Spring 2025 All School Assembly

Tuesday, January 21, 2025, 1 - 4pm

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Convocation

To welcome new and returning faculty, staff and students and to launch the new semester, there will be a SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE ASSEMBLY on Tuesday 21 January (the first day of classes).

The convocation will begin with an introduction by Acting Dean Eber followed by respective faculty and staff presentations on the Spring 2025 semester public programming, design studios and elective courses. 

This is an in-person event with an option to participate through Zoom for faculty whose availability may not permit attendance otherwise.

ALL SCHOOL ASSEMBLY SCHEDULE

Introduction by Acting Dean Hayley Eber (12:00PM - 12:15PM)

Upcoming lectures and exhibitions: Professor Ben Aranda (12:16PM - 12:21PM), Steven Hillyer, Director of the Architecture Archive (12:22PM - 12:27PM). A brief announcement by Sue Gussow (12:28PM - 12:33PM)

Architectonics: presented by Ben Aranda, Ted Baab, Elizabeth O’Donnell (12:34PM - 12:39PM)

Electives: Nora Akawi/Guillermo Ruiz de Teresa (12:40PM - 12:45PM), Stan Allen (12:46PM - 12:51PM)

Design II: presented by Stan Allen, Katie Lau, James Lowder, Nader Tehrani (12:52PM - 12:57PM)

Electives: Ben Aranda (12:58PM - 1:03PM), Laura Coombs/Phillip Denny (1:04PM - 1:09PM)

Design III: presented by Sam Anderson, Kian Wee Chen, Kayla Montes de Oca, Julian Palacio, Tommy Schaperkotter, Mersiha Veledar, Guido Zuliani (1:10PM - 2:15PM)

Electives: Gus Crain/Owen Nichols/Clara Syme (2:16PM - 2:21PM), David Gersten (2:22PM - 2:27PM)

Design IV: Option Studios presented by Behnaz Assadi, Anthony Titus, Michael Young (2:28PM - 2:33PM)

Electives: Marsha Ginsberg (2:38PM - 2:43PM), Jhaelen Hernandez-Eli (2:44PM - 2:49PM) 

Thesis: presented by Nora Akawi, Brad Samuels (2:50PM - 2:55PM)

Electives: Khaled Malas (2:56PM - 3:01PM), Leah Meisterlin (3:02PM - 3:07PM)

Graduate Design: Diana Agrest, Foivos Geralis (3:08PM - 3:13PM)

Electives: Joan Ockman (3:14PM - 3:19PM), Julian Palacio/James Lowder (3:20PM - 3:25PM), Tommy Schaperkotter (3:26PM - 3:31PM). 

This event is open to current Cooper Union students, faculty, and staff.

Located in the Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, at 41 Cooper Square (on Third Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets)

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  • 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.