Cooper Robertson is an international architecture and urban design firm headquartered in New York City.
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 Museum of Modern Art's temporary home in Queens, New York), 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 (a one block park adjacent to the World Trade Center site on Liberty Street in Lower Manhattan), 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:
Alex Cooper & Jaquelin T. Robertson, Seaside Prize from the Seaside Institute, 2002
Robertson on "the AD 100," Architectural Digest's list of the top 100 architects and interior designers whose work has been published by Architectural Digest.
Jaquelin T. Robertson, Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture, 1998
Jaquelin T. Robertson, Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture, 2007
Urban Land Institute Award for Excellence: Europe Competition for Val d'Europe, 2008
Prix Rotthier pour la Reconstruction de La Ville for Val d'Europe, 2008
American Institute of Architects (AIA) Honor Award in Regional and Urban Design for Zuccotti Park, 2008
AIA Excellence in Design Award for MOMA QNS 2004
National AIA Citation for Excellence in Urban Design for Battery Park City Master Plan 1991
The following is an incomplete list:
Battery Park City Master Plan (1980)
Battery Park City Esplanade (1985)
Calvin Klein Cosmetics Company Headquarters (1995)
Chula Vista Bayfront Master Plan (2004)
Columbia University School of Social Work (2004)
Daniel Island Master Plan (1993)
Disney's Hilton Head Island Resort (1996)
Ethical Culture Fieldston School (2007)
Lower Manhattan Streetscape Project (1998)
Genesis Apartments at Union Square (New York City) for HELP (the Housing Enterprise for the Less Privileged) (1994)
Henry Moore Sculpture Garden at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (1988)
Max M. Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University (1999)
Stuyvesant High School (1992)
Val d'Europe (2002)
Watercolor, Florida for the St. Joe Company (2003)
WindMark Beach, Florida for the St. Joe Company (2005)
Zuccotti Park (2006)
MOMA QNS 2000
Master Plan for Celebration, Florida for the Disney Development Company (1997)
Golf Clubhouse at Celebration, Florida 1997
Yale University Framework for Campus Planning (2000)
Trinity College Campus Master Plan (1997)
Fordham University at Lincoln Center Campus Master Plan (2006)
Sony Pictures Imageworks Headquarters Building (1996)
Stapleton Airport Redevelopment Plan (1996)
Memphis Riverfront Master Plan (2001)
Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project (2005)
Disneyland Resort Expansion Plan (2000)
Boston Seaport Public Realm Plan (1999)
New Albany Country Club: Golf Clubhouse and Bath & Tennis Club (1993)
The Inn At Perry Cabin (2002)
International Trade Center Master Plan, Mount Olive, NJ (1979)
The Institute for the Arts & Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2002)
Duke Clinic at Duke University Medical Center (1999)
County of Charleston Judicial Center in Charleston, South Carolina (2003)
E. Claiborne Robins Visitors Center and the Anne Holt Massey Greenhouses at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden (1997)
