Announcements
The CCL at AAP, directed by Architecture faculty Felix Heisel, and their project partners have been selected for a $2.5M EPA grant to develop a process that combines robust Environmental Product Declarations for salvaged materials with Material Passporting to support the adoption of material reuse practices by the AEC industry at scale.
2023–24 Student Academic Awards and Prizes
Outstanding student work during the 2023–24 academic year is recognized by the Department of Architecture, the Department of Art, and the Department of City and Regional Planning.
AAP launches Engagement Impact Grants
With support from Cornell's David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement, AAP is advancing our collective mission to imagine and build a better world by expanding opportunities and activities around engaged teaching, learning, research, and creative work.
Artists for Understanding Brings Together Artists and Cultural Luminaries
Art chair Paul Ramírez Jonas has been named spokesperson of Artists for Understanding, an initiative led by the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities that promotes arts and humanities as crucial in bridging divides and countering all forms of hate.
The Graham Foundation Announces the Award of 56 New Grants
The Graham Foundation announces the award of 56 new grants to individuals who expand contemporary ideas of architecture through innovative, rigorous, and interdisciplinary work on design and the built environment. Awardees include architecture faculty Caitlin Blanchfield, Tom Carruthers, Suzanne Lettieri, Jennifer Newsom, and Strauch Fellow Sydney Maubert.
Fulbrighters Head to 14 Countries for Research, Teaching
Cornell's 2024–25 cohort of Fulbright awardees includes Desai Wang (B.Arch. '24), who is heading to Singapore, and Madeleine August (B.Arch. '22), who will be in Sri Lanka.
Peter Gerakaris (B.F.A. '03) to Present a Solo Exhibition of Mixed-Media Artworks at the BBG
Microcosms, a solo exhibition from artist Peter Gerakaris (B.F.A. '03), showcases environmental motifs rendered with dynamic coloration and a verve for placemaking. On view in the Leonhardt Gallery at Berkshire Botanical Garden from June 1 through August 4.
AAP Faculty David Costanza Named 2024–25 Rome Prize Winner
Costanza intends to use the award to advance his project Bending Stone, research which positions stone as a low-carbon structural building material and explores the aesthetics of structural stone in defining a new language in contemporary construction.
Linda Shi Selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar
The Fulbright Program has awarded CRP Assistant Professor Linda Shi funding for 2024–25 for Taiwan.
New Princeton Lecture Series To Honor Branden Hookway
The Princeton University School of Architecture in conjunction with the Graduate Program in Media + Modernity has announced the launch of Branden Hookway Interface, an annual lecture series in honor of late AAP faculty member and Princeton alum. The inaugural event featuring Shannon Mattern and Olga Touloumi will take place on April 2.
Art Visiting Critic Ashley Teamer and Amanda Williams (B.Arch. '97) will contribute to the 2024 iteration of the triennial November 2, 2024–February 2, 2025.
SO–IL, the firm of Architecture Professor of the Practice Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu, designed the museum with a rigorous emphasis on sustainability. It is projected to open in 2027.
NSF Invests Nearly $10M to Develop Transformative Bio-Inspired Solutions
The U.S. National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator program Phase 1 awards in this track include $650,000 for "Bio-Inspired Surface Design for High Performance Mechanical Tracking Solar Collection Skins in Architecture," a project led by Design Tech Chair Jenny Sabin, Professor of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences and inaugural Design Tech faculty Itai Cohen, CALS Associate Professor Adrienne Roeder, and Arizona State University Professor Mariana Bertoni.
Faculty Recognized for Excellence in Architectural Education
Architecture Assistant Professor Suzanne Lettieri was recognized by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture with a Diversity Achievement Award Honorable Mention for her work opening up pathways to participation and towards greater equity in design education.
Ifeoma Ebo (B.Arch. '01) received one of this year's 50 fellowships, which includes $50,000 in unrestricted funding.
Kimberly Dowdell Set to Make History as the AIA's First Black Woman and Millennial President
This month, Dowdell (B.Arch. '06) was inaugurated as the 100th AIA president. Learn more about her plans and perspective in this insightful interview.
Oppenheim Architecture Wins Competition to Restore the Besa Museum in Albania
Oppenheim Architecture, which includes Founding Principal Chad Oppenheim (B.Arch. '94) and Beat Huesler (B.Arch. '92), proposed a design that seeks to honor the nation's rich cultural heritage and welcoming spirit.
States Aligning to Federal Broadband Access Standards, but Barriers Remain
Ph.D. candidate Natassia Bravo, who worked with CRP Professor Mildred Warner to examine the impact of broadband grants, discusses their report on how these programs are closing the infrastructure gap.
Urban Video Project Presents Paulina Velázquez Solís: Regional Commissioned Artist
Light Work has awarded Art Visiting Critic Paulina Velázquez Solís their first commission specifically for regional artists living within a 50-mile radius of Syracuse for her proposal Un río de todas las épocas II / A river of all ages II.
Announcing ACADIA 2023 Paper and Project Awards
A Cornell team led by Architecture faculty Leslie Lok and RUBI Lab, with co-authors Sasa Zivkovic, Lawson Spencer, and Alexander Kyaw (B.Arch. '23), won the Best Paper Award, which recognizes the highest achievement of an accepted paper, having the potential for positive impact on practice, academy, and the broader society.
