Announcements
Global Cornell Awards Support New International Courses
Funded projects include Rethinking Bamboo: A Material and Architectural Study of Southeast Asian Bamboo Construction led by Architecture Assistant Professor Leslie Lok, the Cornell Chronicle reports.
B+H appoints Patrick Fejér as CEO
Fejér (B.Arch. '97) plans "to lead B+H in new directions, exploring the breadth and diversity of our team's ability to produce thoughtful, ambitious design across sectors and all over the world," reports Canadian Architect.
Artist and Architect Amanda Williams Named Among 2022 MacArthur Fellows
Amanda Williams (B.Arch. '97), an artist who uses ideas around color and architecture to explore the intersection of race and the built environment, received one of the prized $800,000, no-strings-attached awards.
The 35th Space Prize for International Students of Architecture Design Announced
Eduardo Cilleruelo Teran and Hyun Jun Cho (both M.S. AAD '22) were awarded the Prize of Excellence for their project Data Monumentality: Reclaiming Public Data.
Archinect reports that the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation's 2022 BEVY Leadership Awards will recognize Dean Meejin Yoon for academic excellence.
Equivalences at the Fish Island Gallery
Assistant Professor of Art Dan Torop offers reflections on the work of Robert Smithson, DALL-E 2 software, and more as part of this temporary installation.
Building Better - Less - Different: Circular Construction and Circular Economy
The forthcoming book coauthored by Architecture Assistant Professor Felix Heisel explores concepts, methods, and examples of circularity in construction and the economy.
AAUW Awards Fellowships and Grants to Cornell University Scholars
Neha Garg (M.Arch. '23) has received a 2022–23 Selected Professions Fellowship from the American Association of University Women.
As part of this international research and exhibition platform for art and architecture related to South Asia held in February, Architecture Associate Professor Sean Anderson (B.Arch./B.S. '96) will curate To Enter the Sky.
ACSP Profiles 2022 Gill-Chin Lim Award for Best Dissertation on International Planning Winner
Nidhi Subramanyam (M.R.P. '14, Ph.D. '21), who received the award for her research covering governance and water infrastructures in Tiruppur, India, speaks about her work and future plans.
MacDowell Grants Residencies to 129 Artists as Program Returns to Full Capacity
This latest group of MacDowell Fellows, chosen from 2,948 applicants, includes architect and CRP Professor Thomas J. Campanella.
Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens
Cinépolis Cinemas in New York City will offer two screenings of the documentary, based on the book by Architecture Visiting Critic Ioanna Theocharopoulou, which explores the lives of the provincials who reconstructed Athens after the Civil War.
2022 ACADIA Design Excellence Award
ACADIA named Höweler + Yoon Architecture, cofounded by AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon (B.Arch. '95) and Eric Höweler (B.Arch. '94, M.Arch. '96), this year's winner. Yoon will deliver the second keynote of the 2022 ACADIA Conference.
Christine Heindl (M.F.A. '94), Maria Calandra (M.F.A. '06), and Erik den Breejen (M.F.A. '06) are featured in a group show at the Turn Gallery in New York City through October 20.
2022 Carter Manny Award Citations of Special Recognition
Ph.D. HAUD Student Ana Ozaki's dissertation, "New Brazils in Africa: Transatlantic Tropical Futurities, Racial Miscegenation, and Plantation Legacies, 1910–74," received a Carter Manny Writing Citation.
At the Intersection of Design, Development, and Community
Cory Henry (M.Arch. '12) will deliver a lecture on December 14 at the National Building Museum that considers the role of culture, history, and community concerns in design.
Beyond Sustainable: Architecture's Evolving Environments of Habitation
Published by Routledge, author Ryan Ludwig (B.Arch. '06 ) explores how we can cope with, or adapt to, ecological crises by rethinking how we choose to inhabit the world.
Höweler + Yoon, cofounded by AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon (B.Arch. '95) and Eric Höweler (B.Arch. '94, M.Arch. '96), will participate in this group exhibition, curated by the Anyone Corporation and presented by The Cooper Union.
Community Read Launches Society for the Humanities' "Repair" Theme
The Cornell Chronicle notes that Art Associate Professor Jolene Rickard will speak at the kick-off event following a community read of The Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ People in the Cayuga Lake Region. A Brief History by Kurt Jordan.
Tao DuFour Receives Visiting Fellowship at Cambridge University
Architecture Assistant Professor Tao DuFour will continue his explorations of the phenomenology of perception and corporeity, phenomenological accounts of the experience of spatiality, and their relationship to ethnographic descriptions of space.
