CLASS NOTES

James Ludwig AR'92

James Ludwig AR'92 retired from Steelcase in late 2021 after 22 years with the organization. For more information, click here.

Paul Alter AR'82

Paul Alter AR'82 has been working on various projects for the Downtown Community Television organization, including the center’s recent renovation and the addition of a new screening room. For more information, click here.

Lee Skolnick AR'79

Lee Skolnick AR'79’s adaptive-reuse project The Church in Sag Harbor was featured on New York By Design: Architecture on CBS and was a Finalist in the NY By Design Awards. For more information and to watch the episode featuring the project, click here and here.

Tanner Clapham AR'10

Tanner Clapham AR'10’s firm CO Architects designed the Health Futures Center at Arizona State University with a modernist-inspired facade built for desert heat. 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.