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The dispute over the Chrysler Building’s future just got even murkier

2024-10-23T17:33:00-04:00

Several local New York outlets have reported an update on the financial dispute between the Chrysler Building’s owner-operator RFR and The Cooper Union, which has held the land use rights to its lot since 1902.

The Austrian-based developer purchased William Van Alen’s landmarked design for $150 million in 2019 and is now being threatened with eviction by the college after reportedly not paying rent since May. RFR in turn filed a lawsuit last month, claiming "an improper and fatally defective eviction proceeding" on the part of Cooper Union.

The ground rent is now expected to increase to $41 million by 2028, adding to the challenges posed by its inability to retain tenants because of poor cell phone reception and unsanitary taps. The suit also claims Cooper Union's reaction to student-led anti-war protests this past year has led others to withdraw. The college has since called these claims "irrelevant, scandalous, and prejudicial.”

The Cooper Union is starting to bring back free tuition

2024-09-03T17:02:00-04:00

In a surprising move, The Cooper Union has announced a return to tuition-free education for all undergraduate seniors within each of the next four years starting with its Class of 2025. The reversal comes ten years after school trustees formally voted to do away with its free mandate for the first time as a result of financial strain. The New York Times was first to report on the announcement, which follows a $6 million grant from three Cooper alumni.

The Cooper Union says it is on track to be free to all students by the 2028-29 academic year. Current costs for undergraduates hover at $44,550. However, the school is prioritizing the ten-year plan. Current first-, second-, and third-year students will receive full-tuition scholarships in their senior years under it. In a statement, outgoing President Laura Sparks said progress on the issue "[reaffirms] the ideals that have been foundational to this institution since Peter Cooper opened its doors in 1859."

Previously on Archinect: Coo...

Shigeru Ban: The Paper Log House opens at The Glass House with the help of Cooper Union architecture students

2024-04-17T06:00:00-04:00

Archinect has received first photos of Shigeru Ban Architects’ new collaborative installation project with students from The Cooper Union Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut.

A product of this semester’s Building Technology course, Shigeru Ban: The Paper Log House honors the 75th anniversary of one of America’s foremost examples of modernism with a special nine-month run that began this week, April 15th, and will run until December 15th.

Students from The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union cut and sort components for the Paper Log House’s top connector in the school workshop. Video still by Hudson Lines

Students slot preassembled sections of paper tube walls into crenelated base panels along the perimeter of the floor. Video still by Hudson Lines

Working together with a team from the Pritzker Prize winner’s New York office, a group of 39 students engaged in a two-day assembly process that created a 13.5 by 13.5-...

Shigeru Ban and the Cooper Union to exhibit Paper Log House at The Glass House's 75th anniversary

2024-02-05T19:37:00-05:00

Shigeru Ban Architects have announced a special project that will help commemorate the 75th anniversary of the realization of Philip Johnson’s soon-to-be restored Brick House, the smaller outbuilding included at the site of the landmarked Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut.

The firm made public its plans for a collaborative design-build with students from The Cooper Union Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, via LinkedIn.

The project will be enacted on the Glass House grounds beginning April 15 and extending to the 15th of December of this year for public exhibition. On display will be the same Paper Log House prototype Ban and his Voluntary Architects’ Network have deployed recently in Turkey, Morocco, Japan, and Ukraine. Ban says his team will work with a group of 36 students to realize the prototype, marking its first North American installation in six years.

Johnson of cou...

Get Lectured: The Cooper Union, Fall '23

2023-09-14T11:40:00-04:00

Archinect's recurring Get Lectured series features a showcase of each architecture school's lectures along with eye-catching event posters. This week, our look at the events taking place this Fall semester continues with the public programming on tap at The Cooper Union’s Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture in New York City.

The packed slate began Tuesday, September 12, with a lecture from Class of 1998 alumni Anthony Titus and will continue Wednesday, September 26, with a book discussion featuring Designing the Forest and other Mass Timber Futures author Lindsey Wikstrom. Shannon Mattern will visit campus for a lecture on Arboreal Media on October 10, followed by a lecture from Harvard’s Andrew Witt on October 24 and an October 25 book discussion featuring author Peter Trummer.

The month continues on October 31 with Catie Newell’s Fariba Tehrani Lecture on architecture and loss. Mario Carpo comes to campus for a book discussion on November 9, preceding another from MODU founders...

The Cooper Union updates Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Deanship search

2023-08-21T12:10:00-04:00

The Cooper Union has announced an update in its search to find a new permanent Dean of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture.

