Visiting Lecture | Miquel Adrià: Arquine

Monday, February 3, 2020, 7 - 8:30pm

Add to Calendar

Miquel Adrià is an architect from the School of Architecture of Barcelona and a Ph.D. Architecture from the Universidad Europea de Madrid. In 1994 he moved to Mexico, and since then combines practice, teaching and criticism. He has published more than thirty books on Mexican and Latin American architecture. He is the director of Arquine and the MEXTRÓPOLI Architecture and City Festival. He is director of the School of Architecture at CENTRO.

This event is open to current Cooper Union students, faculty, and staff. Room 315F.

View the full Spring 2020 Lectures and Events List.

Located at 7 East 7th Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues

More Events & Exhibitions

  • 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.