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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Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Autodesk Gives Jointly to Cornell's Colleges of Engineering and Architecture, Art, and Planning
To advance teaching, research, student experience, and post-graduate success in Cornell Engineering and Cornell AAP, Autodesk gifts $4.3M to be shared by the two colleges.
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Thursday, April 10, 2025
Speculative Thinking: AAP NYC Spring Studio Explorations
This semester's architecture studios at the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center encourage students to investigate alternative possibilities for addressing contemporary urban challenges.
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Cornell Researchers Are Developing Flexible "Sun-Tracking" Material
Dezeen: A team of Cornell researchers led by Professor of Architecture and Design Tech Chair Jenny Sabin is developing a flexible solar material called HelioSkin that is integrated with sun-tracking capabilities similar to the biomechanics of sunflowers.
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Jenny Sabin Develops Pliable PV Panel System Using Plant Biology
Archinect: A profile of HelioSkin, a collaborative, interdisciplinary project by Professor of Architecture and Design Tech Chair Jenny Sabin and Professor of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences and Design Tech faculty Itai Cohen.
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The Missing Element in Urban Digital Twins
Geo Week News: A conversation with Assistant Professor of Architecture Farzin Lotfi-Jam about the advent of urban digital twins and what perspective needs to be added to the implementation.
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These Old Roman Buildings Could Unlock How to Build in a Warming World
The Washington Post: Felix Heisel, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Director of the Circular Construction Lab, discusses the benefits of reusing salvaged materials.
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
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Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Building Feminism: The 1976 International Congress of Women Architects in Iran
Architecture faculty Esra Akcan and Pamela Karimi coauthored this article on the role of women in architecture as discussed by women architects from all over the world at the 1976 meeting of the International Congress of Women Architects in Iran.
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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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April 16–24, 2025
Ryan Whitby: Exquisite Corpse
Experience an exhibition featuring surrealist parlor games between one designer and four AIs.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Keller Easterling: ATTTNT
Hear a lecture by designer, writer, and the Enid Storm Dwyer Professor of Architecture at Yale Keller Easterling.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Building Exhibitions in the Age of Reparations
Attend a seminar exploring modern architecture's critical history through architectural exhibitions.
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May 23–25, 2025
AAP Commencement Weekend
AAP will hold its commencement ceremony beginning at 11 a.m. on Sunday, May 25, 2025, in Bailey Hall.
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).
