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John Zissovici

  • Associate Professor

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Academic Research Areas

  • Urbanism

John Zissovici teaches architectural design and courses that deal with the impact of digital media on architectural thinking. His current research is on imagescape urbanism. His architectural work includes built projects, installations, competitions, and speculative work. He has been published in Japan, Austria, Germany, Ireland, and the U.S. His large-scale installations involving digital media, robotics, and videos have been exhibited at the Phoenix Museum of Art, the Burchfeld-Penney Art Center, Tsing Ha University in Beijing, and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art in Ithaca. Zissovici received his bachelor’s and master’s of architecture from Cornell.

John Zissovici

Academic Research Areas

  • Urbanism
A dark colored metal clad contemporary tiny house with an angled wall and set of stairs on the outside.
Work by John Zissovici.

Publications

  • Renovating the Image of the City

    Cornell Journal of Architecture 8, 2010.

  • Passport

    Catalog for traveling exhibition “Broken Vision,” 2005.

  • Roving Pictures: A Built Situation

    Roving Pictures: Snapshots.

Classes

  • Second Year Design Studio

    ARCH 2101

  • Graduate Design Studio: SurfaceCities, the Image of the City Redux

    ARCH 7111

Selected Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

  • Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

    $50,000
    2010

  • Jury's Citation, Black Maria International Film Festival

    “Night Train”
    2009

  • Faculty Innovation Teaching Grant

    2004

  • Award, Burchfield-Penney Art Center

    “Roving Pictures” awarded $19,000
    2002

  • Grant, Institute for Studies in the Arts at Arizona State University

    $17,000
    1994

Selected Exhibitions and Presentations

  • Night Train

    Selected for showing, Nashville International Film Festival, 2009.

  • Night Train

    Selected for showing, Black Maria International Film Festival, 2009.

  • Bright Fields: Robotic Photography

    John Hartell Gallery, Ithaca, NY, 2007.

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