Adrian De Silva

Consultant

Adrian De Silva LEED Green Associate

Adrian is an urban designer and advocate for livable cities. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Architecture with a concentration in Environmental Design from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. At the Monteverde Institute in Costa Rica, Adrian explored applied research in sustainable community design, planning and development. Currently he is exploring methodologies in tactical urbanism as a strategy to harmonize disconnects in sociocultural, economic and environmental ecologies.

  • 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.