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Philip Ursprung on Wolfgang Tillmans's Empire (US/Mexico Border)
Actar's urbanNext has published an essay by spring 2020 Visiting Professor in architecture Philip Ursprung from Cornell Journal of Architecture 11: Fear, whose launch in 2020 was delayed by the pandemic. COJA 12 is expected soon.
Transdisciplinary Film Explores Trinidad and Tobago
A new documentary by architecture's Assistant Professor Tao DuFour focuses on the complex histories of labor and migration in the Caribbean region. Featured in the Cornell Chronicle.
Fundraising Campaign Includes Focus On Affordability
Cornell is launching a sweeping new initiative aimed at making its education even more accessible to the most talented students from all socioeconomic backgrounds.
Cornell Launches $5B Campaign 'To Do the Greatest Good'
The major fundraising campaign aims to shape Cornell as the model university for the 21st century & beyond, building on its foundation of world-class academics, research, & engagement — in the words of founder Ezra Cornell, "To Do the Greatest Good."
Felix Heisel: Building a Sustainable Future
The Cornell Chronicle profiles architecture's Assistant Professor Felix Heisel and his cross-disciplinary collaborations with experts in the Circular Construction Lab to combat climate change and influence construction practices.
Columbus Art Explores The World's Entrenched Colonialism
Columbus Columbia Colombo Colón, designed and built by Architecture faculty Assistant Professor Jennifer Newsom and Assistant Professor of the Practice Tom Carruthers for Exhibit Columbus, is featured by the Cornell Chronicle.
Depth of Field: Tao DuFour on We Love We Self Up Here
Assistant Professor Tao DuFour, architecture, discusses his transdisciplinary, collaborative film that captures people, labor, migration, and landscape in Trinidad and Tobago.
Long Commutes, Home Crowding Tied to COVID Transmission
The Cornell Chronicle details a study coauthored by architecture's Timur Dogan on how the built environment influences coronavirus propagation in urban settings by identifying predictors and sustainable mitigations for virus spread.
AAP Welcomes New Staff Who Stepped In as Challenges Stepped Up
The college recognizes nine new and recent staff members who stepped into a wide variety of roles since the beginning of the pandemic, a time of extraordinary circumstances and adjustments.
New and Renewed: AAP's Fall 2021 Semester
The fall semester at AAP brings renewed energy with a host of new students, faculty, classes, and a welcome return of exhibitions, lectures, teaching, learning, and making at the Ithaca, New York City, and Rome campuses.
In Memoriam: Branden Hookway (1971–2021)
Branden Hookway, a long-term visiting assistant professor in the Department of Architecture, among other departments at Cornell passed Saturday, August 14, after a long battle with cancer.
Do Robots Need Clothes? Yes, For Form and Function
Jenny Sabin, Associate Professor and Arthur L. and Isabel B. Wiesenberger Professor in Architecture, is a coauthor of a paper by Cornell and NYU researchers on why, when, and how we should dress robots. In the Cornell Chronicle.
Anderson Named Faculty Director of Cornell AAP's Bachelor of Architecture Program
Sean Anderson (B.Arch./B.S. HAUD '96) joins the Department of Architecture at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning as Associate Professor and incoming Director of the B.Arch. Program.
Software Tool Breathes Life into Post-COVID Office Airflow
The Cornell Chronicle details Assistant Professor of Architecture Timur Dogan's and the AAP Environmental Systems Lab's new indoor module for their existing Eddy3D software, an airflow and microclimate simulator to aid architects, designers.
Caroline O'Donnell, architecture's incoming chair, on the discipline's unique ability to shape-shift as design interfaces with environmental conditions, performance, and modes of communication.
Cornell AAP Welcomes New Faculty
Cornell AAP announces incoming faculty in the departments of Architecture, Art, and Planning, including the new department chair in art, and the incoming department chair in city and regional planning.
Merrill Scholars Thank Educators Who Shaped Cornell Journeys
Merrill Presidential Scholar Xin Yue Wang (B.Arch. '21) was among 37 honored during a virtual ceremony on May 24. Wang named Tafel Visiting Critic in Architecture Peter Ballman for contributing to her Cornell experience.
Faculty Profiles: From Circular Construction to Academic Law Ambition
Assistant Professor of Architecture Felix Heisel discusses a building's start and end of life in the Ezra series that highlights recently hired Cornell faculty who embody the university's creative and collaborative vitality.
AAP Faculty, Students, and Alumni at the 2021 Venice Biennale of Architecture
AAP faculty, alumni, and students explore "How Will We Live Together?", the question proposed by the 17th International Venice Biennale of Architecture. Postponed one year by the pandemic, the comprehensive international exhibition opens on May 22.
PolyForm Celebrates Mission, Spirit of Human Ecology
PolyForm is a new public art pavilion commissioned by the College of Human Ecology and designed by Jenny Sabin and her practice, Jenny Sabin Studio.
