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NYC Space Opens for Preview — Thursday, August 31, 2006

The College of Architecture, Art and Planning hosted an elegant preview reception on January 19 at its new urban center. About 150 trustees, alumni, faculty, and friends gathered at the newly renovated rooms at 50 West 17th Street in New York City. [Full story]

Detroit Senator Painting Again — Thursday, August 31, 2006

Hansen Hashim Clarke (BFA ’84), Detroit Senator, contributing work to be auctioned at a benefit for COTS, the Coalition On Temporary Shelter. [Full story]

Karr Receives Semmes Award — Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Steven J. Karr, AIA (B.S. (Human Ecology ’78, B.Arch. ’79), president of Steven J. Karr, AIA Inc., received the first Harry Semmes Award. [Full story]

New York City Center Offers Full Semester in Architecture — Wednesday, August 30, 2006

AAP’s facility at 50 West 17th Street, opened last spring, is now fully functional, and this fall it’s hosting the first group of students to live and study in the city for an entire semester. [Full story]

AAP Publishes Book on Italian Architecture — Monday, August 28, 2006

AAP becomes a book publisher this fall, under the name Cornell AAP Publications, with the issuing of Italy Now? Country Positions in Architecture. [Full story]

The Lost Year: Behind the Failure to Rebuild — Monday, August 21, 2006

This exposé on New Orleans highlights the work of CRP students and professors Professors Ken Reardon and Jeff Chusid in the Ninth Ward. [The New Yorker]

Christopherson Awarded Professorship — Tuesday, August 15, 2006

CRP professor Susan Christopherson has been awarded a J. Thomas Clark Professorship of Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise. [Full story]

New Orleans Initiative Named an Official Recovery Planner — Tuesday, August 15, 2006

CRP is part of a team selected in August as one of only five district-level qualified planners for New Orleans recovery efforts. [Full story]

Davis participates in forum and exhibits — Monday, August 14, 2006

Assistant professor Felecia Davis presented the paper “Walking Tours: Speculations about Architecture, Memory, and the Racialized Body” at the 2006 Vernacular Architecture Forum. [Full story]

Visiting Critic Featured in "Young European Architects" — Thursday, August 10, 2006

The work of visiting critic Dana Cupkova, through DCm-STUDIO, will be included in "Young European Architects," to be published this fall in Germany [Full story]

Amundsen Develops Land Trust Curriculum — Thursday, August 10, 2006

CRP lecturer Ole Amundsen III is creating a curriculum for land trust staff and board members working in coastal Maine. [Full story]

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