Faculty Work
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022
2022 Cornell Biennial Artist Preview
Joanna Malinowska, Leslie Lok, Felix Heisel
The Cornell Chronicle provides details on the wide array of included artworks, installations, and performances, which will imagine how artistic futurities might generate cultural transformation.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Expo of Biomaterial Structures Populates University of Virginia Campus, Created by Architecture Students and Scholars
Leslie Lok, Sasa Zivkovic
Archinect explores a UVA exhibition led by Katie MacDonald (B.Arch. '13) and Kyle Schumann (B.Arch. '13) which includes a project by architecture faculty Leslie Lok and Sasa Zivkovic's HANNAH studio.
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Monday, March 14, 2022
Werewolf: The Architecture of Lunacy, Shapeshifting, and Material Metamorphosis
Caroline O'Donnell
A new book coedited by Associate Professor Caroline O'Donnell and José Ibarra (B.Arch. '16) explores an emerging but under-investigated branch of architecture that examines the transformation of form.
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Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Lily Chi: "Housing Agency"
Lily Chi
Architecture Professor Lily Chi's paper "Housing Agency" in ITA's themed issue "Ideas at Home" examines what incremental and adaptable design offers for contemporary design thinking more broadly.
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Tuesday, February 8, 2022
Abolish Human Bans: Intertwined Histories of Architecture
Esra Akcan
In a new book, Professor Esra Akcan builds on her theory of architectural translation through the lens of architectural history to ask if architects can commit to peace rather than to dominant geopolitical regimes.
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Wednesday, January 19, 2022
Amant Art Center by SO – IL
Florian Idenburg
In Architectural Record, Professor of the Practice in architecture Florian Idenburg and his design practice SO–IL designs a sophisticated campus for the Amant Art Center amid its industrial setting in Brooklyn.
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Monday, December 13, 2021
Best Art Books of 2021
Sean Anderson
A New York Times art critic selects the MoMA exhibition catalog for Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America, edited by cocurators Sean Anderson, associate professor of architecture, and scholar Mabel O. Wilson.
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Friday, December 10, 2021
Arts Quad Installation Upcycles Wood With Mixed Reality
Leslie Lok
Assistant Professor Leslie Lok and her Rural-Urban Innovation (RUBI) Lab used mixed-reality technologies and holographic visualization to process and construct with upcycled barn wood and plywood. In the Cornell Chronicle.
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Monday, November 22, 2021
The Sculptural Facade of This Store Offers a Hint of What Is Inside
Martin Miller
Contemporist profiles a unique retail store in Wuhan, China, designed by Antistatics Architecture, the firm of Assistant Professor of the Practice Martin Miller, in collaboration with artist Yue Minjun.
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Wednesday, November 10, 2021
High-resolution Combined Building Stock and Building Energy Modeling
Timur Dogan, Felix Heisel
A paper on methodology for the Ithaca's carbon neutrality project by assistant professors of architecture Felix Heisel and Timur Dogan; Joseph McGranahan (B.Arch. '22), Joseph Ferdinando (M.Arch. '22). In Resources, Conservation & Recycling.
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Friday, November 5, 2021
Urban Mining and Circular Building: The city as a raw material store
Felix Heisel
In the new book, editors Assistant Professor Felix Heisel and Dirk E. Hebel present perspectives on how the challenges of a circular economy can be met with completely new methodological approaches.
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Monday, November 1, 2021
A Section of Now: Social Norms and Rituals as Sites for Architectural Intervention
Jesse LeCavalier
Associate Professor Jesse LeCavalier, architecture, adds to a group exhibition at the Canadian Center for Architecture which asks how architecture and urbanism can better understand contemporary conditions and address challenges. Opens Nov. 13.
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Wednesday, October 27, 2021
CODA: Salt.Inc
Caroline O'Donnell
An inclusive addition was recently completed by CODA, the design practice of Edgar A. Tafel Professor of Architecture and department chair Caroline O'Donnell for the Saltonstall Foundation artist residency in Ithaca, New York.
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Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Hanszen Residential College Houston
Frank Barkow
Construction has begun at Hanszen Residential College, Rice University in Houston, TX, designed by Barkow Leibinger, the firm of Gensler Visiting Critic Frank Barkow. Construction will continue through November 2022.
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Friday, October 8, 2021
Oil, Gas, Dust: From the Sahara to Europe
Samia Henni
History of Architecture Assistant Professor Samia Henni examines how petroleum and gas pipeline export under African and Sharan aquifers to Europe resulted in "a new world (dis)order." In e-flux Coloniality of Infrastructure.
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Monday, October 4, 2021
A New Arts Compound in East Williamsburg That Draws You In
Florian Idenburg
Florian Idenburg, Professor of the Practice in Architecture, and his firm So-IL's Amant Arts Campus in Brooklyn, New York is described as a "pocket campus" in Curbed.
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Friday, October 1, 2021
Theorizing Global History Symposium Talks
Esra Akcan
Professor Esra Ackan, architecture, presented "A Global History of Architecture for the Age of Reparations" at the symposium hosted by Global Architectural History Teaching Collective in January.
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Friday, October 1, 2021
Announcing the 2021 MASterworks Awards
Florian Idenburg
Professor of the Practice in architecture Florian Idenburg and his practice SO-IL have won MASNYC's Best New Building: Recognizing Outstanding Architectural Design award for Amant, an art "campus" in Brooklyn, New York.
