Dennis Maher '99 plumbs the embedded life of stuff

In an installation in Sibley Dome this semester, artist, architect and educator Dennis Maher, B.Arch. ’99, combines used and discarded matter that explores the embedded history and latent qualities of objects.

McElheny named first Teiger Mentor in the Arts

Sculptor, performance artist, writer and filmmaker Josiah McElheny is Cornell’s first Teiger Mentor in the Arts, appointed for the fall 2013 semester.

Herzog, Eisenman to speak at architecture symposium

Architects Jacques Herzog and Peter Eisenman ’54, B.Arch. ’55, will visit campus to discuss their work Sept. 10-11 as part of the 2013 Preston H. Thomas Memorial Lecture Series and Symposium in Milstein Hall.

Take arboretum's self-guided smartphone tour

Cornell Plantations offers a self-guided, mobile phone audio-visual tour and four new interpretive and orientation signs to help visitors learn more about the collections F.R. Newman Arboretum.

Alumna recalls growing up in Frank Lloyd Wright house

Kim Brown Bixler ’91 entertained a Statler Auditorium crowd July 10 with stories of growing up in the only Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home in Rochester, N.Y.

$6 million gift funds Fine Arts Library transformation

Mui Ho ’62, B.Arch. ’66, has made a $6 million gift commitment to overhaul and expand Cornell's Fine Arts Library in Rand Hall.

O'Donnell's 'Party Wall' opens at MoMA PS1 in New York

Assistant professor of architecture Caroline O’Donnell's "Party Wall" installation at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City earned praise at its June 27 opening for its sustainable and innovative design.

Students coin 'unroom' for interior design lexicon

Two seniors became the first undergraduates to contribute to the Intypes (Interior Archetypes) Research and Teaching Project, which gives designers a common language for interior design features.

Students present vision for a revamped Ithaca waterfront

Students in a landscape architecture class submitted an unusual plan for the Ithaca Inlet that has inspired the director of planning and economic development for the city of Ithaca.