Faculty Work

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.

Felix Heisel

An article coauthored by Architecture Assistant Professor Felix Heisel in the Journal of Cleaner Production explores new design processes that account for variability in the dimension and mechanical properties of reclaimed wood.

J. Meejin Yoon

Under the project direction of Associate Director Alexander Kobald, Tree Folio NYC: Equitable and Effective Urban Shade models the city's trees and simulates how local conditions influence their shading benefits, the Cornell Chronicle reports. The project was developed with students and funding from the Design Across Scales Lab, led by AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon (B.Arch. '95), and the Urban Tech Hub, part of the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech.

Sydney Maubert

Twenty-nine authors explore the complexities of Blackness as it relates to aesthetics and architectural pedagogy in the Winter/Spring edition of Log, including Architecture Strauch Fellow Sydney Maubert.

Farzin Lotfi-Jam

As part of the 14th edition of Tactics&Practice in Ljubljana, Architecture Assistant Professor Farzin Lotfi-Jam will present an exhibition exploring the feedback loop between domestic desire, data collection, and the insidious possibilities of convenience. 

Felix Heisel

RhinoCircular, a CAD plugin developed within the Circular Construction Lab (CCL) at Cornell University, is a software tool to evaluate material circularity in the early phases of architectural design.

Caroline O'Donnell

Architectural Research Quarterly includes an in-depth review of Werewolf: The Architecture of Lunacy, Shapeshifting, and Material Metamorphosis edited by Architecture Chair Caroline O'Donnell and José Ibarra.

Farzin Lotfi-Jam

e-Flux announces an exhibition in Athens cocurated and designed by Architecture Assistant Professor Farzin Lotfi-Jam that examines the overlapping and intertwining of cities, people, and information systems.