Announcements
Contemporary and Ancient Art Exhibit Enlivens Ithaca Mall
The Cornell Chronicle highlights Sculpture Shoppe, cocurated by David Nasca (M.F.A. '22), an exhibition inside a former clothing store of plaster casts of Greco-Roman sculptures alongside contemporary artists' responses.
The 2030 Project: A Cornell Climate Initiative
CRP Assistant Professor Linda Shi included among Cornell faculty members working to scale tangible climate solutions to benefit the planet and its people.
Einaudi Awards Fund Global Research and Activities
The Cornell Chronicle reports that research projects led by Architecture Professor Esra Akcan (Intertwined Histories Lab) and CRP Professor Victoria Beard (Global Survey of City Leaders) are among awardees.
Migrations Grants Fund Worldwide Interdisciplinary Projects
The Cornell Chronicle highlights awarded faculty research, including work by Architecture Professor Esra Akcan, Art Visiting Associate Professor Renate Ferro, and Architecture Assistant Professor Tao DuFour.
Industrial Obelisks: Smokestacks / Barcelona
This photography exhibition by Brian Rosa (M.R.P. '09) at The Barcelona History Museum (MUHBA), Oliva Artés (also available online) aims to stimulate debates about industrial heritage, urban transformation, and the memory politics of redevelopment.
VMFA Awards More Than $120,000 to 23 Virginia Student and Professional Artists
Giselle Hobbs (M.F.A. '23) has received a $6,000 graduate fellowship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts for painting.
Monuments Now Exhibition Catalogue
A collection of images and essays exploring the historical and contemporary context of monuments and responding to the pieces included in the exhibition, including Art Chair Paul Ramírez Jonas's Eternal Flame.
Winners of 2022 Architectural League Prize Respond to Design Complexities Rooted in Place
The Architect's Newspaper reports that Architecture Assistant Professor Farzin Lotfi-Jam and Nathan Friedman (B.Arch. '09) are among the winners of this prestigious annual award, which recognizes visionary work by young practitioners.
Zoe De Simone Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Zoe De Simone (B.Arch. '22) has received a research fellowship from the National Science Foundation that will support her graduate study at MIT.
What is Critical Urbanism? Urban Research as Pedagogy
CRP Chair Sophie Oldfield is an editor of this innovative toolkit exploring how alternative urban futures can be imagined by addressing the historical injustices and global entanglements that shape the urban present.
Founders of Dream the Combine and MOS Architects Among Winners of the 2022–23 Rome Prize
The Architect's Newspaper reports the award of the American Academy's Rome Prize in Architecture to Assistant Professor Jennifer Newsom and Assistant Professor of the Practice Tom Carruthers, founding principals of Dream The Combine.
Honorable Mention for Mehr.WERT.Pavillon
2hs architects and engineers, office of Architecture Assist. Prof. Felix Heisel, has received an Honorable Mention at the prestigious 2020/21 German Steel Construction Awards for their Mehr.WERT.Pavillon.
Back Stages: Essays Across Art, Performance, and Public Life
Out June 2022, this collection of career-spanning essays by Shannon Jackson includes a chapter on the work and practice of Art Chair Paul Ramírez Jonas.
Community Engagement, Scholarship, and Leadership Take Cornell Students Beyond Campus
A Cornell University Medium post highlights student public engagement activities, including Joe McGranahan's (B.Arch. '22) work as part of the Circular Construction Lab to identify reusable construction materials.
SO – IL, Johnston Marklee Among American Academy of Arts and Letters 2022 Architecture Award Winners
The Architect's Newspaper spotlights winners of the academy's 2022 Architecture Awards, which includes Architecture Professor of the Practice Florian Idenburg, cofounding principal of Brooklyn-based SO – IL.
2022 Cornell Biennial Artist Preview
The Cornell Chronicle provides details on the wide array of included artworks, installations, and performances, which will imagine how artistic futurities might generate cultural transformation.
2022 Cornell Biennial Artists Announced
Curated by Timothy Murray, featured artworks, installations, and performances will address race and social justice, global warming, artistic representation, robotics, sustainable ecology and architecture, migration, and labor.
Why I Make Art: Contemporary Artists' Stories About Life & Work
Available May 31, this collection gathered from the podcast archives of Sound & Vision (directed by artist/educator Brian Alfred) includes interviews with Associate Professor of Art Carl Ostendarp and alum James Siena (B.F.A. '79).
Kimberly Dowdell (B.Arch. '06) Elected Alumni Trustee
A principal at HOK, Dowdell is widely recognized for her leadership in the design community and prior presidency of NOMA.
Werewolf: The Architecture of Lunacy, Shapeshifting, and Material Metamorphosis
A new book coedited by Associate Professor Caroline O'Donnell and José Ibarra (B.Arch. '16) explores an emerging but under-investigated branch of architecture that examines the transformation of form.
