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At the fall semester’s stimulating Preston Thomas symposium, a comment caught my attention: during the panel discussion with Jacques Herzog, Peter Eisenman expressed doubt in the value of an undergraduate professional degree in architecture. It was only a marginal musing in the context of the panel, but it was the third time within a year that a significant architectural thinker had questioned the appropriateness of the bachelor of architecture degree. Critic Aaron Betsky dismissed the B.Arch. in an article in Architect (January 29, 2013) titled “Save the Architecture Learning for Graduate School,” in which he argues that the professional curriculum should only be taught to graduate students already in possession of a more general, liberal arts undergraduate foundation. Yale’s dean Robert Stern launched a similar argument during a roundtable discussion at the Center for Architecture in New York City in December, in which he advocated for more broadly educated minds in architecture generally. And, yes, Cornell B.Arch. alumnus Peter Eisenman noted that in today’s marketplace, the graduate degree is needed for teaching, and teaching provides the intellectual and financial sustenance for creative self-realization in architecture.

Naturally, we in AAP think differently about this. There are diverse ways of exploring the human condition, and while symbolic logic and text-based scholarship are the most common means of inquiry and expression for undergraduates, there are other ways to educate the mind, namely by honoring the hand. Undergraduates entering the B.Arch. program are atypical students, not because they know at an early age that a profession calls them, but rather because they are prepared to undertake a large portion of their education in a visual and material language. This is not to say that our B.Arch. students do not wish to become architects, but that the education of a B.Arch. student at Cornell is very remote from a narrow professional training regime. Yes, we are accredited, but no, accreditation does not define our pedagogy or our aspirations.

The B.Arch. program at Cornell is 10 extraordinary semesters in Ithaca, Rome, New York City, and the world, exploring human cultures, reading their physical traces, and writing their future forms. Our B.Arch. students are educated to be analytically precise, conceptually adventurous, intellectually agile, creatively bold, and, most importantly, to acquire the expertise and confidence to become leaders in contributing toward our built environment. Their way of engaging the world is primarily through iterative propositions rendered visually and materially, but it would be a mistake to think they had less to say, or less basis for saying it, merely because it is expressed through marks and fabrications.

Kent Kleinman Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of Architecture, Art, and Planning

B.Arch. student Erica YongEun Cho ’15 at work in Milstein Hall’s L. P. Kwee Studios in February.

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2 McElheny Is Inaugural Teiger Mentor; Gensler Gift 3 Strauch Visiting Critic Gift; Learning Center in India; AAP NYC Urban Design Studio 4 Preston Thomas Memorial Lecture 5 Dennis Maher Exhibit 6 Fall 2013 Lectures and Exhibits

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8 S tudent Profile: Becca Jablonski ’03 (Ph.D. CRP ’14) 9 A lumna Profile: Jill Magid (B.F.A. ’95) 10 Faculty Profile: Jeremy Foster, Architecture

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14 B.Arch. Student Wins $10K Competition; Carter Manny Award Winner 15 Kang Wins AIA New York State Award; 33 Kelvin Print Project 16 Patri Fellowship Winner; MoMA PS1 Colonists; Print Media Class; Planning Workshop

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Gensler Renews Commitment to Support AAP NYC

McElheny on Campus as Inaugural Teiger Mentor The Teiger Mentor in the Arts Program launched during the fall semester, with Josiah McElheny, a New York City–based artist, as the inaugural mentor. McElheny, known for his use of glass with other materials, received a MacArthur Fellowship “Genius Award” in 2006, and his work was the subject of two major survey exhibitions in 2012 and 2013, at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and at the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University. Since 2001, he has been a senior critic in sculpture at the Yale School of Art. McElheny visited campus several times during the semester, and spent time working with students during each visit. He delivered a public lecture, “Modernisms,” in October in the Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium in Milstein Hall.

“It was interesting to hear Josiah talk about his relationship to both art history and the art world,” says Francesca Lohmann (M.F.A. ’14). “He talked about how writing and collaboration fit into his practice, and really stressed the importance of community and how we should be supporting each other to make something happen on our own terms. And, he gave us a lot of practical advice about navigating the art world as well.”

“Josiah had a lot to offer to the M.F.A. program last semester,” adds Jerry Birchfield (M.F.A. ’14). “We were able to meet with him in individual studio visits, where he always offered challenging and insightful feedback on our work.”

Shannon Ebner, a contemporary artist who works mainly in large-format prints and the intersection of language, sculpture, and photography, is the spring mentor. Ebner’s work has been featured in solo exhibits at the Hammer Museum and MoMA PS1, as well as group exhibits, including Things, Words and Consequences at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Whitney Biennial; the Sixth Berlin Biennial in Germany; How Soon Is Now, an exhibit at the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow; the 54th Venice Biennale; and Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language at

MoMA, New York. In 2009, Ebner’s book The Sun as Error, was published by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. “Shannon Ebner’s art investigates the multiple ways language is used, abused, and reinvested with meaning in public contexts,” says Art Chair and Associate Professor Iftikhar Dadi. “Her work is exemplary for the thoughtfulness in the way it’s realized in material and form, for its sensitive understanding of the place where it’s located, and in its philosophical and social character.

Ebner’s engagement as a mentor with the Department of Art will undoubtedly provide challenging and enlightening provocations for our students.”

Ebner visited campus in February, and has three more multiday trips scheduled before the end of the semester. During each visit, she will spend time meeting and working with students.AAP

Shannon Ebner is the spring 2014 Teiger Mentor in the Arts.

About the Teiger Mentor in the Arts Program The newly established Teiger Mentor in the Arts Program was created with a gift from David Teiger ’51, a graduate of the School of Hotel Administration.

A management consultant who lives in Bernardsville, New Jersey, Teiger is a contemporary art collector and patron of curatorial projects and exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe.

The Teiger Mentor in the Arts Program is bringing a series of internationally acclaimed artists to Cornell over the next three years to make ongoing visits to studio and seminar classes and conduct individual

critiques with M.F.A. students. The program aspires to give undergraduate and graduate students opportunities to make connections with and learn from a diverse range of leading professional artists.

Mentor artists are selected by a four-member jury, composed of two members of the art department— Iftikhar Dadi and Assistant Professor Carl Ostendarp—and two external curators and art educators—Tom Eccles, executive director of Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies, and Yasmil Raymond, curator of the Dia Art Foundation.

In the fall, 29 architecture and regional planning students interned at private firms, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations in New York City, all while taking classes from visiting critics at AAP’s studio and classroom facility in Chelsea.

For the AAP students who live, work, and study in New York City, the semester-long program would not have been possible without the contributions of the Gensler Family and Arthur Gensler (B.Arch. ’57), founder of Gensler, the global architecture, design, planning, and strategic consulting firm.

After donating $450,000 to fund the appointment of AAP NYC’s executive director in 2011, the Gensler Family Foundation has committed an additional $500,000 over the next five years to ensure that the program remains a vibrant learning experience for architecture, art, and planning students.

“I think it’s important for our students to find out what they’re facing in the real world,” says Gensler.

“The New York City program exposes them to a very different world than what they have in Ithaca.”

Though he had a summer internship with an architecture firm in New York City while he was a student, Gensler recalls that he did not have the opportunity to take courses with visiting faculty and explore the city with other AAP students. “I feel that the New York City program is important in providing the experiences that I wished I’d had,” Gensler says.

“It is no exaggeration to say that the Gensler family’s support has profoundly transformed our New York City program,” says Kent Kleinman, Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of Architecture, Art, and Planning. “In a few short years, AAP NYC has become an essential curricular experience. This gift allows us to provide high-level and intense exposure to complex urban design issues. We are deeply grateful for Art’s support.”

Since Robert Balder (B.S. URS ’89, M.R.P. ’90) became its first full-time executive director in 2011, AAP NYC has grown and now offers courses and internships for all three departments in the college.

Last fall, students in city and regional planning participated in the program for the entire semester for the first time, working in internships at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the Project for Public Spaces, and in Gensler’s Manhattan offices.

Enrollment for the program now approaches the levels of the college’s semester-long Cornell in Rome program. The fall semester included 14 graduate students in regional planning and 15 undergraduate architecture majors. Art students participate in the program each spring, with 20 students enrolled this semester.

“One of the things we’re incredibly grateful for is Art’s extraordinary vision,” Balder says. “With the success of his own firm, I think he has been able to give us the opportunity to draw from his lessons of practice and start to provide them within an academic realm.”

Students who participate in AAP NYC work two full days a week at an internship and take classes at AAP’s facility in Manhattan. Balder also encourages the students to attend art shows, lectures, and exhibits taking place throughout the city, and often leads students en masse to important cultural events.

This summer, AAP NYC plans to move to a new location that will provide a larger space for its studios, classes, and lectures.

With other gifts to the program, Gensler, who lives in San Francisco, has contributed more than $1 million to AAP NYC. He also funded a scholarship for undergraduate architecture students in 1980, and a visiting critic program in architecture for the Ithaca campus in 1991.AAP

Strauch Gift Brings Focus to Environmental and Sustainable Design For the past several years, Hans (B.Arch. ’80) and Roger ’78 Strauch have provided a yearly gift to AAP to fund a visiting critic who focuses on issues of environmental and sustainable design in the Department of Architecture. Now, thanks to a $750,000 gift from the brothers, the position will exist in perpetuity.

