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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.
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.
(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.
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.
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.
New Leadership and Faculty Join AAP
The College of Architecture, Art, and Planning announces new leadership and faculty ahead of the fall 2023 semester.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Reinventing and Reconnecting Waterfront Communities
Read about architect Jay Valgora (B.Arch. '85) in the AAP Alumni Archive.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dragon! Dragon! Dragon! Joyful Jamboree Is a Big Red Rite of Spring
Cornellians reviews the history of this rite of passage for first-year architecture students in advance of this year's March festivities.
Panel Explores Architectural Innovations in Rural China
An article shared via the Cornell Chronicle highlights Preston H. Thomas Memorial Symposium opening events hosted by the Cornell China Center in Beijing earlier this March.
Curators Q&A | Constantinos Doxiadis's Informational Modernism: The Machine at the Heart of Man
Cocurated and designed by Architecture Assistant Professor Farzin Lotfi-Jam, take a short, behind-the-scenes virtual tour of the exhibition.
