Features
Thursday, May 12, 2022
Migrations Grants Fund Worldwide Interdisciplinary Projects
The Cornell Chronicle highlights awarded faculty research, including work by Architecture Professor Esra Akcan, Art Visiting Associate Professor Renate Ferro, and Architecture Assistant Professor Tao DuFour.
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Building Pathways: Lessons in Collaborative Instruction and Community Engaged Design
This semester, a compelling conversation across architecture, landscape architecture, and planning has been made possible through the collaborative strategies of three AAP studios focused around work in Salamanca, New York.
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Major Gift Endows Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities in AAP
Mui Ho's (B.Arch. '66) major gift of $25M endows and names the center, advancing research, teaching, and partnerships for more sustainable and just cities.
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
2022 Cornell Biennial Artist Preview
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.
Friday, April 15, 2022
Want to Build a Sofa? Or a Hot Tub? AAP Alum Can Show You How
Cornellians profiles designer Ben Uyeda (B.Arch. '04, M.Arch. '05), whose DIY tutorials for constructing simple and affordable home furnishings have attracted a worldwide following.
Friday, April 1, 2022
SCHOOLWORK: Reimagining Pedagogy for an Evolving World
The 2022 Preston Thomas Memorial Symposium series Breaking Ground(s) concludes with "Schoolwork," three lectures and a dialogue between leading voices on architecture and design education today and in the future.
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Radical Collaboration Initiative Adds AI, Quantum, Design Tech
In the Cornell Chronicle, Artificial Intelligence, Design + Technology, and Quantum Science & Technology will become part of the "Radical Collaboration Drives Discovery" initiative with Dean Yoon as the leading dean for Design + Technology.
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Online Archive Showcases Work of AAP Alumni
In Cornellians, AAP launches a web-based alumni archive highlighting a broad range of talent among graduates of the architecture, art, and planning disciplines at Cornell.
Monday, March 21, 2022
Return Of The Dragon: Two-Headed Beast Revives Dragon Day
In the Cornell Chronicle, first- and second-year architecture students join forces to resurrect the dragon, promised to be the largest to date, as Dragon Day returns April 1 after a two-year hiatus.
Monday, March 14, 2022
FORMWORK Forges Diversity and Sustainability in Design
The second session of the Breaking Ground(s) symposium, titled "FORMWORK," features three architects whose work brings diverse perspectives and social commitments to the practice of design and pedagogy.
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Looking at After, Cornell Journal of Architecture Vol. 12
After follows a pandemic-related delay but continues the tradition of showing boundary-pushing work from faculty, students, alumni, and visitors in the Department of Architecture.
Friday, March 4, 2022
Laying GROUNDWORK: Relationality, Land, and Ways of Knowing
Marking the Department of Architecture's 150th academic year, the first session of Breaking Ground(s), titled "GROUNDWORK," invites three leading voices who ask: How can we bring radically divergent histories of land and place into conversation?
Thursday, February 24, 2022
Sharing History: The AAP Alumni Archive
Generously supported by alumna Mui Ho (B.Arch.'66), the new AAP Alumni Archive is built on her belief in the importance of community connections across time.
Thursday, February 17, 2022
Unbuild Better: a Collegetown Case Study in Deconstruction
Assistant Professor of architecture Felix Heisel is supervising the deconstruction of homes in Ithaca NY, all formerly serving as student apartments, with an eye to circular construction design and sustainable building materials reuse.
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Remembering Frances M. "Franny" Shloss (B.Arch. '45), 1923–2022
From uniquely challenging beginnings as an architecture student to her enduring dedication to her alma mater, AAP remembers Franny Shloss by her legacy of determination, generosity, and her artist's soul.
Friday, February 4, 2022
Architecture Breaks Ground at 150 Years
Architecture at 150: Leading scholars and designers join the department in celebrating and challenging histories, and imagining possible futures.
Monday, January 24, 2022
Following two years of extraordinary effort and resolve, flexibility, imagination, and creativity fuel the upcoming semester.
Friday, January 14, 2022
Students Engage with Black 'Memory Workers' in NYC
Students travel to Brownsville, Brooklyn to explore African American heritage sites and meet the people whose work keeps this history alive. In the Cornell Chronicle.
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Faculty Build Network of Community-engaged Teachers, Scholars
In the Cornell Chronicle, visiting critic in architecture Dillon Pranger has been named a Faculty Fellow in Engaged Learning. The program supports the faculty member's growth and development of networks with other engaged faculty.
Wednesday, January 5, 2022
Five Ways To Make Sustainability A Resolution
Assistant Professor Felix Heisel, architecture, recommends a shift in the way we design, build and manage our built environment, from linear resource consumption to circular material usage. In the Cornell Chronicle.
