Events

10/16 Jose Castillo: a|911 — Concepts of a Plan

View this recorded lecture of AAP's new Architecture Chair speaking about his current disciplinary interests related to his practice, pedagogy, and broader issues.

9/25 2024 L. Michael Goldsmith Lecture featuring Kim Yao

Watch a recording of Kim Yao, coprincipal at the award-winning Brooklyn-based firm Architecture Research Office, as she delivers her talk at the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center.

9/12 Christiana Moss: Lessons from the Desert — Studio Ma

View this recorded talk by Strauch Visiting Critic in Sustainable Design Christiana Moss, exploring the four desert-inflected lenses through which her firm Studio Ma approaches each project.

12/4 Master of Science, Advanced Urban Design (M.S. AUD) Virtual Information Session

Watch this virtual information session to discover more about this exciting New York City-based program.

11/9 All NYC Planning Schools Virtual Open House

View this recording of the first-ever open house bringing together all eight planning programs in the New York City region.

11/1 Design Tech Virtual Open House

Watch this recorded virtual open house for prospective graduate students in Design Technology.

10/20 Preston H. Thomas Memorial Symposium: Junior Architects — Building Disciplinary Transformation Through Education

Watch this recorded symposium that invites conversation with educators, practitioners, and policymakers striving to create an enriching environment that embraces pluralism and equity in design education.

10/8–10/10 ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication

Watch this recorded event exploring the use of computational tools for the creation of physical things.

4/25 Jenny E. Sabin: Transdisciplinary Design — Towards Adaptative Architecture

View this recorded lecture exploring how recent advances in computation, visualization, material intelligence, and fabrication technologies have begun to fundamentally alter how we design, construct, and make.

4/19 2023 L. Michael Goldsmith Lecture featuring Tatiana Bilbao

Watch this recorded talk delivered by Tatiana Bilbao of Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO on the Cornell Tech Campus in New York City.

3/2–3/3 Preston H. Thomas Memorial Symposium: FRINGE

View these recorded discussions exploring the unique innovations in design and architecture generated at the intersection of rural and urban zones.

12/12 Systems, Roots, Bits: A Conversation About Contemporary Urban Design Challenges, Questions, and Opportunities

Watch this recorded discussion with leading urban designers to address the ways in which the pillars of this new program — ecology, community, technology, and design — intersect with the urban in meaningful and nourishing ways.

11/18 Transit Tech: Realities and Possibilities for Serving Our Cities

View this discussion of how transit technology companies have changed the urban mobility landscape.

11/11 Zakhary Mallett: Inequitable Inefficiency: A Case Study of Rail Transit Fare Policies

View this recorded lecture of the inaugural Strauch Fellow in the Department of City and Regional Planning exploring cost recovery across two rail systems — BART and MARTA. 

10/28 Kirk Goodrich: Transformative Development: A New Lens to Evaluate the Impact of Real Estate Projects

View this presentation focused on three historic preservation projects in Harlem, New York, that became anchor institutions that transformed neighborhood revitalization.  

10/21 Between Worlds Lecture: The Life and Work of Joseph Allen Stein in the U.S. and India

Hear reflections from his son David Stein and CRP Associate Professor Jeffrey M. Chusid, who is working on a book about the architect.

10/14 Jade Doskow: A New Wilderness: Freshkills

View this recorded talk by New York-based architectural and landscape photographer Jade Doskow exploring her work and previous exhibition.

9/30 Kim Wheeler: Reality-Based Planning in Rural America

Using examples from Central Pennsylvania, listen to Kim Wheeler explore how to best create implementable plans that achieve lasting impact on the economy and quality of life in the small towns and rural regions of America.

9/23 Gender and Planning Panel

Watch this recorded panel examining the role of planning in creating and maintaining gender divides in urban spaces in the United States.

9/20–10/25 Design Tech Fall 2022 Lecture Series

View this presentation by Jonah Brucker-Cohen, the final lecture in this university-wide series exploring design research, technological innovation, scholarship, and collaboration across disciplinary boundaries in science, engineering, and design.

9/16 Thomas Campanella: Mosaic Roads

Hear CRP Professor Thomas J. Campanella speak about Brooklyn highways and the long shadow of Robert Moses.

9/9 Wilbard Kombe: Institutional Reforms for Urban Land Use Planning and Management in Sub-Sahara Africa: Evidences, Gaps, and Prospects

Watch a recorded lecture reviewing the dramatic changes currently transforming cities in Sub-Sahara Africa largely driven by unprecedented urbanization, the private real estate sector, and unfettered land markets.

9/2 Anant Maringanti: The Hyderabad Urban Lab: Exploring an Alternate Mode of Practice

A recorded conversation between CRP Professor Neema Kudva and Anant Maringanti, Director of Hyderabad Urban Lab, a multi-disciplinary research center.

6/11 Cornell Reunion Olin Lecture with Olalekan Jeyifous (B.Arch. '99)

View this year's recorded Olin Lecture event with Olalekan Jeyifous (B.Arch. '99).

6/10 Rubacha Featured Speakers Lecture Series: Talks with Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. '54) and Shelly Silver (B.F.A. '80)

Watch this year's Rubacha Featured Speakers event with talks by Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. '54) and Shelly Silver (B.F.A. '80).

5/13 AAP Building the Future

Architecture at 150 | Art at 100: View this recorded discussion of foundations, decades of evolution, and the future of architecture and art education at AAP. 

4/29 Sergio Montero: Urban Experiments at the Legal Frontier: Planning and the Politics of Participation in Bogotá, Colombia

View a recorded presentation by Sergio Montero exploring how a rise in legal action around urban policy and planning in Bogotá is impacting the city.

4/22 Luis Aguirre-Torres: Ithaca Net Zero 2030 Strategy: A Blueprint For City-Wide Decarbonization

View this recorded talk with Dr. Luis Aguirre-Torres discussing Ithaca's plans and challenges as it prepares to be the first city to commit to full decarbonization of its buildings by 2030.

4/1 Dragon Day 2022

Following a two-year hiatus, both first- and second-year architecture students at Cornell AAP resurrect the dragon.

3/25 Joe Muturi and Charity Mumbi: Community Centered Slum Upgrading

View this recorded CRP lecture with Joe Muturi, sharing lessons of the Mukuru Special Planning Area (SPA) Project on community centered slum upgrading.

3/25 Virtual CRP Graduate Open House for Admitted Students, Spring 2022

View this lively and informative virtual experience for admitted graduate students to the Department of City and Regional Planning.

3/11 Nora Libertun de Duren: Myths, Challenges, and Opportunities for Inclusive Cities in the Global South

View a recorded talk with Nora Libertun de Duren on 3 myths, 3 challenges, and 3 opportunities to better understand slums and policies affecting inequity in cities.

3/8, 3/10, 3/17, 3/22 Preston H. Thomas Memorial Symposium: Breaking Ground(s)

Architecture at 150: Leading scholars and designers examine the interconnectedness of architecture with global ecologies, cultures, and future trajectories.

1/26–4/27 What is Design + Tech?

Watch this recorded inaugural University-wide lecture series co-led by architecture's Associate Professor Jenny Sabin, cross-campus collaborators, and Cornell Tech.

12/3 Dayna Cunningham: The Imperative of Knowledge Cocreation with Communities

View this recorded talk with Dayna Cunningham discussing Participatory Action Research enabling communities to examine and address consequential societal problems.

11/12 Akira Drake Rodriguez: Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta's Public Housing

In this recorded lecture, Akira Drake Rodriguez examines the historical role of public housing in working-class politics & how the loss of tenant associations has deepened inequities.