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Monday, November 21, 2022

New M.S. in Advanced Urban Design Launches at Cornell AAP in NYC

With the city as both setting and subject, AAP's new graduate program prepares students to address pressing urban, environmental, and social issues using the tools of design.


Thursday, November 17, 2022

Yoon Reappointed Dean of Architecture, Art, and Planning

Dean J. Meejin Yoon has been appointed to a second five-year term as Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University.


Thursday, November 17, 2022

Celebrating Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy's Bard of the Periphery

A giant in postwar Italian literature and film, this semester's Cornell in Rome students dive deep into Pasolini's cross-disciplinary work as the city celebrates his centenary.


Monday, November 14, 2022

Everything Everywhere All At Once

In the final post in this SC Johnson College BusinessFeed series, Acting Chair of the Paul Rubacha Department of Real Estate Suzanne Lanyi Charles notes that the department has a mission to educate transformational real estate practitioners.


Thursday, November 10, 2022

Projects to Support NYS Economy, Farms, Communities

The Cornell Chronicle reports that new USDA grants will fund dozens of research projects across Cornell, including one led by CRP Professor Mildred Warner focused on rural planning.


Thursday, November 10, 2022

Local Floodplain Home Buyouts Can Inform Federal Plans

Cornell researchers, including CRP Assistant Professor Linda Shi, and students examined five different jurisdictions which offer insight into how buyouts can be more effectively implemented, the Cornell Chronicle notes.


Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Redressing the Balance: Equitable Approaches to Sustainable Real Estate

In part three of the BusinessFeed series on climate change and real estate, CRP Assistant Professor Linda Shi says that environmental justice for communities requires decision-makers to look at a far broader picture than just energy efficiency.


Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Dynamic Properties

Part two of the Cornell SC Johnson BusinessFeed's series on what climate change means for real estate explores how to optimize our buildings to both reduce and withstand climate impacts.


Monday, October 24, 2022

Castles in the Sand

In a post for Cornell SC Johnson's BusinessFeed, CRP Assistant Professor Linda Shi points out what climate change means for future planning and building. New educational opportunities at the Paul Rubacha Department of Real Estate are also discussed.


Wednesday, October 19, 2022

At 88, Greenberg Still on Cutting Edge with New Course

Architecture Professor Don Greenberg has launched a new course that teaches architecture and computer science students to apply emerging digital visualization tools and software in design work, reports the Cornell Chronicle.


Wednesday, October 19, 2022

From Fabric Arts to Human Waste: Student Biennial Projects Transcend

The Cornell Chronicle's coverage highlights Matéa LeBeau (B.F.A. '22) and Isabella Culotta's exhibit Waste Not, which calls attention to the potential use of human waste as fertilizer.


Monday, October 17, 2022

Design Firm WORKac to Lead Sibley Dome Renovation

AAP announces selection of New York City-based design studio to lead the Sibley Dome renovation project.


Friday, October 14, 2022

Redefining an Industry from the Inside Out

Learn more about the late architect M. Arthur "Art" Gensler Jr.'s (B.Arch. '58) career in the AAP Alumni Archive.


Friday, October 14, 2022

Global Cornell Awards Support New International Courses

Funded projects include Rethinking Bamboo: A Material and Architectural Study of Southeast Asian Bamboo Construction led by Architecture Assistant Professor Leslie Lok, the Cornell Chronicle reports.


Friday, October 14, 2022

Embracing the Audacity of Ambition: Future Planners Explore Challenging Climate Questions Facing the Field

Students participating in this year's City and Regional Planning fall field trip to sites across New York City considered the many ways climate change impacts urban environments — as well as disparities in resources dedicated to adaptation.


Monday, October 3, 2022

The Future Inside and Out: Cornell Biennial Blankets Campus This Fall

Spilling out beyond gallery walls and across campus, the 2022 Cornell Biennial "Futurities, Uncertain" is well underway and features work by AAP faculty, students, alumni, and guests.


Friday, September 30, 2022

Championing Women's Contributions

The AAP Alumni Archive features Jennifer Cecere (B.F.A. '73), whose work challenges traditional perspectives on "women's work."


Friday, September 30, 2022

AAP's Ecological Action Lab Highlights Plastic and Water Waste with Tallinn Architecture Biennale Sculpture

Friendship WC (Water Chandelier) shines a light on the dual dilemma of global water scarcity and the relentless growth of plastic pollution.


Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Dean Yoon Awarded 2022 World Cultural Council Leonardo da Vinci Award

J. Meejin Yoon, Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning has been awarded the prestigious 2022 Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts recognizing her extraordinary accomplishments as a leading architect and educator.


Monday, September 19, 2022

A Force for Good in Ithaca's Neighborhoods

Read about Paul Mazzarella's (M.R.P. '79) life's work and public service in the AAP Alumni Archive.


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