Announcements
92 New York Artists Receive $616,000 in Grants
Art alums Amie Cunat (M.F.A. '12) and Laura Nova '96 (B.F.A. '96) were awarded 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship grants for interdisciplinary work, from an applicant pool of more than 3,500 New York City artists.
Stan Bowman (1934–2021), An Artist on the Leading Creative Edge
Photographer, sculptor, painter, and Professor Emeritus Stan Bowman immersed his teaching and creative practice in the digital revolution, bringing a spirit of experimentation and curiosity to his work.
Anderson Named Faculty Director of Cornell AAP's Bachelor of Architecture Program
Sean Anderson (B.Arch./B.S. HAUD '96) joins the Department of Architecture at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning as Associate Professor and incoming Director of the B.Arch. Program.
International Architecture Competition: The Last Nuclear Bomb Memorial
Lauren Lam (B.Arch. '23), a rising 4th-year in architecture, won an honorable mention in the international competition for her conceptual project The Aftermath. Entries were not permitted to include text, titles, or annotation of any kind.
Cornell Atkinson Awards $1.8 Million to Fund Vital Collaborations
Architecture's Timur Dogan, Katharina Kral, Felix Heisel, Marta H. Wisniewska, and CRP's Mitch Glass have been awarded Cornell Atkinson Academic Venture Fund (AVF) seed grants for research on innovative sustainable solutions.
Horowitz Foundation 2020 Grant Recipients
Shriya Rangarajan (Ph.D. RS '24) will use the highly competitive grant to support her research on social capital's role in Upstate New York's local food supply networks during the pandemic. Her dissertation has implications for food security.
Gunhan Named 2021–22 Getty Research Institute Predoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. HAUD candidate Aslihan Gunhan has won a prestigious Getty Research Institute Predoctoral Fellow residency for her project "Fragments Left Inside and Scattered Outside: Armenian Properties in Turkey and Armenian Architects in Diaspora."
Civilization of Llhuros, an exhibit of archeological fiction by Art Professor Emeritus Norman Daly (1911–2008), is included in the forthcoming publication Sting in the Tale by fictive-art practitioner Antoinette LaFarge.
Caroline O'Donnell, architecture's incoming chair, on the discipline's unique ability to shape-shift as design interfaces with environmental conditions, performance, and modes of communication.
Internationally recognized social practice artist Paul Ramírez Jonas, incoming faculty and chair of the Department of Art, on art practice, public exchange, and pedagogy.
Biden Administration Nominates Bronin for Historic Preservation Advisory Council Chair
Sara Bronin, new Cornell faculty with appointments in the Department of City and Regional Planning at AAP and the Cornell Law School, tapped by President Biden to advise historic preservation policy.
The College of Architecture, Art, and Planning is among nine leading U.S. schools and colleges of architecture, planning, and design who have co-founded the Deans' Equity and Inclusion Initiative.
Jonathan Ochshorn: Building Bad
A new book by Professor of Architecture Jonathan Ochshorn released in the U.S. and U.K. looks at the dangers of separating architecture's expressive and utilitarian functions within the design process and cites examples of utilitarian dysfunction.
Archinect reports Sekou Cooke (B.Arch. '99) will be in residence as a Nasir Jones Hiphop Fellow for the 2021–22 academic year, where he will work on his project 3D Turntables Remix: The Architectural Technology of Hip-Hop.
Carson Chan Appointed Inaugural Director of the Emilio Ambasz Institute at MoMA
Architect's Newspaper reports MoMA has named curator, writer, and educator Carson Chan (B.Arch. '04) as the first director of the museum's Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and the Natural Environment.
Dimella Shaffer Names Four New Principals
Frank Valdes (B.Arch. '95) has been elevated to principal of the Boston firm Dimella Shaffer. Over the past 16 years, his project work has focused on urban design and multi-family housing projects, and historical adaptive reuse.
Assembly House 150 receives Great Places Award from EDRA
University of Buffalo UBNow announced that Assembly House 150, a nonprofit for teaching construction arts founded by Dennis Maher (B.Arch. '99), has received the 2021 Great Places Award from the Environmental Design Research Association.
Shortlist Revealed for the AR New into Old Awards 2021
Ryan W Kennihan Architects, the practice of Ryan Kennihan (B.Arch. '04) lands on Architectural Record's shortlist for its annual AR New into Old awards, for "the mysterious joy of a ruin" in Baltrasna House in Dublin, Ireland.
Hou de Sousa, the firm of Josh de Sousa (B.Arch. '05) and Nancy Hou (B.Arch. '05), honored in Architectural Record's annual list of 10 emerging practices advancing issues of form, construction, sustainability, and community engagement.
Merrill Scholars Thank Educators Who Shaped Cornell Journeys
Merrill Presidential Scholar Xin Yue Wang (B.Arch. '21) was among 37 honored during a virtual ceremony on May 24. Wang named Tafel Visiting Critic in Architecture Peter Ballman for contributing to her Cornell experience.
