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The Jones Beach Energy and Nature Center in New York
A Round of Applause

nARCHITECTS and The Archers among winners of Cooper Hewitt’s 2023 National Design Awards

Historic Data Portraits

A Cooper Hewitt exhibition stages visualizations by W. E. B. Du Bois with Art Nouveau artifacts

Strap In

Technology digest: A robot that uses AI to snip weeds, Titanic artifacts as NFTs, and more technology news

three curators posing for photo
Home Makers

Cooper Hewitt names 2024 Smithsonian Design Triennial curators

screen with dirt piles
Mark Your Calendars

Here are four new and delightful architecture exhibitions you won’t want to miss

a blue, barn-like structure at a rural boys&girls club
A Round of Applause, Please

Nader Tehrani and Rural Studio among winners of Cooper Hewitt’s 2022 National Design Awards

half of boat part of exhibition
Designing Peace

A Cooper Hewitt exhibition showcases the act of peacemaking around the world

multicolored Braun portable hair dryers by Dieter Rams
In Conversation: Maria Nicanor

The Cooper Hewitt’s new director will guide the national design museum through an era of heightened social awareness

the front of the cooper hewitt design museum in the summer
New Year, New Director

Maria Nicanor is tapped to lead the Cooper Hewitt

A painting by the vera brothers of an octagonal garden
Geometric Landscapes

The Modernist French Garden: Design by the Vera Brothers highlights the legacy of André and Paul Vera

view of the chicago riverwalk
A Round of Applause, Please

Ross Barney Architects, Studio-MLA, and Colloqate Design among winners of 2021 National Design Awards

the front of the cooper hewitt design museum in the summer
A Summer Of Art

Daily digest: The Cooper Hewitt is reopening with free admission, Ai Weiwei returns to LACMA, and more

people congregating an urban park, one of the 2020 national design award winners
Congrats!

Snøhetta, OJB Landscape Architecture top winners of 2020 National Design Awards

Interior photo of a concrete Willi Smith store with exposed columns
Not Again!?

Landmark Willi Smith exhibition (almost) opens at Cooper Hewitt

Exterior view of the Cooper Hewitt museum in New York City; director Caroline Baumann was recently forced to step down
Conflicts of Interest

Cooper Hewitt director and six trustees resign over wedding controversy

Two figurines in front of a green glowing plant
Lite Brite

MIT researchers think glowing plants could reshape our relationship to the built environment

Long haired model on a ladder wearing bold printed tunic has their foot grabbed by model wearling yellow patterned pants and black and white patterned shirt, as part of a Willi Smith show
Open March 2020

Cooper Hewitt taps James Wines for Willi Smith streetwear show

A diagram of Boston Harbor with a number of shoreline extensions proposed
Cooper Troopers

Cooper Hewitt celebrates 20 years of National Design Awards with 2019 winners

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