Glenn Murcutt, an architect from Down Under who has a one-person practice, is billed as an "ecological functionalist" and doesn't use a computer, took the architectural community by surprise last spring when he was named the winner of the Pritzker Prize, a lifetime achievement award that is architecture's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Now Murcutt has another surprise: The designer of houses on Australia's rugged promontories and bluffs, who runs his Sydney practice alone and works mainly on private commissions, is coming to Ithaca to deliver a public lecture at the State Theater Thursday, Oct. 24, at 6:30 p.m. The event, which is free and open to all, is part of the Preston H. Thomas Memorial Lecture series sponsored by Cornell University's Department of Architecture in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. (October 18, 2002)
Cornell and Steven Holl Architects announced today (July 11) that they had mutually agreed to dissolve their relationship for the design of the proposed new home for the university's Department of Architecture. Steven Holl Architects was the winner of an invited architecture design competition sponsored by the College of Architecture, Art and Planning.
For the 92nd year, the School of Hotel Administration invites hospitality and business professionals from around the world to a cutting-edge business conference – one that is entirely run by students.
The 2018 Cornell Fashion Collective Runway Show, March 10 in Barton Hall, will feature the work of 29 student designers, from a collection inspired by the human body’s inner workings to representations of feminine power and skepticism and spirituality.
On a blissfully perfect, cloudless Sunday, Cornell University graduated its 146th class May 25. Seniors assembled to hug, shed tears, share joy and walk in procession to Schoellkopf Stadium.
The body of Khalil King '13 was recovered by police in Fall Creek Gorge Sunday, Aug. 29. He had been missing since early Saturday morning. Foul play is not suspected, and an investigation is ongoing. (Aug. 30, 2010)
Cornell computer scientists are sharing in a $7.5 million National Science Foundation grant under the agency's Future Internet Architectures program. (Aug. 30, 2010)
Students in Katia Balassiano's spring Marcellus Shale planning workshop are working with a Tioga County, N.Y., task force to help prepare for the local impact of natural gas drilling. (March 25, 2010)