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Register Now for the Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities Symposium: Climate Resilience in New York City

The Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities will host an in-person symposium on climate resilience in New York City. The one-day event will focus on actions to mitigate risks to people, buildings, and infrastructure from extreme weather.

Lecture

Earl Lewis: The Contours of Repair

Join author and social historian Earl Lewis for a talk tracing the history of the search for repair for African Americans by sketching past challenges and suggesting future possibilities.

Lecture

Marirena Kladeftira: A Post-Digital Perspective for Architecture and Humanity

4/8: Attend a lecture that explores how emerging fabrication technologies can contribute to eco-social sustainability in architecture by enabling lightweight and circular building systems that respect local contexts.

Faculty Work

GuideStar: A Light & Sound Show by Mendi + Keith

Watch the live stream of GuideStar, an art installation by Cornell faculty and husband-and-wife creative team Mendi and Keith Obadike that featured an array of vibrant, primary-colored laser beams projected from the Space Needle into Seattle's night sky on 3/14/2025. This project was supported by a Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities seed grant.

Stories

Cornell Faculty Honored for Community-Engaged Innovation

Associate Professor of Architecture Pamela Karimi is among 13 faculty members from across Cornell who are being honored by the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement with this year's Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Awards.

Lecture

Resilience by Design: Spring 2025 Lecture Series

Join a compelling lecture series featuring architectural historians, design practitioners, visionaries, and community stakeholders as they explore the multifaceted challenges and opportunities of community-engaged design.

Lecture

Thomas Gillespie: Affordable Housing, Financialization and Urban Statecraft

Attend a lecture that examines affordable housing production as a site through which state actors engage with financialization processes to different extents with a view to addressing housing needs.

Apply Now for AAP Summer Programs

Cornell AAP's summer programs prepare high school and college students for their futures in architecture, art, and urban studies. Our online and in-person suite of intensive, exploratory summer courses provides close mentorship, guidance, and shared experiences that engage the world, ground knowledge in practice, and expand possibilities.