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Faculty Work

At Cornell AAP, faculty enriches the college’s commitment to academic and creative excellence through research and engaged learning that bridges fields and inspires and supports the development of the next generation. Their work brings critical inquiry, research, design, and imagination to bear on the greatest challenges of our time to build a more just, sustainable, resilient, thriving, and inspired world.

Project Tompkins County, City of Ithaca Secure Market Building Funding for Clean Energy Projects

Ithaca Green New Deal Logo

A partnership that includes Architecture Associate Professor Timur Dogan’s Environmental Systems Lab secured $250K in funding aimed at accelerating local deployment of clean, safe, reliable energy projects.

Announcements Interactive Entertainment Architecture: Culture Lab, Toronto 1991–1994

Curated by Architecture Assistant Professor Farzin Lotfi-Jam, this exhibition presents previously unseen video recordings through an accelerated, 36-channel display that fragments and recomposes the radical symposium’s architecture.

Paper Challenges and Opportunities in Scaling Climate-Resilient Housing Solutions in the United States

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A paper in Nature Communications coauthored by CRP Associate Professor and Cornell Atkinson Senior Faculty Fellow Linda Shi assesses risk reduction actions in coastal communities based on interviews with experts across housing-relevant public, private, and nonprofit sectors.

Paper Voxel Shader – An Efficient Shadow Calculation Approach For Urban Building Energy Modeling

Architecture and Design Tech Associate Professor Timur Dogan and Amber Su (B.Arch. ’25) introduce a voxel-based ray-tracing method that efficiently computes sunlit fractions for urban surfaces using point cloud or mesh data without the requirement for manual geometry simplification.

Paper Pragmatic Remunicipalization Across Diverse Geographies in the US

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Using national surveys that covered 539 local governments across the US, this paper by CRP Professor Mildred Warner and Austin Aldag (Ph.D. ’24) found that two thirds of respondents remunicipalized at least one commonly provided public service.

Paper Governing Land on a Dynamic Earth: How Property Shapes Planning for Equitable Climate Adaptation

Aerial view of waterfront houses.

CRP Associate Professor Linda Shi coauthors this paper which argues that dominant American property regimes fundamentally constrain attempts to plan for and achieve socially just and ecologically reparative adaptation.