Teiger Estate Gives Additional Gift to Continue Mentorship Program In March, the estate of David Teiger ’51 announced an incremental gift to enable the art mentorship program created in his name to continue. Originally established in 2013, funds from the initial gift sustained the program through the spring 2016 semester; the additional money, which brings the gift total to $1 million, allows the program to carry on for several more years. During their appointments, Teiger Mentors make ongoing visits to studio and seminar classes and conduct individual critiques with B.F.A. and M.F.A. students. The program aspires to give undergraduate and graduate art students opportunities to make connections with and learn from a diverse range of leading professional artists. Mentor artists are selected by a jury composed of members of the art department and external curators and art educators. Sam Durant was the spring semester Teiger Mentor, and previous mentors include Josiah McElheny, Shannon Ebner, Alejandro Cesarco, Leslie Hewitt, and Sharon Hayes. “From its inception, the Teiger Mentor in the Arts Program has added both richness and intellectual diversity to the culture of creative production, critique, and discussion of student work in the Department of Art,” says Associate Professor and Chair Michael Ashkin. “On behalf of myself and the community of students, faculty, and artists that will continue to benefit from
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Dimcheff Hired as Richard Meier Assistant Professor of Architecture The Department of Architecture hired Luben Dimcheff (B.Arch. ’99) as the Richard Meier Assistant Professor of Architecture, effective July 1. Dimcheff has been a visiting critic at AAP since 2012, and has taught the Introduction to Architecture Summer Program since the same year. Dimcheff leads a design and architecture practice based in New York City, with projects built internationally. Prior to establishing his own practice, he was a senior associate at Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects (SMH), where projects included the SMH house at the Houses at Sagaponac development, and the Hospital for Special Surgery building on Manhattan’s waterfront, which received awards from Mayor Bloomberg and the New York City Design Commission. Dimcheff has taught at Parsons The New School of Design in both the graduate and undergraduate programs. Prior to receiving his B.Arch. from AAP, he had graduated with honors from the Art Institute of Seattle, where he studied fashion and interior design. Named in honor of Richard Meier (B.Arch. ’56), whose commitment to design excellence is a hallmark of Cornell’s highly ranked architecture program, the Meier Professorship is a tenure-track appointment in architectural design.AAP
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Luben Dimcheff (B.Arch. ’99) is the new Richard Meier Assistant Professor.
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Sam Durant, the spring 2016 Teiger Mentor in the Arts, meets with students during a visit to campus.
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An exhibition of student work in Palazzo Santacroce’s lecture hall was open to the public. photo / Chris Andras (B.Arch. ’18)
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Housed under a 17thcentury fresco, Cornell in Rome’s library is accessed by a spiral staircase. photo / Chris Andras (B.Arch. ’18)
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Students working in one of Cornell in Rome’s two architecture studios. photo / Liana Miuccio
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Sasa Zivkovic.
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the extreme generosity of David Teiger and the Teiger family, I extend my deepest gratitude for their recent gift to the art program and our community.” Teiger, who passed away in December 2014, was a contemporary art collector and patron of curatorial projects and exhibitions throughout the U.S. and Europe.AAP
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Zivkovic Joins Architecture Faculty The Department of Architecture hired Sasa Zivkovic as an assistant professor on a tenure track, starting July 1. Zivkovic has been a visiting critic in the department since 2014, and is the coprincipal of HANNAH, an architectural practice based in the U.S. and Germany, which focuses on advancing 3D printing and other automated manufacturing techniques in collaboration with the high-tech building industry. Zivkovic’s academic research focuses on digital fabrication, archaic form, and postdigital practice in the Anthropocene period. Zivkovic pursued his graduate studies at MIT, where he was the recipient of the AIA Certificate of Merit and a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service. Prior to MIT, Zivkovic studied architecture and city planning at the University of Stuttgart, where he was awarded a fellowship from the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) from 2007 to 2012. He has contributed to the Cornell Journal of Architecture, and exhibited at the 2015 ACADIA conference. His firm, HANNAH, was an Outpost Research Office for the U.S. Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale.AAP
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Cornell in Rome Moves to Palazzo Santacroce In January, Cornell in Rome relocated its headquarters to the Palazzo Santacroce, a 17th-century building in the historic center of Rome, minutes from the Pantheon and Piazza Navona. The palazzo’s spacious studios, classrooms, library, and administrative and faculty offices occupy the entire front of the piano nobile. Large windows and balconies overlook a 19th-century urban park and internal courtyards. A 19th-century spiral staircase leads from a private ground-floor entrance to the program’s library, housed beneath a frescoed vault (circa 1640). The Palazzo Santacroce is the third home for Cornell in Rome, following Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne (1986–96) and Palazzo Cavallerini Lazzaroni (1996–2016).AAP
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