Cooper Robertson


Cooper Robertson is an international architecture and urban design firm founded by Alex Cooper, in collaboration with the Driehaus Prize winner Jaquelin T. Robertson. It is headquartered in New York City.

History

Founded as Alexander Cooper and Associates by Alex Cooper in 1979, the firm has designed a number of significant planned communities, urban infill, and transit-oriented developments, including Battery Park City in New York and the new communities of Celebration, Florida, Watercolor, Florida and Val d'Europe outside Paris, France. Also known for architecture, open space design, and university campus planning, the firm's work includes a plan for the expansion of Harvard University's campus into Allston, Massachusetts, MOMA QNS,, the New Albany Country Club in New Albany, Ohio outside Columbus, the new Columbia University School of Social Work building in Upper Manhattan, the Visitor Center at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond, Virginia, the Framework for Campus Planning for Yale University, Zuccotti Park, and numerous houses, many of which are in the Hamptons on the East End of Long Island and in the Caribbean.
Alex Cooper and Jaquelin T. Robertson attended Yale College and Yale School of Architecture during the same period and also worked together in the New York City Department of City Planning. When Robertson joined the firm in 1988, the firm changed its name to Cooper, Robertson & Partners. In 2015, the firm rebranded and is currently known as Cooper Robertson.

Awards and distinctions

The following is an incomplete list:
The following is an incomplete list: