The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture

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Experiments in Programming Matter

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An exhibition highlighting the work of MIT's Self-Assembly Lab and its unique approach to designing adaptive materials, novel fabrication systems, and self-organizing environments.

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Other Wood Pieces

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Zachary Mollica: Other Wood Pieces is part of Mollica's ongoing project to reflect on and share lessons gained over twenty years of work as a designer concerned primarily with materials found within trees.

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  • 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.