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Thursday, October 30, 2025

Cornell AAP to Launch First New York City-based High School Summer Program

The College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP) is adding a new summer intensive for high schoolers interested in studying the collective aspirations, methodologies, and processes involved in the design of cities.

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Monday, October 27, 2025
Sacramento International Airport Commissions Art Chair Paul Ramírez Jonas to Create Permanent Public Installation

Using imagery and words that celebrate the surrounding valley as well as airport staff, Ramírez Jonas has revealed preliminary models of the full work, which will wrap the transportation hub's new six-story parking facility.
Monday, October 20, 2025
Gensler Family AAP NYC Center Opens Doors, Possibilities on Cornell Tech Campus

After a decade at 26 Broadway in Lower Manhattan, the center's move to Roosevelt Island affords new opportunities for connection and collaboration.

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Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Architecture and the Right to Heal: Resettler Nationalism in the Aftermath of Conflict and Disaster

Esra Akcan

Architecture Professor Esra Akcan's book, Architecture and the Right to Heal: Resettler Nationalism in the Aftermath of Conflict and Disaster, published by Duke University Press, explores architecture's role in the healing processes that take place following socioeconomic, political, and environmental disasters.
Monday, September 29, 2025
High Energy Density Carbon-Cement Supercapacitors for Architectural Energy Storage

James Weaver

Design Tech Associate Professor James Weaver, who has a joint appointment in Cornell Engineering's Materials Science & Engineering (MSE), co-authored a paper reporting a carbon-cement supercapacitor material that combines structural and energy-storage functions to dramatically boost energy density in load-bearing concrete elements.