Events

9/3–12/17 Graduate Admissions Fall 2025 Events

Join Cornell AAP Admissions this fall for a series of virtual information sessions designed to introduce prospective students to graduate programs offered at AAP.

9/12–11/11 Undergraduate Admissions Fall 2025 Events

Join Cornell AAP Admissions for their undergraduate admissions fall 2025 events, which include in-person and virtual information sessions, informal drop-in chats, and off-campus opportunities to learn more about the college and application process.

9/17–11/12 Less for More: Collective Visions for a Climate Conscious Future

Held alongside Associate Professor Pamela Karimi's course Designing Deserts: Architecture, Ecology, and Imagination in Arid Lands, this lecture series explores experimental design in drylands and beyond.

9/25–12/5 Mark Anthony Brown Jr.: The Book of Mark

Strauch Early Career Fellow in Art Mark Anthony Brown Jr.'s solo exhibition, The Book of Mark, opens September 25 and will be on display until December 5, at UNC–Chapel Hill's Stone Center, exploring identity, spirituality, and ancestry.

10/18–1/10 M.F.A. Image Text Virtual Info Sessions 2025

Learn more about the M.F.A. in Image Text from codirectors Nicholas Muellner and Catherine Taylor, former faculty guest speakers, and current students.

10/20–11/13 Onome Olotu: All About That Bass

Explore an exhibition on the politics of big bodies, hidden identities, and the ways in which fatness is read and exaggerated in visual culture.

10/21–12/2 Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center

Attend a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture's leading practitioners, hosted by architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. '55) and critic Cynthia Davidson.

11/10–11/21 Billie Faircloth to Represent Cornell University at Climate COP30

At the UN Climate Conference of the Parties (COP30), AAP faculty delegate Billie Faircloth, Cornell Atkinson Scholar and Senior Faculty Fellow, will share expertise to advance dialogue around equitable, science-based approaches to climate change.

11/10–11/20 Anna Ialeggio: HOLE FOLDS

Attend an exhibition by Anna Ialeggio that weaves images, ceramics, and sound to reflect on repair, reclamation, and the evolving relationship between art and ecology.

11/10 Architecture Fall 2025 Graduate Open House for Prospective Students

Join us for the Architecture Fall 2025 Graduate Open House for program overviews, expertise highlights, and Q&A sessions with program directors and current students.

11/10–11/20 Group Exhibition: What Remains — Traces of Fire, Memory, and Renewal

Attend an exhibition by Cornell students exploring memory, loss, and renewal through works responding to the aftermath of the January 2025 Palisades fire.

11/13 M.F.A. Open Studios, Fall 2025

The Creative Visual Arts M.F.A. Open Studios invites the Cornell community to The Foundry for an evening of conversation and discovery as first and second-year graduate students share their in-progress works across varied artistic practices.

11/13 Agostino Iacurci: Abstract Gardening — Art, Space, and Surroundings

Attend a lecture with Italian visual artist Agostino Iacurci as he explores how painting, sculpture, and large-scale installations transform everyday spaces into vibrant visual gardens where abstraction and nature converge.

11/13 CRP Graduate Programs: Virtual Open House

Join us for a whirlwind tour of the M.R.P. and Ph.D. CRP programs, highlighting the curriculum, global opportunities, admissions, and a live Q&A with faculty and students.

11/14 Jordan Exantus: Unwriting History

Attend a discussion exploring how conventional planning has often perpetuated historical inequities through systemic oversight, assimilation pressures, and inadvertent cultural displacement.

11/17–12/3 Structural Systems Class Models, Fall 2025

View an exhibition of student models from Architecture Professor Mark Cruvellier's Structural Systems course.

11/17 All NYC Planning Schools Virtual Open House Fall 2025

Join us for an open house bringing together all eight planning programs in the New York City region. Start your search here, then attend a future information session for your best fit.

11/19 Philip Beesley: Reflections on Open Space — Metastable, Precarious, Resilient

Attend a lecture with Philip Beesley, who will outline a conceptual approach to current architecture, offering precarious instruments that might help indicate our emerging reality.

11/20 Michel Carlana: Building the Road

Architect Michel Carlana reflects on architecture as both personal inquiry and civic act, using teaching, publishing, and practice to reconsider the "road" as a space of learning, giving, and shared public meaning within an enduring Italian legacy.

11/21 Jeff Chusid: The World Through a Preservation Lens

Hear reflections from Associate Professor Jeffrey M. Chusid, CRP, on how historic preservation reveals the values, stories, and conflicts embedded in places, offering insight into cultural exchange, creativity, and the forces shaping communities.

12/10 CRP Graduate Programs: Virtual Information Session

Join us and hear directly from faculty and current students about the Master of Regional Planning and Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning programs.

1/30 Thomas J. Campanella: Designing the American Century — How Two Cornellians Changed the Face of Urban America

CRP Professor Thomas J. Campanella highlights how Cornell-trained landscape architects Gilmore D. Clarke and Michael Rapuano transformed the modern American metropolis through visionary public works.

3/13 Erin Benay: Sharing the Same Park Bench — Art as Urban Development in the Rust Belt

Attend a lecture with art historian Erin Benay on how murals shape community, memory, and social change through public art and activism.

3/26–3/27 Unearthing the Earth: Architectural Histories of Extractivism

Submit an abstract to this HAUS-hosted symposium asking: how do we historicize extractivism's long dureé from the perspective of architectural history?