CLASS NOTES

Diego “Rombo” Salazar AR'16

Diego “Rombo” Salazar AR'16’s New York Titans series takes structures like the Empire State Building, Freedom Tower, Chrysler Building, the Supertall Billionaire’s Row Towers and Hudson Yards and casts them as fellow New Yorkers who meet, date, mate, fight, and dine with the rest of us. For more information, click here and here.

Mark Alan Stamaty A'69

Mark Alan Stamaty A'69 participated in a conversation with Literary Hub about the power and potential of graphic novels to convey a bygone New York. For more information and to read the full article, click here.

Michael Morris AR'89

Michael Morris AR'89, Co-Founder and Principal Architect of SEArch+, was among the speakers at VivaTech 2022 in June. For more information, click here.

Jesse Reiser AR'81 & Nanako Umemoto AR'83

After 10 years of work, Jesse Reiser AR'81 and Nanako Umemoto AR'83’s firm RUR Architecture has completed the Taipei Music Centre. For more information, 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.