The Cooper Union







2008 Urban Visionaries Photo Gallery


The sixth annual Urban Visionaries Award Dinner and Silent Auction was a resounding success.

Trustee Doug Hamilton and Judy Currie

President Campbell (left) and Chairman of the Board of Trustees Ronald W. Drucker (CE'62) (right) present Wangechi Mutu (A'97) (Urban Visionary—Emerging Talent) with her award.

The art auction broke previous records, and featured work by 46 artists.

Ronni Denes, Urban Visionary—Engineering awardee Lloyd Trotter and Terri Trotter

Urban Visionary—Visual Art awardee Annie Leibovitz, Dr. Ron Drucker and Lisa Ware

Anthony Vidler (Arch. dean), Barbara Sciame, Steven Davis, Frank Sciame,
Richard Tomasetti and Lance Brown (AR'65)

Lana Woods and Brenda Neal

Roslyn Goldstein and Sylvia Smolensky

Heidi Diedrich, Kevin Umeh and William Floyd

Catherine Mattalino, vice chairman of the Board of Trustees Mark Epstein (A'76) and director of the Design Center Mindy Lang (A'82)

Alexan Stulc (AR'10), Sascha Mombartz (A'09), Tomashi Jackson (A'09) and Dennis Kong (BAE'08)

(front row) Dr. Ronald W. Drucker, Urban Visionary—Visual Art awardee Annie Leibovitz and Urban Visionary—Architecture awardee David Childs; (middle row) Urban Visionary—Engineering awardee Lloyd G. Trotter, Dinner Chairs T.J. Gottesdiener (AR'79) and Hedy Klineman (A'62) and President George Campbell Jr.; (last row) Dinner Chair Kevin Burke (EE'72), Urban Visionary—Urban Citizenship awardee Richard Ravitch

All photos © Leo Sorel