Announcements
Friday, September 24, 2021
Architectural Record Celebrates the 2021 Women in Architecture Awards
Amanda Williams (B.Arch. '97) is honored as the New Generation Leader in Architectural Record's 2021 Women in Architecture Design Leadership awards. The architect/artist's installation work often probes the impact of race on the urban realm.
Thursday, September 23, 2021
Cuban Modernism: Mid-Century Architecture 1940–1970
Fifth-year architecture student Taimaisú Ferrer Sin (B.Arch. '22) contributed to the new book — the first comprehensive survey of Cuban mid-century architecture, edited by Victor Deupi and Jean-François Lejeune.
Wednesday, September 8, 2021
Amie Cunat: Petal Signals, September 8–October 23
Dinner Gallery in New York City presents an exhibition of eight new paintings by fine art alumna Amie Cunat (M.F.A. '12). Both horrific and comedic, earthly and transcendent, Cunat’s new paintings present biomorphic forms, familiar yet foreign.
Tuesday, September 7, 2021
2021 BHE Foundation CARES Scholarships Awarded to Dridi, Cannon, Stewart, D'Auria, and Loyot
Out to Innovate CARES Scholarship recipient Jada Cannon (M.Arch. '24) is committed to ensuring LGBTQ+ and other marginalized groups feel seen in architectural design.
Friday, August 27, 2021
Graham Foundation Supports JAE Fellows 2022–23
JAE's Graham Foundation grant supports Black, Native/Indigenous, and other people of color in architectural discourse. 2022–23 JAE Fellows include Assistant Professor Jennifer Newsom, Joyce Hwang (B.Arch. '97), and Thena Tak (B.Arch. '09).
Monday, August 23, 2021
In Memoriam: Branden Hookway (1971–2021)
Branden Hookway, a long-term visiting assistant professor in the Department of Architecture, among other departments at Cornell passed Saturday, August 14, after a long battle with cancer.
Monday, August 23, 2021
Architecture Faculty and Alumni Work in an Exhibition of Architecture, Art, Design, and Community
2021 Exhibit Columbus participants: Dream the Combine, the practice of architecture's Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers, co-curated by Mimi Zeiger (B.Arch. '94); Ann Lui (B.Arch. '11); Joyce Hwang (B.Arch. '97); and Olalekan Jeyifous (B.Arch.'00).
Tuesday, August 17, 2021
Oonagh Davis (B.Arch. '20) and Elias Bennett (B.Arch. '20), cofounders of OnE Studio Architecture, received an honorable mention for Okioki Cabin, their entry for the Tiny Kiwi Meditation Cabin Competition by Earth Energies Sanctuary.
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
Samia Henni Appointed the Inaugural Albert Hirschman Chair at IMéRA
Assistant Professor Samia Henni, architecture, has been appointed to the prestigious Albert Hirschman Chair 2021–22 at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IMéRA), to research Marseille's 1922 colonial exhibition and post-WWI migrant working class.
Thursday, August 5, 2021
2020–21 Student Academic Awards and Prizes
Academic awards and prizes recognize outstanding student work during the 2020–21 academic year.
Thursday, July 22, 2021
Longtime Planner Antoine Bryant Tapped as Detroit Development Director
The Detroit News reports Mayor Mike Duggan has selected Bryant (B.S. URS '95) for the city's planning and development chief. Bryant previously served as business development and project manager at alumni-led architecture firm Moody Nolan.
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Howard McCalebb: Special Exhibition: Creating Community, Cinque Gallery Artists
The Art Students League of New York presented work by sculptor Howard McCalebb (M.F.A. '72) in a recent survey show and catalog of Cinque Gallery artists. Cinque supported African American artists in NYC dating from the Harlem Renaissance.
Friday, July 16, 2021
92 New York Artists Receive $616,000 in Grants
Art alums Amie Cunat (M.F.A. '12) and Laura Nova '96 (B.F.A. '96) were awarded 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship grants for interdisciplinary work, from an applicant pool of more than 3,500 New York City artists.
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Stan Bowman (1934–2021), An Artist on the Leading Creative Edge
Photographer, sculptor, painter, and Professor Emeritus Stan Bowman immersed his teaching and creative practice in the digital revolution, bringing a spirit of experimentation and curiosity to his work.
Friday, July 9, 2021
Anderson Named Faculty Director of Cornell AAP's Bachelor of Architecture Program
Sean Anderson (B.Arch./B.S. HAUD '96) joins the Department of Architecture at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning as Associate Professor and incoming Director of the B.Arch. Program.
Friday, July 9, 2021
International Architecture Competition: The Last Nuclear Bomb Memorial
Lauren Lam (B.Arch. '23), a rising 4th-year in architecture, won an honorable mention in the international competition for her conceptual project The Aftermath. Entries were not permitted to include text, titles, or annotation of any kind.
Tuesday, July 6, 2021
Cornell Atkinson Awards $1.8 Million to Fund Vital Collaborations
Architecture's Timur Dogan, Katharina Kral, Felix Heisel, Marta H. Wisniewska, and CRP's Mitch Glass have been awarded Cornell Atkinson Academic Venture Fund (AVF) seed grants for research on innovative sustainable solutions.
Friday, July 2, 2021
Horowitz Foundation 2020 Grant Recipients
Shriya Rangarajan (Ph.D. RS '24) will use the highly competitive grant to support her research on social capital's role in Upstate New York's local food supply networks during the pandemic. Her dissertation has implications for food security.
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Gunhan Named 2021–22 Getty Research Institute Predoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. HAUD candidate Aslihan Gunhan has won a prestigious Getty Research Institute Predoctoral Fellow residency for her project "Fragments Left Inside and Scattered Outside: Armenian Properties in Turkey and Armenian Architects in Diaspora."
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Civilization of Llhuros, an exhibit of archeological fiction by Art Professor Emeritus Norman Daly (1911–2008), is included in the forthcoming publication Sting in the Tale by fictive-art practitioner Antoinette LaFarge.
