Elizabeth Graziolo AR'95

On August 31, 2023, Elizabeth Graziolo AR'95 was featured in a New York Times article: "An Architect Who Forges Ahead in Her Own Lane":

".... She set her sights on the Cooper Union, a pioneering New York university that didn’t charge tuition at that time. When she couldn’t apply to its engineering school — no one had advised her to take the required SAT — she put in an application to the school of architecture. She was just 16 when she got in.

Once there, she fell in love with the subject. The curriculum was “super conceptual,” Ms. Graziolo said — one assignment was to analyze a juicer — but the classes opened her eyes to the built environment and the impact that design has on people. When she graduated in 1995, Ms. Graziolo recalled she was one of only two Black students in her class. The college said it did not keep statistics on race back then so could not confirm her recollection....

Jim Donnellan CE'92

The 3rd Annual Jim Donnellan CE'92 Charity Golf Outing, to benefit the American Cancer Society will be held on September 22, 2023 at the Dyker Beach Golf Course in Brooklyn, New York. Please see the flyer below for details:

Raviv Ganchrow AR'00

Raviv Ganchrow, AR’00, will be presenting a day-long sound installation at the French pavilion at the Venice biennial this year:

This coming weekend, he will be presenting his installation Lightning Ellipse at the French pavilion in Venice as part of the Radio Utopia series (August 1st to 5th 2023).

Above is the image of the site-specific circuit and sketch of the installation.

For a longer description of the work (installation will be up for one day), please click here.

Here is a short description of the work:

Felipe Baeza A'09

Starting Aug. 9, Felipe Baeza A'09, whose home base is Brooklyn, will be giving people something to think about during their own public transportation journey, or purgatory as the case may be. As part of a Public Art Fund program designed to reach people where they live or commute, Baeza will have eight of his mixed-media, collagelike paintings reproduced on some 400 JCDecaux bus shelters in New York, Boston and Chicago as well as Querétaro and Léon in Mexico. They will also appear on digital kiosks and newsstands in Mexico City.

  • 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.