Faculty Work

Timur Dogan

Architecture and Design Tech Associate Professor Timur Dogan and Hung Ming Tseng (M.S. AAD '24) are part of a team of researchers at Cornell's Environmental System Lab moving Ithaca toward carbon neutrality using digital twins and artificial intelligence.

Keith Obadike

Watch the live stream of GuideStar, an art installation by Cornell faculty and husband-and-wife creative team Mendi and Keith Obadike that featured an array of vibrant, primary-colored laser beams projected from the Space Needle into Seattle's night sky on 3/14/2025. This project was supported by a Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities seed grant.

Leslie Brack

The work of Art Lecturer Leslie Brack is the featured illustration in this article about the LA fires.

Farzin Lotfi-Jam

Assistant Professor of Architecture Farzin Lotfi-Jam coauthored a compelling article published in the February edition of Nature Cities that critiques urban digital twin models. His research in this area has been supported by a Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities seed grant.

Billie Faircloth

Billie Faircloth, Associate Professor of Architecture and Cornell Atkinson Scholar and Senior Faculty Fellow at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, speaks about shifting platforms and the richness of working across realms.

Tiffany Cheng

Design Tech Assistant Professor Tiffany Cheng coauthored a paper on a 4D-printed weather-responsive shading system currently installed on the south-facing skylight of the livMatS Biomimetic Shell.

Jenny Sabin

Design Tech Chair and Architecture Professor Jenny Sabin's studio is one of three practices contributing work exploring the use of biology and biochemistry as a basis for architecture.

Mildred Warner

CRP Professor Mildred Warner and Xue Zhang (Ph.D. RS '19) are among the authors of this paper, suggesting that an "active aging" agenda requires rethinking the economy, urban form, and societal responses.

Linda Shi

Coauthored by Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning Linda Shi and Environmental Defense Fund Senior Analyst Anushi Garg (M.R.P. '20), this post focuses on New York City, the housing affordability crisis, and the impacts of climate change.

Andrew Lucia, Iroha Ito

Architecture Visiting Critic Andrew Lucia and Visiting Lecturer Iroha Ito of LUCITO recently completed their Hull Rust Mine View Visitor Center project overlooking the Hull Rust Mahoning Open Mine Pit in Hibbing, Minnesota.

Farzin Lotfi-Jam

Assistant Professor of Architecture Farzin Lotfi-Jam coauthored this paper, which describes an augmented reality linear accelerator model that addresses the challenges of medical physics and radiation oncology trainees in low-to-middle-income countries.

Timur Dogan

In collaboration with RMI, Architecture and Design Tech Associate Professor Timur Dogan and Hung Ming Tseng (M.S. AAD '24) are among the authors of a report on how digital building modeling is helping the City of Ithaca.

Leslie Lok, Sasa Zivkovic

HANNAH, the firm led by Assistant Professors of Architecture Leslie Lok and Sasa Zivkovic, is among the artists featured in this exhibition that examines the role of nature as a starting point for material experimentation in the domains of architecture, craft, and science.

Pamela Karimi

Authored by Pamela Karimi, Associate Professor in the History of Architecture and Urban Development program, the book explores the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom uprising sparked by Jina Mahsa Amini's death. It highlights the role of grassroots art and design in shaping what many consider the first feminist quasi-revolution and showcases the creative power behind acts of peaceful civil disobedience.

Mildred Warner

Coauthored by CRP Professor Mildred Warner this study looks at local cases in Minnesota, Colorado, and Maine to understand the relative role of state broadband policy, local leadership, and private investment in extending broadband coverage to rural areas.

Mildred Warner

Coedited by CRP Professor Mildred Warner and CRP Research Associate Xue Zhang, this book lays out the promise and potential of schools as community-building institutions.

Thomas J. Campanella

In this article written by CRP Professor Thomas J. Campanella, we read about the days before Google Maps, when an intrepid inventor with three camera-equipped biplanes captured groundbreaking views of Gotham in its Jazz Age glory.

Wendy Ju

Portobello, a new driving simulator developed by a research team led by Design Tech Associate Professor Wendy Ju, blends virtual and mixed realities, enabling drivers and passengers to see virtual objects overlaid in the real world.