In a letter to the schoolwide community, the Board of Trustees announced the continuation of Hayley Eber as Acting Dean and the addition of South African-born architect Mokena Makeka as its first Special Advisor to the Vice President of Academic Affairs following an exhaustive two-year community feedback process.

The Board shared that a four-candidate review did not yield an adequate long-term hire for the Dean’s position in the view of the committee, which has been occupied by Eber on an interim basis since 2019.

The school shares: “What it generated was a new way of thinking. We conceived an entirely different leadership model — a partnership — that combines excellence and experience across the precise domains we sought to address within the School of Architecture, in particular, and for The Cooper Union, as a whole, while working within our existing b...

Cooper Union's Vkhutemas exhibition to open April 25th, with an expanded study of historical and political context

2023-04-18T11:15:00-04:00

The Cooper Union’s controversial Vkhutemas: Laboratory of Modernism, 1920–1930 has set an opening date months after being postponed and then remounted following backlash over censorship claims and its appropriateness in light of the ongoing war in Ukraine.

April 25th is the new public opening for the exhibition, which will run through May 5th in the school’s Arthur J. Houghton Jr. Gallery.

The move was announced Monday by President Laura Sparks, who said: “The Cooper Union has always been a forum for courageous public discourse, a place where new ideas, as well as opposing viewpoints, are expressed and explored to advance a just and thriving world. Since the 19th century, the institution has served as a center of learning and civic engagement to address the critical challenges and opportunities of the day. There is value in examining the teachings of Vkhutemas, and it is critical that we expanded the study to probe and learn from the broader geopolitical circumstances surrounding th...

Cooper Union will remount Vkhutemas exhibition following internal review and outside criticism

2023-02-07T11:30:00-05:00

The Cooper Union has announced it will remount its Vkhutemas exhibition in a reversal apparently brought on by discussions with students, co-organizers, curators Anna Bokov and Steven Hillyer, and members of the school’s Ukrainian community.

In a letter dated February 6, the school’s President Laura Sparks, Acting Dean Hayley Eber, and Exhibitions Committee Chair Alexander Tochilovsky explained their reasoning as the following:

“Leadership also carefully reviewed letters and fielded outreach from colleagues, peers, and individuals from throughout our community. These conversations have been important and instructive, and have underscored both the significance of this exhibition and the need to frame this work within the broader geopolitical context, both then and now.”

“At its core, The Cooper Union has always been a forum for public discourse and dialogue addressing the challenges and opportunities of our time. The School of Architecture encourages students to investigate the rol...

Cooper Union postpones Vkhutemas exhibition in light of the ongoing war in Ukraine

2023-01-26T17:11:00-05:00

An exhibition at The Cooper Union examining Vkhutemas has been postponed by the institution amidst criticisms relating to the ongoing war in Ukraine. Vkhutemas was a Soviet art and technical school that existed from 1920 to 1930. It was a pioneer in the field of art and design education in the Soviet Union, playing a significant role in shaping the aesthetic of early Soviet art and architecture.

In an op-ed published on Archinect last week, Peder Anker, a Professor in History at NYU, outlined his opposition to the show, which was to be staged in the Houghton Gallery, just steps away from the Ukrainian Village and several important cultural sites associated with the large Ukrainian diaspora group that resides in New York City.

Previously on Archinect: The Cooper Union Promotes Russian Architecture. Why?

The op-ed originally suggested that Anna Bokov, the show's curator, is engaging in Russian propaganda, with direct ties to Vladimir Putin through her father, Andrey Bokov, the Nationa...

The Cooper Union continues its search for a new Dean for the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture

2022-10-19T10:47:00-04:00

Following last week’s look at an opening for a Wayfinding Designer at Mijksenaar USA, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore the open role on Archinect Jobs for Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union.

The successful candidate will become the school’s “academic and administrative leader” with responsibilities including curriculum development, supporting the school’s future disciplinary and interdisciplinary explorations, and the “cultivation of a supportive scholarly environment.”

Among the detailed qualifications required for the role are a professional degree in architecture, and “significant and recognized contributions to the culture of architecture.”

Why the role interests us

The Cooper Union originally launched its search for a new architecture school Dean in January, with application ...

The Cooper Union is looking for a new dean following Nader Tehrani announcing his resignation

2022-01-21T13:27:00-05:00

Editor's Note: Details of this article have been updated as of January 24, 2022.

