Stories
Following two years of extraordinary effort and resolve, flexibility, imagination, and creativity fuel the upcoming semester.
Students Engage with Black 'Memory Workers' in NYC
Students travel to Brownsville, Brooklyn to explore African American heritage sites and meet the people whose work keeps this history alive. In the Cornell Chronicle.
Faculty Build Network of Community-engaged Teachers, Scholars
In the Cornell Chronicle, visiting critic in architecture Dillon Pranger has been named a Faculty Fellow in Engaged Learning. The program supports the faculty member's growth and development of networks with other engaged faculty.
Five Ways To Make Sustainability A Resolution
Assistant Professor Felix Heisel, architecture, recommends a shift in the way we design, build and manage our built environment, from linear resource consumption to circular material usage. In the Cornell Chronicle.
Arts Quad Installation Upcycles Wood With Mixed Reality
Assistant Professor Leslie Lok and her Rural-Urban Innovation (RUBI) Lab used mixed-reality technologies and holographic visualization to process and construct with upcycled barn wood and plywood. In the Cornell Chronicle.
Cornell's First Laidlaw Scholars Research, Lead
Maiko Sein (B.Arch. '23) is one of three Cornell scholars in an intercollegiate program launched this year to support ethical leadership and international research. In the Cornell Chronicle.
Ithaca Launches City-Wide Decarbonization, Partners with Climate Startup and Cornellians
Assistant Professor Felix Heisel, architecture, is quoted in Cornell Daily Sun coverage of the City of Ithaca's carbon-neutral plan. Heisel's Cornell Circular Construction Lab consulted on the proposal that was passed this fall.
Helena Rong: Potentials for Surgical Urbanism
Actar's urbanNext has published a project by Helena Rong (B.Arch. '17) on urban development in Sao Paolo, excerpted from Cornell Journal of Architecture 11: Fear edited by Associate Professor Val Warke. CJOA 12 is expected soon.
Productive Frictions: Jesse LeCavalier on Designing Logistical Possibilities
LeCavalier, an architect, urbanist, and educator shares thoughts on public life and value-integrated design practices, alternative models and trajectories for development, and questions to ask as producers of our society and surrounding landscapes.
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.
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."
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.
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.
