Faculty Profile

Milton S. F. Curry was born in Fresno, California. He graduated from Cornell University in 1988 and Harvard University in 1992 with degrees in architecture and concentrations in architectural theory and cultural theory. He has worked professionally at the New York offices of Kohn Pedersen and Fox Architects from 1990-92, and as principal of his own firm, OrbitMCAdesignstudio since 1995. He has taught extensively at Cornell University for 13 years, and at Arizona State University and Harvard University. At Cornell, where he is tenured associate professor of architecture and theory, Mr. Curry is an affiliate faculty in the Program in Real Estate and at the Center for the Study of Inequality. His teaching and research focus on the aesthetic, economic and cultural processes of urbanization - in both capitalist and socialist contexts. Through theoretical essays and design projects, his design firm and real estate practice speculate about new urban morphologies. Mr. Curry was one of three founding editors of Appendx Journal:culture / theory / praxis, an interdisciplinary academic journal that operated from 1993-2007. Appendx was a major contribution to advancing scholarship in the discipline of architecture, particularly in areas of race, feminism, and cultural theory. Cornel West, professor of religion and African- American studies at Princeton University cited Appendx and its editors in Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America : “The pioneering work of Darell Fields, Kevin Fuller and Milton Curry in their journal Appendix is of great significance to race and architecture”. Mr. Curry’s expansive travels have exposed an intersection in his interests in innovative urbanism with the specific socio-economic and cultural conditions in Mexico City DF and Havana Cuba - dynamic urban centers that are undergoing major transformation. His design studios at Cornell University on Mexico City [2007] and Havana [2003] are catalyzing new research on these areas. Additionally, Mr. Curry’s leadership as director of Cornell University’s Cornell Council for the Arts has equipped him with extensive contacts in the areas of contemporary art and industrial design: in 2006 he inaugurated CCA XDesigngroup - the university’s first participation in the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York, and during his tenure as director hosted invited lectures, awards and forums with leading artists and curators including curators Lowery Stokes Sims and Christine Y. Kim, filmmaker Rachel Leah Jones, artist Fred Wilson, and architect Peter Eisenman, among others.

• 2002 – Present, Cornell Council for the Arts Director / University Liaison to Cornell Alumni Committee on the Arts
• 2002 – Present, Cornell University Department of Architecture Associate Professor of Architecture and Theory with Tenure
• 2002 – Present, Cornell University Center for The Study of Inequality Affiliate Faculty
• 2002 – Present, Cornell University Program in Real Estate Affiliate Faculty
• 1995 – 2002, Cornell University Department of Architecture Assistant Professor of Architecture and Theory

• 1999 Harvard University Graduate School of Design Visiting Associate Professor of Architecture
• 1995 Cornell University Department of Architecture Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture and Theory
• 1994 Arizona State University Interdisciplinary Humanities Program Affiliate Faculty
• 1992 – 1994, Arizona State University School of Architecture Assistant Professor of Architecture
• 1991 Harvard University Graduate School of Design Instructor, Career Discovery Program in Architecture

Professional Appointments

• 1999 – Present, OrbitMCAdesignstudio Principal/Design Director
• 1999 – Present, Orbit Development Group, LLC / Orbit Holdings, LLC Co-CEO/Co-Chairman
• 1993 – Present, APPENDX, INC. Founding Editor and Publisher
• 1998 – 1991, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, New York, NY Designer / Project Team Leader

• Cornell Council for the Arts
• Appendx
• Olivia Restaurant