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
Apply Now to 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 1 month ago
Design Teaching Fellowship, Department of Architecture
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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Monday, March 25, 2024
Announcing: Playing Place — Board Games, Popular Culture, Space edited by Chad Randl and D. Medina Lasansky
A love of board games combined with an interest in exploring their larger cultural implications inspired this collection of insightful essays by contributors drawn from across Cornell's campus, alumni, and beyond.
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Monday, March 18, 2024
Architecture Students Set to Spread Wings on Dragon Day
The Cornell Chronicle previews the annual Dragon Day parade, which this year is expected to feature a grunge-inspired dragon designed by first-year architecture students.
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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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Monday, September 18, 2023
Facade Scanner: A Scalable Workflow for Building Geometry and Window-to-Wall Ratio Capture for Urban Building Energy Modeling
Timur Dogan
A team of B.Arch. researchers from Architecture Associate Professor Timur Dogan's Environmental Systems Lab presented this work at the IBPSA International Conference Building Simulation 2023 in Shanghai.
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Monday, August 14, 2023
Throwing Shade: Model Maps NYC Street Trees' Cooling Benefits
J. Meejin Yoon
Under the project direction of Associate Director Alexander Kobald, Tree Folio NYC: Equitable and Effective Urban Shade models the city's trees and simulates how local conditions influence their shading benefits, the Cornell Chronicle reports. The project was developed with students and funding from the Design Across Scales Lab, led by AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon (B.Arch. '95), and the Urban Tech Hub, part of the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech.
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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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March 4–29, 2024
CCA Freedom of Expression Exhibition at Cornell AAP
Contributing to the university's 2023–24 theme, view a showcase of projects by students and faculty exploring the importance of artistic free expression.
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March 26–April 11, 2024
Ekin Erar and Imani Day: Translations
View an exhibition that blurs the line between quilting techniques and architectural language.
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Friday, March 29, 2024
Dragon Day 2024
Every year, an enormous dragon created by first-year architecture students marches across campus. Join us for Dragon Day 2024, with this year's dragon theme focusing on operability and reusability.
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April 4–6, 2024
FABRICATE 2024: Creating Resourceful Futures
Architecture faculty Leslie Lok, Sasa Zivkovic, and Jenny Sabin are set to participate in the conference, which asks how rethinking architectural methods, technology, and construction can create a new societal position for the built environment.