Assistant professor of architecture Kevin B. Pratt, noted for his expertise in sustainable design and his enthusiasm and energy as a teacher and colleague, died Feb. 19 of natural causes. He was 43.
Eight undergraduates each earned $5,000 awards for their distinguished work in fashion design and business in the national YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund competition.
Design professor Rana Zadeh has created a new spatial design tool to improve the layout of hospital nursing units to make nurses’ work more efficient and minimize distractions.
Milstein Hall has received an Institute Honor Award for Architecture from the American Institute of Architects. It was one of 11 buildings in the United States and Canada to receive the award this year.
About 50 students involved with the Cornell University Sustainable Design group are working to research, design and build an affordable sustainable model home in Nicaragua.
A $1.4 million Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant will fund a Cornell pilot program of seminars in architecture, urbanism and the humanities. Six semesters of seminars will begin in spring 2014.
Richard Meier '56, B.Arch. '57, returned to campus Oct. 17 and reflected on his architectural and artistic work, met with architecture students and gave a public lecture.
