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“For the purposes of this short discussion, let us use the term ‘technologies of mediation’ in place of ‘representation.’ The problem with the latter term is that the re- of representation always lowers the discussion to a secondary status subservient to the content conveyed. The drawings, models, notations, texts, and calculations that the architect produces are not secondary to the building, but constitute the primary acts of architectural design as mediations translating between conceptual ideas, interpretive parties, and aesthetic articulation. . . .”

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Led by Professor Lydia Kallipoliti, in collaboration with Martha Giannakopoulou and Katerina Kourkoula, a group of engineering, architecture and art students from the Cooper Union will present an off-grid lighting installation at the Innovation Square of the World Science Festival. The installation will be powered by alternative energy generation techniques including solar cells, bioluminescent pods and an interactive performance with backwards motors that will illuminate the streetscape.

Cooper Union with Lydia KALLIPOLITI, Martha GIANNAKOPOULOU, & Katerina KOURKOULA, “GRID OFF; LIGHTS ON”
Saturday, 06/01
7.30-9.30 p.m. / Polytechnic Institute of New York University
6 Metrotech Center
Brooklyn, New York 11201

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Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Architecture
critic: Volkan ALKANOGLU

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Annie McCARTHY: The design of a new Cooper Union vertical campus challenges notions of extrusion of floor plates in the tower typology by thinking of both formal and programmatic organization as discrete chunks. How can Cooper Union situate itself in a vertical context, and how does that relate to formal chunking in a tower? In fact, it is in a similar way to how Cooper Union organizes itself in current lateral relationships in the Manhattan grid—on the cusp of two colliding grids.

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A Lighting Installation project of Cooper Union presented as part of the IDEAS CITY FESTIVAL - NEW MUSEUM. Led by Lydia Kallipoliti, in collaboration with Martha Giannakopoulou and Katerina Kourkoula, a group of engineering, architecture and art students from the Cooper Union will present an off-grid lighting installation at the East 4th Street Cultural District. The installation will be powered by alternative energy generation techniques including solar cells, bioluminescent pods and an interactive performance with backwards motors that will illuminate the streetscape.

Cooper Union with Lydia KALLIPOLITI, Martha GIANNAKOPOULOU, & Katerina KOURKOULA, ”GRID OFF; LIGHTS ON.”
Saturday, 05/04
8.30 a.m.-10.30 p.m. / East 4th St. (SE Corner) between 2nd and Bowery
New York, New York 10003

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World renowned architect Daniel Libeskind, a 1970 graduate of Cooper Union’s architecture program, speaks at his alma mater. The master planner for Ground Zero and the architect of one of Europe’s most visited museums, the Jewish Museum Berlin, explains the role that memory played in his work on those projects and others, including the Danish Jewish Museum, Manchester’s Imperial War Museum, and Dresden’s Military History Museum.

Daniel LIBESKIND
Holocaust Commemoration: Daniel Libeskind on the Art of Memory
Tuesday, 04/30
6.00pm / Great Hall, Foundation Building
Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street
New York, New York 10003

Photo: Michael KLINKHAMER.

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“Strange Craft: Summer Masterclass in Contemporary Digital Architecture” with 
Michael YOUNG & Kutan AYATA, 
Rhett RUSSO & Kartin MUELLER RUSSO, David RUY & Karel KLEIN, and Ezio BLASETTI & Danielle WILLEMS
07/08-08/02
Cooper Union
New York, New York 10003

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Mark Goulthorpe is an Associate Professor at MIT Department of Architecture, teaching digital design and fabrication and leading the new Design Stream in the SMArchS program. His current research centers on robotic fabrication and a variety of composite fabrication methodologies, as well as a new iteration of the dynamically reconfigurable HypoSurface. Goulthorpe is the author of Autoplastic to Alloplastic published by Hyx/Pompidou and The Possibility of (an) Architecture published by Routledge.

Mark GOULTHORPE, “Phototropic Implication.”
Thursday, 03/14
6.30–8.00 p.m. / Frederick P. Rose Auditorium
The Cooper Union
41 Cooper Square
New York, New York 10003

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3-D Printing and other forms of Rapid Prototyping are moving into the realm of actual manufacturing. The ability to produce usable objects on a customized basis may well disrupt industry in the 21st Century as much as the steam engine did in the 18th. Prof. Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, Director of Cooper Union’s Certificate program in Digital Representation and Fabrication, will discuss the scope of these technologies in the Rose auditorium at 5 pm on February 1. The lecture is free and open to all.

Pablo LORENZO-EIROA, “Digital Representation and Fabrication”
Friday, 02/01
5.00 pm / Frederick P. Rose Auditorium
The Cooper Union
41 Cooper Square
New York, NY 10003

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Lessons From Modernism examines selected works of architecture completed between 1925-70 through the lens of sustainability. This analysis of the use of environmental strategies—long before they were commonly used in 21st century buildings—opens at The Cooper Union’s Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery on January 29th.

“Lessons From Modernism: Environmental Design Considerations in 20th Century Architecture, 1925–1970,” presented by The Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design & The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture
exhibit opening: Tuesday, 01/29
6.30–8.30 pm / Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery
7 East 7 E. 7th St.
New York, NY 10003

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“Massimo Scolari: The Representation of Architecture, 1967-2012″ is a comprehensive retrospective of the work of visionary architect and artist Massimo Scolari, who taught as a Visiting Professor at the School of Architecture in 1977 and 1978. Originating at the Yale School of Architecture, with a nucleus of drawings first exhibited at The Cooper Union in 1977, the exhibition includes over 160 original drawings, paintings and watercolors, as well as other works completed between 1967 and 2012. Curated and designed by Scolari himself, this is the first retrospective of his work to be presented in the United States since 1986.

Massimo Scolari: The Representation of Architecture, 1967-2012
Opening Reception: Tuesday, 10/02
6.30 pm / The Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery
The Cooper Union
7 E. 7th St., 2nd floor
New York, NY 10003