Adjunct Faculty
Matt Shaw is a New York–based author, editor, and columnist, whose work focuses on architecture as an instrument of political, social, and cultural shifts. He has been published in the New York Times, The Guardian, e-flux, Artforum, The Architectural Review, and Domus. He is the author of American Modern: Architecture, Community, Columbus, Indiana (Moncelli, 2024) and is the co-founder of the experimental project space Hot Air in downtown New York. He has previously served as Executive Editor of Architect’s Newspaper, where the online publication won an International Committee of Architectural Critics (CICA) honorable mention. He teaches critical writing and media studies at UPenn, The Cooper Union, and SCI-Arc, and has served on a number of advisory boards, awards committees, and built project juries.
Shaw's CV is available here.
Mint Kongphat is a New York-based product designer and educator. Guided by the belief that thoughtful design can shape how people live, learn, and connect with technology, her work bridges visual design, research, and strategy in digital experiences. Kongphat led design initiatives across Fortune 500 companies including Google, Salesforce, Intuit, American Express, Capital One, Anthem, Toyota, and Smirnoff. She received her BFA in Design & Visual Communication from Montclair State University in 2017, where she returned to teach in 2024.
Strategized and redesigned Salesforce+ streaming experience for Dreamforce 2023.
Conceptualized and designed hi-fidelity prototypes for Intuit Mint's Growth team.
Re-envisioned Mayo Clinic's international patient intake form.
Jennifer Williams’ large-scale site-responsive photographic installations are visual interpretations of urban morphology evident from a pedestrian viewpoint within specific neighborhoods. Through layered compositions she addresses the non-linearity of physical change in modern cities. She is represented by Robert Mann Gallery in New York has been widely exhibited throughout the country. Notable recent exhibitions include: San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, The Hunterdon Art Museum, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Muriel Guépin Gallery, and Workshop in Venice, Italy. Honors include the A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship, the Center for Emerging Visual Artists fellowship, the NARS Foundation International Artist Residency, and the Visual Studies Workshop residency, as well as the Aljira Emerge program. Her work has been featured in publications like ARTnews, The New Yorker, Excerpt Magazine, Title Magazine, The Site95 Journal, Photography Quarterly, and the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Jennifer received her MFA from Goldsmiths College in London and her BFA from Cooper Union in New York. She lives and works in New York City and currently teaches at Cooper Union and City College - CUNY.
Nima Javidi is a registered architect in Toronto and the 2021 Gwathmey Professor in Architecture at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union, where he teaches and coordinates core design studios. Nima’s interest in design is the intersection of geometry, structure, and typology in architecture.
Nima is a founding principal at JA Architecture Studio, a Toronto-based practice that combines the rootedness of a local architecture firm with the broad interests of an international design studio. The firm’s work has been recognized and awarded in a range of international competitions from the Guggenheim Helsinki Museum, Bauhaus Museum in Dessau, and a Progressive Architecture Award, to three Awards of Excellence from Canadian Architect and two finalist designations for the Canadian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Nima’s built work as part of JA operates at the threshold of architecture and urbanism, where the geometric reconfiguration of building typology is triggered by the conditions of urban morphology. The firm has introduced a series of architectural interventions of different uses along the urban voids within the West Queen West neighborhood in Toronto.
Javidi has a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Tehran and a Master of Urban Design from the University of Toronto. Prior to joining The Cooper Union Nima taught architecture design studios at the University of Toronto’s John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design.
In 2020, JA's work was featured in One to One | 1:1, an exhibition in The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture's Third Floor Hallway Gallery. Images of the exhibition are available here.
