FACULTY AND STAFF ACTIVITIES 2014–2015 COOPER AT ARCHITECTURE Professor Diana Agrest’s film “The Making of an Avant- Assistant Professor Adjunct John Hartmann, co-founder Visiting Professor Joan Ockman was a co-editor for MAS: Garde: The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies with Lauren Crahan of Freecell Architecture, spoke at The The Modern Architecture Symposia 1962-1966: A Critical Edition 1967-1984” was screened at the Graham Foundation, Hammons School of Architecture at Drury University as part (Yale University Press). The publication was reviewed in Princeton University, Cornell University, UC Berkeley of the 2014-2015 Lecture Series. Architectural Record. She was a presenter at The Building EDITED BY EMMY MIKELSON; DESIGN BY INESSA SHKOLNIKOV, CENTER FOR DESIGN AND TYPOGRAPHY; PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOÃO ENXUTO WITH SPECIAL ASSISTANCE FROM THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE ARCHIVE AND ELIZABETH O’DONNELL, ACTING DEAN ARCHIVE AND ELIZABETH O’DONNELL, ACTING FROM THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE WITH SPECIAL ASSISTANCE ENXUTO BY JOÃO DESIGN AND TYPOGRAPHY; PHOTOGRAPHY CENTER FOR SHKOLNIKOV, EDITED BY EMMY MIKELSON; DESIGN INESSA College of Environmental Design and followed by a panel Symposium held at Columbia University GSAPP. discussion with Agrest, Nicholas de Monchaux, Sylvia Lavin Director of the School of Architecture Archive, and Stanley Saitowitz, the 10th Annual Cinema Orange Film Steven Hillyer, co-produced Christmas Without Tears, Acting Dean and Professor Elizabeth O’Donnell was the Series, Newport Beach Film Festival at Orange County a four-city tour of holiday-themed variety shows hosted co-chair and delivered the introductory remarks for Museum of Art, the San Diego Design Film Festival, and Cite by Judith Owen and Harry Shearer, which included “The Sultanate of Oman: Geography, Religion and Culture” de l’Architecture in Paris, France, which was followed by a performances by Mario Cantone, Catherine O’Hara, held at The Cooper Union. She was the co-curator for the 9 discussion with Agrest, Karim Basbous, Jean-Louis Cohen, Stephen Merchant and Fred Willard. “Cities of the Dead: The Ancestral Cemeteries of Kyrgyzstan,” : 1 4 Pascal Quintard-Hofstein, and Sébastien Marot. She was a an exhibition of the photography of Margaret Morton, in the – 1 respondent for the session “Urban Imaginaries” at Princeton Assistant Professor Adjunct Louis Katsos discussed Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery of The Cooper Union. She was 5 University as part of the symposium in conjunction with the developing relations between Greek-based construction an invited juror for the Bamiyan Cultural Center International 1 exhibition “Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955- supply companies and New York City in the article “Greek Design Competition sponsored by the UNESCO for which she COMPUTER GRAPHICS GRAPHICS COMPUTER 1980,” which included her work, organized by The Museum Construction Execs Seek Real Estate Opportunities in NYC” traveled to Kabul, Afghanistan. She delivered the lecture of Modern Art. MoMA also acquired documents and drawings published in the Commercial Observer. “The Cooper Union and The Education of An Architect” at the of Agrest and Gandelsonas, where Diana Agrest is founder Kabul University Department of Architecture. She was also and principal, for their permanent collection. Her project, Professor Diane Lewis published Open City: Existential an invited “café” participant for The International Alvar Aalto the Melrose Community Center, 286 East 156th Street, Urbanity, an anthology of architecture created and advocated Symposium and Café in Jyväskylä, Finland. O’Donnell was Bronx, was exhibited as part of the “Built by Women New by the students of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture appointed as the Public Director for Educational Affairs for York City” exhibition held at the Center for Architecture of The Cooper Union in studios conducted by the Professor the AIA New York Chapter 2015 Board of Directors. and received an award in the Civic category by The Beverly Diane Lewis with a team of notable colleagues from 2001- 2 Willis Architecture Foundation (BWAF). The Townhouse for 2014. The Italian Cultural Institute hosted a celebration Professor Adjunct Ashok Raiji was elected as the Director ADVANCED DRAWING ADVANCED Matt Sabatine (1984) designed by Diana Agrest and Mario for the recent publication in Washington D.C. Lewis was a for Industry Affairs on the AIA New York Chapter 2015 Board Gandelsonas was featured in the article “The Postmodern keynote speaker at the Mediated Cities conference in of Directors. Watchlist” in Metropolis Magazine. She also participated on the Woodbury University in Burbank, CA. She moderated the Deans’ Roundtable as part of