CLASS NOTES

Elizabeth Graziolo AR'95

Elizabeth Graziolo AR'95 is featured in Architectural Digest in an article on 10 Black women changing the architecture and design space. For more information and to read the article, click here.

Shigeru Ban AR'84

Pritzker prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban AR'84 has designed a timber wellness retreat for a lush site on Japan's Awaji Island. For more information, click here.

Columbia University's New Business School

Elizabeth Diller AR'79 and Ricardo Scofidio AR'55's firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro designed Columbia University’s new Columbia Business School. Oskar Arnorsson AR'08 and Emily Vo Nguyen AR'11 also contributed to the project. For more information click here, here and here.

Conceiving the Plan: Nuance and Intimacy in the Construction of Civic Space

An April exhibition at Cooper's School of Architecture "Conceiving the Plan: Nuance and Intimacy in the Construction of Civic Space" inaugurates a dialogue with the legacy of the late architect and longtime Cooper Professor Diane Lewis AR'76. The exhibition was conceived by Yael Hameiri Sainsaux AR'10, and contributors and advisors include Matthew Hitscherich AR'12 and David Huber AR'10. An accompanying symposium was held in April, and symposium participants include Elena Fanna AR'03, Peter Lynch AR'84, Laila Seewang AR'05, Uri Wegman AR'08, Sotirios Kotoulas AR'03, Mersiha Veledar AR'03, Holger Kleine AR'90 and Anna Kostreva AR'09.

  • 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.