Announcements
SO – IL, Johnston Marklee Among American Academy of Arts and Letters 2022 Architecture Award Winners
The Architect's Newspaper spotlights winners of the academy's 2022 Architecture Awards, which includes Architecture Professor of the Practice Florian Idenburg, cofounding principal of Brooklyn-based SO – IL.
2022 Cornell Biennial Artist Preview
The Cornell Chronicle provides details on the wide array of included artworks, installations, and performances, which will imagine how artistic futurities might generate cultural transformation.
2022 Cornell Biennial Artists Announced
Curated by Timothy Murray, featured artworks, installations, and performances will address race and social justice, global warming, artistic representation, robotics, sustainable ecology and architecture, migration, and labor.
Why I Make Art: Contemporary Artists' Stories About Life & Work
Available May 31, this collection gathered from the podcast archives of Sound & Vision (directed by artist/educator Brian Alfred) includes interviews with Associate Professor of Art Carl Ostendarp and alum James Siena (B.F.A. '79).
Kimberly Dowdell (B.Arch. '06) Elected Alumni Trustee
A principal at HOK, Dowdell is widely recognized for her leadership in the design community and prior presidency of NOMA.
Werewolf: The Architecture of Lunacy, Shapeshifting, and Material Metamorphosis
A new book coedited by Associate Professor Caroline O'Donnell and José Ibarra (B.Arch. '16) explores an emerging but under-investigated branch of architecture that examines the transformation of form.
Introducing the 69th Annual Progressive Architecture Award Winners
Höweler + Yoon Architecture cofounded by Eric Höweler (B.Arch. '94, M.Arch. '96), was named an award winner in the 69th Annual Progressive Architecture Awards.
2021–22 Wood Design & Building Award Winners Announced
Ashen Cabin by HANNAH, the practice of architecture faculty Leslie Lok & Sasa Zivkovic, won a citation for excellence in wood architecture — the only design-build project among various large-scale works recognized in the prestigious awards program.
Responsible Disruptors: Three Technology Projects Represent Change for the Better
Tree Folio, NYC — a project co-led by AAP's Alex Kobald, the associate director of Cornell's Design Across Scales Lab, and Joe Ferdinando (M.Arch. '22) — received an honorable mention in Metropolis Magazine's Responsible Disruptors Program.
Remembering Frances M. "Franny" Shloss (B.Arch. '45), 1923–2022
From uniquely challenging beginnings as an architecture student to her enduring dedication to her alma mater, AAP remembers Franny Shloss by her legacy of determination, generosity, and her artist's soul.
Introducing The Architectural League's 2022 Emerging Voices Awardees
In Architect's Newspaper, Sekou Cooke Studio (B.Arch. '99) is one of eight to win the invited, juried portfolio competition honoring firms with potential to influence architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design.
"A Translation Movement" is an excerpt from the new book by Esra Akcan, the Michael A. McCarthy Professor of Architectural Theory, resulting from Akcan's participation in the Canadian Center for Architecture's Research Fellowship Program.
ACSA/AIAS 2022 Architectural Education Award Winners
Just announced: Aneesha Dharwadker (B.Arch. '09), University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign, and Jose Ibarra (B.Arch. '17), University of Virginia, have won New Faculty Teaching Awards for excellence and innovation in teaching.
Venice Biennale Names 213 Artists for 'Transhistorical' 2022 Edition
ARTnews: Louise Lawler (B.F.A. '69), Hannah Levy (B.F.A. '13), and spring '21 Teiger Mentor in the Arts Candice Lin are among those whose work will display in the main exhibition of the Venice Biennale of Art, April 23 to November 27.
Kirk Henriques: A Spectacle Following Every Miracle
Kirk Henriques's (M.F.A. '21) solo show of new paintings on fiberglass mesh through March 5 at Charles Moffett Gallery, New York City. Read the interview touching on his work, influences, time at Cornell, and more.
Visual Arts and Theatre Collaboration: New Models for Art Practices in Post-Conflict Situations
Sam Jury (M.F.A. '98) has won a substantial Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) grant to develop a major body of film work and installation in Abkhazia, focused on the human aspect of collaborative art practices in post-conflict zones.
2022 United States Artists Fellowships: Celebrating Visionary Artists
Architecture faculty practices Dream The Combine (Jennifer Newsom, Tom Carruthers), SO-IL (Florian Idenburg), and alumna Nina Cooke John (B.Arch. '95) are among the 63 awardees of the prestigious USA Fellowships.
SOM Foundation Announces Winners of the 2021 Robert L. Wesley Award
Architecture student Alexander Htet Aung Kyaw (B.Arch. '23) is one of five selected for the 2021 Robert L. Wesley Award.
Valgora's Studio V Receives 2021 WAF Future Project of the Year
Alum Jay Valgora's (B.Arch. '86) Studio V Architecture receives Future Project of the Year for Silo City design at the 2021 World Architecture Festival.
Call for Cornell Biennial Applications: January 28, 2022
The Cornell Council for the Arts seeks proposals from faculty and students for the 2022 Cornell Biennial, Futurities, Uncertain.
