This includes the presentation of the documentation of design projects and samples of coursework for all required and elective classes that lead to a Bachelor of Architecture degree.
The five year professional program is framed within the context of a rigorous liberal arts education that includes a wide range of required and elective courses in the Humanities and Social Sciences, together with elective opportunities in the Schools of Art and Engineering, emphasizing the nature of architecture as a cultural, social, and technological practice intimately tied to the increasingly urgent questions raised by the man-made and natural environment.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. The Cooper Union, open since 1859, grants degrees in art, architecture and engineering and offers courses in continuing education in New York City's East Village. These materials are exhibited in the third floor hallway, one of the main thoroughfares of the School of Architecture.At the end of every spring semester, the architecture studios are emptied and transformed into exhibition space. In keeping with The Cooper Union’s longstanding tradition of engaging the greater community of New York City, all Houghton Gallery exhibitions are free and open to the public. The Cooper Union, est. An archive of student design projects dating from the 1930’s through the present. The traditional and essential skills of drawing, model-making and design development are complemented by a full investigation of the analytical and critical uses of digital technologies. He looked forward to a time when, 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 Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop Gradually, out of this process, architecture, once more, may become a force through which life is transcribed into art in order to enhance life. On this re-framing – programmatically, technologically, and above all formally – rests not simply the future of architecture, but of our life in the world. Miriam Sitz. The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is private college of art, architecture, and engineering. The mission of the Architecture Archive is to record the history of the School of Architecture’s pedagogy through the documentation of student work, to provide resources to the students in order to augment and enhance their architectural education, and to produce informative exhibitions and publications on the subject of architecture and related disciplines.In 1970 John Hejduk and Roger Canon, AR’70, established a methodology to document student work for the publication Education of An Architect: A Point of View, which coincided with an exhibition of the same name held at the Museum of Modern Art in 1971. Students also assist in the construction and installation of exhibitions in both the Houghton Gallery and third floor hallway.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. The Cooper Union, open since 1859, grants degrees in art, architecture and engineering and offers courses in continuing education in New York City's East Village. We are in the process of re-learning the poetics of a space of life: of air and water, of geology and geography, of culture and society, of poetics that lie deeply within these elemental forces. Since the completion of the gallery at 41 Cooper Square in 2009, the Houghton Gallery has been under the primary stewardship of the School of Architecture.The Archive also presents exhibitions during the school year that are drawn from the resources of its various collections, as well as other works that might be of interest to the students.