AAP Launchpad: Spring 2025

Discreet Dryer by Sophia Zaita (M.Arch. '27) in the Fall 2024 student exhibition The Back Wall organized by Catherine Wilmes. image / Anson Wigner
Join us on Wednesday, March 19, from 5:30–7:30 p.m. in Milstein Hall Dome for AAP Launchpad: Spring 2025, a special book launch event showcasing recent publications by Cornell AAP faculty. Hear brief, informal talks from each of the authors, followed by the opportunity to meet them, as well as browse and buy their books.
Welcome starts at 5:30 p.m., followed by author presentations (Pecha Kucha style) at 6 p.m.
The Authors
Architecture
- Professor Milton S. F. Curry, CriticalProductiveOpens an external link
- Associate Professor Pamela Karimi, Women, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in IranOpens a Cornell link and Alternative Iran: Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial PracticeOpens an external link
- Assistant Professor Peter Robinson, "The BlackSpace Manifesto: 'Living' Black Liberatory FuturesOpens an external link," a chapter in Spatial Futures: Difference and the Post AnthropoceneOpens an external link
Art
- Professor Michael Ashkin, There will be two of youOpens an external link
- Assistant Professor Leeza Meksin, Painting DeconstructedOpens an external link
- M.F.A. in Image Text Codirectors Nicholas Muellner and Catherine Taylor, Orange Blossom TrailOpens an external link and Love, You Came From GreatnessOpens an external link (represented by two M.F.A. in Image Text students)
City and Regional Planning
- Professor Sara Bronin, Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our WorldOpens an external link
- Chair and Professor Sophie Oldfield, High Stakes, High Hopes: Urban Theorizing in PartnershipOpens an external link and Knowing the City: South African Urban Scholarship from Apartheid to DemocracyOpens an external link
- Professor Mildred Warner, Community Development and Schools: Conflict, Power, and PromiseOpens an external link