Announcements

Thursday, February 8, 2024

Faculty Recognized for Excellence in Architectural Education

Architecture Assistant Professor Suzanne Lettieri was recognized by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture with a Diversity Achievement Award Honorable Mention for her work opening up pathways to participation and towards greater equity in design education.


Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Meet the 2024 USA Fellows

Ifeoma Ebo (B.Arch. '01) received one of this year's 50 fellowships, which includes $50,000 in unrestricted funding.


Thursday, December 21, 2023

Kimberly Dowdell Set to Make History as the AIA's First Black Woman and Millennial President

This month, Dowdell (B.Arch. '06) was inaugurated as the 100th AIA president. Learn more about her plans and perspective in this insightful interview.


Monday, December 4, 2023

Oppenheim Architecture Wins Competition to Restore the Besa Museum in Albania

Oppenheim Architecture, which includes Founding Principal Chad Oppenheim (B.Arch. '94) and Beat Huesler (B.Arch. '92), proposed a design that seeks to honor the nation's rich cultural heritage and welcoming spirit.


Thursday, November 30, 2023

States Aligning to Federal Broadband Access Standards, but Barriers Remain

Ph.D. candidate Natassia Bravo, who worked with CRP Professor Mildred Warner to examine the impact of broadband grants, discusses their report on how these programs are closing the infrastructure gap.


Thursday, November 30, 2023

Urban Video Project Presents Paulina Velázquez Solís: Regional Commissioned Artist

Light Work has awarded Art Visiting Critic Paulina Velázquez Solís their first commission specifically for regional artists living within a 50-mile radius of Syracuse for her proposal Un río de todas las épocas II / A river of all ages II.


Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Announcing ACADIA 2023 Paper and Project Awards

A Cornell team led by Architecture faculty Leslie Lok and RUBI Lab, with co-authors Sasa Zivkovic, Lawson Spencer, and Alexander Kyaw (B.Arch. '23), won the Best Paper Award, which recognizes the highest achievement of an accepted paper, having the potential for positive impact on practice, academy, and the broader society.


Friday, November 10, 2023

Einhorn Center Announces New Engaged Faculty Fellows

This year's cohort includes Design Teaching Fellow Imani Day, Architecture Assistant Professor María González Pendás, and CRP Visiting Lecturer John Ponstingel.


Wednesday, November 8, 2023

2023 Architecture + Design Independent Projects Grant Recipients

Work by Architecture faculty Suzanne Lettieri and Michael Jefferson with the Urban Assembly Maker Academy is one of 25 design proposals selected for grants of $10,000 each.


Wednesday, November 1, 2023

NOMA Highlights Student Design Competition Winners and More at 2023 Conference

The NOMAS Cornell team, advised by Architecture Assistant Professor Suzanne Lettieri and Design Teaching Fellow Imani Day, took home first place for their project Reclaiming Albina’s Legacy: Carving as a Catalyst for Healing.


Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Architecture Strauch Fellow Sydney Maubert Receives an Ellies 2023 Creator Award

Maubert was recognized by Oolite Arts for a project that explores Miami's Bahamian history and its vital ties to a larger cultural geography of Caribbean and Southern Black aesthetics.


Friday, October 20, 2023

AAP Remembers Former Dean Anthony Vidler, Influential Scholar and Educator

Anthony Vidler, prominent historian, theorist, and critic of architecture and urban planning passed away on Thursday, October 19, at the age of 82.


Friday, October 13, 2023

High Stakes, High Hopes: Urban Theorizing in Partnership

CRP Chair Sophie Oldfield's new book explores how research and assessment were reshaped when framed in neighborhood questions and commitments, and what was reoriented in urban theorizing when community activism and township struggles were recognized as sites of valid knowledge-making.


Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Spring 2024 Mellon Urban Justice Lab Announced

Art Professor Keith Obadike and Professor in Performing and Media Arts Mendi Obadike will coteach the spring 2024 Urban Justice Lab "Sound, Music, Public Space," an innovative seminar for graduate students in the humanities and design disciplines. Interested students should submit their application by October 27, 2023.


Friday, September 29, 2023

Call for Proposals: Freedom of Expression Exhibition

Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) announces a call for proposals to students, staff, and faculty for creative projects that showcase Cornell University's 2023-24 academic year theme of Freedom of Expression. This funding opportunity aims to support interdisciplinary, innovative, and collaborative projects that delve into the realms of free expression and the arts.


Thursday, September 28, 2023

CRP's Warner and Bravo Named Charles Benton Broadband & Society Prize Winners

CRP Professor Mildred Warner and Ph.D. candidate Natassia Bravo were recognized for their work examining the implication of state grant programs for broadband on federal policy design.


Tuesday, September 26, 2023

UN-Habitat names FICA a 2023 Scroll of Honour Award Winner

Cofounded by Architecture Visiting Associate Professor Anna Dietzsch in 2015, the non-profit organization was recognized for fighting housing speculation and gentrification in Brazil.


Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Sabin Awarded 2023 Matthias Rippmann Memorial Prize

This year recognizing Design Tech Chair and Architecture Professor Jenny Sabin, the prize is given by DigitalFUTURES to a digital tool, body of research, written text, or any other thing that revolutionizes architectural research.


Friday, September 8, 2023

2023 Carter Manny Award Citations of Special Recognition

Architecture Ph.D. candidate Michael Moynihan was recognized with a writing citation for his "Aggregative Expertise: A Global History of Housing, Information Science, and the Deprofessionalization of the Architect, 1973–82."


Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Playing Place: Board Games, Popular Culture, Space

History of Architecture and Urban Development (HAUD) Professor D. Medina Lasansky and HAUD alum Chad Randl (Ph.D. HAUD '14) release a collection of essays that connect 35 or more different board games to various elements of the built environment.


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