The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union has announced its search for a new leader after current dean Nader Tehrani, who was appointed in 2015, shared his leave and completion of tenure as dean. Over the past seven years, Tehrani has worked with the institution to expand on the Cooper Union's academic goals and culture during his tenure. In my recent phone conversation with Tehrani, he shared: "I've completely loved my time at the Cooper Union."

Tehrani's tenure followed the resignation of former dean Anthony Vidler in 2013 and Elizabeth O'Donnell serving as acting dean during this interim phase. In 2019, the school announced Hayley Eber as the new Assistant Dean of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture. Tehrani shared with Archinect: "No matter who the next dean is, they are going to have an excellent partner."

Prior to him joining, the Cooper Union was already undergoing in...

Cooper Union opens access to database of student work dating back to the 1930s

2019-12-03T09:30:00-05:00

The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union in New York City has unveiled The Student Work Collection, a new online resource that highlights nearly 80 years' worth of architectural output with the aim of recording the "School of Architecture's pedagogy by documenting student work."

The comprehensive archival project includes over 4,000 student projects that are catalogued by student and and instructor names, as well as by course number, semester, decade, and design problem, among other topics. The collection provides a deep view into the early pen-on-vellum work of now-famous architects like Daniel Libeskind (class of 1970), Liz Diller (class of 1979), and others. The archive also offers a more complex perspective of the educational efforts of prominent architectural educators and theorists, including John Hejduk, Peter Eisenman, Toshiko Mori, Lebbeus Woods, and others.

Homepage of The Student Work Collection. Image courtesy of Cooper Union.

According to the site...

Get Lectured: Cooper Union, Fall '19

2019-10-17T22:00:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2019

With a new school year already here, it's time for Archinect's latest edition of Get Lectured, an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

The Cooper Union's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture has a jam-packed calendar of events for Fall '19. Lectures will be given by an international roster of speakers including Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, Stella Betts and Antón García-Abril, Piet Eckert, Go Hasegawa, Cynthia Davidson, Fabrizio Barozzi, Emanuel Christ, Jennifer Yoos and Vincent James, Peter Zellner, Iman Ansari, Natalie Fizer, and more.

Some other upcoming events worth noting are the “Breaking Ground: Architecture by Women” book launch and pane...

Cooper Union Board approves return to full-tuition scholarships for all undergraduates

2018-03-16T13:55:00-04:00

The Cooper Union Board and President released yesterday a plan to return to full-tuition scholarships for all undergraduate students. This decision is the result of an ongoing strategic planning effort of re-examining the schools structure and values after the 150-year tradition of free scholarships was broken in 2014 causing protests and public outcry.

The plan is a modified version of the recommendation published on January 15, 2018 by the Board’s Free Education Committee (FEC).

Consistent with the FEC's recommendation are:

Increases scholarships beginning in two years, provided we meet critical fundraising, operating expense, and operating cash surplus goals.
Returns The Cooper Union to full-tuition scholarships for all undergraduate students in 10 years.
Seeks to generate $250 million over the 10-year timeline to bolster the institution's financial resilience and invest in its world-renowned academic programs.

Some of the Board's modifications include:

Cooper Union will not rais...

Get Lectured: Cooper Union, Spring '18

2018-03-09T12:43:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter/Spring 2018

Archinect's Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Check out upcoming events for “Hippocratic Domains”, the Spring 2018 lecture series of The Cooper Union's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture.

Jan 25
Róisín Heneghan
at The Great Hall, 7 p.m.

Feb 13
OBRA Architects – Pablo Castro and Jennifer Lee
at Room 315F, 12 p.m.

Feb 21
Emre Arolat
at The Great Hall, 7 p.m.

Feb 22
Rafi Segal in Conversation with Anthony Vidler
at Room 315F, 6:30 p.m.

Mar 6
Andrés Jaque
at Room 315F, 7 p.m.

Mar 22
Ana Miljački
at Room 315F, 6:30 p.m.

Mar 27
Josep Lluis Mateo
at The Great Hall, 7 p.m.
Co-Sponsored with The Architectural League of New Yo...

Diane Lewis, architect and eminent Cooper Union professor, has died

2017-05-02T13:45:00-04:00

New York architect and professor Diane Lewis has passed away, The Cooper Union announced in a statement today. She was the first woman appointed to the school's full-time architecture faculty and tenured in 1993. Since then, she was a “beloved and influential voice” in the community, wrote Nader Tehrani, dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture.

