Faculty Work
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Opinion: Climate Emergency Also A Housing Emergency
Professor Sara Bronin, CRP, shares her thoughts on the dire need for the State of Connecticut to make intersectional land use policy reforms that meaningfully address the climate crisis from social, environmental, and residential standpoints.
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Alessandra Cianchetta: The Good Life
Visiting Critic in Architecture Alessandra Cianchetta's latest critical essay on smart cities and blockchain technology has been published in the Swedish language design magazine RUM.
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U.S. Local Government Response to Fiscal Crisis: Austerity Urbanism or Pragmatic Municipalism?
Professor Mildred Warner, CRP, discusses U.S. local government responses to fiscal crisis as part of the Sino-US Scholar Dialogue Series on Public Administration.
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Remembering a Child of Ithaca, Twelve Years Later
On the 12th anniversary of a loss that prompted the commission, Associate Professor of Art Roberto Bertoia's sculpture Child of Ithaca on the Ithaca Commons remains a popular spot to rest and reflect. In 14850.com
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Software Tool Breathes Life into Post-COVID Office Airflow
The Cornell Chronicle details Assistant Professor of Architecture Timur Dogan's and the AAP Environmental Systems Lab's new indoor module for their existing Eddy3D software, an airflow and microclimate simulator to aid architects, designers.
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Sustainable Design for the Circular Bionutrient Economy
An international network of partners that includes CRP’s Mitchell Glass and Architecture’s Felix Heisel is using a Cornell Atkinson Center seed grant to create a circular bionutrient economy approach to increase organic nutrients in soil.
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Enabling Circular Construction With Fungi-based Materials
Felix Heisel, Marta H. Wisniewska
Architecture's Felix Heisel and Marta Wisniewska are part of a team of Cornell researchers collaborating with international partners who will use a Cornell Atkinson Center AVF seed grant to create fungi-based material fed by agricultural waste.
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Seed Funding for Innovative, Interdisciplinary Research
A multidisciplinary team including architecture faculty Timur Dogan and Katharina Kral has won a 2021 Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability AVF grant to research emerging data on COVID-19, urban geospatial data, mobility.
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2021 McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship Recipients
Jennifer Newsom, Tom Carruthers
Architecture faculty Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers as Dream The Combine are among six recipients of the 2021 McKnight Fellowships for Visual Artists, from a field of 199 applicants.
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Dream The Combine to Co-Curate 2023 Counterpublic Triennial
Jennifer Newsom, Tom Carruthers
Counterpublic Triennal announced that Dream The Combine, the practice of architecture faculty Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers, will co-curate the second edition of the event in St. Louis, Missouri, in 2023.
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Northwall Plaza Dedication a Time for Celebration
Jenny Sabin, Associate Professor in Architecture, spoke at the University of Nebraska Medical Center dedication, which included the unveiling of her sculpture Convergence displayed on the plaza.
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Jonathan Ochshorn: Building Bad
A new book by Professor of Architecture Jonathan Ochshorn released in the U.S. and U.K. looks at the dangers of separating architecture's expressive and utilitarian functions within the design process and cites examples of utilitarian dysfunction.
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Testing the Residential Daylight Score: Comparing Climate-Based Daylighting Metrics for 2444 Individual Dwelling Units in Temperate Climates
A research paper by Associate Professor of Architecture Timur Dogan and Daniel Park (B.Arch. '20) has been published in Sage Journals. The paper won the Leon Gaster Award for best lighting adaptations from the Society of Light and Lighting.
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Transformative Climate Adaptation: Trends and Prospects in the United States with Dr. Susanne Moser and Dr. Linda Shi
Linda Shi, Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning, is the guest on Doug Parsons's America Adapts podcast discussing her recent paper on climate equity and justice issues with coauthor Susanne Moser.
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Covid Is Forcing America To Fix Its Water Supply
In Wired, Planning Professor Mildred Warner comments on the Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act, a bill before Congress. Warner's research found a moratorium on water shutoffs could have saved thousands of lives.
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AAP Faculty, Students, and Alumni at the 2021 Venice Biennale of Architecture
Esra Akcan, Alessandra Cianchetta, Felix Heisel, Marta H. Wisniewska, Samia Henni, Andrea Simitch
AAP faculty, alumni, and students explore "How Will We Live Together?", the question proposed by the 17th International Venice Biennale of Architecture. Postponed one year by the pandemic, the comprehensive international exhibition opens on May 22.
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PolyForm Celebrates Mission, Spirit of Human Ecology
PolyForm is a new public art pavilion commissioned by the College of Human Ecology and designed by Jenny Sabin and her practice, Jenny Sabin Studio.
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Break it Down: CR0WD Task Force Forges Zero Waste Goals
CR0WD, a Cornell-powered, community-led task force works with New York State communities to promote thoughtful building deconstruction and highlight the environmental, cultural, and, economic value of salvage, reuse, and closed material flows.