New York City's The Cooper Union has created online database The Student Work Collection to collate over 80 years of work produced by former architecture students, with notable alumni including Elizabeth Diller, Daniel Libeskind and Toshiko Mori.
Launched this month, The Student Work Collection is an archival website created by The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.
The database features student works from the private college's The Irwin S Chanin School of Architecture, produced from the 1930s to 2000.
Alumni of The Cooper Union are organised by surname on the database
"We are excited to share this rich body of work digitally and are certain it will help provide an integral reference point for any student, educator or researcher of architecture about the radical changes in architectural education and practice of our last century," said the director of the architecture archive Steven Hillyer. "Now that this body of work in the archive is fully accessible we are looking forward to expanding the Collection?s published material by adding another 30,000 born-digital images, text, and audio-visual records collected after 2000," he added.
Over 4,000 projects have been made available online, including architectural drawings, models, sketches and project descriptions.
The archive contains a number of designs created by students who went on to become notable architects including Libeskind and Ricardo Scofidio, co-founder of Diller Scofidio + Re...