Faculty Work
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Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Industry and Literature Review of Urban Mining Applications in the United States: Gaps and Drivers for Implementation Towards a Circular Industrialized Construction Economy
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.
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Thursday, March 21, 2024
Race and Modern Architecture
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.
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Monday, March 18, 2024
Towards Sustainable Construction Waste Management: Study on a Disassemblable Brick Partition Wall for the Architecture, Construction, and Engineering Industry
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.
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Monday, January 8, 2024
A Circular Built Environment in the Digital Age
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.
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Wednesday, December 6, 2023
Art and Architecture of Migration and Discrimination: Turkey, Pakistan, and their European Diasporas
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.
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Monday, November 20, 2023
Prototypologies of Circularity
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.
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Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Thomas Heatherwick Selects Ten "Humanized" Buildings, Including AntiStatics Architecture's MaoHaus
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.
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Monday, September 18, 2023
Facade Scanner: A Scalable Workflow for Building Geometry and Window-to-Wall Ratio Capture for Urban Building Energy Modeling
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.
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Wednesday, September 6, 2023
Playing Place: Board Games, Popular Culture, Space
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.
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Wednesday, August 30, 2023
Structural Design Using Reclaimed Wood – A Case Study and Proposed Design Procedure
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.
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Monday, August 14, 2023
Throwing Shade: Model Maps NYC Street Trees' Cooling Benefits
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.
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Friday, May 26, 2023
LOG 57: Black is . . . an' Black ain't . . .
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.
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Thursday, March 23, 2023
My Domestic Routines
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.
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Tuesday, February 7, 2023
RhinoCircular
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.
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Monday, January 30, 2023
Kieran Cremin on Mythology, Contextual Sensitivity, and the Monstrous
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.
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Monday, January 23, 2023
The Machine at the Heart of Man: Constantinos Doxiadis's Informational Modernism
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.
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Thursday, January 12, 2023
3D Printing Reaches New Heights with Two-Story Home
Leslie Lok, Sasa Zivkovic
Reuters showcases progress on the first 3D-printed multistory home currently under construction in Houston, a structure designed and planned by Architecture faculty Leslie Lok and Sasa Zivkovic.
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Wednesday, October 5, 2022
Building Better - Less - Different: Circular Construction and Circular Economy
Felix Heisel
The forthcoming book coauthored by Architecture Assistant Professor Felix Heisel explores concepts, methods, and examples of circularity in construction and the economy.