Dan Wood: We'll Get There When We Cross the Bridge

Thursday, March 2, 2017, 6:30 - 8:30pm

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Beirut Museum of Art © Raymond Adams

Beirut Museum of Art © Raymond Adams

Dan Wood, FAIA, LEED AP, leads international projects for WORKac ranging from masterplans to buildings across the United States as well as in Asia, Africa, and Europe. Wood held the 2013-14 Louis I. Kahn Chair at the Yale School of Architecture and has taught at the Princeton University School of Architecture, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Ohio State University’s Knowlton School of Architecture, and the UC Berkeley School of Environmental Design, where he was the Friedman Distinguished Chair. Wood is originally from Rhode Island and lived in Paris and in the Netherlands for many years before moving to New York in 2002. He is a licensed architect in the State of New York and is LEED certified.

This event is open to current Cooper Union students, faculty, and staff. 

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