor Zuliani lectured at new academic building to offer a course on its development Hypnerotomachia,” in Autour de Ledoux: Architecture, Ville the Istituto Universitario d’Architettura di Venezia and at the and progress, including bi-weekly site visits. The course was et Utopie, and “Imagination, inquiétante étrangeté et théories School of Architecture of the City College of New York. featured in the Winter 2008–09 “At Cooper.” She served surréalistes de l’architecture,” in Mélusine. Le surréalisme on the work group for construction projects in the Foundation sans l’architecture. Building, advocating for a restoration approach to all work affecting its interior. She is the editor of “Architecture at Instructor Adjunct Mersiha Veledar, Design Architect at Cooper.” Current professional work includes a residence Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, is currently working in Tribeca and a not-for-profit foundation. on the new Elizabeth Academic High School in Elizabeth, New Jersey under the direction of Roger Duffy, Design Partner Visiting Associate Professor Lyn Rice, principal, Lyn Rice and Scott Duncan, Design Associate Director. She has also Architects (LRA), has completed work on a number of worked on the winning competition for a new airport in projects including the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Lisbon, Portugal and has recently finished the design for Parsons The New School for Design, which was awarded the new Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai, a 2009 National AIA Honor Award; a new University Welcome India, which will begin construction in 2010. Center for The New School; and several exhibitions projects for the National Building Museum and Krannert Art Museum. Assistant Professor Adjunct Joan Waltemath was the LRS received the 2009 National SCUP (Society for College recipient of a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. and University Planning) Excellence Award and the 2009 AIA She is also an Editor at Large for the Brooklyn Rail where she New York Merit Award, among others. LRA was selected by publishes articles and reviews on a regular basis. Waltemath the Center for Architecture, New York, to design exhibition participated in the Art Critical Review panel at the National projects in the coming year and presented their work at the Academy of Design as well as other panel reviews. She had Urban Center as part of the Architectural League for the 2008 an exhibition at Art-On, Bonn, Germany, titled, “Passages/ New York Designs Juried Lecture Series: Thresholds. Rice Passagen.” Her group exhibitions included “Dimensions in has also lectured at several institutions and his projects have Nature: New Acquisitions 2006–2008,” San Diego Museum been featured in several publications, including 1000x: of Art, “Winter Salon: Works on Paper,” Bjorn Ressle Gallery, Architecture of the Americas and Pure Plastic: New Materials NY, as well as exhibitions at Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, for Today’s Architecture. Brooklyn, NY, The Painting Center, NY, and The Drawing Room, NY. Her work was reproduced in the article “Interview Instructor Adjunct Anne Romme established the collaborative with Wynn Kramarsky,” Kunstform April/May. practice, Levent&Romme, with Fiyel Levent. She was awarded a one-year working scholarship from The Committee for Professor Adjunct Michael Webb was an External Examiner Architecture at The Danish Art Foundation and she was the at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London. He lectured recipient of the Time to Design—New Talent Award 2008, at City College, NY, Princeton University, NJ, as well as the which allowed her to work in residence at the National University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, where he also had a solo Workshops for Arts and Craft in Copenhagen, Denmark. exhibition. He will participate in the upcoming “First Projects” exhibition at the AA School of Architecture, London.

Assistant Professor Adjunct Georg Windeck has completed the NCARB Architect Registration Exam and is now a licensed professional in Berlin and New York. In his practice, he has been working on the renovation and extension of a landmarked Bauhaus residence in Berlin. His urban project “The Wine-Dark Sea” for Siracusa, Sicily (collaboration with Daniel Schuetz and Yael Erel) has been exhibited at the Ex GIL gallery in Rome on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of Europan. Edited by Elizabeth O’Donnell and Emmy Mikelson; Photography by Barb Choit; Design by Inessa Shkolnikov, The Cooper Union Center for Design and Typography