Lewis won the 1976 Rome Prize in Architecture, being one of the youngest recipients of the award. In addition to her experience at the American Academy in Rome, she spent her formative years working at Richard Meier's office from 1977-78, followed by six years at I.M. Pei and Partners from 1978-83, while launching her teaching career.

Photo © Rob Mattson, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, via Asia Contemporary Art Week.

Then in 1983, she established her eponymous firm, Diane Lewis Architects. She fiercely dedicated her practice to studio teaching and critical writing on architecture, and she integrated the approach of “the architecture of t...

Cooper Union appoints first woman president Laura Sparks

2016-09-20T18:46:00-04:00

It's been a tumultuous year for Cooper Union: after revoking and then reconsidering its free tuition policy for students last year, the institution saw numerous prominent trustees resign. Now, Cooper Union has appointed executive director of the William Penn Foundation Laura Sparks as its first woman president, whose background in philanthropy and successful community engagement seems like an ideal match for the school. As Sparks noted about her appointment:

"I have been impressed with the passion, commitment and determination of Cooper’s board and search committee to ‘look forward’ while also acknowledging and respecting dissenting views and the voices of many throughout the wider school community. I am eager to meet more of the college’s passionate, thoughtful and accomplished students, and to engage with its extraordinary faculty as we move the institution forward while holding true to its founding principles. I am confident that together we can reaffirm our sense of mission, stab...

Cooper Union to return to tuition-free model

2015-09-02T13:25:00-04:00

The Committee to Save Cooper Union (CSCU) has successfully convinced Cooper Union's Board of Trustees to reconsider their decision to charge tuition to ease the institution's financial crisis, a move that would have upended a 150-year tradition of free scholarships. Along with Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman of the New York Attorney General's Office and the CSCU, Cooper Union signed a Consent Decree that will, in the words of the CSCU, "enable Cooper Union to find a practical path back to its full scholarship model; give alumni, students, faculty, and staff a powerful role in Cooper’s governance; institute strict oversight of the school’s progress toward its goals; spur a serious effort to balance its budget; and reform its governance." The CSCU has correspondingly settled its lawsuit against Cooper Union.

The Attorney General's Office has also filed a cy pres petition, which attributes the Attorney General's intervention in the matter to a need "to safeguard Peter Cooper's irr...

Back to business: Nader Tehrani appointed Dean of Cooper Union's School of Architecture

2015-07-01T20:54:00-04:00

After a nearly two-year search, the Cooper Union has selected Nader Tehrani as the new Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, effective immediately. Following Dean Anthony Vidler’s resignation in 2013, Elizabeth O’Donnell took over as acting dean while the search committee scoured the globe for a permanent replacement. Tehrani looks to be a prime choice, with a very impressive set of exhibitions, lectures and awards that has already been extensively detailed elsewhere. He is also the founding principal of both Office dA (along with Roldolphe El Khoury,) and NADAAA, and previously served as an architecture professor and the head of MIT’s Department of Architecture.

↑ Model Home Gallery in Seoul, South Korea by NADAAA

Tehrani’s deanship begins at a difficult period in Cooper Union’s history, in the still very shaky aftermath of the school’s 2014 decision to begin charging tuition for the first time since its founding 156 years ago. Ongoing student protests, a legal investig...

Editor's Picks #420

2015-06-17T13:37:00-04:00

Amelia Taylor-Hochberg presented Curated thoughts from an earlier (Archinect Sessions Episode #24 and #25) conversation with Kevin Roche, "a hero of the long-game". snooker-doodle-dandy noted "I have always liked Kevin and his work. He was one of the people whom drove me to the profession...have never had the good fortune to bump into him. It is on my bucket list!"

Plus, Julia Ingalls explored how Twitter and other "social media has oddly become a kind of virtual worker’s union, helping to expose unethical hiring practices".

News
Next September, the historic Neutra Institute and Museum in Silverlake will host a new play by Tom Lazarus entitled ‘The Princes of Kings Road'. eric chavkin "used to live there. Right after Pauline Schindler died. Some of the stories I heard made Kings Road house look like a real party palace. When I was there lots of architects would drop by….I hope they get this play right. The tales are true, the names famous."

Episode 33 of Archinect Sessions, which fea...

Last week today, June 8-15 2015: BIG projects, big opinions

2015-06-15T18:33:00-04:00

Friday, June 12:

The new OMA-designed Garage Museum opens in Moscow: On the design, Koolhaas has been quoted with "not restoring the building, but preserving its decay". The original Soviet-era building used to be a restaurant.