the “Arch Schools 2014 Exhibition” panel discussion “Big Dreams: AIANY Global Dialogues” held Instructor Adjunct Wes Rozen’s practice, Situ Studio, was organized by the Center for Architecture, New York, NY. at the Center for Architecture, New York, NY, and she was selected as part of six teams to create projects for the a panelist for “Display of the Centuries: Frederick Kiesler “Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Assistant Professor Adjunct Pep Avilés presented a paper and Contemporary Art” held at the Austrian Cultural Forum Megacities” exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern entitled “Multi-Lens Matters: Image-Media Transferences on New York. She also contributed the essay “Nature after Art. The work of Situ Studio was profiled in Interior Design 3 FREEHAND DRAWING FREEHAND Breuer’s Arrival in the United States” at the Buell Mies” in the publication The Return of Nature: Sustaining magazine and the Architect’s Newspaper, among others. Dissertation Colloquium, Columbia University. He published Architecture in the Face of Sustainability (Routledge) Situ Studio was awarded the 2015 Architizer A+ Architecture an article on Yamasaki’s World Trace Center in CLOG edited by Preston Scott Cohen and Erika Naginski. + Learning Award for the Design Lab at the New York Hall magazine and wrote a piece of architectural criticism on the of Science. Lara Rios House by f451, forthcoming publication. The Instructor Adjunct Adam Longenbach’s proposal “The City Spanish translation of Sigfried Ebeling’s 1926 text Der Raum Spoke” for the 2015 Fairy Tales Competition organized Professor Stephen Rustow was appointed as a regular als Membran edited by Aviles was published, including a by Blank Space Projects received an honorable mention. columnist for the Architectural League of New York’s Urban critical article on the German cultural context surrounding The proposals were covered in Archdaily.com. Omnibus and has contributed several articles. He contributed the article “Facadism: On the Demolition of the American 4 the original publication and the translation of Spyros ADVANCED DRAWING DRAWING ADVANCED Papapetros’ article “Future Skins.” Avilés taught at the Associate Professor Adjunct Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa presented Folk Art Museum” for the Avery Review (Columbia GSAPP) M.Arch programs at Columbia University GSAPP, and the book he co-edited Architecture In Formation (Routledge) and “A.F.A.M/MoMA” for the Brooklyn Rail. He was a speaker Princeton University School of Architecture and attended in several venues during 2014. He has published several on the “Unlimited Growth” panel for the Architecture Boston juries and panels at Columbia, Princeton, and Cornell academic essays and professional work in Paradigms Expo 2014 and was a symposium participant on Extreme Universities. He was also a reviewer for the Journal of of Computing eVolo, Pidgin Magazine, and Revista PLOT 19. Conservation at the Bard Graduate Center in New York, NY. Architectural Education (JAE). His firm The Fautory completed Additionally he was interviewed for Connection AIA, Archinect, the design for a house Upstate New York and continued the SuckerpunchDaily and Revista Plot 20. He directed a school- Assistant Professor Adjunct Michael Samuelian participated concept development for a house for a paraglider and wide lab-workshop at Torcuato Di Tella University (Buenos on the panel discussion “Big Dreams: AIANY Global cameraman in Micheldorf, Austria. Aires), coordinating several faculty groups and two hundred Dialogues” held at the Center for Architecture, New York, NY. students, and constructing eight progressive installations. Instructor Adjunct Dorit Aviv has been awarded a grant from Lorenzo-Eiroa was invited to lecture at University of Visiting Professor Daniel Sherer gave the lecture “Pirro the Tides Foundation to develop her Master’s thesis into a Pennsylvania at the undergraduate and graduate programs, Ligorio’s Critique of Michelangelo Architetto: Parameters of passive cooling prototype. She will be collaborating on this Sapienza University, UIC (Barcelona), ENSAS (Strasbourg), License and Contexts of Reception” at the RSA (Renaissance project with Forrest Meggers at the Andlinger Center for Di Tella (BA) and the University of Buenos Aires. He Society of America) conference held at the Humboldt Energy and the Environment. organized the Master Program lecture series (Fall Semester) Universitat in Berlin, Germany, under the auspices of the and directed a Digital Representation and Fabrication Italian Academy of America at Columbia University, with Professor Kevin Bone was a speaker for the symposia The Program at The Cooper Union. Through e-Architects (eiroa Joseph Connors as respondent. Two of his essays on Five Thousand Pound Life: Land and The Five Thousand Architects) he submitted a proposal