“Sustainability is so important to the future of design that it needs to become part of the vocabulary— threaded into the normal course of all design work and not a specialization,” says Hans Strauch. “Roger and I know this will take time, but we believe that Cornell is the place to push for this new future. Here, sustainability will be brought to a much higher level than it would be elsewhere.”

Sustainability is an issue that both brothers are passionate about and have integrated into their careers.

Hans Strauch is the president of HDS Architecture, a Cambridge, Massachusetts–based firm. He first became interested in sustainable design in 1996, while working on the Moss-Palais building at Leipziger Platz in Berlin’s former DMZ. It was during the design and construction of this project that he saw how a sustainable approach could be infused into building technology and design principals.

Roger Strauch is the chairman of the Roda Group, a seed-stage venture capital group based in Berkeley, California, that invests in businesses that address the consequences of climate change or promote clean technology. Currently funded companies are in a variety of sectors, including water treatment, sports medicine, and energy storage.

Starting in fall 2014, the endowed Strauch Visiting Critic in Sustainable Design will be at AAP for one semester per academic year. The critic will focus on issues of environmental impact, conservation, and sustainability within the field of design.

Previous Strauch critics include Greg Keeffe, Claudia Pasquero, Marco Poletto, and Christiane Sauer.

The Strauch Visiting Critic joins the Gensler Visiting Critic as the second such endowed position in the department.AAP

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Urban Design Studio Launches at AAP NYC During the fall semester, AAP NYC played host to the launch of the newly established Barclay Jones Urban Design Studio. Funded with a gift by Barclay Jones III, the series of classes will introduce M.R.P. students to contemporary urban design practice. The inaugural studio was taught by visiting faculty Claire Weisz and Adam Lubinsky of WXY Architecture and Urban Design, a design and planning firm based in New York City, and focused on “social and environmental transformation of the public realm at multiple scales.” The studio, called Splintering Urbanism: The East River and Hudson River Waterfronts, focused on two “mirrored” sites in Manhattan: the East River waterfront from the Brooklyn Bridge to 34th Street, and the Hudson River waterfront from Chambers Street to 34th Street. Students were challenged to account for the way that Hurricane Sandy’s impact has prompted the need to examine the paradigms that underpinned the development and redevelopment of each of these two waterfronts over the last half century, and to explore ways to address the challenges of sustainability and resiliency.

The studio’s final review was juried by Yeju Choi (NowHere Office); Michael Keane (NYU Wagner); Kaja Kuhl (Columbia University and youarethecity); Gilad Meron (Autodesk Impact Design Foundation); Adriel Mesznik (WXY); Chat Travieso (artist and architectural designer); and Donna Walcavage (Stantec).

Jones is the son of legendary planning professor Barclay Jones Jr., and parent to Katherine and Augie, who are current Cornell students.AAP

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MOU Establishes Learning Center in India Fredrik Logevall, vice provost for international affairs, signed a memorandum of understanding between Cornell and the Keystone Foundation in September that establishes the Nilgiris Field Learning Center (NFLC) in Kotagiri, Tamil Nadu, India.

The NFLC is a partnership between Keystone and Cornell to explore research projects and engage in teaching and learning that meet the needs of both partners. Research projects will be identified collaboratively between Cornell faculty members, Keystone professionals, and community members living in the Nilgiris region.

The NFLC is offering a study abroad program in spring 2014, where Cornell students will be engaged in experiential learning with members of indigenous communities and Keystone staff who work with them.

Each group will bring their experiences and knowledge to learning modules devoted to ecosystems, health and nutrition, and water management.

“We imagine the NFLC as a place for transformative engaged learning and research for the Cornell and Keystone communities, where we will work together on questions of sustainable livelihoods and biodiversity conservation,” said Neema Kudva, associate professor

of city and regional planning, who is faculty lead on the project. “The first class of learners, from Cornell and from indigenous communities in the Nilgiris region, will be in Kotagiri in spring 2014. It is exciting, and a challenge, but something that my colleagues and I want to help build.”

The project has received campuswide support as an innovative example of engaged research and teaching. Cornell faculty and Keystone staff are leading a semester-long, 12- to 15-credit study abroad program in spring 2014. Five modules will help students develop research, fieldwork, analytical, and presentation skills.

Fieldwork focuses on ecosystems, health, nutrition, and waste management.

The idea for the NFLC was brought to Cornell

by Pratim Roy, director of Keystone, as his Humphrey Fellow Project in 2012–13. A Cornell team of five faculty members, two students, and one staff member traveled to Kotagiri in January 2013; and the Keystone team spent two weeks in Ithaca in September, working on curriculum and research projects, assuring that administrative issues were addressed, and continuing to build relationships with Cornell faculty and programs that support the NFLC.AAP

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The two-day 2013 Preston Thomas Memorial Lecture events, held in Ithaca in September, featured Jacques Herzog of Herzog & de Meuron.

Herzog was joined at various times by Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55), Herzog & de Meuron partner Vladimir Pajkic (B.Arch. ’00), and Carson Chan (B.Arch. ’04), architecture writer and curator. Associate Professor Andrea Simitch organized the event with help from Mia Kang (M.Arch. ’13).

Herzog’s keynote, which focused on what he termed the “condition of architecture,” was bookended with a wide-ranging panel discussion with Eisenman and moderated by Chan.

In addition to these public events, Herzog was joined by Pajkic for an informal discussion with students on the Milstein Hall plaza.AAP Videos of the lecture and panel discussion are available at aap.cornell.edu/events/herzog

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Dennis Maher Plumbs the Embedded Life of Stuff Dennis Maher (B.Arch. ’99) likes to surround himself Common Cosmos resembled a 3D, exploded-view diagram with castoffs of the inhabited world. of the contents of a storage locker or barn: pieces of His home in Buffalo, the Fargo House, is an ongoing chairs and tables; globes cut open to hold books and installation project and archaeological dig, filled with small knickknacks; a tabletop umbrella, a parachute, objects Maher has selectively collected, including a trampoline, and various household, architectural, birdcages, dollhouses, jewelry boxes, and globes. and industrial elements Maher has scrounged. By “Most of them are house-like in nature or are combining, recombining, and situating these random fragments of preexisting houses,” he says. “[Their] elements, the piece was a continuation of Maher’s outsides conceal a marvelous interior, as well as the ongoing investigation of not only where the various residue of worn-out insides.” items came from, but also their potential to inform our He combines architectural and artistic practice imagination of houses and of cities. in the house, and he replicated the approach in The installation included smaller pieces, selfCommon Cosmos: 287 F-14213, a satellite installation contained environments, and microcosms of their own. that was on display in Sibley Dome from September 9 One sculpture incorporated sieves and metal bowls— to December 20. “pieces I thought would help me with the relationship More than 15 feet tall, the central sculpture of with the dome at a larger scale,” Maher says.AAP News15 | Spring 2014

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Hybrid Prints: Old and New Technology in Contemporary Printmaking, featuring work from the Pace Gallery, was on display in the Milstein Hall’s Bibliowicz Family Gallery in the fall.

Curated by associate professor of art Elisabeth Meyer and Sarah Carpenter (B.F.A. ’10), the show featured work by Donald Baechler, Barnaby Furnas, Peter Halley, Jane Hammond, Mary Heilmann, Arturo Herrera, Santiago Moix, Katia Santibanez, James Siena (B.F.A. ’79), and Corban Walker. Carpenter visited campus for the opening, led a tour of the exhibition (above), and conducted printmaking master classes in Tjaden Hall.

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Sharples Brothers Talk SHoP The 2013 L. Michael Goldsmith Lecture, titled “SHoP: On the Waterfront and Other Works,” took place at AAP NYC in July, and featured Christopher and William Sharples of SHoP Architects.

The lecture focused on recent and proposed projects of SHoP Architects, including the East River Esplanade, Pier 15, the new South Street Seaport, and the new Domino Sugar Project in Williamsburg. In addition, the Sharples brothers and moderator Mark Cruvellier, chair of the Department of Architecture and the Nathaniel and Margaret Owings Professor of Architecture, discussed other major projects that are changing the character of New York City, including the new Barclays Center and Atlantic Yards.

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Food Systems, Rural Economies, and … Planning?

When Becca Jablonski ’03 (Ph.D. CRP ’14) decided to pursue a Ph.D. in 2009, there were a number of paths she could have followed. With interests in regional food systems and rural agricultural community and economic development, fields such as agricultural economics, policy analysis and management, or even development sociology would have been logical selections. But she chose planning.

“I knew that planning was the right place for me,” she says. “Planners have the most comprehensive tool kit for looking at the areas I’m concerned with. They don’t get stuck within disciplinary boundaries, which allows them to think more systematically about how to address short- and long-term issues. And, planners believe they have an obligation to make the world better—not just diagnose the problems.”

Now nearly finished with her dissertation, Jablonski’s groundbreaking research has helped CRP become a hub for food systems research and learning.

She has become a campuswide expert on the increasingly popular topic of local food systems and rural agricultural development, and meets with one or two students from a variety of disciplines each week, who want her input or advice on research, connecting with on- and off-campus resources, or job searches.

Jablonski’s path into food systems wasn’t direct. As an undergraduate in Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences, Jablonski was a history major, with concentrations in Native American and Africana studies.

