Faculty Work
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Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Architectural-Art Installation Takes Center Stage at Coachella
Leslie Lok, Sasa Zivkovic
Architecture faculty Leslie Lok and Sasa Zivkovic of HANNAH designed and built Monarchs: A House in Six Parts, a towering, 3D-printed, robotically fabricated architectural art installation for this year's Coachella music festival in the California desert.
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Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Industry and Literature Review of Urban Mining Applications in the United States: Gaps and Drivers for Implementation Towards a Circular Industrialized Construction Economy
Felix Heisel
Coauthored by Architecture Assistant Professor Felix Heisel, this paper seeks to analyze the current construction industry in the United States to determine emerging trends and developments in sustainable and circular design and construction, focusing on one of the concepts, Urban Mining, and its potential applications.
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Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Assessing the Digital Divide in Affordable Housing: The Power of Collective Action
Mildred Warner
Coauthored by CRP Professor Mildred Warner, Duxixi Shen (M.R.P. '23), Jane Bowman Brady (M.P.A. '23), and Ella Redmond (M.A. RS '25), this report explores three unique case studies that address digital access, affordability, and adoption in low-income multi-family housing.
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Monday, April 1, 2024
Equitable Zoning for Manufactured Housing
George R. Frantz
Manufactured housing has remained an underexploited opportunity for providing millions of Americans with decent, affordable housing. In this issue of Zoning Practice, CRP Associate Professor of the Practice George R. Frantz examines the persistent inequitable treatment of manufactured housing in many local zoning codes and offers considerations for code updates.
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Thursday, March 21, 2024
Race and Modern Architecture
Esra Akcan
Architecture Professor Esra Akcan makes a plea for what she calls "open architecture" and asks what would have happened if the architectural discipline and profession were shaped by a new ethics of hospitality toward the immigrant.
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Monday, March 18, 2024
Towards Sustainable Construction Waste Management: Study on a Disassemblable Brick Partition Wall for the Architecture, Construction, and Engineering Industry
Felix Heisel
A paper co-authored by Architecture students Yi Xu (M.Arch. '24), Shujie Liu (M.Arch. '24), and Assistant Professor Felix Heisel in Circular Economy proposes an approach to combat construction waste in the architecture, construction, and engineering industry by developing a disassemblable brick partition wall.
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Monday, March 18, 2024
Transnationalizing Intrapreneurship of Chinese Private Investment in Africa
Ding Fei
A paper authored by CRP Assistant Professor Ding Fei published in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space investigates the structures, forces, and actors that drive and constrain transnationalizing intrapreneurship under Chinese private investment in Africa.
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Friday, March 15, 2024
Sprout of Gotham
Thomas J. Campanella
In a feature for The Cultural Landscape Foundation, CRP Professor Thomas J. Campanella offers a profile of the work of Mary Elizabeth Sprout, designer of many of New York City's iconic gardens.
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Monday, February 12, 2024
Here, in the Desert
Michael Ashkin
Photographs and models/sculptures by Art Professor Michael Ashkin are on display at Foyer LA through 3/9.
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Monday, January 29, 2024
There Will Be Two of You
Michael Ashkin
Art Professor Michael Ashkin's latest publication reorganizes and adds to his original 133 panoramic images of the New Jersey Meadowlands originally commissioned by Okwui Enwezor for Documenta 11 in 2002.
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Thursday, January 25, 2024
Can Polycentric Urban Development Simultaneously Achieve Both Economic Growth and Regional Equity? A Multi-Scale Analysis of German Regions
Stephan Schmidt
CRP Associate Professor Stephan Schmidt coauthored research published in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space examining the role of regional polycentricity in effectuating certain desirable outcomes, specifically enhancing economic productivity and minimizing spatial disparities.
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Thursday, January 25, 2024
Can Spatial Patterns Mitigate the Urban Heat Island Effect? Evidence from German Metropolitan Regions
Stephan Schmidt
A paper coauthored by CRP Associate Professor Stephan Schmidt published in Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science explores the potential of certain features of urban fabric and the benefits of polycentric development.
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Monday, January 8, 2024
A Circular Built Environment in the Digital Age
Felix Heisel
Architecture Assistant Professor Felix Heisel and former Circular Construction Lab researcher Joseph McGranahan co-authored an included chapter covering digital tools for circularity evaluation in this open-access publication.
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Wednesday, December 6, 2023
Art and Architecture of Migration and Discrimination: Turkey, Pakistan, and their European Diasporas
Esra Akcan
Edited by Architecture Professor Esra Akcan and Iftikhar Dadi, Art History, this essay collection -- which includes contributions by current and former Cornell faculty and students -- explores the scope of diverse artistic media, including architecture, painting, postcards, film, music, and literature, that has responded to the partitions of the 20th century and the Muslim diasporas in Europe.
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Thursday, November 30, 2023
State Broadband Report
Mildred Warner
Ph.D. candidate Natassia Bravo, under the supervision of CRP Professor Mildred E. Warner, examined data collected by The Pew Charitable Trusts on state broadband grants and explored the criteria for grant allocation, and whether needed funds made it to communities less likely to be served by broadband — rural, sparsely populated, and high-poverty.
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Monday, November 20, 2023
Sector Interactions, Multiple Stressors, and Complex Systems
Linda Shi
CRP Assistant Professor Linda Shi is a co-author of a chapter in the Fifth National Climate Assessment examining intersectional vulnerabilities to climate risks.
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Monday, November 20, 2023
Prototypologies of Circularity
Felix Heisel, Marta H. Wisniewska
An article co-authored by Architecture faculty Felix Heisel and Marta H. Wisniewska in Technology|Architecture + Design applies a prototypological method to address the research issues and opportunities presented by scaling a circular economy.
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Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Pandemic Relief Spending by New York Local Governments
Mildred Warner
An article in the Journal of Rural Studies explores how New York State local governments planned to use their American Rescue Act funding, which encouraged communities to invest in infrastructure, resilience, and equity.