Cooper Union

Brennan Buck

Feltman Chair in Architecture

Brennan Buck is the Director of the MArch I Program and a senior critic at the Yale School of Architecture, principal of the firm FreelandBuck based in New York City and Los Angeles, and a registered architect. FreelandBuck has been recognized as a member of the Architectural League of New York’s Emerging Voices, the Architectural Record Design Vanguard and as a MOMA PS1 Young Architects Program Finalist. Prior to teaching at Yale, he taught at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the University of Pennsylvania, and Pratt Institute, and worked for Neil M. Denari Architects and Johnston Marklee & Associates. Mr. Buck received a B.S. from Cornell University and an M.Arch. from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Brennan Buck's CV is available 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.