“My interest in farming and food systems really started with a series of dramatically different experiences I had during my undergraduate years,” she says. Between the end of her sophomore year and the beginning of her senior year, Jablonski worked on a vineyard in France; spent time on single-family, subsistence farms in Ghana; and finally received a

fellowship with the Environmental Protection Agency, where she examined causes of nonpoint source pollution on Native American reservations. The largest polluter was agriculture. “What really struck me was the contrast of these experiences,” she says. “The role that farming plays in rural areas—environmentally, socially, economically, politically—and how much the type of farming, as well as the people making the decisions, impact communities.”

After completing her undergraduate degree, Jablonski continued to work in a variety of positions in agriculture and food systems: as a worker on a farm-to-market vegetable farm in Montana; as a research associate at the California Institute for Rural Studies and California Cooperative Extension, working on issues surrounding farmworker rights; and as a research assistant for a nongovernmental organization in Cameroon, addressing erosion issues on farms. She also earned a master of science from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, where she focused on fair trade cocoa production in Ghana.

Then, in 2007, Jablonski moved back to Upstate New York, and took a position at Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) of Madison County, as their first agricultural economic development specialist.

“I was the first person in that role in Madison County, so I worked closely with a committee of local stakeholders—farmers, a representative from farm credit, elected officials, agricultural educators, and economic developers—to determine what an agricultural economic development program could do, beyond just starting another farmers’ market,” she says.

One of Jablonski’s success stories was with the hops industry. The president of the New York State Brewer’s Association approached CCE with a direct request: they wanted to use New York State hops in their breweries. But there were only 10 acres of land devoted to hops production in the entire state, despite the fact that Central New York had once been the world’s largest producer. So, Jablonski worked with the newly established Northeast Hop Alliance to secure grant funding from the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets to hire the state’s first hops specialist. She also reached out to Nick and Fred Matt of Utica, New York’s F. X. Matt Brewing Company, brewers of Saranac Beer, who quickly agreed to host the state’s first conference on hops production. “It sold out almost immediately,” she says. “And by the summer of 2014, there will be over 250 acres of hops under cultivation in New York State, and an annual conference that attracts more than 350 people.”

After being accepted at Cornell, Jablonski was able to use her experience from CCE as a starting

point for navigating the vast resources on campus and identifying the best committee for her thesis, which focuses on evaluating rural economic development initiatives and policies, with an emphasis on identifying strategies to improve agribusiness performance and enhance regional food systems.

In addition to working closely with faculty from the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and Development Sociology, Jablonski developed close relationships with several members of her “home” department of CRP, including Professor Kieran Donaghy and Visiting Associate Professor Yuri Mansury, as well as Susan Christopherson, who is chair of her thesis committee.

“Taking Yuri Mansury’s regional economic impact analysis classes completely changed the trajectory of my research,” she says. “He helped me understand different mechanisms to evaluate the total impacts of a project or initiative. The methods I learned in his courses are key to assessing food systems policies, including where and how funding is optimally allocated. So it’s not just about creating more farmers’ markets, urban gardens, or food hubs. We need to look at the specific context of each location, the mix of assets in a particular community, and evaluate the total impact of a project—including opportunity cost, or how the resources could have been otherwise utilized.”

In 2011, Jablonski was named a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture Doctoral Fellow, which included a $75,000 fellowship. “That fellowship has really helped me focus on my research over the last two years, as well as expand my network of colleagues nationally and internationally,” she says. She also recently won the 2013 Graduate Student Extension Competition, held by the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, and has earned several fellowships and grants, including from the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service; New York State; and Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education.

As Jablonski works toward completing her thesis, her focus is also on the next phases of her career and her own job search. She is excited to see the expanded interest in food systems, exemplified by the emergence of several new food studies programs. “Undergraduate and master’s student interest in food systems is growing tremendously right now,” she says. “So universities are creating or expanding their expertise in these areas.

Several universities have recently conducted ‘food systems cluster hires,’ for example. I’m just waiting to see what opportunity will be the right one for me!” AAP Rebecca Bowes

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Getting “ Exquisitely Sly” with Jill Magid For her senior show, Jill Magid (B.F.A. ’95) sculpted a set of bronze and steel abstracts, organizing them into loose grids to explore the way artists fit into the structures around them. It was the best way she knew to integrate her work in metal, her reading of Marx, and her questions about art and society.

“My work was much more abstract then, making these sculptural forms that were almost like three-dimensional puzzle pieces,” says Magid. “There was this concept that artists didn’t have a place in production, that they were outside society. I took it pretty personally, as if there was no space for me and what I wanted to do.

The sculptures were my way to figure out what that really meant.”

Eighteen years later, Magid’s place is growing clearer, her questions broader. Since graduation, she’s had solo shows in Amsterdam, Austin, Barcelona, Basel, Berkeley, Berlin, Brussels, The Hague, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Paris, Santa Monica, and New York City, where she currently lives. She’s been written up in Artforum, Art in America, Paris Review, and Playboy, which asked her to transform its centerfold into high art. (She responded with a red neon sign that read, “With full consent,” which was printed alongside centerfolds by Cindy Sherman and Tracey Emin.)

Her most recent show, the first in an ongoing series inspired by the life and work of modernist architect Luis Barragán (1902–88), was described as “exquisitely sly” by the New York Times, and in the first half of 2014, she’s already scheduled to continue the project in Guadalajara, London, and Zurich.

“I have a gallery in Mexico City, just across the street from Casa Barragán, which is the museum that was Barragán’s house,” says Magid. “I was interested in Barragán’s architecture, and thought there might be something there I could get excited about, because I’m often inspired by going to visit a space and following the ideas that come from being present. But I wasn’t sure until I had a conversation with the museum director, which led to questions about, ‘What does it mean for a corporation to own your legacy, your name, your works?’ That’s what compelled me to go forward.”

Even before Magid, the story of Barragán’s legacy was far from simple. His buildings are scattered across Mexico City and Guadalajara, where he was born, and a small archive of personal papers remains at a foundation in Mexico City. But his professional papers, copyrights to his designs, and images of his buildings are held by the Barragan Foundation, led by Federica Zanco, and housed at Vitra, led by Zanco’s husband Rolf Fehlbaum. The couple has restricted access to Barragán’s work, claiming to have little time to process requests as they assemble their own definitive catalog.

Unable to obtain their permission, Magid has carefully danced along the legal edges of copyright infringement. For Woman with Sombrero, the show in TriBeCa, she used copies of images

by Barragán’s trusted photographer, Armando Salas Portugal, and framed them as readymades. Also, Magid photographed a Vitra-produced miniature of Barragán’s famous Butaca chair and enlarged it to full size; then she performed the text of a love letter Barragán wrote and she recrafted as her own plea to the owner of Barragán’s work: “Dearest Federica, I thank you infinitely for keeping the promises you made,” it begins. “Now I suffer for your absence, and what is even worse, I feel absent from everything around me.”

It’s not the first time Magid has cast herself in a struggle against power and control. Before Barragán, there was Evidence Locker, which subverted the Liverpool police’s attempts to track her movements on surveillance cameras. There was Lincoln Ocean Victor Eddy, about five months spent shadowing a police officer through the New York City subway system, and before that, as an MIT grad student, there was Monitoring Desire, where she trained a video camera up her skirt, then hacked the footage onto an information kiosk at Harvard. Before that, there was Cornell.

“A lot of the things I’m interested in now are quite apparent in the art I was doing as an undergrad, even in the sculptural work,” says Magid. “Of course, my own understanding has expanded, and the work always moves, develops, and takes different forms. I had a teacher in Italy who said that artists are always asking the same question, over and over again, and that really rings true to me. The heart of what I was looking for with these questions about individuals and society hasn’t changed, but the way I explore them has.”

At Cornell, she approached writing independently from her sculptures, but ever since Evidence Locker, text has become an important part of her visual art, providing a parallel, diaristic account for four of her longest projects. During the coming year, along with incorporating text into the sculpture class she teaches at Cooper Union, Magid plans to keep working on the Barragán project, expanding the performance of Woman with Sombrero in London, delving deeper into the past at Barragán’s childhood home in Guadalajara, and focusing on the friendship between Barragán and painter Josef Albers in Zurich, using their relationship as a way to address broader issues of sharing, copyright, and artistic expression.

“I tend to get inside a larger project, and just keep exploring it and researching different tangents off it,” says Magid. “I have to care about something on a very personal level before I can really immerse myself, and as long as a subject still feels rich to me, and I’m excited by it, I’ll just keep going until it either explodes or implodes. At that point, the project feels over.”AAP Kenny Berkowitz

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“ The thing that I’ve always been interested in—more than anything else—is the construct of place,” says Jeremy Foster, assistant professor of architecture.

Foster’s academic life has been a pursuit of an understanding of how this ambiguous construct permeates cities and landscapes. This trajectory has given him broad roots in academia, and an integrative—some would even say eclectic—approach to the built environment.

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Profiles Jeremy Foster: Toward a Practice of Landscape Research

different discipline in Britain from what it is in the U.S. It is much more common and has a much higher profile. Although cultural geography was a sub-discipline, I was studying with the seminal thinker in that field, someone who was a profound humanist.”

