Architecture and the City

Cooper Union to Washington Square and NYC Center for Architecture

My dream school

So pretty. So much history…drool.

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is a privately-funded college in Downtown Manhattan, New York City. It is perfect and so splendid. Cooper Union, founded in 1859, established a radical new model of American higher education since its mission reflects its founder’s, Peter Cooper, fundamental belief that education of the highest quality should be as “free as air and water” and should be available to all who qualify, independent of race, religion, gender or social status. For 150 years, the College has admitted students based on merit alone and provided each with a full-tuition scholarship. Awesome!

The Campus is located in the East Village, again, perfect. This building, it is wonderful.

This on the other hand, is the ugliest and most atrocious thing I have ever seen. From those awful women that exited and mocked the class, from the concept of that ground street facade that was supposed to mimic what graffiti looks like. All of it is too horrible that I can not talk about it more.

This seems perfectly fine, adequate.

And the Bayard-Condict Building on 65 Bleecker St is now on my top ten list of favorite nyc buildings.
Louis Sullivan is a god.

Also, another new favorite place I never knew about:

The New York Now show was not bad at all.

And of course this:

Oh those insufferable NYU kids get all the nice things, don’t they.