Alumni News and Events

Join the Climate Action Conversation: Register Now for the Center for Cities' Spring Symposium in New York City

On April 24, the Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities will convene experts to share solutions and identify areas for future action that address the multiple and cascading climate change hazards facing New York City.

Cornell AAP Receives Gift to Endow Judith Kinnard Early Career Design Fellow in Architecture

With a gift from two AAP alumni, the college has established a position meant to be a "powerful running start" for emerging design educators.

Ratan N. Tata Posthumously Honored with Inaugural Distinguished Alumni Award

Milstein Hall's auditorium was at capacity for the April ceremony, during which speakers shared personal reflections on Tata's wide-ranging impact and legacy.

Akima Brackeen and Cory Henry Among the 2025–26 Rome Prize Winners

The Architect's Newspaper: Cory Henry (M.Arch. '12) is one of the winners of this prize that supports innovative and cross-disciplinary work in the arts and humanities and awarded to artists and scholars who represent the highest standards of excellence.

A Stunning New Pool in Central Park Helps Heal Old Wounds

The New York Times: Susan T. Rodriguez Architecture & Design, the architecture firm founded by alum Susan T. Rodriguez (B.Arch. '82), is overseeing a project that will redesign and replace a neglected swimming pool in New York City's Central Park.

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.

AAP Alum Among 2025–26 Rome Prize Winners

Principal and founder of Atelier Cory Henry and AAP alum Cory Henry (M.Arch. '12) is among the winners of this rigorous competition supporting innovative fellows in the arts, humanities, and sciences for his architecture project Borders of Belonging: Rome's Public Spaces as Arenas of Democracy and Dissent.

2025 AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education

Thomas R. Fisher (B.Arch. '75) is the recipient of this award that recognizes outstanding individual contributions to architectural education. The award was presented by the American Institute of Architects and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.

Mellon Foundation: Mid-Century Marvel

AAP alum and past Architecture faculty Scott Ruff (B.Arch. '92, M.Arch. '95) codirects the newly founded Coles House Project to preserve prolific architect Robert Coles's home and studio, which stands as a symbol of Black mid-century modernism.