Mui Ho '62 (B.Arch. '66), an architect, educator, and deeply engaged member of the AAP alumni community, has spent her decades-long career working between design, community, and higher education. Her approach to architecture practice is rooted in community-oriented design for neighborhoods ranging from the San Francisco Bay Area where she is based to China, where her projects demonstrate respect and appreciation for vernacular traditions. In parallel with design practice, Ho taught for over 30 years in the College of Environmental Design at University of California–Berkeley. Many of the values and priorities that have made her a respected designer and educator guide her contributions to teaching, learning, research, and scholarship at AAP. Throughout her career, she has been a generous supporter of AAP, seeing that the college offers resources for students in need, expanded access to the unique collection held at the Mui Ho Fine Arts Library in Rand Hall, and most recently, a publicly accessible digital collection of the work of select AAP alumni.

The new AAP Alumni Archive is built on Ho's belief in the importance of community connections across time. The new digital repository featuring graduates from programs across the departments of architecture, art, and planning was created as current students began by reaching out to 15 college graduates from the 1940s through the 1980s to hear their stories and gather selections from their life's work. According to Ho, the web-based archive is meant to "rekindle or foster new relationships between alumni and the college" and offer a curated resource of a total of 40 profiles from across the college that expand and advance design education at Cornell while sharing and preserving its history.  

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