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RITE OF SPRING | A Celebration of the Drawings of the Architecture Students Accepted for Autumn 2013

POSTED ON: April 23, 2013

The Admissions Committee of The School of Architecture will present and discuss a selection of drawings that represent the work of the 2013 incoming students on the evening of Thursday 25 April.

Students, Faculty and Staff of The Cooper Union are invited to join us for the presentation and reception to follow.

Thursday 25 April, 6pm
RM 315
The Foundation Building
Reception to Follow
 
“You are sleepless anguished but possessed by an image
Which hovers never distant
By the Mediterranean
Under lemon trees that flower the year long
You take ship with friends
One from Nice one from Menton two from La Turbie”
-Apollinaire
 
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