logical conditions, and their corresponding requirements for sustainability and ethical responsibility.
The Foundation Building, Photo Credit: Leo Sorel
THE IRWIN S. CHANIN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE OF THE COOPER UNION Cooper Square 7 East 7 Street New York, NY 10003 212.353.4220 cooper.edu
Nader Tehrani, Dean Student Faculty Ratio: 5:1 Tuition & Fees: $44.550/Year * Every undergraduate student receives a 50%-tuition scholarship of $22,275 Number of Students: 150 Application Deadlines: 1/ 1 Type of Campus: Urban
The mission of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture is to provide for its students the finest professional education available within an intellectual environment that fosters and expands their creative capacities and sensibilities and establishes the foundation for a productive and creative professional life. The school is committed to the belief that one of society’s prime responsibilities is toward learning and education in the deepest sense: that the exercise of individual creativity within a willing community is a profoundly social act. Fundamental to the mission of the school is the maintenance of a creative environment in which freedom of thought and exploration can flourish and where students can explore and utilize their individual talents, interests and modes of working to their highest potential.
PROGRAMS THE BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE curriculum of the School of Architecture is designed to provide the student with a comprehensive educational experience, gaining knowledge and skills in preparation for the successful and ethical practice of architecture. Design studios and courses build cumulatively over the five years in order to establish a broad and deep foundation of knowledge in architecture and urban design in relation to developments in the sciences, arts, and technology. The curriculum stresses the importance of architecture as a humanistic discipline concerned with the design and construction of habitats in diverse social and eco-
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The traditional and essential skills of drawing, model-making and design development are complemented by a full investigation of the analytical and critical uses of digital technologies. The study of world architecture and urbanism is deepened by the understanding of individual cultures, environmental, and technological issues at every scale. The theory of the discipline, past and present, is investigated through the close analysis of critical texts and related to the theory and practice of other arts, such as public art, film and video. The position of the School of Architecture, together with the Schools of Art and Engineering and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, offers a unique opportunity for interaction and interdisciplinary research and experience.
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In recent years the school has developed the studio curriculum in ways that have reinforced its strong traditions of design and craft while investigating problems that reflect the changing conditions of contemporary practice, the urgent issues resulting from rapid urbanization and the need for environmental and cultural conservation. In these studio experiments students and faculty together explore the potential contributions of architecture to our changing world, redoubling their efforts to imagine a positive future for an architecture that is, after all, a discipline of design. This task does not involve a wholesale rejection of the past – our traditions and historical experience – for what has changed are not the principles, but rather the determinants and the materials of design. We are in the process of re-learning the poetics of a space of life: of air and water, of geology and geography, of culture and society, of poetics that lie deeply within these elemental forces. On this re-framing – programmatically, technologically, and above all formally – rests not simply the future of architecture,
