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Cornell AAP to Launch First New York City-based High School Summer Program

The College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP) is adding a new summer intensive for high schoolers interested in studying the collective aspirations, methodologies, and processes involved in the design of cities.

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At COP30, Floating Plaza Shifts Perspective of Sea-Level Rise

AquaPraça, a collaboration between AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon (B.Arch. '95), Eric Höweler (B.Arch. '94, M.Arch. '96) (Höweler + Yoon Architecture), and Carlo Ratti Associati, has arrived at this year's UN climate summit in Belèm, Brazil.

Upwards view of an installation composed of numerous structures of diferent sizes, shapes and colors - the entire combination resembling a an starry night sky.
Lecture

Philip Beesley: Reflections on Open Space — Metastable, Precarious, Resilient, November 19

Attend a lecture with Philip Beesley, who will outline a conceptual approach to current architecture, offering precarious instruments that might help indicate our emerging reality.

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Beyond AAP

Billie Faircloth to Represent Cornell University at Climate COP30 November 10–21

At the UN Climate Conference of the Parties (COP30), AAP faculty delegate Billie Faircloth, Cornell Atkinson Scholar and Senior Faculty Fellow, will share expertise to advance dialogue around equitable, science-based approaches to climate change.

exterior of a parking garage covered in metal panels to create the image of an orchard
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Sacramento International Airport Commissions Art Chair Paul Ramírez Jonas to Create Permanent Public Installation

Using imagery and words that celebrate the surrounding valley as well as airport staff, Ramírez Jonas has revealed preliminary models of the full work, which will wrap the transportation hub's new six-story parking facility.

a yellow poster with architectural models on it
Admissions

Master of Science, Advanced Urban Design (M.S. AUD) Virtual Information Session, Fall 2025

Attend a virtual information session on the New York City-based M.S. in Advanced Urban Design, featuring a program overview and a Q&A with Director Jesse LeCavalier and current students, ahead of the January 3 application deadline.

a student discussing their project in front of several other people in a room
Stories

Cornell AAP to Launch First New York City-based High School Summer Program

The College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP) is adding a new summer intensive for high schoolers interested in studying the collective aspirations, methodologies, and processes involved in the design of cities.

Upwards view of an installation composed of numerous structures of diferent sizes, shapes and colors - the entire combination resembling a an starry night sky.
Lecture

Philip Beesley: Reflections on Open Space — Metastable, Precarious, Resilient, November 19

Attend a lecture with Philip Beesley, who will outline a conceptual approach to current architecture, offering precarious instruments that might help indicate our emerging reality.

exterior of a parking garage covered in metal panels to create the image of an orchard
Stories

Sacramento International Airport Commissions Art Chair Paul Ramírez Jonas to Create Permanent Public Installation

Using imagery and words that celebrate the surrounding valley as well as airport staff, Ramírez Jonas has revealed preliminary models of the full work, which will wrap the transportation hub's new six-story parking facility.

Pavilion floating down a river
Stories

At COP30, Floating Plaza Shifts Perspective of Sea-Level Rise

AquaPraça, a collaboration between AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon (B.Arch. '95), Eric Höweler (B.Arch. '94, M.Arch. '96) (Höweler + Yoon Architecture), and Carlo Ratti Associati, has arrived at this year's UN climate summit in Belèm, Brazil.

green trees and a winding river as seen from above
Beyond AAP

Billie Faircloth to Represent Cornell University at Climate COP30 November 10–21

At the UN Climate Conference of the Parties (COP30), AAP faculty delegate Billie Faircloth, Cornell Atkinson Scholar and Senior Faculty Fellow, will share expertise to advance dialogue around equitable, science-based approaches to climate change.

a yellow poster with architectural models on it
Admissions

Master of Science, Advanced Urban Design (M.S. AUD) Virtual Information Session, Fall 2025

Attend a virtual information session on the New York City-based M.S. in Advanced Urban Design, featuring a program overview and a Q&A with Director Jesse LeCavalier and current students, ahead of the January 3 application deadline.

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