Anne Romme AR'05

Academic Dissensus. Peter Betram. Photo: Hampus Berndtson

In conjunction with the exhibition At the Intersection of Ideas and Material Conditions, highlighting faculty work from the Institute of Architecture and Culture, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, faculty members Jacob Sebastian Bang and Anne Romme AR'05 conducted Gallery Remarks on September 13, 2022. The exhibition ran from September 6-25, 2022 at the Third Floor Hallway Gallery in the Foundation Building. To read more about the exhibition, please click here, here, and 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.