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Engaged Faculty Network Grows with 28 New Fellows
AAP faculty George R. Frantz, CRP; Emma Silverblatt and Hanna Tulis, Architecture; are among 28 educators from 10 Cornell schools and colleges named 2024–25 Engaged Faculty Fellows.
Industrialist and Philanthropist Ratan N. Tata ('59, B.Arch. '62) Dies at 86
A dear member of our alumni community and AAP Advisory Council, philanthropist Ratan N. Tata ('59, B.Arch. '62) died October 9. Over many decades, he supported a number of critical initiatives at Cornell and improved lives in his home country of India and around the world.
We Need to Read the World: 6 Questions with Jose Castillo
In advance of his upcoming lecture at AAP, new chair of the Department of Architecture Jose Castillo shared lessons learned through his wide-ranging work to date and reflected on some of the big questions still driving him as both an educator and architect.
Building Deconstruction, Reuse Would Benefit NYS Jobs, Climate
Felix Heisel, Architecture Assistant Professor and Director of the Circular Construction Lab (CCL); Jennifer Minner, CRP Associate Professor and Director of the Just Places Lab; and Wyeth Augustine-Marceil, Research Associate in the CCL and Just Places Lab, report that transitioning to a circular construction economy in New York could boost significant economic activity, create thousands of green jobs, and advance climate goals by reusing deconstructed building materials.
Announcing: Women, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran by Pamela Karimi
Across a series of ten "acts," Karimi's new book investigates the art and activism in Iran that have played a crucial role in the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising.
Professor's Feature-Length Documentary Film Debuts at Cornell Cinema
Possible Landscapes, a collaboration with former Assistant Professor of Architecture Tao DuFour, is a new feature-length documentary film that will debut Wednesday, 9/25, at 7 p.m.
Kim Yao: Our Most Important Project
This year's L. Michael Goldsmith Lecture will feature guest speaker Kim Yao, principal at Architecture Research Office. In advance of this annual New York City event, Yao shares a glimpse into her professional trajectory and the talk she has planned for September 25.
Get Ready, Get Set: Highlights of the Fall 2024 Semester Ahead
From inspiring lectures to thought-provoking exhibitions and much-anticipated renovations (plus the unveiling of the Dragon Annex), we're diving into a semester filled with opportunities not to be missed.
Class of '28 Changemakers Are Ready To Start
Incoming students are motivated by empathy, social responsibility, and a passion for making a difference. One such student is Konny Ezeama (B.Arch. '28), joining the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, who engaged Black youth in Rhode Island to foster leadership and community.
AAP Welcomes New Faculty and Endowed Fellows This Fall
Cornell AAP announces new hires who will help advance the college's priorities and strengthen ties across Ithaca and New York City campuses.
Digital Artist Dreams His Creations in Pixels and Neurons
During his summer residency at Cornell, 40 years after graduation, Daniel Ambrosi (B.Arch. '82, MS '85) reunites with his Cornell professor, Donald Greenberg, to collaborate on AI-enhanced digital art.
SPROUT Awards Support 6 Novel Research Collaborations
SPROUT Awards enable collaborators like Assistant Professor of Architecture Sasa Zivkovic and Professor of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences and inaugural Design Tech faculty Itai Cohen to pursue innovative and impactful research at the intersections of multiple fields.
Hip Hop Has Already Transformed Culture. Now, It's Changing Architecture, Too
AAP alumn Sekou Cooke (B.Arch. '99) is featured in an article that pulls back the curtain on some of the most original voices working in architecture today.
World-Renowned Architect, Theorist, and Educator
Learn more about the life and practice of prominent architect and educator Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. '54) in the AAP Alumni Archive.
Empower the Next Generation of Creative Leaders
Hear from students first-hand as they share the life-changing impact scholarship funds can have on expanding access and supporting the creative capacities of each and every AAP student.
Jose Castillo Named Next Chair of AAP's Department of Architecture
A celebrated architect and urban planner with a deep investment in research and teaching, Castillo joins Cornell this summer, with an eye toward fostering new forms of practice, leadership, and engagement in the field to meet the challenges of a more connected and complex world.
AAP Faculty David Costanza Named 2024–25 Rome Prize Winner
Costanza intends to use the award to advance his project Bending Stone, research which positions stone as a low-carbon structural building material and explores the aesthetics of structural stone in defining a new language in contemporary construction.
Community Engagement Awards Honor Exceptional People, Projects
The second annual Community Engagement Awards, held at Cornell and hosted by the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement, celebrated partnerships like those between the Finger Lakes ReUse and the Circularity, Reuse, and Zero Waste Development (CR0WD) partner network, which includes the labs of AAP faculty Jennifer Minner and Felix Heisel. David Ni (B.Arch. '24) was one of three recipients of this year's Robinson-Appel Humanitarian Awards and among the 15 faculty and five students to receive awards at the event.
Designing with an Eye Toward the Past, Present, and Future
Learn more about the long career, building designs, and master plans of award-winning architect and educator Alan Chimacoff ('63, B.Arch. '64) in the AAP Alumni Archive.
Workbook Tackles Injustice – and Carbon – in Built Environment
CRP faculty Jocelyn Poe and Jennifer Minner, along with Architecture faculty Felix Heisel, are among several coauthors who recently published Embodying Justice in the Built Environment: Circularity in Practice. The guide and workbook seek to help policymakers, practitioners, and communities center justice principles while implementing strategies related to materials resource management, new construction, and alternatives to demolition.
