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Tuesday, May 13, 2025

In NYC's Central Park, AAP Alum Leads a Stunning Transformation

Architecture alum Susan Rodriguez ('81, B.Arch. '82) spearheaded the design of a recreation center on the Harlem Meer, enhancing accessibility and reconnecting the park's north-end landscape and water features to the neighborhood.

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Monday, May 12, 2025
Cornell Student Entrepreneurs Take First Place at Kellogg Real Estate Venture Competition

An interdisciplinary architecture and real estate graduate student team took home Cornell's first-ever top prize in the competition's history this spring.
Monday, May 12, 2025
Finding Purpose and Beauty, Contribution Project Expands Its Reach

Featured in the Cornell Chronicle, Oscar Llodra (B.Arch. '25) used funds from this year's Contribution Project to design a new way of approaching mobile, affordable housing through a DIY camper. The Contribution Project is a collaboration between Cornell University's Purpose Science and innovation Exchange (PSiX) and Purpose Commons.

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Monday, May 19, 2025
Scalable Building Reconstruction and Window Detection for Urban Building Energy Modelling Applications

Timur Dogan

Architecture faculty member Timur Dogan's copublished article in the Journal of Building Performance Simulation advances a system for optimizing imagery from textured mesh models for more detailed, urban-scale analysis.
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Adaptive Recycled Plastic Architecture: Vacuum-Sealed Chainmail Structures Through Computational Design

Farzin Lotfi-Jam

Assistant Professor of Architecture Farzin Lotfi-Jam and alum Yi Xu (M.Arch. '24) coauthored this paper that explores the untapped potential of recycled plastics as a primary construction material.