Please nominate a living CUAA alumni who has excelled in the field of Art, Architecture, Engineering or Public Service. Individuals nominated before October 30, 2024 will be considered for the awards that are presented...
Clarence Pearson Hornung was born in 1899 and graduated from The Cooper Union Art School in 1919. He Lived and worked in New York as a commercial artist and trademark designer. Clarence...
Article by Laura Spinner Photo by Margaret Long The CUAA Awards Ceremony was held on February 8th in the Rose Auditorium in tandem with Cooper Together to celebrate Peter Cooper’s Birthday. The 2024 Founder’s...
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...