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Thursday, May 1, 2025

'Robotability Score' Ranks NYC Streets for Future Robot Deployment

Design Tech Associate Professor Wendy Ju and a team of Ph.D. candidates developed a novel metric that quantifies how suitable urban environments are for autonomous robot navigation.

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Thursday, April 24, 2025
Cornell AAP Receives Gift to Endow Judith Kinnard Early Career Design Fellow in Architecture

With a gift from two AAP alumni, the college has established a position meant to be a "powerful running start" for emerging design educators.
Thursday, April 24, 2025
Ratan N. Tata Posthumously Honored with Inaugural Distinguished Alumni Award

Milstein Hall's auditorium was at capacity for the April ceremony, during which speakers shared personal reflections on Tata's wide-ranging impact and legacy.

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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.
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Building Feminism: The 1976 International Congress of Women Architects in Iran

Esra Akcan, Pamela Karimi

Architecture faculty Esra Akcan and Pamela Karimi coauthored this article on the role of women in architecture as discussed by women architects from all over the world at the 1976 meeting of the International Congress of Women Architects in Iran.