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 ...

Zakhar Bykov, design for a folding book display, 1922–23. Project at Alexander Rodchenko’s studio in the Metalworking Department at Vkhutemas. Analysis by Junmin Chung and Han Na Kim. The Irwin S.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 always ...

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 ...

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 ...