With shimmer, 1920s fashion exhibit displays influencers’ power

Items from the Cornell Fashion and Textile Collection make up over 75% of the exhibit “Influencers: 1920s fashion and the New Woman” at Lyndhurst Mansion in Tarrytown, New York.

AAP welcomes new faculty and endowed fellows this fall

AAP is pleased to welcome new long-term faculty, and endowed visiting critics and fellows to Ithaca and New York City. Their experience and expertise will further enrich the college's commitment to academic and creative excellence.

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Jose Castillo named next chair of AAP's department of architecture

A celebrated architect and urban planner with a deep investment in research and teaching, Castillo joins Cornell this summer, with an eye toward fostering new forms of practice, leadership, and engagement in the field to meet the challenges of a more connected and complex world.

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A place to call home

Housing is a basic human need that many struggle to afford because of limited incomes and increasing costs. This semester at Cornell in Rome, students and instructors across several classes explored different approaches to addressing the issue on display in Italy.

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The Digital CoLab: Elevating skills, building community

Home to Cornell University Library’s Digital Scholarship Services, the Digital CoLab on the 7th floor of Olin Library stimulates innovation in research and teaching while building connections among scholars across campus. It follows one simple formula: “People over projects.” 

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Renovations to revitalize Sibley Dome as vibrant hub for AAP

Featuring a “hanging” auditorium, commons area and program facilities, the adaptive reuse project celebrates the 1902 building's historic elements while giving it new life within the College of Architecture, Art and Planning.

Collaboration reimagines shopping mall as wellness hub

Faculty and students joined community members, nonprofit leaders and Cayuga Health System representatives April 12-13 to explore a new vision for The Shops at Ithaca Mall focused on health equity.

Workbook tackles injustice – and carbon – in built environment

Led by College of Architecture, Art and Planning experts, “Embodying Justice in the Built Environment: Circularity in Practice” seeks to help communities center justice principles while implementing sustainability strategies.

Billie Faircloth to join Cornell faculty in January 2025

Celebrated designer and pioneer in transdisciplinary, practice-based research, Faircloth, FAIA, will join Cornell as Associate Professor in AAP’s Department of Architecture and as a Cornell Atkinson Scholar and Senior Faculty Fellow at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability.

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