CLASS NOTES

Daniel Libeskind AR'70

Dezeen continues their deconstructivist architecture series with a profile of Daniel Libeskind AR'70, who designed one of the movement's most evocative buildings, the Jewish Museum Berlin. For more information and to read the full profile, click here.

Umberto A. Gonzales A'52

Umberto A. Gonzales A'52’s son is working to save the magnificent sculptures that comprise Umberto’s life’s work. For more information, click here and here.

John Lin AR'02

John Lin AR'02 was a participant in ‘Research on the Move’ in June, which brought together eight M+ / Design Trust Research Fellows from 2015 to 2019 to converse with Hong Kong–based practitioners who have been influential in exploring similar fields through a series of topic-orientated dialogues. For more information, click here.

Yvette Rock A'97

Yvette Rock A'97 is interviewed by the University of Michigan Detroit about connecting children to the possibilities of a life in art. For more information and to read the full interview, click here.

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.