Faculty Work

Stephan Schmidt

The latest publication produced by CRP Associate Professor Stephan Schmidt's research group examines the effectiveness of these patterns using satellite-based air quality measures, multi-year datasets, and a multi-spatial scale research design.

Mildred Warner

CRP Professor Mildred Warner and Xue Zhang (Ph.D. RS '19) coauthored this report on the progress US communities have made in livability from 2015–24 using AARP's index, which includes every community in the country.

Francesco Isidori, Maria Claudia Clemente

Cornell in Rome Visiting Critics in Architecture Maria Claudia Clemente and Francesco Isidori of LABICS have been awarded a major international commission for a new Ferrari-sponsored training facility in Maranello, underscoring their global design leadership and continued impact as educators at Cornell AAP.

Felix Heisel, Jocelyn Poe , Jennifer Minner

The Reparative Praxis, Just Places, and Circular Construction labs, and other partners, have released a workbook that provides a framework for centering justice in land use planning for a carbon-neutral future.

Esra Akcan

Architecture Professor Esra Akcan's book, Architecture and the Right to Heal: Resettler Nationalism in the Aftermath of Conflict and Disaster, published by Duke University Press, explores architecture's role in the healing processes that take place following socioeconomic, political, and environmental disasters.

Linda Shi

CRP faculty Linda Shi coauthored a report including strategies to address New York City's dual housing and climate crises through a land use framework, expanded retrofit programs, community wealth measures, and funding for affordable, climate-resilient housing. Supported by the Atkinson Center for Sustainability.

Felix Heisel

Architecture Assistant Professor Felix Heisel's Circular Construction Lab coauthored a publication with Anye Shi, Dan Bergsagel, and Jasper Owen (B.Arch. '26) that demonstrates how AI-driven visual automation can transform lumber grading — enhancing scalability, efficiency, and sustainability across the timber industry.

Robert Hutchison

Gensler Visiting Critic Robert Hutchison's conceptual project Memory Landscapes received an Award of Merit at AIA Seattle’s 76th annual Honor Awards for Washington Architecture. The project relates directly to Hutchison's current AAP design studio Speculative Proposals for Amphibious Infrastructures.

James Weaver

Design Tech Associate Professor James Weaver, who has a joint appointment in Cornell Engineering's Materials Science & Engineering (MSE), coauthored a paper reporting a carbon-cement supercapacitor material that combines structural and energy-storage functions to dramatically boost energy density in load-bearing concrete elements.

Farzin Lotfi-Jam

Architecture Assistant Professor Farzin Lotfi-Jam's paper introduces "realtime urbanism," showing how computation shapes space, perception, and action by turning control into responsiveness and automation.

Jose Sanchez

Design Tech Associate Professor Jose Sanchez's paper introduces Minga, a multiplayer simulation that reimagines Chiloé’s house-pulling ritual to explore cultural preservation and the dynamics of cooperation.

Manuel Bouzas Barcala

Architecture faculty member Manuel Bouzas, assisted by students Varun Gandhi and Riley Wines (both M.Arch. '26), completed the built project Atlas for the Forma da Vizinhança Festival in Portugal. The project transforms a neglected ruin in Braga's Fontainhas neighborhood into a community gathering space with a timber vault roof.

Linda Shi

CRP Associate Professor Linda Shi coauthored a Next City op-ed summarizing multi-year research on state and local flood buyout programs.

Timur Dogan

Architecture and Design Tech Associate Professor Timur Dogan's paper in the Journal of Building Performance Simulation introduces a fully automated UBEM framework that integrates diverse data to model energy performance, evaluate retrofit and electrification scenarios, and advance decarbonization planning, demonstrated with over 5,000 buildings in Ithaca, NY.

Felix Heisel

Architecture Assistant Professor Felix Heisel's paper published in Nature (npj | Materials Sustainability) evaluates alternative, non-adhesive lamination methods for engineered wood products, identifying a grooved shear interface with wooden nail fasteners as a preferred approach that maintains structural performance while improving circularity and environmental impact.

Mildred Warner

CRP Professor Mildred Warner's new open-access book, coedited with Natassia Bravo (Ph.D. CRP '25) and Duxixi (Ada) Shen (M.R.P. '24), presents a multilevel governance framework examining how local leaders leverage policy opportunities and community resilience to address inequities in broadband infrastructure. The USDA and the Pew Charitable Trusts partially funded the project.

Mildred Warner

In a Chats in the Stacks book talk presented at Mann Library in April 2025, CRP Professor Mildred Warner and contributing author Dr. John Sipple, Department of Global Development, draw from this valuable new publication to discuss the benefits and challenges of incorporating schools into broader community and economic development policy.

Ding Fei

In an Urban Studies article, CRP Assistant Professor Ding Fei examines speculative urban infrastructure in Addis Ababa, highlighting how transnational ambitions and local priorities intersect in shaping contested urban development.