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M.R.P. Student Gets Real-World Experience in L.A. M.R.P. candidate Paige Barnum (M.R.P. ’17) was an intern at the City of Los Angeles Department of City Planning, Office of Historic Resources for 12 weeks during the summer of 2016. It was an experience that taught her about the origins of the city of Los Angeles, and gave her an appreciation for “the historic fabric of a city that is so often made the butt of planning jokes,” according to Barnum. Barnum’s work included preparing staff reports for proposed designation of buildings and sites as individual local landmarks, and assisting with the presentation of report findings at meetings of the Cultural Heritage Commission. She also participated in the final phase of SurveyLA, the city’s first-ever comprehensive program to identify its significant historic resources. “I learned about the origins of the character of L.A., how its distinct built environment came to be, and the role preservationists and planners have played in the development of that landscape,” Barnum said. “The internship improved my professional abilities, and gave me experience that I will carry forward in my career after graduation.”AAP
Jurèma by Sean Steed Sean Steed (B.Arch. ’18), a fifth-year architecture student minoring in fine arts with a focus in printmaking, has created Jurèma, a T-shirt and visual art brand. According to Steed, Jurèma has a long list of inspirational references and admires the work ethos of Andy Warhol’s The Factory. “Jurèma is passionate about producing aesthetically pleasing handmade products that celebrate the visual arts,” says Steed. Steed splits his time between Milstein and Tjaden halls, combining his architectural work with his artistic project. He founded Jurèma during the summer of 2016, when a series of acrylic paintings inspired him to produce editions of handmade and packaged silkscreen prints and graphic tees. According to Steed, the graphic component behind the offerings is informed by color theory and “bold optical forms.”AAP thisisjurema.com
1 Paige Barnum (M.R.P. ’17) doing field work in the Silver Lake area of L.A. during her summer internship. photo / provided
MONK Wins The Bench
2 Barnum with staff members of the Department of City Planning, Office of Historic Resources during a parade in front of City Hall in Los Angeles. photo / provided
MONK, an interdisciplinary, student-run, design research initiative based in Ithaca and Paris, was the winner of THE BENCH design competition by Studio for Transformative Urban Forms and Fields. Their design for a public-use seating area on a city street in Winnipeg, Canada, was titled Over + Under; the project was constructed in August and remained available for public use through the fall. MONK was also recently named a finalist in the Vertical Cemetery competition in Tokyo.AAP
3 Laura Kenny (M.R.P. ’17) working underground in the historic rainwater harvesting cisterns of Santorini, Greece. photo / provided
Student Notes Five AAP students were among 22 rising juniors at Cornell who were named Hunter R. Rawlings III Cornell Presidential Research Scholars (RCPRS) for the 2016–17 academic year. Jeremy Bilotti (B.Arch. ’18), Zhisheng (Ivy) Deng (B.A./B.F.A. ’19), Ehab Ebeid (B.S. URS ’18), Skye Hart (B.S. URS ’18), and Laura-Bethia Campbell (B.F.A. ’17) received funding from the RCPRS program and faculty mentor support from both within and beyond AAP to pursue their research for the remainder of their undergraduate tenure at Cornell. An article written by Patrick Braga (B.A./B.S. URS ’17) in preparation for a presentation
at the Congress for the New Urbanism in Dallas two years ago was accepted for publication in Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability (Taylor & Francis). After attending the conference, the article “Rethinking the Providence Hill Cable Car: Transit, Equity, and Urban Design in Rio de Janeiro” was expanded by two rounds of peer review and additional information from a trip to Rio de Janeiro. As a fifth-year dual-degree candidate majoring in urban and regional studies in AAP and music and economics in the College of Arts and Sciences, Braga is a Hunter R. Rawlings III Cornell Presidential Research Scholar and Mellon
fellow. He has concentrated his research on transportation and land use planning as well as histories of urbanism in thought and practice, focusing on Rio de Janeiro, Havana, Boston, and Washington, DC. In music, Braga specializes in composition, and has written two operas. La Tricotea (opus 25) premiered in December 2015, and Eyes That Do Not See (opus 42) premiered in November (see page 5). In the fall, CRP graduate students in the Cornell chapter of the Association for Preservation Technology (APT) helped restore exterior finishes and original windows at the Samuel Laurie House in Auburn, New York, a
historic property also known as Auburn Castle. The AAP students who traveled to Auburn were Melanie Colter (M.A. HPP ’18), Brian Cooley (M.A. HPP ’18), Sena Kayasu (M.A. HPP ’20), Abigail Lawton (M.A. HPP ’18), Maryam Rabi (M.A. HPP ’20), Andrew Roblee (M.A. HPP ’17), Michelle Van Meter (M.A. HPP ’20), and Olivia White (M.A. HPP ’18). APT is a cross-disciplinary organization dedicated to promoting the best technology for conserving historic structures and their settings. David Edmondson (M.R.P. ’17) and Jaynel Santos (M.R.P. ’17) were among 32 graduate students across Cornell to receive Fall 2016 Research Travel
Grants from Cornell University’s Graduate School. Travel grants of up to $2,000 are awarded each fall and spring to assist graduate students in researchfocused travels that directly relate to their dissertations. Designs by Zhiping Feng (B.Arch. ’17), Kevin Jin He (B.Arch. ’17), Jingyang Liu (M.Arch. ’15), Gosia Pawlowska (B.Arch. ’16), and Won Ryu (B.Arch. ’17) were selected for an international exhibition of interpretive solutions and prototypes for emergency shelter. Survival Architecture and the Art of Resilience, a project of Art Works for Change, opened in September at the Appleton Museum of Art, in Ocala, Florida.
Zeynep Goksel (M.R.P. ’17/ M.L.A. ’18), a teaching assistant for professor Maria Goula in landscape architecture, was part of a group of students who worked with Goula to prepare interviews with architects and landscape architects who were finalists for the Rosa Barba Prize at the International Biennial of Landscape Architecture in Barcelona this past September. The Cornell Institute of European Studies underwrote travel costs for the students. This past summer, Anamika Goyal (M.Arch. ’17) was honored with a Selected Professions Fellowship award from the American Association of University Women. Goyal, who
received her B.S. in biology from Duke University in 2011, is focused on interdisciplinary methods in her research. Her thesis tests the possibilities for construction technologies and investigates how simple industrial construction methods used widely in other industries can democratize architectural design. The award supports women pursuing careers in nontraditional fields. In November, Brian Havener (M.Arch. ’19) won a $500 cash prize for second place in a “flash competition” from arch out loud. The competition brief asked participants to illustrate through graphic image, drawing, and a statement the meaning