Caroline O’Donnell, the Richard Meier Assistant Professor of Architecture, has won the Europan 11 competition in Ireland, one of 17 European countries that participated in the international contest this year.
In May, the Cornell University Board of Trustees affirmed the promotion to associate professors with tenure for Michael Ashkin, art, and Stephan Schmidt, CRP.
Susan Christopherson, professor in CRP, made the summary remarks at a conference titled “Internationalization for Job Creation and Economic Growth: Increasing Coherence of Government and System Policies at a Time of Global Crisis.” The conference was held in April at the SUNY Global Center in New York City. Christopherson also had several recent articles published, including “Frack or Bust,” cowritten with colleagues David West and Thomas Knipe (M.R.P. ’11), which appeared in Planning in April; “Job Creation Strategies to Accelerate the Return of U.S. Manufacturing” appeared in the Winter 2012 issue of Progressive Planning; and a CARDI Report, “The Economic Consequences of the Marcellus Shale Gas Extraction: Key Issues,” was published and brings together many of the policy briefs from her Green Choices Website.
Assistant Professor Mike Manville, CRP, has had several recent interviews and articles. He spoke about traffic congestion in an interview titled “Taking a Toll,” which was published in the January/February issue of the Cornell Alumni Magazine; in April, he discussed the design of healthy communities on NPR affiliate WSKG in Binghamton in April; “The Price Doesn’t Matter if You Don’t Have to Pay: Legal Exemptions and Market Priced Parking,” written by Manville and Jonathan Williams appeared in the Journal of Planning Education and Research in February; and his article titled “People, Race and Place: American Support for Person and Place-Based Urban Policy, 1973–1978,” was published in the February issue of Urban Studies.
Work by Maria Park, assistant professor of art, is featured in the entrance lobby of the new Sheikh Zayed Tower at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Park’s site-specific commission, CN-JH1, is one of three works Park created for this building and the new Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children’s Center as part of an “Art + Architecture” initiative curated by Nancy Rosen. This initiative encompasses more than 500 pieces of art by over 70 artists. Other artists with work in the project include Polly Apfelbaum, Spencer Finch, and Byron Kim. The dedication ceremony of the new building was held in mid-April, and the building will open to the public on May 1, 2012.
Architecture department chair Mark Cruvellier has been promoted to full professor and is now the Nathaniel and Margaret Owings Professor of Architecture, a title traditionally held by the architecture department leadership.
Kieran Donaghy, professor and department chair, CRP, published an article titled “Models of Travel Demand with Endogenous Preference Change and Heterogeneous Agents,” in Geographic Systems (2011, 13:1, 17–30).
An editorial titled “Planning’s Dirty Little Secret and Its Implications: Beyond ‘Communicative Planning,’” written by John Forester, professor and director of graduate studies, CRP, was published in the November 2011 issue of Planning Theory and Practice.
Elisabeth Meyer, associate professor of art, recently exhibited in the Warehouse Gallery in Syracuse. Black Night/White Night, on display from November to mid-February, consisted of a drawing embroidered onto organza fabric hanging from the ceiling and covering the windows. The fabric’s patterning evoked a net, coordinates, and a limitless plane. The transparent quality of the organza allowed the viewer access to layered space through the piece. The work addressed the issue of geographical displacement. Meyer developed the concept for this exhibition while at a residency in the Baer Art Center in Iceland, and traveled to India to oversee the production of the embroidery. The project was supported in part by the Cornell Council for the Arts.
An article titled “Putting People at the Center of Climate Change Adaptation Plans: A Vulnerability Approach,” by Neema Kudva, associate professor, CRP, and Andrew Rumbach (Ph.D. CRP ’11), was published in the December 2011 issue of Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy.
Pierre Clavel, professor emeritus, with colleague Jennifer Clark, coedited Progressive Planning’s Winter 2012 special issue on manufacturing, and cowrote its introduction.
Visiting critic of architecture David Salomon’s scholarship on architectural pedagogy and practice appears in two recent publications. “Experimental Cultures: On the ‘End’ of the Design Thesis and the Rise of the Research Studio,” which documents the history of thesis in architecture schools and recent alternatives to it, appeared in the November 2011 issue of the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE). The paper served as the basis for an invited talk on the same topic delivered at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture conference in March 2012. Another essay, “Plural Profession, Discrepant Practices,” appears in the recent anthology The Sage Handbook of Architectural Theory, edited by C. Greig Crysler, Stephen Cairns, and Hilde Heynen.
An article titled “Getting the Policy Right: Urban Agriculture in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania,” by Assistant Professor Stephan Schmidt, CRP, was published in the January issue of International Development Planning Review.
The Religious Imagination in Modern and Contemporary Architecture, coedited by Visiting Associate Professor Jim Williamson, architecture, was recently reviewed in the Journal of Design History (25, 1:17–118). The review, written by John Gendall of Parsons The New School for Design, calls the book “a welcome contribution to the scholarship of modern architecture.”AAP