On Tuesday, April 8th, Fourth Arts Block (FABnyc) and the Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design (CUISD) will host an opening for The Model Block: an exhibit. The Model Block represents the culmination of a multi-year project which focused on the East 4th Street Cultural District (between 2nd Ave & Bowery) as a testing ground for new and innovative solutions to the complexities of urban sustainability at the block scale.

The exhibit highlights environmental actions taken on a typical block, organized around the themes of community, energy, waste, and water. It will also feature the products of collaborative art projects by Amanda Browder, Miggy Buck, Karina Mangu-Ward, and Shawn Shafner. There will be an artist panel discussion and workshops with artists on Saturday, April 12th from 12:30-3PM.

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This year, the CUAA Founder's Day Celebration will be held on 4/13/14 and will include an award ceremony in the Great Hall, followed by a block party directly outside on Astor Place. The Saturday program will have a booth and so will many student, faculty, and alumni groups. There will be food vendors, and a Jello Challenge sculpture contest. Please bring your friends, family, kids and grandkids. The entire event is conceived, planned, and funded by alumni volunteers for the entire Cooper Community. The event will be free, and everyone in the Cooper Union community is invited to attend. 

Each year, the Cooper Union Alumni Association selects the recipients of the prestigious Alumni Awards. The awards will honor alumni achievements in the fields of Art, Architecture, and Engineering, as well as The Alumni Service Awards, and The Peter Cooper Award for Public Service.

The 2014 John Q. Hejduk Award will be awarded to Leslie Gill (AR '82)
Following the award ceremony, the Street Fair will feature art, music, activities, workshops, and food trucks.

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Mersiha Veledar is a practicing architect and an educator. She has lived in New York since she was fourteen years old, where she found refuge through the United Nations after the brutal war in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The genesis of her professional work and studio pedagogy have origins in her "Architecture can Heal" [advised by Lebbeus Woods] hypothesis from The Cooper Union she did in 2003, which received numerous awards and recognitions, during which she decided to focus on typologies of 'universal' intimate scale architectural elements such as walls, columns, doors, windows, among a few as a lexicon of 'fundamentals' common to all cultures, ethnicities and architectures.

Having witnessed the fall of civic institutions through man-made disasters, her professional work is focused on an array of public programs ranging from schools to museums, to art installations. She has built work both in New York City and overseas. Veledar will talk about these projects in context of her Cooper Union hypothesis: "Architecture can Heal". 

Lunch will be provided. Sponsored by Career Center and Alumni Affairs

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