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Student Film Screening & Publication Launch

Friday, May 15, 2026, 6 - 8pm

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This is an architectural media event presenting student films and a student publication developed during the spring of 2026. 
 
From 6–7pm, short films from the architecture seminar Contemporary Film and the City will be screened and awards will be given out to student directors. From 7–8pm, a launch party will ring in Foundation, a publication developed by students in Matt Shaw’s Architecture Publishing and Broadcasting II seminar.
 
Foundation is a student-led publication that documents the intellectual and cultural life of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture. As a platform for critiques of ongoing public programming, student work, local events, and New York City’s built environment, Foundation expands dialogue beyond the classroom, recording the school’s institutional memory and its evolving urban context.  
 
Contemporary Film and the City is an advanced topics seminar taught by Matt Shaw at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture. This course is a survey of contemporary film, with a focus on downtown New York. It offers students a look at different ways to understand and portray architecture and urbanism through the medium of the moving image.
 
Free and open to the public.
 

Located in the Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, at 41 Cooper Square (on Third Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets)

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