Thursday, June 11:

Stargazing with Patrik Schumacher: Episode 33 of Archinect Sessions: Patrik Schumacher discusses his recent op-ed for Archinect.
The Cooper Union turmoil continues: President Jamshed Bharucha resigns: In the midst of student protests and five trustees resigning, President Bharucha also stepped down last week. This came after the Cooper Union's Board had already voted not to renew Bharucha's contract as president next year.

Wednesday, June 10:

Five Cooper Union trustees just resigned: Among them were Daniel Libeskind, Mark Epstein (the board’s former chairman), Vassar College president Catharine Bond Hill, Francois de Menil (the board’s vice chairman), and investment banker Monica Vachher.
Locals welcome The 606, a.k.a. Chicago's "High Line", but a...

Stargazing with Patrik Schumacher: Episode 33 of Archinect Sessions

2015-06-11T17:40:00-04:00

This week, we devote the majority of our show to a discussion with Patrik Schumacher, about celebrity and the insularity of critical discourse in architecture. The idea of the "starchitect" is onerous to pretty much everybody in architecture, but that hasn't stopped us from using it. It's a popular media fabrication that, by becoming a potent cultural meme in its own right (thanks, Gehry), has derailed significant portions of architecture discourse into the murky realm of identity politics – the aesthetics and politics of a built object becoming an inextricable part of their designer's character. Schumacher's Parametricism may be an antidote to that. We discuss Schumacher's recent op-ed on these subjects, in the hope that keeping the discussion going will flush out something useful (or even flush away the "starchitect" concept entirely).

In the news, we touch on BIG's design for Two World Trade Center displacing Foster's, the resignation of five Cooper Union trustees (including Danie...

The Cooper Union turmoil continues: President Jamshed Bharucha resigns

2015-06-11T12:46:00-04:00

It was a matter of hours from when the resignations of five Cooper Union trustees rolled in until their names were erased from the college’s website. And it was a day later that the President Jamshed Bharucha announced he too would resign, more than a year before his employment contract expires. Yet the upheaval that led to the acrimonious departures has been years in the making.

Events are unfolding very quickly in Cooper Union's leadership right now: Just hours after five members of the 23-member Board of Trustees resigned yesterday, Jamshed Bharucha, the school's embattled President, publicly announced his resignation in an email to the Cooper Union community.

Following is the email in full length (h/t Ken Koense):

Subject: Presidential Transition
From: The Cooper Union <alumni@cooper.edu>
To: All community and alumni
Date: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 7:09 PM

Dear Members of the Cooper Union Community:

I am writing to let you know that I will be leaving my post as President of The Cooper Union at the end of June, 2015. Starting in the fall, I will serve as Visiting Scholar at Harvard University in the Graduate School of Education.

It has been an honor to serve as the 12th President of Cooper Union these past four years. The focus of my presidency has been to secure Cooper’s finances for generations of deserving students in the future, while preserving excellence and...

Five Cooper Union trustees just resigned

2015-06-10T13:37:00-04:00

Last night five members of the Cooper Union’s board of trustees resigned: real estate mogul Mark Epstein (the board’s former chairman), Vassar College president Catharine Bond Hill, architects Daniel Libeskind and Francois de Menil (the board’s vice chairman), and investment banker Monica Vachher. Three of the departing trustees — Epstein, Libeskind, and Vachher — have written public resignation letters [...].

Following are the three resignation letters by Epstein, Vachher, and Libeskind — all widely claimed as strong tuition supporters and loyal to hotly contested Cooper Union president Jamshed Bharucha — in full length as published on the Committee to Save Cooper Union from the Committee to Save Cooper Union (CSCUFCSCU) website.

All,
I am writing to you from under two hats. One as trustee, and one as donor.
As a Trustee, I am hereby resigning from the Board, effective immediately. During my term as Chairman we were able to put the school on a path to sustainability. It was going to be a difficult path with some hurdles to get over. We were on our way, but have now gotten so far off of that path due to the actions (or inactions) of the Board that I no longer want to participate. I know that there are some in the Cooper Community that will take my resignation as a false victory of some sort. I am not resigning due to any pressure from that group, rather that I no longer want to associate wit...

