Events

3/6–4/10 Resilience by Design: Spring 2025 Lecture Series

Join a compelling lecture series featuring architectural historians, design practitioners, visionaries, and community stakeholders as they explore the multifaceted challenges and opportunities of community-engaged design.

3/17–3/27 The Incubates: synchronize!

Explore the result of ten artists thinking about time as physical forms in space and learning how their personal internal clocks interact with the time of others

3/17–3/27 Group Exhibition: Willard Way

Explore an exhibition that recapitulates the spatial qualities of the collective's domestic environment while drawing attention to creative and interpersonal dynamics at large.

3/24–4/11 Design Tech Open Studio

Visit the inaugural exhibition of Design Tech, a multicollege transdisciplinary initiative pioneering innovation, research, and teaching.

3/24–4/18 Fany Kuzmova: Ithaca (un)Seen Cartographies

Experience an exhibition of student work from the Spring 2025 seminar Urban Canvas: Mapping Ithaca’s Social Infrastructure

3/28 Dragon Day 2025

Every year, an enormous dragon created by first-year architecture students marches across campus. Join us for Dragon Day 2025, with this year's dragon theme, "HOW TO BUILD YOUR DRAGON."

4/8 Marirena Kladeftira: A Post-Digital Perspective for Architecture and Humanity

Attend a lecture that explores how emerging fabrication technologies can contribute to eco-social sustainability in architecture by enabling lightweight and circular building systems that respect local contexts.

4/9 Earl Lewis: The Contours of Repair

Join author and social historian Earl Lewis for a talk tracing the history of the search for repair for African Americans by sketching past challenges and suggesting future possibilities.

4/10 Melissa Catanese: Artist Talk

Attend a lecture that offers insight into the thought processes behind the speaker's work, exploring how intuition, memory, and personal experience inform her approach to image-making and sequencing.

4/11 Nataya Friedan: Climate Change and the Labor of Forgetting in Houston

Hear a lecture that follows civil servants, activists, politicians, and business people as they grapple with climate change evidence in an oil industry town.

4/11 SIGHTLINES: Architecture, Photography, and the Mutability of the Image

Attend a symposium that examines the mutability of the architectural image through photography, emphasizing how acts of appropriation and recomposition shape architectural discourse.

4/18 Daniel Agbiboa: Does Africa Need Elite Cities?

Join a lecture that examines Eko Atlantic City in Lagos, Nigeria, as a manifestation of worlding-cities, critiquing how such megaprojects amplify socio-spatial inequalities and ecological precarity.

4/23 Craig Robins and Jackie Soffer: Entrepreneurship at the Intersection of Art and Real Estate

See a lecture that offers insight into two entrepreneurial careers followed by an interactive workshop with students.

4/24 Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities Symposium:
Climate Resilience in New York City

The Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities will host an in-person symposium on climate resilience in New York City. The one-day event will focus on actions to mitigate risks to people, buildings, and infrastructure from extreme weather.

4/25 Andrés Blanco: Urban Infrastructure in the Amazon Basin, Challenges and Opportunities

Attend a lecture that describes the ongoing effort to understand the challenges and opportunities associated with accelerated urbanization processes and their impacts on Amazonia's critical ecosystems and sustainability.

5/2 Marisa Turesky: Locating Lesbian Lives — Holistic Housing in a Compassionate City

Listen to a lecture that demonstrates the gendered and queer pathways toward health justice and community development over time by applying a queer-feminist lens to the frameworks for aging-in-place