In the Media
Compass to Buy Top Rival, Further Condensing Brokerage Industry
The New York Times: In covering Compass's $1.6 billion acquisition of Anywhere Real Estate, the article features Real Estate Professor Peng Liu, who comments that while Compass brands itself as tech-driven, real estate remains a "historically low-tech" sector with among the lowest levels of research and development investment despite its economic importance.
Designers Join Scientists to Make Living Architecture a Reality
PNAS: Architecture Professor and Design Tech Chair Jenny Sabin's living architecture research highlights collaborations with scientists and engineers to incorporate organisms such as yeast, bacteria, and algae into adaptive and self-healing architectural materials and structures.
Women, Life, Freedom Movement: "In Iran, Art and Activism Feed Off Each Other"
La Croix: Architecture Associate Professor Pamela Karimi discusses how the Women, Life, Freedom movement in Iran intertwines art and activism, utilizing creative and spatial interventions to reclaim public space and resist oppression.
Processing Power: On Constantinos Doxiadis's "Informational Modernism"
Artforum: Architecture Assistant Professor Farzin Lotfi-Jam is featured in Artforum's coverage of the exhibition Doxiadis's Informational Modernism, currently at La Biennale di Venezia, which reevaluates Constantinos Doxiadis's system-driven architectural practice, connecting information, planning, and societal infrastructure.
Yesterday's Schools of Tomorrow Face the Future
Bloomberg: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon and alumnus Eric Höweler (B.Arch. '94, M.Arch. '96), coprincipals at Höweler + Yoon, are designing Maple Grove Elementary, a new school as part of Columbus, Indiana's $300-million effort to modernize and restore its midcentury modern school buildings.
The New Yorker: The work of Art Visiting Critic Matt Bollinger is the featured illustration in this fiction article about two old friends on a Texas road trip who confront grief, love, and the lingering complexities of their past relationship.
The Fifth Exhibit Columbus Delivers a Range of Community-Focused Design Commissions
The Architect's Newspaper: Cornell architecture faculty Michael Jefferson and Suzanne Lettieri are featured in The Architect's Newspaper for their Exhibit Columbus installation "Apart, Together," an interactive foldable urban cinema that fosters community engagement.
Are Buildings Designed to Die? How Circular Construction Could Save Our Cities.
Better Buildings for Humans: In the podcast episode for Better Buildings for Humans, Assistant Professor Felix Heisel, Director of Cornell's Circular Construction Lab, explores how designing buildings for disassembly can reduce emissions, conserve resources, and advance a more circular, resilient built environment.
FXCollaborative and Lemay Announce Merger
The Architect's Newspaper: Dan Kaplan (B.Arch. '84) of FXCollaborative and Louis T. Lemay of Montreal-based Lemay announced a merger expanding cross-border, interdisciplinary design services between the US and Canada.
A $335 Million Park at Lincoln Center Would Right Old Wrongs
The New York Times: A renovation by WEISS/MANFREDI, Michael Manfredi's (M.Arch. '80) office, and Moody Nolan, where Jonathan Moody (B.Arch. '07) is CEO, at the performing arts complex aims to transform the neighborhood.
Future Architecture Laboratory
SIRP: Architecture faculty member Marta Wisniewska shares thoughts on using regenerative materials in architecture across geographies in an interview for this Estonian publication.
Carlo Ratti & Höweler + Yoon Urge Global Climate Dialogue
Designboom: Unveiled at the main exhibition of the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale, AquaPraça will ultimately travel to COP30 in Belém, Brazil, where it will remain as a public plaza demonstrating relationships between built and natural environments.
How Zoning Quietly Reshaped the World
Fast Company: Professor of City and Regional Planning and Real Estate Sara Bronin explains how zoning has become the hidden force that shapes everything from the house you can afford to how you get to work.
What Should New York City Do About Tourist Helicopters?
Bloomberg: CRP Professor Thomas J. Campanella wrote this article about the new restrictions on non-essential helicopter flights after a deadly crash in April.
Akima Brackeen and Cory Henry Among the 2025–26 Rome Prize Winners
The Architect's Newspaper: Cory Henry (M.Arch. '12) was named a Rome Prize winner in architecture. The award supports innovative and cross-disciplinary work in the arts and humanities by artists and scholars who represent the highest standards of excellence.
The Architect's Newspaper: David Costanza, Assistant Professor of Architecture and principal of David Costanza Studio, is among the winners of this biennial competition, lecture series, and exhibition that recognizes visionary work by young practitioners.
A Stunning New Pool in Central Park Helps Heal Old Wounds
The New York Times: Susan T. Rodriguez's ('81, B.Arch. '82) architecture firm collaborated on the design for the $160 million Davis Center, a landmark renovation and upgrade of recreational space and waterways at Central Park's north end.
Cities With the Most Affordable Rent
WalletHub: Professor of City and Regional Planning and Real Estate Sara Bronin shares steps that local policymakers can take to increase the affordability of rental housing.
Cornell Researchers Are Developing Flexible "Sun-Tracking" Material
Dezeen: A team of Cornell researchers led by Professor of Architecture and Design Tech Chair Jenny Sabin is developing a flexible solar material called HelioSkin that is integrated with sun-tracking capabilities similar to the biomechanics of sunflowers.
Jenny Sabin Develops Pliable PV Panel System Using Plant Biology
Archinect: A profile of HelioSkin, a collaborative, interdisciplinary project by Professor of Architecture and Design Tech Chair Jenny Sabin and Professor of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences and Design Tech faculty Itai Cohen.
