Stories
Monday, November 8, 2021
Helena Rong: Potentials for Surgical Urbanism
Actar's urbanNext has published a project by Helena Rong (B.Arch. '17) on urban development in Sao Paolo, excerpted from Cornell Journal of Architecture 11: Fear edited by Associate Professor Val Warke. CJOA 12 is expected soon.
Friday, November 5, 2021
Productive Frictions: Jesse LeCavalier on Designing Logistical Possibilities
LeCavalier, an architect, urbanist, and educator shares thoughts on public life and value-integrated design practices, alternative models and trajectories for development, and questions to ask as producers of our society and surrounding landscapes.
Monday, November 1, 2021
Philip Ursprung on Wolfgang Tillmans's Empire (US/Mexico Border)
Actar's urbanNext has published an essay by spring 2020 Visiting Professor in architecture Philip Ursprung from Cornell Journal of Architecture 11: Fear, whose launch in 2020 was delayed by the pandemic. COJA 12 is expected soon.
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Transdisciplinary Film Explores Trinidad and Tobago
A new documentary by architecture's Assistant Professor Tao DuFour focuses on the complex histories of labor and migration in the Caribbean region. Featured in the Cornell Chronicle.
Friday, October 22, 2021
Fundraising Campaign Includes Focus On Affordability
Cornell is launching a sweeping new initiative aimed at making its education even more accessible to the most talented students from all socioeconomic backgrounds.
Friday, October 22, 2021
Cornell Launches $5B Campaign 'To Do the Greatest Good'
The major fundraising campaign aims to shape Cornell as the model university for the 21st century & beyond, building on its foundation of world-class academics, research, & engagement — in the words of founder Ezra Cornell, "To Do the Greatest Good."
Friday, October 22, 2021
Felix Heisel: Building a Sustainable Future
The Cornell Chronicle profiles architecture's Assistant Professor Felix Heisel and his cross-disciplinary collaborations with experts in the Circular Construction Lab to combat climate change and influence construction practices.
Monday, September 27, 2021
Columbus Art Explores The World's Entrenched Colonialism
Columbus Columbia Colombo Colón, designed and built by Architecture faculty Assistant Professor Jennifer Newsom and Assistant Professor of the Practice Tom Carruthers for Exhibit Columbus, is featured by the Cornell Chronicle.
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Depth of Field: Tao DuFour on We Love We Self Up Here
Assistant Professor Tao DuFour, architecture, discusses his transdisciplinary, collaborative film that captures people, labor, migration, and landscape in Trinidad and Tobago.
Friday, September 3, 2021
Long Commutes, Home Crowding Tied to COVID Transmission
The Cornell Chronicle details a study coauthored by architecture's Timur Dogan on how the built environment influences coronavirus propagation in urban settings by identifying predictors and sustainable mitigations for virus spread.
Thursday, September 2, 2021
AAP Welcomes New Staff Who Stepped In as Challenges Stepped Up
The college recognizes nine new and recent staff members who stepped into a wide variety of roles since the beginning of the pandemic, a time of extraordinary circumstances and adjustments.
Tuesday, August 24, 2021
New and Renewed: AAP's Fall 2021 Semester
The fall semester at AAP brings renewed energy with a host of new students, faculty, classes, and a welcome return of exhibitions, lectures, teaching, learning, and making at the Ithaca, New York City, and Rome campuses.
Monday, August 23, 2021
In Memoriam: Branden Hookway (1971–2021)
Branden Hookway, a long-term visiting assistant professor in the Department of Architecture, among other departments at Cornell passed Saturday, August 14, after a long battle with cancer.
Monday, August 2, 2021
Do Robots Need Clothes? Yes, For Form and Function
Jenny Sabin, Associate Professor and Arthur L. and Isabel B. Wiesenberger Professor in Architecture, is a coauthor of a paper by Cornell and NYU researchers on why, when, and how we should dress robots. In the Cornell Chronicle.
Friday, July 9, 2021
Anderson Named Faculty Director of Cornell AAP's Bachelor of Architecture Program
Sean Anderson (B.Arch./B.S. HAUD '96) joins the Department of Architecture at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning as Associate Professor and incoming Director of the B.Arch. Program.
Friday, July 2, 2021
Software Tool Breathes Life into Post-COVID Office Airflow
The Cornell Chronicle details Assistant Professor of Architecture Timur Dogan's and the AAP Environmental Systems Lab's new indoor module for their existing Eddy3D software, an airflow and microclimate simulator to aid architects, designers.
Friday, June 25, 2021
Caroline O'Donnell, architecture's incoming chair, on the discipline's unique ability to shape-shift as design interfaces with environmental conditions, performance, and modes of communication.
Friday, June 25, 2021
Cornell AAP Welcomes New Faculty
Cornell AAP announces incoming faculty in the departments of Architecture, Art, and Planning, including the new department chair in art, and the incoming department chair in city and regional planning.
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Merrill Scholars Thank Educators Who Shaped Cornell Journeys
Merrill Presidential Scholar Xin Yue Wang (B.Arch. '21) was among 37 honored during a virtual ceremony on May 24. Wang named Tafel Visiting Critic in Architecture Peter Ballman for contributing to her Cornell experience.
Thursday, May 27, 2021
Faculty Profiles: From Circular Construction to Academic Law Ambition
Assistant Professor of Architecture Felix Heisel discusses a building's start and end of life in the Ezra series that highlights recently hired Cornell faculty who embody the university's creative and collaborative vitality.
