Stories
Friday, February 10, 2023
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.
Monday, February 6, 2023
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.
Monday, January 23, 2023
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.
Thursday, January 19, 2023
The AAP Alumni Archive features video artist and filmmaker Shelly Silver (B.F.A. '80) reflecting on her time at Cornell.
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Appointed by President Biden, Bronin will lead the agency that promotes the preservation, enhancement, and sustainable use of national historic resources and advises the President and Congress on federal historic preservation policy.
Tuesday, January 10, 2023
AAP Department of Art Announces Unique New Image Text M.F.A.
A new interdisciplinary, low-residency graduate program welcomes new faculty integrating critical engagement and creative practices across image and text.
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
New Multicollege Department to Bridge Design and Technology
Design Tech, AAP's newest multicollege department, connects fields and faculty across five colleges to expand design education at Cornell. Architecture Associate Professor Jenny Sabin will serve as the department's inaugural chair.
Friday, December 9, 2022
Paul Rubacha Department of Real Estate Names Inaugural Faculty
A partnership between the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP) and the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, the new Paul Rubacha Department of Real Estate draws faculty from both schools to provide innovative instruction that will advance the field.
Friday, December 9, 2022
AAP Professor and Art Chair Paul Ramírez Jonas to Create Work for the National Mall
The new public art initiative Beyond Granite invites artists to explore what it means to imagine, build, live, and grow with monuments.
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Students traveled to Chicago & Detroit this semester for a series of critical collaborations co-led by AAP faculty and the Sweet Water Foundation, an organization dedicated to regenerative urban development cofounded by Emmanuel Pratt (B.Arch. '99).
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Fictional Civilization Leaves Behind Lasting Legacy
The Cornell Chronicle profiles longtime Art Professor Norman Daly and his fictive installation from 1972 detailing the "lost" civilization of Llhuros. Archival materials documenting its creation are now held by Cornell University Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections.
Tuesday, November 22, 2022
Cornell, Global Partners Discuss the Next "Grand Challenge"
The Cornell Chronicle reports on the two-day "Global Grand Challenges Symposium: Frontiers and the Future," which brought together more than 300 faculty, staff, and students — including CRP Professor Victoria Beard for a panel on water.
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
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.
