Announcements
B.F.A. and M.F.A. Program Information Sessions
The Department of Art invites applications to undergraduate and graduate degree programs due early 2025. Register now to attend a fall virtual information session, where prospective candidates can ask questions and hear from department faculty and current students about each program's offerings.
Art Department Chair Paul Ramírez Jonas's Let Freedom Ring to Philadelphia in 2026
The Association for Public Art has received $360,000 in grant support from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage to bring the work to the city as part of their semi-quincentennial celebration.
Farzin Lotfi-Jam Joins the Editorial Board of TAD Journal
Assistant Professor of Architecture Farzin Lotfi-Jam joins the editorial board of the international, peer-reviewed Technology I Architecture + Design journal dedicated to advancing building technology in architecture and design.
Meet the Winners of the 1st Architecture PROJECT Award!
Casa Floresta, an office founded by Visiting Associate Professor of Architecture Anna Dietzsch, is among the 1st Architecture PROJECT Prize winners with her Jupaú Cultural and Media Center design, built in the Amazon for the Jupaú Indigenous people.
ACSA Announces 2024 Recipients of Faculty Fellowship to Advance Equity in Architecture
Assistant Professor of Architecture Suzanne Lettieri is among the recipients of the 2024–2025 Faculty Fellowship to Advance Equity in Architecture.
Baker Program Student Among Record-Breaking 2024-25 Goldie Scholar Cohort
Stephanie Koziol (M.P.S. RE '25) is among thirty-eight women selected for the prestigious scholarship program with The Goldie Initiative for the 2024-25 academic year.
2024 Carter Manny Award Citations of Special Recognition
Ecem Saricayir (Ph.D. HAUD) has been honored with the 2024 Carter Manny Award Writing Citation of Special Recognition for her work titled "Property in Migration: The Making and Unmaking of the South Caucasus, 1878–1955."
Mellon Foundation Awards $600,000 to Support Paul R. Williams Architecture Archive Initiatives
The multi-year grant, led by USC faculty as well as Professor of Architecture and Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and Engagement Milton S.F. Curry, will support several public-facing initiatives related to the Paul Revere Williams Architecture Archive.
Architecture Alumni Win the Architizer A+ Temporary Project of the Year
Architecture Visiting Critic Dillon Pranger (M.Arch. '17) and Chris Battaglia (M.Arch. '15) won the Architizer A+ Temporary Project of the Year with WoodStack, an adaptable pavilion promoting material reuse and questioning architectural temporality and sustainability.
The CCL at AAP, directed by Architecture faculty Felix Heisel, and their project partners have been selected for a $2.5M EPA grant to develop a process that combines robust Environmental Product Declarations for salvaged materials with Material Passporting to support the adoption of material reuse practices by the AEC industry at scale.
2023–24 Student Academic Awards and Prizes
Outstanding student work during the 2023–24 academic year is recognized by the Department of Architecture, the Department of Art, and the Department of City and Regional Planning.
AAP launches Engagement Impact Grants
With support from Cornell's David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement, AAP is advancing our collective mission to imagine and build a better world by expanding opportunities and activities around engaged teaching, learning, research, and creative work.
Artists for Understanding Brings Together Artists and Cultural Luminaries
Art chair Paul Ramírez Jonas has been named spokesperson of Artists for Understanding, an initiative led by the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities that promotes arts and humanities as crucial in bridging divides and countering all forms of hate.
The Graham Foundation Announces the Award of 56 New Grants
The Graham Foundation announces the award of 56 new grants to individuals who expand contemporary ideas of architecture through innovative, rigorous, and interdisciplinary work on design and the built environment. Awardees include architecture faculty Caitlin Blanchfield, Tom Carruthers, Suzanne Lettieri, Jennifer Newsom, and Strauch Fellow Sydney Maubert.
Fulbrighters Head to 14 Countries for Research, Teaching
Cornell's 2024–25 cohort of Fulbright awardees includes Desai Wang (B.Arch. '24), who is heading to Singapore, and Madeleine August (B.Arch. '22), who will be in Sri Lanka.
Peter Gerakaris (B.F.A. '03) to Present a Solo Exhibition of Mixed-Media Artworks at the BBG
Microcosms, a solo exhibition from artist Peter Gerakaris (B.F.A. '03), showcases environmental motifs rendered with dynamic coloration and a verve for placemaking. On view in the Leonhardt Gallery at Berkshire Botanical Garden from June 1 through August 4.
AAP Faculty David Costanza Named 2024–25 Rome Prize Winner
Costanza intends to use the award to advance his project Bending Stone, research which positions stone as a low-carbon structural building material and explores the aesthetics of structural stone in defining a new language in contemporary construction.
Linda Shi Selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar
The Fulbright Program has awarded CRP Assistant Professor Linda Shi funding for 2024–25 for Taiwan.
New Princeton Lecture Series To Honor Branden Hookway
The Princeton University School of Architecture in conjunction with the Graduate Program in Media + Modernity has announced the launch of Branden Hookway Interface, an annual lecture series in honor of late AAP faculty member and Princeton alum. The inaugural event featuring Shannon Mattern and Olga Touloumi will take place on April 2.
Art Visiting Critic Ashley Teamer and Amanda Williams (B.Arch. '97) will contribute to the 2024 iteration of the triennial November 2, 2024–February 2, 2025.
