Education of an Architect: Voices from the Cooper Union

1993 / 64 min. / color
Directed by Michael Blackwood

With the participation of renowned architect, John Hejduk, members of the graduating class at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union in New York City explain their imaginative solutions to their fifth-year thesis assignment. In lucid and informed reasoning, they individually describe their sources, processes and progress in architectural language. Through a riveting combination of landscape, space, narrative and creation, this graduating class presents a vibrant and captivating image for the future of architecture. The students’ passionate explanations of their projects impressively conveys the empowering nature of inspired professional education.