Jeffrey M. Chusid

Associate Professor (on leave)

Department

City and Regional Planning

Contact

210 W. Sibley Hall
(607) 254-8579
jmc286@cornell.edu

Affiliations

Society for the Preservation of Historic Cements

Academic Research Areas

Adaptive reuse
Architectural design
Architectural history
Architectural representation
Community-based planning and development
Economic development
Historic preservation planning
International studies in planning
Land use/spatial planning
Landscape architecture
Planning history
Sustainability

Jeffrey M. Chusid is an architect and planner with current research interests that include the fate of historic resources in areas of cultural exchange and conflict, the conservation of modernist architecture in India, historic cements, and sustainable development. His writings can be found in journals, museum catalogues, and several texts. Chusid has consulted on public policy, resource conservation, and urban design for diverse communities such as Shanghai, China; Sevastopol, Ukraine; Levuka, Fiji; and Bastrop, Texas. He has also consulted on building and landscape preservation for numerous museums, including the Huntington and Hearst Castle. Chusid received his A.B. in environmental design and his M.Arch. from the University of California–Berkeley in 1978 and 1982. He served as Chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning from 2017 to 2021.

Academic Research Areas

Adaptive reuse
Architectural design
Architectural history
Architectural representation
Community-based planning and development
Economic development
Historic preservation planning
International studies in planning
Land use/spatial planning
Landscape architecture
Planning history
Sustainability

I love the extraordinary intimate insights preservation provides into the social and cultural life of communities and how the field engages communities and people for projects and sites to be identified, have meaning, and be implemented.

Books

Natural Allies: Preservation and Sustainability

2016. In Pragmatic Sustainability: Dispositions for Critical Adaptation. Edited by Steven A. Moore. London: Routledge.
Saving Wright: The Freeman House and the Preservation of Meaning, Materials, and Modernity

2011. New York: W.W. Norton and Co.

Publications

An Innocent Abroad: Joseph Stein in India

2010. India International Centre, Occasional Publication 18.

Classes

City and Regional Futures Colloquium: Planning Practice, Policy, and Design

CRP 3900/7850
Creating the Built Environment

CRP 5560
Innovation and Strategy in Commercial Real Estate Development

CRP 5561
Museum and the Public (with Cathy Klimaszewski)

CRP 6690
Seminar in Regional Sciences, Planning, and Policy Analysis

CRP 8300

Selected Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

Grant, Clarence Stein Institute

Research in India on the work of Joseph Allen Stein
2009
Distinguished Teaching Award, Cornell University

2006
Outstanding Studio Teaching Award, University of Texas

2000

Selected Exhibitions and Presentations

American Historic Cement Conference

Organizer and speaker, New York City, 2011.
Authenticity and Change at the Freeman House

Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, 2010.
Preservation: Sustainability Symposium

Organizer and speaker, Clarence Stein Institute, New York City, 2008, 2009, 2010.