Contact
Contact Office of the Dean
129 Sibley Dome
Phone: (607) 255-9110
aapdean@cornell.edu
Monday–Friday, 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Mission
The agency to respond to today's urgencies
A leader in creativity, innovation, and impact, the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University brings critical inquiry, research, design, and imagination to bear on the greatest challenges of our time to build a more just, sustainable, resilient, thriving, and inspired world.
AAP is committed to an inclusive and diverse community and an open learning environment that is free from bias. We will not tolerate prejudice in any form or discrimination on any basis. We embrace creative and analytic practices that challenge preconceptions and prejudice; encourage critical engagement with the many forms of built culture; and defend the prerogative of our disciplines to ask difficult and provocative questions.
Our Values
Creativity at AAP means that we trust in processes of investigation and imagination and that our ideas translate to possibilities for a better world.
Our approaches to teaching and learning are driven by an engaged criticality that provides an informed perspective on compounded challenges we face as a generation of architects, artists, and planners committed to civil discourse, action, and positive change.
The root from which our community expands and grows is a genuine care for one another — for the world and our shared future that demands we understand the enormous value of the work we do — and how we do it, here and now.
Our Priorities
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Creative + Critical Practices
Acts of imagination and critical inquiry set agency into motion, making it possible to reframe problems and reimagine the world.
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Sustainability + Social Impact
We catalyze imagination, innovation, and engagement to advance a more resilient, sustainable, and just world.
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Future of Cities + Communities
Facing compounding challenges, our cities have reached an inflection point. Today's urban challenges require inclusive, sustainable design solutions and actionable knowledge that have the power to transform cities and communities.
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Design + Emerging Technologies
Technologies and new media are changing how we live, work, and interact with each other and the world. Design has become increasingly critical to actualizing technology and advancing the human condition.
