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Logan-Li Family Travel Fellowship

The Logan-Li Family Travel Fellowship offers a unique opportunity for one student entering their fourth or fifth year in the Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) program at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, and one for a student enrolled in the first semester of the graduate Master of Science in Architecture (M.S.Arch) program at The Cooper Union to embark on an immersive summer research project focused on advanced urban investigation. 

It encourages students to develop innovative approaches to urban site analysis and documentation. Fellows will explore a self-selected urban environment, utilizing data sets, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and/or a range of spatial mapping, drawing, and modeling techniques. The fellowship aims to push the boundaries of traditional documentation and representation, fostering critical reflection on the methodologies and inherent biases within data visualization. By sup­porting the development of transformative visualization skills, the fellowship ultimately seeks to deepen students’ understanding of contemporary urban design issues and contribute to the evolving discourse through their original research. 


FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS

2026—Helena Uceda (B.Arch), Hanif James (M.S.Arch)
2025—Angelis Heredia (B.Arch), Leo Abelson (B.Arch)

 

  • 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.