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Monday, January 22, 2024
Spring 2024: Your Essential Guide to the Semester Ahead
After a winter break to regroup and recharge, the 2024 spring semester begins with a flurry of activity that will introduce new classes and workshops, showcase exemplary creativity and research, and bring a roster of exciting guests to AAP campuses in Ithaca, Rome, and New York City.
Wednesday, December 20, 2023
Embrace Lifelong Learning, Pollack Tells December Grads
The Cornell Chronicle showcases Roberto Amador (B.Arch. '24), who was among 600 graduates honored at a December recognition ceremony and who said his Cornell education inspired him to consider how people influence and are influenced by physical spaces.
Monday, December 11, 2023
AAP NYC architecture faculty Dana Getman and Steven Garcia and students in their fall studio not only asked how to keep pace with New York City's need for more affordable housing but also how to better the lives of people who live in the homes they design and the future they build.
Friday, December 8, 2023
More Than a Postcard Experience: Rome at the Margins
This semester's Cornell in Rome students expanded their understanding of the city through collaborative classwork that invited them to investigate life and culture at its peripheries.
Monday, October 30, 2023
ASSOCIATION 12 (Re)-Connects AAP Across Disciplines and Time
ASSOCIATION, an annual student-run publication featuring work from across the college returns from hiatus with a long-awaited twelfth volume, launching at AAP on November 16.
Monday, October 2, 2023
(Re)Design Education: Toward Equitable, Diverse, Inclusive Futures
"Junior Architects: Building Disciplinary Transformation Through Education," this semester's Preston H. Thomas Memorial Symposium takes a deep look at achieving enduring diversity in design education and practice through a re-evaluation of the student experience.
Monday, August 21, 2023
Gaining Ground, Looking Forward: Fall 2023 Semester Highlights at AAP
The College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP) kicks off the semester energized by the addition of new leadership and faculty, advances across the departments, and exciting opportunities presented by innovative courses, cross-disciplinary initiatives, and special events.
Monday, August 14, 2023
Throwing Shade: Model Maps NYC Street Trees' Cooling Benefits
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.
Tuesday, July 25, 2023
New Leadership and Faculty Join AAP
The College of Architecture, Art, and Planning announces new leadership and faculty ahead of the fall 2023 semester.
Friday, July 7, 2023
Hankering for a High-End Chair? Two Recent Grads Have the Goods
Cornellians profiles David Rosenwasser and Jeremy Bilotti (both B.Arch. '18), who together run Rarify—an online high-end furniture business with a growing presence on social media.
Wednesday, May 24, 2023
Exploring themes of decolonization and decarbonization, the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, curated by architect and scholar Lesley Lokko, centers the work of Africa and the African diaspora.
Monday, May 15, 2023
Multi-College Scholars Think Deeply About Cities
The College of Arts & Sciences reports on two cross-disciplinary graduate courses taught this year as part of Cornell's Mellon Collaborative Studies in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities program.
Monday, May 1, 2023
Embodied Power at the River's Edge: Reimagining Indian Point
How do you solve a problem like a massive decommissioned nuclear power plant only 35 miles north of New York City with no clear future use? This semester, an architecture option studio at the Cornell Gensler Family AAP NYC Center is tackling this very question, imagining an evolution for the facility rather than a demolition.
Thursday, April 27, 2023
Reinventing and Reconnecting Waterfront Communities
Read about architect Jay Valgora (B.Arch. '85) in the AAP Alumni Archive.
Thursday, April 20, 2023
Learn more about architect Jon H. Alvarez's (B.Arch. '77) expansive career and his appreciation for his Cornell education in the AAP Alumni Archive.
Monday, April 17, 2023
Research In Action: Planning With, Not For, Informal Settlement Communities
Urban sustainability expert Charity Mumbi Mwangi is a programs officer at Slum Dwellers International–Kenya, part of a community-led international network focused on improving the lives of people living in informal settlements. This semester, Mwangi is in residence with the Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities as a Visiting Scholar, sharing knowledge and building on a growing partnership between the two organizations working toward urban change.
Thursday, April 13, 2023
Shapeshifters: Can Buildings Behave Like Organisms?
The Cornell Chronicle reports researchers, including Architecture faculty Jenny Sabin and Sasa Zivkovic, will use a $3 million NSF grant to reimagine the convergence of architecture and biology.
Monday, April 3, 2023
Tatiana Bilbao: Architecture as a Primary Form of Care
This year's L. Michael Goldsmith Lecture returns to New York City on April 19 and will be given by Mexico City-based architect Tatiana Bilbao. In advance of the event, Bilbao shares insight into her approach to design and the priorities that drive her practice.
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. Hear artists, designers, and scholars 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.
