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On View: Student and Faculty Work

POSTED ON: October 17, 2011

In conjunction with the inauguration of President Jamshed Bharucha on October 17 and 18, 2011, Cooper Union faculty and students installed work throughout 41 Cooper Square and the Foundation building. The work on view came from the schools of architecture, art and engineering.

In the colonnade of the Foundation Building, a faculty publications installation showcased recent books by, and with significant contributions from, Cooper Union professors. The display was also visible to passersby outside the building from the colonnade windows.

The School of Architecture graduate student exhibition, The Critical Moment: Architecture in the Expanded Field, remained on view in the Houghton Gallery.

Posters publicizing School of Engineering robotics projects were hung outside the Architecture Archive offices.


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