Michael Tower AR'93

Michael Tower AR'93’s firm Michael Tower Architecture designed the Kettl Tea Flagship in Brooklyn. For more information and to view images of the project, click here.

Michael Morris AR’89

Michael Morris AR'89 gave a lecture at the Rensselaer School of Architecture in March. For more information, click here.

Peggy Deamer AR'77

Peggy Deamer AR'77 gave the SDC Lecture at Washington State University in March. This talk examined the various institutions that currently shape architectural work in order to rethink and / or overturn them. For more information, click here.

Toshiko Mori AR'76

Toshiko Mori AR'76 gave the Kassler Lecture at The School of Architecture, Princeton University in March. 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.