Michael Young has been named the new dean of the Cooper Union Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture. The announcement by Cooper Union president Steven McLaughlin comes after a nationwide selection ...

Pritzker Prize-winning architect, humanitarian, and Cooper Union alumnus Shigeru Ban gives the 2024 The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture YC Foundation Lecture. The talk, “Balancing Architecture ...

On January 25, the exhibition Vkhumetas: Laboratory of the Avant-Garde, 1920–1930 was slated to open at Cooper Union's Houghton Gallery. However, following the official announcement of the ...

After indefinitely postponing a modest student exhibit about the Russian equivalent to the Bauhaus, the school received protests from 750 academics. On Monday, it reinstated the show. By Joseph ...

As of Monday, it appears that the Vkhutemas show, previously delayed due to concerns about the appearance of supporting Soviet pedagogy in the midst of Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, will move ...

An exhibition at the Cooper Union in New York exploring the legacy of Vkhutemas, a short-lived interdisciplinary Moscow design school that was ultimately dissolved in 1930 by Joseph Stalin just ten ...

Few individuals have birthday celebrations held in their honor years after they have passed away. But in the case of architect, professor, theorist, and poet John Hejduk (1929-2000) — who was dean of ...

Just a few hours before the Cooper Union was supposed to open an exhibition about the Vkhutemas — a tuition-free art school known as the “Soviet Bauhaus” that ran between 1920 to 1930 — the school ...

Steven W. McLaughlin, provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs, has been named the 14th president of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, effective July 1.

"This is the transcript of a slide lecture presented by Maya Lin on the occasion of her exhibition 'Between art and architecture', curated by Robert Rindler, in the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. Gallery at ...