The Cooper Union Alumni Association (CUAA) provides a vital link between the alumni and the institution, building a strong body of support to preserve, protect and promote The Cooper Union.
The CUAA is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s Founder’s Day / Hall of Fame Awards. The annual Founder’s Day Award ceremony and celebration will be held on February 8, 2023 in...
Dr. Barry Rosenbaum has been a Sr. Fellow of the University of Akron Research Foundation (UARF) for the past 18 years following retirement, focused on helping faculty and students commercialize their University Research. Born...
Pritzker Prize Laureate Shigeru Ban, architect, educator, and humanitarian, is widely recognized as a leader in design and an advocate for humanitarian causes. He began his career at the Cooper Union School of Architecture,...
Catherine Seavitt Nordenson is professor and chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania’s Stuart Weitzman School of Design, where she holds the Martin and Margy Meyerson Chair of Urbanism....
Dean Maltz is a Managing Partner of Shigeru Ban Architects, an award-winning, international architectural firm led by Shigeru Ban, his longtime friend and business partner of over 40 years. The relationship between Dean and...
Ann Agee's has focused on replicating objects by hand, a process employed to simulate mass production and engage ambiguous delineations between fine art, design, and craft; histories of cultural appropriation and exchange; and the...
Victor Papanek was born in Vienna, Austria. In 1939 following Nazi Germany’s annexation of Austria, 15-year-old Papanek emigrated to the United States as a refugee. He initially taught German at a YMCA in New York City. He...
Steven Silberstang graduated from The Cooper Union Engineering School in 1970. He also studied at University of Arizona, for hydrology. Steven Silberstang was a founder of the Amarex Technology which was founded in 1979....
Oronzio Maldarelli was born in Naples, Italy in 1892 and came to New York City in 1900. He studied at Cooper Union from 1911 to 1914, and again in 1916. He also studied at...
Arthur C. Keller was born in New York City in 1901. He joined the Western Electric Engineering Department in 1917. He attended the Cooper Union Engineering Night school where he earned an engineering bachelor’s...