Announcements
Friday, June 25, 2021
Internationally recognized social practice artist Paul Ramírez Jonas, incoming faculty and chair of the Department of Art, on art practice, public exchange, and pedagogy.
Thursday, June 24, 2021
Biden Administration Nominates Bronin for Historic Preservation Advisory Council Chair
Sara Bronin, new Cornell faculty with appointments in the Department of City and Regional Planning at AAP and the Cornell Law School, tapped by President Biden to advise historic preservation policy.
Wednesday, June 23, 2021
The College of Architecture, Art, and Planning is among nine leading U.S. schools and colleges of architecture, planning, and design who have co-founded the Deans' Equity and Inclusion Initiative.
Thursday, June 17, 2021
Jonathan Ochshorn: Building Bad
A new book by Professor of Architecture Jonathan Ochshorn released in the U.S. and U.K. looks at the dangers of separating architecture's expressive and utilitarian functions within the design process and cites examples of utilitarian dysfunction.
Thursday, June 17, 2021
Archinect reports Sekou Cooke (B.Arch. '99) will be in residence as a Nasir Jones Hiphop Fellow for the 2021–22 academic year, where he will work on his project 3D Turntables Remix: The Architectural Technology of Hip-Hop.
Friday, June 11, 2021
Carson Chan Appointed Inaugural Director of the Emilio Ambasz Institute at MoMA
Architect's Newspaper reports MoMA has named curator, writer, and educator Carson Chan (B.Arch. '04) as the first director of the museum's Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and the Natural Environment.
Friday, June 11, 2021
Dimella Shaffer Names Four New Principals
Frank Valdes (B.Arch. '95) has been elevated to principal of the Boston firm Dimella Shaffer. Over the past 16 years, his project work has focused on urban design and multi-family housing projects, and historical adaptive reuse.
Monday, June 7, 2021
Assembly House 150 receives Great Places Award from EDRA
University of Buffalo UBNow announced that Assembly House 150, a nonprofit for teaching construction arts founded by Dennis Maher (B.Arch. '99), has received the 2021 Great Places Award from the Environmental Design Research Association.
Thursday, June 3, 2021
Shortlist Revealed for the AR New into Old Awards 2021
Ryan W Kennihan Architects, the practice of Ryan Kennihan (B.Arch. '04) lands on Architectural Record's shortlist for its annual AR New into Old awards, for "the mysterious joy of a ruin" in Baltrasna House in Dublin, Ireland.
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Hou de Sousa, the firm of Josh de Sousa (B.Arch. '05) and Nancy Hou (B.Arch. '05), honored in Architectural Record's annual list of 10 emerging practices advancing issues of form, construction, sustainability, and community engagement.
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Merrill Scholars Thank Educators Who Shaped Cornell Journeys
Merrill Presidential Scholar Xin Yue Wang (B.Arch. '21) was among 37 honored during a virtual ceremony on May 24. Wang named Tafel Visiting Critic in Architecture Peter Ballman for contributing to her Cornell experience.
Thursday, May 27, 2021
SLL Celebrate the Lighting Community at Annual Awards
Timur Dogan, Assistant Professor of Architecture, and Daniel Park (B.Arch. '20), Junior Environmental Specialist at KPF, received the Leon Gaster Award for best lighting adaptations at the Society of Light and Lighting (SLL) AGM Awards.
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Corning Museum of Glass: Residencies at the Studio
May 31–June 19, David Nasca (M.F.A. '22) will be the David Whitehouse Research Resident Artist at the Corning Museum of Glass. Nasca will research the glass models of marine invertebrates made by artists Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka.
Monday, May 24, 2021
KPF Announces Winners of the 2021 Kohn Pedersen Fox Traveling Fellowship
Molly Meng Ma (M.Arch. '21) has won a 2021 Kohn Pedersen Fox Traveling Fellowship for her project Mining the Land. Shown is Ma's drawing of an aviary over Beebe Lake created for the M.Arch. Core Studio De Ovis et Avibus.
Monday, May 17, 2021
2021 Graduate Diversity & Inclusion Awardees
Tina Nelson, Academic Programs Coordinator for the Department of City and Regional Planning is named an "Unsung Hero" for exemplary service in support of students in the Cornell University Graduate School program.
Friday, May 14, 2021
Atelier Cory Henry Joins Others in 'On Olive' Housing Redevelopment
Cory Henry (M.Arch.'12) won the National Black Emerging Architect Competition and will have his work built and showcased at the "On Olive" development in Grand Center.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Introducing the 2021 Bush Fellows
Nathan Johnson (B.Arch. '98) has won a $100k fellowship from the Bush Foundation, which offers grants and opportunities to people addressing equitable change in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and shared Indigenous lands.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
HANNAH's Project Wins NYSCA 2021 Grant
Assistant professors in architecture Leslie Lok and Sasa Zivkovic's project proposal On Ashes: Design Strategies for Infested Tree Populations has been awarded the NYSCA 2021 Grant in the Architecture + Design Independent Projects category.
Monday, May 3, 2021
Grants Advance Social Sciences Research, Collaboration
A CCSS grant will help Suzanne Lanyi Charles, Assistant Professor in CRP, study whether the pandemic could lead to "The Next Wall Street Housing Grab" by publicly traded real estate investment trusts specializing in single-family rental housing.
Friday, April 30, 2021
New Study to Explore Rural Communities and Inequality in the United States
CRP's Professor Mildred Warner received a $500k grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for a comprehensive analysis of the role state and local government policies play in the economic growth and well-being of America's rural communities.
