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Environment and Sustainability

Sustainability Advocates Ask: Why Demolish When You Can Deconstruct?

In The New York Times, Assistant Professor of Architecture Felix Heisel contributes his view on circular construction practices and challenges within the industry.

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Lecture

Cannupa Hanska Luger: Artist as Social Engineer, September 16

Register for this lecture with Cannupa Hanska Luger, focusing on developing processes that include society as a medium to establish trust in a polarized world.

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Lecture

Rafi Segal: Architecture as Dialogue, September 29

Join this Glanzer-Curtis Family Lecture with Rafi Segal as he discusses architecture that is shaped by dialogue to confront conventions and inspire change.

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Urbanism and Development

Long Commutes, Home Crowding Tied to COVID Transmission

The Cornell Chronicle details a study coauthored by architecture's Timur Dogan on how the built environment influences coronavirus propagation in urban settings by identifying predictors and sustainable mitigations for virus spread.

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Urbanism and Development

Lessons From the Rise and Fall of the Pedestrian Mall

Associate Professor of Planning Stephan Schmidt's op-ed in Bloomberg looks at successful and resilient pedestrian malls built in the 60's and 70's and finds lessons that urban planners can implement now.

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Creative and Critical Practices

Experiencing Tjaden's Best: Microbiology Meets Fine Art

The Cornell Daily Sun describes Mia Hause's (B.F.A. '22) work in Until the Bliss of All This Hurts, a two-person student exhibition exploring what is innately natural and human, presented by the Department of Art.

Environment and Sustainability

Sustainability Advocates Ask: Why Demolish When You Can Deconstruct?

In The New York Times, Assistant Professor of Architecture Felix Heisel contributes his view on circular construction practices and challenges within the industry.

Lecture

Rafi Segal: Architecture as Dialogue, September 29

Join this Glanzer-Curtis Family Lecture with Rafi Segal as he discusses architecture that is shaped by dialogue to confront conventions and inspire change.

Urbanism and Development

Lessons From the Rise and Fall of the Pedestrian Mall

Lecture

Cannupa Hanska Luger: Artist as Social Engineer, September 16

Register for this lecture with Cannupa Hanska Luger, focusing on developing processes that include society as a medium to establish trust in a polarized world.

Urbanism and Development