Department of Architecture
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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Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Register Now for Architecture Summer Programs
Cornell's renowned architecture program for high school and college students pairs studio design with history and theory courses for a comprehensive curriculum that encourages critical thinking and creative explorations of visual representation and the art of making with tools at the leading edge of design practice today.
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Monday, January 29, 2024
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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Posted 3 months ago
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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Friday, April 26, 2024
Community Engagement Awards Honor Exceptional People, Projects
The second annual Community Engagement Awards, held at Cornell and hosted by the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement, celebrated partnerships like those between the Finger Lakes ReUse and the Circularity, Reuse, and Zero Waste Development (CR0WD) partner network, which includes the labs of AAP faculty Jennifer Minner and Felix Heisel. David Ni (B.Arch. '24) was one of three recipients of this year's Robinson-Appel Humanitarian Awards and among the 15 faculty and five students to receive awards at the event.
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Thursday, April 25, 2024
Designing with an Eye Toward the Past, Present, and Future
Learn more about the long career, building designs, and master plans of award-winning architect and educator Alan Chimacoff ('63, B.Arch. '64) in the AAP Alumni Archive.
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A Black Woman's Rise in Architecture Shows How Far Is Left to Go
The New York Times: The article offers insights from Kimberly Dowdell (B.Arch. '06), who becomes president of the American Institute of Architects next month, as well as from Architecture Assistant Professor Peter Robinson (B.Arch. '98).
Monday, November 13, 2023
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Leading Educators: Q&A with Milton Curry
The Architect's Newspaper: Curry, Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and Engagement and architecture faculty at AAP, shares his thoughts on architectural education and goals for the future.
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
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Cornell's Jenny Sabin Awarded the 2023 Rippmann Memorial Prize by DigitalFUTURES
Bustler: Sabin was recognized for standing "at the forefront of a new direction for 21st-century architectural practice — one that investigates the intersections of architecture and science and applies insights and theories from biology and mathematics to the design of responsive material structures and ecological spatial interventions for diverse audiences."
Friday, September 15, 2023
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How Might Buildings and Their Integrated Materials Systems Behave Like Organisms?
ArchDaily: A conversation with Architecture Professor Jenny Sabin exploring the critical link between research and practice and her interdisciplinary approach that fosters collaboration with both scientists and engineers.
Thursday, September 7, 2023
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
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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Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Architectural-Art Installation Takes Center Stage at Coachella
Leslie Lok, Sasa Zivkovic
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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Thursday, March 21, 2024
Race and Modern Architecture
Esra Akcan
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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May 24–26, 2024
AAP Commencement Weekend
AAP will hold its commencement ceremony beginning at 11 a.m. on Sunday, May 26, 2024, in Bailey Hall.
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June 3–September 5, 2024
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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Saturday, June 8, 2024
Reunion 2024
We look forward to seeing you in Ithaca for Cornell's Reunion Weekend in June! Reconnect with old friends and make new ones as AAP celebrates Reunion with events on campus during this special time.