Movable outdoor seating made of 3D-printed concrete, designed by visiting critic Leslie Lok and assistant professor of architecture Sasa Zivkovic, will be installed at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens this summer as the winning design in a public sculpture competition.
About three dozen Cornell seniors presented their undergraduate research at the 17th annual Hunter R. Rawlings III Research Scholars Senior Expo on April 17.
A new book about the Tuscany region of Italy by architecture faculty member D. Medina Lasansky uncovers overlooked aspects of the often idealized region, where food, landscape and architecture are intertwined.
Ten Cornell undergraduate and graduate students traveled 23 hours and 7,600 miles to the South Pacific island nation of Tonga to see what climate change really looks like.
Historians, conservationists, architects and planners will discuss the cultural, historical, design and planning issues that arise around the creation of public memorials Nov. 9-10 at the Atkinson Forum in American Studies symposium, “Place, Memory, and the Public Monument.”
Cornell’s Community and Regional Development Institute (CaRDI) hosts “Building Sustainable Communities: Global Forces, Local Focus,” Sept. 28-29 on campus to help communities become more sustainable.
Lace up your walking shoes and head to Cornell’s new Sustainable Landscapes Trail, which opens with a ceremony Friday, Oct. 5, at 2 p.m., at the parking lot across from the Dairy Bar on Tower Road.
Cities in the “global south” – densely populated urban areas that are part of low-income countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America – should phase out pit latrines, septic tanks and other on-site methods of human waste management, according to a Cornell researcher.