Foster’s post-graduate studies were dominated by debates about the origins of the “landscape idea,” and its taken-for-granted power: whether it is primarily visual and spatial, projection and image, or a realm of social and material practices, customs, and negotiations. These debates also had political connotations in terms of whether landscape thinking is a redemptive or a manipulative endeavor.

Foster continues to explore the implications of this “productive ambiguity” in his teaching as well as his research. An ongoing thread is exploring how visual representations—ranging from maps to photography and film—not only affect how people relate to landscapes and cityscapes, but often help shape them.

This linkage between “seeing, thinking, and acting” is not only at work in society as a whole, but also in the disciplines involved in shaping the built environment, says Foster.

As a result, Foster argues, coming to grips with the “landscape idea” has ethical and even political ramifications, which extend into the kind of research one does. “Developing a theoretically informed, landscape-centered research program today is complicated by the fact that landscapes encompass so many different forms, and ways of making sense, of ‘empirical evidence,’” says Foster. “The metrics at work in any given landscape include the aesthetic-expressive, the psychological-experiential, the socio-ethnographic, the cultural-discursive, the material-anthropological, the scientific-environmental, the political-jurisdictional, and so on.”

In general, landscape research tends to break down into positivists who rely on methods borrowed from the applied social and natural sciences, oriented toward quantifiable findings, and those who use a more interpretative, humanities and arts based model, grounded in the history and theory of society, culture, and aesthetics.

It has also meant that finding a home in the traditional Although Foster leans toward the interpretative disciplinary framework has been challenging; before approach, thanks to his professional knowledge of the settling into a tenure-track line in the Department variety of practices involved in making, using, and of Architecture in 2011, in his previous seven years sustaining material landscapes, he is uncomfortable at Cornell he held adjunct positions in Architecture, cleaving along narrowly disciplinary lines.

Landscape Architecture, and CRP. So, he prefers to adopt what he calls a “landscape In some ways, this movement from professional studies” approach, which celebrates landscape as an home to home was a continuation of a life in motion inherently hybrid medium: simultaneously an assemthat he has long been accustomed to. Born in Liverpool blage of material processes, a space of representation, and of European descent, Foster was raised mainly in and a vehicle of discourse. To this end, Foster focuses South Africa, and transit between continents was freon writing projects that aim to be “simultaneously anaquent. “On both sides of my family, in each generation, lytical and speculative, critically informed and creative.” people went back and forth between Europe and South Drawing on geographical, architectural, and landscape Africa,” he says. “So I grew up in this diasporic, émigré architectural theory, art history, anthropology, and culture—my grandparents were German and Danish visual studies, they unpack the cultural production, and English. That had a strong impact on me because I use, and meaning of material regions, urban environlived in this world where I was physically in Africa, but ments, and places. a lot that I thought about every day came from other, Most of this writing has appeared in peer-reviewed far away places.” journals with audiences outside architecture and landFormative for Foster were annual family vacations scape architecture: “Basically, my mission is to broaden spent in South Africa’s empty, rugged highlands, but awareness of the uniquely syncretic potential of landwhere, surprisingly, daily life was similar to rural scape thinking as a vehicle for cultural, political, and England. “Although I now realize this was partly a aesthetic analysis.” And Foster’s subject matter, which legacy of colonial history, at the time, for me, it just is both historical and contemporary, can sometimes heightened the physical and cultural nuances of differ- also seem disparate. His dissertation-derived book, ent locales, and how they play off each other,” he says.

Washed with Sun: Landscape and the Making of White South Foster credits this early “traveling sensibility” with Africa (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008), examines launching his interest in “place and landscape” that has representations of the subcontinent during the period sustained a 20-year research and publishing career. of national formation. But he has also written about As an architecture undergrad at the University of war memorials, urban parks, urban peripheries, minCape Town, he broadened his focus beyond architecing landscapes, and national parks. And an in-progress tural design. “In studio assignments, I found that I paper examines Wim Wenders’s recent film on the was more interested in the study of the surrounding choreographer Pina Bausch as a way to “understand cultures and natural environment,” he says. “I was also emerging constructions of nature and history in postintrigued by how notions of regionalism and historic industrial Europe through the lens of performativity.” preservation might inform design thinking.”

In his teaching, Foster looks for ways to introduce To develop this interest at the graduate level, Foster the “productive ambiguity” of the landscape thinking studied at the University of Pennsylvania under Ian into his classes. In the end, he believes the ideal McHarg and earned a master of landscape architeclandscape design educator is not someone with a Ph.D. ture. He then worked in well-known design offices in a particular area, but someone “familiar with the in Philadelphia, and taught part time at Penn before various landscape epistemologies, and attuned to how landing in the Ph.D. program in the Department of the speculative oscillation between them can generate Geography at University of London–Royal Holloway. It original ideas and effective strategies.” was there that his interests in architectural and land“This is, after all, precisely what we expect of scape design dovetailed with an intellectual framework students every day, in the design studios that are the that he could use in his research of places. backbone of their education,” he says “Put differently, “In London, I was lucky enough to study with Denis a distinctly ‘landscape’ way of thinking is always, Cosgrove, a major guru at the time,” says Foster. “It was theoretically and methodologically, aware of its own a transformative experience; geography [writ large] is a contingency and incompleteness.” AAP Aaron Goldweber

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Cyanotype on Cloth #1 – 3 2013 work by Esther Jun (B.F.A. ’15) from Associate Professor Jean Locey’s Alternative Photographic Processes class. Striped fabric was scanned and made into digital negatives that were then printed on cloth that had been sensitized with cyanotype emulsion. The result is a flat fabric holding the image of the folds of the scanned fabric.

Student News In collaboration with the TEDx Cornell University club, Caio Barboza (B.Arch. ’13) and Apexa Subhashchandra Patel (M.Arch. ’16) organized one of Cornell’s first TEDx talks, titled “Creating Just, Ecologically Sound Communities,” which was held on campus in November. The event brought to campus a selection of speakers whose work and research highlighted the ways in which knowledge has been put into action in pursuit of economic vitality, ecological sustainability, and social well-being.

Several pieces by Jerry Birchfield (M.F.A. ’14) were included in a group exhibit titled Realization Is Better than Anticipation at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland. The exhibit, which featured work by 12 artists connected to Cleveland and the surrounding region, including Detroit, Pittsburgh, and locations throughout Ohio, was on display in the main gallery of the museum from June to October.

Underground Music Park, a proposal by JieYing Chen (B.Arch. ’15), was awarded second place in the 2013 Samsung Everland Landscape Design Award competition this past summer. The international competition called for a reinterpretation of an urban space; Chen sited her proposal on the mezzanine level of a subway station in New York City.

Julia Crowley’s (M.R.P. ’14) work on trash issues in Ilocos Norte in the Philippines appeared in an article titled “Ex-Peace Corps Volunteer Airs Concern over Trash,” which appeared in Inquirer News, an English-language newspaper published in the Philippines.

The multigenerational planning project of Danielle Dunn (M.R.P. ’14), Xiaomeng Li (M.R.P. ’14), Victoria Long (M.R.P. ’14), Travis North (M.R.P. ’14), Haylee Madfis (M.R.P. ’14), Abigail Rivin (M.R.P. ’14), and Danai Zaire (M.R.P. ’13) won the Outstanding Student Project Award at the New York Upstate Chapter of the American Planning Association Annual Conference in September.

Correction: In the last issue of AAP News, we noted honorable mention recognition for B.Arch. students who were finalists in the Tokyo Replay Center competition. Jennifer Grosso (B.Arch. ’13) was Mauricio Vieto’s (B.Arch. ’13) teammate, and was inadvertently left out of the listing.

Rawlings Presidential Scholar Quinn Kelly (B.S. URS ’14) spent the summer as a visiting researcher at the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands, where he worked on a project evaluating the critical success factors for urban bicycle transportation policy in European and American cities. The work was a continuation of an independent study on bicycle transportation that Kelly completed during the fall of 2012, with Associate Professor Neema Kudva and Assistant Professor Michael Manville.

Donghyun Kim (M.Arch. ’13) won second place in the International Architectural Thesis Award competition, in the Residential category. This category recognizes the best residential projects that provide comfortable and attractive housing and are suitable for and produce minimal impact on residents’ respective environments. Kim’s proposal, Micro Housing, is a response to New York City’s changing demographics of shrinking households and lack of ground-level residential housing space.

Jackie Krasnokutskaya (B.Arch. ’14) and Shuping Liu (B.Arch. ’14) were awarded third place for their entry in the London Cinema Challenge, hosted by Combo Competitions. The competition asked entrants to design a cinema, located in central London, which would present solutions that aim to secure the role of cinemas in the coming years.

An exhibit from Associate Professor Greg Page’s Large Format Print Media class was on display in Mann Library from November to March. The course focused on an investigation of erosion, and spent the fall semester examining a geological formation present within the Monkey Run natural area, a part of the Cornell Plantations. Todd Bittner, director of natural areas at the Cornell Plantations, collaborated on the course. Students with work in the exhibit included Subin Lee (B.F.A. ’15), Jieun Lim (B.F.A. ’15), and Xinyi Liu (B.F.A. ’16).

Over the summer, Justin Wadge (B.Arch. ’15) worked as part of a team from architecture firm Ennead Lab on an entry that was selected as a finalist in the FAR ROC (For a Resilient Rockaway) competition. The proposal, titled Fostering Resilient Ecological Development, consisted of an integrated system of dunes, piers, and housing clusters that would be replicable for low-lying coastal communities along the Atlantic Seaboard. The FAR ROC competition received 117 entries from more than 20 countries.

