Announcements

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

UN-Habitat names FICA a 2023 Scroll of Honour Award Winner

Cofounded by Architecture Visiting Associate Professor Anna Dietzsch in 2015, the non-profit organization was recognized for fighting housing speculation and gentrification in Brazil.


Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Sabin Awarded 2023 Matthias Rippmann Memorial Prize

This year recognizing Design Tech Chair and Architecture Professor Jenny Sabin, the prize is given by DigitalFUTURES to a digital tool, body of research, written text, or any other thing that revolutionizes architectural research.


Friday, September 8, 2023

2023 Carter Manny Award Citations of Special Recognition

Architecture Ph.D. candidate Michael Moynihan was recognized with a writing citation for his "Aggregative Expertise: A Global History of Housing, Information Science, and the Deprofessionalization of the Architect, 1973–82."


Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Playing Place: Board Games, Popular Culture, Space

History of Architecture and Urban Development (HAUD) Professor D. Medina Lasansky and HAUD alum Chad Randl (Ph.D. HAUD '14) release a collection of essays that connect 35 or more different board games to various elements of the built environment.


Friday, August 25, 2023

Hart Howerton Announces 2023 Travel Fellowships

Zhouhan Li (M.Arch. '23) will use the funding to explore Fuzhou, China, and the tea industrial landscape on both urban and architectural scales.


Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Brooklyn Arcadia: Art, History, and Nature at Majestic Green-Wood

CRP Professor Thomas J. Campanella provides an introduction to the book, which explores the landscape, architecture, statuary, symbols, typography, birds and fauna, trees, and typography of this National Historic Landmark cemetery.


Tuesday, August 22, 2023

AIA Detroit Announces 2023 Recognition Honors

Architecture Design Teaching Fellow Imani Day (B.Arch. '12) has been named a 2023 AIA Detroit Young Architect Award Winner.


Thursday, August 17, 2023

BTES 2023 Emerging Faculty Award Winners Announced

The Building Technology Educators' Society recognized Architecture Assistant Professor David Costanza, who shared coursework examples aimed at promoting "a knowledge of building technology as primary to architectural thinking and imperative to design."


Monday, July 3, 2023

2022–23 Student Academic Awards and Prizes

Outstanding student work during the 2022–23 academic year is recognized by the Department of Architecture, the Department of Art, and the Department of City and Regional Planning.


Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Fierce Announces New Project with AAP Art Chair Paul Ramírez Jonas as part of Birmingham Festival 23

Public Trust will make its U.K. premiere, asking participants to examine the promises we make to one another, the vows we take, and the pledges made by our civic leaders.


Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Robert A.M. Stern Architects Announces Winner of 2023 RAMSA Travel Fellowship

Neha Garg (M.Arch. '23) has been awarded $15,000 to travel throughout Egypt to study the architectural styles and construction techniques of earthen buildings from salt houses in the Siwa region to mudbrick houses in Aswan.


Monday, June 5, 2023

New Trustees Set to Join Cornell Board

The Cornell Board of Trustees has elected three new trustees to four-year terms including Paul D. Rubacha '72, MBA '73, who also serves on AAP's Campaign Committee and Ad Hoc Campaign Planning Committee, as well as the Baker Real Estate Advisory Board.


Friday, May 26, 2023

Cornell Atkinson Awards $1.6M in Seed Grants

The Academic Venture Fund will support 11 research teams, including Architecture faculty Leslie Lok and Sasa Zivkovic's collaborative work on carbon-negative concrete.


Thursday, May 25, 2023

National Zoning Atlas Announced as 2023 Ivory Prize Winner

The National Zoning Atlas is one of four organizations recognized for ambitious, feasible, and scalable solutions to housing affordability.


Wednesday, May 24, 2023

22 Emerging Designers Receive 2023 Gensler Scholarships Promoting Diversity in the Architecture Industry

Lauren Jasper (B.Arch. '24) received a $10,000 tuition scholarship and Jada Cannon (M.Arch. '24) was awarded a micro-scholarship intended to cover studio materials and books.


Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Cornell Tech Announces Winners of its 2023 Startup Awards

Gaia, software co-created by graduate student Daan van der Zwaag '23 under the advisement of Architecture faculty and Design Tech Chair Jenny Sabin, was selected as a winner of the 2023 Cornell Tech Startup Awards and will receive $100K in seed funding.


Tuesday, May 23, 2023

CTI Announces 2023 Active Learning Postdoctoral Fellowship Recipients

Recipients of the three-year grants, which includes AAP's Department of City and Regional Planning, will work with a teaching postdoc to introduce active learning into their courses.


Monday, May 22, 2023

Graham Foundation Grant Recognizes Work by Nusaibah Khan

Khan (M.S. AAD '22) was awarded for her project "Productive Landscapes in Srinagar — A Case of Floating Gardens and Hanji Settlements of Dal Lake."


Monday, May 22, 2023

Latinx Coalition Chats Awarded Graham Foundation Grant

José Ibarra (B.Arch. '16) and Liz Gálvez were awarded funding for their planned symposium exploring Latinx identity in the design community, which will be hosted at the Architectural League of New York next year.


Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Hybrid Creatures On View in Mexico City

Recent work by Isidoro Michan-Guindi (B.Arch. '15) is currently on display at LIGA, Space for Architecture.


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