Cooper Union graduates stage tuition protest at Commencement ceremony

2015-05-28T18:17:00-04:00

Cooper Union students pinned red felt squares to their graduation gowns and refused to acknowledge president Jamshed Bharucha, in the latest protest against the school's instatement of undergraduate tuition. The protest took place at the 2015 Commencement Ceremony yesterday, and was organized by student activist group Free Cooper Union, which has directed a variety of informational and protest actions in response to the landmark tuition decision.

On May 27, the day of the Ceremony, Free Cooper Union posted the following on Facebook:

At the ceremony, graduates receiving their diplomas refused to shake hands with President Jamshed Bharucha, who oversaw the school's decision to begin charging undergraduate tuition. Many students in the audience turned their backs on Bharucha during his presidential address. The protest echoed similar actions staged at 2014's Commencement, the year Cooper Union officially began charging.

In an effort to mitigate a lawsuit filed against the schoo l by a stud...

New York Attorney General is investigating Cooper Union’s finances

2015-03-25T17:44:00-04:00

When CU’s board of trustees decided last year to start charging tuition, its chair Richard S. Lincer claimed that to do so was “the only realistic source of new revenue in the near future.” The Attorney General’s office will be looking into the decisions that left the university in such a precarious financial situation [...] It will also investigate the decision to start charging tuition itself, which was the subject of protests, demonstrations, multiple occupations, and, currently, a lawsuit

Lawsuit Filed Over Cooper Union Tuition

2014-05-28T18:57:00-04:00

Slightly more than a year after the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art announced its plan to charge tuition, a group of professors, admitted students and alumni filed a lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court on Tuesday against the school's board of trustees. The plaintiffs' aim: to stop the school from introducing tuition next fall and to prompt a court investigation into how the board has managed school finances.

Get Lectured: Cooper Union, Spring '14

2014-02-21T14:35:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter/Spring 2014

Archinect's Get Lectured is up and running again for the Winter/Spring '14 term! As a refresher from our Fall 2013 guide, every week we'll feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current season.

Since we've been receiving more submissions lately, we're gonna show off posters more often — and so you're in the know of what events are happening at architecture schools right now!

Today's lecture poster comes from The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Listed below are upcoming events only. Unless stated otherwise, lectures take place at 7:00 PM at The Great Hall or the Rose Auditorium.

MARCH

March 4
6:30 pm
Frank Barco / Barkow Leibinger
BRICOLEUR / BRICOLAGE
at Rose Auditorium

APRIL

April 2
Yung Ho Chang / Atelier FCJZ
SMALLNESS
at The Great Hall

April 7
Farshi...

Cooper Union board votes for tuition to begin Fall 2014

2014-01-10T21:03:00-05:00

The Working Group plan puts forward a number of recommendations that are worth pursuing under any financial model. However, we believe that the contingencies and risks inherent in the proposals are too great to supplant the need for new revenue sources. Regrettably, tuition remains the only realistic source of new revenue in the near future.

Below is the entire email announcing the Cooper Union's decision to start charging tuition this fall, breaking the school's 153-year tradition.

Catch-up on the history behind the controversial move, explained in Archinect's 13 top issues of 2013: #5: Free Cooper Union

To: The Cooper Union Community
From: Richard S. Lincer
Date: January 10, 2014
Subject: Working Group Report

In late June 2013, an ambitious plan took shape to provide an alternative to a tuition-based financial plan for The Cooper Union. Authored by trustees, faculty, staff and alumni, this alternative came to be known as the “Working Group Report.” In December, the board began a rigorous review of the assumptions underlying the financial plan that had been adopted by the board in April 2013, and studied in depth the specific recommendations of the Working Group.

This review was conducted by everyone on the Board of Trustees with the assistance of the Huron Group, The Cooper Union’s financial consultants. ...

Cooper Union Architecture Students Launch Campaign To Preserve Free Education

2013-11-29T17:07:00-05:00

Our goal is to raise $600,000 to cover the incoming students' tuition bills for one year while a long term solution is developed to sustain the Cooper Union's promise of free education.

Cooper Union students establish the 'One Year Fund' in an attempt to preserve the full-tuition scholarship policy at the historically free New York City school.

The students of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union, recognize that the institution faces a serious financial crisis that has prompted the administration to introduce tuition. Tuition compromises the meritocratic foundation of the school and undermines the social contract amongst students and faculty.

This campaign is a student initiative from within the School of Architecture. The objective of the students involved is to provide the incoming undergraduate students with the equivalent financial support that the current students received upon their acceptance to the School in the form of merit based full-tuition scholarships to all admitted students.

The campaign runs until January 6th, 2014. http://www.oneyearfund.com/