IDEAS and PRACTICE
Presented in Co-sponsorship with the Architectural League of New York

The lectures by Shigeru Ban and Kazuyo Sejima, to be held at the Great Hall at Cooper Union, mark the beginning of "Ideas and Practice," an ongoing lecture series co-sponsored by the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union and the Architectural League. These lectures feature prominent architects and designers whose work reflects the concerns of architecture’s academic and practice communities.

2 APRIL 2003 - KAZUYO SEJIMA

Kazuyo Sejima, principal of the Tokyo firm Sejima + Nishizawa, was winner of the first international Vincenzo Scamozzi Award in 2002. The firm's residential commissions range in scale from the "Small House," an ingeniously engineered residence in downtown Tokyo, to the Kitatakata Apartments, a ten-story public housing tower in Gifu.

7 FEBRUARY 2003 - SHIGERU BAN

In the first lecture of the winter/spring 2003 program, Japanese architect Shigeru Ban lectured at the Great Hall at Cooper Union on his exploration of unconventional materials and techniques—particularly the use of cardboard and paper tubing-in pursuit of a pragmatic, responsive, and formally elegant architecture. He discussed a number of his residential, installation, and humanitarian projects, and characterized the goal of architecture as the creation simple "monuments" for ordinary people.

EVENTS WITH VISITING CRITICS AND GUEST LECTURERS:
SPRING SEMESTER 2003

30 April 2003 - "Peformance and History"

An evening with Yvonne Rainer, Benjamin Buchloh, and Hal Foster.
Hosted by Dean Anthony Vidler.

EVENTS WITH VISITING CRITICS AND GUEST LECTURERS:
FALL SEMESTER 2002

1 October 2002 - Louisa Hutton

21 October 2002 - Michal Govrin

22 October 2002 - Dennis Crompton

23 October 2002 - Steven Rustow

5 November 2002 - Henrik Jensen

2 December 2002 - Wolf D. Prix

17 December 2002 - Thomas Schröpfer

STUDENT SEMINARS: FALL SEMESTER 2002