Future Modern Architecture Lecture Series

 

The continuing education lecture series we have been holding at Cooper Union each semester since 2002 is now in summer recess. Cooper is readying to build their new Tom Mayne building, and to do so, the demolition of the Hewitt building will start soon, necessitating a cut-back in non-essential courses. We are now in meetings with other institutions to determine where we will place our very popular series in the fall, and will keep you posted via this site.

Each semester, this lecture series features 8 practicing architects and engineers, speaking on cutting-edge subjects of keen importance to practicing professionals in the field. Each lecture is 2 hours and the course bears 16 AIA/CES accredited HSW Learning Units.

Past Subjects:

• Photovoltaics
• Nanotechnology: The Future for Architecture?
• Engineers and Architects: Complementary Problem Solving
• Future Preservation
• Liquid Architecture: Water as the Structural Component
• New Urban Structures to Preserve the Oglala
• Security Architecture
• Sound-Proofing: Highway Peripheries to Concert Halls
• Corbu's Chandighar: Lessons and Future Development
• Quantum Theory in Architecture
• Ecocities: Green Urbanism
• Botanical Gardens of Tomorrow
• Genetic Architecture

 

Lecturers have included :

• Michael Wurzel, head, Norman Foster NY office, practicing architect
• Aaron Schwarz, Principal Perkins + Eastman, FAIA
• Robert F. Fox, Jr., AIA, Partner, Cook + Fox Architects
• Gregory Kiss: Kiss + Cathcart Architects
• Mahadev Raman: Head, Ove Arup North America, practicing engineer
• George Ranalli; Dean CCNY Arch. School , practicing architect, FAIA
• Joan Krevlin: BKSK, practicing architect
• John Lobell: Pratt lecturer
• Michael Webb: Archigram, Columbia Arch. School lecturer
• Hillary Brown: New Civic Works, practicing architect
• David Scott, Principal, Ove Arup; Chairman, Council on Tall Buildings, engineer
• Michael Chu: lecturer, Columbia Univ, Barcelona Univ. , architect
• John M Johansen: elder statesman of architecture, retired Pratt lecturer, FAIA
• Theo Prudon; Prudon & Assoc., head, DOCOMOMO NY
• William Katavolos, head, Pratt Experimental Architecture