2013 Cooper Union Summer Architecture Intensives

Accepting applications now. Apply by June 8, 2013 Course dates: July 8 - August 2, 2013 Learn more and apply at: http://cooper.edu/architecture/school-architecture-summer-programs ______ • STRANGE CRAFT: Masterclass in Contemporary Digital Architecture The qualitative responses of the strange or the weird opens contemporary digital techniques to the provocative explorations of aesthetics. For instance, craft, typically associated with manual material traditions, has mutated into a conversation regarding variable precision and controlled accidents in the digital fabrication of images, models, and objects. Cross media translations, such as collage, montage, and layered superposition have a rich material history in 20th century modernism. Contemporary digital design requires constant shifts between 2 and 3 dimensions, animated and still images, rendered and vector representation, objects and fields - to work in a digital environment is to be constantly shifting between technologies of mediation. It is in this space of the crossings between Digital Craft, Technologies of Mediation, and Aesthetic Theory that this Masterclass sets its agenda. The Masterclass will consist of four one-week sessions focused on specific topics led by internationally recognized leaders in education and practice. The sessions will each have a different contemporary problem that will be taught, researched and explored, with all four sessions building upon one another, as the month-long Masterclass becomes a single project. Masterclass Leaders include: Kutan Ayata, Ezio Blasetti, Karel Klein, Katrin Mueller Russo, Rhett Russo, David Ruy, Danielle Willems, Michael Young • INTRODUCTION TO ARCHITECTURE: Foundational Studies and Portfolio Development The Cooper Union’s Introduction to Architecture is an intensive 4-week program that offers an immersive experience into the study of architecture as a discipline and profession. The program will familiarize the college-level student with architectural design, thought, and practice, in the context of downtown Manhattan - a vibrant neighborhood of art, music, culture and commerce. The core of the program, the Design Studio, is taught by faculty of the School of Architecture and is supplemented by visiting critics and lecturers. Every morning begins in the studio spaces designed by renowned architect John Hejduk in the landmark Foundation Building . In the afternoons, students will participate in seminar and/or workshops that draw on what makes education at The Cooper Union unique, with its strong emphasis on design and making, and a close reading of architectural texts. Over the course of the program, the students will be able to develop a body of work: projects, models, and drawings. The design faculty will work with each student, individually and as a group, to review and edit those accomplishments, culminating in a portfolio in book format. http://cooper.edu/architecture/school-architecture-summer-programs