Faculty Work

Francesco Isidori, Maria Claudia Clemente

Cornell in Rome Visiting Critics in Architecture Maria Claudia Clemente and Francesco Isidori of LABICS have been awarded a major international commission for a new Ferrari-sponsored training facility in Maranello, underscoring their global design leadership and continued impact as educators at Cornell AAP.

Felix Heisel, Jocelyn Poe , Jennifer Minner

The Reparative Praxis, Just Places, and Circular Construction labs, and other partners, have released a workbook that provides a framework for centering justice in land use planning for a carbon-neutral future.

Esra Akcan

Architecture Professor Esra Akcan's book, Architecture and the Right to Heal: Resettler Nationalism in the Aftermath of Conflict and Disaster, published by Duke University Press, explores architecture's role in the healing processes that take place following socioeconomic, political, and environmental disasters.

Felix Heisel

Architecture Assistant Professor Felix Heisel's Circular Construction Lab coauthored a publication with Anye Shi, Dan Bergsagel, and Jasper Owen (B.Arch. '26) that demonstrates how AI-driven visual automation can transform lumber grading — enhancing scalability, efficiency, and sustainability across the timber industry.

Robert Hutchison

Gensler Visiting Critic Robert Hutchison's conceptual project Memory Landscapes received an Award of Merit at AIA Seattle’s 76th annual Honor Awards for Washington Architecture. The project relates directly to Hutchison's current AAP design studio Speculative Proposals for Amphibious Infrastructures.

Farzin Lotfi-Jam

Architecture Assistant Professor Farzin Lotfi-Jam's paper introduces "realtime urbanism," showing how computation shapes space, perception, and action by turning control into responsiveness and automation.

Manuel Bouzas Barcala

Architecture faculty member Manuel Bouzas, assisted by students Varun Gandhi and Riley Wines (both M.Arch. '26), completed the built project Atlas for the Forma da Vizinhança Festival in Portugal. The project transforms a neglected ruin in Braga's Fontainhas neighborhood into a community gathering space with a timber vault roof.

Timur Dogan

Architecture and Design Tech Associate Professor Timur Dogan's paper in the Journal of Building Performance Simulation introduces a fully automated UBEM framework that integrates diverse data to model energy performance, evaluate retrofit and electrification scenarios, and advance decarbonization planning, demonstrated with over 5,000 buildings in Ithaca, NY.

Felix Heisel

Architecture Assistant Professor Felix Heisel's paper published in Nature (npj | Materials Sustainability) evaluates alternative, non-adhesive lamination methods for engineered wood products, identifying a grooved shear interface with wooden nail fasteners as a preferred approach that maintains structural performance while improving circularity and environmental impact.

Timur Dogan

Architecture faculty member Timur Dogan's copublished article in the Journal of Building Performance Simulation advances a system for optimizing imagery from textured mesh models for more detailed, urban-scale analysis.

Farzin Lotfi-Jam

Assistant Professor of Architecture Farzin Lotfi-Jam and alum Yi Xu (M.Arch. '24) coauthored this paper that explores the untapped potential of recycled plastics as a primary construction material.

Esra Akcan, Pamela Karimi

Architecture faculty Esra Akcan and Pamela Karimi coauthored this article on the role of women in architecture as discussed by women architects from all over the world at the 1976 meeting of the International Congress of Women Architects in Iran.

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.

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.

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.