Architecture's associate professors of the practice Sofia von Ellrichshausen and Mauricio Pezo (center), and Visiting Critic Diego Pérez, (left), work with students during a spring 2019 desk critique. Learn more about the professional B.Arch. program.
Students who attend a semester-long program at Cornell in Rome participate in a robust and unparalleled series of field trips throughout Italy. Learn more about applying to Cornell in Rome.
Tim Dehm (M.R.P./M.L.A. '20) explored the landscape on a six-day, 300-mile bike trip from Rochester, New York, to his summer internship in Cleveland, Ohio. Read more.
A monumental tribute to political icon Shirley Chisholm — designed by two AAP alumni and visiting faculty members — will soon rise in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.
Sam Durant: A Discussion of Recent Work
Los Angeles–based Sam Durant is a multimedia artist whose work engages a variety of social, political, and cultural issues. Often referencing American history, his work explores the varying relationships between culture and politics, engaging subjects as diverse as the civil rights movement, southern rock music, and modernism.
Durant studied at the Massachusetts College of Art and the California Institute of the Arts. He has exhibited extensively and internationally at venues such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf; S.M.A.K, Ghent; and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Zealand. His work has also been included in the Panamá, Sydney, Venice, and Whitney Biennales. Durant was a finalist for the 2008 Hugo Boss Prize and has received a United States Artists Broad Fellowship and a City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Grant. In 2006, he compiled and edited a comprehensive monograph of Black Panther artist Emory Douglas's work and recently curated an exhibition titled Black Panther: the Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the New Museum in New York City.