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Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Cornell Atkinson Awards Catalyze Solutions in Food, Climate, Clean Energy

Architecture faculty Felix Heisel, director of the Circular Construction Lab and Faculty Fellow with the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, was recently announced as a 2025 recipient of the Academic Venture Fund at Cornell Atkinson.

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Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Cornell AAP Alumni, Faculty, and Students Answer 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale's Call to Rethink the Built Environment in an Era of Climate Challenge

The international exhibition, curated by Carlo Ratti and featuring more than 750 participants drawn from a wide range of expertise, invites cross-disciplinary conversation and experimentation.
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
In NYC's Central Park, AAP Alum Leads a Stunning Transformation

Architecture alum Susan Rodriguez ('81, B.Arch. '82) spearheaded the design of a recreation center on the Harlem Meer, enhancing accessibility and reconnecting the park's north-end landscape and water features to the neighborhood.

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Monday, May 19, 2025
Scalable Building Reconstruction and Window Detection for Urban Building Energy Modelling Applications

Timur Dogan

Architecture faculty member Timur Dogan's copublished article in the Journal of Building Performance Simulation advances a system for optimizing imagery from textured mesh models for more detailed, urban-scale analysis.
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Adaptive Recycled Plastic Architecture: Vacuum-Sealed Chainmail Structures Through Computational Design

Farzin Lotfi-Jam

Assistant Professor of Architecture Farzin Lotfi-Jam and alum Yi Xu (M.Arch. '24) coauthored this paper that explores the untapped potential of recycled plastics as a primary construction material.