Faculty Profile

Val Warke teaching's and research focus has been on criticism and genre theory, including issues of fashion, formalism, populism, reception, and relations to literary theory, and in particular the work of Mikhail Bakhtin. He has been published in a number of journals, including Assemblage, A+U, Cornell Journal of Architecture, and the Harvard Design Magazine, as well as many essays and texts on the work of Morphosis. He teaches in the areas of design (architectural and urban) and architectural theory. He practices architecture with Andrea Simitch, as a partner in Simitch + Warke Architecture. In addition to the Field of Architecture, he is also a member of the graduate field of Fabric Science and Apparel Design. Warke graduated from Cornell with a B.Arch. and from Harvard University with an M.Arch.

• ARCH 2102 Design IV
• ARCH 4101 / 4102 / 5101  Vertical Design Studio: Combinatorial Form, with Thom Mayne & Andrew Batay-Csorba
• ARCH 3308/6308 Desire by Design:  Fashion, Architecture, Public
• ARCH 5301 Analysis I (Graduate)
• ARCH 4101 / 4102 / 5101 Vertical Design Studio: Cornell in Rome Studio

• Interview, Cornell/UPR collaboration. ARC. Warke, V.K., Williamson, J.P. (2008)
• “Introduction: On Taking the Dogleg,” Anthony Ames Architect: Residential Work, V2. (2007)
• Morphosis, with Thom Mayne (2003)