Announcements
Architecture Faculty and Alumni Work in an Exhibition of Architecture, Art, Design, and Community
2021 Exhibit Columbus participants: Dream the Combine, the practice of architecture's Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers, co-curated by Mimi Zeiger (B.Arch. '94); Ann Lui (B.Arch. '11); Joyce Hwang (B.Arch. '97); and Olalekan Jeyifous (B.Arch.'00).
Oonagh Davis (B.Arch. '20) and Elias Bennett (B.Arch. '20), cofounders of OnE Studio Architecture, received an honorable mention for Okioki Cabin, their entry for the Tiny Kiwi Meditation Cabin Competition by Earth Energies Sanctuary.
Samia Henni Appointed the Inaugural Albert Hirschman Chair at IMéRA
Assistant Professor Samia Henni, architecture, has been appointed to the prestigious Albert Hirschman Chair 2021–22 at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IMéRA), to research Marseille's 1922 colonial exhibition and post-WWI migrant working class.
2020–21 Student Academic Awards and Prizes
Academic awards and prizes recognize outstanding student work during the 2020–21 academic year.
Longtime Planner Antoine Bryant Tapped as Detroit Development Director
The Detroit News reports Mayor Mike Duggan has selected Bryant (B.S. URS '95) for the city's planning and development chief. Bryant previously served as business development and project manager at alumni-led architecture firm Moody Nolan.
Howard McCalebb: Special Exhibition: Creating Community, Cinque Gallery Artists
The Art Students League of New York presented work by sculptor Howard McCalebb (M.F.A. '72) in a recent survey show and catalog of Cinque Gallery artists. Cinque supported African American artists in NYC dating from the Harlem Renaissance.
92 New York Artists Receive $616,000 in Grants
Art alums Amie Cunat (M.F.A. '12) and Laura Nova '96 (B.F.A. '96) were awarded 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship grants for interdisciplinary work, from an applicant pool of more than 3,500 New York City artists.
Stan Bowman (1934–2021), An Artist on the Leading Creative Edge
Photographer, sculptor, painter, and Professor Emeritus Stan Bowman immersed his teaching and creative practice in the digital revolution, bringing a spirit of experimentation and curiosity to his work.
Anderson Named Faculty Director of Cornell AAP's Bachelor of Architecture Program
Sean Anderson (B.Arch./B.S. HAUD '96) joins the Department of Architecture at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning as Associate Professor and incoming Director of the B.Arch. Program.
International Architecture Competition: The Last Nuclear Bomb Memorial
Lauren Lam (B.Arch. '23), a rising 4th-year in architecture, won an honorable mention in the international competition for her conceptual project The Aftermath. Entries were not permitted to include text, titles, or annotation of any kind.
Cornell Atkinson Awards $1.8 Million to Fund Vital Collaborations
Architecture's Timur Dogan, Katharina Kral, Felix Heisel, Marta H. Wisniewska, and CRP's Mitch Glass have been awarded Cornell Atkinson Academic Venture Fund (AVF) seed grants for research on innovative sustainable solutions.
Horowitz Foundation 2020 Grant Recipients
Shriya Rangarajan (Ph.D. RS '24) will use the highly competitive grant to support her research on social capital's role in Upstate New York's local food supply networks during the pandemic. Her dissertation has implications for food security.
Gunhan Named 2021–22 Getty Research Institute Predoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. HAUD candidate Aslihan Gunhan has won a prestigious Getty Research Institute Predoctoral Fellow residency for her project "Fragments Left Inside and Scattered Outside: Armenian Properties in Turkey and Armenian Architects in Diaspora."
Civilization of Llhuros, an exhibit of archeological fiction by Art Professor Emeritus Norman Daly (1911–2008), is included in the forthcoming publication Sting in the Tale by fictive-art practitioner Antoinette LaFarge.
Caroline O'Donnell, architecture's incoming chair, on the discipline's unique ability to shape-shift as design interfaces with environmental conditions, performance, and modes of communication.
Internationally recognized social practice artist Paul Ramírez Jonas, incoming faculty and chair of the Department of Art, on art practice, public exchange, and pedagogy.
Biden Administration Nominates Bronin for Historic Preservation Advisory Council Chair
Sara Bronin, new Cornell faculty with appointments in the Department of City and Regional Planning at AAP and the Cornell Law School, tapped by President Biden to advise historic preservation policy.
The College of Architecture, Art, and Planning is among nine leading U.S. schools and colleges of architecture, planning, and design who have co-founded the Deans' Equity and Inclusion Initiative.
Jonathan Ochshorn: Building Bad
A new book by Professor of Architecture Jonathan Ochshorn released in the U.S. and U.K. looks at the dangers of separating architecture's expressive and utilitarian functions within the design process and cites examples of utilitarian dysfunction.
Archinect reports Sekou Cooke (B.Arch. '99) will be in residence as a Nasir Jones Hiphop Fellow for the 2021–22 academic year, where he will work on his project 3D Turntables Remix: The Architectural Technology of Hip-Hop.
