"Rational Simplicity and Rudolph de Harak: The Life and Work of a Midcentury Modernist Designer" - Book talk by Richard Poulin: February 20, 2023, Annenberg Center, Palm Springs, CA

Rudy de Harak, who was the Frank Stanton Professor of Design at Cooper Union for 25 years (died 2002) has been honored by a Richard Poulin, a graphic designer whom he mentored, with an autobiography of his life and work called “Rational Simplicity and Rudolph de Harak: The Life and Work of a Midcentury Modernist Designer". Richard Poulin will be giving a talk about the book on February 20, 2023 in the Annenberg Theater in Palm Springs, California:

From Richard Poulin:

Marion Henrion A'52

Marion Henrion A'52 at ART GALLERY PURE featuring sixty works from six different series created between 2015 and 2022.

Opening Reception is on Saturday November 19th from 6 PM to 9 PM.

ART GALLERY PURE, 6121 West Park Blvd.,#B113, Plano TX 75093 (Willowbend Mall)

Show will run through December 4th

Yvette Lucas A'83

Yvette Lucas A’83 has had her piece, Pink Portal, selected for the exhibit “Life and Landscape: Inspired by George Inness,” to be displayed at the Montclair Art Museum. A concurrent exhibition from September 9-November 6, 2022 at both Montclair Art Museum’s Vance Wall Art Education Gallery and Studio Montclair Leach Gallery in Montclair, NJ. An opening reception took place on September 9, 2022 at Montclair Art Museum and Studio Montclair Leach Gallery. To read more about the exhibit, please click here.

Model Behavior Exhibition

The term “model behavior” is commonly used to describe good social skills. An exhibition open at The Cooper Union from October 4-November 18, 2022 titled Model Behavior, curated by the Anyone Corporation, turns that concept on its head to investigate how models themselves behave. Conceptual models, study models, section models, and presentation models are givens in the practice and production of architecture, but the role of the architectural model in projecting or eliciting social behavior is seldom considered. At a moment when models in other disciplines—such as climate change and COVID models—are clearly affecting social behavior, how do architectural models reflect those changes or contribute to changing behaviors? This exhibition provides an opportunity for individuals to rethink the potentials of the architectural model, both within the discipline and in its relationships to the myriad models that shape contemporary culture. 

  • 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.