The document summarizes the history and operations of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS). It details that the original IAUS operated from 1967-1984 and focused on experimental education and research. It re-opened in 2003 with a mission to promote multidisciplinary debate and applied theory regarding the built environment. The current IAUS offers intensive design-focused courses and utilizes New York City as a learning lab for students.

2. INTRODUCTION The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, IAUS or Institute for short, is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the study of architecture in the city. It offers intensive individualized design tutorials to students who are interested in architecture at all scales of its expression. Particular emphasis is placed on architecture as a cultural activity, how architecture intersects other disciplines, how advanced technology is used to create new environments, how new ways of living, work and play transform our buildings and how collaboration creates a new paradigm of practice .

3. IAUS (1967-1984)

4. IAUS (1967-1984) HISTORY The IAUS developed its curriculum in collaboration with a group of liberal arts colleges and universities and began its undergraduate education program in 1973. The program was open to students from a consortium of distinguished liberal arts colleges and provided an architectural component as a supplement to traditional liberal arts studies. Five schools and twelve students participated in the Institute’s first academic year (1974), rising to sixteen colleges and 35 students in 1978. The program was organized around a rigorous sequence in the history and theory of architecture and an intensive design tutorial taught by the Institute’s fellows. Like Princeton, Columbia, Yale and Cooper Union, where architecture is taught at the undergraduate level as a concentration, the Institute is not accredited. In 1977 began the design/study options to give students enrolled in a six-year professional degree program the opportunity to participate in the academic program. Since the Institute was not a degree-granting institution, credit for the program was provided by the student’s own institution.

6. IAUS (2003-present)

10. CURRICULUM

19. ORGANIZATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES Kevin Kennon, Executive Director Greg Lynn Bruce Becker, Chairman & Treasurer EXECUTIVE COUNCIL Stan Allen Elizabeth Diller Greg Lynn Julie Bargmann Jesse Reiser Kevin Kennon BOARD OF ADVISORS Diana Agrest Peter Eisenman Francois DeMenil Lynne Breslin Mario Gandelsonas Christine Boyer Ben Van Berkel David Friend Ralph Lerner Charles Gwathmey Enrique Norten Kurt Anderson Sanford Kwinter Beatriz Colomina Bernard Tschumi Toyo Ito Sarah Whiting Wes Jones Galia Solomonoff Frank Gehry Alejandro Zaera Polo John S. Johnson III Fabian Marcaccio Mark Tribe Glenn S. Arden, General Counsel

20. ORGANIZATION ADMINISTRATION Kevin Kennon, Executive Director Julia Suna Choi, Assistant Director Nicole Gitau, Accounting Administrator Fumio Hirakawa, Advisor Anika Hedberg, Advisor FELLOWS Andrew Blum Katharine Ives Jack Phillips Kathy Chia Pablo Jendretzki Galia Solomonoff Jonas Coersmeier Franklin Lee Robert Young Marc Hacker Henry Meyerberg

21. INSTITUTE

22. ADMISSIONS The Institute does not award degrees and is not NCARB accredited. All credits are awarded by the student’s own institution. FEES The cost of tuition is $5,750 for the Fall/Spring semester and $3,750 for the Summer semester. AWARDS There are no awards at this time. FINANCIAL AID There is no financial aid at this time.

23. HOUSING Student housing is available at The Octagon, a landmark historic building on Roosevelt Island, Manhattan. More information on the Octagon can be found on the website: www.octagonnyc.com . Cost of housing is $5,000 per semester.

27. EVENTS VARIOUS INSTITUTIONS HOLD EVENTS, LECTURES AND FORUMS FOR THE PUBLIC The Architectural League of New York The Van Alen Institute Center for Architecture Columbia University The Cooper Union Pratt University Parsons New School of Design New York Institute of Technology Museum of Modern Art New Museum Metropolitan Museum of Art Studio X Cooper-Hewitt Museum

29. AFFILATIONS HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE Katie Irwin, Director of the Global Education Office (GEO) for the Five Colleges Thom Long, Director of the Five College Architectural Studies Program Karen Koehler, Hampshire College Advisor AMHERST COLLEGE Carol C. Clarke, Amherst College Advisor MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE Mike Davis, Mt. Holyoke College Advisor NYU - GALLATIN SCHOOL John Lang, NYU Gallatin School Advisor

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31. FUTURE The new Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies is dedicated to improving the quality of education, debate, thought and action about rethinking the metropolis through architecture, media and urbanism. Unlike other associations as the Architectural League, and the Van Allen Institute, Harvard's "Career Discovery", or Columbia's New York/Paris Program in Architecture, the Institute expands, re-defines and re-thinks many of the features of the old Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in its dedication to being first and foremost a school for the study of progressive architecture, new media and urban studies. Secondly, it has a distinct point of view, namely to support and promote greater understanding by rethinking the traditional role that architecture, urban design and planning play in how we experience and imagine the city. For too long architects have neglected both the social and material consequences of the built environment by retreating into formalistic, theoretical or purely aesthetic exercises. The digital revolution has provided a new way for architecture to be realized by engaging and reflecting more precisely the diversity of how we live, work and play in the 21st century.

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