Stories
Research In Action: Planning With, Not For, Informal Settlement Communities
Urban sustainability expert Charity Mumbi Mwangi is a programs officer at Slum Dwellers International–Kenya, part of a community-led international network focused on improving the lives of people living in informal settlements. This semester, Mwangi is in residence with the Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities as a Visiting Scholar, sharing knowledge and building on a growing partnership between the two organizations working toward urban change.
Shapeshifters: Can Buildings Behave Like Organisms?
The Cornell Chronicle reports researchers, including Architecture faculty Jenny Sabin and Sasa Zivkovic, will use a $3 million NSF grant to reimagine the convergence of architecture and biology.
Cornell Baker Program in Real Estate - Find Your Path
Cornell Baker Program in Real Estate graduate student Christopher A. Browne '23 gives his take on the program and what it's meant for his life path, from a catastrophic past to an effervescent future.
Cornell Baker Program in Real Estate - Develop Your Infrastructure
Cornell Baker Program in Real Estate graduate student Roshy Chhillar '23 speaks about the program and how it fits with her life and future, and how she hopes to leverage her education and experience in the industry.
Service-Learning Helps Students Help Communities
In a Cornell Chronicle interview about a new book covering the topic, Rebecca Morgenstern Brenner cites a project with CRP Assistant Professor Linda Shi that examined equity in floodplain buyback programs.
Tatiana Bilbao: Architecture as a Primary Form of Care
This year's L. Michael Goldsmith Lecture returns to New York City on April 19 and will be given by Mexico City-based architect Tatiana Bilbao. In advance of the event, Bilbao shares insight into her approach to design and the priorities that drive her practice.
Sustainable Action Lectures Address Flooding, Environmental Justice
The Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability posts information to the Cornell Chronicle about their new collaborative lecture series, which includes CRP Assistant Professor Linda Shi exploring how cooperative-owned housing in New York City can adapt to and mitigate flood risks.
Real Time: A Symposium on the Architecture of Packets, Pixels, and Neurons
From realtime visualization in video games to realtime urban monitoring, advances in computer, communication, and media technologies offer exciting new possibilities while raising urgent questions. Hear artists, designers, and scholars explore them.
Dragon Day "Moving Mural" Hides a Secret
The Cornell Chronicle previews plans for this year's dragon, designed and built by first-year architecture students and paraded around the Arts Quad the day before spring break.
Graduate Students in Real Estate Grow HBCU Case Competition and Launch a Summit
The Philip Payton Society for Minority Real Estate Professionals, which includes student leaders Alexis Marquez and Nina Borja (both M.R.P. '23), Christian LeBlanc (M.P.S. RE '24), Christopher Browne (M.P.S. RE '23), and Ariadne Billy and Alvieno Stinson (both M.P.S. RE/M.R.P. '23), aims to increase diversity in the real estate and built environment professions.
Dragon! Dragon! Dragon! Joyful Jamboree Is a Big Red Rite of Spring
Cornellians reviews the history of this rite of passage for first-year architecture students in advance of this year's March festivities.
Panel Explores Architectural Innovations in Rural China
An article shared via the Cornell Chronicle highlights Preston H. Thomas Memorial Symposium opening events hosted by the Cornell China Center in Beijing earlier this March.
Following a Thread Toward Joy: Spring 2023 Teiger Mentor in the Arts Wells Chandler
In advance of his March 23 lecture at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP), Art Department faculty member Wells Chandler shares insights into his studio practice and approach to pedagogy, both of which seek to offer liberating safety and intense delight.
To Promote Exercise, Planners Must Look Beyond Cities
The Cornell Chronicle reports on research by CRP Professor Mildred Warner and Xue Zhang (M.S. '16, Ph.D. '19) which demonstrated that planners should work to broaden transportation options and promote recreation services in suburban and rural communities.
Curators Q&A | Constantinos Doxiadis's Informational Modernism: The Machine at the Heart of Man
Cocurated and designed by Architecture Assistant Professor Farzin Lotfi-Jam, take a short, behind-the-scenes virtual tour of the exhibition.
Cornell Art Students Transform Gallery Into "Cave Painting"
Over the span of five days, artists Tim Green and Oliver Stern (both B.F.A. '24) spent "as much time drawing as humanly possible," transforming a Tjaden gallery into a performance space as well as creating an art installation.
Campus Rallies to Support Syria, Turkey Earthquake Survivors
The Cornell Chronicle covers support and relief efforts organized on campus, including Architecture Prof. Esra Akcan's planned remarks at a vigil to be held on February 20.
Innovation at the Fringe: The Transformative Design and Architecture of the Rural-Urban
The first of two Preston Thomas Memorial Symposia this spring brings leading architects, designers, urban theorists, and researchers together across continents to discuss innovations generated at the intersection of the urban and the rural.
The anticipated renovation of The Foundry is underway with changes meant to create an expanded new Jack Squier Sculpture Studio and comfortable, accessible, state-of-the-art spaces for M.F.A. students.
Spring 2023 at AAP: Collaboration in Action
While the fall semester showcased the inspiration and new ways of thinking to be found in dialogue among passionate collaborators across disciplines, with the turn toward spring AAP celebrates results: new departments, degrees, classes, and faculty.
