Department of Architecture
!["Swaying Udders" by Christopher Yi, (M.Arch. '20) Large bulbous and interconnected tube-like structures with people and animals within.](https://aap.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/archhome1_2000x1320_0_1.png)
Left: "Swaying Udders" by Christopher Yi, (M.Arch. '20); Top Right: "CREOLE: A Spatial Language of Cultural Preservation, Transition, and Production" by Cornelius Tulloch (B.Arch. '21); Bottom Right: "Loop Column" by Justin Foo (B.Arch. '18) and Xinyu Yi (M.Arch '16).
Architecture at Cornell's College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP) is about creative and critical design practices that make lasting impact — balancing rigorous research and scholarship, responsibility for our natural and built environments, and reimagining the world at every scale to build a just and sustainable future for all.
At Cornell Architecture we see design as a process of creative experimentation and iterative analysis, ensuring non-judgmental, holistic, and open-ended inquiry enabled by independent, critical thinking and bold thought leadership. Our undergraduate and graduate programs are designed to support interdisciplinary collaboration and provide an integrated foundation in global history, theory, structures, environmental systems, building technologies, visual representation, ensuring that our students are equipped with actionable knowledge and the agency to enact change.
Highlights
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Fellowships and Funding Opportunities
View a selection of externally and internally sponsored fellowships available to undergraduate and graduate students in architecture.
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Design Teaching Fellowship
The Department of Architecture is launching a search for two to four Design Teaching Fellowship positions for instruction and research/creative practice, to begin on August 12, 2024.
Videos
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From Ordinary to Extraordinary
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L.P. Kwee Studios at Milstein Hall
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A Different Way of Thinking
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Unbuild Better: a Collegetown Case Study in Deconstruction
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Kim Yao: Our Most Important Project
This year's L. Michael Goldsmith Lecture will feature guest speaker Kim Yao, principal at Architecture Research Office. In advance of this annual New York City event, Yao shares a glimpse into her professional trajectory and the talk she has planned for September 25.
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Get Ready, Get Set: Highlights of the Fall 2024 Semester Ahead
From inspiring lectures to thought-provoking exhibitions and much-anticipated renovations (plus the unveiling of the Dragon Annex), we're diving into a semester filled with opportunities not to be missed.
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Readily At Hand
The Architect's Newspaper: From a repurposed church in Buffalo, artist-architect-educator Dennis Maher (B.Arch. '99) leads the Society for the Advancement of Construction-Related Arts.
Thursday, August 15, 2024 -
In Brooklyn, a Pink Building Stands Out
The New York Times: SO – IL, led by the husband and wife team of Florian Idenburg, Professor of the Practice in Architecture, and Jing Liu, collaborated with a Brooklyn-based developer to design a new building that encourages more intimate living space.
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Unmonument by Black Reconstruction Collective Refuses "The Traditional Idea of Monuments" to Inspire Collaborative Action
The Architect's Newspaper: Black Reconstruction Collective, whose founding board members include Sekou Cooke (B.Arch. '99), Olalekan Jeyifous (B.Arch. '99), and Amanda Williams (B.Arch. '97), debuts a mobile public art installation that is both "siteless and multi-sited" at Brooklyn's Weeksville Heritage Center.
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An Oral History Project Excerpt with Amanda Williams
BOMB: In this article, AAP alumni Amanda Williams (B. Arch. '97) discusses the ability to formulate architecture, the potential of which is both real and imagined.
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
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Workbook Tackles Injustice – and Carbon – in Built Environment
Jennifer Minner, Felix Heisel, Jocelyn Poe
CRP faculty Jocelyn Poe and Jennifer Minner, along with Architecture faculty Felix Heisel, are among several coauthors who recently published Embodying Justice in the Built Environment: Circularity in Practice. The guide and workbook seek to help policymakers, practitioners, and communities center justice principles while implementing strategies related to materials resource management, new construction, and alternatives to demolition.
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Architectural-Art Installation Takes Center Stage at Coachella
Architecture faculty Leslie Lok and Sasa Zivkovic of HANNAH designed and built Monarchs: A House in Six Parts, a towering, 3D-printed, robotically fabricated architectural art installation for this year's Coachella music festival in the California desert.
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Race and Modern Architecture
Architecture Professor Esra Akcan makes a plea for what she calls "open architecture" and asks what would have happened if the architectural discipline and profession were shaped by a new ethics of hospitality toward the immigrant.
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AAP Summer Exhibition 2024
Visit the AAP galleries this summer for a cross-departmental exhibition featuring student work from the 2023–24 academic year that showcases the college's creative and critical practices.
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Christiana Moss: Lessons from the Desert — Studio Ma
Strauch Visiting Critic in Sustainable Design Christiana Moss will explore the four desert-inflected lenses through which her firm Studio Ma approaches each project.
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Stanley Cho, Elisa Iturbe, Alican Taylan: Confronting Carbon Form
View an exhibition that offers a vocabulary for "carbon form," identifying its physical characteristics while highlighting its historical and cultural underpinnings.
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2024 L. Michael Goldsmith Lecture featuring Kim Yao
Attend a talk delivered by Kim Yao from the New York City-based firm Architecture Research Office.
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