Although many other colleges have seen the value of their investments decrease significantly, Cooper Union’s endowment is expected to amount to about $600-million as the fiscal year ends today ...

But Cooper Union’s new academic building, which opened this fall, is a genuine triumph, a canny exercise in architectural multilingualism. (See pictures of Thom Mayne’s 41 Cooper Square.) ...

Thom Mayne of Morphosis. 41 Cooper Square, the new academic building for The Cooper Union, aspires to manifest the character, culture and vibrancy of both the 150 year-old institution and of the ...

Mr. Mayne's Cooper Union collossus. (Wikimedia Commons) A gravelly voiced Californian who has won “the Nobel of architecture” and an upstate ivy are now poised to transform Roosevelt Island.

Satire, George S. Kaufman famously quipped, is what closes on Saturday night. In a similar vein, we can define deconstructivist architecture, the regnant building fad of the moment, as what is ...

Not only will 41 Cooper Square be the first LEED-certified academic laboratory building in New York City, if it gets platinum certification, any that follow will have a lot to live up to. Mayne ...

Two internationally famous architects, will go head to head in a conversation about their work. Pritzker prize-winning Thom Mayne, known in New York for the new Cooper Union academic building, is the ...

Thom Mayne, born in 1944 in Waterbury, ... an architecture firm recognized for its avant-garde projects such as the Cooper Union building in New York and the Federal Building in San Francisco.