Faculty Work
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Testing the Residential Daylight Score: Comparing Climate-Based Daylighting Metrics for 2444 Individual Dwelling Units in Temperate Climates
A research paper by Associate Professor of Architecture Timur Dogan and Daniel Park (B.Arch. '20) has been published in Sage Journals. The paper won the Leon Gaster Award for best lighting adaptations from the Society of Light and Lighting.
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Transformative Climate Adaptation: Trends and Prospects in the United States with Dr. Susanne Moser and Dr. Linda Shi
Linda Shi, Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning, is the guest on Doug Parsons's America Adapts podcast discussing her recent paper on climate equity and justice issues with coauthor Susanne Moser.
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Covid Is Forcing America To Fix Its Water Supply
In Wired, Planning Professor Mildred Warner comments on the Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act, a bill before Congress. Warner's research found a moratorium on water shutoffs could have saved thousands of lives.
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AAP Faculty, Students, and Alumni at the 2021 Venice Biennale of Architecture
Esra Akcan, Alessandra Cianchetta, Felix Heisel, Marta H. Wisniewska, Samia Henni, Andrea Simitch
AAP faculty, alumni, and students explore "How Will We Live Together?", the question proposed by the 17th International Venice Biennale of Architecture. Postponed one year by the pandemic, the comprehensive international exhibition opens on May 22.
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PolyForm Celebrates Mission, Spirit of Human Ecology
PolyForm is a new public art pavilion commissioned by the College of Human Ecology and designed by Jenny Sabin and her practice, Jenny Sabin Studio.
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Break it Down: CR0WD Task Force Forges Zero Waste Goals
CR0WD, a Cornell-powered, community-led task force works with New York State communities to promote thoughtful building deconstruction and highlight the environmental, cultural, and, economic value of salvage, reuse, and closed material flows.
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Documentary Film: Gurbet Is a Home Now
A documentary by Heide Moldenhauer and based on Professor of Architectural Theory Esra Akcan’s book Open Architecture has been selected for the National Documentary Film Competition of the 40th Istanbul Film Festival.
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RTF Awards 2021 Winners: The Shop by Matter
A 3000 sq. ft. renovation by Matter, the design firm of Visiting Lecturer in Architecture Erin Pellegrino, won first prize in the Rethinking The Future Awards 2021, Private Residence, small-medium built category.
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Leslie Brack: Paradise and Other Fires
Painter and Visiting Lecturer Leslie Brack's solo exhibition offers nine "narcotic and explosive" watercolors of recent wildfires and urban upheavals. It opens May 8 at Cathouse Proper in Brooklyn.
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Chapter by Lily Chi in The Evolving Project
The new volume from the Journal of Architectural Education is a collection of articles selected from 75 years' publication by the JAE. Associate Professor Chi's essay "Boundary Studies" featured pedagogy in a third-year B.Arch. studio at Cornell.
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17th Venice Biennale of Architecture: Alessandra Cianchetta
Visiting Critic in Architecture Alessandra Cianchetta and her team will participate in the 17th Venice Biennale of Architecture, "How will we live together?" opening in May with a site-specific installation at Forte Marghera, among others.
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Transformative Climate Adaptation in the United States: Trends and Prospects
Assistant Professor in CRP Linda Shi is the co-author of a review paper on crucial adaptations to climate change in Science Magazine's online "first release."
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Glyphadelphia: Curated by Carl D'Alvia
Associate Professor of Art Carl Ostendarp's work is included in the intergenerational group exhibition of 35 artists who use the glyph as a departure point.
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Triennale Brugge: Who's Afraid of Natasha? Joanna Malinowska & C.T. Jasper
The commission by Malinowska, Assistant Professor of the Practice in Art, and collaborator C.T. Jasper touches on social issues related to the removal of a Polish Soviet-era monument nicknamed Natasha that came to symbolize a repressive regime.
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A Floating Deck Will Offer Eye-Level Views of the Schuylkill River in 2022
The Philly Voice previews FloatLab, an installation and learning lab in South Philadelphia, designed by Höweler + Yoon Architecture, the firm of AAP Dean Yoon and cofounder Eric Höweler (B.Arch. '94, M.Arch. '96).
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AutoFrame: A Novel Procedure to Auto-Convert Architectural Massing Models into Structural Simulation Models
Architecture faculty Katharina Kral's paper in Technology | Architecture + Design achieves a process to streamline daylighting, reduce carbon footprint, and other sustainability measures in building design.
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Firewall Podcast: Brooklyn Heights and Depths
Associate Professor Tom Campanella, CRP, discusses his recent book Brooklyn: The Once and Future City with Bradley Tusk on the April 16 edition of Tusk's tech and politics podcast Firewall.
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Surfer: A Fast Simulation Algorithm to Predict Surface Temperatures and Mean Radiant Temperatures in Large Urban Models
A paper published in Science Direct by Timur Dogan and students details a new algorithm to estimate exterior surface temperatures.