Department of Architecture
Left: "Swaying Udders" by Christopher Yi, (M.Arch. '20); Top Right: "CREOLE: A Spatial Language of Cultural Preservation, Transition, and Production" by Cornelius Tulloch (B.Arch. '21); Bottom Right: "Loop Column" by Justin Foo (B.Arch. '18) and Xinyu Yi (M.Arch '16).
Architecture at Cornell's College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP) is about creative and critical design practices that make lasting impact — balancing rigorous research and scholarship, responsibility for our natural and built environments, and reimagining the world at every scale to build a just and sustainable future for all.
At Cornell Architecture we see design as a process of creative experimentation and iterative analysis, ensuring non-judgmental, holistic, and open-ended inquiry enabled by independent, critical thinking and bold thought leadership. Our undergraduate and graduate programs are designed to support interdisciplinary collaboration and provide an integrated foundation in global history, theory, structures, environmental systems, building technologies, visual representation, ensuring that our students are equipped with actionable knowledge and the agency to enact change.
Highlights
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Friday, February 7, 2025
Register Now for Architecture Summer Programs
Cornell's renowned architecture program for high school students pairs studio design with history and theory courses for a comprehensive curriculum that encourages critical thinking and creative explorations of visual representation and the art of making with tools at the leading edge of design practice today.
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Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Fellowships and Funding Opportunities
View a selection of externally and internally sponsored fellowships available to undergraduate and graduate students in architecture.
Videos
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From Ordinary to Extraordinary
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L.P. Kwee Studios at Milstein Hall
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A Different Way of Thinking
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Unbuild Better: a Collegetown Case Study in Deconstruction
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Monday, March 17, 2025
Architecture Students Set to Show "How to Build Your Dragon"
The Cornell Chronicle previews the annual Dragon Day parade, which is expected to feature an 80-foot dragon designed by first-year architecture students that will glide through campus aided by sail-like wings.
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Monday, March 10, 2025
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.
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With 100 Pounds of Blue Pigment, an Artist Conjures Spirits of the Past
The New York Times: Run Together and Look Ugly After the First Rain, an exhibition of work by artist Amanda Williams (B.Arch. '97), highlights the use of a deep, midnight blue pigment that took Williams and two material science labs three years to recreate.
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The Space Needle Will Host a Laser Light Show
The Seattle Times: GuideStar, a new art installation at the Space Needle by Cornell faculty and husband-and-wife creative team Mendi and Keith Obadike, is profiled in this article.
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Exhibit Columbus Cycle 5 Presenters Preview 'Yes And' Installations
Archinect: Architecture faculty Suzanne Lettieri and Michael Jefferson and alumni Andrew Fu (B.Arch. '15), Aaron Goldstein (B.Arch. '15), Aleksandr Mergold (B.Arch. '00), and Nina Cooke John (B.Arch. '95) are among the presenters.
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Trump Orders GSA to Sell Properties — Mies van der Rohe, Victor Lundy, and Walter Gropius Buildings Could be Impacted
The Architect's Newspaper: Professor of Architecture Esra Akcan comments on the government's decision to downsize GSA's portfolio.
Monday, February 24, 2025
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Thursday, March 13, 2025
Smart Heat: Digital Twin and Cornell Researchers Help Ithaca Stay Warm While Moving Toward Carbon Neutrality
Architecture and Design Tech Associate Professor Timur Dogan and Hung Ming Tseng (M.S. AAD '24) are part of a team of researchers at Cornell's Environmental System Lab moving Ithaca toward carbon neutrality using digital twins and artificial intelligence.
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Friday, February 21, 2025
Critical Urban Informatics for Urban Digital Twin Models
Assistant Professor of Architecture Farzin Lotfi-Jam coauthored a compelling article published in the February edition of Nature Cities that critiques urban digital twin models. His research in this area has been supported by a Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities seed grant.
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Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Billie Faircloth: Episode 104 of the Design the Future Podcast
Billie Faircloth, Associate Professor of Architecture and Cornell Atkinson Scholar and Senior Faculty Fellow at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, speaks about shifting platforms and the richness of working across realms.
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March 6–April 10, 2025
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.
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March 24–April 18, 2025
Fany Kuzmova: Ithaca (un)Seen Cartographies
Experience an exhibition of student work from the Spring 2025 seminar Urban Canvas: Mapping Ithaca’s Social Infrastructure
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Friday, March 28, 2025
Dragon Day 2025
Every year, an enormous dragon created by first-year architecture students marches across campus. Join us for Dragon Day 2025, with this year's dragon theme, "HOW TO BUILD YOUR DRAGON."
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Friday, April 11, 2025
SIGHTLINES: Architecture, Photography, and the Mutability of the Image
Attend a symposium that examines the mutability of the architectural image through photography, emphasizing how acts of appropriation and recomposition shape architectural discourse.
Resources and Publications
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Architecture Studio Spaces
Learn more about the cutting-edge facilities that house our department of architecture design studios.
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Architecture Faculty Labs
Peruse our many faculty-led labs that advance research and push boundaries toward a more resilient, sustainable, and just world.
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PLATE Publication
Explore PLATE, a digital publication of architecture student work and essays edited by Professor of Architecture Andrea Simitch and Visiting Critic Dillon Pranger (M.Arch. '15).