A peer-reviewed article by Josi Ward, Ph.D. HAUD candidate, titled “‘Dreams of Oriental Romance’: Reinventing Chinatown in 1930s Los Angeles,” was published in the spring 2013 issue of the journal Buildings and Landscapes.

Peter Wissoker, Ph.D. candidate in CRP, published an article titled “From Insurance to Investments: Financialization and the Supply Side of Life Insurance and Annuities in the USA (1970–2006)” in the November 2013 issue of the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy, and Society.

B.Arch. Student Wins $10K Design Competition Resonance of Light, a project by Hyemin Jang (B.Arch. ’16) and Sunggi Park, a student at Harvard GSD, was recently awarded first prize in the Mapo Oil Reserve Base Competition, which challenged student and professional participants to repurpose the Mapo Oil Reserve Base in Sangam, Seoul, South Korea. Jang and Park were awarded a $10,000 prize.

Originally designed to house oil reserves for the military, the site’s oil stockpile was moved in November 2000, when the 2002 World Cup stadium was built. The area has remained closed for more than 10 years while community leaders explored how to regenerate and reuse the land. Jang and Park’s project transforms the Mapo oil tanks, which are buried under a parking lot, into a multifunctional space where public programs can be held, while simultaneously keeping the surrounding natural environment as untouched as possible.

Jang traveled to Seoul to receive the award in early October.AAP

Architecture History Grad Student Receives Carter Manny Award Ph.D. candidate Sophie Hochhäusl of Architecture.

(M.A. HAUD ’10) is the recipient of a “Advising Sophie on her M.A. and 2013 Carter Manny Award, presented by now Ph.D. has been such a gratifying the Graham Foundation for Advanced and intellectually rewarding experience,” Studies in the Fine Arts. The award says Mark Morris, visiting associate recognizes outstanding doctoral-level professor of architecture and a member work on architectural topics, and of Hochhäusl’s committee. “She is a provides funding for dissertation writing serious scholar who moves comfortably and research. Hochhäusl received a between history and design, urbanism, $15,000 prize. and landscape.”

“This award is simultaneously Mark Cruvellier, Nathaniel and well deserved and unsurprising,” says Margaret Owings Professor and chair Medina Lasansky, associate professor of the architecture department, adds, of architecture and HAUD coordina“This prestigious award is obviously a tor. “One of the many great things about great achievement for Sophie, and is Sophie is the way she identifies historialso a fitting tribute to the remarkable cal questions and goes about answering quality of our HAUD graduate program, them. She is open minded, creative, and its faculty, and its students—especially rigorous—the best qualities for underin this year of losing [longtime HAUD taking great architectural history.” professor] Chris Otto, who was one of Hochhäusl’s thesis, Modern by Nature: Sophie’s thesis advisors.”

Architecture, Politics, and Socio-Technical Hochhäusl’s thesis committee Systems in Austrian Settlements and also included Alys George, Department Allotment Gardens between Reform and the of German, NYU; William Goldsmith, Welfare State, 1903–1953, was selected professor emeritus, CRP; Sara Pritchard, after a review of 44 applications from Department of Science and Technology doctoral students enrolled in schools Studies, College of Arts and Sciences; in the U.S. and Canada. The review and Felicity Scott, Graduate School panel for the 2013 Carter Manny Award of Architecture, Planning, and Preservaincluded Romi Crawford, associate tion, Columbia University. Hochhäusl professor, Visual and Critical Studies also received support and guidance and Africana Studies, School of the Art on the Carter Manny Award process Institute of Chicago; Timothy Hyde, from Mary Woods, architecture; and associate professor of architecture, Mary McLeod, Graduate School of Harvard GSD; and Mark Linder, associate Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, professor, Chancellor’s Fellow in the Columbia University.AAP Humanities, Syracuse University School

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Students Bring the Right Stuff to Artist’s Print Project An unusual print project created in a collaboration between six AAP students and a Brooklyn artist was exhibited in a Los Angeles gallery this winter.

The project is the first joint initiative of its kind involving AAP students and a professional artist at Cornell. The artist, Pedro Barbeito, taught at Cornell last spring as a visiting critic in art and displayed the print as part of a solo show at the 101 Exhibit gallery in Los Angeles.

What is also unique about the collaboration is the print itself.

Titled 33 Kelvin—reflecting the temperature the newly constructed James Webb Space Telescope will operate in—the print incorporates three-dimensional objects and arrives in a cardboard box with a laser etching on its cover.

“We didn’t go into this with any rules,” Barbeito says. “I just wanted them to push the limits and understanding of the boundaries of these media.”

In his artwork, Barbeito incorporates images from science and technology into his prints and paintings. One facet of science he has focused on is the latest generation of space telescopes and how they are attempting to look back in time to the origin of the cosmos.

“It’s just another way in which science is trying to figure out why we’re here and what is the meaning of all this,” says Barbeito, who has had 13 solo exhibits in Europe and the U.S. 33 Kelvin depicts two images of the universe: a 12th-century Persian map and a drawing from a photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

The 3D white, plastic object is a model of the James Webb telescope, the successor to the Hubble that will launch in 2018.

Associate professor of art Elisabeth Meyer proposed bringing Barbeito to campus and having him collaborate with the students on a printmaking project. She says creating a print with Barbeito as an independent study project gave them a realistic view of what it takes to create art professionally.

“This is a real transition in professional practice,” says Meyer, who also helped produce the print. “It’s one thing when they’re in school and doing their work, but when it’s something going out to market and going to be displayed, that’s a different story.”

Calvin Kim (B.F.A./B.A. ’15) worked on designing the box that contains the print and its various components that the recipient puts together. “I had never thought about a box that holds a print,” Kim said. “We had to work out things like the height of the box and how the structure needed to be stronger.”

In addition to Kim, the student team included Uroosa Ijaz (B.F.A. ’15), Olivia Lerner ’13, Aaron Sage ’13, Danni Shen (B.F.A. ’15), and Jin Yoo (B.F.A. ’16).

While in Ithaca, Barbeito also used the Creative Machines Lab, the facility that conducts 3D printing under the direction of Associate Professor Hod Lipson from the College of Engineering. The work of creating 15 copies of the print, including one that will be donated to the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, took place in the graduate student and faculty studio in the basement of Tjaden Hall.

“Everything just kind of lined up and we were able to put the project together in one semester,” Barbeito says. “It would have been a different project without the students and the resources at Cornell.”AAP

Kang Wins AIA New York State Award

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Mia Kang (M.Arch. ’13) is the recipient of a 2013 Student Award from the American Institute of Architects New York State (AIANYS).

Kang’s winning project, Invisible Winter, focuses on the abandoned Francon Quarry in Montreal, currently used exclusively for snow and salt dumping from plowed city streets. Her proposal takes its “impetus from the city’s snow-removal system” and uses its “ingredients” to envision a three-season green space for public use in the spring, summer, and fall. During winter, snow and salt accumulation create cascading snow mountains for viewing and simultaneously prepare the ground of the quarry for the arrival of salicornia—a salt-tolerant succulent—in the spring. With a program of a bridge, walkway, and restaurant, the proposal maintains the purity of the quarry as a natural observatory in various seasons, and its architecture becomes invisible during the winter.

“The architecture enhances the interaction of viewers and their environment in all seasons,” says Kang. “A bridge and walkway serve as observatories where people float high above—almost invisible to the naked eye—and can view the entire quarry, including straight below.”

Kang’s project emerged from spring 2013’s Winter Urbanism studio, taught by Yoshiharu Tsukamoto from Atelier Bow-Wow and Steven Chodoriwsky.

Kang’s work, along with seven other winners, was shown at the AIANYS convention in October, in Syracuse.

According to the AIANYS, the Student Awards were “established in 2007 in order to enrich and reinforce design exploration among students; to establish a stronger relationship between the profession and the academy; and to celebrate, nurture, and recognize the future leadership of our profession and society.”AAP

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Students 1 1 Min Keun Park (center, in blue shirt) presents his work to classmates, critics, and museum visitors during final review at PS1. photo / provided 2 Work by Shayna Anderson that appeared on the cover of Cell Host and Microbe.

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This past August, six AAP students joined students from Harvard GSD for a twoweek residency at MoMA PS1, in Queens. Their task was to design a plan to rebuild or protect the Rockaway peninsula that was decimated by Hurricane Sandy. What made this project unusual were the students’ living conditions: They resided in an actual exhibit, the Colony, located in one of the PS1 courtyards.

“We worked where we lived, ate where we lived, and worked where we ate. It was a residential experiment as well as an architectural design experiment,” says participant Catherine Joseph (M.Arch. ’15).

Comprised of a series of four metal-sided trailers, the Colony, designed

by Argentinian firm a77 and orchestrated by Museum of Modern Art curator Pedro Gadanho, was part of a larger initiative titled Expo 1: New York, a series of exhibitions and events examining ecological concerns, politics, and social organization in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.

Working under the guidance of practicing architects and architecture critics Frank Barkow, Arno Brandlhuber, Sam Chermayeff, Niklas Maak, and Johanna Meyer-Grohbrügge, the students each began their analysis of the Rockaways from a unique context. They were asked to bring an artifact to the session that related to their ideas and design process in some way. The characteristics of this object became the foundation for the analysis and design development.

