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Association returns to print with new issue — Thursday, May 30, 2013

Volume 5 of Association — a publication that brings together works produced by dozens of AAP students, faculty, and alumni — was released in late May. [Full story]

Sabin shares in National Science Foundation research grant — Thursday, May 16, 2013

Jenny Sabin, assistant professor of architecture, is a lead investigator on a new research project to produce “buildable, bendable, and biological materials” for a wide range of applications. [Full story]

Professor Emeritus Charles Pearman dies at 86 — Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Charles W. Pearman, professor emeritus of architecture, died on May 10 at 86. Pearman joined the faculty of Cornell AAP in 1962 and taught until his retirement in 2003. He served as associate dean and interim dean. [Full story]

Hospitality, real estate in China set to boom, summit finds — Friday, May 10, 2013

Kent Kleinman, Michael Manville, and Jenny Sabin spoke at the Cornell International Summit: Hospitality, Real Estate, and the Built Environment held in Shanghai. [Full story]

CRP faculty news updates — Friday, May 3, 2013

Recent awards and recognitions for CRP faculty. [Full story]

Ostendarp named assistant professor in art — Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Carl Ostendarp has been hired as an assistant professor on a tenure track in the art department, effective July 1, 2013. Ostendarp has been a visiting assistant professor since 2000. [Full story]

Architecture professor Christian Otto dies — Friday, March 29, 2013

Architecture Professor Christian F. Otto died of cancer on March 27. [Full story]

Architecture journal explores uncertainty, idealism in math — Friday, March 15, 2013

Architecture's enduring love affair with mathematics, in both its traditional and modern forms, is explored in the new issue of The Cornell Journal of Architecture. [Full story]

Parking Is Hell: A New Freakonomics Radio Podcast — Thursday, March 14, 2013

CRP assistant professor Michael Manville's paper, "The Price Doesn’t Matter if You Don’t Have to Pay: Legal Exemptions and Market-Priced Parking," was cited in a Freakonomics podcast titled, "Parking is Hell." [Freakonomics]

Cornell team receives honorable mention in urban design competition — Monday, March 11, 2013

A multidisciplinary team of Cornell students has received honorable mention in the 2013 ULI Gerald D. Hines Urban Design Competition. [Full story]

Dadi’s work on display at the Art Gallery of Windsor — Friday, March 8, 2013

Art department chair Iftikhar Dadi is part of a group exhibition currently on display at the Art Gallery of Windsor in Ontario, Canada. [Full story]

Victoria Beard joins CRP — Friday, February 15, 2013

Associate Professor Victoria Beard joined the faculty of CRP in January. [Full story]

O'Donnell's Party Wall wins MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program competition — Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Assistant Professor Caroline O'Donnell's pavilion will use wood, steel, and water-filled bags to create a space for PS1's summer performance series. [Full story]

Trancik publishes Garden Cities — Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Roger Trancik, emeritus professor of city and regional planning, published the exhibit book Garden Cities of the Panama Canal. [Full story]

Understanding Progressive Cities — Monday, January 14, 2013

Pierre Clavel joins with Cornell University Library  to create digitized “readers” that shed light on activists’ planning efforts in the 1970s. [Full story]

Gaskins to premier short film — Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Visiting associate professor of art Bill Gaskins will be premiering his short film The Meaning of Hope at the Detroit Institute of the Arts Film. The film examines the concept of hope through individual portraits of Detroit residents. [Full story]

$1.4 million Mellon grant will support collaborative studies in urbanism — Wednesday, January 9, 2013

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $1,462,000 to Cornell for a pilot program offering collaborative studies in architecture, urbanism, and the humanities. [Full story]

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