Announcements
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.
Venice Biennale Names 213 Artists for 'Transhistorical' 2022 Edition
ARTnews: Louise Lawler (B.F.A. '69), Hannah Levy (B.F.A. '13), and spring '21 Teiger Mentor in the Arts Candice Lin are among those whose work will display in the main exhibition of the Venice Biennale of Art, April 23 to November 27.
Kirk Henriques: A Spectacle Following Every Miracle
Kirk Henriques's (M.F.A. '21) solo show of new paintings on fiberglass mesh through March 5 at Charles Moffett Gallery, New York City. Read the interview touching on his work, influences, time at Cornell, and more.
Visual Arts and Theatre Collaboration: New Models for Art Practices in Post-Conflict Situations
Sam Jury (M.F.A. '98) has won a substantial Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) grant to develop a major body of film work and installation in Abkhazia, focused on the human aspect of collaborative art practices in post-conflict zones.
2022 United States Artists Fellowships: Celebrating Visionary Artists
Architecture faculty practices Dream The Combine (Jennifer Newsom, Tom Carruthers), SO-IL (Florian Idenburg), and alumna Nina Cooke John (B.Arch. '95) are among the 63 awardees of the prestigious USA Fellowships.
SOM Foundation Announces Winners of the 2021 Robert L. Wesley Award
Architecture student Alexander Htet Aung Kyaw (B.Arch. '23) is one of five selected for the 2021 Robert L. Wesley Award.
Valgora's Studio V Receives 2021 WAF Future Project of the Year
Alum Jay Valgora's (B.Arch. '86) Studio V Architecture receives Future Project of the Year for Silo City design at the 2021 World Architecture Festival.
Call for Cornell Biennial Applications: January 28, 2022
The Cornell Council for the Arts seeks proposals from faculty and students for the 2022 Cornell Biennial, Futurities, Uncertain.
Center for Social Sciences Awards Fall '21 Grants
Professor Victoria Beard, CRP, received a research grant for "Global Survey of City Leaders," the first globally representative survey of mayors on topics including economy, social justice, environment, and infrastructure. Cornell Chronicle.
Circular Construction Lab Wins Zumbtobel Group Special Prize for Innovation
The prize goes to the Department of Architecture's Circular Construction Lab, led by Assistant Professor Felix Heisel, and research partners in the development of the RhinoCircular software tool.
Generously Funded M.F.A. at Cornell AAP
Cornell AAP's Department of Art invites applications for our forward-thinking Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) program, due January 7, 2022.
In Cision PR Newswire, Associate Professor of art Jolene Rickard is among scholars from Indigenous North American people groups who have had a profound influence on academia, literature, history, the arts, science, politics, and activism.
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami: Hugh Hayden: Boogey Man
A special exhibition for Art Basel Miami 2021 by Hugh Hayden (B.Arch. '07) features a suite of monumental new works. Hayden's process results in dynamic, surreal, and critical responses to personal experience and social and cultural issues.
ArchDaily Selects the Best New Practices of 2021
HANNAH, the firm of architecture faculty Leslie Lok and Sasa Zivkovic, selected by ArchDaily for answering the question of what the future of architecture can and should do to bridge design, technology, and construction.
New Public Artworks for the City of Minneapolis Public Service Building
A ceiling sculpture by Lucito, the firm of Iroha Ito (M.Arch. '15) and Andrew Lucia, will be celebrated in a public art opening hosted by the City of Minneapolis on December 10.
The Top Urban Planning Books of 2021
Planetizen selects Sekou Cooke's (B.Arch. '99) Hip-Hop Architecture, which invites readers to compare b-boys to architecture and to imagine the kinds of built environments that would warrant such a description.
