Catherine Ann Somerville Venart. It asks the following questions: How can civic spaces be imbued with nuance? In what ways does such a quality persist in the city? Can one discuss intimacy in architectural terms? In her built and unbuilt works, teaching, and writing, Diane Lewis upheld the capacity of architecture to profoundly and intimately embody our collective life.
For Lewis, the city was not only the result of a great number of inextricable historical strata of form and memory, it was also a proposition about a moral and ethical life together. She approached the city as a mental universe all its own, greater than the sum of its individual architectures. They touch on critical questionsβliterary, ecological, social, and metahistoricalβproviding and provoking spatial civic identities.
Thus, they are also inseparable from deeply involved critical approaches to architectural pedagogy. Cloth masks alone are not permitted, but may be worn as a second layer over a disposable surgical mask. Lowering masks for the purpose of eating and drinking at the opening reception will be allowed. Located in the Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in , The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.
From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony. Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.
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