In the Media
Billie Faircloth: Episode 104 of the Design the Future Podcast
Design the Future Podcast: Billie Faircloth, Associate Professor of Architecture and Cornell Atkinson Scholar and Senior Faculty Fellow at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, speaks about shifting platforms and the richness of working across realms.
The Gestural Feminism of Iranian Women
Hyperallergic: Associate Professor of Architecture Pamela Karimi writes about a unique form of feminist expression she calls Gestural Feminism, where the body itself becomes the tool and language of resistance.
Building a Circular Construction Industry with Felix Heisel
The Capitol Pressroom: Architecture Assistant Professor and Director of the Circular Construction Lab Felix Heisel discusses changes to the building process that limit the carbon footprint and waste produced by construction and demolition.
Ratan Tata, Whose Indian Business Empire Went Global, Dies at 86
The New York Times: Ratan Tata '59, (B. Arch. '62), former Cornell trustee and chairman of the Tata Group, passed away on October 9.
Three New Designer-Led Initiatives are Making Circular Economies a Reality
The Architect's Newspaper: Architecture Assistant Professor Felix Heisel's Circular Construction Lab is harnessing building technology and design to reimagine construction as an ally for regenerative design.
The King Cole Bar Reopens, Moodier Than Before
The New York Times: Ed Bakos (B.Arch. '86), chief executive of Champalimaud Design, a New York-based firm with experience renovating luxury hotels, speaks about his latest renovation.
The Architect's Newspaper: Festival organizer and curator Neal Lucas Hitch (M.S. MDC '24) looks back on BuildFest '24 that featured work by Architecture Lecturer Marta H. Wisniewska's Regenerative Architecture Lab, Assistant Professor of Architecture Felix Heisel's Circular Construction Lab, and Cait McCarthy and Jordan Young (both M.Arch. '20).
The Art and Space of Rebellion: How Iran's Streets Became a Revolutionary Stage
Platform: In this op-ed, Associate Professor in Architecture (HAUD program) Pamela Karimi explores the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom uprising and previews her new book, Women, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran, which highlights the role of grassroots art and design in shaping what many consider the first feminist quasi-revolution.
The Architect's Newspaper: Hugh Hayden (B.Arch. '07) was commissioned for one of 25 site-specific installations that examine "design's role in shaping the physical and emotional realities of home across the U.S.," as stated in a press release. The exhibition will be on view at the Andrew and Louise Carnegie Mansion starting 11/2.
The Architect's Newspaper: From a repurposed church in Buffalo, artist-architect-educator Dennis Maher (B.Arch. '99) leads the Society for the Advancement of Construction-Related Arts.
In Brooklyn, a Pink Building Stands Out
The New York Times: SO – IL, led by the husband and wife team of Florian Idenburg, Professor of the Practice in Architecture, and Jing Liu, collaborated with a Brooklyn-based developer to design a new building that encourages more intimate living space.
The Architect's Newspaper: Black Reconstruction Collective, whose founding board members include Sekou Cooke (B.Arch. '99), Olalekan Jeyifous (B.Arch. '99), and Amanda Williams (B.Arch. '97), debuts a mobile public art installation that is both "siteless and multi-sited" at Brooklyn's Weeksville Heritage Center.
An Oral History Project Excerpt with Amanda Williams
BOMB: In this article, AAP alumni Amanda Williams (B. Arch. '97) discusses the ability to formulate architecture, the potential of which is both real and imagined.
Dezeen: Watch a talk on crafting a circular economy with Carl Hansen & Søn, SOM, and the cofounders of Rarify, AAP alumni David Rosenwasser and Jeremy Bilotti (both B.Arch. '18), at NYCxDesign.
Officials Push to Turn Office Buildings into Housing Amid Home Shortage, Remote-Work Boom
The Hill: Florian Idenburg, Professor of the Practice in Architecture, speaks to the regulatory and architectural challenges of transforming an office building into an apartment.
Cornell AAP appoints Jose Castillo as chair of Department of Architecture
The Architect's Newspaper: Jose Castillo has been appointed chair of the Department of Architecture at Cornell AAP. Castillo, a practicing architect and urban planner hailing from Mexico City, will assume the role on July 1.
The Low-Key Inventiveness of SO – IL's Apartment Buildings
Curbed: SO – IL, led by the husband-and-wife team of Florian Idenburg, Professor of the Practice in Architecture, and Jing Liu, designed three midsize Brooklyn projects that display unusual, flexible architectural thinking.
Bloomberg: Architectural salvage and reuse advocates, like Felix Heisel, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Director of the Circular Construction Lab, are racing to reform the $8.7 billion demolition industry to reduce carbon emissions and building waste.
Imagining Diasporic Retrofutures with Olalekan Jeyifous
The Institute of Black Imagination: Olalekan Jeyifous (B.Arch. '99) discusses how architecture alone is rarely sufficient in solving problems in the urban landscape, reimagines what the continent of Africa could have looked like if colonial powers were expelled post-independence, and challenges conventional notions of beauty and success in architecture and why storefront churches and bodegas deserve a shoutout.
Coolidge Corner Theatre Unveils $14 Million Expansion That's Nothing Short of Cinematic
The Boston Globe: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon (B.Arch. '95) and Eric Höweler's (B.Arch. '94, M.Arch. '96) practice designed the three-story addition, which draws inspiration from both the history of film and the Art Deco embellishments of the older building.