Faculty Work

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.

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.

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.

Jennifer Minner, Felix Heisel, Jocelyn Poe

CRP faculty Jocelyn Poe and Jennifer Minner, along with Architecture faculty Felix Heisel, are among several coauthors who recently published Embodying Justice in the Built Environment: Circularity in Practice. The guide and workbook seek to help policymakers, practitioners, and communities center justice principles while implementing strategies related to materials resource management, new construction, and alternatives to demolition.

Leslie Lok, Sasa Zivkovic

Architecture faculty Leslie Lok and Sasa Zivkovic of HANNAH designed and built Monarchs: A House in Six Parts, a towering, 3D-printed, robotically fabricated architectural art installation for this year's Coachella music festival in the California desert.

Felix Heisel

Coauthored by Architecture Assistant Professor Felix Heisel, this paper seeks to analyze the current construction industry in the United States to determine emerging trends and developments in sustainable and circular design and construction, focusing on one of the concepts, Urban Mining, and its potential applications.

Esra Akcan

Architecture Professor Esra Akcan makes a plea for what she calls "open architecture" and asks what would have happened if the architectural discipline and profession were shaped by a new ethics of hospitality toward the immigrant.

Felix Heisel

A paper co-authored by Architecture students Yi Xu (M.Arch. '24), Shujie Liu (M.Arch. '24), and Assistant Professor Felix Heisel in Circular Economy proposes an approach to combat construction waste in the architecture, construction, and engineering industry by developing a disassemblable brick partition wall.

Felix Heisel

Architecture Assistant Professor Felix Heisel and former Circular Construction Lab researcher Joseph McGranahan co-authored an included chapter covering digital tools for circularity evaluation in this open-access publication.

Esra Akcan

Edited by Architecture Professor Esra Akcan and Iftikhar Dadi, Art History, this essay collection -- which includes contributions by current and former Cornell faculty and students -- explores the scope of diverse artistic media, including architecture, painting, postcards, film, music, and literature, that has responded to the partitions of the 20th century and the Muslim diasporas in Europe.

Felix Heisel, Marta H. Wisniewska

An article co-authored by Architecture faculty Felix Heisel and Marta H. Wisniewska in Technology|Architecture + Design applies a prototypological method to address the research issues and opportunities presented by scaling a circular economy.

Martin Miller

Heatherwick showcases buildings that are "givers rather than takers," including MaoHaus in Beijing, China, by Assistant Professor of the Practice Martin Miller's design office.

Timur Dogan

A team of B.Arch. researchers from Architecture Associate Professor Timur Dogan's Environmental Systems Lab presented this work at the IBPSA International Conference Building Simulation 2023 in Shanghai.

D. Medina Lasansky

History of Architecture and Urban Development (HAUD) Professor D. Medina Lasansky and HAUD alum Chad Randl (Ph.D. HAUD '14) release a collection of essays that connect 35 or more different board games to various elements of the built environment.