Features
Monday, March 20, 2023
Real Time: A Symposium on the Architecture of Packets, Pixels, and Neurons
From realtime visualization in video games to realtime urban monitoring, advances in computer, communication, and media technologies offer exciting new possibilities while raising urgent questions for architecture, planning, and digital studies. The second Preston Thomas Memorial Symposium at Cornell AAP this spring invites artists, designers, and scholars to explore them.
Monday, March 20, 2023
Dragon Day "Moving Mural" Hides a Secret
The Cornell Chronicle previews plans for this year's dragon, designed and built by first-year architecture students and paraded around the Arts Quad the day before spring break.
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Dragon! Dragon! Dragon! Joyful Jamboree Is a Big Red Rite of Spring
Cornellians reviews the history of this rite of passage for first-year architecture students in advance of this year's March festivities.
Monday, March 13, 2023
Panel Explores Architectural Innovations in Rural China
An article shared via the Cornell Chronicle highlights Preston H. Thomas Memorial Symposium opening events hosted by the Cornell China Center in Beijing earlier this March.
Thursday, February 23, 2023
Curators Q&A | Constantinos Doxiadis's Informational Modernism: The Machine at the Heart of Man
Cocurated and designed by Architecture Assistant Professor Farzin Lotfi-Jam, take a short, behind-the-scenes virtual tour of the exhibition.
Thursday, February 16, 2023
Campus Rallies to Support Syria, Turkey Earthquake Survivors
The Cornell Chronicle covers support and relief efforts organized on campus, including Architecture Prof. Esra Akcan's planned remarks at a vigil to be held on February 20.
Friday, February 10, 2023
Innovation at the Fringe: The Transformative Design and Architecture of the Rural-Urban
The first of two Preston Thomas Memorial Symposia this spring brings leading architects, designers, urban theorists, and researchers together across continents to discuss innovations generated at the intersection of the urban and the rural.
Monday, January 23, 2023
Spring 2023 at AAP: Collaboration in Action
While the fall semester showcased the inspiration and new ways of thinking to be found in dialogue among passionate collaborators across disciplines, with the turn toward spring AAP celebrates results: new departments, degrees, classes, and faculty.
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Students traveled to Chicago & Detroit this semester for a series of critical collaborations co-led by AAP faculty and the Sweet Water Foundation, an organization dedicated to regenerative urban development cofounded by Emmanuel Pratt (B.Arch. '99).
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Fictional Civilization Leaves Behind Lasting Legacy
The Cornell Chronicle profiles longtime Art Professor Norman Daly and his fictive installation from 1972 detailing the "lost" civilization of Llhuros. Archival materials documenting its creation are now held by Cornell University Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections.
Monday, November 21, 2022
New M.S. in Advanced Urban Design Launches at Cornell AAP in NYC
With the city as both setting and subject, AAP's new graduate program prepares students to address pressing urban, environmental, and social issues using the tools of design.
Thursday, November 17, 2022
Yoon Reappointed Dean of Architecture, Art, and Planning
Dean J. Meejin Yoon has been appointed to a second five-year term as Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University.
Thursday, November 17, 2022
Celebrating Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy's Bard of the Periphery
A giant in postwar Italian literature and film, this semester's Cornell in Rome students dive deep into Pasolini's cross-disciplinary work as the city celebrates his centenary.
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
At 88, Greenberg Still on Cutting Edge with New Course
Architecture Professor Don Greenberg has launched a new course that teaches architecture and computer science students to apply emerging digital visualization tools and software in design work, reports the Cornell Chronicle.
Friday, October 14, 2022
Global Cornell Awards Support New International Courses
Funded projects include Rethinking Bamboo: A Material and Architectural Study of Southeast Asian Bamboo Construction led by Architecture Assistant Professor Leslie Lok, the Cornell Chronicle reports.
Monday, October 3, 2022
The Future Inside and Out: Cornell Biennial Blankets Campus This Fall
Spilling out beyond gallery walls and across campus, the 2022 Cornell Biennial "Futurities, Uncertain" is well underway and features work by AAP faculty, students, alumni, and guests.
Friday, September 30, 2022
Friendship WC (Water Chandelier) shines a light on the dual dilemma of global water scarcity and the relentless growth of plastic pollution.
Thursday, September 15, 2022
Sound, Light Artists to Lead Celebration of Cornell Biennial
The Cornell Chronicle previews exhibition tours, performances, and artist panels (September 15–17) celebrating the fifth edition of the interdisciplinary Biennial, which this year is exploring the theme of "Futurities, Uncertain."
Wednesday, September 14, 2022
First-of-its-Kind 3D-Printed Home Blends Concrete, Wood
The Cornell Chronicle reports that the two-story, single-family home, designed by Architecture faculty Leslie Lok and Sasa Zivkovic, demonstrates innovative construction processes that may help address housing shortages.
Monday, September 12, 2022
Best Designed By Doing: Radical Hybrid Thinking Across Disciplines
As part of a pilot collaboration between AAP and Cornell Tech, colleagues came together across disciplines to explore innovative ways of teaching and thinking about design and technology. Now, they are poised to take their ideas even further.
