![]() Prior to joining The Cooper Union, Nora taught at Columbia University’s GSAPP, where she was the director of Studio-X Amman between 20, and the founding director of the Janet Abu-Lughod Library and Seminar since 2015. She focuses on erasure and bordering in settler colonialism and works at the intersection of architecture with border studies, cartography, and archive theory. Nora Akawi is a Palestinian architect, and an assistant professor at The Cooper Union, New York. In her capacity as architect and educator, Nandini Bagchee also collaborates with several Community Land Trusts in New York City to advance the project of building a solidarity economy anchored in community land ownership. Her research-based architectural work involves engaging with grassroots organizations such as South Bronx Unite, Interference Archive, the Loisaida Center, and the Laundromat Project in New York City. Nandini’s design work and writing have been published in the New York Times, Interiors Now, Urban Omnibus, and the Journal of Architectural Education. Nandini is the author of a book on the history and impact of activist-run spaces in New York City entitled Counter Institution: Activist Estates of the Lower East Side. Her research highlights ground-up collaborative building practices as an alternative medium for the creation of public space. Nandini Bagchee is the principal of Bagchee Architects and an Associate Professor at the Spitzer School of Architecture (CCNY, CUNY). ![]() Previously, Luzárraga has taught and lectured in institutions such as the University of Alicante, ETSAM, IED, ELISAVA, RMIT, Floating University Berlin, or ILEK Stuttgart. Likewise, TAKK's work has been exhibited at Matadero-Madrid, Center d'Arts Santa Mónica, Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona, MAK Vienna, TCDC Bangkok, or Alcova Milano. TAKK’s work belongs to the permanent collection of the FRAC-Centre Val de Loire and has been exhibited at the Oslo Triennale, and the Venice, San Sebastián, Tallinn, Maia, and Rabat Biennales, among others. Taking place in both the public and private spheres, their projects investigate how architecture can catalyze the development of more democratic lives through the incorporation of feminist thought, ecology, and politics into its practice. Together with Alejandro Muiño, Luzárraga founded TAKK in 2010, an award-winning architecture and design studio based in Barcelona. She is also professor at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, and La Salle. Mireia Luzárraga is an architect and Studio Critic at Columbia GSAPP. How can methods of design become articulations of other worlds, propositions for other ways of being that undo environmental racism and the enclosure and destruction of the natural world that break the ongoing coloniality of human inhabitation that thwart the organized production of surplus populations needed to fuel capital’s limitless growth? How might other methods, thought from the ground up, offer tools for insurgent practices to begin building different worlds? 'Other methods’ is an invitation to see how methods might offer a point from which to upend this. If conventional methods in architecture have served as a relay between the practices of architecture and the institutions and structures of its materialization, then methods inherited are a means to ensure the reproduction of a certain world-a certain way of being that we've long known to be untenable. This year’s public program invites designers, curators and practitioners whose work takes methods of design as a starting point from which to shape architectural practice and pedagogy otherwise. The interested candidates should feel comfortable teaching in a design studio setting as well as bringing their own specific lines of inquiry into other pedagogical spaces within the program and across the college. Architecture at Bard is strongly committed to recruiting and supporting historically underrepresented voices, agendas and experiences that continue to be systemically underrepresented in both academia and architecture. We are interested in candidates whose research and pedagogy challenge broader expectations of, and possibilities for, the field. The appointment will be at the rank of Assistant Professor with an anticipated start date of August 2024. We are especially interested in those whose work treats the practice of design as both a mode of critical inquiry and a creative site for intervening in movements for social liberation and climate justice. The Architecture Program at Bard College invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position in architectural design. ![]()
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