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Cooper Union and Digital Technology
I was wondering if anyone who has attended or is attending cooper could shed any light on the schools involvement with new software and technology. From the little information I have found online, I get the feeling that it is very hand drawing oriented, and craft based.
Is this the case? Or is 3D modeling equally prevalent? 3D printing? Scripting?
Just trying to learn more about the program, as it has captured my interest. Any information would be useful.
Cheers.
Be one of the few that actually gets in, and then ask. If you haven't done so, just go to their end of year show next month.
switch
you are one of the admitted student this year?
you should go to their tour
i believe they have it at least 3 times a week
go check that out
"Be one of the few that actually gets in, and then ask. If you haven't done so, just go to their end of year show next month."
That seems rather backwards, shouldn't you research the school before you apply? Perhaps I just struck a chord. I'm considering applying next year, among a few other schools.
Anyhow, going to their year end show is not an option for me this year. I'm busy with my thesis project for my current degree, and by the time that is over I will unfortunately not have any time or cash to make the trip.
Anyone?
Cooper, albeit the obvious structure based around hand drawing and wood/metal techniques, is slowly approaching using digital techniques. We have a laser cutter, several plotters, and have just acquired a donated 3D plotter. All the computers have all the latest programs installed.
Don't think Cooper fears digital technology as if it were skynet, threatening human and global domination. I say 'slowly approaching' because these tools are just that-- tools to help our investigations as much as a pencil and table saw are. We have a few classes in digital technology, but those are taught next to euclidian geometry, next to desargues, so we understand the tool's importance. We have some critiques around a computer, looking at a rhino model. Cooper is not the place to come to if you want advanced digital technology.. the school welcomes it if it can be used appropriately, but you come to this school to learn something else.
danny, you make a good point, and something that even if you look at the book "Education Of An Architect" one should have a good sense of what is expected and how open the school is to new approaches.
dammit. i read the thread title and clicked on it thinking it was the opening line to a joke.
the computers have cad, rhino, revit, adobe creative suite, etc. truly investigative/groundbreaking work in these mediums is limited but it is still really an undergraduate program so i think it is okay.
as danny said, there is a slow move and one that i can
appreciate given the hyper-digital train that so many jumped on without the care and criticality that the discipline yearns for.
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