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Faculty Profile

Andrea Simitch

title

Associate Professor, In Rome

department

Architecture

address

143 East Sibley Hall

email

als34@cornell.edu

education

  • B.Arch Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1979
  • École Spéciale D'Architecture, Paris, France, 1974-1975
  • Occidental College, Los Angeles, California, 1974-1976

work

  • Registered Architect - New York State
  • Graduate and Undergraduate Faculty Advisor, ongoing
  • Graduate Faculty Member, ongoing
  • Master Of Architecture I Program Committee, 2005-2006
  • Chair of Undergraduate Admissions Committee, 2005
  • Undergraduate Admissions Committee, 2002-2005
  • Design Review Committee, 2002-2005
  • University Appeals Committee, 2000-2004
  • Chair’s Advisory Committee, 1998-2004
  • Facilities Committee (Chair 98/99), 1997-2004
  • Team Faculty Advisor (Women's Gymnastics), 1997-2004
  • Associate Dean, 2002-2003
  • Academic Integrity; Committee Chair, 2002-2003
  • Academic Policy Committee, 2002-2003
  • Academic Records Committee, 2002-2003
  • Executive Committee, 2002-2003
  • Affirmative Action Committee, 2002-2003
  • Hartell Gallery; Committee Chair, 2002-2003
  • Minority Educational Affairs Committee, 2002-2003
  • Space Committee; Committee Chair, 2002-2003
  • Visual Resources Committee, 2002-2003
  • Design Year Coordinator (off and on), 1993-2003
  • Thesis Coordinator (off and on), 1992-2003
  • PEI Spelling Bee, Fundraiser for Special programs in Ithaca City School District (w/ V. Warke and M. Drennan), 2003
  • AMBRIT International School, Rome Italy; Presentation on Drawing to Elementary School students, 2002

publications

  • Mill Center for the Arts, Hendersonville, North Carolina. Submission for an architectural competition for the design of a cultural and performing arts complex (with S. Fong); Exhibited and published in competition catalog, 2005
  • Joao Alvaro Rocha Architectures 1988-2001; Skira Architecture Library pg 209: Untitled; Joao #2, 1999
  • Cornell Architecture, Art, and Planning Newsletter Review of ‘Boxes’ Exhibit, by P. Unwin-Barkley (an exhibit of student work produced in a course taught in conjunction with R. Bertoia), 2003
  • “Towards a Well-Tempered Architecture” Preston Thomas Lecture Series, Cornell University Session 2 Moderator, 2002
  • “The Nomadic Surface” essay included in The Luminescence Studio, edited by Sheila Kennedy (Harvard University), 2001

courses

  • First Year Design Studio
  • Second Year Design Studio
  • Fourth and Fifth Year Design Studios
  • Phenomenal Interpretations
  • Visual Representation (Drawing I)
  • Special Topics in Visual Representation: Tactics of Representation; Strategies for Design
  • Special Topics in Visual Representation: Furniture Design
  • Special Topics in Visual Representation: Material Archiving
  • Special Topics in Visual Representation: The Constructed Trace: Urban Scavenging and Undergraduate Theses Advisor
  • Graduate Theses/Committee Chair

research

  • Asplund: Architectural Competition; The Stockholm City Library (Simitch & Warke Architects), 2006
  • Mill Center for the Arts, Hendersonville, North Carolina. An architectural competition for the design of a cultural and performing arts complex (Simitch & Warke Architects, with S. Fong), 2005
  • Daño’s Heuriger Sebeca - Master plan and design of a restaurant, inn, and chapel complex and construction of the restaurant, Lake Seneca, NY ($600,000); Phase I completed 8/05 (Simitch & Warke Architects), 2003-2005
  • DeCordova Residence - Design and construction (addition and renovation) of a private residence in Norwich, NY ($450,000) (Simitch & Warke Architects), 2002-2005
  • Summit Residential LLC - Design Consultant, Monroe, CT ($100,000), 2003
  • 286 Midline Road – Renovation (Bathroom Addition), Freeville, NY, 2003

associations

Guest Critic for Architectural Studios and Graduate and Undergraduate Theses Reviews:
University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Rensselaer Polytechnic University, Southern California Institute for Architecture, University of Toronto, Princeton University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of Minnesota, Syracuse University, Parsons School of Design; and Harvard Design School.