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The Institute for Architecture & Urban Studies is a non-profit architecture studio and think tank located in
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, New York, United States.


IAUS (1967–1984)

The Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies was founded in 1967 as a non-profit independent agency concerned with research, education, and development in architecture and urbanism. It began as a core group of young architects seeking alternatives to traditional forms of education and practice. 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 liberal arts colleges and provided an architectural component as a supplement to traditional liberal arts studies. Five schools (Oberlin, Wesleyan, Hampshire, Smith, Sarah Lawrence) and twelve students participated in the institute's first academic year (1974–75), 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
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, where architecture is taught at the undergraduate level as a concentration, the IAUS 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 IAUS was not a degree-granting institution, credit for the program was provided by the student's own institution. Peter Eisenman was appointed as the institute's first executive director followed by Anthony Vidler (1982), Mario Gandelsonas (1983) and Stephen Peterson (1984). In 1985 the Institute ceased to exist.


The current institute (2003–present)

The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies re-opened after being closed for nearly 20 years in 2003 due in a large part in the 9/11 renewal awareness in the critical impact of built form—how it is experienced, mediated, remembered and imaged—on our daily lives. The new institute purports that this new awakening in the power and role of architecture exposed a need for an independent, multidisciplinary think-tank, or pedagogical “free speech zone”, in which to question, provoke, debate, experiment, explore and rethink the future of the metropolis at all scales.


Mission statement

The new institute's goal is to keep alive the improvisational spirit that made the old Institute at its apogee a mecca for young architects and critics like Peter Eisenman, Rem Koolhaas, Aldo Rossi, Charles Gwathmey, Frank Gehry, Diana Agrest, Mario Gandelsonas,
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, Robert Stern,
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and Anthony Vidler, among others. While the original institute helped shape much of the autonomous theoretical discourse that dominated architectural culture in the last 30 years of the 20th century,Oppositions Reader: Selected Essays 1973-1984, by K. Michael Hays
/ref> the new institute concentrates more on applied theory and research utilizing new technology, cross-disciplines, materials and methods. While there are other architecture organizations in New York they are primarily places for exhibitions and lectures. They provided little in the way of debate, criticism, multidisciplinary experimentation, progressive education, improvisation and applied theory. While schools of architecture like
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, and Pratt Institute have better success at creating greater intellectual friction and stimulation than the above-mentioned private organizations, they are to a great degree hampered by the requirements of professional accreditation.


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Hampshire College Hampshire College is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. It was opened in 1970 as an experiment in alternative education, in association with four other colleges ...
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Mt. Holyoke College Mount Holyoke College is a Private college, private liberal arts college, liberal arts Women's colleges in the United States, women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It is the oldest member of the historic Seven Sisters (colleges), Seve ...
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NYU New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, the ...
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Gallatin School of Individualized Study The Gallatin School of Individualized Study (commonly referred to as Gallatin) is a small interdisciplinary college within New York University (NYU). Students at Gallatin design an interdisciplinary program that meets their specific interests a ...
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Amherst College Amherst College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher educatio ...


References


External links


The Institute for Architecture & Urban Studies Official Website

Finding aid for the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies fonds
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