Announcements
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami: Hugh Hayden: Boogey Man
A special exhibition for Art Basel Miami 2021 by Hugh Hayden (B.Arch. '07) features a suite of monumental new works. Hayden's process results in dynamic, surreal, and critical responses to personal experience and social and cultural issues.
ArchDaily Selects the Best New Practices of 2021
HANNAH, the firm of architecture faculty Leslie Lok and Sasa Zivkovic, selected by ArchDaily for answering the question of what the future of architecture can and should do to bridge design, technology, and construction.
New Public Artworks for the City of Minneapolis Public Service Building
A ceiling sculpture by Lucito, the firm of Iroha Ito (M.Arch. '15) and Andrew Lucia, will be celebrated in a public art opening hosted by the City of Minneapolis on December 10.
The Top Urban Planning Books of 2021
Planetizen selects Sekou Cooke's (B.Arch. '99) Hip-Hop Architecture, which invites readers to compare b-boys to architecture and to imagine the kinds of built environments that would warrant such a description.
Edited by History of Architecture and Urban Development alums Vikramaditya Prakash (M.A. '89/Ph.D. HAUD '94) and Daniel Coslett (M.A. HAUD '09), the book has chapters by Labib Hossain (Ph.D. HAUD '24), and Assistant Professor María González Pendás.
Dallendorfer Named Director of Transportation at FXCollaborative
FXCollaborative recently announced that Stephan Dallendorfer (M.Arch. '94), a partner in the firm, has been named director of transportation. Dallendorfer led the projects Penn Station Central Concourse and the recent Penn Station Master Plan.
CR0WD Video and Poster Presented at ACSP Conference
The CRP blog details a video and poster created by a student team about the Circularity, Reuse, and Zero Waste Development (CR0WD) Network led by associate professors Jennifer Minner and Felix Heisel with regional partners.
Leslie Lok elected to ACADIA Board
Assistant Professor Leslie Lok, architecture, was recently elected to the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture board. Lok codirects HANNAH, an experimental design practice, and directs the AAP Rural-Urban Building Innovation Lab.
Green Solutions Awards 2020–21 International Winners
In Glasgow adjacent to COP26, the practice of Assistant Professor Felix Heisel won the Construction21 International Sustainable Infrastructure Grand Prize for a project built entirely of reused materials and designed for disassembly.
Tampa Museum of Art Announces Major Expansion Led By WEISS/MANFREDI
WEISS/MANFREDI, the firm of Michael Manfredi (M.Arch. '80), leads both a renovation of the museum's downtown campus currently underway, and a new three-story structure to a redeveloped site along the Hillsborough River.
Aaron Gensler Appointed Chair of Architecture at Woodbury School of Architecture in LA
Archinect profiles architect, educator, and thought leader Aaron Gensler (M.Arch. '14), an assistant professor and the new chair of architecture at Woodbury University–LA.
Einaudi Center Announces New Global Public Voices Fellows
As Global Public Voice Fellows, Professor Victoria Beard, CRP, and other Cornell faculty will use their expertise to shape public debates about global policy issues and advocate for a more just and equitable future. In The Cornell Chronicle.
Constant Storm: Art from Puerto Rico and the Diaspora
Gabriel Ramos (M.F.A. '18) is part of an online and in-person group exhibition featuring work created in the four years since Hurricane Maria. Through Dec. 4 at University of South Florida–Tampa Contemporary Art Museum.
The 9th book by Janetta Rebold Benton (B.F.A. '67), a professor of art history at Pace University, is an overview of the fundamentals shared by visual arts across the globe. Released in softcover and available in seven languages from Thames & Hudson.
Art Alum Denise Eno Ernest Receives Arts Fellowship
Denise Eno Ernest (B.F.A. '85) was awarded the 2021 Emerging Professional Artist Fellowship in Painting by the Delaware Division of the Arts. An exhibition of Ernest's work will be shown at the State Office Building, Nov. 5–24.
A Section of Now: Social Norms and Rituals as Sites for Architectural Intervention
Associate Professor Jesse LeCavalier, architecture, adds to a group exhibition at the Canadian Center for Architecture which asks how architecture and urbanism can better understand contemporary conditions and address challenges. Opens Nov. 13.
Eye on Evanston: Thoughts on Design | Evanston Architect Stuart Cohen
The Evanston Roundtable notes that Chicago architect, author, and educator Stuart Cohen (B.Arch. '66, M.Arch. '67) received the American Institute of Architects' prestigious 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award on October 15.
Studio Archive Project: Use Your Words
Associate Professor of art Carl Ostendarp's work is part of an online group exhibition curated by JJ Manford (B.F.A. '06). Includes art alumni Erik den Breejen (M.F.A. '06), Amie Cunat (M.F.A. '12), and former department chair Buzz Spector.
Dezeen Awards 2021: Best Architecture Studio
SO-IL, the firm of Professor of the Practice in Architecture Florian Idenburg, won the public vote architecture studio of the year category in Dezeen’s annual awards.
Harman Singh Dhodi (M.R.P '21) Wins National Planning Competition
Recent planning graduate Dhodi won the Global Planning Educators Interest Group (GPEIG) Case Study Prize for his exit project Intra-Urban Split in Sanitation Provision: The Untended Plight of Urban villages in Delhi, India.
