Architecture's associate professors of the practice Sofia von Ellrichshausen and Mauricio Pezo (center), and Visiting Critic Diego Pérez, (left), work with students during a spring 2019 desk critique. Learn more about the professional B.Arch. program.
Students who attend a semester-long program at Cornell in Rome participate in a robust and unparalleled series of field trips throughout Italy. Learn more about applying to Cornell in Rome.
Tim Dehm (M.R.P./M.L.A. '20) explored the landscape on a six-day, 300-mile bike trip from Rochester, New York, to his summer internship in Cleveland, Ohio. Read more.
A monumental tribute to political icon Shirley Chisholm — designed by two AAP alumni and visiting faculty members — will soon rise in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.
Antoine Picon: Architecture and Materiality in the Digital Age
Trained as an engineer, architect, and historian, Antoine Picon is the G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology at Harvard GSD. He is also chairman of the Foundation Le Corbusier.
Picon is the author of numerous books and articles on the relationship between science and technology, on the one hand; and architecture and technology, on the other hand. Some of his books include French Architects and Engineers in the Age of the Enlightenment (1992), L'Invention de l'Ingénieur Moderne (1992), Les Saint-Simoniens: Raison, Imaginaire et Utopie (2002), and Architecture and the Sciences: Exchanging Metaphors (2003).
His recent publications, which deal with the impact of digital culture on architecture and the city, include: Digital Culture in Architecture: An Introduction for the Design Professions (2010), Ornament: The Politics of Architecture and Subjectivity (2013), and Smart Cities: A Spatialised Intelligence (2015).