ARCHITECTURE FROM NOTHING: Greta Hansen, Kyung-Jae Kim, Adam Koogler, and Andy Rauchut

Thursday, April 11, 2013, 2 - 3pm

Add to Calendar

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE | COOPER THESIS LECTURE SERIES

PRESENTATION BY GRETA HANSEN, KYUNG-JAE KIM, ADAM KOOGLER & ANDY RAUCHUT

Architecture is a set of indeterminate instructions, interpreted, produced, and realized in various forms, scales, and sites. Its as lightweight as a string of code. The more lightweight, the farther and faster architecture can travel. In order to unencumber our architectural practice, we use instructions and source leftover materials: waste, excess, air. Architectural scavengers, we eat the leftovers of society and the construction industry to create new forms out of nothing.

Room 714

Foundation Building

Open to current students/faculty/staff of The Cooper Union

 
More Events & Exhibitions

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.