Announcements
Winners of 2022 Architectural League Prize Respond to Design Complexities Rooted in Place
The Architect's Newspaper reports that Architecture Assistant Professor Farzin Lotfi-Jam and Nathan Friedman (B.Arch. '09) are among the winners of this prestigious annual award, which recognizes visionary work by young practitioners.
Zoe De Simone Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Zoe De Simone (B.Arch. '22) has received a research fellowship from the National Science Foundation that will support her graduate study at MIT.
What is Critical Urbanism? Urban Research as Pedagogy
CRP Chair Sophie Oldfield is an editor of this innovative toolkit exploring how alternative urban futures can be imagined by addressing the historical injustices and global entanglements that shape the urban present.
Founders of Dream the Combine and MOS Architects Among Winners of the 2022–23 Rome Prize
The Architect's Newspaper reports the award of the American Academy's Rome Prize in Architecture to Assistant Professor Jennifer Newsom and Assistant Professor of the Practice Tom Carruthers, founding principals of Dream The Combine.
Honorable Mention for Mehr.WERT.Pavillon
2hs architects and engineers, office of Architecture Assist. Prof. Felix Heisel, has received an Honorable Mention at the prestigious 2020/21 German Steel Construction Awards for their Mehr.WERT.Pavillon.
Back Stages: Essays Across Art, Performance, and Public Life
Out June 2022, this collection of career-spanning essays by Shannon Jackson includes a chapter on the work and practice of Art Chair Paul Ramírez Jonas.
Community Engagement, Scholarship, and Leadership Take Cornell Students Beyond Campus
A Cornell University Medium post highlights student public engagement activities, including Joe McGranahan's (B.Arch. '22) work as part of the Circular Construction Lab to identify reusable construction materials.
SO–IL, Johnston Marklee Among American Academy of Arts and Letters 2022 Architecture Award Winners
The Architect's Newspaper spotlights winners of the academy's 2022 Architecture Awards, which includes Architecture Professor of the Practice Florian Idenburg, cofounding principal of Brooklyn-based SO–IL.
2022 Cornell Biennial Artist Preview
The Cornell Chronicle provides details on the wide array of included artworks, installations, and performances, which will imagine how artistic futurities might generate cultural transformation.
2022 Cornell Biennial Artists Announced
Curated by Timothy Murray, featured artworks, installations, and performances will address race and social justice, global warming, artistic representation, robotics, sustainable ecology and architecture, migration, and labor.
Why I Make Art: Contemporary Artists' Stories About Life & Work
Available May 31, this collection gathered from the podcast archives of Sound & Vision (directed by artist/educator Brian Alfred) includes interviews with Associate Professor of Art Carl Ostendarp and alum James Siena (B.F.A. '79).
Kimberly Dowdell (B.Arch. '06) Elected Alumni Trustee
A principal at HOK, Dowdell is widely recognized for her leadership in the design community and prior presidency of NOMA.
Werewolf: The Architecture of Lunacy, Shapeshifting, and Material Metamorphosis
A new book coedited by Associate Professor Caroline O'Donnell and José Ibarra (B.Arch. '16) explores an emerging but under-investigated branch of architecture that examines the transformation of form.
Introducing the 69th Annual Progressive Architecture Award Winners
Höweler + Yoon Architecture cofounded by Eric Höweler (B.Arch. '94, M.Arch. '96), was named an award winner in the 69th Annual Progressive Architecture Awards.
2021–22 Wood Design & Building Award Winners Announced
Ashen Cabin by HANNAH, the practice of architecture faculty Leslie Lok & Sasa Zivkovic, won a citation for excellence in wood architecture — the only design-build project among various large-scale works recognized in the prestigious awards program.
Responsible Disruptors: Three Technology Projects Represent Change for the Better
Tree Folio, NYC — a project co-led by AAP's Alex Kobald, the associate director of Cornell's Design Across Scales Lab, and Joe Ferdinando (M.Arch. '22) — received an honorable mention in Metropolis Magazine's Responsible Disruptors Program.
Remembering Frances M. "Franny" Shloss (B.Arch. '45), 1923–2022
From uniquely challenging beginnings as an architecture student to her enduring dedication to her alma mater, AAP remembers Franny Shloss by her legacy of determination, generosity, and her artist's soul.
Introducing The Architectural League's 2022 Emerging Voices Awardees
In Architect's Newspaper, Sekou Cooke Studio (B.Arch. '99) is one of eight to win the invited, juried portfolio competition honoring firms with potential to influence architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design.
"A Translation Movement" is an excerpt from the new book by Esra Akcan, the Michael A. McCarthy Professor of Architectural Theory, resulting from Akcan's participation in the Canadian Center for Architecture's Research Fellowship Program.
ACSA/AIAS 2022 Architectural Education Award Winners
Just announced: Aneesha Dharwadker (B.Arch. '09), University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign, and Jose Ibarra (B.Arch. '17), University of Virginia, have won New Faculty Teaching Awards for excellence and innovation in teaching.