The final proposals were mostly macroscale, urban and environmental strategies rather than fully developed building interventions. “Our purpose was not to generate buildable design concepts, but rather to generate ideas that could be integrated into future designs and plans,” says Joseph. The final exhibition review took place in full view of visitors to the PS1 courtyard, which led to an active discussion between the students, instructors, visiting critics, and interested guests.

Says Joseph, “We and our work were as much an exhibition of the museum as the art within PS1.”

Cornell AAP participants included Hyemin Jang (B.Arch. ’16), Joseph, Yoonjee Koh (B.Arch. ’13), Min Keun Park (B.Arch. ’17), Karl Pops (B.Arch. ’16), and Kristen Williams (B.Arch. ’17). AAP

Print Media Class Focuses on the “Gut” The fall 2013 Introduction to Print Media class, taught

by Associate Professor Greg Page, art, spent the semester collaborating with Assistant Professor Ruth Ley of the Department of Microbiology on her research of the “gut.” Ley delivered a lecture to the class on the research taking place at her Ley Lab, and provided a tour of the lab’s various locations in the Department of Microbiology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

The final projects provided an exploratory investigation of how an artist would translate in visual terms the work of the Ley Lab, reflecting on the research of microbes, microbial behavior and activity, and how microbes affect life. Shayna Anderson’s (B.F.A. ’16) work was selected to appear on the cover of the November 2013 issue of the journal Cell Host and Microbe, accompanying an article by Ley titled “Stopping Microbiota Motility.”

The final body of work created by the class contained prints of a variety of mediums, including combinations of lithography, screen prints, mono prints, and stenciling produced on several types of fine art paper. Students in the class included Anderson, Jiwon Cheong (B.F.A. ’16), Minhye Choi (B.F.A. ’16), Brendan Dion ’15, Naima Kazmi (B.F.A. ’16), Bum Jin Kim (B.F.A. ’16), Rachel Margolis (B.F.A. ’16), Rebecca Potash ’18, Rachel Redhead (B.F.A. ’17), Rachael Schimmoller (B.F.A. ’16), Blair Sullivan (B.F.A. ’16), and James Walwer (B.F.A. ’16).AAP

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T irado Receives Patri Fellowship Roana Tirado (M.L.A./M.R.P. ’14) was the recipient of the 2013 Piero N. Patri Fellowship in Urban Design. The 12-week fellowship, which took place over the summer, tasked Tirado with creating a project along San Francisco’s southeast waterfront that will have a positive impact on the city of San Francisco and the larger Bay Area.

The fellowship is a joint venture of the design firm AECOM Design + Planning; Bionic, a landscape design firm; the Port of San Francisco; the Patri family; and the urban planning think-tank SPUR. Tirado worked with principals from each of these groups, and received a stipend, studio space, and professional mentorship at AECOM. Tirado’s proposal focused on Bayview Hill at Bayview-Hunter Point in San Francisco. The hill is one of the only remaining original natural landscapes of San Francisco, and sits in a historically industrial area. The proposal conceived a long-range set of connections tying the hill into the surrounding community, including a 400-step stairway from the bay up the eastern slope and, looking ahead to 2040, an aerial tramway from neighborhoods below.

Tirado presented her plan during a community meeting at the end of the summer, and received press coverage in the San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Examiner.AAP

Students in CRP Visiting Lecturer George Frantz’s Land Use, Environmental Planning, and Urban Design workshop present their ideas for a reimagined South Hill during a community meeting with the South Hill Civic Association in early December. The workshop team’s proposal offered responses to two hypothetical questions: What would happen if the population of Ithaca grew by more than 35,000 residents between now and 2060 (the anticipated population growth for all of Tompkins County)?

And, what might the South Hill neighborhood look like in 50 years if it were to evolve into a more compact, sustainable community for its diverse array of current residents, including multigenerational families, young professionals, and students?

The final proposal included the creation of a mixed-use, higher-density residential neighborhood; replacing existing student housing with a mix of housing better suited for families and young professionals; and an extensive network of bicycle and pedestrian linkages within the neighborhood and to downtown Ithaca.

Sunshine and History First-year graduate students on the terrace of the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, DC, in October. More than 50 CRP and HPP students descended upon the city, embarking on a whirlwind tour of historic sites, up-and-coming neighborhoods, and city agencies. photo / Collenne Wider (M.R.P. ’15)

Roma Riconnessa Model from Juan Carlos Artolozaga’s (M.Arch. ’13) thesis “My thesis investigates the Imperial, Medieval, Renaissance/Baroque, and Fascist eras of Rome by drawing prominent analysis from topological and architectural interventions of the site; this leads to an urban proposal of the area, which abstractly involves reconnecting past historical layers to formulate a pragmatic design approach to the palimpsest city.”

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During the spring and summer, Professor Susan Christopherson, CRP, worked with the U.S. National Research Council to organize two workshops on shale gas risks and governance, and delivered a talk titled “A Distinctive U.S. Approach to Shale Gas and Oil Development? Local Responses to Complex Risks” to an audience of Cornell trustees in October. Christopherson was also a distinguished visiting fellow in the newly established Institute for Advanced Studies at Birmingham University in the U.K. in September. While there, she delivered a talk and published a piece in The Conversation, a U.K. site in which academics write about contemporary issues.

George Frantz, visiting lecturer in CRP, spent three weeks over winter break at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at Tongji University in Shanghai, China.

During the visit, he worked with faculty on a study of the informal use of undeveloped lands and green spaces in Shanghai; lectured on planning practice in the U.S.; and conducted field investigations of several mid-20th-century planned residential areas in Shanghai as part of an ongoing research project with Professor Daixin Dai, a visiting scholar at CRP during the fall. The trip was funded by a grant from the Clarence S. Stein Institute. Frantz also recently published a paper in Landscape Journal (32:1, spring 2013) that he cowrote with Professor Sherene Baugher, landscape architecture, titled “The Inlet Valley Project: Reflections on an Early Model for Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Service-Learning Courses in Landscape Architecture.”

This past October, Visiting Assistant Professor Renate Ferro was an invited speaker at the Busan International Film Festival Conference held in Busan, South Korea. The conference brought together artists, scholars, and industry specialists to focus on the cross-disciplinary topics that contemporary cinema engages, particularly those that intersect with science, communication, new media, and cultural and societal reflections. Ferro sat on a panel titled “Film, Design, and Convergence,” where she gave a presentation that addressed the expanded convergence of new media art with time-based film.

The conference was held during the Busan International Film Festival, which is Asia’s largest. The festival, which included the screening of more than 300 films, aims to continue the development of Asian cinema and highlight independent and fringe films from the region.

On the return trip from South Korea, Ferro shared her work with students and faculty at Dongguk University in Seoul. She also took a gallery tour with former students Sunny Kim (B.F.A. ’12), Soyun Monica Shim (B.F.A. ’11), and Rachel Shim (B.F.A. ’11), while in Seoul.AAP

During the summer and fall, Carl Ostendarp, assistant professor of art, participated in group exhibits at Artspace Gesso in Vienna, Austria; Josée Bienvenu Gallery in New York City; and Carroll and Sons Gallery in Boston.

He was also featured in the blog Pencil in the Studio, produced by Maria Calandra (M.F.A. ’06); and in a series of video interviews originally produced in 1996 by Morgan Snyder St. John for the Manhattan cable program 13 Artists in the Studio. The videos were released on YouTube in September, and include interviews with Bill Arning, John Currin, Gail Fitzgerald, Fabian Marcaccio, Richard Phillips, and Jessica Stockholder.

Composition, a solo exhibit by Maria Park, associate professor of art, was on display at Toomey Tourell Fine Art in San Francisco, from December to January.

Jenny Sabin, assistant professor of architecture, had two bodies of work featured in the Ninth ArchiLab exhibition at the FRAC Centre in Orléans, France. The exhibition, titled Naturalizing Architecture, included 40 architects, designers, and artists and was curated by the founders, MarieAnge Brayer, director of FRAC Centre; and Frédéric Migayrou, deputy director of the Centre Pompidou and chair of the Bartlett School of Architecture. Sabin presented two distinct, but related bodies of work: eSkin, a transdisciplinary project funded by the NSF Emerging Frontiers for Research Innovation (EFRI) SEED; and drawings, 3D prints, models, interactive software, and movies in support of two new prototype installations that represent more than four years of work from her continuing research in digital ceramics. Cornell collaborators and team members from Jenny Sabin Studio and the Sabin Design Lab include visiting faculty Andrew Lucia and Martin Miller, and current and former students Giffen Ott (B.Arch. ’13), Simin Wang (M.Arch. ’13), Jin Tack Lim (M.Arch. ’12), Liangjie Wu (M.Arch. ’12), and Chuan Hao Chen (B.Arch. ’13). The exhibit was open from September to February.

