Khadijah Coppin is a poet, artist, architectural designer. She is a graduate of The Cooper Union School of Architecture based in New York.
She works between word, image, and space.
Her creative practice blends architectural thinking with poetic observation, drawing inspiration from urban landscapes, public spaces, and cultural narratives. She is interested in the relationship between art, architecture, and community, using multiple mediums to imagine new possibilities for how we inhabit and understand the world.
She served as teacher's assistant for the Representation course at the Cooper Union and staff at the Cooper Union School of Architecture Archive.
Recognition
Cooper Union Innovator Award (2018-2019) East Village, New York
Cooper Union End of Year Show (2018-2022) East Village, New York
Institute of Design and Construction Scholarship (2019) Brooklyn, New York
1st Place Winner Spoken Word Hip Hop Workshop (2022)
Allen N. Goldfischer Memorial Award (2026)
established in 2004 and given to a graduating student whose thesis project best explores relationships between humanistic and aesthetic principals in an urban context.