At Cooper Spring 2019
Table of Contents: Vol. XLIX, No. 1, Spring 2019
Letter by Laura Sparks
Features
100 + Years of Student Representation
As The Cooper Union celebrates the 160th anniversary of its founding, another notable milestone has also been reached in 2019: the 110th year since the creation of the institution’s first self-organized student representative body
Archive & Artifact: the Virtual and the the Physical
Images from the exhibition mounted in Fall 2018, celebrating The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture’s experimental and influential pedagogy by presenting undergraduate thesis projects completed at the school over the past 50 years.
Saturday Program at 50
Saturday Program has been around for decades, providing thousands of underserved local high school students the chance to get a taste of art school at no cost to them. But its exact origins were in doubt... until now
Cooper Dot Edu
EE Student Team Makes Top Ten In Army Signal Competition
They competed against industry professionals and graduate students
Architect Magazine Awards Studio Prize To First Year Architectonics Studio
“one of the best examples Of architectural investigation taking place in colleges and universities today”
Digitizing “Lost” Great Hall Recordings
A $761k grant from the robert david lion gardiner foundation will make decades of recordings available to the public
Seven Cooper Alumni Chosen For Whitney Biennial
Works by Brian Belott A’95, Meriem Bennani A’13, Robert Bittenbender A’12, Tomashi Jackson A’10, Eric Mack A’10, Keegan Monaghan A’08, and Wangechi Mutu A’97 will be shown
Mili Does Math
Newly arrived associate professor mili shah loves to figure out ways to help people using math
Typographics at The Cooper Union | June 10–20
Conference | workshops & tours | typelab | bookfair
Alumni will receive $50 off regular ticket by using code alum-of-cu
160th Anniversary!
Watch for this logo throughout 2019 as the cooper union celebrates its history and
Its future
CU Engineering & Icahn School Of Medicine/ Mount Sinai Exchange
Students Build Models For MoMA
How Cooper Union architecture students contributed to a major exhibition
Investigations Into Color
Sarah Lowengard and Christina Weyl, both adjunct professors in the faculty of humanities and social sciences, have received prestigious fellowships to examine the history of color
You Are Here.
Two 2018 school of art alumni explore decolonization and placemaking at the “Queens International 2018,” a contemporary art biennial at the Queens museum
Back Pages
Torkwase Dyson Named Spring 2019 Robert Gwathmey Chair in Art and Architecture
Cooper Together: 160
Cooper Fund Leadership Circle
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