Professor Mildred Warner, CRP, is presenting an article titled “Marketization, Public Services and the City: The Potential for Polanyian Counter Movements,” at the American Association of Geographers meeting this spring. The article will also appear in an upcoming issue of the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. Warner also published “Private Interest in Public Finance: Social Impact Bonds” in the Journal of Economic Policy Reform (16, 4:303–319); and Andrew Lucia Design & Research, the firm of Andrew Lucia, visiting lecturer, architecture, “Crime Rates and Collective Efficacy: The Role of Family Friendly Planning” in Cities completed construction on a 4,300-square(31:37–46). Along with current students foot dental office in Minnesota in November; Yuanshuo Xu (M.R.P. ’13) and Amanda designed visual elements for Biennale: A Micklow, Ph.D. candidate in CRP; and recent Comic Opera, which premiered at the Barnes alumns Chris Hayes (M.R.P. ’11), George Foundation in Philadelphia in October; and Homsy (Ph.D. CRP ’13), and Lydia Morken had a project, Card I, an analogue synthesizer (M.R.P. ’12), Warner presented several papers designed in collaboration with Taylan Ciha, at the Rural Sociological Society Conference a graduate student in the Department of in New York City in August. Warner was also Music at Cornell, selected as a finalist in recognized for her expertise on aging, and the Georgia Tech 2013 Margaret Guthman has been tapped to serve on AARP’s Livable Musical Instrument Competition in April.

Communities Task Force and on the APA’s Aging Policy Guide Task Force.

Assistant Professor Caroline O’Donnell, architecture, had recent publications, Associate Professor John Zissovici, including “The Aesthetic of Ugliness in architecture, along with artist Tom Fecht, Architecture,” which was presented at presented an exhibition at Malaquais in Paris a conference at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts titled Surface Tension. The project aimed University in Istanbul, Turkey, in November; to generate tensions between two largeand “Architecture on Money: Notes for a New scale photographic works, ECLIPSE 8090 and Currency,” published in Pidgin (15:30–37).

APPARATUS, and demonstrate the artists’ apparently radically different approaches to photography.

photo / John Reps

Tom Campanella, associate professor in CRP, was invited by the U.S. Consulate in Yekaterinburg, Russia, to advise officials in the city of Perm on urban design and preservation issues. While there, the local public radio station, Moscow Echo 91.2, interviewed him during their weekly program on architecture and urbanism, titled The District Quarter. Campanella also had an article published in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, titled “Playground of the Century: A Political and Design History of New York City’s Greatest Unbuilt Park;” and delivered the opening keynote address at a symposium on Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., in Washington, DC, in November. The event was organized by the National Association of Olmsted Parks and held at the National Building Museum.

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Website Explores the Urban Condition through the Eyes of John Reps

1 1 Reps’s photo of a Greendale, Wisconsin street taken in May 1969.

2 Faud Jamil of the Yayasan Kota Kita, at right, explains to Cornell students about the resettlement of urban residents in Surakarta, Indonesia. photo / Xiaomeng Li (M.R.P. ’14)

A website recently launched by the Cornell University Library displays newly digitized photographs taken and gathered by CRP Emeritus Professor John Reps during his globe-spanning travels from 1958 onward.

The John Reps Travel Photographs document travels to more than 15 countries, and depict a wide range of topics and trends, including new town planning, housing, transportation, mixed-use development, historic preservation and reconstruction, and downtown redevelopment. They also capture a variety of private and public planning responses to urban problems that both arose and intensified throughout the 20th century, a period that saw explosive urban population growth in countries all over the world.

Highlights from the collection include images of iconic neighborhoods and shopping malls in the U.S. that reveal the development of a uniquely American suburban ethos; glimpses of urban development and innovation behind invisible Cold War battle-lines in the cities of the Soviet Union; the heroic mid-century efforts by the Dutch to engineer the landscape of their country; and “New Towns,” or planned communities and cities founded on novel visions for urban life and participation, such as Cumbernauld in the United Kingdom; Nowe Tychy in Poland; Greenbelt, Maryland in the U.S.; Vallingby in Sweden; and Canberra Australian Capital Territory.

The collection includes 1,355 photos, plans, and aerial images, and provides a unique opportunity for viewers to walk in Reps’s footsteps and experience his legacy firsthand.AAP johnreps.library.cornell.edu

New Course and Speaker Series Focus on Digital Design Research In the spring of 2013, Mary Woods, the Michael A. McCarthy Professor of Architecture, and Oya Rieger, associate university librarian for digital scholarship and preservation services, cotaught a new course on design research in the digital era. Along the Edge of the Physical and Virtual Design and Visual Research in the Digital Era explored how to foster critical thinking about digital culture and make sense of changes triggered by new media by focusing on qualitative research methods and strategies. A companion lecture series, Conversations in the Digital Humanities, brought to campus speakers, including Neil Fraistat, University of Maryland; Yanni Loukissas (B.Arch. ’99), Harvard GSD; and Shannon Mattern, The New School.

The speaker series continued in the fall semester, with guests Kathleen Fitzpatrick, New York University; Brooke Singer, SUNY Purchase College; and Michael Wesch, Kansas State University.AAP

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Forester Publishes New Book John Forester, CRP professor, published a new book in September titled Planning in the Face of Conflict: The Surprising Possibilities of Facilitative Leadership (American Planning Association Press, 2013). The book features profiles of 12 planning practitioners and their experiences confronting challenging issues in the field.AAP

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Marchetti and Pellegrino Win Competition in Detroit

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In July, Cornell in Rome visiting architecture critic Davide Marchetti, along with the collaboration of undergraduate Erin Pellegrino (B.Arch. ’14), won first prize in the Redesigning Detroit: A New Vision for an Iconic Site competition. The competition attracted more than 1,000 registrants from around the globe, with nearly 200 of them submitting complete proposals.

The jury determined that Marchetti and Pellegrino’s proposal, MINICITY Detroit, was the best design for new urban development in downtown Detroit, on the 92,421-square-foot former site of Hudson’s, an iconic retailer that closed in 1983.

In their proposal, Marchetti and Pellegrino establish an active urban core through an elevated pedestrian level that can host public events such as fairs, outdoor markets, music concerts, and festivals. Additionally, high-rise buildings in the industrial red-brick style seen throughout Detroit and Merchant Row rise from the pedestrian center.AAP

CRP Launches International Development Workshop in Indonesia CRP’s Victoria Beard, associate professor, is leading a an understanding of the most pressing urban issues new international development planning workshop in in three communities located along the Pepe River.

Indonesia during the spring semester.

Students conducted interviews with planners and The purpose of the workshop is to expose students government officials, and met with community leaders, to the complexities as well as the nuances of planning residents, and representatives from Ngrekso Lepen with poor communities in the global South. Focused Mangku Keprabon, a newly formed NGO representing on a group of squatters located along the Pepe River the river communities. Students also conducted in the city of Surakarta (Solo), workshop participants transect walks with local residents to gain an are engaging in a collaborative planning process understanding of how residents spatially understand that addresses planning problems at the intersection places of significance as well as the most pressing of access to water and sanitation services, urban issues in their communities. The trip culminated with environmental management, secure shelter, pubic a public presentation and discussion at the Faculty space, and poverty. of Civil Engineering and Planning at the Islamic “Solo is a particularly interesting city to conduct University of Indonesia in Yogyakarta. the workshop in because it has recently undergone a Students will spend the spring semester working noteworthy planning process led by the former mayor, on two reports with Indonesian collaborators who are Joko Widodo,” says Beard. The former mayor, commonly coming to Ithaca. The first report will focus on tension referred to by his nickname Jokowi, is well known between providing poor communities with access for successfully relocating squatters away from another to public space and protecting the poorest residents’ Indonesian river, the Bengawan; engaging street “right to the city.” The second report will engage vendors in a relocation process; supporting traditional the challenges of providing poor communities with markets; and his overall, clean, transparent, and access to water and sanitation services with a focus participatory style of governance. Jokowi is currently on problems of coordination and collective action at the governor of Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, and there multiple scales. is speculation that he will run for president in 2014.

Beard’s vision for the course is that it will “Jokowi’s decision to relocate squatters away facilitate “an ongoing partnership between CRP and from the Bengawan River flies in the face of what our Indonesian collaborators, and serve as the basis for is considered ‘best practices’ in urban planning— international development planning internships for improving housing and basic services with minimal students, and exchanges of people and knowledge in relocation and disruption of existing social networks,” both directions.” Starting in the fall, the workshop will says Beard. “There are very few international examples be taught as a yearlong class, including another trip to of successfully relocating squatters, and as a starting Indonesia over the winter break. point in the workshop, we will examine what made the The workshop has received financial support from Bengawan relocation effort successful.” the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Over the winter break, a group of CRP students the Southeast Asia Program, the center for Engaged traveled to Solo and met with the city’s current Learning + Research, the Department of City and mayor, Rudyatmo, and discussed his vision for the Regional Planning, and the American Institute for city. The students’ work in Solo focused on gaining Indonesian Studies.AAP

Carnicero Wins COAM Award Iñaqui Carnicero, visiting critic of architecture, was recently given the 2013 Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid (COAM) award for his social housing project in Vallecas, Madrid. Consisting of 34 apartments, including penthouses, the internal structure features a cluster of three living units per section instead of the typical arrangement of symmetrical apartments on either side of a hallway. For more than 30 years the COAM award has recognized the work of important figures in the Spanish architectural scene, among them Iñaki Abalos, Anton García-Abril, Juan Herreros, and Rafael Moneo.AAP

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Mark Parsons Prolonged Threshold (2013), a doorway, hallway, and living room; carved tongue-and-groove wood flooring; carved plaster and lathe; carved wood trim; white and red paint.

