Faculty Profile

Andrea Simitch teaches courses in architectural design, architectural  representation and furniture design.  She also served as associate dean of AAP from 2002-03 and as Director of Undergraduate Studies from 2007-08.  She has been a panelist on the New York State Council on the Arts, has been a department representative for the Cornell Council for the Arts and was a faculty collaborator with the Andrew Goldsworthy workshop at Storm King. She and Val Warke partner in a collaborative architectural practice and recent projects include the Benetton Competition “Designing in Teheran,” the Mill Center for the Arts Competition, and the Stockholm City Library Competition. She has taught extensively for Cornell in numerous international venues that include Europe and Central and South America. Student work from her furniture design course has been exhibited at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York. She received her B.Arch. from Cornell in 1979 and also attended Occidental College and l'Ecole Special d'Architecture in Paris.

• ARCH 1501 Drawing I
• ARCH 4509 / 6509 Special Topics in Visual Studies: Tactics of Representation
• ARCH 3101 Architectural Design Studio: Comprehensive Design
• ARCH 4509 Special Topics in Visual Studies:  Form, Color, Collage 
• ARCH 5114 Architectural Design Studio: South Africa FIFA 2010

• "RE-Collage" Cornell Journal of Architecture 8: RE (2010)
• “aqueromane" A record of the urban ephemeral as recorded (photographed) through its aquatic infrastructures (Blurb 2009)
• “The Nomadic Surface,” ed. Sheila Kennedy, The Luminescence Studio, (2001)

• Outstanding Educator for Merrill Presidential Scholar Cornell (1995, 2000)
• Martin Dominguez Teaching Award AAP (1990, 2000)
• Cass Gilbert Visiting Critic, University of Minnesota (1992)

• Presentation on 'The Evolution of Course Design and Pedagogy' Cornell Center for Teaching Excellence (2011)
• Moderator “Towards a Well-Tempered Architecture” Preston Thomas Lecture Series, Cornell University (2002)