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Milton S.F. Curry joins Cornell AAP as Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and Engagement

2023-07-25T14:46:00-04:00

Former USC School of Architecture Dean (2017–22) Milton S.F. Curry will be joining Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP) as its new Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and Engagement and Professor of Architecture.

Curry's new position began on July 1, 2023, according to Cornell AAP, and will bring him into contact with the university community and broader public through a range of new initiatives that include the launch of the school’s social justice-focused Black Cities Americas Lab.

Previously on Archinect: Deans List: Milton Curry shares his vision for the future of the USC School of Architecture

During his five-year tenure as Dean at USC, Curry had a list of accomplishments that includes the school’s acquisition of the once-lost Paul Revere Williams archive and shifted educational emphasis towards including academic theories of architecture across the curriculum. He will come to the AAP will similar past experience as the University of M...

Cornell AAP reappoints Dean J. Meejin Yoon for a second term

2022-11-18T11:49:00-05:00

Cornell’s College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP) Dean J. Meejin Yoon has been reappointed to her post for a second term after a vote from the university’s Board of Trustees in October.

Yoon will begin her second term in January of 2024, extending for five years a tenure that brought “dramatic institutional change” to the campus, according to Provost Michael I. Kotlikoff, who made the announcement yesterday.

Yoon has been credited with doubling the college’s endowment in the process of funding the establishment of several influential centers and recruiting more than a third of its tenured faculty.

Her time as Dean also included the founding of the AAP’s first Office of Diversity and Inclusion, in addition to creating grant opportunities and other academic programs geared specif...

Architect and academic Sara Bronin announced as Biden's nominee for Advisory Council on Historic Preservation chair

2021-06-29T13:40:00-04:00

A new nominee for chairman of the White House’s Advisory Council on Historic Preservation has been named this week, placing a community activist and architect into a position of influence that had been only a part-time role until 2016.

The Hartford Courant is reporting that Sara Bronin has been nominated by President Biden as the next chair of the 55-year-old council. Bronin is already an advisor to the National Trust for Historic Preservation and has been featured recently in Archinect for her ongoing efforts surrounding housing segregation in Connecticut. If confirmed, she will join Wayne Donaldson and Trump appointee Aimee Jorjani on a list of others to helm the council in the past decade.

A White House press release cited Bronin’s academic background and public service record as the reasons behind her nomination, stating that her work “focuses on how law and policy can foster more equitable, sustainable, well-designed, and connected places.”

Related on Archinect: Biden admini...

Get Lectured: Cornell, Spring '20

2020-02-14T14:21:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter/Spring 2020

A new school term means it's time for Archinect's latest edition of Get Lectured, an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Cornell AAP's event series is jampacked for Spring 2020, featuring lectures from individuals who have a range of professional, teaching, and research interests significant to the study and practice of architecture. A few upcoming speakers this semester include Andrew Kudless, Momoyo Kaijima, Amale Andraos, Florian Idenburg, Brandon Clifford and Wes McGee, David Adjaye, and many more, which you can check out below.

Poster design: Common Name.

Check out previous posters on the Get Lectured Pinterest page!

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Get Lectured: Cornell, Fall '19

2019-12-11T15:55:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2019

With a new school year already here, it's time for Archinect's latest edition of Get Lectured, an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Here's a look back at the Fall '19 lecture poster from Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. They hosted an international group of lecturers, who explored topics like “Is architecture inherently complete?”, Sentimental Monumentality, The Politics of Modern Memorials Architecture, and more. Architecture speakers included Sandra Barclay, Philip Ursprung, Michael Murphy, Mabel O. Wilson, Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang, Jimenez Lai, and Fabrizio Barozzi. Stay tuned for their Spring '20 lecture series....

See-through floors at new Cornell Fine Arts Library alienate users

2019-11-22T14:45:00-05:00

In a HyperAllergic opinion piece, Sarah Rose Sharp details the shortcomings of the recently completed Mui Ho Fine Arts Library at Cornell University, where "Architect Wolfgang Tschapeller says the library was designed with books in mind — but the grated floors fail to account for slushy snow boots, skirts, assisted mobility devices, and more." The Detroit-based writer outlines how users "inclined to wear skirts are feeling even more on display than the 100,000 books" held within the space.

Sharp writes that the slatted gratings at the upper levels, which are meant to allow air and light through the space, instead encourage indecorous sight-lines. Additionally, the perforated surface presents challenges for guests wearing heels as well as those with assisted mobility devices, writes Sharp.

According to the article, second-year graduate student Nicole Nomura, told Metropolis, "Knowing that I have to think about what I’m wearing as I enter the library is off-putting to me. What was Co...

Cornell AAP's "Earth: Projections 50 Years after Earth Art" celebrated the work of land artists

2019-11-15T11:55:00-05:00

The symposium was a part of the Preston H. Thomas Memorial Lecture series at the Department of Architecture at Cornell University. It marked the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Earth Art exhibition held in what was then the Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art in Ithaca.

As a nod to the 1969 event, this year's symposium sought to look at the "significance for art, architecture, and design in the contemporary situation defined by planetary issues of environmental crises." The event featured works by land and environmental artists and explored the motivations of their work and its context in history.

Four lectures were given at the symposium, the speakers included:

Peg Rawes, professor of architecture and philosophy, The Bartlett School of Architecture University College London
James Nisbet, associate professor of art history and visual studies, University of California–Irvine
Rania Ghosn of Design Earth and associate professor of architecture and urbanism at MIT
Jorge Otero-Pailos (B.Arch. '...