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B.F.A. Student Featured in Cornell Daily Sun's Artist Spotlight
Alexa Miller (B.F.A. '25) speaks with the Cornell Daily Sun about her catalyst for creativity and her process.
In Practice with Maxwell Harvey-Sampson (M.F.A. in Image Text '25)
Through the interplay of image, text, and collage, Maxwell Harvey-Sampson's work explores queer narratives, personal identity, memory, trauma, and healing.
Cornell AAP Establishes Ratan N. Tata Distinguished Alumni Award
The College of Architecture, Art, and Planning has established a new award for AAP alumni in honor of Ratan Tata's ('59, B.Arch. '62) decades-long commitment to philanthropy that improved lives in his home country of India and made a deep and lasting impact at Cornell and around the world.
Town-Gown Awardees Foster Business, Community, Sustainability
CR0WD receives 14th annual Town-Gown Award; congratulations Circular Construction Lab, Felix Heisel (AAP); Just Places Lab, Jenni Minner (AAP); Susan Christopherson Center for Community Planning, Gretchen Worth (M.A. HPP '20); Preservation Association of Central New York, Andrew Roblee (M.A. HPP '17); Finger Lakes ReUse; and Historic Ithaca.
How Zoning Can Reshape Communities — This Time for Better
City and Regional Planning and Real Estate Professor Sara Bronin discusses her new book Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World with the Cornell Chronicle.
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.
Nicole Eisenman: Painting the Story
In a wide-ranging discussion that covered the role of narrative in the artistic process, the frustration of being pigeonholed by labels, and what they are listening to in their studios, Art Professor and Department Chair Paul Ramírez Jonas spoke with Nicole Eisenman in advance of Eisenman's talk at AAP on October 29.
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.
From Nature's Structures, Professor Weaves Architectural Creations
Architecture Professor and Design Tech Chair Jenny Sabin creates dramatic, immersive installations that merge design with fields ranging from biology to engineering, botany to data science.
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.
Mixing Physical, Virtual Worlds to Drive Home Climate Urgency
A research group led by Wendy Ju, associate professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech, created an extended reality system designed to engage communities in new ways.
Microscale Kirigami Robot Folds Into 3D Shapes and Crawls
The project, led by A&S Professor of Physics and inaugural Design Tech faculty Itai Cohen, produced the robot, which is less than 1 millimeter in size and can morph into preprogrammed shapes.
Recently confirmed developments include plans for hands-on study in New York City, an accelerated path to a master's degree, and the benefits of a STEM-designated program.
Cornell Adds Three A.D. White Professors to Celebrated Roster
P. Sainath has been appointed as Cornell's A.D. White Professors-at-Large for a six-year term ending in 2030.
Impact and Connection, by Design
In the AAP Alumni Archive, learn more about the life and work of Denise Korn (B.F.A. '87), a prominent creative strategist and activist in design.
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.
