The artwork and teaching of professor Buzz Spector, who uses books -- often altered, arranged, or otherwise recontextualized -- as both subject and object, is the focus of a new documentary in progress, "The Rise and Fall of Books." [Full story]
Heneghan Peng Architects wins design competition for London Olympics footbridge — Tuesday, November 27, 2007Dublin-based architect Shih-Fu Peng '89 and Roisin Heneghan of Heneghan Peng Architects (HParc) along with Adams Kara Taylor Engineers won the competition to design a footbridge at the heart of Olympic Park for the London, England games in 2012. [Full story]
Calvin L. Holmes '93 recognized for community service — Tuesday, November 20, 2007Calvin L. Holmes M.R.P. ‘93 was honored with the Monsignor Jack Egan Community Service Award from faith-based community developer Genesis Housing Development Corporation. [Full story]
Renowned artist James Turrell comes to campus for lecture, meeting with students — Tuesday, November 20, 2007Internationally acclaimed artist James Turrell came to Cornell’s Ithaca campus as the first guest of the newly established Cooper Visiting Artist Program. [Full story]
Double conference features Portuguese architecture of the now — Tuesday, November 20, 2007Rounding out the third in a series of multicultural conferences and exhibitions hosted by AAP, "Portugal Now: Country Positions in Architecture and Urbanism" convened representatives of several up-and-coming architecture firms. [Full story]
Work by McGrain installed on Memorial Art Gallery front lawn — Friday, November 16, 2007
Passersby on University Avenue in the Neighborhood of the Arts can now see a new addition to the Memorial Art Gallery's sculpture collection -- a work in bronze by Associate Professor Todd McGrain that memorializes the now extinct Passenger Pigeon.
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Outside of Tompkins County, upstate New York is plagued by a lack of educated workers. This paucity of "brains" was the focus of the November 2 seminar, "The Brain Drain/Brain Gain Issue in Upstate New York: Research, Education, and Outreach Responses." [Full story]
Cornell chapter of National Organization of Minority Architecture Students wins student design competition — Friday, November 2, 2007The Cornell chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS) won a student design competition, "Embracing Commitment. Community. Change: Designing the New Urban School (K-12) in Parramore (Orlando, FL)." [Full story]
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