Events

3/6–4/10 Resilience by Design: Spring 2025 Lecture Series

Join a compelling lecture series featuring architectural historians, design practitioners, visionaries, and community stakeholders as they explore the multifaceted challenges and opportunities of community-engaged design.

3/17–3/27 The Incubates: synchronize!

Explore the result of ten artists thinking about time as physical forms in space and learning how their personal internal clocks interact with the time of others

3/17–3/27 Group Exhibition: Willard Way

Explore an exhibition that recapitulates the spatial qualities of the collective's domestic environment while drawing attention to creative and interpersonal dynamics at large.

3/24–4/11 Design Tech Open Studio

Visit the inaugural exhibition of Design Tech, a multicollege transdisciplinary initiative pioneering innovation, research, and teaching.

3/25 On-Campus Architecture Graduate Open House for Admitted Students, Spring 2025

Attend this in-depth introduction to graduate studies at Cornell. The open house will cover program overviews, highlights of our areas of expertise, and Q&A sessions with faculty and current students.

3/26 Design Tech Hybrid Open House for Admitted Students, Spring 2025

Register to attend this open house for admitted students, providing an overview of the multicollege Department of Design Tech and in-depth information about the Master of Science in Design Technology program.

3/26 M.F.A. Open Studios

Join the first and second-year Creative Visual Arts M.F.A. students as they open their studio doors and share their practices with the wider Cornell community

3/28 Dragon Day 2025

Every year, an enormous dragon created by first-year architecture students marches across campus. Join us for Dragon Day 2025, with this year's dragon theme, "HOW TO BUILD YOUR DRAGON."

4/8 Marirena Kladeftira: A Post-Digital Perspective for Architecture and Humanity

Attend a lecture that explores how emerging fabrication technologies can contribute to eco-social sustainability in architecture by enabling lightweight and circular building systems that respect local contexts.

4/9 Earl Lewis: The Contours of Repair

Join author and social historian Earl Lewis for a talk tracing the history of the search for repair for African Americans by sketching past challenges and suggesting future possibilities.

4/10 Melissa Catanese: Artist Talk

Attend a lecture that offers insight into the thought processes behind the speaker's work, exploring how intuition, memory, and personal experience inform her approach to image-making and sequencing.

4/11 Nataya Friedan: Climate Change and the Labor of Forgetting in Houston

Hear a lecture that follows civil servants, activists, politicians, and business people as they grapple with climate change evidence in an oil industry town.

4/11 SIGHTLINES: Architecture, Photography, and the Mutability of the Image

Attend a symposium that examines the mutability of the architectural image through photography, emphasizing how acts of appropriation and recomposition shape architectural discourse.

4/18 Daniel Agbiboa: Does Africa Need Elite Cities?

Join a lecture that examines Eko Atlantic City in Lagos, Nigeria, as a manifestation of worlding-cities, critiquing how such megaprojects amplify socio-spatial inequalities and ecological precarity.

4/23 Craig Robins and Jackie Soffer: Entrepreneurship at the Intersection of Art and Real Estate

See a lecture that offers insight into two entrepreneurial careers followed by an interactive workshop with students.

4/24 Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities Symposium:
Climate Resilience in New York City

The Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities will host an in-person symposium on climate resilience in New York City. The one-day event will focus on actions to mitigate risks to people, buildings, and infrastructure from extreme weather.

4/25 Andrés Blanco: Urban Infrastructure in the Amazon Basin, Challenges and Opportunities

Attend a lecture that describes the ongoing effort to understand the challenges and opportunities associated with accelerated urbanization processes and their impacts on Amazonia's critical ecosystems and sustainability.

5/2 Marisa Turesky: Locating Lesbian Lives — Holistic Housing in a Compassionate City

Listen to a lecture that demonstrates the gendered and queer pathways toward health justice and community development over time by applying a queer-feminist lens to the frameworks for aging-in-place