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Cooper Robertson

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US-based architecture and urban design firm

Cooper Robertson was an international architecture and urban design firm, headquartered in New York City. It was founded in 1979 by Alex Cooper and Jaquelin T. Robertson. On November 3, 2025, Cooper Robertson was acquired by Corgan and fully integrated into the firm.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Battery Park City North Cove
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Cooper Robertson was an international architecture and urban design firm, headquartered in New York City. It was founded in 1979 by Alex Cooper and Jaquelin T. Robertson. On November 3, 2025, Cooper Robertson was acquired by Corgan and fully integrated into the firm.2

The story

Founded by Alex Cooper.1

Cooper Robertson was founded in 1979, by Alex Cooper under the name Alexander Cooper and Associates. Both Cooper and Robertson attended Yale College during the same period, later working together at the New York City Department of City Planning. The firm changed its name to Cooper, Robertson & Partners when Robertson joined in 1988. In 2015, they rebranded again to "Cooper Robertson".

The firm's work has included planned communities, urban infill, 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. In the past, the firm has focused on 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, and numerous housing developments, primarily located in the Hamptons on the East End of Long Island and in the Caribbean.

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