Cooper Union

Matthew Waxman

Assistant Professor Adjunct

Matthew Waxman is founder of Studio Matthew Waxman, a design practice interested in narratives of interdependence and transformation in norms of tectonics, formalism, and institutional paradigms of power. Prior to the Cooper Union, Waxman recently taught alongside media artist Chip Lord at the California College of the Arts. Waxman has been a project designer with Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects in San Francisco and NADAAA Inc. in Boston where his contributions included the University of Toronto Daniels Building Principal Hall and the University of Miami School of Architecture Master Plan. Waxman received an M.Arch from Harvard University Graduate School of Design and B.A.s in history & theory of architecture and film & digital media from UC Santa Cruz.

Waxman'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.