Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Alexander Cooper, FAIA often credited as Alex Cooper, is an American architect and urban designer. In his piece on Cooper in The New York Times, Paul Goldberger wrote that Cooper "just might be the most influential architect in New York right now. Surely, no architect is having as much impact, not only on the design of individual buildings, but on the shape of wide swaths of the city." After graduating from Yale College, Cooper got a Master of Architecture degree from Yale School of Architecture. Soon after, Cooper began work in the public sector for the City of New York, first as a member of the New York City Planning Commission, then as Director of the Urban Design Group of the New York City Department of City Planning, and finally as Director of Design for New York's Housing and Development Administration (now the New York City Department of Buildings)