Mark Parsons (M.F.A. ’98), has exhibited his work at the United Nations, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Provincetown Art Museum, the New Bedford Art Museum, and numerous private galleries in New York City and elsewhere. He lives and works in Brooklyn.AAP

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A recently completed project by Garth Rockcastle’s (M.Arch. ’78) firm Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle has won three design awards.

Drexel University’s URBN Center, which opened in April and is home to the university’s Westphal College of Media Arts, has received a Contract Interiors Award and two AIA awards: the AIA Maryland Excellence in Design Honor Award and the AIA Minnesota Honor Award.

The 146,000-square-foot building incorporates Robert Venturi’s landmark 3501 Market Street and a 13,000-square-foot annex that was formerly a daycare center.

The new URBN Center features a central interior street that visually and physically connects the various levels and departments and offers spaces for social interaction and collaboration; open classrooms and studios that provide opportunities for collaboration between disciplines; teaching spaces and labs to accommodate programs such as game design and motion graphics; and, in the annex, a black box theater and screening room centered around an event space.AAP

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Performative Materials in Architecture and Design (Intellect and University of Chicago Press, 2013), a book coedited by Sneha Patel (B.Arch. ’00) and Rashida Ng, was published over the summer. Emerging from “INPUT_OUTPUT: Adaptive Materials and Mediated Environments,” an October 2010 symposium that was hosted by Temple University’s Tyler School of Art, the book includes a series of essays, interviews, and projects that address the convergence of several fundamental advancements in the ways that materials and environments are designed, evaluated, and experienced within architecture and related disciplines.AAP

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’71 Time Being (2013), oil on canvas, 95" x 195", on view at Saint Paul the Apostle. photo / provided

Carreiro’s Fierce Bliss on Display in Manhattan This winter, Joel Carreiro (B.F.A. ’71) exhibited his solo show Fierce Bliss at Saint Paul the Apostle church in Manhattan. Curated by Michael Berube, 23 works of Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque collages—many of them large-scale— were presented throughout the main body of the 19th-century church.

“Carreiro elicits and achieves a strong emotional resonance in his work via structure, content, and transformation,” writes fellow Cornellian Heather Zises ’98 in a review of the show in (READ)art. “[His] approach is firmly grounded in collage but the works he creates operate as paintings that vacillate between abstraction and narrative as one changes their physical relationship to the work.” The show was on display from October 30 to November 30.

Carreiro has upcoming solo shows at Novella Gallery in New York City and at the National Museum of Art, Dominican Republic. His 2014 curatorial work includes an exhibition by Yeon Jin Kim at the Hunterdon Museum in Clinton, New Jersey; and a three-artist exhibition concerning approaches to narrative in contemporary artists’ practice at the Downtown Gallery, University of Tennessee–Knoxville, and at Marshall Arts in Memphis. As an educator, Carreiro is the longtime director of the M.F.A. program at Hunter College, which recently relocated to a new facility on Hudson Street in Tribeca.AAP

Baye Adofo-Wilson (M.R.P. ’94), founder and executive director of Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District, Inc. (LPCCD), was awarded a Loeb Fellowship for 2013–14. No more than 10 Loeb Fellowships are awarded each year, and are typically given to individuals who are midcareer in the areas of architecture, urban design, urban planning, and development. The fellows spend one year in residency at Harvard GSD. “I’m really excited about the Loeb Fellowship,” says Adofo-Wilson. “Since I graduated from law school in 1997, I have been keeping my head down and trying to complete projects in Newark. A year at Harvard, in that incredible environment, will allow me to reset, so I can be more effective throughout the remaining parts of my professional career. It’s an ideal time and place for me to recharge and rethink, so that what we are doing successfully in Newark at LPCCD can one day be duplicated in other parts of the country.”

LPCCD was founded in 2002 as a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization committed to community development on a holistic scale for Lincoln Park, a historic neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey.

LPCCD is transforming an 11-acre, four-block site into a “green” arts and cultural district that features mixed-income housing units, annual music festivals, and historic restoration projects. Earlier this year, LPCCD was awarded grants from ArtPlace America and the Kresge Foundation.AAP www.lpccd.org

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Bringing New (Plant) Life to Detroit Like so many Detroit houses irreparably damaged by disuse, vandalism, and fire, the house at 3347 Burnside Street must come down. But, rather than raze it and leave another vacant lot, Steven Mankouche (B.Arch. ’92, M.Arch. ’93) and partner, artist Abigail Murray, both members of ARCHOLAB (Architectural Research Collaborative), have another plan: deconstruct the house and reuse the foundation to build a semi-subterranean geothermal greenhouse called AFTERHOUSE. “AFTERHOUSE makes use of a resource that can be problematic in old houses—the concrete foundation,” says Mankouche. “A typical 1,600-square-foot residence has nearly 70 tons of concrete in its foundation. And in a normal demolition, all that material has to be removed from the site. The process of removal is energy and labor intensive as the concrete is ground up and sent to a landfill. Reusing these structures in place represents a double or triple savings at no additional cost or energy.”

By using the existing foundation, AFTERHOUSE will take advantage of the constant temperatures of the ground, requiring no active heating in the winter or cooling in the summer. This will allow for a wide range of crops to be grown, including those suited to climates far more temperate than Detroit’s. And, because it maintains the scale of the original structure, AFTERHOUSE is unobtrusive, making it a possible model for other urban settings where large greenhouses are not an option.

Upon completion, a community garden partner and next-door neighbor, Burnside Farms, will take ownership of the greenhouse and provide fresh, local, affordable produce through the winter months.

To make their project a reality, Mankouche and Murray turned to Hatchfund, an online community where architects, designers, and artists can post projects for funding and connect with those who can provide support, often with a matching fund opportunity.

And, as of January, AFTERHOUSE had received enough funding to begin construction this spring.

“3347 Burnside is the last fire-damaged house left on this dead-end street. Building AFTERHOUSE now will be the final step to transform the street into a safe place to grow and celebrate food year round,” says Mankouche. “I think it’s a great example that can show how we can draw from what once was to become a part of what Detroit is now.”AAP

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Students in Liderazgo por Bogotá’s fall 2013 program. photo / provided

CRP Ph.D. Starts New Planning Program in Colombia When Javier Peréz-Burgos (Ph.D. CRP ’13) arrived in Bogotá, Colombia nine months ago, people asked about what he had been doing for the past five years.

“I would answer, ‘I’m an urban planner,’” he says.

“And they would all say, ‘So you’re going to solve all of our problems, yes?’”

The explosive growth of Colombian cities in the last decade has created major urban issues, such as housing shortages, transportation chaos, and an overall decline in the quality of life for residents of the country’s largest cities, such as Bogotá, Cali, and Medellín. To meet these challenges, the Alberto Lleras Camargo School of Public Policy at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá hired Pérez-Burgos to develop an applied multidisciplinary urban planning graduate program.

“There are other planning programs in Colombia,” says Pérez-Burgos. “But here, ‘planning’ in the traditional sense means ‘physical design.’ Until recently, there hasn’t been an understanding of the need to approach planning from a policy perspective, or of the role that other disciplines should play in the process.”

With guidance from CRP professor Kieran Donaghy, who was his thesis advisor at AAP, PérezBurgos is proposing a program that emulates what he found at Cornell.

“We plan to have a few core planning faculty, but then utilize instructors from other departments, like engineering, history, political science, and business… to establish a multifaceted core curriculum,” he says.

And, much like CRP’s approach at Cornell, students will also chose an area of specialization.

Upon completion of the two-year graduate program, students will receive a master’s degree in urban affairs. Even in the selection of a degree name, Pérez-Burgos says that using the word planning carries too much of a connotation of design-only.

The process necessary to establish the new program is not short; after nine months, Pérez-Burgos is ready to submit a concept paper to the provost of the university.

Once approved, he will need to submit the paper to the University Council, and then the education minister in the National Authority. Pérez-Burgos hopes to have his first class enrolled for fall 2015.

While Pérez-Burgos pursues the establishment of the new program, he isn’t wasting any time in starting to educate a new generation of leaders in urban issues.

Along with other faculty members from the public policy school, he is directing a fellowship program called Liderazgo por Bogotá (Leadership for Bogotá).

Targeting recent college graduates, the program challenges participants to conceive and implement a project that can help address a current urban issue.

The program places an emphasis on developing public responsibility and leadership: to help achieve these goals, students attend a series of guest lectures that focus on urban theory, theoretical expertise, leadership fundamentals, and research design, and then utilize that knowledge in creating their projects.

“For the class of 2013, we had 40 students. They created some really interesting and actionable projects,” says Pérez-Burgos. “There’s a social media campaign that addresses issues of accountability in Bogotá, and another project focused on sustainable transportation.”

Both projects have received funding, and are in the process of being implemented.

“Urban planning of the sort that I experienced at AAP is finally becoming truly relevant here,” says Pérez-Burgos. “And with what I’ve learned at Cornell, I am optimistic that what we’re doing can start to make a difference.”AAP For more information (en español) on Liderazgo por Bogotá (Leadership for Bogotá): http://bit.ly/1cQvdNk

Francesca Lohmann (M.F.A. ’14), untitled (2013), plaster, 15" x 25" x 37".

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